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HARVARD COLLEGE
LIBRARY

FROM THE BEQUEST OF

MRS. ANNE E. P. SEVER
OF BOSTON

Widow of Col, James Warren Sever

(CUm of 1817)

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THE EAGLE

A MAGAZINE

SUPPORTED BY

MEMBERS OF ST JOHN'S COLLEGE

VOL XXVII

(CONTAINS NOS. CXXXVIII— CXL)

E. JOHNSON, TRINITY STREET

PRINTED BT MITCiLLFE AND CO LIMITED ROSX C&ESCBNT
FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

1906

touc R 6713.9,40

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CONTENTS.

PiLOX

Notes from the College Ktcoid^^^onttftuid . . . i

Die Seligkeit ...... 28

Three Months in Kashmir ..... 30

Hamannm Est Amare ..... 43

Ballad ....... 44

Si Je Puis ...... 45

A Ramble on Helvellyn . . 49

The Morning on the Water .... 56

Soavent Me Souvient . . . 57

An Old Johnian's Christmas Day in Ceylon 61

Fosco Carolos ...... 68

Obituary :

Augustus Samuel Wilkins Litt.D. ... 69

Charles John EUicott ..... 84

Rev Canon F. C. Woodhouse M. A. . 106

Rev Canon Henry Francis Bather M.A. . .109

Francis Alfred White 113

The Johnian Dinner . .115

Our Chronicle , . . . 117

The New Boat House Fund .161

The Library ...... 162

List of Subscribers 1905 — 1906

Frontispiece —

Notes from the College Records — eontinued .167

Twenty-One ...... 209

Souvent me Souvient .210

Sonnets ...... 224

Carausins ..... 225

IV.

CONTENTS.

Obituary:

PAOB

RcT Joseph Hirtt Lupton D.D.

138

C. J. Ellicott, Bishop of Gloucester

a53

Rev Alfred Freer Torry M.A.

2S6

Rev Canon Frederic Watson D.D.

261

Rev R. S. Bracebridge Heming Hall M.A.

267

Our Chronicle .....

278

The Library .....

314

Notes from the College "Records— continued

3^9

The Commemoration Sermon

344

Maxell's Dream .....

3S«

Epitome of a Cambridge Breakfast

359

Chronicon de Lanercoit ....

360

Irish Wisdom ....

372

Rowing Notes .....

374

Tenacity of Ancient Superstition

375

Flirtation .....

. 388

Obituary :

Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, M.A.

389

Our Chronicle .....

39a

The Library .....

419

THE EAGLE.

October Term 1905.

NOTES FROM THE COLLEGE RECORDS.

(Continued from Vol* xxvi^ p, 323.)

JHIS instalment of notes deals with some matters
relating to the foundation and early history of
the College. The first document printed is
an agreement between the Lady Margaret
and James Stanley, Bishop of Ely. It sets forth the
arrangements for suppressing the old religious house
of St John and the establishing of the new College. Of
this document two copies are preserved. The one
printed is that signed by the Lady Margaret herself.
It will be observed that it is not signed by the Bishop
of Ely. Fast upon its signature followed the series of
deaths which meant so much, and which, but for the
stubborn persistence of Bishop Fisher, must have put
an end to the scheme.

This document, it will be observed, is dated 10 March,
^4 Hen. VII, i,e* 10 March 1508-9. King Henry VII
died 2\ April 1509, and the Lady Margaret died on the
29th June following. The Bishop of Ely, in Fisher's
words, "because he hadde not sealide, he wolde not
perform his promyse."

VOL. XXVlI. B

I Notes from the College Records.

The negotiations now fell into the hands of the Lady
Margaret's executors, and there has been preserved a
second copy of this agreement, bearing the signatures j
Jas. Ellen (who signs twice); Ri Wynton ; Jo. RofFs. ;
Henry Hornby; Hugh Assheton. The last four were
executors of the Lady Margaret's will. Curiously enough
this copy is dated 14 March 24 Henry VIL The wording
is almost exactly the same as that of the one printed
belowy and it purports to be made between the Lady
Margaret and the Bishop of Ely, It is not easy to
explain how, if the date is correctly given, the executors
came to sign, or how, if the document was signed by
the executors as such, a date came to be inserted which
was prior to the Lady Margaret's death and therefore
prior to the existence of the body of executors as such.
But, as the Bishop's signature was affixed, the nego-
tiations had advanced a step.

Conuentiones quedam facte inter egregiam Comitissam Mar-
garetam illustrissimi Regis Henrici septimi genitricem ex vna
parte et Reuerendum patrem domiiuim Jacobum Eliensem Epis-
copum ex altera parte snper commutanda quadam religiusa
dome regularum fratrum vulgariter nuncupatorum Sancti Joannis
Cantibrigie in Collegium secularium personarum studentium in
artibus et sacra theologia.

Principio curabit dicta Comitissa dispensationem apostolicam
obtinere tarn pro hac commutatiohe fienda qitam super iuramento
dicti Reuerendi patris quod olim in sua consecratione prestitit
quatenus idem pater legittime posset transferre ius fundattonis
dicte domus, quod tarn ipse quam predeccessores eius liabuenint,
in comitissam predictam.

Deinde hoc optento transferret idem Reuerendus pater
vniuersum ius fundationis domus antedicle quod vel ipse vel
successores eius imposterum vendicare possunt in eadem in
dictam Comitissam vt ilia scilicet Collegium scolarium studentium
erigat in eadem reseruata nichilominus ordinaria iurisdictione
dicto patri de qua specialis declaratio fiet et statutis per dictam
Comitissam ordinandis.

Tertio prouidebitur in statutis per dictam Comitissam ordi-
nandis quod magister et socii Collegii futuri orabunt pro statu

I • - 'V

^^

l^Usfrom the College Records. 3

prospcTO dicti Reuerendi patris quoad vixerit et pro anima
eiusdem ih perpetuura postquam hinc migrauerit tanquam
singularis benefactoris et cooperatoris ac coadiutoris in hoc
turn sancto opere et tarn meritorio.

Quarto prouidebitur ab eadem Comitissa in eiisdem Statulis
quern in modum electionis omnes tarn sociorum quam magistri
fieri debeant vt nulla super hac re continget ambiguilas.

Quinto concessit eadcm Comitissa pro se quod durante vita
predict! Reuerendi patris ex tribus scolaribus aptis et idoneis
per eum nominandis unus eligetur in consoriium dicte domus
seu Coliegii iuxta statuta per earn ordinanda idque totiens
renouabilur quotiens locus eius vacare contigeret.

Sexto prouidebitur in eiisdem statutis quod magister et socii
dicte domus seu coliegii futuri pro singulis personis tam viuis
quam defunctis orabunt pro quibus religiosi fratres dicte domus
ante tenebantur. In quorum omnium premissorum fidem et
testimonium tam predicta comitissa quam prefatus Reuerendus
pater presens scriptum manibus propriis consignarunt decimo
die Marcii Anno dicto domini Regis xxiiij/^?.

Margaret.

Idem Reuerendus pater per literas suas commissarias Magistro
Ricardo Wyott in sacra Theologia professori ac Magistro Coliegii
Christi in vniuersitate predicta Magistro Johannem ffotehed in
eadem sacra Theologia bachelario et Magistro Willielmo Thorn^
borough decretorum doctori auctoritatem et potestatem conferet
sufficicntem inuenlarium omnium jocalium ceterorum bonorum
mobilium ac munimentorum eidem domum sancti Johannis
prefatum faciendi ac eadem omnia, in tuta et salua custodia
reponendi ea videlicet intentionem vt cum nouum Collegium
scholarium fuit per eandem comitissam erectum socii eiusdem
ipsa iocalia munimenta et cetera bona omnia integre habeant et.
possideant in perpetuum.

The next deed takes us a long way on the road. Ifr
is dated 12 December, 2 Hen. VIII, t,e. 15 10. It makes
full provision for the extinction of the old house and
for the foundation of the new College. The pendant
seals of the Bishop, and of the Prior and Convent of
Ely are a little chipped but still in fair condition.
Some letters from Hornby to Fisher written about this

4 Notes from the College Resords.

time were printed in The Eagle^ Vol. xvi, and on p. 345
we learn that the brethren of the old house " departed
from Cambridge toward Ely, the xij day of March, at iiij
of the clokke at afternoone, by water." We may take it
then that the old house was closed on 12 March 1510-1.

This indenture made the xijth day of December the second
yere of the reign of our souereign lord King Henry the viijth
betwene the reuerend ffader in God Richard Bishop of
Wynchester, John Bishop of Rochester, Sir Charles Somerset
knight Lord Herbert, Sir Thomas Louell knight, Sir Henry
Marney knight, Sir John Seynt John knight, Henry Horneby
clerk, and Hugh Assheton clerk Executors of the testament of
the excellent Princes Margarete late Countesse of Richmond
and Derby and Graundame to our seid Souereign Lord Kyng
Henry the viijth on the one partie, and the Reuerend ffader in
God James Bishop of Ely ffounder and ordinarie of the hous and
priory of Seynt Johns in Cambrige on the oder partie Witnesseth
that wher our holy ffader the Pope by his bulles vnder lede for
thencreas of virtue lerninge and doctrine and preching of the
Word of God and to thestablishing of Cristes feith and for
dyuers consideracions expressed in the seid bull hath suppressed
extiencted and determined the foundacion and Religion of the
seid hous and Priory by the Royall assent of our seid souereign
lord the Kyng that nowe is by his lettres patentes vnder his
greate sealle and also by thassent and aggrement of the seid
Reuerend ffader James Bishop of Ely confirmed by the Priory
and Couent of the Cathedral Church of Ely as in the seid bulles
lettres patentes and oder Writinges therof made more pleynly
apperith It is now couenaunted betwene the seid parties and
fully concluded and by the seid Reuerend Byshop of Elie
graunted that he for the better execution and assurance of the
premisses shall before the xvth day of Januarie next ensuinge
after the dale of these presents avoyd and cause to be voyded
and remoued out of the seid hous and Prioury all such
and as m^ny Religious persons as now be incorporate
and possessed in the seid hous and Prioury of Seynt Johns or
that can or may pretende or clayme any right title or interesse
in and to the said hous and Prioury or to the possessions therof
by reason of their possession or incorporacion within the same

Notes from the College Records. 5

and vtterly make voyde and disposses the seid Religious persons
from the seid hous and Prioury and all such right title clayme
and interesse as they or eny of them haue pretend or clayme to
haue within the same hous and Prioury and to the possessions
and to eny thyng therunto belonging and also cause the sama
Religious persons and euery of them by autentique instrument
in sure and sufficiente fourme to be made to resigne and
renounce all such right title clayme and interesse as they or eny
of them haue or in any manner of wyse may haue to ihe seid
hous and Prioury and to the possessions or to eny thyng
thereunto apperteyninge and that the same bishop shall
translate or cause to be translated all the same Religious persons
in to Oder house or houses of the same Religion and cause them
and euery of them clerely to renounce relinquish and leue the
same hous and prioury and all the possessions thereof and
clerely to departe and to be utterly excluded from the same for
euer and to be really and effectually accepte and incorporate in
some Oder house or houses of the same Religion and cause the
seid hous and Prioury of Seynt Johns and the foundacion and
corporacion thereof to be clerely dissolved and determined for
euer before the seid xvth day of Januarie next ensuynge And
also the seid Byshop of Ely couenaunteth and graunteth to the
seid executors by these presents that he before the fest of the
purification of our lady next ensuinge and at all tymes after
when he shalbe reasonably required by the seid executors and
eny of them shall make and cause to be made all such grauntes
and assurances to the seid executors ther heires and assignes of
the seid house and prioury of Seynt Johns and of all the
mannors londes tenementes and possessions and all oder thynges
that belong and at eny tyme belonged therunto to haue and to
hold to the same executors ther heires and assignes as shalbe
aduysed by the lerned counsel! of the same Executours ther
heires and assignes or eny of them at their costes and charges
and cause all the same grauntes and assurances to be confermed
by the Priour and Couent of the seid Cathedrall church of Ely
by ther dede and dedes sealled with ther Common seale in such
nvyse as shalbe aduysed by the seid executours and eny of them
so that the seid executors or some of them by reason therof and
by reason and auctorite of the seid bulles and of the seid lettres
patentes and oder premisses may make lawfull profite and sure
translacion of the seid hous and prioury of Seynt Johns and the

6 Notes from the College Records.

possessions therof vnto a perpetuall College of a perpetuall
Master and felowes and there erecte founde and establish a
perpetuall College of a perpetuall Master and felowes
accordynge to the will mynde and entente of the said princess
and accordynge to the ordinaunces and statutes of the seid
executors therof to be made by vertoe and auctorite of the seid
bulies and lettres patentes ther perpetually to endure And ouer
this the seid Bishop of Ely couenauntith and graunteth to the
seid executours by these presentes that the same bishop and his
successours and also the seid Priour and Couent of the seid
Cathedrall Church of Ely and ther successors shall at all tymea
doo and cause and suffer to be done all thynges necessarye and
requisite for the seid translacion and for the fundacion and
establysshinge of the seid College for euer to endure as by the
lerned counsel! of the seid executors or eny of them shalbe
aduysed at the costes and charges of the seid executors And the
seid executors by these presentes promitte and graunte to the
seid Reuerend fader Bishop of Ely that the seid Master and
felowes within one moneth next after that they shall be founded
and haue reall and corporall possession of the same hous and
prioury and of the manors londes tenementes and possessions of
the same shall graunte by ther sufficient writinges vnder ther
common seall for the cxhibicion and fyndyng of the seid
Religious persons durynge ther lyues to euery of them or to oder
persons at ther nominacion an annuite of vjVi'. xiijV. iiijV. by the
yere to be had and perceyued to euery of them during ther
iyues out of the seid hous manors londes and tenementes at to
festes of the yere that is to say Ester and Michelmas by evyn
porcions with a sufficient clause of distress in the same hous and
in all the seid manors londes and tenementes for lak of payment
of the same And the seid executors couenaunten and graunten
to the seid Reuerend fader in God Bishop of Ely by thes
presentes that after the seid translacion of the seid hous and
prioury and foundacion of the seid College the same executors
in their statutes and ordinaunces theruppon to be made for the
ordringe and contynuance of the same College shall ordeyn and
establish amonge oder thynges that the Jurisdiction ordinarie of
the same College and of the churches and Chapells thervnto
belonging shall apperteyn and belonge to the same bishop and
his successours for euermore and that the Master and felowes of
the seid College shall pray for the good astate of the same

Notes from the College Records. ^

bishop during his lyf and for his sowle after his deces as the
secondarye founder benefactor and partyner in the seid holy and
meritorious work and also for the good astate of all his
successours in; tyme to come Bishops of Ely duringe ther lyues
and for the sowles of his predecessors patrons and founders of
the seid hous and prioury and for the sowles of his successors
as secondarye founders of the seid College And ouer that that
the seid executors shall prouyde and make statutes and
ordinaunces of the seid College in such manner that ther shall
not be eny ambiguite in the eleccions of the Master and felowes
of the seid College And also the same executors graunten to
the seid Reuerend ifader in God Byshop of Ely by these
presentes that the same Reuerend ffader in God during his lyf
shall name and chose iij apte and able persons scolers and his
successors after his decess one apte and able person scoler to be
made felowes of and in the seid College and they to be
accepted and admitted felowes of the same College at ther
nominacion and eleccion and that to be renued and vsed as
ofte as the place of eny of them shall happen to be voyde And
ouer that the seid executors graunten to the seid Reuerend
ffader in God Bishop of Ely that they shall ordeign and provyde
in ther seid statutes that the Master and felowes of the seid
College shalbe bounden to pray for all and singular persons as
well alyue as dede for the which the seid Religious bredren of
the seid hous and prioury were bounde to pray in likewyse as
the seid executors haue before this tyme promysed and
couenaunted with the same Reuerend ffader in God to be done
In witnes wherof the seid parties to these present Indentures
enterchaungeably haue set ther sealles the day and yere aboue
writton And We the priour and Couent of the Cathedrall
churche of Ely having and takyng thes present Indentures and
all and singuler premisses conteyned therein flfrely agree
accepte and approue the same and the same Indentures and all
the same premisses conteyned and specified therein vnto
the seid executors ther heiris and assignes for vs and oure
successours ratifie approue and conferme by thes presentes
rentys consuetudines and all other rightys of oure monastery and
priory of Ely in all thynges alweys saued and reseruyd In
Witnesse wheroff We the seid Priour and Couent to thes
presentes haue sette oure Commen Seale Yevyn at Ely in our
chapitoure house the fifyrste day of the moneth of January in

8 Notes from the College Records,

yere of our lord God M'CCCCX And the seconde yere of the
reigne of our souereign lord King Henry the viij aboueseid

Endorsed. Posterior Indentura inter Episcopum Eliensem et
executores Margarete matris regis Henrici vij.

The brethen being gone the work proceeded. The
Charter of the new College was given by the executors
and was dated 9 April 151 1. The College was opened
in 15 16 ; even the industrious Thomas Baker was unable
to fix the exact day. He points out that the licence of
the Bishop of Ely, empowering Fisher to consecrate the
Chapel, was dated 26 July 15 16. As on the 29th July
1516, thirty-one Fellows were admitted "In encaeniis
Collegii " we may infer that this was the opening day or
might count as such. In the five years from 151 1 to
1516 much had been done. We are fortunate in having
an account of this period in Bishop Fisher's own words.
This statement, which is printed below, is preserved in
an old Register of the College known as " The Thin
Red Book." This volume will be found calendared in
Professor Mayor's edition of Thomas Baker*s History of
the College. It contains a number of documents in no
particular order, and transcribed by a number of
diflferent hands. Fisher's statement comes between two
documents, the first of which is dated 8 October,
33 Hen. viii (1541) and the next 26 July, 34 Hen. viii
(1542). As Fisher was beheaded in 1535 this entry
must have been made after his death, probably copied
from some now lost original. It is here printed exactly
as it stands in the Register, without heading or
explanation.

The bushop of Ely.

The Licence of the pope (a later hand has erased 'pope'
and substituted ' bishop off Rome '}.

The provyng oflf my ladys will in the chancery.
The Licence of Mortmayne.

KcUsfrom the ColUge Records. 9

The Besones of my lady aeruantes wiche wolde haue hadde
all her goodes amonges them.

c

The taking away of iiij off Land.

The agreament with my Lady of Devonshire.

The stopping of that paiment.

The Sewite for Ospring.

The Sewite for Higham.

The Sewite for Browmehall.

Ffirst my lorde of Ely which thetie was albeit that he hadde
promysed my lady his assent for the dissoluyng of Saynte
Johannis hoasse wiche thene was a religious housse into a
College of studentes yett because he had not sealide he wolde
not performe his promyse and so delaide the matterr a long
ceasone till at the last we were fayne to agre with hyme by the
aduyse of my lorde of Winchestre to our great charge. This
was the first sore brounte that we hadde and like to haue
qiiailede all the matterr if it hadde not been wiselie handelide
for apon this hong all the rest, yf this had been clerelie
revoikede by hyme we cudde not haue done any thing for that
College according to my ladys entente and wyll. And surelie
this was a long tyme or that we cudde haue the writyngis surelie
made and sealide with his seale and his coven t seale, vppon the
sayme for he purposlie delayde yt for causes wiche I will not
here reherse.

Seconds, where we hadde sente for the popis licence to
cxtincte the religiouse housse and to change it into a College of
studentes when the graunte came home it was founde of
no vailow and all by the negligence off our cownsell wiche
devisede it for the wiche we weare fayne to make a new
writinge and to haue better counsell and to sende agayne to
the courte of Rome wiche was a grete hinderance and a greate
tracke of tyme.

Thirde where my lady in hir tyme hadde opteynide the
Kynges licence for this change to be mayde but she dyede or
euer that it was sealyd so that we were fayne to make anew
suyte. And where allso she optenyde by the Kynges license for
mortassing of fyfty pound lounde only and no more. Heare
I hadde nolt a littyll besones to opteyne a new graunte for
licence of cc" to be put in mortmayne and coste me grete snyte
and labor both by myself and by my frendes or that I cudde
VOL. XXVII. C

lo Noles from the College Records.

optejne it. And iff this hadde not ben optenyde heare would
haue beyne butt a poure College. Heare we ware so sore
ploungid in a manner in a dispayie to haue brouglit the
College in that condicione that lovide be our lorde it is now in.

Fforthb it was thought expedient by the luges that for a
surytye off the landes wiche my lady hadde putt in ffeofament
for the performance of hir will and hadde thereof licence so to
do by King Edwarde vnder his brode seale and by the Kyng
her son vnder his seal, likewise vnto than all hir will and
testament war performyd; I say it was thought necessarie by
the iuges that my lades will shulde be prouyde in the chauncery
over and besides the profe off ytt in my lorde of Canterburyes
courte. And her was myche tyme and labore takyn more then
I can tell in a few wordes of attendance and ofte resortyng to
the chancellor of Englonde often having our lernyde counsell
together often having the chef iuges advises so many writes so
many didimus potesiatem to them that war absente that ihulde
beare witnes in this matter. So herde it was to gett them to
bere this witnes and to be sworne that were then present, so
many suytes to the Kinges solicitor the Kinges attorney the
Kinges sergeantes withouten whose assentes my lorde chauncel-
lore wolde nothing do oonle as thei war all presant at euery act to
beare recorde. This matere or it cudde be concludide was a
yere and a half in doyng forsoth it was sore laboreos and paynfull
vnto me that many tymes I was right sory that euer I toke that
besones apone me.

Ffyft after this rose a grete storme the wiche was sturryde
by my lady seruaunts the occasion was this. When my lady
was at the poynte to departe owt of this worlde vnto the mercy
of God. I hadde pety off her pore seruantes and movid hir
that suche as hadde done hir goode seruice and was but littill
recompensede that it wolde please hir thei might sumwhat be
consideride after the wisdome and discrecione off my lorde of
Winchester and me. And she was well contentyde. Apon this
occasion thei made vnto the King greate surmyses that thei
shulde haue my lady goodes diuidede amonges them. Wiche
pult vs to a greate trobill. Ffor all that thei cudde ymagen off
evyll agaynst me thaie gave informacion vnto the Kyng and
made hyme werray hcvy lorde agaynst me for the wiche was
moche attendance gyvyn and moche suyte I maide for myself
or cuer that I might be declarede.

Notes from the College Records. 1 1

SiXT after this I was mouide by the Kyng to prepare myselfe
to go vnto the generall counsaill for the Realtne with my lorde
of Saynt Johns and others and because I shulde thene departe
ihe receavor of this londes wiche was in feoffament made grete
besones for his discharge because that I hadde recevide parte
of that money, so was I fayne to delyuer out off my handes all
suche obligaciones as I hadde in keping vnto Mr Assheton
[and] Mr Hornby and to declare myselfe of all rekeninges
concerning the receytes off the money off that landes or any
other. And Mr Hornby recevide after that as myche as was
recevide of the sayde moneye.

Sbyinth when I was disapontyde of that iorney my lady
seruantes made anew besones thai saw that thus thai couthe
nott prevaile therefor thei cawside vs to be callide to accomptes
off all my lades goodes and to shew a cause whi we shulde
keape the Kinges inheritance from hyme to the valew of
cccc/i* yerly. And there we brought in our accomptes ffirst
befor Mr Sothewell wiche was the Kinges cheaf auditore, and
there I was compellide a long tyme to gif attendance apon hym
a sundre places and many tymes and there straitly our accomptes
war examynide and he well pleaside with them and thought it
resonable that tyll all thinges wer performyde the profiles of
the said landes shuld remane vnto the College. But he diede
or euer he myght gyff sufficienly informacione herof vnto the
Kyng and sett vs at a rest as after long examinacion off the
compte and triall therof made he thoughtt to bring aboute.

Eyghtt, after this his deathe by the importune clamor and
crye off my sayde lady servauntes we ware callede off a freshe
before Mr Belknape wiche then succedide in the rowm of Mr
Southwell and then we warr more straitelie handelide and so
delaide and weriede and fatigate that we must nedes lett the
londe go not withstanding all the right that we hadde therevnto
by the grauntes off King Edwarde and of King Henry the vij and
the declaracione of my ladys wyll and the putting off the sayme
londes in feoffament and allso theprof off the sayde will in the
Chancery as strong as cowthe be mayde by any lernyd Counsel!,
butt all this wolde not serue vs there was no remedy but the
Kinges Counsell wolde take profectes of these londes for the
Kyng. Neuertherlesse with greate and long suyte we optenyde at
the last that some recompence might be hadde vnto the College
for the performyng off ytt and so finallie my lady Katyrine wiche

1 2 Notes from the College Records.

bought for her soone the jong lady Lyell for certayne sumtnys
off money was bounden as stronglie as lernyde Counsell cowtbe
dyaise the bondes to pale for the behove off the same College.

Nynght considering that that this londe thus was taken
frome ts we made farther suyt to haue some hospitall or some
religious housse or benefice to be approperde by the Kinges
graunte vnto the College and when after longe suyte that was
grauntide we devised a byll to be signed by the King for
the hospitall of Ospringe and so finally gatt that same. Butt
what labor then I hadde with hyme that was encombent and
how long or we cudde eslablishe and make it sure both by
temporall counsell and spiritual!. And how often for this matter
then I roade both to Ospryng and London and to my Lorde of
Canterbury or that I cowthe performe all thinges for the surty
therof it war to long to reherse.

Tensthb after all this the lady lyell dyede and so my lady of
Dounshire and his sone lost the profiles off hir landes for the
wiche he and she bothe was comfortid and counsilcd to paie
vnto us no more money according to the obligacione. Thei
made it a materie of conscience becawse off the death off that
yong lady. After many resonynges and many metynges our
cownsell avised vs to make suyte to gett some religious housse
and so finallie with moche labore and payne we optenyde too
Nonryes where was dissolute lyving and neuer coude by their
ordynaries be broughtt to goode order and for the assuring off
the same moche payne and labor was taken bothe by my self
and allso by the Master of the College Mr Metcalfwhom I sent
about that bysones specially for the Nunery off Bromehall wiche
was far frome me. He maide many iomeys theder and allso to
my lorde of Salisburye wiche was ordinary off a benefice to them
approperde wiche thinges he dydewith moche lease charge that
I cowde haue done ; aud therefor I dide commyt it vnto his
wisdome.

The documents which follow are Royal Warrants for
the delivery to the executors of the Lady Margaret of
various grants and letters patent. The first is a paper
draft, with corrections and interlineations, the second a
parchment document bearing the King's own signature.
These documents have an air of generosity in that they

Notcifrom the College Records. 15

seem to remit certain payment, but about this time King
Henry managed to acquire from St John's College a
piece of land called Knoll Grove, somewhere in Windsor
Forest, being part of the possessions of the Monastery
of Broomhall, so that it would seem that he was com*
pensated. Roger Lupton, named in the first document,
is no doubt the benefactor to St. John's and the founder
of Sedbergh School,

By the King.
We well and charge you that ye delyuer or cause to be
delynercd vnto the executours of the testament of our most
lovyng grauntdame whom God pardon our seuerall lettres
patentys by vs latly graunted and confermed and nowe
remaynyng in your kepyng in the hanaper of our chauncery of
the whiche lettres patentys one ys the confirmacion of a graunt
made by the Kyng of most famous memory Henry the vijth oure
moste derrest (father for the fondacion of a Chauntry within
our Colege of Wymbourne by hym grauntyd and by vs con-
fermed. And also a licence by vs graunted in the same lettres
patentes to the said executours to purchase landes and
tenementes to the yerely valewe above all charges of vj/2 by the
yere ouer and aboue idi by the yere graunted by our said ffather.
The seconde is a lycens graunted by vs vnto the Maister or
Keper of Cristes College in the vniuersite of Cambryge founded
by the Kyng of moste noble memory Henry the vjth and by our
said moste louying grauntdame nobely indowed for the pur-
chasying of landes and tenementes to the yerely valewe of x/i
ouer and above all manner of charges. And the thirde is a
graunt made by vs for the foundacion of a College in the
honoure of Allmighte God our blissyd lady his mother and
Seynt John the Evangelyst to be founded by the said executors
within the same vniuersite of Cambrige. And also a license in
lyke wise by vs graunted to the same executors for the pur-
chasying of tli lands by the yere ouer and above all manner of
charges to be admortisyd vnto the said College like as in the
said lettres patentes nowe remayning in our said hanaper in your
kepyng it may plainly appere at lenght without any manner fyne
or fee gret or small or any other manner of charge by you to be

J 4 Notes from the College Records.

taken for vs or to our vse for the said lettres patentes or any of
them. And thes our lettres sygned with our owne hande shalbe
vnto you at all tymes sufficient warant and discharge agenst vs
in that behalf any restraynt use or other commaundment
heretofor yevyn or vsed to the contrary in any wise not with-
standyng

To our trusty and well belovyd
clerk and chappelyn Maister Roger
Lupton clerk and kepar of our
hanaper in our chauncery and in his
absence to his deputie ther and
to either of them.

By the Kyng.

Henry.

Henry by the grace of God kyng of Englond and of ffrance
and lord ot Ireland To our trustie and wellbeloued Sir John
Heron knyght keper and Clerk of our hanaper in our Chauncerie
and in his absence to his deputie there gretyng And where as
we afore thys tyme haue by our writtyng giflen you in
Gommaundement that ye shuld not delyuer any letters patentes
sealyd vnder our grete seale without ye toke all such fees and
fynes as ought to be paied vnto vs for the same Any wordes in
the seid letters patentes comprisyng to the contrarie not
withstandyng Except ye had a speciall warraunt signed with our
hande and vnder our signet for the same We for certe}n causes
and consideracions vs specially movyng woU and commaunde
you that ye delyuer or cause to be delyuered vnto our trustie
and wellbeloued the Master of the College of Saynt John tho
Evaungelist within our Uniuersitie of Cambrige or to the bringer
hereof in his name our letters patentes made and graunted to
the said Master ifelowes and Scolers of the seid College and to
there successours of the priories or monasteries of Bromehall in
the countie of Berks and Higham in the countie of Kent with
diuers other grauntes in the same our letters patentes con teyned
beyng vnder our brode seale and in your kepyng As by the same
letters patentes more playnlie yt may appere without any fee or
fyne except oonlie twentie shillynges and four pens by you to
our vse to be takyn or receyued for the same letters patentes the
seid contrarie commaundment by our seid wryttyng or any

Notes from iht College Records. 13

other coiitrarie commaundment by vs vnto you afore tyme giffen
notwithstandyng And this our writtyng shalbe to you in your
accomptes makyng for the seid letters patentes a sufficient
warrant and discharge agaynst vs at all tymes for the delyaerie
of the same letters patentes Signed with our hand.

The documents which follow are receipts for Peter's
Pence; five such receipts are preserved in College.
Dr. Metcalfe held the archdeaconry of Rochester,
together with the mastership of St. John's, until 1537.
These documents are late specimens of their class.
The pendant seals affixed were originally very thin and
are now much broken, enough however remains to shew
that they were very handsome. Peter Vannes was an
Italian, secretary to Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey.
He held much preferment in the English church and
rose to be Dean of Salisbury {D. N, B,), Silvester
Darius was probably another foreigner ; he is probably
identical with the Silvester *Dario' who according
to Hardy's Le Neve was a prebendary of Lincoln
Cathedral.

Petrus Vannes serenissimi domini Henrici Octaui Dei gratia
Regis Anglie et fifrancie fidei defensoris et domini Hibernie a
latinis Secretarius Sanctitsimique domini nostri dementis pape
septimi et apostolicae sedis in regno Anglie fructuum reddituum
et proaentuum aliorumque iurium Sancte romane ecclesie et
apostolice camere debitor collector et receptor generalis
Vnioersis et singulis presentes literas lecturis seu audituris
Salutem in domino sempiternam Noueritis nos hodierna die
recipisse a reverendo domino Nicolao Medcalfe Roffense
Archidiacono libras quinque et solidos duodecim sterlingorum
Qtiam summam nobis soluit pro denariis Sancti Petri camere
apostolice debitis pro anno domini millesimo quingentesimo
vigesimo nono et pro eodem anno Summam prefatam nos
recipisse confitemur dictumque Reverendum dominum Archi-
diaconum per presentes liberamus et quietamus nobisque
nomine dicte apostolice camere satisfactum esse declaramus In

1 6 Notes from the College Records.

quorum fidem presentes fieri fecimus ac Sigilli Officii appensione
et nostra subscriptione muniri fecimus Datum in domo nostra
habitacionis apud Westmonasterium in Chanonn Rowe Anno
domini millesimo quingentesimo nono die vero vigesima nona
mensis Novembris.

Petrus Vannes
Collector^

Siluester Darius juris utriusque doctor Ac prothonotarius
apostolicus ex deputacione reuerendi in Christo patris domini
Felicis Trofiini juris doctoris ac prothonotarij apostolici
col I ceteris vicecollector et receptor generalis Vniuersis et
singulis presentes literas lecturis seu audituris Salutem in
domino sempeternam Noneritis nos hodierna die recipisse
a Reuerendo domino Nicholao Rofifense Archiadiacono libras
quinque et solidos duodecem sterlingorum Quam summam nobis
soluit pro denarijs Sancti Petri camere apostoHce debito pro
anno domini millesimo quingentesimo vigesimo primo £t pro
eodem anno summam prefatam nos recipisse confiiemur
dictumque Reverendum dominum Archidiaconum per presen-
tes liberamus et quietamus nobisque nomine dicte apostolice
camere satisfactum esse declaramus In quorum fidem presentes
fieri fecimus ac stgilli officij appensione et nostra subscriptione
muniri fecimus Datum Londini in domo nostro habitationis
prope Sanctum Antonium Anno domini millesimo quingen«
tesimo vigesimo secundo die vero decima septema mensis
ffebruarij

Syluestbr Darius
via coUechr,

The document which follows is a curious petition
taken from "The Thin Red Book" already mentioned.
It is not dated but in the Register it is followed by a
Bond, dated 22 Hen. viii (1530) whereby the College

Notes from the College Records. 17

agrees to abide by the decision of Sir John Fitzjames,
Chief Justice of England, and Sir Anthony Fitzherbert,
a Justice of the Common Pleas, who were to examine
into the rights of the matter. Ihe College had bought
the Manor of Ramerick in the parish of Ickleford,
near Hitchin from the representatives of Richard de
Beauchamp, second baron St Amand. This nobleman
died in 1508 leaving no lawful issue, but by his
will bequeathed his lands to his natural son
Anthony St Amand. Lord Cobham seems to have
disputed this will and to have claimed the land as heir
at law. The Commissioners in their Award (dated
16 February 25 Hen. viii, 1533-4) explaining that he
claimed to be '*cosen and heir of Lord Sayntamond,
that is to say^ son of Thomas, son of John, Lord
Cobham, son of Edward, son of Joan Braybroke,
dowghter and sole heir of Raynold Braybroke, brother
of Gerard Brabroke, father of Elizabeth Brabroke,
mother unto the said Richard, Lord Saynt Amond."
This somewhat complicated relationship seems to have
established his rights, for the Commissioners only
allowed the College to retain the manor on the payment
of a substantial sum to Lord Cobham.

Edmund Knightley, who signs the petition, was no
doubt counsel for the College. He was a son of
Richard and brother of Sir Valentine Knightley of
Fawsley, Northants. He was admitted to the Middle
Temple 12 February 1503-4, was Lent Reader in 1523,
and Double Lent Reader in 1528 for that Inn. He was
M.P. for Wilton 1529-36; was knighted in 1537; *^d
was a Commissioner for suppressing Monasteries. He
died 12 September 1542. John Brykyndyne B.D., who
was ejected from Ramerick, was 1 take it the John
Briganden who was one of the 31 Fellows of the
College admitted on its opening 29 July 15 16. He was
M.A. 1517, B.D. 1528, and was Junior Proctor of the
University for the year 1524.

He seems to have been unfortunate in his legal

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1 8 Notes from the College Records.

experiences, for in his proctorial accounts for his year of
office he writes as follows :

Hoc anno indictatas erat ex para malicia oppidanoram
Junior procurator ob mortem cuiusJam davyd vahan
qui cum apparatu suo in nocturnis excubiis diclinn
procuratorem insidiabat, atque ad obseratas portas
suarum edium vbi intromitti nequierat miro qoodaia
impetu fagabat, ibique post diu commissum preliunn
procuratore et doctore clyffe spectantibus pacemque
vehementer (sed fmstra) inculcantibas, predkius
vahanus misere interiit.

To the KjDg our souereyne lorde.
In their most humble wise shewen and complayne vnto yoiar
highnes youre dailye oratoures and true bedysmen Nicholas
Metcalfe Master of the College of Saynt John in Cambridge and
the ffellowes and scolers of the same that where the said
Master and Scolers and their predissessors haue bene lawfully
and peaceably seased of the Manor of Ramerwik in your
countie of Hertford in ther desmeane as of ffee as in the right
of their said College by the space of xij (altered to vij) yeres and
aboue as by good conveyance redy to be showed playnly may
appere till the ixth day of August last past. At the which tyme
one Thomas Peryn gentillman and John Broket gentillman
Justices of your peace within your said countie of Hertford
came to the manor place of the said manor with a writt apon
the Statute of Northampton to them directed by George Broke
knight Lord Cobham sayng and surmysing at there comyng
thether that there shold be diuers malefactours and perturbatours
of your peace within the said manor armed and after the manor
of warr arayed whiche into the said manor with other iandes and
tenementes of the said Sir George lord Cobham with such force
and power did enter and kepe the same and the goodes and
cattalles of the same lord Cobham there by them founde did
take consume and waist ayeanst youre lawes and ayanst the
forme of the said Statute of Northampton in suche case
prouyded. At which tyme there was no manner ot person there
in armour forceably arrayed ne yet any force malefactor or
perturbator of your said peace. But so it is most gracious lorde
that there was in the said manor place one Mr. John Brykyndyne^
bachalor of dyuynyte, and one Sir Steven Tennaunte, bachalor

Notes from the College Records. 19

of arte, which came farthe of the said manor place levyng the
dores wide open and demaunded of the said Justices the cause
of there comyng thither. And the said Justices saide for the
execucion of the Kynges writt taken apon the Statute of
Northampton To whome the said master Brykyndyne made
aunswere that there was no force there ne yet any person there
in disturbance of your peace and desired them to come into
the house and serche the same to thentente they myght testifie
the truthe thereof, whereopon the said Justices entred into the
said manor place and serched, after which serche so by them
made they could fynde no force there ne yet any manner person
so arrayed or like to disturb youre said peace. Albeit the said
maister Brykendyne said vnto the said Justices they myght by
your lawes kepe it with force insomytche as they had bene in
possession thereof peacebly so many yeres as is aboue specified.
Nevertheles he aunswered that he wold be ordered by your
lawes and by them that know your lawes. And incontynent
the said Justices moved the said maister Brikendyne to be
bounden in a gret somme of money to suffer one Thomas Parys
belonging to the said lord Cobham to occupie and kepe
possession thereof indifferently for both parties To the whiche
the same Mr Brykendyne aunswered that the said Thomas Paris
was no indifferent person for he was swome to the said lorde
Cobham to do all thynges that sholde be thought expediant for
the mayntenaunce of his pretended title and clayme. And apon
this the said Justices of peace commaunded the said master
Brikendyne and Sir Stephen Tennaunte that immediately after
dynner they shold repayre them to Hitchiu beyng two miles
from the said manor where they sholde fynde them and then
they sholde knowe further of their myndes. And when the said
Mr Brykendyne and Sir Stephen Tennaunte cam thither the
said (Justices) demaunded of them whether they wolde scale an
obligacion accordyng to their first mocyon or not whiche to do
they denyed and assone as they refused the sealing of the said
obligacyon the said Justices commaunded the said Mr Bryken-
dyne and Sir Stephen with three other persones that cam with
them to warde and charged the bailiffs and constables of
the said towne of Hitchin with them And that they sholde see
them conveied to your gaole or prison of Hertford with spede.
And immediately the same Justices perceving that the seruante
of the said Mr Brikendyne was lately com frome one master

20 Noles from the College Records.

Luke a lerned man with his counsaill in the said cause cansed
the horse whiche the said seraante rode apon being then walked
in the open strete to be arrested for yoare highnes. And incon-
tynent the said Justices of peace with a gret multitude of people
to your said oratours onknowen with force and armes riotusly
repayred agayne to the said Manor place leaving the said Master
Brikendyne Syr Stephen and the other three persones with them
behinde in prison. And whan the said Justices cam thether they
founde the dores of the said manor place shut, they percevyng the
said dores to be closed with force and armes in such ryatus
manner that is to say with billes swordes and staves and other
thinges requisite for ther purpose with the multitude aforesaid
did breke vp a walle of the said house and with such force entred
into the same where they founde one James Mason keping the
possession therof in peaceably mannor for the behoufe of youre
saide suppliantes and also they found in the said house one
Peter Townrow beyng in his bedde sore seke and ther they
ransacked the said mannor place and toke away the bowes and
arrowes that were vsually wont to be shot with and a chalis
wherewith the said master Brykendyne vsed to singe masse,
and pulled out of the said house the said James ayanst his will.
And then they went to the bedd of the said Peter then being
in the same sore seke and badd him put on his clothes and
com awaye or elles he sholde be borne out of the same house
for he sholde not tarry there and bicause the said sike man was
not able to put on his clothes ne yet able to go alone the said
Justices seruantes in ther presence put on the doblet and other
clothes of the said Peter apon hym and ladd him out of the
house and sett him on horsbakk vpon one of ther horses and
so brought hym a myle from the said manor place and there
left him at an ale house. And incontynently dyuers of the said
ryatous persones entered into the said manor place and other
landes by the commaundment of the said lord Cobham and the
same now kepe contrary to your lawes. And so your said
suppliantes were and are and be wrongfully disseased and the
said Master Brykandyne and other his company by colour of
the said writte and onlawfull commaundement of the said
Justices wrongfully imprisoned and so yet remayne in the
keping of the bailiffes and cunstables of Hitchin, and be like
to be sent to your said gaole of Hertford by reason of the said
vnlawfuU commaundement to there vtter vndoing except your

Notes from the College Records, 1 1

most gracius remedy be to them in this behalf provyded. In
consideracion whereof and insomytche as it doth appere by the
vnlawfull demeanor of the said Justices of peace that they
nothing considered the very true meaning of your said writt
but onely entended by colour of the same to disscase and put
out your said besechers from their lawful! and peacybly pos-
session, for they neuer made proclamacion of the said writte
according to the terme thereof, yt may please your said highnes
the premysses tenderly to consider and to %y^^ a commaund-
ment to the said Justices that the said Master Brykandyne,
bachelor of dyvynyte, and the other persons now imprisoned
may be at ther libertie. And to ^y^^ in commaundment to the
said Lord Cobham by your most dradd writ of injunction vnder
a certayne payne by you to be lymytted in the same tliat he
apon the sight thereof do remove his possession of the premysess
so that your Oratours may peaceably inioie the same in like
manner as they dyd before they were so put out, and also to
graunte your seuerall writtes of subpena to be directed as well
to the said Justices of the peace as to the said Lord Cobham
commaunding them streytly by the same vnder a certayne payne
personally to appeare before your said highnes and your most
honorable counsaile in your Starre Chambre at Westminster at
a certayne day by you to be limytted toaunswere the premysses.
And your Orators shall daily pray to God for your most ryall
and prosperous estate long to endure.

Edmund Knyghtley.

In the statutes laid down by Bishop Fisher for the
College it was enacted that the College should provide
and maintain a chantry, or mass priest, at Higham in
Kent, who should teach the children there and also
pray for the souls of the founders and benefactors of the
suppressed Nunnery the possessions of which had come
to the College. After the general suppression of
religious houses the question of chantries and their
endowments came to the front. In the ordinary sense
a Chantry was a little church or chapel, or even a
particular altar in a church, endowed with lands and
revenues for the maintenance of one or more priests to

22 Notes from Ihe College Records.

sing masses and perform divine services for the souls of
the donors and such others as they might name. The
two Acts of Parliament dealing with Chantries are
37 Hen. viii, c. 4 and i Edw. vi, c 14. It appears from
the documents which follow that a local inquiry was
held as to whether the priest maintained by the College
at Higham was in effect a chantry priest. It was
thought necessary apparently to get a certificate under
the great seal that this endowment was not subject to
the provisions of the above Acts.

To tho right worshipfull Sir John Baker, knighti
chauncellor of the Kinges Maiesties courte of his
first fruites and tenths this inaie be deliuered.

The certificate of William Sedley and Thomas WombwcU
by vertue of the Kinges Maiesties commission herunto annexed
with a bill of interrogatories to the same commission annexed
to them directed for to enquyre of the same interrogatories As
hereafter folowith.

To tlie first interrogatorie of the said interrogatories Edmonde
Page of Shorne in the countey of Kent gentleman of the age
of lij yeres and more sworne and examined before the said
William Sedley and Thomas Wombwell the seconde daie of
Octobre in the yere of the Reigne of our souereigne Lorde
Henry the viijiki by the grace of God Kinge of Englond ffraunce
and Irelond Defender of the faith and in earth of the church
off Englond and also of Irelond the supreame head xxxvij}\i
sayth that he did neuer knowe any chauntrye founded within
the parisshe churche of Higham but for the declaration of a
chauntrye founded in the parisshe of Higham The said Edmonde
Page sayth that apon the suppression of the late Abbey of
Higham and before the landes and tenementes of the same late
Abbey was appropried to the house of Saint John's CoUedge in
Cambridge he herde Doctor ffisher late bishop of Rochester
saie at diuers times to diuers persones both honourable and
worshipfull inhabitinge in the said countey whos names amongst
others was Thomas late Lord Cobham, Elys Hilton, John
Herynden and Robert Hilton gentlemen now deceased, that the
Kinges pleasure was that ther shulde be a chauntrye founded

Notes from the College Records. 23

for one preest perpetoaliye to singe in the scite of the seid late
Abbey And there shulde be a cbapell and a chamber for the
same preest and immediately upon the appropriacion of the
same landes and tenementes ther was a preest named and
appointed by Doctor Metcalf then being Master of the said
Colledge and by the said ffellowes of the same whose name
this deponent remembreth not. And the said preest shulde
haue out of the said Colledge tenne markes yerely for his
salarye. And as farreforth as this deponent doeth knowe and
hath herd say that diuers preests hath songe masse from time
to tyme within the scite of the said late Abbey from the said
appropriacion vnto this daie. And also this deponent sayth
that he hath herde the said Doctor Metcalfe say diuers times
after the said appropriacion had that the same chauntiye was
assuredly founded as the said landes were appropried to the
said Colledge but by what meane or auctoryte this deponent
knoweth not.

To the second Interrogatorye the said deponent sayth that
he never did knowe any landes or tenementes mortysed or
belonginge to the same chauntrye other than the said yerely x
markes paid out of the said Colledge to the said preest which x
markes was alowed vnto the said Colledge at the said appro-
priacion of the said landes as this deponent hath herd saye by
comen reporte.

To the third Interrogatorie this deponent hath aunswered in
his first article afore wreton.

To the fourth interrogatorie the said deponent sayth that
the inhabitants of Higham aforesaid then being certefied the
said chauntrye apon the mater before declared vnto the Kinges
commissioners And thei certefied it in to the Kinges exchequer
And more this deponent knoweth not.

To all the said interrogatories William Parker of Higham
aforesaid yoman of the age of xlj yeres and more swomeand
examyned before the said commissioners the daie and yere
aforesaid sayth that he neuer did knowe any chauntrye in the
parisshe church of Higham, but that Sir John Cowper preest
now singeth masse within the chapell of the said late Abbey
in Higham and that the Master of Sainte Johns Colledge in
Cambridge doeth paie vnto the said preest yerely for his salary
X markes. Aud this deponent sayth that he herd the vicare of
Higham saye that the said Master of Sainte Johns Colledge

24 Notes from the College Records.

maie put the said preest awaie and take htm home to his colledge
at his pleasure if he son^e masse in the parisshe churche and
did not singe in the said chapell. And more this deponent
cannot saye.

To the said interrogatories Alysander Bose of Higham afore-
said of the age of xl yeres and more sworne and exaroyned
before the said commissioners the said daie and yere sayth that
Doctor Metcalfe late Master of Saint Johns Colledge in Cam-
bridge and other Masters then after him hath paid yerelye tenne
markes to diuers preestes singing masse in a chapell of the late
Abbey of Higham to praie for all christen sowles and for to
teach e the children of the parisshe of Higham which preestes
one after another was put ther by the said Masters. And this
deponent sayth that he knoweth it not for any chauntrye and
more he can not saye.

To the said interrogatories William Hole of Higham afore-
said of the age of fiftie yeres and more sworne and examyned
before the said commissioners the said daie and yere sayth in
euery thinge as the saide Alisaunder Bose hath said before and
more he can not saye.

To the said interrogatories William Thurston of Higham
aforesaid yoman of the age of Ixxvij yeres and more sworne
and examyned before the !>aid commissioners the daie and yere
aforesaid saythe that he neuer knewc no chauntrye in the parisshe
churche of Higham but that Sir John Cowper now singeth masse
in a chapell within the scyte of the late Abbey of Higham And
that the Master of saynt Johns Colledge in Cambridge doth paie
vnto the said Sir John Cowper x markes yerelye for his salarye
and also that the said Master maye put the said Sir John Cowper
out at his pleasure. And this deponent sayth that he hath
known diuers preestes singing masse there whose names be Sir
John Stansornought and after him Sir John Bewper and after
him Sir Thomas Whalley and now Sir John Cowper And more
this deponent can not say.

To the said interrogatories Richard Goldehawke of Higham
aforesaid yoman of the age of xxxvj yeres and more sworne
and examyned afore the said commissioners the day and yere
aforesaid sayth that Sir John Cowper singeth masse in the
chapell in the late Abbey of Higham for all christen sowles and
hath his wages of the Master of Saint John*8 Colledge in
Cambridge but whether it be a chauntrye or not this deponent
knoweth not And more he can not saye.

Nofes from the College Records. 25

To the said interrogatories Alisander Gilbert of Higham
Aforesaid of the aege of Ixxij yeres and more sworne and
examined afore the said commissioners the daie and yere afore-
said sayth that he neuer knew no chauntrye in the parisshe
chnrche of Higham but that he hath knowen diners preestes
singeing masse in a chapell within the late Abbey of Higham
for all christen sowles which preestes were put ther by the
Master of Saynt Johns Colledge in Cambridge for the time
beinge. And that the said Master for the time beinge may put
them awaie at ther pleasure and more this deponent cannot say.

And because that Edmonde Page which was first sworne and
examyned toke witnes of the sayinge of Docter ffisher late bishop
of Rochester Therefore the said William Sedley and Thomas
Wombwell demaunded of the right reuerend father in God
Henrye now bishop of Rochester whether ther be any chauntrye
in the churche of Higham or not and then the said bishop said
that there is a chauntrye in Higham as appereth in the Register
of Doctor ffisher which the said bishop shewed and redde vnto
the said commissioners. In the which Register amonges other
thinges be writen the wordes following : —

Decernimus insuper et ordinamus quod prefati Magister socii
et scolares ipsorumque successores futuri habobant et ipsorum
propriis sumptibus et expensis in perpetuum statuta et durante
appropriacione hujusmodi fideliter exhibebunt et sustentabunt
vnum capellanum idoneum secularem in ordine sacerdotali
constitutum qui quotidie et continue humano more infra prio-
ratum de Higham predictum celebrabit qui pro animabus
fundatorum primogenitorum et benefactorum suorum defunc-
torum ac pro felice et prospero statu illustrissimi principis et
domini nostri domini Henrici Regis Anglie octaui moderni pra
bonoque prospere statu totius regni sui Anglie preces fundet et
faciat ad altissimum deuotas.

As in the same register more plainlye apperethe.

Edwardus sextus Dei gratia Anglie Francie et Hibernie Rex
fidei defensor et in terra ecclesie Anglicane et Hibernice
supremum caput Omnibus ad quos presentes littere peruenerint
salutem Inspeximus inter recorda et irrotulamenta curie augmen-
tacionum et reventionum Corone nostre quoddam decretum per
cancellarium et generates superuisores eiusdem curie factum
VOL. XXVII. E

26 Notes from the College Records.

in hec verba: Memorandum where the Master ffellowes and
ScoIIers of Saynt Johns Colledge in Cambridge haae exhibited
a byll of petycion in to the Corte of thaagmentacions and
revenues of the Kjnges majesties crowne declaring by the same
that the commyssioners appoynted for the survey of CoUedges
Cbauntries and other thynges in the seid Countie gyven to the
Kyng by the statute made in the parlyament holden at West-
minster in the first yere of the Kynges highnes reigne did
certifye to the said Corte amongest other thynges that one
stypende or salary of sixe poundes thirtene shyllynges and fouer
pence for one priest within the parisshe of Higham in the saide
Countie of Kente was founded by the Mayster and bretherne
of the saide Colledge to celebrate in a Chaple and to teache
chyldren frely in Higham aforesaide And that one chambre
over the said chaple with a lytle garden adioynyng of the yerely
value of twoo shyllynges were imployed to and for the lodgyng
of the saide preste And that there was one Challyce of sylver
weying vHj ounces and other goodes and ornamentes belongyng
to the saide servyce worthe iijs. iiijd. And declaryng one the
other parte that the premysses are parcelles of the late priory
of nonnes of Higham aforeseid whiche priory with the landes
and possessions thereof were gyven to the said Master ffellowes
and scollers and to their successors by the excellent prynce of
most worthie memory Kyng Henry the eight by his lettres
patentes beryng date the xxjih daye of October in the xiiijih
yere of the reigne of the saide late Kyng And they are never-
thelesse dysturbed and vexed in the possession of the same
premysses by reason of the said certificate beyng vntrue
fibrasmoche as vpon the sighte of the said lettres patentes
shewed in the said Corte It apperithe that the saide chamber
and garden with other the premysses were gyven to the Master
ffellowes and scolers of the saide Colledge and to their sue*
cessors for ever absolutely and without any condicion or intent
to fynde any priest or to paye any suche stipende or salarye for
thentent aforesaide And for that by one prouision in the saida
estatute yt ys provyded that the same estatute shall not extende
to any Colledge hostell or halle within eyther of the Vnjuersities
of Oxforde or Cambridge nor to any Chauntrie founded within
any of the same nor to any their landes tenementes or heredita*
mentes It ys therefore ordered and decreid by the Chauncellor
^nd generall surveyors of the said Corte in the terme of Saynt

Notes from the College Records. 27

Mighell that ys to sa}^ the xxth daye of November in the thirde
yere of the raigne of our soueraigne lorde Edwarde the syxte
by the grace of God kyng of Englonde ffraance and Irelonde
defender of the faylhe of the Churche of Englande and also of
Irelonde in earthe the supreme head that the said Master
ffellowes and scolers and their successors shall not only be
clerely exonerated and dyscharged of the said salarye and
stypende of vjlu xiijs. iiijd, and euery parcel! therof but also
shall quyetly enjoye the said chamber and garden for ever and
shall enjoye and possesse the said Chalyce and goods to their
owne propre vse without lette interuption or molestation of
any of the Kynges highenes officers or mynysters vntyll suche
tyme as other better mater and tytle be proved for the Kyng
touchyng the premisses And this decre shalbe to the Kynges
highenes officers and mynysters in the saide counlie of Kente
and to all other persone or persons to whome yt shall apperteyne
sufficient warrant and dyscharge in that behalf. Nos autem
tenorem decreti predicti duzimus ezemplificandum per presentes
In cuius rei testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes
Teste Ricardo Sakevyle milite apud Westmonasterium sexto
decimo die Septembris anno regno nostri tercio

Irrotulatum per me

Thomam Eusrard

Audiionm.

R. F. S.

{To hi continued,)

DIE SELIGKEIT.

Die Seligkeit ist nicht nur selig selbst to sein
Die Seligkeit is nicht allein und nicht zu zwein.

Die Seligkeit is nicht zu vielen, nur zu alien;
Mir kann nur Seligkeit der ganzen Welt gefallen.

Wer salig war und musst unselig Andre wissen.
Die eigne Seligkeit war ihm dadurch entrissen.

Und die Vergessenheit kann Seligkeit nicht sein,
Vielmehr das Wissen ist die Seligkeit allein.

Drum kann die Seligkeit auf Erden nicht bestehn^
Weil hier die Seligen so viel Unserge sehn.

Und der Gedanke nur gibt Seligkeit auf Erden,
Dass die Unseligen auch selig sollen werden.

Wer dieses weiss, der tragt mit Eifer bei sein Theil
Zum allgemeinen wie zum eignen Seelenheil.

Gott aber weiss den Weg zu Aller Heil allein;
Drum ist nur selig Gott, in ihm nur kannst du's sein.

Friedr. Ruckert,

Die Weiihiit dis Brahmarun, /, 4U

Answer not a fool according to his folly.

Who hears, and cries not * Nay,'

Must he mean 'Yea'?
Friend, many a word is born to die

Without reply.

J. E. B. M.

DONE INTO ENGLISH.

That were no blessedness, to be but singly blest,
Not singly, nor by pairs, is won eternal rest.

Not e'en by troops, only to all, is blessing sent,
Short of the whole world's bliss, with nothing be
content.

Who were self-blest, and must his neighbours unblest

see,
To him, by that dire sight, self-bliss must poisoned be.

Nor can forgetfulness for lack of bliss atone,
Rather must knowledge, sure and clear, be bliss alone.

Therefore can heavenly Peace on earth ne'er plant

her feet,
Because the blessed here so many unblest meet.

And this one only thought can bliss on earth ensure.
That heaven to unblest souls shall one day bliss secure.

Who this has learnt, will heart and soul for ever strain.
As for himself, so for all souls, blessing to gain.

But God to all men's bliss alone the path has trod ;
God therefore, none but He, is blest, and man through

God.

J. E. B. M.

WIDERSPRUCH.

1st, wer nicht widerspricht,

Auch schon belehrt ?
Freund, manche Red' is nicht

Der Antwort wert.

Feodor Loewe.

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x'i'v-*\-,ir'^-'ri

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THREE MONTHS IN KASHMIR.

HOLIDAY in Kashmir is not now so unusual
and rare an experience as it was twenty-five
years ago. In the days before the building of
the Jhelum cart road which established easy
communication between Murree in the Panjab and
Srinagar in Kashmir, the lucky men who marched into
the country literally went to a "happy hunting ground."
Now there are scores of visitors where there was one.
So greatly also has the game diminished that stringent
preservation laws have been enforced. Golf is played
with ardent enthusiasm at Gulmarg, and comfortable
house-boats can be had at Srinagar.

The old road made and used by the Moghal Emperors
is now practically deserted, so far as English travellers
are concerned ; and there are comparatively few recent
visitors to Kashmir who have travelled by this pic-
turesque route, abounding, as it does, with relics of by-
gone India. When the Emperors went for their summer
holiday they travelled into Kashmir by a road which led
from Gujrat in the Panjab over various mountain ranges,
the highest being the Pir Panjal, and descended into the
Valley of Kashmir at the south-east corner. As they
took most of the court with them, the journey was no
light matter. Bemier has described how slow a business
it was to make a start in the morning, how the head of
the caravan was sometimes near the next halting place
before the rear had left its ground.

To accommodate themselves, their families, and their
immediate retinue the Moghals built "serais" or rest-
houses at fairly easy stages along the route. As a rule

Three Months in Kashmir. 3 1

these were of the conventional type, — a rectangular
building enclosing a courtyard, the rooms and recesses
opening thereon, having a gateway much like that of a
College. The ruins of these buildings are still extant.
Some are in good preservation ; and in all cases the
most beautiful site available in the locality seems to have
been chosen. The road does not appear to have been
at all available for vehicular traffic.

If it ever was thus used, it must have been very
different from that which is now left. At present it is
simply a very rough and stony track, which is in places
very difficult even for the sure-footed pack-ponies and
bullocks. The people who use the road are [mainly
Xashmiris journeying from one village to another or
convoying bullock-trains down to the Panjab border.
In this way. a large quantity of ghi (clarified butter) is
exported from Kashmir to the Panjab.

But though the old road is now little used by English
people, it has many advantages for those to whom it
makes but little difference whether they reach the valley
in three days or in ten. One of these advantages lies
in the difference between a walking tour of ten days
and a dusty jolting journey in an uncomfortable con-
veyance for about a third of that time. The total
distance from Gujrat to Sedau in Kashmir is about 130
miles, of which seventy or eighty are in the most
glorious hill country.

The journey appeals perhaps rather to the young, as
there are many stiff climbs over the various ranges, and
the road is never smooth. The accommodation at the
various rest houses, some of which are built among the
ruins of the old serais, is not palatial ; and the food
obtainable en route is not such as would tempt the jaded
appetite of an elderly invalid.

A friend and myself arranged last year to spend our
holiday in Kashmir and to walk in by this old road.
When, therefore, we were deposited on Gujrat platform
at 3 o'clock on a scorching July afternoon, amid a pile

3 2 Three Mo/ilhs in Kashmir.

of bags, gun cases, camp beds, and camp equipment
generally we felt that we had fairly started on our
journey. We spent the night at the d&k-bungalow, and
on the next afternoon started upon a thirty mile " ekka "
journey to Bhimber in Kashmir, from where our walk
was to begin. There is at the best of times but little to
be said of an ekka-journey. An ekka is a perfectly
balanced but absolutely springless little cart, which is
drawn with the minimum of labour and gives the
maximum of jolting. A journey of several hours in
one of these on a hot afternoon is neither inspiriting
nor interesting.

We travelled about twenty miles that day and halted
for the night at the diik-bungalow at Kotlah, a village
close to the border. A very tough and stringy fowl
formed our dinner, and we went to bed soon afterwards,
the mosquitos and sandflies taking care that we did not
sleep too heavily.

Next morning we reached Bhimber, after taking three
hours to do ten miles. The road was unspeakably bad
in places and we marvelled constantly that the ekkas
did not turn over. At Bhimber we halted, paid oflF our
ekka-drivers and set about engaging coolies for the
march next day. A rough calculation made it plain
that we should want about twenty-three men to carry
all our goods and chattels and the "stores" that we
had brought with us.

In the afternoon we went out to look at Bhimber. It
is a little town with one street or bazar, and some fairly
big stone houses occupied by the leading men and
officials of the place. It lies in a little valley of the
Aditak hills, and though it is beautiful in its situation it
is very hot, as there is little or no breeze.

The next morning we began the march and for four
days had a series of hot but not uninteresting stages.
The views from the two ranges which we crossed were
very fine. On the Kashmir side, green valleys and
wooded slopes, with many a brawling stream ; on the

Three Months in Kashmir. 33

Indian side the vast plains of the Panjab with the
distant silver streaks that marked rivers, and the heavy
haze hanging like a roof over the country.

On the fourth day we came to Rajauri, a little town
charmingly situated just above the confluence of two
hill-streams. The town is on the right bank of one
stream and the resthouse is opposite, overlooking the
river. The Emperors seem to have been peculiarly fond
of Rajauri, for in addition to the usual serai there is a
pavilion with a pleasure garden.

Ruined fountains and mossy fruit trees give the garden
an old-world look. The pavilion looks across to the
town, and from it at sunset we heard above the sound of
the river the solemn note of the temple bell. It would
be hard to find a more delightful ^' halfway house " than
this at Rajauri. The trees in and about the garden,
the river roaring past the ruins of the bridge, the grey
buildings of the old town, the setting sun touching the
hills with gold, made a harmonious and exquisite
picture.

Here, however, we had one of those mishaps which
g^ve a spice to a journey. To reach the rest-house we
had to ford the river below the junction of the two streams.
There had been heavy rain in the hills that morning
and the river was very high. We found great difficulty
in crossing, and the stream was all but too strong and
deep for the two or three coolies who were with us as
advance party. Our other men came along two hours
later and could not cross at all. All our cooking utensils
and stores, except a little tea and some biscuits, were
with this body, which also included the cook himself.
We dined on strong tea, biscuits and chupatties that
night, and went to bed with the pleasing reflection that
we should have the same for breakfast, after which
chupatties only would be our fare. In the middle of the
next afternoon, however, the others appeared and this
episode was closed.

We halted two days at Rajauri mainly because of

VOL. XXVIl. F

34 Three Months in Kashmir.

the rain, which had made rivers very difficult to cros9»
We spent the time in getting some clothes washed and
in repacking our things more conveniently. We also
bathed, but swimming was out of the question in a river
swollen with rain and melted snow.

The next stage of our journey was rather tedious
until we neared the end of our march — Thanna Mandt.
It looked as if the village were in a cleft of a huge
mountain wall over which there was no path. Not
until the place itself is reached is the mystery solved.
Just at the upper end of the village the road turns at
right-angles up a steep narrow gorge. Here the air
was distinctly cooler, Thanna being some 5000 feet
above the plains. We felt that we were now away frona
the heat and dust of India.

After another day's halt, owing to a well founded re-
port of a broken bridge on the next stage, we left Thanna
for Baramgalli. The way led over the Rattan Pir Pass,
from which we had a superb view of the country over
which we had travelled in the last few days. We found
that the broken bridge was not repaired, but that a
strong force of helpers was ready on the far bank.
With the aid of a rope we all crossed in little knots of
four or five at a time. We watched our baggage with
some anxiety, but luckily it was got across in safety
and without much wetting. We here fell in with our
•* shikari," a hill man of great reputation and experience.
He had letters of recommendation, — as most servants
have, — some of which recounted the bags made twenty
years ago by his various employers. To read these
letters was to be filled with an insatiate but hopeless
desire to go and do likewise.

Baramgalli is the last stage at which a modern rest-
house is maintained. Hence it had been arranged that
our tents were to meet us next day, having been sent out
by an agent in Srinagar.

The march from Baramgalli to Poshiana is deser-
vedly famous. Almost immediately on leaving the rest*

Three Moulhs in Kashmir. 35

house the path leads into a gorge of most entrancing
beauty. The hills, clad with pine and fir, slope steeply
down to a narrow rocky bed, over which a torrent
rushes. The path lies first on one side then on the
other of the stream, which has to be crossed twenty-
seven times in a space of six miles. The bridges are not
works of stone or iron, but in their most complete and
massive form consist of two tree trunks laid parallel and
covered with short cross-pieces either tied with rope or
weighted with stones. Very frequently some of the
cross-pieces bad disappeared^ leaving inviting gaps six
or eight feet wide.

The tents were to be at Poshiana, which we reached
quite early in the morning after walking through the
gorge. Poshiana is a quaint but squalid village,
situated on a bleak slope at an altitude of some 8,500
i^et. The houses are built in compact terraces, the
mud-roof of one log hut forming the "stoep," so to
speak, ol that above it. They are very much rougher
in design and much less picturesque than the houses in
the valley itself. When we arrived we found no tents,
but heard vague rumours of a pony-train carrying
tents, which had been passed some thirteen miles away.
Hearing this the shikari persuaded some villagers io
let us have their hut for the day. This arrangement
was made with the human occupants only and
apparently without the knowledge and consent of the
quadruped and feathered tenants. At any rate the
latter were constantly attempting to regain possession
both by day and night.

All day long we watched the track,~and whenever in
the far distance a train of ponies came swinging round
the corner of the hill, out came the glasses to see
whether they were bringing tents. No tents came,
however, and as we had a long march before us we
turned in early.

We were well on our way by seven next morning.
After winding in and out of the hillsides at the level of

36 Three Months in Kashmir.

the village, the path dipped steeply down some 750 or
1,000 feet into a gorge, crossed a river, and then went
straight up the other side to about the same height as
before. After this we saw the 'great wall of the Pir
Panjal range stretching East and West in front of us,
and we began a long sti£F climb to the pass, which was
at a height of 1 1,200 feet. The path was rougher than
It had hitherto been; and occasionally it led straight up
an old water course.

As we drew near the top we reached the limit of tree
growth and at the summit itself we saw, stretchings
down towards the valley of Kashmir, a piece of country
more like a moor than anything else, with streaks of
old snow in the dips and hollows. On either side of
this lonely stretch the peaks stood out in sombre
majesty, some being 15,000 to 16,000 feet in height.

An easy walk of five miles along the pass brought us
to the ruins of Aliabad Serai, where we halted for a
frugal lunch, having heard even worse news of the tents.
It was impossible to halt at Aliabad, there being
now no shelter from the biting wind which always
sweeps down from the snows after sunset. The only
thing to do was to go twelve or thirteen miles down
towards the valley, and, if we did not then find the
tents, to camp in a wood.

We enjoyed the second stage of the journey, even
though our morning's efforts began to tell, and though
the road wound in and out of twenty or more huge
curves in the hillside. It was exasperating to come
round a comer and to see the next corner perhaps three
hundred yards distant as the crow flies, but requiring
a walk of seven or nine hundred yards to reach it.

The scenery, however, was bold and grand. There
was complete silence save for the occasional cry of
a hawk or hawk-eagle.

At times the path led us by the edge of an almost
sheer drop of six hundred feet. At one of these placesi
50 Bernier in his "Travels" says, some elephants

Three Months in Kashmir, 37

carrying the ladies of the Emperor's Court fell over;
and while most of the fair occupants escaped with their
lives, the miserable beasts were either killed outright
or died a lingering death through the injuries they
received. Here and there we passed the ruins of a
guard tower put up by the Moghals to defend the road.

About four in the afternoon we got down to a place
called Doobchiy where we heard that the knaves with our
tents had retired to a village six miles away.

Our coolies and ponies had now had enough, and
-we camped in a pine wood under an enormous tree.
Luckily it did not rain in the night, but the air was so cold
as to wake us at times. On these occasions we built up
the fire and turned into bed again. The moon was
nearly full that night and shone brilliantly through the
trees. Unfortunately, weary and sleepy men have no
eye for the beautiful; hence very little recollection of
that scene remains beyond the fact that the moon was
shining and broke our sleep.

The difficult part of our journey ended at Doobchi,
and next day we had an easy pleasant walk over
meadowland that reminded us of England. Our tents
were found in a village lying on the ground, while the
pony-drivers stood idly about. In answer to our justly
irate enquiries, the men said that they had turned back
because the road was too difficult. We pointed out that
other men's ponies had not found great difficulty, and
then we made a few suitable observations on their
conduct.

We halted for three days near a little village, Sedau,
which nestles in the angle made by the Pir Panjal
range and the hills forming the Eastern boundary of the
valley. English wild flowers, wild strawberries and
mushrooms seemed to flourish in this quarter. There
were apple orchards, also, which appealed strongly to
us who had not seen apples for months. The whole
valley, in fact, is suitable for the growing of English
fruits. Our little camp was in a dell, whence we looked

38 Three Months in Kashmir.

up a long valley terminating in snow*clad peaks. The
woods round us gave ample opportunity for lounging,
especially with a good book and a pipe. In the
evenings, while we stayed there, we climbed a little
hill, from which we had a glorious view of the valley
and of the white peaks beyond Srinagar, which were
being painted a beautiful pink by the setting sun.
When the light had faded from the distant view, it was
pleasant to watch the cattle, of which Sedau owned
hundreds, coming home from every direction often
untended. Then, as night fell, the roar of the Haribal
falls grew louder in the distance as other sounds
ceased.

Of the varied big game shooting which Kashmir
afiFords, we had fair luck with only one kind, viz. bear
shooting. Each of us separately put in about ten days
of stalking the woods for barasingh "twelve-point"
stag. Neither of us saw one, though once a rifle coolie,
by stepping on a dead twig in a very thick jungle,
destroyed a morning's work when it had almost cul-
minated in success.

On another occasion I had a wonderful lesson in
tracking, lasting three hours, but unfortunately ending
in nothing, as the stag had crossed some hard dry
ground and had left no visible marks. We also crawled
up steep rocks and over little glaciers, hoping to get
tehr — a mountain goat. Of this, too, the only result
was some little experience in climbing and in living in
a tent, which had to be so pitched that to eat one's
meals it was necessary first to go to bed.

Mountain sickness did not trouble us much. My
personal experience was that I got an awful headache
on the first day I climbed to fifteen thousand feet. It
was on this little trip that I saw the Konsa lake, which
is about a mile and a half long and half a mile wide.
It lies well above the tree limit, and is surrounded by
peaks and grey clifiFs of almost grim solemnity. The
water is* of a wonderful green, and at times small ice-

Three Months m Kashmir^ 39

bergs float down it, having broken o£F from the glacier
at the upper end.

The animal which gives most trouble in the Kashmir
is the bear, of which the black kind is by far the more
common. He will destroy sheep, calves, and even
ponies and bullocks ; but his chief delight is to come
down from the woods by night and to eat up whatever
maize he can. In this performance he often tramples
down half a field, and it is not hard to discover the
traces of any black bear who has visited a maize field.
The villagers fix up little shelters for watching their
crops, and during the night sound tomtoms and conches,
when the maize is ripening. Bnt this is often of no
avail. The bear passes quite near the watcher, and
undisturbed by tomtoms eats his fill. On two occasions
crops were damaged within fifty yards of our camp, but
unfortunately for one young bear a bullet deprived him
of any chance of eating more maize.

When it is known that anybody is in the distric;
wishing to shoot bears, the villagers are quite glad to
turn out as beaters. There are generally more volun-
teers than are required. When a bear is killed their
joy is genuine, for is not one of their ancient foes dead
and will not they themselves get double pay ?

Beating for bear is much the same on all occasions.
The best jungle to beat is the long narrow strip of
dense wood which is often found on the lower slopes
of the Kashmir hills. If a very wide stretch is
attempted there is a risk that the bear will simply
double round a flank of the line of beaters, or will
break away to one side altogether.

The line of beaters, armed with long staves and
supplied with tomtoms, begins operations at the lower
end of the wood, often three-quarters of a mile from
the place where it is hoped to get a shot. As the
line gradually draws nearer the yelling and banging
of tomtoms is indescribable. One would -think that a
small battle was being fought in the wood. If any

40 Three Months in Kashmir.

beater catches sight of a bear moving o£F he yells even
louder than before.

Often there is a waving and rustling among the
bushesy and one thinks a bear is breaking cover, but
only too often it is only a family of moQkeys or a
jackal, or perhaps a musk-deer getting away to higher
ground. We had many beats in which we had not
the luck even to see the creatures just mentioned. Iff
however, the fates are kind, just as the beaters are
very close jm» abear breaks out at a rough trot. Very
often the m^ \^1 not appear where it is expected.
One of our victims showed half of her body one hundred
and fifty yards in front on the left, and then disappeared
to reappear from a dry watercourse fifty yards on the
right. Some bears take a good deal of killing. Two
unfortunately got away after being severely wounded,
one having had two bullets put into hitn. A wounded
bear is said often to staunch the wound with earth.

Kashmiris possess wonderful skill as handicraftsmen.
The beautiful work which is done in Srinagar is too well
known to need description. But the taste for carving
shews itself in the smallest villages in the valley.
One day a heavy rainstorm forced us to shelter in an
empty house in a village, and while we were there we
had ample opportunity to inspect the partly finished
panelling and carving of the verandah roof.

Compared with some kinds of work this would be
rough enough ; but in that village and in that house
the carving seemed extraordinary. There are very
few villages in England where such work could be
seen.

There is a marked difference in physical appearance
between the inhabitants of the Indian side of the Pir
Panjal and those of the valley. The former are cast
in more rugged mould ; their faces are harder, their
bodies are stronger. The native of the valley is a
soft and somewhat effeminate creature, possessing few
of the attributes of his Highland neighbour. There

^

Three Months in Kashmir. 4 1

is a most extraordinary custom among the inhabi-
tants of Kashmir proper. In cold and even in cool
weather they carry "fire baskets." These are little
wicker baskets holding a clay pot, into which live
coals or burning wood is put. The whole basket is
put underneath the kind of shirt worn by men and
women alike and is fastened at the waist next the
skin. This habit can hardly fail to have reacted un-
healthily on the physique of the race.

We were fortunate in our shikari, o^^^e long ex-
perience and excellent reputation soq|^H|ff^as already
been said. He was far above his iSllows in honesty
as he was in skill and knowledge ot the woods. He
was imperturbable save when a coolie made a gross
mistake ; then his rage was magnificent to see. There
was one thing for which he seemed to live and that
was hill-climbing in pursuit of game. He could no4
understand why men should climb mountains "only
for the name,'' and he mentioned with an undercurrent
of contempt two or three cases of Englishmen who
had attempted to climb some of the peaks in Kashmir
simply for the glory. His ideas were simple and he
was more than usually modest. In talking of the
experiences he had had with his employers in bygone
days he did not simply praise his own deeds. Once
he was out in very wild country when a blizzard came
on. One or two coolies died of exhaustion and cold,
"but as for me, I was warm, for I had two coats."
Though he had been a shikari for a quarter of a
century he was as eager for work and apparently as
able to endure fatigue as a young man.

Our camping was in a part of the country that
is by no means frequented by Englishmen. In fact
we saw no others in camp all the three months we
were in Kashmir, though we did hear of one or two
passing two or three miles from us. As most of the
villagers and shepherds seem to regard a white man
as rather cunning in the healing art, we were con-

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42 Three Months in Kashmir.

sequently rather in demand by would-be patients.
Once or twice this was embarrassing, as may well be
imagined. Still a gift of quinine was always accepted.
Our prescriptions (!) were generally based on this,
though EUiman's and chlorodyne were also useful. I
hope the medicines did the patients good, for they had
great faith.

We returned to India by the same road. In a week
we passed from biting cold and snow covered paths to
tropical heat. On the latter part of the march down we
discovered the real value of the pomegranate, which we
had previously rather despised. We were drawing to
the end of a long, dusty and very hot march when we
came upon some pomegranate trees. We had found no
drinking water by the way-side and were excessively
thirsty. Two or three pomegranates were knocked off
the trees and we cut through the hard leathery skin.
The juice was quite cold in spite of the scorching sun,
and quenched our thirst wonderfully. After that we con-
cluded that the pomegranate ought only to be eaten by
the thirsty on a hot day. No one else can fully appre-
ciate it. We reached Gujrat about nine o'clock on a
warm October morning and picked up letters and
newspapers at the Post Office, where they had been
accumulating for a fortnight.

A train journey over the plains of India is not usually
exciting. Our journey homeward, however, afforded
more incident than is generally given. The engine
broke down while we were still twenty-five miles from
Lahore, and after delaying the north-going mail very
considerably, our train was ignominiously towed into its
destination about five hours behind time.

As we missed the connection through this delay we
spent a day looking at some of the sights of the Panjab
capital, among them being the famous cannon around
which Kim played in his early days. There is a legend
to the effect that they who own this gun shall own
the Panjab alsQ.

Humanum Esi Amare. 43

Three months. of camping are more than a mere
holiday ; they give not only health to the body but a
tonic to the mind. The conventions of civilised life
assume a different proportion when viewed thus quietly
and from a distance.

J. H. T.

HUMANUM EST AMARE.

You're in love, young man I know it;

Shall I tell you why ?—
All your gestures plainly show it

And your eye !

I have loved, and you will rue it ;

Shall I tell you why ?—
No, because you can't undo it>

Nor could I!

So you chase the bubble tho' it

Fail to satisfy,
Watching how the winds can blow it

Through the sky ;

Ah I the torture when at last it

Nears to quench your thirst.
And you fondly, madly, clasp it.

And it's burst.

W. K. H.

BALLAD.

O LOVER, sweetly comes thy call

Like perfume from a flow'r —
Comes o'er the still lawns pleasantly

In the still evening hour —
Comes softly to a silent house.

And to an empty bow*r.

There stands an island in the sea,
Where waves their violence fling",

And all day long with beats of spray
The precipices ring:

There in a lofty chamber lockt
Thy love is languishing.

And she has other suitors now.

And suitors brave they be —
The whirlwind and the watery wave

That woo her constantly:
The whirlwind moans about her tow'r;

The wave calls from the sea.

At evening comes a great sea-bird.

And sits her window nigh;
And never moves for hours, but looks

With a lack-lustre eye;
Till in the gathering dusk she sees

Him to his rock home fly.

No more shall to her casement rise

Or plaint or song from thee;
But the wailing of the wild west wind

Her serenade shall be;
And when the nights are still she'll hear

The long sigh of the sea.

A. Y. Campbell.

SI JE PUIS.
A Legend.

|N the days that are past there lived in the
land of Bulgrovia a king, who governed
that land with great wisdom and discern-
ment; and he was a man of good report,
and one that was mighty in the land.

For he had possession of the fat of the land, and
cattle and creeping things without number did he have.

Now the name of this king was Lembeez, and he
dwelt in the palace of his fathers, in the city of Pykeel,
a large city and prosperous, whose fame was known
throughout the highways of the earth, even unto the
Bight of Height, which is the end of all things for them
that go down in ships.

Now unto the Palace of King Lembeez there were
added, in the days of his fathers, gardens; and in these
gardens did King Lembeez daily walk in the heat of
the day.

And with him there walked his councillors and his
servants in the gardens, and he communed with them
as he walked.

And this he did many days.

And it came to pass that, one day, when he was
walking, as he was wont, in the gardens, the sun
smote down with an exceeding fierce heat upon the
head of King Lembeez ; and he began to be faint.

And he said to his servants, " Lay I pray thee my

46 Si ye Puis.

crown upon the grass for it is a burden unto me.*.
And he did so.

Then did King Lembeez» feeling weary with the
greatness of the heat, fall into a deep sleep in one of
the arbours which had been set up in the gardens.
And perchance, while he slumbered and slept, there
passed by a she eagle that way.

Now the Eagle had come from the mountains that
lie unto the East, a day's journey, and the weariness of
the journey was upon her.

And, behold, the Eagle was exceeding fair to look
upon. Her feet were of gold and her beak was of fine
gold, and her eye clear as crystal, and moreover, her
plumage was of a deep black wherein lay strips of red
which ran, as it were, side by side .... exceeding
beauteous.

Now it came to pass that the Eagle, seeing the
crown of King Lembeez was fain to rest therein, and
cleaving the air with swift pinions she bore down unto
her desired haven.

But lo, when she came to the crown behold it was
guarded about with spikes exceeding sharp that she
could in nowise come near unto it. But her faintness
constrained her, and she did again essay to roost herself
therein.

And while she did this, behold there came by a bird
that is known unto lovers thereof, yea and unto others,
as a pigeon.

And he, seeing her battling with the crown, was
sorry, and said unto her, •' Eagle what doest thou ? "
And she, being a bird of much wisdom, answered
and said unto him in the language of pigeons, even
in pigeon French, **Si Je Puis, Je me r^poserai

ici."

Now it came about that the sound of the she-eagle's
battling awoke King Lembeez and the intention thereof
became known unto him. And he called to him his
household, even his sons and daughters, his councillors,

*SV Je Puis. 47

his heralds, and his servants; they that were called
gipps also summoned he unto him.

And he revealed unto them both what he had seen
and heard, and gave order saying, " From henceforth
and for ever shall the watchword of the house of Lem-
beez be " Si Je Puis." And it was so.

And the Eagle being exceeding wroth by reason of
the crown did engulf the pigeon, and, proceeding on
her journey, was seen no more.^

But unto this day is the watchword of the Lembeezee
(for they are of the sons of Lembeez), " Si Je Puis."

J. M,

A RAMBLE ON HELVELLYN.

I HE RE are those who declare that the name
Helvellyn means " Yellow Mountain " ; but
these are dwellers in the Keswick neighbour-
hoody on which the mighty one turns his
back, and their opinion need not be accepted : if the
Celts of old called Helvellyn yellow, the Celts were
colour-blind, or the mountain has suffered a notable
change of hue. The etymology of place names is
dangerous ground, but the pastime has a fascination for
the imaginative mind, especially if the imagination can
rise superior to the trammels of physical fact : there is,
for instance, a subtle pleasure in determining that a
name means Red Hill, when the place to which it
belongs is neither a hill nor red.

If we cannot persuade ourselves that Helvellyn is, or
was once thought to be, yellow, we may retire on the
position of those who would make him the Hill of Veli
or Baal, and experience, in addition to the exercise of
climbing and the charms of a glorious view, the thrilling
supposition that we stand on a spot once polluted by
"hideous usages and rites accursed.'' It is a curious
fact that the bare mention of human sacrifices has a
kind of anaesthetic effect on the critical faculties of the
average man : only give him something about Druids,
something creepy with plenty of blood in it, and he will
turn you a disused chalk-mine into an underground
temple.

Another, and perhaps a more plausible derivation,
makes the name a mis-spelling of the old Norse

A Rambh oii Helvellyn, 49

Helfellin, the Hill of Hela, goddess of the underworld*
and certainly nature sometimes seems to corroborate
the theory: sometimes in broken weather, when the
main ridge is clear of clouds and a huge column of grey
mist rises from the crater-like hollow in which Red
Tarn lies, it is not hard to imagine that here some old
Norse settler found a possible entrance to the home of
the unhappy dead; perhaps in superstitious awe he
climbed higher, stood shuddering on the end of Striding
Edge, and saw the narrow ridge of cloud-wrapt rock
stretching forward into the unknown, like the bridge
over Giall, by which the dead passed to their own
place, — the last abode, according to Norse tradition, of
all who failed to earn Valhalla by dying in battle.
Those who have been caught in a mist on one of these
edges will know how bridge-like the effect is.

But, whatever be the meaning of his name, Helvellyn
is a noble mountain, as mountains go in his part of the
world. The scale is small, no doubt, and much of his
glory has departed since the far-off time when the
glaciers crawled down from his snow-clad heights and
scooped out the winding basin which we now call
Ulleswater ; but enough is left of him to win our affec-
tion, and (unless we are enthusiastic Alpinists) we shall
find it easier to become his intimate friends now that he
wears green and grey instead of white : a glacier is all
very well in its way, but a blue lake, winding amongst
fields and woods and rocky hills, is a less forbidding
companion.

Perhaps it is ungrateful to speak disparagingly of
the slow, silent instruments to which we owe so much
of the beauty of Lakeland ; and yet it is not always
possible to acquit the vanished glaciers of negligence or
laziness. In too many places they have made

" a cove, a huge recess
That keeps till June December's snow,
A lofiy precipice in front," —

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50 A Ramble ofi IldvcUyn.

and then for want of a little more energy or a few tons
of moraine matter have left out the " silent tarn below."
Helvellyn himself has suffered in this manner: though
the cove and tarn of Wordsworth's poem nestle un ler
his summit and between his arms, yonder across the
saw-teeth of Striding Edge is the grander hollow of
Nethermost Cove, where the ice began the making of
a pair of tarns, and failed to finish either.

However, though the final touch be lacking, Nether-
most Cove is one of the finest bits of Lakeland, and one
of the least known. Most people have seen the sweep
of Striding Edge to the shore of Red Tarn, but the
sweep, almost a precipice, of the same edge into the
depths of Nethermost Cove, is finer by far. Red Tarn
lies high, and the great cli£F-front of Helvellyn has
a somewhat stunt.ed appearance in consequence ; but the
clifiis at the head of Nethermost Cove rise majestically
from a base five hundred feet lower, while to com-
pensate for Catstycam and Swirrel Edge we have the
noble flank of Eagle Crag and the brief but glorious
ascent of the " Eagle's Crest," — a jagged edge, which
surpasses its better known neighbour in everything but
length.

The Eagle's Crest is not in the guide books, nor is
the Catstycam gully, — the finest climb of all for those
who, without being experts, desire something better
than the long weariness of the pony-tracks. The Cat-
stycam gully may be seen from Ulleswater, stretching
like a giant sword-cut diagonally across the front of the
great sugar-loaf hill. To reach it, we. must go up
Glenridding, past the mines, past Red Tarn beck, over
a wilderness of swampy waste, and across an artificial
watercourse, which by some curious optical delusion
makes us inclined to doubt the laws of gravity or our
own sobriety, so veritably and unreasonably does the
water appear to run uphill. Thus we come to the foot
of the gully, — a shallow trough like a natural staircase,
half grass and mosses^ parsley fern and alpine lady's

A Ramb'e on Helvellym, 5 1

mantle, and half rock with here and there a little shoot
of scree, — by which we go up hand over hand some
fourteen hundred feet to the top of Catstycam, and
thence by Swirrel Edge to the summit of Helvellyn.
It is a fine, safe climb for those who are blest with
vigorous muscles and heads not easily disturbed ; but
the man behind you can see your boot-soles as he
follows you up.

For the Eagle's Crest climb we must go to Grisedale,
and as we walk through the fields of the lower half of
the valley, we shall see facing us a dome-like mass of
rock, projecting from the base of Nether Pike : that is
Eagle Crag, and there are few crags to beat it, —
a masterpiece of rock, grass, ferns, mosses, rowan-trees,
bleaberry plants, and a hundred species of mountain
herbs and flowers, so fascinating in its variety that we
are tempted to vote mountain-climbing^ a bore [and
spend the day in exploring this lower paradise, which,
by the way, occurs just at that trying altitude where our
first wind has forsaken us and our second wind has not
arrived to supply the deficiency. However, we must
not loiter ignobly in this Garden of Armida. Helvellyn
is calling, and we must not refuse to respond : the wine-
like air of the higher levels will soon be reached, and
we remember the old days, — the bumps made at the
Railway Bridge after dreadful exhaustion at First Post
Comer.

Upward, then, with frequent pauses, — to look back
and admire the view, — either by the front of the crag, a
route ladder-like and laborious, but (strange as it may
appear from below) perfectly safe, or round the base of
the rock towards Nethermost Cove; but in the latter
case we shall soon be lured from easy ground to
scramble up tempting gullies or over screes of fifty
pound stones. So in due time we reach the top of
Eagle Crag, from which a grassy ridge, broad at first
but growing narrower as we proceed, leads us to the
last steep ascent — dull walking after our glorious

52 A Rambit 07i Ildveltya.

labours below, but there is compensation in the view;
Nethermost Cove lies below us, the south-east shoulder
of Helvellyn and Striding Edge rise grandly in front,
away on the left are the noble rocks of Ruthwaite
Cove and DoUywagon Pike, and behind us frowns the
massive, pillared forehead of St Sunday Crag. Yes,
we may rest for a while here with a good conscience.

But we have still a thousand feet to climb, and time
is passing. The ridge narrows and presently merges
into a buttress of the main fell — on the right sheer
precipice, on the left a steep slope of marvellous rough'
ness. Up we climb, hunting the easiest ground with
many a twist and zigzag, till the buttress narrows to an
edge and we are on the Eagle's Crest at last — a short
ridge rising at a steep angle, narrower than all but a
few points of Striding Edge, and as jagged as anything
in Lakeland : the stratification of the dark grey rock
is all but perpendicular, and the edge is a row of
bristling stone fangs, threatening but helpful, for they
afford excellent handles, by which we pull ourselves
up, up, up, till the edge loses itself in the broad fore-
head of Nether Pike, and our work is done: Helvellyn
top is yonder to the north ; in less than ten minutes
we have reached our goal, and are enjoying our moral
superiority over those who have ascended by the pony-
tracks ; we can even smile on those less happy mortals
who have climbed by Striding Edge. But the greatest
joy is to look back at the Eagle's Crest. How in the
world did we manage to climb such a place ? Certainly
we must be more expert than we imagined.

We have mentioned the old human predilection for
hallowing the high places of the world, but here neither
Baal nor Hela seems appropriate; Aeolus is the real
deity of Helvellyn, and on most occasions half a gale
or more is doing him honour. There is a stone shelter
near the summit, but that may wait till we descend to
prose and sandwiches; we must first brave the winds
pn the topmost height of all aqd survey our surround^

— \

A Ramble on Hdvellyn. 53

ings. There are finer views in Lakeland than the
prospect from Helvellyn, but views are like beer ac-
cording to the opinion of the philosopher, who declared
that there was no such thing as bad beer — only degrees
of excellence. On a clear, sunny day there can be no
such thing as a bad view from a height three thousand
feet above the sea, and the view from Helvellyn is
glorious, though less glorious than some others. Hel-
vellyn is the loftiest summit of a long range of fells,
and accordingly his own fellow heights to the north
and south interfere with the prospect; but east and
west the sight is magical — eastward the lessening hills,
the blue of UUeswater, and the twenty miles of rolling
fields and woodlands which stretch to the base of the
Cross Fell range, that long, almost featureless moun-
tain-chain, which is yet so impressive in its strength
and solemnity. Westward we see " a tumultuous waste
of huge hill tops" filling the space between Sol way
Firth and Morecambe Bay, with the Coniston, Wast-
dale, Buttermere, and Newlands fells showing up against
the sky, and (if the day be very clear) one or two
glimpses of distant sea breaking the semicircle between
the gleam of Solway in the north-west and the shim-
mering silver of Morecambe far away in the south.
But for the fairest sight of all we must climb Helvellyn
on a midsummer evening, and see the sun go down
behind Criffel and turn the Solway into a sea of gold ;
that is a thing to remember for a lifetime. On rare
occasions we may have the luck to see a sight which
might almost induce us to believe that this is in real
truth an enchanted country — Lakeland clear and lucid,
with a barrier of white mist walling it round in a huge
circle, over which nothing but the summit of Cross
Fell is daring enough to peep. Of that circle, when
it appears, Helvellyn is the centre.

But there is other food for the mind here, beyond

<* Ridge and gulf and distant orean
Shining like a silver shield."

54 ^ Ramble on Hehellyn.

Not many yards away stands the homely little monu-
ment which records, as Scott and Wordsworth have
more imperishably recorded, the fidelity of a dog to the
master who lost his life on the snow-covered rocks
below. Further away, near the eastern end of Striding
Edge, an iron cross preserves the memory of an unsung
fatality— a man, otherwise unknown, who missed his
footing and was killed, while following the hounds here
many years ago. All our knowledge of him is that his
friends loved him well enough to put up this little iron
cross where he met his death "far in the bosom of
Helvellyn." One might leave a worse record,

The former of these accidents recalls the fact that
once Wordsworth, Scott, and Sir Humphry Davy
ascended Helvellyn together. When shall such a triad
stand on Helvellyn again ? Wordsworth, who walked
many thousands of miles in this neighbourhood, must
often have stood musing on Helvellyn top — the highest
summit within easy reach of Rydal Mount; but he
has not left many special memorials of its greatness.
Helvellyn can be properly seen and appreciated only
from the Ulleswater side, and that is, so to speak, a
different world from the world of Grasmere : the ascent
from Grasmere by Grisedale Pass and Dollywagon
Pike is a pleasant walk (one cannot call it a climb),
but the ascender does not see Helvellyn ; the mighty
mountain turns his back on the rest of the world, and
his face looks only on the glorious dales and the wind-
ing lake which in the old days he carved out to be his
demesne. His back is a comparatively dull place —
a great, rough, almost wearisome hillside, with many
beauties of detail and in autumn much splendour of
colouring on the lower slopes, a watershed which

"Pours forth springs more sweet than Castaljr,"

to quench the thirst, wash the hands, and fill the boilers
of Manchester; but are not Red Tarn and Grisedale
Beck better than all the waters of Thirlmere ?

A Ramble an Helvellyn. 55

That is how Helvellyn appeals to an Ulleswater
man ; but from whatever quarter he is seen he has the
power of throwing a fascination over hearts of the right
temper; and though the worship of the modern Jugger-
naut has diminished the number of his devotees, there
are still some who remain faithful to pleasures which
are not to be obtained by exceeding the speed limit in
a motor-car. Long may Helvellyn stand, as he stands

now,

*' an image of the pristine earth.
The planet in its nakedness/*

and may he never fall a victim to the desecration which
it has been the lot of Snowdon and Snaefell to suffer.

R. H. F.

THE MORNING ON THE WATER.

[This poem was found amongst F. A. White's papers after his death.]

Pillowed in mists of the early morn,

On the waters lonely and forlorn

Of a silent creek where the eye of man

Doth seldom its changing surface scan —

Pillowed in mist my bark and I

In quiet peace together lie.

For others this creek "forlorn" might be,
But never so for my ship or me,
For we love the calm and settled rest
Of its sheltered waters on whose breast
We lie serene in sweet repose—
A babe whom softest arms enclose.

And the morning's white, damp, clinging mists
Have left us now, and the sun has kissed
With its warm new lips my vessel's side.
Whilst dancing rays from the morning tide
Make waving lights to come and go
On spar above, on plank below.

Then the morning draws me by her charm.
By her matchless beauties soft and warm.
To scan her face in the sacred spot
Of Nature's own, where as yet no blot
Man's hand has cast — to stain away
The glories of a new-born day.

So my eyes pass from the pebbled beach,
From the sand-dunes green and amber reach,
To the distant summits of the hills.
Which the golden light with glory fills
And makes their native charms complete
In baths of sun -light, soft and sweet.

F. A. W.

^

SOUVENT ME SOUVIENf.

•

I HIS is the motto below the arms of Christ's
College a? displayed over the gateway lead-
ing to the college garden. It is, in fact| the
motto of the foundress.

In an article which appeared in The EagU^ vol. xxvi.
no. 137 (June, 1905), it is shown that the parents of
the foundress were buried in Wimborne Minster (see
Hutchins, DorseU^ III. 212). Each of them is repre-
sented as wearing the " collar of SS'*

It is also noted that, in the east window of Land*
beach^'Church, in Cambridgeshire, two figures are de-
picted which are supposed to represent John Beaufort,
first Duke of Somerset, and his Duchess, i.e, the found-
ress's parents above mentioned. Beneath the figure of
the Duchess, who is on the right, appears the word
souvient ; and it can hardly be doubted that the words
souveni me once appeared beneath the figfure of the
Duke on the left, though this portion of the window
is now imperfect. It thus appears that the foundress
obtained her motto from her parents. The famous port-
cullis is well known as being a Beaufort badge.

Perhaps it may be as well to note here that a badge
was not the same thing as a crest. The latter was
peculiar to the knight or master of a household, and
was personal; the badge was worn by his retainers, to
show to whom they belonged. Many nobles had more
badges than one. King Richard II. had at least three :
the white hart couchant, the sun in splendour, and the
plantagenista with its pods, showing the pods open and
NOL. XXVII. I

58 Souvtnl Me SouvienL

the peas out. See Historic Devices^ Badges^ and War-
crieSy by Mrs Bury Palliser. King Henry IV.'s badges
were a white antelope ducally gorged and chained, a
swan similarly adorned, a fox's tail, a red rose, a stock
of a tree, three ostrich feathers, and a collar of SS.
Concerning the last of these I have more to say.

When we come to consider this Beaufort motto —
jS<nivent me 90uvieni — we cannot fail to observe that the
sense is incomplete. In Latin spelling it becomes
Subinde mihi subuenii^ " It often occurs to me," or " I
often remember." But what is it that is thus remem-
bered? There is evidently an allusion to some other
well-known motto.

There can be no reasonable doubt that the reference
is to the motto of King Henry IV., which seems in
recent times to have been usually misread and mis-
understood. Some have said that it was Souvenez, and
others that it was Souverayne. The latter, which is
merely an old spelling of sovereign^ is unmeaning, and
can hardly be called a motto. It is at most only a title ;
and if without a context, is superfluous.

Fortunately, the true form of the motto is on record.
I find it in " Expeditions to Prussia and the Holy Land
made by Henry, Earl of Derby, afterwards King
Henry IV., in the years 1390-1 and 1392-3," edited for
the Camden Society, by Miss L. Toulmin Smith. At
p. 10 1, we find that money was paid *^pro vi fioribus
domini deauratis," and again, "pro vij floribus domini;"
a rather large sum in all, paid to a goldsmith. At
p. 342, the editor says: "Flores domini, ornaments of
silver-gilt; perhaps representing the Lancaster rose,
or they may have been posies (mottoes) wound into a
floral shape, or a combination of posy and flower.
These ornaments seem to have been sewn on parts of
the dress (see p. 163). In 139 1-2, we find Hen.
Goldbeter paid 'pro 320 fol. de sotieine votes de tnoy*
of silver-gilt 'pro i slop [robe] domini;' and in 1397-8
Herman Goldsmith provides 4 * coler fact : cum esse5

Souveni Me Souvient. 59

et iloribus de sotuigne vous ds may pendentibus e;
amaill,' i.e. enameled."

It is clear that these flares of silver-gilt were neither
roses nor posies, but flowers of which souetne vous de
may was the actual name ; precisely as there is to this
day a well-known flower called the forgret-me-not-
Another name for this flower was the abbreviated one
savenez (modem F. souvenez) ; and in the curious poem
called the Assembly of Ladies, once absurdly attributed
to Chaucer, the forget-me-not and the savenez (or
reroember-me) are mentioned together in 1. 61 (see my
note). The Veranica ChamcedrySy or germander speed-
well, is still called the remember-me in N. Yorkshire,
that is to say, in the neighbourhood of Richmond.
Forget-me-nots are called yfe«r^ de ne m* aubliez-mie in a
roundel by Charles of Orleans, where mie answers
to the modern French pas ; and Littr^ tells us that the
myosatis is popularly called Ne m'oubliez pas, or
Souvenez-vous de moi, or Plus je vous vois, plus je
vous aime.

It is now easy to construct the whole account syn-
thetically. We see that Henry IV., even before he was
king, was in the habit of wearing robes richly orna-
mented with numerous representations in silver-gilt
of his favourite flower, which was either a forget-me-
not or a germander, and was denominated by the
quaint name of soveine vous de may^ or Remember me ;
literally, May it remind you of me. The Old French
soveine or soveigne represents the Latin subueniaL These
flowers were interspersed with esses^ or gilt letters
formed like an .5', which doubtless signified the same
flower, because its name began with that letter. Hence
came his badge of esses, which is shown in Mrs Palliser's
book as consisting of three such letters closely con-
joined ; and this further gave rise to the use of the
collar of esses, in which S repeatedly occurs ; so that
the origin of this collar, which has so much puzzled our
antiquaries, is really simple enough.

6o Sotivent Me SvurieuL

We now see that the king's motto merely exprcsserl
the name of his favourite flower, chosen as a badge ;
whilst at the same time it called upon his subjects to
remember their loyalty. The Beauforts adopted a
motto having direct allusion to the king's, in which
they answered his appeal as loyal subjects should ; so
that their souveni me sauvient was as much as to say —
we remember our king, and the duty which we owe
him. To this expression of devotion our foundress,
like her parents, was glad to adhere. Her character,
as we know, was one in which a strong sense of duty
had a foremost place.

For ourselves, the motto has a new sense ; it is for
us to dwell upon the far-sighted benevolence which our
foundress exhibited, and to remember with loyal feelings
how much she has done for us.

Sauvent me Souvitnt — oft we call to mind
The noble deeds of her whom we revere,

And all th' innumerable ties that bind
Old Christ's men* to the college long held dear.

Walter W. Skeat.

* Another MS. records the Alternative reading—*' Old Johnians/'

AN OLD JOHNIAN'S CHRISTMAS DAY
IN CEYLON

(As Planters' Chaplain.^

Dear Mr Editor,

I have several times been asked by authorities
at Cambridge to contribute something to The Eagle of
my experiences as chaplain in our lovely Crown colony,
Ceylon. And, as it is nearing Christmas once more, I
think I cannot do better than give a sketch of my
duties as Planters' Chaplain on Christmas-day.

The District, in which I have now been chaplain for
eight years, is called Dimbula, is nearly thirty miles
long, and in places twelve miles broad; it is in the
Hill country, and varies in elevation from 3,000 to
5,000 feet above sea level. The temperature ranges
between 45** and 75** Fahrenheit in the shade ; the heat
of the sun's rays, however, whilst one is riding on the
dusty roads, especially in the long, dry season, is
excessive, and I have found it a great safeguard, and
also a great addition to my comfort, to wear an orange-
flannel lining to my riding-coat, and the same in my
sun-hat.

The cart or main roads are as good as, perhaps
better than, any roads in the world ; are kept up at an
enormous expense, chiefly by Government, and are
mostly used for the transport of tea, in bullock carts,
from the various estates to the nearest railway stations.

The population is very varied; the villages or
bazaars teem with a medley of dark-skinned races

6a An Old Johnians Christmas Day in Ceylon.

(MoorSy Afghans, Cinghalese, &c.) ; hundreds of coolies
live on the tea estates, the Europeans being greatly in
the minority (about 356 in all) ; in addition to all these,
there are the Burghers, or Eurasians (who take a place
between the Europeans and natives); they dress in
European clothes, and are, some of them, quite fair-
skinned.

The Post Offices (six in number), and the four rail-
way stations, are staffed by these Eurasians, who all
speak English, though with a pronounced accent. The
bungalows, inhabited by Europeans, are very scattered :
they number about 140, and are dotted about high up
on the hills, and generally surrounded by a beautiful
garden and large trees ; the latter, together with often
a red roof, giving the bungalow the appearance of an
English homestead.

On each of the tea estates there are two or more of
these bungalows, the largest for the Superintendent
and his family and one or more smaller ones for his
assistants, who are generally young bachelors, and
many of them Public School men; they are usually
very comfortably furnished, and while sitting at tea in
the shaded drawing-room one can hardly realize that
England, with her civilization, is so far away.

The hundreds of Tamil coolies, who work on the
estates, are accommodated in low huts built in long
lines, for which reason they are termed ' Cooly hives ' ;
besides these, near the tea factories are the small houses
for the tea-maker and conductor, the former superintend-
ing chiefly the factory work (the real manufacture of the
tea), and the latter having the oversight of the coolies
in the field, plucking, manuring, pruning, in fact the
whole cultivation of the tea-bush. The Government of
Ceylon is very good to the natives, and has provided
two excellent hospitals for them in the district: the
coolies very often prefer, however, to be treated by
their native medicine man, and to anoint their wounds
and bruises with dressings of the most filthy descrip-

An Old yohniaris Christmas Day in Ceylon^ 63

tion ; they seem to object to the airiness and cleanliness
of the hospital. I have three churches to serve, one at
each end of the district, and the third in the middle of
it. I hold services in only two of the three churches on
any one Sunday, except on festival days, when I give
a service at each church. The parsonage, from which
I am about to start my Christmas-day travelling and
d^^y {^5 miles and three services), is a large, commodi-
ous, and beautifully-situated bungalow, as nearly as
possible in the centre of the district ; from our front
door we look down upon the main river (the Dimbula-
Dya), which flows along its very rocky bed some
hundreds of feet below the bungalow; it is fed by
countless mountain streams, which flow into it from
each side of the valley, and, together with the majestic
beauty of the Great Western Mountain in the back-
ground, rising to about 7000 feet above sea level, the
view from the parsonage is very striking.

We often call the Great Western our barometer, for
when there is a certainty of rain the summit of the
mountain is covered with clouds, which sometimes
descend like a thick veil and obscure it entirely from
view; often in the evenings during the monsoon, when
the rain ceases a short time before sunset, the jungle-
covered mountain side is suffused with a beautiful
golden glow, which fades away rapidly into grey as
the short twilight descends. In the dry season the
sunsets are magnificent, and then the Great Western
looks as though it were clothed with purple heather,
standing up against the golden sky. The river mirrors
the glowing tints of the mountain.

The seasons in Ceylon are divided into the S.W.
monsoon, from June to October, and the N.E. monsoon,
from November to May, the hot months being February,
March, and April.

A railway runs from Colombo to Kandy, the ancient
capital of Ceylon, a distance of 75 miles, through fine
scenery, and from here the railway continues up and up,

6 4 ^'^ Old Johnian's Christmas Day in Ceylon.

winding in and out the mountain ravines, right away to
Nuwara Eliya (pronounced ^Neuralia'), the sanatorium
of the Island ; all this journey can be done in the day,
so that a change from the torrid to the temperate zone
may be made between sunrise and sunset.

The Christmas season falls at the end of the wet
period of the N.E. monsoon, generally just before the
long dry season sets in, and there is always great
anxiety amongst up-country folk as to whether the
festive season will be fine, or whether their numerous
tennis, golf, and croquet meets are to spoilt by the
drizzling rain we sometimes have at this time of tbe
} ear. At 5 o'clock on Christmas morning I am aroused
by my head " boy " (native servant) ; it is dark, as on
a winter's morning in old England, but the breaking of
day is so rapid that in half-an-hour it is broad daylight.
As I dress, with my bedroom windows all open to the
soft morning air, I hear the Ceylon robin (a larger bird
than the English robin, and with black and white
plumage) singing his Chrstmas carol in our orange
trees outside, and am thus reminded somewhat of a
Christmas morning at home. After a light breakfast
I start away on my bicycle for the church at the far end
of the district (8 miles awa)') ; the road is mostly uphill,
and I arrive in a great heat at about 7.15 a.m. in time
to change into a dry shirt before taking the 7.30 service.
As I get near the church I see any number of vehicles
coming from all directions, two-wheelers, four-wheelers,
saddle-horses, bicycles, rickshaws (drawn by coolies),
and bullock-hackeries. This church (as also the other
two) is very pretty, indeed as pretty as many a village
church of similar size at home ; it will only seat about
55 people, but at 7.30 a.m. on Christmas-day we have
had as many as 65, and 48 communicants. This first
Christmas service has to be somewhat abbreviated to
allow of my getting on to the next church at 10.30, and
consists of shortened matins, sermon, and celebration^
besides several Christmas hymns ; the singing is entirely

Ah Old Johuian's Christmas Day in Ceylon. 65

congregational, but very hearty, the American organ
being played by a lady member of the congregation.
I have just time after the service to exchange Christmas
greetings with most of the people before I spin back to
the Parsonage ; the road now is mostly downhill, and a
free-wheel comes in very handy, especially since during
eight months of the year the road is kept like a bicycle
track. By 9.20 I am back in my bungalow, and have
some light refreshment before going on again. Mean-
time, my horse is ready saddled, and after a change of
clothes (all of which has only taken ten minutes) I am
off again to the church at the other end of the district,
leaving the middle one for the afternoon. This arrange-
ment is necessary, that the three churches may have
a Celebration on these Festival days in proper rotation,
it being only possible to take two of the three services
during the morning. The service at Church No. 1 is at
10.30, and I arrive to find the little building over full,
81, with seats only for 65 ; however, with extra chairs,
all are soon seated, completely blocking the aisle, and
a thoroughly hearty, and, I think, earnest Christmas
service begins. " Hark ! the herald angels sing " opens
the service, and in spite of the tropical heat one is
instantly reminded of many a Christmas morning in the
Old Country. Hundreds of arum and other lilies, with
a background of ferns, feathery palms, and bamboo,
form our decorations, and the effect is very beautiful.
This X0.30 service consists of full matins, with sermon^
celebration, and four Christmas hymns. We are not out
till 12.15^ owing to the number of communicants, and,
after many a mutual Christmas greeting, I start away
back to the parsonage. The view en route to and from
this second church is in parts strikingly beautiful, there
being two ver3rj fine waterfalls, and at one spot a most
grandly extensive view of mountain and river in one
direction, and in the other the beautiful blue distance
of the low country. I am back in my own bungalow at
1.30, and now have my first meal^ which, however is^
VOL. XXVII. K

66 An Old Johnian's Chrisinias Day in Ceylon,

quite a light one, as until the travelling and services
are over I feel anything but inclined to eat. At this
time on Christmas-day our native servants present
us with beautifully arranged button-holes of roses and
maidenhair-fern from the garden, and on our first
Christmas-day we were much embarrassed by having
long garlands of red native flowers placed around
our necks at breakfast, a custom which our next " boy,"
to our relief, did not continue. Our cook presents us
with the proverbially heavy iced cake, and native
tradesmen send various Christmas Santosums (gifts).

On one occasion we came back from church to find
that our servants had decorated the front verandah in
native fashion with large plantain-leaves, &c. We were
rather taken aback, but, not to hurt their feelings, we
admired the decoration, and allowed it to remain up
until the evening, when we had it taken down, as it
had given our parsonage the appearance of a heathen
Saami-house (temple). At 2.15 I am off again, this
time in my dog-cart, to the third church, situated in the
middle of the district, only two miles up the road from
the parsonage; here again I find the church full and
all in readiness for the three o'clock service the only
Christmas service for this congregation. All goes well
and brightly, and soon after four o'clock I am back
again at the parsonage, very glad of a cup of tea and
a good rest, having been travelling and taking services
since 6 a.m. The refreshing cup of tea and welcome
rest are somewhat marred by the oppressive feeling of
having to sample the various iced cakes sent by grateful
tradesmen : our " boy" always carefully brings in every-
one of them, his own being placed in the foremost
position, surrounded by roses.

After sampling them all we give them to him and
the other servants, with the exception of his own, which
we must appear to eat to the very last crumb.

His cooking is usually delicious, but this cake, being
the chef d'ABuvre of the year, is made about a fortnight

An Old Johniatis Christmas Day in Ceylon. 67

before Christmas-day, the week immediately preceding
being used for the decorations in pink and white icing,
which are to him its main feature, the quality of the
cake itself being of less moment. No wonder we shrink
from the first step. Christian charity can go far, but
not so far as to induce us to eat the " boy's " cake. So
we press our dogs into service to their great joy at first ;
but even their endurance begins to give out, as, when
New Year's-day comes round, we gaze with a sense of
duty done at the last remnants of the Christmas cake.

At our dinner in the evening we try to get up a little
enthusiasm over the pudding, which we feel bound to
have for the sake of old times, but it is rather dreary
work with the thought of the thousands of miles
between us and those in the Old Country. I cannot
close this sketch of one of my typical Christmas-
days without mentioning that the Planters are hospit-
able to a degree, and always heartily welcome their
chaplain at church and on his visits from bungalow to
bungalow. I might here, in passing, mention that to
visit the district satisfactorily means travelling 3,500
miles and making 360 bungalow visits a year.

In conclusion, 1 may say that in spite of the feeling
of being "rushed " all Christmas-day it is a day of great
happiness to me.

C. Whitmork Ford,

Chaplain of DimMa^ Ceylon^
Sift. 29M, 1905.

g^rm^^s

FUSCO CAROLUS
(After reading Carthusian Memories)

VoLVENTi nuper lepidum mihi, Fusee, libellum

obtulit en nomen pagina prima tuum.
protinus exacti revocabam temporis annos,

et plateas Grantae Pembrochiamque domum.
moeina turn stabant artis monumenta vetustae,

mox trucis Hydrodomi* deicienda manu.
ah quoties altae scandebam culmina turris

liminaque incauto vix adeunda grege:
at neque difficiles aditus terrere valebant,

nee titubaturo scala maligna pedi.
sed domus interior sublustrem praebuit umbram,

et tortis hederae cincta fenestra comis.
strata per ingentem librorum copia mensam

sepiaque et ealami signa mathesis erant.
plurima, nam memini, docto sermone, faceto

plurima iucundas attulit hora vices,
ut laetus si versiculi placuere redibam;

ima soloecismi perculit ossa timor.
hei mihi, tunc imberbis erat gena, nescia curae

pectora, ni tripodis cura subiret, erant.
invida canities capitis mutavit honores,

non tamen immemorem me sinit esse tui.
da veniam — misces nam tu quoque seria ludis—

si vel adhuc puero quae placuere placent.

C, Stanweix.

* Sc. Alfred Wateihouse, R.A.

<9MtuaTff«

Augustus Samuel Wilkins, Litt.D.
(1843-1905.)

By the death of Dr Wilkins the College has lost one of the
most lojal and most distinguished of her sons. Augustus
Samuel Wilkins, who was bom on August 20th, 1843, was of
Nonconformist parentage. His father was a Schoolmaster at
Brixton, and he was himself educated at the Bishop Stortford
Collegiate School. The Head-Master of that time was Mr
Joseph Bell, M.A., formerly Scholar of St John's College (B.A.
1846), to whose careful and accurate training he owed much of
his future success. On leaving school he went to University
College, London, where he attended the able lectures of the
Professor of Greek, Henry Maiden (1800- 1876), and the Pro-
fessor of Latin, Francis William Newman (1805-1897). At the
age of twenty he read an essay on Early Aryan Civilization be-
fore the Literary and Philosophical Society of University College.
He also took a prominent part in the discussions of the Debating
Society, 4nd thus obtained the skill that stood him in good stead
in his subsequent career in Cambridge.

In April 1864 he was elected to an Exhibition of £so for
three years. The Sizarship added to this was followed by a
Proper Sizarship at the end of his first, and a Foundation
Scholarship at the end of his second year. He won College
Prizes for English Essays in 1865 and 1866, and the Moral
Philosophy Prize in 1868. He was elected an Editor of the
Eagle in 1865, and was afterwards Secretary, a position which
he resigned in 1867. The fifth volume of the College Maga-
zine includes seven contribulions from his pen, — three in prose,
on Henry Vni and on Robert Browing, and four in verse. One
of these, a Romaunt of Normandy^ is an idyll founded on a tour
in that part of France taken in the company of J. F. Moulton : —

*'My friend and I; he passing skilled to wield
The mystic symbols of Urania's art.
Versed in the wildering laws of x and y\
I loving more the strains of older days.
The woodland pipings of Theocritus,
Pindar's tempestuous might or regal grace
Of Sophocles, or Plato's visions fair."*

• UagU^ V, 169,

70 Obituary.

Daring all the four jears of his residence he occupied the
set of rooms known as No 3 on the ground floor of Staircase I
in the New Court, looking across the stream to the garden of
Merton Hall, where one of his sisters lived for a time with Miss
Clongh, before the founding of Newnham College. On his
mantelpiece there was a photograph of his favourite poet,
Robert Browning, and of Frederick Denison Maurice, his
indebtedness to whom, for ' personal kindness ' and ' helpful
guidance,' finds expression in the preface to his Essay on ' The
Light of the World.' As he was two years older than most of
his year, he held a position of influence in the College, which
was mainly due to his mental maturity. He was far in advance
of his fellow-students in his knowledge of Comparative Philology
and Moral Philosophy ; and his library was far better furnished
than thai of most of his contemporaries. I remember noticing
on his shelves the two volumes of Pictet's Origines Indo-
Europiennes, and, only the other day, the mention of Pictet in
the Light Blue gave me the clue that indentified my friend as
the author of a series of articles signed ' L. St John's Coll.' in
the Light Blue^ and another series bearing the same initial in
the Ea^le. Both of these identifications have been confirmed
on the best authority.

He was not only a versatile and ready writer, but he also
distinguished himself at the Union as a fluent speaker. In
the Lent Term of 1868, while the office of Secretary was held by
William (now Sir William) Lee Warner, the Vice-President was
another member of the College, J. F. Moulton, the Senior
Wrangler of the year, and the President was A. S. Wilkins, who
took the Classical Tripos in the same term. It was a strong
year; there were three University Scholars in the first four,
W. R. Kennedy, the future judge, was senior, and that
brilliant scholar, Thomas Moss of St John's, fourth, and next to
him was Wilkins. It was a high place for any one to attain,
who had come to Cambridge without much previous training in
Verse Composition. Both as an Undergraduate and as a
Bachelor he won the Members' Prize for the Latin Essay. His
skill as a writer of English was attested by his three University
Prize Essays, the Hulsean for 1868, the Burneyfor 1870, and the
Hare for 1873, The subject of the first was 'Christian and
Pagan Ethics ' ; that of the second, ' Phoenicia and Israel '; and
that of the third, ' National Education in Greece.' All three

Obituary. 7 1

were published ; the first, which appeared under the title of
The Light of the Worlds appealed to a wider audience than the
others, and attained a second edition in a few months.

Distinctions such as these would, in ordinary circumstances*
have ensured his election to a Fellowship, but, at that time, the
Fellowships were still confined to members of the Church of
England. Wilkins had been brought up as a Congregationalist»
but, during his residence here, he attended the services of the
College Chapel, and regarded himself as in communion
with the established Church. He contributed to the under-
graduates' fund for filling the great West Window in the Chapel
with stained glass, and was even a member of the Committee.
He also (with some of his friends, who were members of the
Church of England) was a teacher at the Jesus Lane Sunday
School. But he remained a Congregationalist, dedicating the
Light of the World * in grateful and affectionate reverence to the
Minister of Ciaylands Chapel, Kennington,' and dwelling in his
preface, in a large-hearted way, on the attraction possessed by
his theme for all Christians alike : — ' Catholic and Protestant,
Anglican and Independent, may at least unite in the confession
that light and life can come to them only from faith in the
Lord in whom they are one.' His other two Prize-Essays were
dedicated to Fraser, Bishop of Manchester, and Tbirlwall,
Bishop of St Davids.

Thomas Moss had been elected to a Fellowship in 1868;
Wilkins, next to him in the Tripos, might easily have been
elected in 1869, but for the bar above indicated. This disability
was removed by the passing of the ' University Tests Act' in
1871, but, meanwhile, he had married in the previous year.
Otherwise he might have been elected in any year between 1871
and 1878. By the time that this second disability had been
removed by the Statutes of 1882, he had ceased to be eligible,
as more than ten years had passed since his first degree. For
the College, it is a matter of regret that his election was thus
repeatedly rendered impossible by circumstances beyond its
control ; but for himself, it is clear that, a few years later, he was
more than content with his lot. In a letter addressed to the
present writer in 1880, he says:—

I can only say that, though I should have been very glad to have been
elected a fellow of St John's before I was married, I have never for a moment
regretted that I so soon entered into the ' happy state,' and ihat every year

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makes me more mod more feel that the married people are the wise as well as
the happy ones.

In 1868, besides completing his course in Cambridge, he
took the M.A. degree in the University of London, and was
awarded the Gold Medal for Classics. In the same year he
prepared a translation of Piderit's German edition of the first
book of Cicero, 2>^ Oratore. This was followed in 1879 — 1892
by an independent edition of all three books, an enterprise that
incidentally led to the preparation of a similar edition of the
second of Cicero's greater rhetorical works, the Orator^ by the
present writer. In 1868 Wilkins was appointed Lecturer in
Latin at Owens College, Manchester, and began his work in
October. Early in that month, while waiting for his books, he
ended a letter to me as follows :

I pray you, by all your fellow-feeling for an unhappy wight compelled to
begin lectures with liltle more than balf-a-dozen Waverly Novels as his
library, and the College library a mile-and-a-half off, do get my boxes sent off
at once ! Imploringly, yours ever and ever, A. S. Wilkins.

After his first year in Manchester he took a reading-party to
Heidelberg, where Mr H. W. Moss, the Headmaster of Shrews-
bury, and I met him during our brief visit. I remember he was
much interested in having identified the patriarchal Professor
Bahr, the editor of Herodotus and Librarian of the University.
On his return he entered on the new duties to which he had
been promoted as Professor of Latin at Owens College. For
eight years he lectured also on Comparative Philology, and, for
many more, he undertook the classes in Greek Testament
criticism. Meanwhile, in the University of London, he was
examiner in Classics in 1884-6, and in Latin in 1887-9 and
1894-Q. In these duties, as well as in his work on Cicero, he
was much associated with his friend Dr Reid. In the ninth
edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica he contributed the long
and important articles on the Greek and Latin languages ; in
conjunction with Mr £. B. England he translated G. Curtius'
Principles of Greek Etymology^ and also his great work on the
Greek Verh. Apart from his standard edition of Cicero De
Oraiore^ his most successful classical works were his compact
and lucid commentaries on Cicero's Speeches against Catiline,
and on Horace's Epistles. He also produced compendious
primers of Roman Antiquities and Roman Literature, the first of

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tvhich was translated into French. In the third edition of
Smith's Dictionary of Antiquities many of the articles on Roman
Antiquities were from his pen ; and he also wrote reviews for the
Academy in its earlier days, and for the Classical Review and the
Manchester Guardian. He was highly successful as a popular
lecturer on literary subjects in Manchester and in the other
large towns of Lancashire. He dedicated his edition of the
De Oratore to the University of St Andrews, which had conferred
on him an honorary degree ; he received the same distinction
at Dublin in 1892; meanwhile he had taken the degree of
Litt.D. at Cambridge in 1885.

On my appointment as a College Tutor in 1870 I paid a visit
to my friend, and under his advice, several of his most
promising pupils entered St John's ; among others, Mr Dougan,
late Fellow of the College, and now Professor of Latin at Belfast
and editor of the Tusculan Disputations of Cicero. I was also
present as my friend's guest at the laying of the foundation
stone of the new buildings of Owens College, when Bishop
Eraser and Professor Huxley were the heroes of the day. My
duties as External Examiner in Greek at the Victoria University
in 1897-1900 happily gave me new opportunities of meeting
him and noticing his ever-increasing influence in Manchester.
I saw him for the last time in October 1902 at the Tercentenary
of the Bodleian, when both of us wexe among the guests of the
University of Oxford. Wilkins remained Professor of Latin,
and of Greek Testament criticism, at Owens College until 1903.
In that year, after 34 years* tenure of the Latin Professorship,
a weakness of the heart compelled him to resign the arduous
duties of his office, but. in recognition of the value of his
services, he was appointed (with far lighter work) to the new office
of Professor of Classical Literature. He continued to take his
Greek Testament classes at his own house, and to act as one
of the examiners of the University. In 1904 his portrait was
painted by the Hon John Collier, and was presented to the
University of Manchester by his friends and colleagues. The
portrait was unveiled by Dr A. W. Ward, formerly Principal of
Owens College and now Master of Pelerhouse, who in the
course of his speech said of Dr Wilkins that "nowhere was his
name esteemed more highly than in his old University," while
he was also "one of the most eminent and effective teachers
who had been known in the University of Manchester." Dr

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Wilkins, who was unable to attend the meeting, wrote a letter ^
in the course of which he said : —

I wish to adcnowledgt most gratefully the singular ktadness of nif
colleagues and other friends in desiring and secuiing that my portiait should
be placed in the Univeisity buildings — buildings, by the way, every stone of
which has been laid since my connection with Owens College began.

The beginning ami end of his literary life were in perfect
harmony with one another. Tlie study of the rhetorical works
of Cicero, which had engaged his earliest attention as a classical
editor, was fitly crowned iu his later years by the complete
edition of the text published by the Clarendon Press in 1903 ;
while Greek Education was the theme not only of his Cambridge
Essay of 1873, but also of his own contribution to a volume
published by the Cambridge Press in 1 904, which was followed
by a separate work on Roman Education published by the same
press in the year of his lamented death. In Ihe even tenor of
his literary life, no less than in the unswerving consistency of
his character, he has exemplified the law laid down in the Ars
Poetica of Horace : —

Servetur ad imam
Qualis ab incepto processerit, et sibi constet.

On May 23 he wrote me a few lines with reference to the
invitation which he had just received from the College : —

I am grieved not to be able to come up to the College dinner. We in
the provinces find it specially hard to see anything of old friends, and value
anch chances greatly. But I have hardly left the house duiing the winter,
and my doctors prescribe unremitting care.

The end, alas ! was not far distant. At an early hour in the
morning of Wednesday the 26th of July he died in North Wales
at the little seaside village of Llandrillo-yn-Rhos. He has left
a widow, a daughter, and three sons to lament his loss. Of his
sons the eldest, after a successful career at Oxford, already holds
a high position in the civil service, while the other two have
chosen the medical profession. He is buried in the cemetery
of Colwyn Bay, about a mile to the south-east of the village
where he died. He rests amid the scenes that were familiar to
himself during the few short intervals of repose and refreshment
that marked the peaceful pauses in an eager and active career
«f never-failing devotion to his faith and to his duty ; to his
home and to his friends; to the studies of his choice, and to

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all £he seats of learning that inspired and retained his loyal and
his life-long allegiance.

J. K Sandys.

Some selections from the printed tributes to bis memory are
here appended :—

I. — From Tht Times, 28 July 1905.

We learn with much regret that Dr A. S. Wilkins, Professor
of Classical Literature in the University of Manchester, died
in North Wales on Wednesday. In him the University, Oweas
College, and Lancashire generally lose a man who for 35 years
was one of the best and most efficient friends of the higher
education in that district of England, and one of those who did
most to hold up the torch of learning in the midst of a great
commercial community . . . He would have done much more in
the literature of scholarship had it not been for the hard praaical
work that must fall to the lot of men like him, in such a town
as Manchester, at periods of great educational development »
aad, if Dr Wilkins produced no one great classical book of th«
highest rank, the cause is to be found in the unselfish energy
with which he devoted himself, during so many years not only
to the work of his chair, but also to the practical needs of
Manchester, the Owens College, and the University which grew
out of it.

II. — From The Manchesttf Guardian^ 27 July 1905.

By the death of Dr A. S. Wilkins the roll of the Professors
cf the Owens College has been deprived of one of its most
distinguished names, and the community, some of whose higher
interests he has made his own for more than a generation, has
lost a justly valued member. The story of his life seems simple
enough, for it is but one of duty cheerfully done and a weight
of learning modestly worn, with the reputation that it naturally
brought with it. But the very simplicity of the record is not
without its significance. Hardly had the young scholar gained
the highest, or all but the highest, honours which it was in the
power of two national Universities to award their students when
he became connected as a teacher with what could not then be
called more than a provincial college of growing repute. Having
been speedily raised to the position of a Professor at Owens^

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he devoted his life to its service in that capacitj. We have,
most of us, forgotten those unjust and unwise days when College
Fellowships at Oxford and Cambridge were closed to Noncon-
formists ; and the brilliant young scholar of St John's, Cam-
bridge, thus missed the legitimate reward of his academical
labours. He never murmured at a stroke of ill-fortune none the
easier to bear because he was one of the last who had to suffer
nnder this hard-dying disqualification. A College Fellowship
may in our time not always make a man, even though it may
less rarely than in some epochs of the past help to mar him ;
but it was no secret either to our friend or to us at how serious
a disadvantage he was at the outset placed with his competitors
in the race by having to forego the encouragement of this kind
of start. In any case the loss was our opportunity and Man-
chester's.

During the long series of years in which Dr Wilkins was
connected with the Owens College his abilities as a teacher were
by the unanimous consent of his colleagues and, what is more, by
successive generations of pupils recognised as unsurpassed, and
his devotion to the duties of his chair and to the interests of
his students was indefatigable. As a classical scholar he had
few rivals in this country, being almost equally distinguished in
philology proper, in historical and archaeological learning, and
in pure scholarship ; and his edition of the De Oraiore, for which
he was in tnore ways than one exceptionally equipped, will
ensure him a permanent place on the roll of the foremost Latin
scholars of his time. His Greek scholarship was not inferior
to his Latin, and it will be remembered that at Owens College
he, though Professor of Latin, succeeded the late Dr Greenwood
in the Lectureship in Greek New Testament criticism, which
was placed on a permanent footing by the munificence of Mr
C. J. Heywood. Dr Wilkins was thus able to use for the benefit
of others the fruits of studies which had always specially attracted
him. For the rest, it was no doubt a disappointment to him
that even after the admission to the Col lege- classes of women
students, of which legitimate extension of its usefulness he had
always been a zealous advocate, the numbers of the students of
classics grew less rapidly than those of the students occupied
with some other subjects. But the experience made not a
shade of difference to his exertions. He was well aware that
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debt as any other branch of research to the scientific Renascencet
and that the representatives of the so-called Old Learning have
only themselves to blame if they think that the time has come
for them to bury their talent. For the rest, the Owens College
of Dr Wilkins's days has trained some admirable scholars, both
men and women.

In the counsels of the College during the years of anxiety,
activity, and ambition through which he saw it pass he always
bore a useful and honoured part. If he was not always quite in
the front of the fray, his experience, fertility of resource, and
absolute unselfishness of spirit were at all times valued by his
colleagues, and more especially by the attached friends to whom,
as the successive Principals of the College, he invariably lent
the most faithful support. If to some he seemed cautious
before giving in his adhesion to a new step forward, he was
always to be depended upon for loyally furthering a policy upon
which his republic had resolved. His written advocacy of
some of the most important movements contemplated by the
College, which he was often content to publish without his
name, at times materially contributed to their snccess. As a
writer he was remarkably prompt as well as judicious ; and when
full of his subject, which he was wont to be when he had taken
it up at all, he was not less effective as a speaker. But his best
services to College and University consisted iu the thorough-
ness — the true note in his generation of those who had success-
fully passed through the highest kind of Cambridge training —
with which he addressed himself to the singularly large amount
of academical work which fell to his share. Very few of his
contemporaries can have equalled the experience which he had
acquired as a classical examiner, both in the various universities
with which he was connected and in nearly all the chief public
schools of the couutry.

Dr Wilkins's unusual powers of work, coupled with a flexibility
of mind which was often the wonder of those unaccustomed to
so unusual a combination of rapidity and thoroughness, enabled
him to be of much service to education in Manchester outside
the College walls. He was for a long time the chairman of
the Manchester Independent College, with whose enlightened
educational policy he was naturally in active sympaihy. On one
occasion he temporarily took over the classical work of the sixth
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his chairmanship of the Council of the High School for Giih
was one of the surest guarantees of the succesaful development of
this admirably organised itistitution. He took a strong interest
in primary as well as secondary and higher instruction, and was
at one time much pressed to allow himself to be put in nomi-^
nation for the Manchester School Board, though this request he
was perhaps well advised in declining. Many other good and
noble causes besides that of education found in him a warm and
assiduous friend, for he at least illustrated the fallacy of the
assumption that the egoism which has too frequently accom-
panied humanism is its constant or characteristic mark. He had
been brought up under the influences of a large-hearted school
of Nonconformist theology, typified by the late Mr. Baldwin
Brown, for whom he cherished a regard frequently expressed by
him with affectionate warmth ; and his nature was not contro-
versial, though he was free from fear when roused, and once
crossed swords in defence of the position of Dissenters with no
less brilliant a critic than Matthew Arnold himself. For the
rest, he was as little inclined to think evil of others as to cease
from doing good himself. Probably it was this constant readi-
ness to do his duty which, until the first signs of failure of
health set in, gave to him the extraordinary freshness and even
youth fulness of mind which reflected itself in his outward
bearing. At all events the inspiration which never ceased to
come to him from the source of all noble effort enabled him
within a space of years which all his friends must think was all
too brief to achieve much, and, like a true scholar, to do little
that he failed to do well.

Dr Alfred Hopkinson, the Vice Chancellor ef the University
of Manchester, remembers attending his Latin classes in 1868.
'' He was certainly a most admirable teacher," the Vice
Chancellor said, " and took a very warm personal interest in his
students. From that day to this he has been one of my closest
friends. Of his absolute devotion to the University and to his
colleagues it is impossible to speak too highly. And he was
singularly wide in his sympathies — keenly interested not only in
the educational work of the College but in the cricket and
sports clubs and all the College Societies. He took an active
part in all the developments of the College from the old Quay-

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street dajs until his death. Although he was not one to talk
about it, he made the greatest sacrifices for his principles. He
was a staunch Nonconformist — a Congregationalist and a
member of the Governing Body of the Lancasiiire Independent
College. A man of a broad and liberal minded type, his
adherence to Nonconformity never wavered, and it cost him
much. He was one of those who would have cared very
greatly for a fellowship, but that was sacrificed because of his
fidelity to his religious principles." Dr Hopkinson spoke of
the Professor's devotion to music, to art, and to literature,
his fondness for foreign travel, his keen interest in religious
and philanthropic movements, and his many social activities.
•* He was one of the few men who could take part in social
life and take his share of the work of administration at the
College, aud still produce original work of the highest quality.
As a scholar, his work is spoken of by every scholar with
the greatest respect."

III. — From The Guardian (London), 2 August 1905.

Though he remained a convinced Congregationalist to the
end of his life, he was singularly free from party spirit or
bitterness, and this disappointment (as to his being disquali-
fied for election to a fellowship) in no wise disturbed his
friendly relations with the Anglican communion. After gaining
many University prizes and acting as President of the Union,
he was taken from Cambridge to Manchester, where in 1869 he
became professor of Latin at Owens College, an institution
which had then outlived Ihe struggles of its early youth and was
steadily winning its way to a position among the Universities of
Britain. Dr Wilkins's whole subsequent career was bound up
with Owens College. He was an admirable Professor of Latin,
a clear and stimulating teacher. He was a strenuous upholder
of the place of the Universities in education, and found time,
despite his vigorous and indefatigable work in the class-room,
to make his influence felt on almost tvtry aspect of the life of
the college and city. Perhaps his chief characteristic was the
inexhaustible energy which threw him into many different lines
of activity, and showed itself as much in his zest for foreign
travel, his keenness in games and outdoor sports, maintained
until his last illness, as in his many forms of academic, literary.

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and civic work* He was one of the most prominent of the pro*
fcssors of Owens College, and, though looking with some
suspicion both upon the establishment of the federal Victoria
University of 1880 and also upon the dissolution of the federal
tie and the erection of the independent University of Manchester
in 1903, he loyally accepted the wishes of the majority of his
colleagues, and threw himself with great heartiness and good
temper into the working out of systems with which he had had
at first no great measure of sympathy. His natural attachment
to the University of London, the scene of his earliest triumphs,
and a certain conservatism of temperament, which is sometimes
found in prominent Liberals, sufficiently account for this
cautious attitude, but it was characteristic of the man that his
iuflnence and popularity were in no wise impaired by his dis
agreement with those with whom he worked.

Though the Owens College made large, and perhaps excessive,
demands on the time of its teachers, Wilkins's superabundant
energy found leisure for many other occupations. Within the
College he was the unwearied champion of the claims of women
to equal educational rights with men, and had the satisfaction
of seeing what he fought for completely attained many years
before his death. He was an even more vigorous champion of
the establishment of a theological department in the University,
and the recent erection of a faculty of theology in the reconsti-
tuted University was a great source of satisfaction to him. As
lecturer in Greek Testament criticism, he took a prominent
part in the teaching as well as in the organisation of theological
studies, and no part of his lecturing gave him greater pleasure
than the Greek Testament classes, which he continued to hold
in his own house when serious disease prevented him from
continuing them at the University. In close connection with
his interest in women's education was his important work as
chairman for many years of the Council of the Manchester
High Schools for Girls ; while he also took a prominent place
as a member of the committee of the Lancashire Independent
College, whose alumni received their arts training at Owens.
Besides this he represented the University on the governing
body ot many schools and public institutions— as, for example,
the John R^^lands Library. He was prominent for many years
on the political platform, and took an active part in many
educational and philanthropic movements, notably the Univer-

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sity Settlement in Ancoats* He was an indefatigable examiner,
atid examined for many schools and Universities, having a very
keen interest in school work of every kind, and many friends
among schoolmasters. His literary activity was also very con«
siderable. He contiibuted countless papers to such works as
the Dictionary of Classical Antiquiiies^ and tnany articles and
reviews to the Manchester Guardian and other newspapers and
periodicals. lie wrote many acceptable .text-books of wide
circulation — editions, grammars, primers of antiquities, and the
like. The multifariousness of his occupations stood in the
way of much sustained original work, but his fine scholarship,
practical wisdom, and extensive literary knowledge gave real
value to his editions of classical texts, and he did excellent
service in introducing^to English readers the results of German
investigations in points of scholarship, philology, and ancient
history at a time when such work was little known, and when
few persons were competent or witling to undertake the tasks
upon which he embarked. He was one of the quickest of minds
and most rapid of workers ; his interests were very wide and
his reading great ; he was very public-spirited ; his spirit seldom
flagged, and his good temper and lack of gall gained him many
friends. Active as his life had been, he bore the long confine-
ment and rigid restrictions of the last weary years of invalidism
with admirable courage, dignity, and cheerfulness. The city
and University, for which he did so much for 36 strenuous
years, will not readily forget him, and a host of pupils and a
wide circle of friends will deplore the loss to education and
scholarship caused by his death.

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1868. Ciceronzs De Oratore liber primus, with notes from the German of
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1869. The Light of the World, an Essay on < the distinctive features of
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Y 227. (7) Translations from the Geiman extracts in the Sabrinag
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1867. In the 'Light Blue* (under the signature L, St John's College),
(I) Our English Universities, Classical Honours, u 26-33. (2) -Or
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1867. Latin Essay for Members' Piize, Utrum plures eaedemque parvae
civitates, anpaucae eaedemque magnae, paci ac moribus magis faveant^
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Review, 1870. (2) A Puritan's Apology (a reply to Matthew Arnold)
in MacmiUofCs Magazine, August, 1870. (3) The Story of Sakuntala^
in the Owens College Magazine, 1870. (4) Our University Endowments
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1887-1902. In the * Classical Review.' Notes on (1887) ceraria and

toraria (Plautus), and iirtoiifiaola (Cicero). (1891) date of Lucilius.

(1900) the Rylands Library, Manchester. Notices of (1887) Slobile's

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and Cima'i Cic. di Orattre^ Arnold*s Second Punic War^ Engelhard t*i
Latin Conjugmtion, Windijch'i Georg Curtius (i 263). (1888) Byrne's
Qreek^ Latin, and QMic J^oots, Roberts' Language of Christy Shuck*
burgh's Epistles of Horace, ( 1 889) Gow's Companion , ( 1 890) Piderit's
Cic. de Oratore, Schmidt's Synonymik, (1 891) Frieilrich's Cic. Opera
Rhetorica, Seyffert's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. (1892) PcteiT
son's Quintilian and Merry's Fragments of Latin Poetry. (1893) Martha's
Cicero^s Brutus, (1894) Aly's Roman Literature^ Freese's Cic. pro
fiurena^ Lindsay's Satumian Metre, Moor's Iransl. of Cic. de Or, i,
^ucian MQller's ^ora^/, Spengel's Rketores Graeci, TI1 tele's Hermagoras,
(1896) Fisher's transl. of Boissier's Rams and Pompeii, Earth's MSS of
3tatius' Tkehais, (1898) Arnold and Conway's Latin Pronunciation,
Middleton and Mills' Student^s Companion, (1898-9) Pais, Storia di
itoma, (1899} Jahnke's Lactantius on Statins, Keller and Holder's
Horace, (1901) Old French transl. of Cic. Rhetorica, Cima's Cic. de Or^
cd. t, Lebreton'i Etudes sur la langue et la grammaire de Ciciron^
(1902) Clark's Ciceronis Ormtionn; Kloty' Statins, AchUleis ; Lamarre's
History of Latin Literature,
lleviewi in the earlier yean of the AcADilf T and In the Manchbstk^
GUAXDIAN.

J. E. S.

Chakles John Ellicott,

Bishop of Qlottcetter,

Another Eagh appears, and thus soon have we again to
record the loss of one of the distinguished little band of oar
Honorary Fellows. On Sunday, October 15, at Birchington-
on-Sea, full of years, once the youngest but long the senior
Prelate on the English bench, died Charles John Ellicott, not
Indeed in harness, but, after a clerical life of 59 and an
episcopate of 42 years (the 31st Bishop of Gloucester and the
47th of Bristol), only seven months out of harness.

Uno avuho non deficit alter aureus. Bishop Moorhousc^
worthily succeeds Bishop Ellicott. But Ellicott was, more-
over, an eminent Biblical scholar. In that quality, too, may
he find a worthy successor on our roll of Honorary Fellows,
ai^d the Virgilian saying thus again coipe truel

C. J. Ellicott was the only son of the Rev C. S. Ellicott,
Vicar of Whitwcll, Rutland, where he was born on St Mark's
day, April 25, 1819. He went to school at Oakham with
J. W. Sheringham, a lifelong friend, afterwards Archdeacon of
Gloucester {Eagle xxv, 326-8), and James Atlay, afterwards
Sishop of Hereford. Whep Qrettoni the second master of

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Oakham, was appointed Head Master of Stamford, Ellicott and
Sheringham followed him there (x3). Ellicolt, writes his school-
fellow and college friend, Mr. J. S. Clarke, ' was far away head
of the school, and a favourite pupil.' Entering at St John's
under Bushby and Hymers, April 11, 1837, Ellicolt 'won the
Bell Scholarship in his first term, and of course a College
Scholarship.' He was first Members' Prizeman in 1842, and
also won the Hulsean Prize in 1843 with an Essay on 'The
History and Obligation of the Sabbath.' ' His double Second '
(1841), continues Mr Clarke, 'was a disappointment. We
thought it a pity that Hymers urged him to work at mathe-
matics, when classics was his strong point.' Ellicott was
second in the Second Class of the Classical Tripos, and seven-
teenth senior opiitne. In those days the Chancellor's Medals
could only be awarded to those who had gained at least a senior
opiime. In 1841, as only two First Class men fulfilled that
condition, some Second Class Men went in for the Medals.
A writer in Ths Guardian of October 25 states that Ellicott
and another Johnian, Charles Sangster, still Vicar of Darton.
Bamsley, a large mining parish, were placed first and second
for the Chancellor's Medals. ' But Dr Graham, the Master of
Christ's and Vice-Chancellor, afterwards Bishop of Chester,
said " No ! they have never been given to Second Class men,
and they shall not be awarded.'" In The Guardian for
November 8 the same writer states that Mr Sangster remembers
receiving a letter from Dr Graham regretting that the Medals
could not be awarded.* Certainly no Medals were given
that year; nor, except in 1870 and 1871, were they ever
bestowed upon Second Class men. But young Ellicott also
distinguished himself on the river and at the Union. The
Stamford boys with others from the same neighbourhood
formed a Boat Club. In the .six-oared boat, Argo, built
for them, Ellicott rowed stroke and Sheringham 3. Carrying
these delectos hercas^ all reading men, the Argo rose from the
26th to the 13th place on the river, and on one occasion
bumped the second boat of their own College.f At the Union
he was member of the Library Committee in 1838, Treasurer in

* Our courteons RegistrRiy * has no records dealing with the Medals,' bat
he adds that * the report was carrent (long ago) in the University ' and * there
is nothing improbable ' in it. On the other hand Judge Ellicott says : * This
is new to me. . ..He (the Bishop) never referred to the subject.'

t Mr, ;. S. Clarke is still my informant.

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the Lent term of 1839, and in the following term President. In
1838 we find him taking part in a debate on Sergeant Talfourd*s
Copyright Bill, and in the Lent term leading the affirmative side
on the question, *' Is Astrology a science worthy of our credit ? "
(lost by 16 to 8). These various forms of success showed an
active and vigorous nature, and were the presage of a strenuous
and useful career. In the life of the late Dean Merivale,
Ellicott is described as his pupil. Among his contemporaries
and friends at College were Atlay, France (both B.A. 1840),
Beresford Hope (Members' Prizeman 1841), and E. J. Herbert
(B.A. 1840), afterwards Lord Powis, who, by the way, proposed
Ellicott for the Presidentship of the Union. After taking his
degree Ellicott read with pupils for a year or two. He was
elected to a Piatt Fellowship in 1845,* was ordained Deacon in
1846 and Priest in 1847 ^y ^^ Bishop of Elyf Resigning his
Fellowship in 1848 on his marriage with Anne, daughter of
Atlmiral Becher, he became in the same year Professor of
Divinity in King's College, London, where he succeeded
Trench, and Rector of Pilton in his native county, where he
remained till 1858. The population of Pilton is at present 45
and its Pastor's gross income is £%o. During these years his
children were born, and here the first children of his brain saw
the light. In 1851 he published a book on Analytical Sialics.
In 1854 came his Commentary on Galalians, being the first of
a series the last of which, that on i Cor., appeared in 1887.
The Commentaries on the Ephesians^ on the Pastoral EpislUs^
on Philippians^ Colossians and Philemon^ and that on tlie Thessa-
lonians appeared in the years 1855-1858. While his pastoral
work at Pilton thus left him leisure for literary work, a book on
' the spiritual needs of a country parish' (1888) shows that that
pastoral work had not suffered neglect, and that its lessons had
not been forgotten.

The well-known Commentary of Alford, begun in December
1842, was completed with the exception of Prolegomena and
finishing touches on February 17th, i860. The first two volumes
had been reviewed by Ellicott in the Christian Remembrancer of
July 1851 and 1853. The review was, as Ellicott afterwards
allowed, 'hostile' in tone, while Alford himself complained of

• He occupied what are now Professor Mayor's rooms, turret stair,
2nd Court (BagU XVIiI, 583).
f TurtOD.

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it as * bitter and severe.* In a letter to Mrs Alford, written
after the Dean's death (187 1). Ellicott, while maintaining his
original standpoint, speaks of the •* crudities and ungentle com-
ments that disfigured the four articles." •* The least justifiable
•* charge," writes Mrs Alford, •* was that of a design to conceal
•*his obligations to continental scholars." Ellicott's "stand-
*' point," he explains (1871), was "reverence for what is called
•• the Catholic interpretation ; whereas the future Dean entered
•• fearlessly into the critical field, perhaps even with |a slight
** bias against what was merely received and patristic. He paid
•* no greater heed to any interpretation, however time-honoured,
" than its simple merits required." Could the attitude of a
sound exegete, however, be belter described than in the last
sentence ? But Ellicott soon regretted the tone of his review.
"Early in this year" (1855), writes Mrs Alford {Life, p. 248),
**he received from the Rev C. J. Ellicott a copy of his Com-
••nientary on the Epistle to the Galatians. This present,
" warmly acknowledged by my husband at the time, as from
"a fellow-labourer, led first to an interview and then to a
'* friendship which lasted unbroken for sixteen years." In 1858
Ellicott gave up his Rectory. In 1859 he preached the Hulsean
lectures on " The Life of Our Lord." which were published ifi
i860. All these works (with the exception of i Cor,^ went
through repeated editions {e,g, Ephestans, 5th ed. 1884; Hulsean
Lectures, 6th ed. 1866). Taking a house in Scroope Terrace,
lie often came in to College to see his friend and contemporary.
Archdeacon France (Senior Classic 1840), and to attend Service
in Chapel. In i860 he was elected to the Hulsean Professor-
ship, which he thus held (as it proved for a short time only)
along with his King's College appointment. ITie Times of
October 16 aptly remarks, '*As the names of his five successors
•• in this Chair are Lightfoot, J. J. S. Perowne, Hort, Ryle, and
•• Barnes, it is hard to see how any benefaction could have been
"put to better use." In i860 Ellicott had been Prizeman,
Lecturer, and was now Professor on that foundation.

On Monday, February 19, i860, Ellicott left Cambridge
at 7 a.m. to give his lectures at King's College and to
keep an appointment with Alford. The train is described
as a 'fast' one, but our service of trains was not so good
in those days. As the train approached Tottenham about
9.20, at a speed of some 35 miles an hour, the tire of a leading

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wheel of the engine broke. The engine dashed againtt the
platform and was completely overtamed, and the two following
carnages were wrecked. As the result, six passengers were
killed and many seriously injured, scalds from the escaping
steam being added to fractures and contusions. '* My father's
"injuries," writes Judge Ellicott, "were one leg badly broken
"(occasioning a slight limp in after life), the ankle of the
"other leg dislocated, injuries to the head, and scalding to the
" right arm and hand.'* Removed from the wreckage, he kept
hold of the MS. of a commentary on which he was engaged (or
was it the notes of his intended lectures ?), while, with the other
hand, he drew his Prayer-book from his pocket and read over
liis dying fellow-passengers, who lay around, the * Commenda-
tory Prayer/ After receiving aid from a local doctor, Ellicott
was sent home in an invalid carriage. Tite Great Eastern
Company marked their sense of the service he had rendered
by presenting him with a life-ticket between London and
Cambridge. His calm and unselfish conduct probably attracted
attention in other and higher quarters. Meanwhile Alford
{Life, p. 297) had heard the news at King^s College, and had
made up his mind that the worst would happen. "What
**a useful career cut short 1 " so he wrote in his diary, ** so dear
"and good a man crushed!" To his daughter he wrote,
" Your heart will bleed when you read the enclosed. Oh 1 is
"it not sad that such a life should be sacrificed ? The loss to
" me will be more than I can describe, — a brother in my life's
" labours. I am sure you will weep with and for me ; there may
"yet be a ray of hope, but I confess I have none. I really have
"thought of nothing else." These extracts from a private
letter and a private diary have the ring of sincerity about them.
He who was thus valued and mourned by the anitna Candida of
Henry Alford must have had fine qualities of heart and character
as well as of intellect. With true kindness Alford at once saw
Ellicott's father and arranged to take his lectures for him till
Easter. EUicott, meanwhile, had cheerily telegraphed to the
Railway Company that he was doing well, and humorously
remarked to his friends that "his vanity after all did it. He
" went up by an earlier train than usual to be photographed for
"his pupils" {Life of Alford). He was soon about again on
crutches, remarking that " every man's health was much in his
own power." The accident, it is said, prevented his ever

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wearing decanal and episcopal gaiters; but it did not prevent
his remaining an active and graceful skater, Usie Prof Liveing,
who often skated wilh him, from mountaineering with Arch-
bishop Benson and Professor Tyndall, or from riding a tricycle
in his old age.

The ticket between London and Cambridge was not to
be needed long. In 1861 Ellicott was offered the Deanery
of Exeter, but, the revenues being small and the work
insufficient for so active a nature.* the Bishop, rather than lose
EUicott. found for him congenial work and gave the munificent
sum of /^ 1 0,000 towards the establishment of a Diocesan
Training ColIege,f over which the new Dean was to preside
{'I he limes. May ist, 1861). His successor at King's was
Plumptre^, afterwards Dean of Wells, and at Cambridge Light-
foot, afterwards Bishop of Durham. But his stay was not to be
long at Exeter. Those were the days of the 'Shaftesbury
bishops.' In both his premierships Palmerston bestowed
preferment almost exclusively on the recommendation of that
philanthropic but narrow-minded noble. From first to last
Palmerston had at his disposal 25 mitres and 10 deaneries.
*' He at once and from the very first," writes Lord Shaftesbury
(Lt/e III, 196), "gave me his confidence in these matters, never
" but once making an appointment (it was to a canonry) with-
*'out consulting me in the matter." To the High Church party
the "Shaftesbury bishops" were "a stone of stumbling and
a rock of offence." Wilberforce called them " Lord Palmerston*s
wicked appointments." One wise stipulation Palmerston had
made, " Those should be selected who would be moderate and
" decent in their language towards Nonconformists and civA in
^' their personal intercourse with them." Still, public opinion,
as represented by the press, called for learned men. Of
learned men Shaftesbury had no opinion. "The knowledge of
"mankind and experience of parochial life are not to be
*' acquired in musty libraries and easy chairs." To Ellicott,
however, Shaftesbury easily resigned himself. "Dr Ellicott's
" appointment will be good for the end to which it was made.
"First, a. Cambridge man was wanted ; secondly, some one in

• Phillpolts.

t Called * a theological college ' Diet, Bi.

t In 1863.

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••a high theological position; and, thirdly, my own feeling is
*• that honour should be done to everyone, whenever occasion
"offered, connected with the answers to Essays and Reviews^*
{lb, p. 98). In a volume entitled Aids to Faith (1861) ElHcolt
had in fact written the last paper, which dealt with Jowett*s
Essay on "The Interpretation of Scripture." He was con-
secrated in Canterbury Cathedral on March 25, 1863. The
new bishop being one of the most intimate friends of Henry
Alford {Life^ p. 361), the sermon was preached by the latter
from St John x. 11. "A bishop," he said, "has almost to bid
" farewell to leisure. The great tide of responsibility has flowed
"in and filled up all the chinks and intervals of disposable
" time."

The mention of Essays and Rtviiuos reminds us tliat tl>e
sixties and earlier seventies were a period of storm in the
English Church. Restored in 1852 from its enforced inactivity
of more than 130 years, Convocation soon found its hands full.
In Parliament Lords Ebury and Shaftesbury, from different
motives, were eager for Prayer-book and ritual reform, with or
without the help of Convocation. The question of the rubrics
brought up that of the Athanasian Creed. The Essays and the
" red-hot tangle " (as someone confusedly called it) of the
Colenso controversy were further sources of disquietude. In
all these controversies Ellicott was now to bear an active and
important part. The year 1863 witnessed the introduction of
Lord Ebury's Bill for modifying clerical subscription. All but
four of the Bishops opposed it. In 1865, however, a Royal
Commission proposed certain changes. A declaration of
"unfeigned assent and consent to all and everything contained
and prescribed in and by the Book of Common Pwyer" was to
be no longer required. Convocation was empowered to make
certain consequential changes in the Canons {Life of Tait. i.
pp. 487-495).

Essays and Rtvinvs had appeared in i860. Archdeacon
Denison in 1861 described the book in Convocation as "of all
books I ever laid hands upon incomparably the worst." A
"synodical condemnation" was in contemplation, when two of
the Essayists were prosecuted in the Arches. Sentenced to
a year's suspension (1862) they appealed to the Judicial Com-
mittee, which in 1864 annulled the decision of the Court below.
The matters alleged had been the denial of the inspiration of

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Sciipture and tliat of the eternity of future punishment. The
former charge was held unproven, and the latter doctrine not
' distinctly declared' by our Church. Protests against the judg-
iTient were signed by 11,000 clergy and 137,000 of the laity,
and the volume was synodically condemned by both Houses.
Only two Bishops, London and St David*s, opposed. Ellicott,
it appears, was with the majority.

In 1862 Colenso, since 1853 Bishop of Natal, put forth a
work on the Pentateuch and Joshua, in which he proclaimed
the unhistorical character of much of the earlier books of the
Bible. Most of the Bishops inhibited their colleague, now in
England, and invited him to resign his office. But before
Convocation took further action, Bishop Gray of Capetown had
cited his sufifragan, and on his non-appearance had deprived
lum. Colenso appealed to the Queen in Council, and on
March 20, 1865, the judgment was pronounced null and void.
On Colenso's returning to his diocese. Gray pronounced and
••promulged" a sentence of "the greater excommunication.'*
Dr Gray now put it to Convocation " whether the Church of
*' England held communion with Dr Colenso or with the orthodox
"Bishops" who had excommunicated him. Wilberforce, sup-
ported by Eliicott, proposed (June 28, 1866) a declaration of
non-communion with Colenso, and of communion with the
' orthodox Bishops.' The latter part of the declaration, how-
ever, was alone adopted. It was further resolved that *' if it
should be decided that a new Bishop be consecrated, a godly
and well-learned man should be chosen,'' etc.

Dissatisfied with these 'non-committal' pronouncementSi
Capetown appeared at the first Lambeth Conference in Sept»
1867 and proposed that the conference should adopt the
resolution of Convocation with regard to the appointment of
a new Bishop, but in so doing omititd the hypothetical clause.
•'Our admirable secretary*' (Eliicott), however, as Bishop Tait
calls him {Life i, 380), insisted that the resolution should be put
with that clause. Yet Capetown publicly stated in the closing
conversazione that the Synod had approved of the appointment
of a new Bishop. This statement Tait at once corrected in
the daily press. Such were the inconveniences of holding a
Fan-Anglican Synod with closed doors 1

An extract from a contemporary letter of Colenso's
(July 3, 1864) will interest: "I came out of the Athend&um.

qi Ohiiuary.

** the other day and saw an old College friend, Bishop ElHcott,
•* with whom we had stayed a night at his Deanery at Exeter,
" shortly after landing, upon which occasion I discussed with
•Miim all the principal parts of my work on the Pentateuch.
"Though not agreeing with all my views, yet he made no
*' serious objection to them.* But as soon as he got upon the
** Bench, he issued a bull of inhibition as long and unmeaning
*'as any of them. There he now was, on horseback, at the
"door of the Athenaeum. On seeing me he nodded, and I
"went up and shook hands with him, upon which he said:
•• • Upon my word : yon don't seem much the worse for all the
" 'storms and tempests that have gone over you I *"

This was at least genially spoken. By most of his episcopal
brethren at home Colenso was " cut." In 1869 he wished to
attend the opening of our new chapel, but was dissuaded by the
Master. ** I suppose that either Mr Reyner, or Bishop Browne,
*' or Bishop Ellicott, or others of the same class had expressed
"their determination not to attend if I did" (Muliinger's
History of St JohrCs College^ p. 285).

In 1867 Ellicott became a member of the Royal Commission
on ritual and the rubrics. Four reports were issued in 1867-70.
The first two dealt with vestments and the like, the third con*
tained a new lectionary, while the fourth was concerned with
the Athanasian Creed. The commissioners "deemed it ex-
pedient to restrain in the public services all variations in respect
of vesture.*' " Bishop of Gloucester," wrote Wilber force {Li/e iir,
216)/' as always now, hot and intemperate in trying to force
" on condemnation of chasuble. I said the Church of England
was the Church of liberty. The Bishop of Gloucester, 'Let
them go to Rome ; why not ? A very good communion ; next
best to ours.' " As to the Quicunque, they proposed to append
to it an explanatory rubric. The leading Cambridge Divinity
Professors had given their voice against the continued use of
the Creed ; their Oxford colleagues had spoken in the contrary
sense, and two of them, Fusey and Liddon, had even threatened
to withdraw from the ministry of the Church should any change
be made. A committee of Bishops, of whom Ellicott was one,
was now formed to consider, with the help of the Professors,
the question of re-translation. On February 7th, 1872, the
Bishop of Gloucester "read an improved version of the Creed"

* Colcaso misundet«too<1, 1 iliink. £llicolt'» "penile wny."

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and "four great speeches" were delivered in Convocation, one
by EUicott, "which presented the whole case with masterly
"clearness" {Life of Tail, ii. 140). Ellicolt "pleaded for the
*• delay of another year, during which the re-translation and
** history of the Creed might be still more exhaustively con-
"sidered" (i'3.) The changes already proposed by his com-
mittee, e,g, " whosoever willelh to " for " whosoever will," and
" infinite" for " incomprehensible" in no way touched the main
objections felt to the Creed. The odd proposal, recently made,
to translate salvus "safe/' does not seem to have occurred
to any one. In the end, notwithstanding the logic of a Magee
and the vehemence of a Stanley, nothing was done but to draw
np another and somewhat wordy explanatory rubric.

In 1868 Bishop Tait of London had been raised to the
Primacy. Two notices that have appeared of EUicott state, on
the alleged authority of Bishop Wilberforce, that Disraeli
strongly pressed Ellicott and left the royal presence in high
dudgeon when he failed to gain his point. But in Wilberforce's
diary (November 13) we read, "The Duke (of Marlborougli)
told me of Disraeli's excitement when " he came out of the
royal closet. Some straggle about the Primacy. Lord Malmes-
bury also said that, when he spoke to Disraeli, he said, ' Don*t
bring any more bothers before me ; 1 have enough already to
drive a man mad.' My belief is that the Queen pressed Tait,
and againsi possibly Ely or some such appointment."*

In 1869 Mr Gladstone brought in and carried his Irish
Church Bill. The Bishops were divided. Magee, who made
the most powerful speech against the Bill, writes (May 26)
*' Gloucester (and six others) will vote against it at every stage"
{Life, i. 225).

In 1873 a report of a Committee of the Upper House on
confession was drawn up. "It was mine and Gloucester
"and Bristol's." writes Magee {Life, p. 296) *'vice one of S.
IVinton's, which his death enabled us to carry." This important
declaration (see Life of Magee^ i. 290 and Life of Taii, ii. 169)
received the assent of all the Bishops, and at the Lambeth
Conference of 1878, when Ellicott was again Secretary, its
principal sentejices were " adopted without a dissentient voice "

• Judge Ellicott, however, writes : " I can only speak from rumour. I
have always heard it asserted, and never denied, that, if DiMaeli had had his
way, my father would have gone to Canterbury."

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{Lift of Tail ^ ii. 170), One sentence may be quoted as its
key-note: ''the Charch pf England knows no such words as
'sacramental confession.' "

From these disputes we turn to what EIHcott regarded
doubtless as the great work of his life, his part in '' the greatest
''spiritual movement that has taken place since the Refor-
''mation" {Addresses on the Revised Vtrsion 1901, p. 126). In
the Preface to his Pastoral Epistles (1856) he had advocated
** revision " as against (a) a new translation, {b) resting content
with 161 1. Not deeming the time ripe for an authoritative
revision, he thought " the best plan to be this : to encourage
small bands of scholars to make independent efforts on separate
Books." In 1857 " fi^® clergymen," Alford and Ellicott among
them, published a revision of St John*s Gospel. Similar
revisions of other Books followed. In 1869 Alford published
a revised version of the whole New Testament. February loth,
1870, Wilberforce, seconded by Ellicott, proposed in Convocation
a committee to consider the desirableness of a revision. Of
this committee Ellicott was one. May 3 and 5 both Houses
resolved that Convocation should nominate forthe purpose a body
of its own members with power to invite the cooperation of any
eminent for scholarship, to ** whattvernation or religious body they
may belong " (i3.). Dr Pusey and Lord Shaftesbury alike regretted
and even denounced the whole scheme ; and the Northern Con-
vocation stood aloof. Apart from this, the undertaking was
nearly wrecked by the * cooperation ' clause. The seven revisers
named by Convocation* invited twenty-one scholars to join
them. Among them was a Unitarian, the Rev G. Vance
Smith. At Westcott's instance, and with Stanley's consent,
the Revisers partook of the Holy Communion in Westminster
Abbey. *• June 22nd. Long day at Revision" (Alford's diary,
Life^ p. 446). "All denominations knelt round the tomb of
Edward VI" (?— Ellicott says, Henry VII); "a most striking
"sight, and one to be thankful fori Such a meeting round
"Edward VFs tomb was a sight England had never seen
** before. Began our revision. Went on right well. All dined
•* at Bishop Ellicott* s." " The storm that ensued was so violent
" that the Revision was almost wrecked at the outset" {Life of
Westcott, I. p. 394). The incident was dubbed '* The Westminster

• For the N. T.

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Scandal" {Life 0/ Pusey, iv. p. 231). With almost incredible
weakness and inconsistency the Upper House of Convocation
now passed a resolution " that it is the judgment of this House
*' that no person who denies the Godhead of our Lord ought
''to be invited to join either Company; and that any snch
" person now in either Company should cease to act thereupon "
{ib. I. p. 392). In this the Bishop of Gloucester evidently had no
share. Westcott speaks of "Ellicott's vigorous defence of the
communion" {Life, i. p. 393). **If," wrote Westcott, "the
" Company accept the dictation of Convocation, my work must
•• end." Both Companies appear to have declared their independ-
ence of Convocation. The work now proceeded, Ellicott has
given in the Addresses a most interesting account of the history
and methods of the Revision. He speaks of A! ford's regularity
•* from the first day to* the last sad morning when he gently and
resignedly gathered his books together and told us that the
doctors had forbidden the continuance of the work" {Li/t^
p. 504). Alford died January 12, 1871. The meetings were in
the Jerusalem Chamber and extended over ten years. They num-
bered 407. Of these Ellicott attended as many as 405, Scrivener
399, Hort 362, Westcott 304 {tb. p. 35). The Revisers gave
their services. The University Presses, who were to have the
copyright, defrayed the expenses. At the outset the chairman
took steps for obtaining the co*operation of American scholars,
of whom thirty were soon enlisted. Bishop Charles Wordsworth
writes, "Our chairman had many excellent qualities for his
** post, but he was much to blame for not reminding us that by
*Mntroducing so many minute and unexpected alterations we
" were exceeding the terms of our commission ; and not only for
''not reminding us of the fact, but for not preventing it, as
** I think he might and ought to have done. He felt he was
"only carrying out the wishes of the majority. Non hoec in
*^/(xdera veni** After the completion of the Gospels, C. Words-
worth wished to withdraw, but Scrivener persuaded him to
remain. He complains, moreover, " of the jests which some
members of the company allowed themselves," but adds that
the •* Nonconformist members always set an example of gravity"
{^Episcopate of C. Wordsworthy p. 217). Was the Right Reverend
Chairman among the offenders .' The charge of undue defer-

• December 16, 1870*

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ence to the textual views of Westcott and Hort is fairly dealt
\^ith. The almost impossible readings of W. and H. at i Thess.
ii. 7, V. 4, and i Cor. xiii. 3 are rejected by the Revisers, as
by Ellicott himself. With regard to the renderings, " faithful-
ness was the central aim of the Revisers" (p. 98). Westcott
" would gladly have given ten years of his life to bring to the
heart of Englishmen" the force of the 'into' for 'in* of
Mat. xxviii. 19, and of the *in' for 'through* -of Rom. vi. 13
(Zf/^, p. 129). As an instance of their accuracy Ellicott says,
'*we sent our sheets (of Acts xxvii.) to the Admiralty, and
" asked the First Sea Lord (whom some of us knew) kindly to
'* tell us if the expressions we had adopted were nantically cor-
" reel'* (p. 3 1 ). That competent authority, it seems, did not find
anything amiss. It is, however, hard to see how '* faithfulness'*
required the replacement, in the^same chapter, of the familiar
*' the shipmen deemed " by the prosaic '< the sailors surmised.**
Unfortunately there was no great man of letters and no great
master of English upon the Company. J. H. Newman had
declined to join .it, and Alford, a graceful minor poet, was
gone. In Magee*s Life (il, 83} we read, *' Long subsequently
"they (/.^. John Bright and the Bishop) agreed in their dis-
" content with the English (not the scholarship) of the Revised
'* Version of the New Testament ; and the Bishop often said
" that it would have been much better if John Bright had been
'* one of the Revisers. They ought to have had some colleague
** like him who did not know Greek, but would judge the trans-
"lation solely from the standpoint of pure English." The
opinion of such a colleague would have been more valuable
than even that of a First Sea Lord. Would it be possible, even
now, to submit the Revised Version to some such further
revision ?♦

To Ellicott, as chairman, it fell to present to Convocation in
1881 the New Testament, in 1896 the Apocrypha, in 1899 the
references and "in them the very last part of the work" {pp.ciL
pp. 5, 47, 43). Should a statue of Ellicott ever be set up in

* Theologians' English is apt to suflfer from their having to read so much
bad Greek, bad {ij, German Professors') German, and^one another. Professor
Priver is capable of making the Psalmist say, ** Thy club and Thy stalT comfort
me." Even Lowth gives us, " Speak ye animating words to Jerusalem **
(A.V. "comfortably"). In Ps. xc. I Cheyne (1888) for < refuge* gave
* asylum.'

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his old cathedral, the figure should be holding these volumes to
which he devoted so much of three decades of his life. In
eh. V of the work so often cited Ellicott strongly urges "the public
use of the Version." As a step towards this in these Addresses,
which formed part of his Visitation Charge for 1901, he recom-
mends that a month be set apart in the diocese, sermons being
preached on each of its four Sundays upon different aspects of
the Revision.

But other literary work had gone on meanwhile. His older
commentaries on the Pauline Epistles were passing through
repeated editions, i Cor. appeared in 1887, a copy being sent
to Cardinal Manning. "There is not much in it that will jar"
(wrote Ellicott). ** Interpreters are rarely polemical, if true to
"their calling" {Life^ 11, 707). In 1879, with the help of such
scholars as Plumptre and Sanday, he began to edit for Messrs
Cassell "The Old and New Testaments for English Readers,"
and the same abridged " for the use of schools."* His own
commentaries, one and all, are described as " grammatical and
critical." Introductions are wanting, or are brief. Excursus
are not found. A new translation is in each case appended.
The notes are minute and careful. "A freer admixture of
history, broader generalisations, and more suggestive reflexions
such as some might desire " are avoided. " The grammatical
force and logical connexion of the original" are the editor's
main preoccupation. It is said that Ellicott's commentaries
have been removed from their old place in the Reading Room
of the British Museum. Yet, besides the occasional superiority
of his readingsf above referred to, at i Cor. vii. 21 and Gal. v. iz
he shews, as it seems to me, far greater insight as an exegete
than Lightfoot-t The last commentary (i Cor.), as most of the
earlier ones, ends with the words rptdc /lovcic, iXitjaov,

In 1891 appeared Lux Mundi. "Have you read Lux
^^ MundiV wrote Magee {Life^ 11, p. 286). **If you have not,
"beg, borrow, buy, or steal it; and, if you borrow, forget to
"return it." However different in tone from parts of the
Essays and Reviews and of the Pentateuch and Book of foshua of
a generation earlier, it cannot be denied that "the same great

* The Introdactions reprinted 1893.
t «. e. to those of WH.
t C9U p. 3a4.

VOL. xxvn.

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controversy/' as Ellicott expresses it, it " evoked *' in it as in
them, that of the historicity and authorship of (portions of) the
Old Testament. In his Chrtsius Comprohater (4th edit. 1S92)
he maintains that the use made by our Lord of those scriptures
is a sufficient guarantee of the one and the other. The argument
is a weapon that calls for wary handling, but the contention
appears sound that the *^ analytical view," as he calls it, of the
Old Testament, "if thoroughly accepted, must involve fresh
views not only of history, but of doctrine." This is no
place to enter into the merits of the controversy ; I note only
Ellicott's care to keep himself abreast of the fiteratune of the
subject (Kuenen and Wellhausen are familiar to him), the
scrupulous fairness with which he quotes those whom he is
criticising, the able management of the argument, and the
grave and courteous tone maintained throughout. Once only
there is a trace of pleasantry, where he speaks of Professor
Sanday*s metaphor of a '* landing-place at the foot of an
inclined plane."

Several of Ellicott's charges to his clergy, like the two jnst
referred to, were published by the S.P.C.K. as having an interest
for a wider public, and passed through several editions. In
regard to matters of doctrine, his counsel to his diocesans and
to his readers generally is sian super aniiquas vias {Chrislus
Comprobalor^ p. 2 1 3) ; in matters of ritual and discipline h«
enjoins, **a loyal adherence to the Prayer-book, subject to the
guidance and direction of the Bishop" {Present Thfubla^ 1899,
p. 28). These views he describes as •* those of the Constito-
" lional Party, men deeply attached to the Reformation and
"firmly loyal to all its principles and settlements, but no less
** revering the primitive and apostolical aspects of the great
** historical Church. As the High Church Party has now,
" unhappily, been stretched to include men whom the loyal
*• High Churchmen of former days would have promptly dis-
** owned and repudiated, some fresh name has become necessary
**to designate that large Party of the Cenfrt^* {Present Dangers,
1876, vii).

Yet Ellicott was a Church Reformer. In 1878, while main-
taining that in a National Church the " laity must at least be
consenting parties to any change in her services" {^Church
Reform, p. 13), he yet seems to hav^ looked askance at the
proposal ** to admit laymen into Convocation " {Present Dangen,

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p. 115) ; but in 1899 he writes, '*The feeling that greater power
'' ought to be given to the Church, alik* to €lergv and laiiy, to
"carry out self-government has very strikingly increased."
Magee writes (1886)1 "On Tuesday last in Convocation, GIou*
«<cester and Bristol brought in Church Reform with special
" reference to recent memorials." " Gloucester and Bristol and
** I came here to draft a Report on Church Reform. We agreed
"on the heads and he put them into shape" {Mage^s Lif*^ 11,
p. a24).*

In 1 885 a House of Laymen was inaugurated by the vote of
both Houses of the Convocation of Canterbury (i'3). Speaking
of the first meeting of the House in 1886, Magee says, " It was
really a bit, and may prove an important bit, of Church History.*'!

For many years Ellicott was in the habit of addressing
his Reports on Diocesan Progress alike to clergy and laity.

In 1880 we find him acting with Magee in regard to the
Burials Act. That, along with these matters of passing interest,
the deepest subjects occupied his mind during all these years is
shown by his Six Addresses on the Being of God ( 1 880).

An eighteenth century Bishop of Gloucester (Warburton)
complained of the remoteness of his diocese from London as
••taking him from his duties" {Life, by Hurd). But Ellicott,
amid the pressure of the work now described, was as active in
his diocese as in Convocation or the Jerusalem Chamber. By
1864 he had "tabulated the state of affairs in his diocese'*
(Times, Oct. 16). " Forty years ago there were still 20 churches
" under his charge which had one service on Sundays and none
" in the week, while over 60 incumbents contented themselves
"with administering the Holy Communion only four times
" a year. It was partly due to his wise guidance, and partly to
"a spread of clerical conscientiousness that he could report
"ten years later (1874) that church work had doubled in both
"his archdeaconries, and that the one service churches had
"entirely disappeared from the black list" (TYmes).

In 1867, having been intrusted with /*50oo for missionary

* They gave Bishops greater power to refuse to institute or to deprive ;
reduced inequalities of endowment ; enlarged Convocation ; gave the laity-
more scope, etc.

t Ellicott desired to give the Laymen a consuUaiive voice in matters of
faith and discipline ; but this was refused by the Lower House {Guardian,
May 6, 1885).

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purposes, he appealed to the people of Bristol, among whom
a Church Aid Society soon came into being for the extension of
Church work in that city. By 1890, £^$6,2-^$ had been raised
in Bristol for that purpose. About the same time a Theological
College was founded at Gloucester, in the management of
which the Bishop always took an active part. The Diocesan
Choral Union, from a small beginning at Sodbury, grew till its
Choir numbered 800 voices. A Bishop enthroned in two
ancient cathedrals will have much to do with architects and
builders. In Bristol /'SSjOoo were raised during Ellicott's
episcopate for the restoration of its " truncated and navelesf
cathedral." At Gloucester Ellicott's old friend, Archdeacon
Sheringham, alone had raised jftooo towards the restoration
of the Lady Chapel and the roof of the Cathedral {Eagle xxv.
p. 318).

In 1897 ^^® ^w® nte%, united in 1836, were again severed.
Generous help was given by Archdeacon Norris. Ellicott
himself surrendered /'900 of his income, and the growth of
a general fund was only retarded by the knowledge that, when
the last penny was subscribed, the wise and kind rule of a well-
beloved Bishop would terminate {Bristol Times, October 17).
From the address presented to Ellicott at the " leave-taking"
in the Chapter House of Bristol, June 4, 1897, I will only quote
these words, " Nearly all the clergy have been entrusted with
"the care of souls by your lordsliip, and there are also very
"many whom you yourself have admitted by the imposition of
*' hands to the office and work of priests and deacons in the
"Church of God." The personal affection, gratitude, and
appreciation expressed by those who knew him so well are
a testimony that cannot be gainsaid to his worth as a pastor
and a pattern to the flock. As a memorial of Ellicott's 34. years'
connection with Bristol, a reredos from the designs of J. L.
Pearson was erected in the Cathedral and dedicated October 19,
1899, by the Archbishop of York {Guardian), "To be remem-
bered," said Ellicott, "and in this Cathedral where, during the
34 years of my episcopate, nearly every addition was dedicated
by me, does indeed call out in me a gratitude which will be as
lasting as life."

On March 25, 1903, the fortieth anniversary of his con-
secration, aV Latin address from the pen of Dr Sandys was
presented to Ellicott in the Chapter House of Gloucester by

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Mr W. F. Hicks Beach. The address recalls the fact that
*'you have been more than once elected Fellow of your
College"; and in affectionate recognition of what the Bishop
had been to his diocese the address falls in no way behind the
Bristol address of 1897.

The present Archbishop of Canterbury telegraphed, ** Our
glad and grateful congratulations on the fulfilment of so many
years of strenuous and faithful service to the Church and
Realm."

In October last it was announced that Bishop Ellicott had
sent in his resignation of the See, to take effect on Lady Day
1905, being the forty-second anniversary of his Consecration.

I now add a few glimpses of the Bishop, chiefly from the
sources already drawn upon.

Tht KM,C.A.
"Those who have been accustomed to regard him as a stiiT
churchman will be interested to know that he more than once
addressed meetings of a London branch of the Y.M.C.A.,
giving a scholarly and sympathetic exposition of some portion
of Scripture. He enjoyed the opportunity none the less
because, as he would explain, with a twinkle in his eyp, * You
know, Fm not sure that I could do this in Gloucester'" (7/Wx,

October 16).

Metaphysical Society,

Ellicott was a member of this, or at least attended some of
its meetings. Magee thus describes one of their dinners
(February 13, 1873): " Had the dishes been as various (as the
guests) we should have had severe dyspepsia, all of us. Arch-
bishop Manning in the chair was flanked by two Protestant
Bishops, right and left, Gloucester and Bristol and myself;
then came Dalgairns; Ward, earliest of converts to Rome;
then Greg, author of *the Creed of Christendom'.. . .lastly
Ruskin, who read after dinner a paper on miracles 1 which we
discussed for one hour and a half. A greater gathering of
remarkable men than could easily be met with.... We only
wanted a Jew and a Mahometan to make our religious museum
complete" {Life, 11. p. 284).

On ''Hyperion:*
"Merivale's old pupil, Dean Ellicott, wrote (1862): *The
most terse and idiomatic Latin versification that has probably

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ever appeared from an English pen. I never much cared for
Keats till now'" (Merivale's Autobiography^ p. 157).

On the " Quicunque?'
" We are going to have a great shindy in Convocation about
the Athanasian Creed, the Bishop of Gloucester promising
a new translation of the Latin which is to make everybody
comfortable here and hereafter too, I believe. I fear he has set
himself to make bricks without straw" (/'3. February 4, 1872).

Mountaineer ing.
For some years Ellicott took his holidays at the Bel-alp.
''On one occasion the late Bishop, Archbishop Bsnson, and
John Tyndall were roped together on an expedition " {Guardian^
Oct. 18). This was on August 21, 1890 {Life of Benson 11. 311).
And one can fancy the Bishop saying, with a twinkle in bis eye,
" you know, Tm not sure that I could do this in Gloucester."
The Archbishop speaks too of '' a long discourse (of Tyndall)
with Gloucester and Bristol " on the same occasion {ib,).

Conversation,
"Bishop Ellicott came up to town with us. May 6, 1895, *
clever old man and a scholar, and seems beloved by his
respected diocesans. He never ceased talking for a moment
entertaingly " {Life of Benson 11. p. 637).

In Chapel.
** Ellicott was one of the five Bishops, three of whom were
Johnians (himself, Atlay, and Selwyn, the preacher), who were
present at the opening of our new Chape], May 12, 1869.
Ellicott read the Offertory Sentences " {Eagle vi. p. 360).

In Hall.
May 6, 1894 Ellicott was admitted an Honorary Fellow.
The Master proposed his health, and the Bishop, who was last
a Fellow in 1848, replied somewhat as follows: '* In rising to
thank you all for drinking my health, I feel like a well-known
character in fiction who got into queer company (laughter) and
thoroughly enjoyed himself (more laughter), and then went to
sleep for a very long time, only waking up to find new faces all
around him, and the few old familiar faces a good deal changed,
I allude to Rip van Winkle."

Obtiuary. 103

Tact.
•* Gloucester and Bristol proved himself handy, dexterous,
and good-tempered as ever.** Life 0/ Magee 11. p. 223 (Feb. 17,
1886).

Humour.
Of himself Mafi:ee writes : *' Your unworthy brother of Peter-
borough, bitter and sarcastic and occasionally jocose, more su0
vel suadente diabolo'' {ib.). But EUicott's good humour and
kindly pleasantry must have made him easy to work with, as
they doubtless lightened his own load of work.

Nonconform is/s.

Lord Palmerston wanted Bishops who could be ** moderate
and decent in their langaa^re towards Nonconformists" (see
above). '* Dr EUicott (wrote the Brishl IHmes, in 1897) has
endeared himaelf to all by the manner in which he has per-
formed his many duties. Nonconformists have confessed
themselves to be indebted to him for his cooperation in all
good work for the furtherance of religion and the good of the
community, and some of them have admitted their obligations
to him for the scholarship which has enabled him to throw
light upon subjects which form common ground for all
Christians."

The late Dr Moulton dedicated to him his translation of
Wsner ** in expression of his reverence, esteem, and gratitude."

Vestmen/s,

In his Charge of 1899 Ellicott allows the permissibility
(subject to the Bishop's approval) of a distinctive dress at Holy
Communion in daughter as in mother Churches. But a Bishop
who never wore gaiters is not likely to have cared very much
for questions of this kind. At the leave-taking in 1897 EUicott
explained ** how it came abom that his friends in Bristol had
come to present him with « mitre, cope, and pastoral staff.
If there was anything wrong about it they must forgive him,
for h§ had done what he ^vuld to stop ft!*^ {Bristol Times,
October 17).

*• Bishop Ellicott wore the cope an^d mitre very reluctemftif in
procession from t4»e Chapter-iie«se on C>hristmiis I>ay, 1891,
birt he remoired the mitre on entering the Cathedral, Kn<i
refused to wear it inside the building** {The Guardian, Oct. 1-8).

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*' I believe," writes Judge Ellicott, " he once and once only
wore the vestments presented to Bristol Cathedral. He had no
love, I think I may say, for vestments."

The Lambeth Conferences,

Ellicott was Secretary in 1867, 1878, 1888, and Registrar in
1897. ''He was the only English Prelate who attended all
four " {Bristol Times).

'* In 1888 the secretarial work was for the third time under-
taken by the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, who was assisted
by the Dean of Windsor (now Archbishop of Canterbury)." Tlie
Lambeth Conferences by R. T. Davidson, p. 43.

The leave-taking of 1897.

'* We parted company with good Bishop Ellicott with not a
few and genuine regrets" (Dean Pigou, Phases of my Life,
P- 379)-

Manner of life.

" All who knew him were struck by his simplicity of life "
{Times, October 18).

"Always abstemious, he became a teetotaller, without, we
believe, ever signing the pledge. He said, * As I may encourage
some, I drop alcohol altogether*" {Bristol Times, October 17).

Studies,

He carefully read the newer lights on his favourite subjects,
e.g. Blass and Deissman {Addresses on the B.V., 1901, pp.
no, 112).

His knowledge of Kuenen and Wellhausen has been already
referred to.

Music,

Judge Ellicott writes : "As a young man he used to play the
flute a little, and I have heard him speak of having sung
in catches as an undergraduate.

"In Gloucester Cathedral he could keep to the note he
started upon, but that note was not always rightly related to the
keynote of organ and choir."

The musical abilities of Mrs Ellicott and Miss Ellicott
as singers, and of Miss Ellicott as a composer also, are well-
known.

Obituary. 105

Midkint.

** Dr Ellicott took a great interest in medicine and surgerjr,
and waf well-read in both " {Guardian).

"My father was a firm believer in vaccination" (Judge
Ellicott).

Last thoughts on the last things.
In the Charge of 1885 he wrote: "... .that most vital and
most momentous truth that, when human history closes, there
will be a separation of the good and the evil, and that this
separation will be final and eternal.

" Final and eternal 1 Yes ; we have now in this last truth
arrived at that doctrine with which modern thought is, latently
or openly, in the most clear antagonism '* {Are we to modify
Fundamental Doctrine ^ p. 6 1 ).

But in his last Charge, 1903, he says : " we must plainly admit
that in many particulars the teaching of our own time cannot
possibly be regarded as identical with that of the past, especially
in reference to the future and the doctrine of the last things.
The conception of the Fatherhood of God has silently intro*
duced modifications in the tone and trend of cunent persua-
sions in regard to life here and hereafter which it is impossible
for us to explain away or deny. They rest on deeper study of
God's Holy Word, and especially on the illumination of the
Holy Ghost, which thousands and ten thousands believe, and
rightly believe, is now vouchsafed to the Church in fuller
measure than it has ever betn since the promised and realised
illumination of the Pentecost" {Guardian, October 28, 1903).

Ellicott was not without his limitations. With the vast move-
ment of religious thought in his time he went but a few steps.*
The comparatively early death of Alford may, in this way also,
have been a serious loss to him. But what each man brings is
'* accepted according as a man hath and not according as he
hath not." Fecit quod potuit. Of whom can more be said and
of whom more truly? Alford warned him that as Bishop he
)vould have little or no leisure. I doubt whether he greatly
regretted it. He was essentially a working-mdn. The extent
and variety of his output are amazing ; its quality in many ways

* Yet one great step he took (see Last Thoughts).
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excellent. His intellect was logical and exact, his style cFe;ir
and incisive. Active and strenuous throughout life, his sense
of humour doubtless lightened his burden. Like his old ally
Magce, he was "jocose/' but not, like him» suadente diaboU;
his humour was never, I think, " bitter and sarcastic.*' He
could admit a mistake, and make amends for an injustice. His
possession of fine qualities of heart and character is sufficiently
evidenced by his sixteen years* friendship with Henry Alfonl.
The warm expressions of both clergy and laity at the leave-taking
and in 1903 attest that he had indeed made himself beloved as
a pastor and esteemed as a pattern of the flock. At the end of
his Commentaries he was wont to write DJnaoy. Perhaps it was
the last word, or the last thought, of his life. We cannot doubt
of his Master's answer, '* Well done, good and faithful servant 1 ^

Tlie Bishop's father and grandfather were Rutlandshire
clergymen, beneficed at Whitwell and Exton respectively. The
grandfather of the latter was John EUicott, "clockmaker to the
King" (George HI). John Ellicott, 1706 — 1772, *' gained a
great repntation by the beauty and excellence of his workman-
ship.^ He was also an eminent man of science. He invented
an improved pyrometer in 1736, and was made F.R.S. in 173&
He also invented a *' compensated pendulum,"^ and observed the
transit of Venus in 1761. He was a Nonconformist. The
facts as to John Ellicott are given in the Dictionary (ff Biography.
For the knowledge of the Bishop's descent from him I am
indebted to the Bishop's only son, Judge Ellicott.

W. A. C.

The Rkv Canon F. C. Woodhouse M.A-

Canon Woodhouse was born at Kilburn on November 26th,
1827, and was the third surviving son of Mr. George Edward
Woodhouse and his wife Joanna, n6e Illingwortb, formerly of
Bradford in Yorkshire.

His father retired from business in London at the age
of forty, and lived with his family at Bishop Steighton in
Devon sliire for three years, and then removed to Mount Radford

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in Exeter for eleven years, where Frederick with his elder
brother Alfred and younger William were educated at Mount
Radford School. Whilst at school he showed plenty of ability,
and usually returned for the holidays with a full share of School
prizes.

In 1B47 he entered St John^s College and was contented to
take an ordinary degree in 1850. No doubt his engagement to
Miss Susannah Chorley, the only daughter of a medical man,
had a good deal to do with it. He married, after his ordination
by the Bishop of Chichester to the curacy of Shoreliam in
Sussex, in 1850.

After taking his degree his taste for literature first showed
itself, and he published a small pamphlet on the old College
Chapel. He was ordained priest in 1851, and proceeded to the
MA. degree in 1853. ^^ remained in his first curacy until
1856 when he was appointed as Minister of Clayton, Lancashire.
In 1858 he was selected out of over one hundred applicants for
the handsome new Church of St Mary's, Hulme, by the patron,
Earl Egerton of Tatton. Here he soon made his mark as a
preacher, and frequently preached courses of sermons in the
Cathedral and neighbouring Churches. His parish wa^
thoroughly organized, and the interior of the Church was by
degrees handsomely decorated with the gifts of parishioners.
One thing will show his care for the people, the Verger had
strict orders to get the name and address of any stranger attend*
ing the services, that the Clergy might call upon him. The
monthly Magazine, rare in those days, kept the people informed
of his wishes. He used to lecture on some old Church Saint at
the Working Men's Club and elsewhere, and his lectures were
much appreciated. In 1879 he wrote his first book for the
Home Library Series called ** The Military Religious Orders of
the middle ages," which the S P.C.K. purchased for /'70 and
published. His work involved a great deal of research at the
British Museum, and he always spoke of the courtesy and
attention of the staff there.

However, it was his next work, " The life of the Soul in the
World," which brought his name before the public. This, too,
was published by tlie S.P.C.K. In it he picked the heart out of
the old devotional books, and placed their teaching in a
practical, attractive form before his readers. He told the writer
of this memoir that he found very little help in modem com-

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mentaries, and that he drew largely from the pithy and suggestive
comments on the Gospels in "BengeFs Gnomon."

It was preceded by "A manual for Lent*'; and quickly
followed by "A manual for Advent"; "A manual for holy
days," and *' A manual for Sundays." His other works were :
'* Thoughts for the Times," 2 vols.; " Monaslicism, Ancient
and Modern," 1896; and last of all, ••Thoughts by the way," in
which is incorporated a previous little book called '' iSpiritual
lessons taught by Dumb Animals." These last five works were
the outcome of the welcome change from the thousands in
St Mary's, Hulme, to the hundreds in Holy Trinity, Folkestone,
to which living he was appointed by Earl Radnor in 1885. He
succeeded to a parish with thirty in the morning congregation,
and left it with eight hundred. What he did for the interior of
St Mary's he also accomplished for Holy Trinity, and enriched
the Church from the Sacrarium throughout with costly gifts
both of himself and wife, and those of the parishioners, and has
left it one of the most beautiful Churches in ihe neighbourhood^
In 1888 he lost his first wife, who had been an ideal parson's
wife, by whom he had two sons, who still survive. In 1890 he
married Miss Mary Worrall, of Whalley Ranj^e, Manchester, as
his second wife, and her liberality enabled him to exercise the
generosity and kindness which marked his office as Rural Dean
of Elham. In 1900 Archbishop Temple appointed him an
honorary Canon of Canterbury Cathedral, an honour which,
although long delayed, was none the less welcome.

In 1903 he attended the Johnian Dinner; he often said how
much he appreciated the College's hospitality. He died on
September 27th, 1905, from syncope, after having preached on
the previous Sunday morning. He died as he wished in harness.
His appearance was striking, as he stood over six feet^in height,
and had handsome features. His voice was clear and powerful
and his preaching commanded attention, even if you did not
agree with his remarks. He was apt to take a pessimistic view
of life, and considered England's best days were over. This no
doubt partly arose from the Church's neglect of one of her sons,
who in his generation had done more than most of his contem-
poraries through his writings for the spiritual life of many.

There was, too, another side to his character, and he fully
appreciated a good joke, and in his younger days enjoyed
walking tours in France and elsewhere ; latterly he travelled

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abroad a great deal, and every year found him in Italy and
Rome amongst the haunts where every well-read man delights
to wander and dream of the "dear, dead days beyond recall."

The real goodness of the man was known to a few» and
amongst them may be reckoned the devotion of his curate at
Folkestone, the Rev £. J. Hampson, who said in his sermon
after his death, ** He laboured and spent himself till this Church
is what we see to-day ; and you are reaping the benefit of his
unselfish devotion.

R. I. W.

Thb Rkv Canon Henry Francis Bather M.A.

(Canon of Hereford, until lately Archdeacon of Ludlow, died at Hereford,
oil Sunday, September loth).

The Bathers, of whom there are several branches, are a
well-known Shropshire family. Their head is lord of the manor
and patron of the living of Meole Brace, about a mile from
Shrewsbury. In the early years of the last century a former
Archdeacon Bather, one of the best known and most influential
clergymen in the Midland Counties, was Vicar of Meole Brace
and lord of the manor. Henry Francis Bather was his nephew,
son of Mr John Bather, Recorder of Shrewsbury. He was born
in 1832, the youngest of a large family; his mother being the
s'ster of Sir George Gipps, R.E., Governor of New South
Wales. He was educated at Marlborough ; and on leaving
school in 1848 became an ensign in the service of the East
India Company. His elder brother Edward was then Vicar of
Meole Brace; and on his early death in 1851, Henry determined
to take orders. He did not dislike the service, and always
spoke with pleasure of his two years in India ; and no doubt
the wider experience so gained was of service to him afterwards,
but he felt that his true vocation was a different one. He came
up to this College in October 1851, his College Tutor being Dr
Hymers. He was devoted to the River, and became a good though
not a very powerful oar. The present writer well remembers
him in those days, and the contrast between the somewhat bushy
black hair and whiskers and the scanty white locks of the
last years. He rowed number 3 in the First Lady Margaret

1 10 OlUuaty.

boat in the May races 1853, and the Lent races 1854: for
in those days the same divisions rowed both in the Lent and
May races. He was elected First Captain of the Lady Mar-
garet in May, 1854, but was unable to row that term, owing
to a strain. He took an ordinary degree in 1855, and was
ordained deacon the same year, and Priest in 1856 by Dr
Lonsdale, Bishop of Lichfield, as curate to the Rev J. D.
Atkinson, Vicar of Rugeley, Staffordshire. In 1858 he was
presented by his brother, the late Mr. John Bather, of this
College, second classic in 184I1 to the Vicarage of Meole
Brace. Subsequently he became also Rector of Sutton, an
almost nominal charge, of which the income was £\\ per
annum. Meole Brace was then a purely country village, but
the Parish extended almost into Shrewsbury, and building,
which has now largely increased the population and quite
altered its character, was beginning. The new buildings of
Shrewsbury School, on Kingsland, are in the Parish. The
Church soon became quite inadequate. It was a remarkable
structure dating from the beginning of the nineteenth century,
with a ground plan of five equal squares in the form of a
cross, built of brick, with a small bell turret on the West
square. It was necessary to enlarge it, and Bather, not seeing
his way to any large funds, obtained plans for this purpose.
But he found unexpected support ; and when an offer arrived
from an old parishioner in America of a very large sum on
condition that a new Church was built, a new site was selected
adjoining the old building. The present very beautiful Church
was completed in 1 870 at a cost of between /"yooo and /'8000.
A local architect was employed, but the design both in general
plan and detail was largely due to the Vicar himself.

Bather was Rural Dean of Pontesbury from 1883-1892 ; and
in 1891 he was appointed by Bishop Atlay to a residential
canonry in Hereford, and to the Archdeaconry of Ludlow. For
some time he remained Vicar of Meole Brace; but with
advancing years and a growing parish he began to feel that the
work of the Archdeaconry, which he took in a very serious
manner, would suffer; and in 1897 ^^ resigned the living and
removed to Hereford. He still, however, kept up a close con-
nection with his old Parish, where he was succeeded by his
nephew, and where it is not too much to say that he was greatly
and universally loved.

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Bather entered upon his work as Archdeacon, as has been said
in a very serious way ; and he soon took a high place in the
respect and confidence — and I may say the love — of both Clergy
and Laity. His interest in the Churchwardens was somewhat
unusual, and he came to be called, to his delight, "The Church-
wardens* Archdeacon." The Key-note of his method was
struck in his primary charge in 1892. Speaking of the waning
legal powers of his office in these latter years he says: "The
spirit of the age is not in favour of thrusting into prominence
the strictly legal side of an Archdeacon's functions. If received
as an adviser, if welcomed as a friendly Critic, if allowed to
import in an informal way such practical teachings of experi-
ence as even the most unskilled holder of the office must
necessarily gather in time by going about from place to place
and from Church to Church ; if thus he is received he may hopo
to do some good within the sphere allotted to him."

The path so marked out he followed with great success :
genial and unassuming in manner, always ready to help in any
good work, and to give wise counsel, on his resignation, in a
farewell address presented to him last June signed by every
Churchwarden in the Archdeaconry, they refer to his " con-
spicuous ability, keen discernment and self-sacrificing de-
votion "; to '* the wise and lucid words of counsel and
instruction embodied in his visitation charges ;" to his
** extensive and accurate knowledge of all matters connected
with elementary education;'* to his "hard work, uniform
courtesy, skilful guidance and generous hospitality." ** We
shall miss " they say, ** your genial and gracious presence from
our midst " ; an address from his clergy was in similar terms.

These are not words of idle compliment ; they shew him as
he was. In the words of his successor in the Archdeaconry :
'•It was the man we loved." Somewhat shy among strangers,
and undemonstrative, he was a steady and dependable friend,
]always ready wi)h counsel and help in any difficulty or trouble.

He was a remarkable preacher. One hardly ever heard a
sermon which did not contain some original turn of thought;
and yet, preached as they were in a village Church, they were
so simple and clear that the humblest cottager might profit by
them. Nor were those preached in Hereford Cathedral as
Canon less remarkable.

In a singularly happy appreciation of Canon Bather in a

1 1 2 Obiiuary.

sermon in Hereford Cathedral, Dr Mots of Shrewsbury used the
followingf words: — "Canon Bather's nature was one in whicii
many rare gifts were happily united. He was at the same time
imaginative and practical. He possessed that grasp of affairs,
that instinctive discernm- nt of the means best adapted for the
attainment of any particular end, that punctiliousness and
precision in the discharge of duly, which we are disposed to
associate with the capable man of business. At the same time
he responded — I might almost say with every fibre of his being —
to the appeal of the beautiful or sublime in nature or art or
poetry ; he loved the profound or subtle in philosophic specu-
lation, he insisted on thinking out problems for himself,
bringing to bear on them that calm, sober, judicial temper,
which was one of his most striking characteristics, and steadily
refusing either to echo the shibboleths, or to bow with slavish
submission to the idols of the crowd. If he had chosen a purely
literary career, I believe that he would have gone far. Whatever
subject he discussed — the meaning of a hard passage in
Browning, the exact bearing of some political issue of the day,
the value of a recent theological essay — what you will — he
seldom failed to throw new light upon it, he always, even when
he did not convince, supplied food for thought " That well
describes the man. And as one might expect, while he took
very earnest view of the sacramental side of religion, he
approached what is called the Higher Criticism with a very
open mind ; and he recognised that if in some ways there might
be a loss, it was far outweighed by the gain. In literary matters
his taste was chiefly for poetry, of which he had a considerable
knowledge; and he read aloud well. He was not given to
quoting it in his sermons, but there was often a good deal in
the thoughts. He was, moreover, happy in possessing a strong
sense of humour. He was always, or at least for the last 40
years, a delicate man, — never equal to a full day's work. But
he was keen about games and never lost his love for a boat, and
to the last he was sometimes se«n in a Lady Margaret Blazer.
As a croquet player he was first rate. He married Elizabeth
Mary, daughter of the Rev. T. D, Atkinson, Vicar of Rugeley,
who survives him. There were no children. He was buried at
Meole Brace on the site of the Altar of his old Church.

G. B. A.

F. A. WHITE.

Obiiuary. 1 1 3

Francis Alfred White.

F. A. White was born in Dublin, June 18, 1881. He was
a descendant of the Kilbyrnc branch of the Whites — a family
which had been long established in Ireland, and he inherited on
both sides an instinct for the profession of arms. His paternal
grandfather was General White C.B. of Swanage, and his grand-
father on his mother's side was General Baynes of Woolbrook,
Sid mouth.

Notwithstanding the intermittent character of his early
education, for he passed from schools in Ireland to schools in
England, and thence for three years to Buenos Ay res, his tastes
were in many subjects those of a student, and at one time the
idea of entering professional or public life attracted him almost
as much as a military career. He decided, however, to follow
in the footsteps of those who had gone before him, and on
January 2, 190 1, he was gazetted 2nd lieutenant in the 4tli
Suffolk Regiment. In the toliowing April he passed for pro-
motion, and not long afterwards sailed for South Africa. He
served with the East Lancashire Regiment there from October 5,
1 90 1, to Febrary 28, 1902, being then transferred to the Army
Service Corps. On May 7, 1902, he was gazetted lieutenant.
On July 26 he left South Africa, and on May 9, 1903, he resigned
his commission, having decided definitely to abandon the
military profession in favour of public or professional life.
With this view he entered the College in October 1903, and
began reading for the recently established Economics Tripos.
He took Part I. in June 1905, and was placed in the Second
Division of the Second Class— a place which certainly failed to
satisfy the hopes of his friends concerning him, and probably
did less than justice to his real capacities. A campaign in
South Africa was not a good preparation for a Cambridge
Tripos, and his return from active to intellectual pursuits
placed him from the examination point of view some way
behind those who had had a less varied and less disturbing
experience of life. His mental energy and keenness might
have brought him to the front again later on, but he needed
time io find himself as a student.

White was in residence for part of the Long Vacation, but
early in August he returned to his home at Ipswich. He was a
keen and experienced yachtsmen, being a member of the Orwell
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1 1 4 Oliluary.

Corinthian Yacht Club as well as of the Cruising Club at Cam-
bridge ; and he had his own racing jacht upon the Orwell. On
Monday, August 7, a gusty day with squalls from the S.S.W.,
he went for a cruise down the river, accompanied by three of
his friends. All went well with the boat until it was opposite the
Cat House Buoy, about 5^ miles from Ipswich, in a reach of
the river where accidents have occurred l>efore, owing to the
sudden squalls which come down in windy weather from the
wooded banks at Woiverstone. The yacht was beating down
the river against a strong flood-tide, when, without warning, a
gust came down the opening between the trees, and threw her
over on to her beam ends, when she filled with water and sank
like a stone. Two of the occupants of the boat managed to
keep afloat until they were picked up, but White, though an
excellent swimmer, lost his life in trying to save one of the
boys.

He was laid to rest in Chelmondiston Churchyard, not far
from the scene of the accident, and within sight and sound of
the river on which he had spent so many happy hours. His
memory will be cherished among us as that of one who served
his country in his day and generation, and yielded up a life
which the war had spared, in answer to the call which bade him
think not of himself but of another.

A poem revealing his love for the river, which was so fatal to
him, was found among his papers after his death, and is printed
on another page.

THE JOHNIAN DINNER i905,

I HE fourth of the dinners given by the Master
and Fellows to members of the College on the
Boards was held this year on June 22. On
this occasion members of the College who
graduated in the following groups of years were
invited: (i) 1863-68; (ii) 1883-87; (iii) 1894-98.

The following is a list of those present at the dinner,
with the dates of their first degrees. Those resident in
the University have an asterisk*

*Thb Master, 1862

•The President, 1848
Mr F. J. Adkins, 1896
Mr H. M. Adler, 1S97
Dr £. C. Andrews, 1884
Mr W. F. Aston, 1895
Dr H. H. B. Ayles, 1885
Mr G. G. Baily, 1895

•Dr H. F. Baker, 1887
Canon H. T. £. Barlow, 1885

•Mr W. Bateson, 1883
Mr E. Beaumont, 18C7

•Mr F. F. Blackmau, 1891
Mr H. S. Branscoinbe, 1885
Mr £. Bray, 1867
Mr W. H. Bray, 1866
Mr C. S. H. Brcreton, 1886
Mr T. A. Brock, 1895
Mr T. W. Brogden, 1867
Mr G. £. D. Brown, 1887
Mr J. W. Barrow, 1866

•Mr L. H. K. Bttshe-Foz, 1885
Mr A. G. Cane, 1867
Mr J. Collin, 1887
Mr B. M. Cook, 1898
Mr S. W. Cope, 1865
Mr C. C. Cotlerill, 1806

•Mr J. J. Lister, 1880
•Prof. G. D. Li veins, 1850
•Prof. A. ^(acalister, 1883
•Dr D. MacAlister, 1877
Mr J. B. Marsh, 1884
•Mr P. H. Mason, 1849
Mr J. Massie, 1866
Mr G. F. Maltinson, 1884
Ml R. H. Meyricke, 1865
Preb H. W. Moss, 1864
Mr D. W. Moantfietd, 1883
•Mr J. B. MttmngeM866
Canon II. Newton, 1864
Mr H. R. Nonis, 1887
Mr R. G. Nothwanger, 1898
Mr A. N. Obbard, 1868
Mr H. L. Pass, 1898
Mr J. B. Pearson, 1855
Mr £. L. Pearson, 1868
Mr J. Petcival, 1887
•Mr C. C. Plowiight
Mr H. F. Pooley, 1863
Mr A. J. Poynder, 1883
Mr M. H. Quayle, 1864
Mr S. A. S. Ram, 1886
Mr £. J. Rapson, 1884
•^Ir W. H. R. Rivers, 1898

ii6

The Johiiian Ditnter.

Pieb. W. Cov]ngt<»n, 1866
•Mr VV. A. Cox, 1S67

Mr R D. Cumberland-Jones, 1886

Mr A. J. David, 1884

Mr H. N. DcvcnisJi, 1896

Mr H. C. Dodson, 18S4

Mr S. £. Dore, 1894

DrJ. H Diysdalc, 1884
•Mr F. Dyson, 1877

Mr C\ EUee, 1898

Mr G. T. M. Evans, 1897

y\x A. J. Finch, 1868

Mr J. Fitzherbert, 1865

^Ir J. R. Foster, 1 897

Dr J. R. Garrood, 1895

Mr E H. Gcnge, 1866
•Mr C. E. Graves. i86«

Mr P. Greeves, i8g6

Mr H. A. Hall, 1884

Mr F. HAmniond, 1885

Mr J. M. Hardwich, 1895
•Mr A. Haiker, tSSa

Mr N. B. Harman, 1H97
•Air J. H. A. Hart, 1898

Mr J. H. Ilessels, 1884

Mr E. Hill, 1866

Mr F. W. Hill. 1886

Mr M. Hornibrook, 1 898

Mr E. B. TAnsiin, 1866

MrO. Inchley, 1895

Canon H. D Jones, 1865

Mr W. K. Keffonl, 1897

Ml P. II. Kemplhorne, 1866

Ml D. M. Kerly, 1884

DrJ. Kerr, 1884

Mr P, Lake, 1887

DrJ. W.Rob, 1898

Dr H. D. Rolle«ton, 1886

•Mr C. B, Roothana, 1897
Mr W. N. Rosevcare, 1885
Mr E.J. S.Rudd, 1863

•Dr J. E Sandys, 1867
Mr E. Sandys-Keed, i965
Mr P. W. G. Sargent, 1894

•Mr R. F. Scott, 1875
Mr J. P. Seabrook, 1867
Mr A. C. Seward, 1886

•Dr L. E. Shore, 1885

•Mr E. E. Sikes, 1889
Mr J. Snowdon, 1863
Mr W. H. Hornby Steer, 1885
Mr S. W. Stevens, 1884
Mr W. J. Slobatt, 1864
Mr F. S. Slook-Vaughan, 1867
Mr H. W. Street, 1866

•Dr J. R. Tanner, 1883
Mr T. B. Taiham, 1886
Mr P. C. Taylor, 1896
Mr C. E. Thorpe, 1867J
Mr P. E. Tooth, 1887

*Mr R. Turner
Mr. G. S. Turpin, 1887
DrJ. A. Voclcker, 1894
Mr D.Walker, 1885

•Mr J. T. Waid, 1876
Mr E. J. Warminglon, 1863
Mr C. Warren, 1866

•Canon F. WaJson, 1868
Mr G. S. West, 1898

•Mr J. W. Whye, 1905
Mr W. N. Willis. 1887
Mr H. J. Wiseman, 1865

The Toast list was as follows: **The King,'* pro-
posed by the Master; "The Guests," proposed by
Mr. W. Bateson, responded to by Mr. T. W. Brogden;
" The College," proposed by Prebendary Moss, re-
sponded to by Dr Tanner.

OUR CHRONICLE.

Michaelmas Term 1905,

The list of **Birtht1ay Honours" issued on November 9
included the advancement to an Earldom of Lord Windsor
(B.A. 1878). Lord Windsor, who is Lord- Lieutenant of
Glamorganshire, is at present President of his Majest/s Office
of Works, and has held other public appointments.

The Bishopric of Melbourne has now become the Metro-
politan See of Victoria, Australia, with l\ie title of Archbishop.
The first holder of the title is the Most Reverend Dr Henry
Lowther Clarke (B.A. 1874).

On July 6 last it was announced that the King had been
pleased to approve of the appointment of Vice-Admiral Sir
Wilmot Hawksworth Fawkes K.C.V.O. (formerly Fellow Com-
moner of the College) to be Commander-in-Chief on the
Australian Station, in succession to Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur
Panshawe.

On July 6 it was announced that the King, on the recom-
Tnendaiton of the Home Secretary, had been pleased to appoint
IVlr Laurence Moiton Brown, Barrister-at-Law (B.A. 1875) to be
Stipendiary Magistrate of Birmingham, in the place of Mr
Thomas Milnes Colmore, resigned.

On the 14th of August last it was announced that the
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster had appointed Mr.
Octavius Leigh Clare (B A. 1864), of the Inner Temple, M.P.
for the Eccles Division of Lancashire, to be Vice-Chancellor of
the County Palatine of Lancaster, in the room of Sir Samuel
Hall, K.C., resigned.

At a meeting of the Court of Governors of the newly-
constituted University of Sheffield, held on June 27, the Right
Reverend Dr J. N. (Juirk, Bishop of Sheffield, was elected a
member of the Council of the University.

At a Convocation of the University of Durham, held on
June 27, the degree of Doctor of Civil Law, honoris causa, was
conferred on Dr Donald MacAlister, Fellow of the College ;
and the degree of Doctor of Science on Mr T. H. Havelock,
Jcllow of the College.

I iS Our Chronicle.

Mr E. W. Middlemast (B.A. 1886) was in July last nominated
by the Governor to be an ordinary Fellow of Madras Uuiversiiy.

Mr Gilbert Slater (B.A. 1885) has been elected Mayor of
Woolwich. Mr Slater is a Doctor of Science of London Uni-
versity, and has resided at the Passmore Edwards Settlement
and Toynbee Hall. Nine years ago he joined the staff of the
Woolwich Polytechnic.

A committee has been appointed to inquire into the expendi-
ture on public education in England and Wales from Exchequer
grants, local rates, and other sources, with a view to ascertain-
ing the various causes for the existing diversity in the amount
of rates levied for education by local authorities, and the vary-
ing relation which this amount bears to the total local rates in
each area. Mr W. Blain (B.A. 1884), of the Treasury, has been
appointed a member of the Commission.

The Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery have accepted
as a gift from Mr Francis Draper a small terra-cotta bust of the
Rev Rowland Hill (B.A. 1769), the well-known divine and
preacher at the Surrey Chapel.

Two excellent photographs of distinguished members of the
College have recently been added to the collection in the
smaller Combination Room ; one being that of Mr Clarence
£sm6 Stuart (see Eagie, xxiv, 230), presented by his nephew,
the Rev O. Ridley, and the other that of our late Honorary
Fellow, Dr Gifford (see Eagie^ XXVi, 372), presented by Mrs
Gifford; the latter is the last portrait taken of that eminent
scholar and divine. Each portrait has an autograph.

The Rev F. Dyson (B.A. 1877) was on September 30
admitted to the office of Senior Proctor for the year 1905-1906 ;
a few days afterwards, owing to ill-health, Mr Dyson had to
resign the office, which under the Statutes of the University
lapsed to Trinity Hall.

In the centenary year of the battle of Trafalgar it is well to
recall the fact that the Chaplain of the Viciory was a member of
the College. I'he Rev Alexander John Scott (B.A. 1790), while
he held that post being also private secretary and interpreter to
Lord Nelson. Alexander John Scott was the son of Robert
Scott, a lieutenant R N., who retired on half-pay and engaged
in ship-building and foreign trade; his mother was a Miss Jane
Comyn, related to the family of Vaughan, of Golden Grove.

A. J. Scott was born 23 July 1768 and was baptized at
St Mary's, Rotherhithe, 11 August 1768. After being a short
time at a school at Alton, he was nominated by King George Hi
to the Charterhouse. He was admitted to St John's 10 March
1786, his first day of residence being 5 May 1786. He was
admitted a scholar on Mr Platt*s foundation 3 November 1789,
and took his degree (without honours) ia the Lent Term of

Our Chronicle, 1 1 9

1790. He was ordained Deacon 30 November 1791 by llie
Bishop of Chichester, and Priest in the following year. In the
spring of 1793 he sailed as chaplain in the Berwick with his
father's friend, Sir John Collins. From that time till the battle
of Trafalgar he served nearly continuously as a Naval Chaplain.
He had a great talent for acquiring languages, and this, with a
natural turn for diplomacy, made him widely known in the
Fleet. Through Sir John Collins he made the acquaintance of
Captain Horatio Nelson of the Agamemnon. In 1795 he became
chaplain to Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, to whom, at the battle of
Copenhagen, he was chaplain on the Royal George^ and inter-
preter and translator to the expedition. Lord Nelson employed
Scott to draw up the articles of the celebrated Convention of
Copenhagen, the arrangement of which required the most
delicate management. For this he received no official acknow*
ledgment, for his warrant as interpreter and translator was
signed by the Commander-in-Chief, without authority from
the Admiralty. What Lord Nelson thought of his services
may be gathered from the following testimonial :

••These are to certify that the Rev Mr Scott was
employed by me in arrangement of the Conveniion at
Copenhagen, and Mr Scott upon every occasion shewed
his readiness and ability in translating French and German
papers, and as he has suffered by being employed in the
public service by Sir J. T. Duckworth, 1 really think him a
very proper object for the consideration of Government.

'* I have such a high opinion of Mr Scott's ability and
honour that, if he is well enough, I should feel happy, on
being appointed to a foreign command, to have him as my
foreign secretary, and to be confidentially employed with
business to foreign ministers.

•* Nelson and Bronte."
Scott became chaplain on the Victory in 1803, and remained
with Lord Nelson till the final scene. He returned with Lord
Nelson's body to England and sat up with it every night for
more than a week whilst it lay in state at Greenwich.

He then retired from the service. He was admitted to the
degree of M.A. at Cambridge 5 February 1806. For this he
had to reside a Term at Cam])ridge. He created so favourable
an impression of his knowledge and theological erudition that
the University petitioned the King for a Mandate to dispense
with the interval of twelve years which at that time had to
elapse between the M.A. and D.D. degrees. This corresponds
to our present practice of conferring a D D. degree Honoris
Causa, By kind permission of the Vice-Chancellor and
Registry we are enabled to print this Mandate, which is as
follows :

Gborgb p.

Trusty and welbeloved we greet you well. Whereas Our

I JO Our Chronicle*

Vice Cliancellor and several other Heads of Colleges in Our
University of Cambridge have certified to Our Right Trusty
and Right Entirely beloved Cousin and Councillor Augustus
Henry, Duke of Grafton, Chancellor of Our said University,
that Alexander John Scott, Inspector {sic, really Inceptor) in
Arts of Saint John's College is a person of good learning and
morals, and properly qualified for the Degree of Doctor in
Divinity; which he is now desirous of obtaining; but having
been for several years past employed in our service, and thereby
hindered 'till lately from proceeding to the degree ot Master
of Arts he cannot be admitted to the said Degree of Doctor in
Divinity without our Most Gracious Letters Mandatory, dispens-
ing with Our Statutes in his behalf: And the said Augustus
Henry, Duke of Grafton, having certified to Us, that Our
granting such Letters Mandatory in favour of the said
Alexander John Scott that he may be Doctor in Divinity, will
be no way prejudical, either to the University in general, or to
any College in particular, We have thought fit in the most
effectual manner to recommend the said Alexander John Scott
to you for the Degree of Doctor of Divinity aforesaid, Willing
and Requiring you upon the receipt hereof to confer the same
upon him with all Rights and Privileges thereunto belonging,
he paying the accustomed Fees, and performing the usual
Exercises, or giving sufficient caution for the performance of
the same, and so not doubting of your ready compliance
therein We bid you heartily farewell. Given at Our Court at
Saint James's the fifth day of March 1806. In the forty -eighth
year of Our Reign.

By His Majesty's Command
Spkncsr.
Endorsed: Alexr John Scott to be Doctor in Divinity.
Jam Admissionem quam Orationem obtinuit 21 Mart. 1806
Dr Scott's signature in the Subscription fioc k is as follows :
Alexander John Scott, D.D. Coll, Johns, March 19, 1806.

Dr Scott had obtained the Vicarage of Southminster in
Essex from the Governors of the Charterhouse. He obtained
the Vicarage of Catterick in Yorkshire in 1817, and held both
until his death at Ecclesfield 24 July 1840. His youngest
daughter Margaret married Dr Alfred Gatty, Vicar of Eccles-
field, and his grand-daughter Juliana Horalia Gatt}', afterwards
the wife of Major Alexander Kwing, is well-known for her short
stories.

A bust of the late Mr S. Arthur Strong (B. A. 1884), Librarian
to the House of Lords, was presented to University College,
London, on the 6th of July last. The bust, which is the work
of Countess Feodora Gleichen, is recognized by Mr Slrong^s
friends to be an admirable and artistic likeness. The presenta-
tion was made at a meeting of the subscribers and others and
was largely attended.

Our Chronicle. 121

Lord Burghclere, in making ihe presentation, said that they
were met that afternoon to commemorate a great scholar, a deep
thinker, and, to many present, a personal friend. It might be
said that the modern mind was somewhat impatient of men who
did not produce, and Strong wrote comparatively litlle ; but he
was a striking latter-day example of that type of old-world
student who preferred the arduous pursuit of learning to any
facile manufacture of its outcome. Like Leonardo da Vinci,
Manage, and Casaubon, he hoarded more knowledge than he
could ever hope to employ. His mind bore a strange resem-
blance to that of some scholar of the i6th century; and his
very features recalled the keen profile of Erasmus, with which
the genius of Holbein had made them familiar. His connexion
with Chalsworth was known to all present. The library there,
pleasantly haunted by the gracious spirit of that beautiful Whig
Duchess whom Strong warmly admire J. must have been a
congenial haven for meditation or for toil, while the archives,
the ancient traditions, the art treasures, the bygone portraits of
an historic race, must have appealed to his quick imagination,
not only for their beauty and worth, but because above all they
were the abiding assets of the history of our country. Nor
could the book-lover forget that Strong rescued from some
forgotten corner at Chats worth a postscript to Vanity Fair
written by Thackeray himself. He had been taken from them
in comparative youth ; bnt let no man say that such a life had
been lived in vain, for in an age of bustle and advertisement
Arthur Strong, in the seclusion of his study, had set before them
a high ideal of learning for learning's sake alone, which
remained as an example, and may be a rebuke, to a generation
all too solicitous of the splendours of immediate fame.

Lord Reay replied briefly, and said that he accepted the
bust, of which they all recognized the high artistic merit, with
sincere gratitude. On the B >ard of Oriental Studies of the
University of London Strong look a leading part in laying the
foundations of an Orienial school, and he had a clear notion of
the need of our Empire for such a school. They knew the stem
discipline which guided Strong and was the test he applied to
scholarship. His life was devoted to high ideals, and the
students of that institution could not have a better example set
before them than that which he had left behind.

At the annual election of Fellows, held on November 6, the
following were chosen to be Fellows of the College :

(i) John William Hey Atkins (B.A 1901), formerly Founda-
tion Scholar of the College, First Class in the Medieval and
Modern Languages Tripos, rgoi ; Lecturer in English at the
Vicioria Univeisiiiy, Manchester. Mr. Atkins submitted a dis-
sertation entitled : Studies on the ** Owl and Nightingale** an
English Poem of the Early Thirteenth Century,

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122 Our Chronicle.

(2) Frank Horton (B.A. i905\ Advanced Student of the
College; obtained his degree for Researcli in Physics, 1905;
Allen Student 1904; D.Sc. London and Mackinnon Student of
the Royal Society. Mr Horton submitted dissertations entitled :
(i) 2'kt effects of changes of temperature on the modulus of torsional
rigidity of metal tvifes ;^ (ii) The modulus of torsional rigidity of
quarlt fibres and its temperature coefficients; (iii) The electi teal con-
ductivity of metallic oxides, and (iv) Some experiments relating to the
conduction of electricity.

The Right Reverend James Moorhoose, D.D. (B A. 1853)1
formerly Bishop of Manchester, has been elected an Honoiary
Fellow of the College. Dr Moorhouse was Bishop of Melbourne
from 1876 to 1886.

Mr William Rogers Fisher (B.A. 1867) has been appointed
Assistant Professor of Forestry at Oxford. Mr Fisher was
appointed an Assistant Conservator in the Indian For* st
Service 28 September 1872; he became deputy director of the
Forest School, Dehra Dun, in April i88i, and Conservator and
Director of the School in March 1885. He became Assistant
Professor of Forestry at Cooper's Hill in November 1890. He
edited **The Indian Forester,'* and is author of a translation of
the " Am^nagement des For^ts/'

On the occasion of the installation of Mr Andrew Carnegie
as Lord Rector of the University of St Andrew's, the honorary
degree of LL.D. was conferred upon the Hon. Lord Low
(B.A. 1868), Senator of the College of Justice of Scotland.

Dr F. J. Waldo (B.A. 1875), of the Middle Temple, barrister
at law, his Majesty's Coroner for the City of London anid
Southwark, has been placed by the Lord Chancellor on the
Commission of the Peace for the County of London.

Canon J. M. Wilson having resigned his office as Governor
of Sedbergh School, the College has appointed Dr Donald
MacAlister to succeed him.

At the anniversary meeting of the Royal Society, held on
November 30, the following members of the College were
elected officers of the Society for the coming session : Secrtlar)%
Professor J. Larmor (B.A. 1880); Members of the Council,
Dr J. E. Marr (B.A. 1879), Mr G. B. Mathews (B.A. 1884).

At the annual general meeting of the Cambridge Philo-
sophical Society held on Monday 30 October, the following
members of the College were elected officers of the Society for
the coming Session : Vice-President, Dr H. F. Baker (B.A. 1887) ;
Members of the Council, ProfVssor J. Larmor (B.A. 1880),
Mr F. F. Blackman (B.A. 1891), and Mr A. Harker (B.A.
1882).

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At the annual i^^eneral meeting of the London Mathematical
Society, lield on Thursday, November 9, the following members
of the College were elected officers of the Society for the coming
Session: Treasurer^ Professor J. Larmor (B.A. 1880); Secretary^
Professor A. £. H. Love (B.A. 1885); Members of the Council,
Dr H. F. Baker (B.A. 1887), and Major P. A. MacMahon
(Sc.D. 1904).

In June last Mr Cox ceased to be a Lecturer in Divinity, a
post he had held since June 1885. He had previously lectured,
without the Siaius of a Lecturer, from the beginning of 1882.

Mr J. Bass Mullinger (B.A. 1866) has retired from the office
of Librarian to the College after twenty-two years' service. The
College Council have recorded their special sense of the value of
Mr Muliinger's services to the Library.

Mr J. H. A. Hart (B.A. 1898), Fellow of the College, has
been appointed Librarian.

The Burleigh Preachers for the College this year were : At
Stamford, the Rev Canon J. H. B^ Masterman (B A. 1893%
Warden of Queen's College, Birmingham, and at Hatfield, the
Rev G. R. Bullock Webster [B.K. 1880), Chaplain to the Bishop
of Ely.

The ** Electoral Roll" of the University for the year 1905-6
contains 650 names, of these 76 are members of St John's.

Dr S. Corbett (Mus. Doc. 1879) has been appointed
Organist and Choirmaster at St Andrew's Church, Nottingham.
Dr Corbett, who has been blind since he was six months old, is
a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, and a Licentiate of
Trinity College, London ; he has often given organ recitals at
the Crystal Palace, and has filled appointments at Bridgenorth,
Derby, Bournemouth, and Nantwicli.

Sermons have been preached in the College Chapel this
Term by The Master, on October 15 ; Mr C. Stanwell, Vicar of
Ipsden. November 5 ; by the Lord Bishop of Ely (Dr Chase) on
November 19; and by Dr Bonney, on December 3.

Mr C, S. H. Brereton (B.A. 1886), L.-^s-L. Officier
d^Acad^mie, has been appointed an Inspector in Modern
languages under the London County Council.

The Rev P. R, Cleave (B.A. 1887), who has been Head-
master of Beach Lawn Preparatory School^ Leamington, since
1902, has been appointed by the Dean and Chapter of Llandaff,
to be Headmaster of Llandaff Cathedral School.

The Rev F. A. Hibbert (B.A. 1889), who has been Head-
master of St Cuthbert's College, Worksop, since 1899, was
in June last appointed Headmaster of Denslone College,
Staffordshire.

124 Our Chronicle.

On Jane 15 last the Rev St John Basil Wynne- Willson
(B.A. 1890), one of the Assistant Masters of Rngby School, was
elected Headmaster of Haileybury College, in succession lo
Canon Lyltleton, appointed Headmaster of Eton College.

Mr H. D. Evans (B.A. 1895), formerly Lupton and
Hebblethwaite Exhibitioner of the College, has opened a private
School for boys, £1 Rancho Bontto, in Mesa, in the Salt River
Valley of Arizona, U.S.A. Mr Evans was for some time an
Assistant Master at Elsted, and has since had considerable
experience in preparing pupils for entrance into Harvard, Yale,
and other American Colleges.

Mr J. E. Boyt (B.A. 1898), formerly Scholar of the College,
and lately an Assistant Master, Bedford Grammar School, has
been appointed Headmaster of King Edward VI.*s Grammar
School, Stourbridge.

Mr D. R. Hariis (B.A. 1898), Lecturer on Education and
Master of Method, Loudon D<*iy Training College, has been
appointed Principal of the Bangor Normal College.

Ds F. M. Key worth (B.A. 1904) has been appointed to a
Mastership at the Free School, Penang.

Ds J. F. Spink (B.A. 1904) has been appointed to an
Assistant Mastership at Weymouth College.

Ds P. S. Bailow (B.A. 1905), research studentof the CoUrge.
has received an appointment under the Egyptian Ministry of
Education.

Ds C. C. Carter (B.A. 1905) has been appointed Second
Master at the Emmanuel School, Liverpool.

Ds C. A, Cummins (B.A. 1905) has received an appointment
in the Education Department of Southern Nigeria.

Ds H. W. Harris (B.A. 1905), one of our Editors, has been
appointed to a Mastership at The Leys School, Cambridge.

Ds B. T. Watts (B.A. 1905) has been appointed to a post in
the General Survey of Egypt.

Mr L. Lewton Brain (B. A. 1898) has been appointed
Assistant Director of the division of Vegetable Pathology and
Physiology of the Experiment Station of the Hawaiian Sugar
Planters' Association at Honolulu.

From the Report of the Local Examinations and Lectures
Syndicate for 1904-5 we learn that the Rev J. R. Courtenay
Gale (B.A. 1880) has been appointed a Lecturer to the
Syndicate. Sessional courses of lectures were given at the
Technical and University Extension College, Colchester, on
Chemistry during the Michaelmas and Lent Terms by Mr P.
Lake (B.A. 1887); and at University College, Sheffield, on

Our Chronicle. i ^5

Skakesptart in the Michaelmas Term, and on Wotdsworih^ Cole*
ridge and 7*ennyson during the Lent Term, by Mr G. C. Moore
Smith (B.A. 1881). Terminal courses were given by Mr A.
Hamillon Thompson (B.A. 1895) on The History of the English
Novel in the Nineteenth Century al Darlington, on Shakespeare at
Sundtrland, and on Gothic Architecture at Scarborough in the
Michaelmas Term, and on The Beginning of Gothic Archilecture
in England at Newcastle in the Lent Term ; by Mr £. E. Foxwell
(B.A. 1875) on fapan and the Far East, at Colchester and
Norwich in the Michaelmas Term. Short Courses were given
by Mr A. Hamilton Thompson (B.A. 1895) O" Victorian Poets
and Novelists^ at Bridlington in the Micliaelmas Term, and at
Kelso in the Lent Term, on The History of English Architecture
at Kelso, and on Short Studies in Nineteenth Centuty Novels
at Barrow in Furness in the Lent Term ; by Mr E. A. Benians
(B.A. 1902) on The Age of Richelieu^ at Harpenden in the
Michaelmas Term ; by the Rev J. H. B. Maslerman (B.A.
1893) on The Napoleonic Era, at Lichfield in the Lent Term ; by
Mr E. E. Foxwell (B.A. 1875) on Some Aspects of fapanese Life^
at Yarmouth and Kings Lynn in the Lent Term.

The list of those placed in the Civil Service Competition of
1905 for the Home, Indian, and Colonial Services was issued in
September. The list is more than usually interesting because
St John's men have secured more places (eight) than any other
College at Oxford or Cambridge. Again it has interest because
it is the last to be held under the conditions of an unlimited
number of possible subjects ; for the future candidates will not
be permitted to offer more subjects than will produce a total
maximum of 6000 marks. This stipulation, it is expected, will
be for the benefit of men possessed of real knowledge in a
definite subject, or group of subjects. Candidates will no
longer be haunted by the fear that steady work for their IVipos
will injure them as mark-earning machines in the Competition,
and the results in future are likely to correspond much more
closely with the distinctions won in the Triposes than hitherto.

The list issued by the Commissioners contained 65 names ;
the names of the members of St John's with their places are as
follows :

7 J. N. Beckett (B.A. 1904).
19 S. B. Dhavle (B.A. 1904).

22 H, D. Wakeley (B.A. 1904).

23 Birandranath De.

28 J. Nissim (B.A. 1904).
33 L. J. P. Jolly (B.A. 1904).
42 M. G. B. Reece (B.A, 1904).
64 S. Horowitz (B.A. 1903).

We understand that Mr Beckett and Mr Wakeley will obtain
places in the Home Civil Service ; Messrs Dhavle. De. Nissim,
Jolly, and Reece are assigned to the Indian Civil Service.

126 Oin Chrofiicle,

To take tlie Candidates in order. Mr Beckett comes from
Moiiniouth School* he was fourth wrangler in 1904 and took a
second class in Part I of the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1905 ;
among the Candidates he was bracketted with Marrack, of
Trinity (a Senior Wrangler) for the highest aggregate marks in
Mathematics, being first in Pure and Applied Mathematics.
Mr Dhavie comes from Rajaram College, KolhapurandElphin-
stone College, Bombaj; he was first Junior Optime in 1904, and
has since studied for one year as an external student of Trinity
College, Dublin ; he was first of all the Candidates in Sanscrit,
and second in English Law. Mr Wakeley comes from St
01ave*s School, Southwark ; he was in Division i, Class i, of
Part I of the Classical Tripos of 1903, and obtained a Powis
Medal. Mr Birandranath De comes from Midnapore. Mr
Nissim comes from Elphinstone College, Bombay, he was first
in the Law Tripos, Part I, 1903, and also took a First Class in
the Historical Inpos, Part II, 1904; among the Candidates he
enjoyed the double distinction of being first in Roman Law and
first in English Law. Mr Jolly comes from Framlingham
College ; he took a First Class in the Natural Sciences Tripos,
Part 1, 1903, and a Second Class in the Natural Sciences Tripos,
Part II, 1904; among the Candidates he was bracketted first in
Botany, and was second in Chemistry. Mr Reece comes from
Felsted School ; he took a Second Class in the Historical Tripos,
Part I, 1903, and in Part II in 1904; he obtained his '* Half-
Blue" for Boxing, he had some special tuition at *' Wren's.*'
With the exception of Mr Dhavie and Mr Reece the Candidates
had no special tuition outside Cambridge.

The following members of the College were called to the
Bar at the Inner Temple on Wednesday, July 5 : J. G. Burn
(B.A. 1892) and D. Kingdon (B.A. 1905).

Mr Grey Hazlertgg (B.A. 1900) passed the Final Examina-
tion of the Law Society, held on the 19th and 20th of June last.

Sir Denzil Ibbelson (B.A. 1868) K.C.S.I., officiating Lieu-
tenant-Governor of the Pnnjab and its dependencies, has been
appointed to act as Chairman of the Board of Management of
the Indian People's Famine Trust.

Mr. W. Raw (B A. 1894) LC.S., officiating magistrate and
collector, Agra, has been appointed Settlement Officer, Hamil-
pore, United Provinces of Agra and Oude.

Mr W. A. Marr (matriculated 1895) LC.S. has been appointed
to act as Magistrate and Collector of the Shahabad district,
Bengal.

Lieut. A. C. Ingram (B.A. 1898), Indian Medical Service,
Madras, was in August last appointed to the officiating medical
charge of the 8ist Pioneers ; on September 4 he received charge
of the Aden Special Prison.

Our ChrontcU, 127

Mr R. Casson (B.A. 1900) I.C S., Assistant Commissioner.
Burma, was in May last transferred from Maymyo to the charge
of the Kyaikto, sub-division, Thaton district. In June he was
elected President of the Kyaikto Municipal Committee.

Mr F. W. R. Robertson (matriculated 1896) I.C.S. has been
posted to the Chicacole division, Madras.

Mr A. C. A. Latif (B.A. 1901) I.C.S, Punjab, AssisUnt
Commissioner, Sirsa, sub-division of Hissar district, was
on 26 Jtme last appointed to officiate as Deputy Commissioner
of Hissar, in addition to his own duties. Mr Latif has taken all
the necessary steps for the alteration of his name, and for the
future will be known as Alma Latifi.

Dr W. S. West (B.A. 1887) M.D.. B.C., has been appointed
District Medical Officer of the Aylesbury Union.

Dr C. H. Reissmann (B.A. 1895) has been appointed Medical
Officer to the Kalgra Sanatorium for Consumption, Adelaide,
Australia, he has also been placed in charge of the Consump-
tion Wing of the Adelaide Hospital.

Dr J. A. Glover (B.A. 1897), was on July 27 granted a
Diploma in Pnblic Health by ttie Royal College of Surgeons in
conjunction with the Royal College of Physicians.

Mr W. L. Harnett (B A. 1899) M.B.. B.C , formerly Scholar
of the College, has been appointed Assistant Pathologist and
Demonstrator of morbid anatomy at the Medical School,
St Thomas's Hospital, London.

MrT. S. P. Strangeways (M.A. 1900) has been re-appoinfed
University Demonstiator in Pathology for five years from
Michaelmas 1905.

Ds D. G. Sutherland (B.A. 1901) has been appointed
Assistant Bacteriologist to the London Water Board.

Mr S. Barradell-Smith (B.A. 1901), has been appointed a
House Physician at the Middlesex Hospital.

The Matthews Duncan medal and first prize at St Bartholo-
mew's Hospital has been awarded to G. C. E. Simpson (B.A.
1902), formerly Scholar of the College.

At the ordinary quarterly Comitia of the Royal College of
Physicians of London held on July 27, Dr H. D. Rolleston
(B.A. 1886), formerly Fellow of St John's, was elected a
member of the Library Committee of the Royal College of
Pliysicians.

At the ordinary meeting of the Council of the Royal College
of Surgeons of England, held on July 27, Mr L. Shingleton
Smith (B.A. 1901) was admitted a member of the College; and

liS Our ChrontcU.

on the same day at the ordinary quarterly Comitta of the Royal
College of Physicians of London, he was granted a licence to
practice physic.

At the ordinary quarterly Comitia of the Royal College of
Physicians of London, held on Thursday, October 26. the
following members of St John's, having conformed to the by-
laws and regulations and passed the required examinations, had
licences to practice physic granted to them : M. Grundy, of
University College Hospital (B.A. 1902), G. fl. K. Macalister,
of Guy*s Hospital (B.A. 1901), and O. L Scarborough, of Leeds
Hospital (B.A. 1899): the same gentlemen were also admitted
Members of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

The Bishop of Lichfield lias appointed the Rev John
Wright (B.A. 1857) Vicar of Giinshill. Shrewsbury, to be Rural
Dean of the Deanery of Wem, in the place of the late Rev the
Hon Gilbert Vane.

The Rev R. H. Boradaile (B.A. 1858), Rural Dean of
Godstone, has been appointed an Honorary Canon of South wark
Cathedral.

The Bishop of Lichfield has appointed the Rev Thomas
Auden (B.A. 1858), Vicar of Condover, to the prebendal stall
of Dernford in Lichfield Cathedral, vacant by the death of tlie
Rev G. H. Egerton. Mr Auden has also been appointed a
Surrogate for the diocese of Hereford.

The Rev Canon W. Bonsey (B.A. 1868), Vicar of I^ncaster
and Rural Dean, has been appointed Archdeacon of Lancaster.

The Rev Dr F. Watson (B.A. 1868), Fellow and Lecturer of
the College, and Honorary Canon of Ely, has been appointed
Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Ely.

The Rev J. E. Reece (B A. 1869), Government Inspector of
Schools, Barbados, has been appointed a Canonof St Michael's
Cathedral, Barbados.

In June last the Bishop of London appointed the Rev E. A.
Stuart (B.A. 1876), Vicar of St Matthew's, Bayswater, to a
prebendal stall in St Paul's Cathedral.

The Rev G. F. Coombes (B.A. 1878), Canon of St John's
Cathedral, Winnipeg, has been appointed Dean of Rupertsland
and Professor of Ecclesiastical History in St John's College,
Winnipeg.

The Rev W. H. Hornby Steer (B.A. 1 885), Vicar of St Philip's,
Lambeth, has been appointed Chaplain to the Lord Mayor of
London (Mr Alderman V^aughan- Morgan) during his year of
office.

Our Chronicie.

120

The Rev J. C. Wilcox (B.A. 1886), Vicar of Shepscombe
near Stroad, has been appointed the first Principal of the
Kensit Memorial College in Hendon Lane, Finchley. The
College, which is described as a testimony to the work of the
late Mr John Kensit, has cost £t^s^o^ ^"^ ^^ opened on
October 7 by Sir John Bingham.

The Rev Herbert Drake (B.A. 1892) has been elected by
the Trustees as Lecturer of Watford Parish Church. In addition
to his ten years of parish work, Mr Drake was teaching for
several years, having been Chaplain and Second Classical
Master in Sir £. Hay Currie's Technical School at Folkestone,
and Mathematical Master in Sutton Preparatory School. He
was klso Chaplain of the Hostel of God (a free hospital for the
dying) at Clapham in 1895-6, and under his guidance this
institution was reorganised. He then volunrteered for service
as a Missionary under the Junior Clergy Missionary Association
(S.P.G.), and went to Newfoundland, where for a year he was
connected with the Cathedral of St John's as senior priest on
the staff. He has already been at work in his new sphere, but
the appointment dates from next Christmas.

The Bishop of Birmingham has appointed the Rev J. H. B.
Masterman (B.A. 1893), Warden of Queens' College, Birming-
ham, to an honorary canonry in Birmingham Cathedral.

The Rev F. A. Hannam (B.A. 1901), hitherto Curate of
St Matthew's, Cambridge, has accepted a curacy at St Bar-
tholomew's, Birmingham.

The Rev J. J. Whitehouse (B.A, 1903), Curate of St Peter's,
Islington, has been appointed Warden of the Jamaica Church
Theological College.

The following members of the College were ordained on
Jane 18, Trinity Sunday :

Pkibsts.

Nami.

Degree.

Diocese,

Briggs, W. A.

(1903)

York

Hopkins, G. A.

(1902)

Winchester

Moseley, S. C.

(1898)

Lincoln

Bachcrt, L. R. A.
Phillips, R. W.

(1903)
(1874)

Liverpool
LlandaflT

Cole, F. E.

(1901)

Norwich

Headland, R. P.

(1895)
(1878)

WakeEeld

Wilding, H. St J.

Worcester

Deacons.

Name, Degree, Diocese,

Whitehouse, A. (1905) London

Spink, J. F. (1904} Salisbury

Clarke, H. L. (1904) Southwark

How, J. C. H. (1903) Southwark

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Parish,
St John's, Upper Hollo way
St John's, Weymouth
Lady Margaret Church,

Walworth
Wellington College Mission,

Walworth

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Our ChrofiicU.

The following members of the College were ordained on
September 24 :

Pries 1-.

Nami. Degrge. Diocese,

Boyle, H. D. (1904) Clic*ler

Name,
Sanger, H.
Pope, N. C.
Tyrrell, C. F.

Dbacons.
Digrii, Diocese,

(1902) Rochester
(1904) Si Alb.ins

(1903) St Albans

Parish.
St rood
West Ham
Hiilstead

The following were ordained on October 1 :
Priksts.

Name,
Allen, F. W.
Atlay, M. £.

Name.
Argyle, F. W.
Jones, H. P.

Degree,

(«903)
(1894)

Degree,

(1903)
(1903)

Dkacons.
Diocese.
London
I«oiidon

Diocese.
London
London

Parish,

St Paurs, Onslow Squaie
St Clement, Banisbury

The following ecclesiastical appointments are announced :

Name, B.A. From To be

Ban)bei,J (1890) R. Broughton-Hackett, V. St Alban's,

Worcrsler Rocbdale

Tiarks, L. H. (1893) C. St Michael and All R. Haroldston West,

Angels, N. Kensington Pembrokeshire
Madge, F. T. (1872) R. St Swithin's, Win- R. Stoke Charity

Chester
Robeitson, A.J. (1890) P.C. Lady Margaret Cb., R. Freshwater, Isle

Walwoith of Wight

Gardner, W. A. (1S96) C. St Paul's, Brentford Chap. All Saints'

Mods, Constanti-
nople
Ingiam, A. R. (1899) C. St Luke's, Beeston Hill, P.C. Lady Margaret

Leeds Church, Walworth

Robbs, A. (1882) C. Woodbridge P.C. Wereham w.

Wretton, Stoke
Feny
(1873) V. St Peter's, Stockton- V. Holdenhurst.

^ Hants.

P.C. St Andrew's,
Longton, Preston
V. St Mary Magda-
lene, Manningham
V. Ivegill, Cailisle

V. St Andrew w.
St Michael, East
Greenwich

V. Holy Island, Beal

Woodman, H.
Norris, W. H.

on>Tees
(1894) V. Loddington,

Leicestershire
Branscombe, H. S. (1885) R. Pulford, Wrexham

Phillips, C. T.
London, H.

Crawshaw, J.

(1889) V. West Seaton, Work-
ington
(1876} C. Wimbledon

(1889) C. Stannington, Morpeth

Our Chronicle. 131

A brass tablet has been placed in Winchester College
cloisters in memory of the late Rev George Richardson (B.A.
i860); see Eagle xxVf 194. The inscription is as follows:

•*In memoriam Georgii Richardson, A.M. Coll. Sanct.
Johanni. Evang. ap. Cantabr. alumni huius Collegii olim
subpraeceploris inde per xxvi. annos Hostiarii qui artibos
mathematicis docendis, commendandis, in mains proferendis
pnieclare de re Wiccamica meritus erga Scholares paterna cura
usus omnibus pariter deflendus obiit anno post Christum natum
MCMIVto aetatis Suae LXVto."

On the 8th of July last the Bishop of Kensington unveiled a
window in the Chapel of Tonbridge School to the memory of
the late Dr J. I. Welldon, formerly Headmaster of the School.
The subject of the window is St Andrew his life and works.

The memorial at Fettes College, Edinburgh, to the memory
of the late Mr J. S. Yeo (B.A. 1882), formerly Fellow of the
College, is to take the form of a Pavilion in the Sports field.
If the cost of this should not exhaust the available funds it is
proposed to devote the balance to a window in the School
Chapel.

The following is the inscription on a Brass which has been
placed in St Paul's School, London :

In memory of two Friends

Scholars of St Paul's

Alike in their Mathematical skill

their love of Music

and their untimely fate

Ronald W. H. Turnbull Hudson

Fellow of St John's College Cambridge

Senior Wrangler 1898

Smith's Prizeman 1900

who was killed by a fall on Glydr Fawr

20th September 1904 aged 28

Agustus Perronet Thompson

Scholar of Pembroke College Cambridge

5th Wrangler 1901

Smith's Prizeman 1903

who was drowned in the River Cam

nth July 1903 aged 23.

Manet amor Mantt exemplum Manet spes.

Mr. G. R. S. Mead (B.A. 1884) delivered a series of lectures
on '• The Gnosis of Egypt in Greek Tradition " in the lecture-
room of the Theosophical Society in Albemarle Street during
the month of November. The subjects of the several lectures
were as follows : November 7, The initiation of Tat ; Novem-
ber 14, The initiation of Hermes ; November 21, The hymns of
Hermes ; November 28, Thoth the Master of Wisdom.

132 Our Chranick.

Messrs Macmillao announce a '' Memoir of Archbishop
Temple, bj Seven Friends." Of these seven friends three are
members of St John's. The Rev Canon J. M. Wilson (B.A.
1859) deals with the "Earlier Years'* of the Archbishop;
Dr H.J. Roby (B.A. 1853) deals with his connexion with the
Education Office; Archdeacon H. E. J.Bevan (B.A. 1878) deals
with London.

Messrs Macmillan and Co. announce a volume of *' Essays
on some Theological Questions of the Day. By members of
the University of Cambridge," under the editorship of the
Regius. Professor of Divinity. Dr A. Caldecott (B.A. 1880) and
Canon J. M. Wilson (RA. 1859) are included in the list of
contributors.

The University Press annonnces the forthcoming publication
of a series of tracts on various topics in pure mathematics and
theoretical physics. The chief purpose of the new uiydertaking
is to assist in the maintenance of a high standard in English
mathematical teaching by the extension of knowledge of recent
mathematical research. Mr J. G. Leathem (B.A. 1894) is to be
one of the two general editors of the series. Among the tracts
shortly to be published are one by Mr Leathem on " Surface
and volume integrals in Physics," and one by Mr T. J. I'A.
Bromwich on *' Quadratic forms and their classification by
means of Invariant factors."

The following books by members of the College are an-
nounced : Ihe Japanese Character. By his Excellency Baron
Keneho Suyematsu. A lecture delivered before the Ethno-
logical Society on Wednesday. 29 March 1905 (Siegle); Sermons
at Gloucester, by the late Right Rev Charles John Ellicott D.D.,
Bishop of Gloucester (Nisbet); Roman Education, by the late
A. S. Wilkins Litt.D.. LL D.. Professor of Classical Literature
in the Victoria University of Manchester (University Press);
The Risen Sun, by Baron Suyematsu (Constable); Johannine
Vocabulary, A comparison of the wotds of the Fourth Gospel with
those of the Three, by Edwin A. Abbott (Black) ; The Age of the
Earth, and other Geological Studies, by W. J. Sollas, Professor of
Geology in the University of Oxford (Unwin) ; Notes for one
yearns Sunday School Lessons, Series IV, by the Rev J. M.
Wilson D.D. (S.P.C.K.); Things and Sensations, by G. F. Stout
and others (Frowde) ; History of the Liberty of Peterborough, by
Louis B. Caches LL.M. (Peterborough, Castor); A brief guide
to Merstham Parish Church, Surrey, compiled by the Rev R. S,
Woodhouse, Rector (The Leadenhall Press).

The following University appointments of Members of ^e
College have been made since the issue of our last number:
T. S. P. Strangeways to be an Examiner for the Third
Examination for M.B., Easter Term 1905 ; Mr A. H. Thompson
to be a Lecturer at Affiliated Local Lectures Centres ; Dr H. F.
Baker to be a University Lecturer in Mathematics from

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Michaelmas 1905 to Michaelmas 1910; Dr J. £. Marr tdbe
a University Lecturer in Geology from Michaelmas 1905 until
Michaelmas 1910; Dr D. MacAlister to be Assessor to the
Regius Professor of Medicine for the ensuing year ; Mr R. R.
Webb to be an Examiner for the Mathematical Tripos, Part I,
in 1906; Mr J. J. Lister to be Demonstrator of Comparative
Anatomy; Dr J. £. Sandys to be the representative of the
Special Board for Classics on the General Board of Studies !
Mr A. C. Seward to be a member of the General Board of
Studies; Professor J. Larmor and Mr R. A. Sampson to be
Examiners for Part II of the Mathematical Tripos in 1906;
Dr J. £. Sandys to be a member of the Managing Committee of
the British School at Athens; Mr L. H. K, Bushe Fox to be an
Examiner for the Law Tripos in 1906 ; Mr J. E. Purves to be
an Examiner in Elementary Chemistry ; Dr A. MacAlister to be
an Examiner in Human Anatomy for Medical Degrees ; Mr P.
Lake to be an Examiner in Geology ; Mr A. C Seward to be
an Examiner in Botany; Mr E. W. MacBride to be an
Examiner in Zoology; Mr T. S. P. Strangeways to be an
Examiner in General Pathology for the M.B. degree.

On Tuesday, September 12, the Lord Bishop of Oxford
consecrated a rood of ground recently added to the churchyard
of St Mary's, Ipsden. The day was very fine, and a congrega-
tion of parishioners and visitors quite filled the little church.
Great anxiety was shown to give his Lordship a hearty welcome.
The ground was generously given by the President and Fellows
of St John's College, Oxford, part of whose property lies on the
north side of the church. Subjoined is the hymn written by the
Vicar, the Rev C. Stanwell (B.A. 1859), for use after the third
collect.^ In the churchyard the whole congregation joined in
singing " On the Resurrection Morning."

/ am the Resume /ion and ike Life.

O Saviour of the souls that live,

O Lord of life and death.
Thou gavest, and to Thee we give

Our fleeting mortal breath.
'Tis Thine to take the sting from pain,

The eyes in peace to close ;
Nor summer's heat, nor winter's rain,

Can vex the still repose.
Here earth to earth and dust to dust,

In that unbroken sleep,
The faded form to Thee we trust,

'Tis Thine to guard and keep.
Thy voice shall sound. Thy light shall fill

The darkness of the grave ;
Thy word is sure, Thy hand is still

Omnipotent to save. Amen,

134 Ou^ ChranicU.

JORNIANA.

The following interesting accoant of a former member of the College
appeared in Notes and Qturits for 22 July 1905 (loth Ser. IT, pp. 6i-(>4).

JOHN LONGLEY, i749-i8«2.

When Bennet Langton was staying at Rochester, in command of a com-
pany of the Lincolnshire militia, he was visited by Dr Johnson, who then
made the acquaintance of Longley, " a gentleman of considerable learning."
The doctor was delighted with his new friend. He said : —

** My heart warms towards him. I was surprised to find in him sach a nice
acquaintance with the metre in the learned languages; though I was some-
what moriified to find that I had it not to myself as I should have thought." —
Boswell, tub anno 1 780.

Longley explains the incident in his manuscript autobiography, a copy of
which hab been lent to me by Lady Longley, the widow of his grandson. Sir
Henry Longley, and from it and other sources I have written the following
narrative. The autobiography, with the exception of some of the private
passages, should be printed in lull. It would attract the residents at Rochester
who lake pride in the past history of their city, those interested in education
in Disscninig circles, as well as at Eton and Cambridge, and the student of
the politics of that time. The words in this memoir between quotation mariES
are taken ftom it.

John Longley was born at Chatham on 27 October 1749 (O.S.), 7 November
(N.S.). It was the constant tradition in the family that they were descended
from the ancient race of Langley which owned the estate of Knowlton, near
Canterbury, *' and their arms were assumed accordingly." His great grand-
father resided at Sandhurst in the weald of Kent; his grandfather, John
Longley, bought a house at Chatham, ** where my father afterwards resided,
and in which I was born, settled himself in business as a linendraper, and
married a daughter of Capt. Edward Moorcock." They were Dissenters, "of
the class of Independent Baptists," attending the meeting-house in Heavisides
Lane.

Longley's father, Joseph Longley, was the youngest son, and there were
nine other children. The eldest brother, John, died a bachelor. "After their
failter's death they succeeded to his house and business at Chatham, living
together until the marriage " of Joseph, who was born on 16 July 1705, and died
at Rochester in August 1785. Joseph's wife was Mary, second " daughter of
John Gouldsmith, an apothecary at Chatham, who had married [Anne]
Moorcock, sister to the mother of my father; thus my parents were first
cousins." She was the widow of a surgeon called Richaid Cosens, who
wasted her little fortune. The marriage of Joseph Longley and Mary Cosens
was celebiated in Rochester Cathedral on 7 December 1747. She died on
1 September 1779, aged 67, and was buried in the Cathedral, "on the light-
hand side of the steps going up from the nave to the choir," on 7 September.
A poetical inscription by her son on the wall of the south cross aisle com-
memorates her name (' Rochester Cath. Registers,* ed. T. Shindler, pp. 9, 38,
57). The subject of our narrative " was the only child they ever had."

After some little instruction in a girls' school and in private tuition, this
child, John Longley, was taken to a school at Newington Green, then a rural
suburb, "on a fine afternoon in the month of August 1756, when I wanted
two months of the age of seven." The school was kept by James Burgh (see
the * D.N.B.'), a man of talents and enlightened views, and there the boy
remained " till the summer of 1764." Of his school-fellows he was

"most intimate with a Carolina boy named Roger Smith, who afterwards
distinguished himself in that province as a promoter of the revolution ; with
Henry Ibbetson, a boy of the mildest temper and most amiable manner, an
uncle of the present Sir Henry, whom I met after an interval of nearly fifty

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years at Hampstead, and who died there shortly after ; with William Wansey,
of Warniinster [query Henry Wansey ? see *D.N.B.*], who went to America
to exumine whether emigration thither would be eligible, and on his return
published his tour, with the reasons why he determined against it ; and with
Andrew Lmde^^ren, now government agent at Portsmouth. I remember, too,
Samuel Gambier, now Commissioner ol' the Navy, and his younger brother,
now Lord Gam bier, but they were some years younger than I."

In his fifteenth year, in September 1764,
*'my father and mother carried me to Eton and placed me under Dr Barnard,
the then head master. Fottunately for me they were acquainted with Jacob
Bryant, who lived at Cypenham, within two miles of it. . . .Mr Bryant gave me
for my tutor Mr Roberts, afterwards doctor, fellow and Provost of Eton.*'
He was at fiist in the house of Dame Bagwell, '* close to Barnes pool bridge."
His pairnts gave up the business a year after, when he *< removed to Dame
Graham's at the south end of the long walk.. ..kept by two Scotch ladies,
sisters" of Graham, the remove master. His chief friend at Eton was the
younger Sargent. "The elder Sargent I knew little of at Eton, intimate ai
I was with him afterwards." They were members of the family which at
a later date included the ladies who became Mrs Manning, the two Mrs
Wilberforces, and Mrs Ryder. Many other Eton boys are mentioned in the
autobiography.

Both the Sargents went to St John's College, Cambridge, and Longley
was entered there as a fellow-commoner on 24 June 1767 (* Admissions to
St John's,' part iii., ed. R. F. Scott, pp. 176, 719), "under the tuition of
Dr Frampton. a man of good address and pleasant manners, but fonder of
sporting and Newmaiket than of book?* and his college. The office of
lecturing his pupils devolved on his deputies Richard Raikes and Mr (now
Dr) Pearce, who were able men and well qualified for the purpose." While
an undergraduate Longley went with his fiiend Irby, son of Lord Boston, to
hear the Douglas case. ** Lord Mansfield, in a speech replete with elegant
diction, legal knowledge, and sound sense, supported the claimant's legiti-
macy."

Sargent senior took his degree at Cambridge in 1769, and as his brother
*<was not anxious for university honours, it wa^ determined they should quit
it together." Longley did not wish to stay behind them, especially as he
found that the subscription to the Thirty-Nine Articles would not allow him
to take a degree. With the subscription **1 could not conscientiously
comply, being convinced that several of the doctrines in them, and particularly
that of the Trinity, were unscriptural." He left with his friends, disappointing
Dr Powell, the master, who offered, if he would take his degree, to obtain
for him a fellowship.

Longley entered as a student at Lincoln's Inn on 10 September 1764,
and came to London in October 1769 to study the law. At first he was
placed in the house of Oliver Farrer, attorney, in Chancery Lane, "with
whom he was to lodge and board as well as work." This proved unsatis-
fistctory, and at the end of a year he went into chambers at 4, Old Square,
Lincoln's Inn. He was called to the bar on 2 July 1772. For a short time
he went the complete Home Circuit, but in 1774 he " contracted his attendance
to the Kentish assizes and sessions." He continued that custom for some
vears until the younger men got before him. *' I then withdrew from practice
in the courts."

At Bath, in September 1772 Longley made the acquaintance of a Miss
Bedingfield, of Noifolk, and fell in love with her, but it did not end in
marriage. In the following January he renewed at Rochester his acquaintance
with Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Bond, a timber merchant in London,
and became engaged to her. After some delay caused by the error of an
attorney, who had drawn up the settlements with « not less than a dozen
capital blunders in them," they were married at Battersea Church on
23 September 1773. She had a fortime of 8,000/., and her father agreed to
pay 50/. per annum during his life.

136 Our ChrantcU.

In February 1774 the coaple settled in a small but pleasant hoose in
St Margaret's, Rochester, and in 1777 Longlev purchased the adjointnc
house, " forming it into apartments for the children.'* Even this proved
insufficient for his growing family, and in 1784 he — as he subsequently
acknowledged, very injudiciously— purchased Satis House, on Bully Hill, in
the parish of St Nicholas, Rochester. This had been the residence of
Richard Watts, founder of the hospital, who in it entertained Queen
Elisabeth in 1573. Two years, during which Longley altered and enlarged
the old house «t a cost of a,ooo/., passed before he could occupy it.

Longley «was unanimously elected to the Recordership in 1784. It was in
July 1783 that- the conveisatlon recorded in Boswell took place, and I quote
the passage, with u preamble that was not given by my late friend Dr
Birkbeck Hill in his e<ution of Boswell :—

<<Some time before I left St Margaret's I became acquainted ' with
Mr Bennet Langton, the friend of Dr Johnson. The Lincolnshire militia
was then in Chatham barracks, in which lie had a company, and he acted
betides as an assistant engineer. He resided at the Vicarage, having brought
down thither Lady Rothes and his large family. We saw much of them, and
were highly gratifed by their society. Dr Johnson and General Paoli came
down to visit Mr Langton, and I was asked to meet them, when the conver*
sation took place mentioned by Boswell, in which Johnson gave me more
credit for knowledge of the Oreek metres than I deserved. There was some
question about anapestics, concerning which I happened to remember what
Foster used to tell us at Eton, that the whole series to the Basis Anapsestica was
considered, but as one verse, however divided in the printing, and conse-
quently the syllables at the end of each line were not common as in other
metres. This observation was new to Johnson and struck him. Had he
examined me further I fear he would have found me ignorant. Langton was
a very good Greek scholar, much superior to Johnson, to whom nevertheless
he paid profound deference, sometimes indeed I thought more than he
des^ved.

*< J remember Lady Rothes spoke of the advantage children now derived
from the iitt|e books published purposely for their instruction. Johnson
controverted it, asserting that at an early age it was better to gratify curiosity
with wonders than to attempt planting truth before the mind was prepared to
receive it, and that therefore Jack the Giant-Killer, Parismus and Pari^menus,
and the Seven Champions of Christendom, were fitter for them than Mrs
Barbauld or Mrs Trimmer. He did not, however, convert his audience, for
neither Lady Rothes nor my wife changed their mode of instruction in
consequence. '

Longley, in August 17S6, on a visit with his family to Ramsgate, narrowly
escaped death through being dashed by the sea with great violence against a
bathing-machine. With some friends he paid a visit of four days to Calais
and Boulogne, piobably the sole occasion on which he was out of England.
But in the summer of 1794 ^^ made a tour, with his own cairiage and horses,
thxough Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

..Longley was a Whig in politics. To the American war he was warmly
opposed. He was a keen advocate for reform in Parliament, and he approved
of Pitt's commercial treaty with France. When John Reeves (see * D.N.B.')
started his notorious association for preserving liberty and property against
Levellers and Republicans, a branch was founded at Rochester, and Longley
was xhosen chairman. A committee was formed for the purpose of distributing
useful publications, its members being the Dean, the Archdeacon, and the
chairman of the branch ; but Longley found that the Dean was bent on
distdhnting a tract entitled * Thomas Bull : Letter to his Brother John,'
which was written bv Jones of Nayland. This abused the French, declaring
their government unlawful, ** because God never made an anointed republic,"
and mfied the English Dissenters, « accusing them of having occasioned the
American war." Longley's protests against its issue were in vain. It was
insinuated that he must have been ** influenced by a Jacobinical partiality to

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the FrencAi,'* and although he refrained from public action, " the Dean and
clergy refused to dine with me as usual at the next audit, and the Dampier
family and ours no longer visited." Folly very liUe this was conspicuous in a
more recent war. Jn 1796 he contested, on purity principles, the represen-
tation of the city of Rochester, but he was at the bottom of the poll.

From the statements in the autobiography about his resources, it is
evident that Longl«y was not a good manager of his private affaii^ and it
became necessary for him to economise by leaving Rochester. At Christmas,
1799, he took possession of a farm called Angley, and situated within a mile
of Cranbrook, which he had purchased. Heie he laid out hop-grounds, the
result of a sale ior 400/. of the produce of under three acres, and "in the six
years during which I was a planter there was but one in which I lost, and I
was in some a considerable gainer."

On leaving Satis House, which he afterwards sold, he resigned the
Recordership (23 July 1803) and the post of assistant in the Bridge Trust,
which he had held for near thirty years. He lived at Angley for about three
years, when he sold it for 11,000/. to Sir Walter Jones, and removed to a
very pleasant house at Hampstead, " at the extremity of the town, very near
the Heath,'* commanding an extensive view.

In 1807, through the interest of Lord Darnley, a seat at the Thames
police-court was given to him by Earl Spencer, the Home Secretary in the
Administration of 1806-7. The net salary was at first 450/., and then 540/.
per annum, and his colleagues were John Hairiott (see *D.N.B.') and
Mr Kinnaird. Living at Hampstead, besides being excessive for his income,
was inconvenient for his official duties. On 9 September 1810 he 'Uook a
small house in Howland Street, Fitzroy Square." Harriott died on 2 Feb.
1817, and Longley succeeded as resident magistrate, 'Uhe saving in house
rent being near 200/. per annum." In this position he remained until his
death on 5 April 1822. A beautiful miniature of him by Johu Smart now
belongs to Lady Longley.

Longley's wife was born on 25 March 1754, ^"^ ^^^ *^ Putney on
S4 or 25 September 1845 (Gent, Mag, 1822, i, 475 ; 1845, i^> 544)* George
Rjchmond R.A. painted her portrait, which now belongs to Lady Longley.
They had seventeen children. The eldest lived but twenty-four houis; John,
Mary, and Clara died as infants ; Joseph, a lieutenant of Engineers, was
killed at Tarifa, in Spain, on the last day of 181 1, and a tablet to his memory
was placed in the church at Gibraltar; George, the youngest son, in the
accountant's office in the East India House, died on 2 February 181 5, aged
nineteen, and was bmied in St Pancras churchyard. The other children
were Frances, Mrs Hall, d. 5 December 1845, aged sixty- seven; Elizabeth,
Mrs D. Bemiere, d. January 1859, aged seventy-nine; Charlotte, Mrs Jeffery,
d. March 1868, aged eighty-seven ; Sophia, Mrs Davenport, died 7 May
i860, aged seventy-ei|;ht ; Anna Maria, Mrs Lloyd, d. 26 February 1852,
aged sixty-eight; William, Fellow of St John's Coll. Camb., and Chancery
barrister, d. i March 1846, aged sixty; John, major Royal Artillery, d.
Governor of the Isle of Dominica, June 1839, aged fifty-three; Charles
Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, d. 27 October 1868, aged seven ty -four ;
Catherine, d. Februaty 1870 ; Martha, d. October 1872 } Rosamond, Mrs
Lynn Smart, d. March 1841, aged forty-nine.

Longley was the author of (i) < America, an Ode* (anon.), 1776, which I
identify with * America, an Ode to the People of England,' Lond., Almon,
1776, quarto, noticed in The Monthly Review^ Julyt '776, p. 72. (2) * Defence
of Archdeacon Law in Reply to a Kentish Curate ' (1.^. Thomas Francklin,
see *D.N.B.'), who animadverted on Law's visitation charge (anon.), 1780^
f3) 'An Essay towards forming a More Complete Representation of the
Commons of Great Britain,' 1795. It was dedicated to William Smith (of
Norwich], the Hon Thomas Erskine, and the other members of the Society of
the Friends of the People, and in it he exposed the delusions under which the
American war had been popular for a time and the exaggerations of Ministers
on the danger from events in France. Many of the provisions which he
advocated {e,g, vote by ballot and the trial of contested elections by a separate

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138 Our Chronicle.

legal body) have been adopted ; but more (such as biennial elections, all elec*
tioiis on one fixed day, and but one vote to be allowed to each citizen) aie
siill unaccomplished. The essay was the production of a Whig and sometliing
more. On p. 13 he acknowledges his obligations to the teaching of Burj^h.
U) *The Case of the Hop Planters under the Additional Duty of 1802'
(Rochester 1803). He contended thnt the tax was " contrary to the soundest

J)iinciplcs of political economy.*' This tract is not in the Library of the Britisii
duseum. (5) < Observations on the Trial by Juiy, paiticulaily on the Unani-
mity required in the Verdict.* This wa^ leissued in ITie PamphUtegr^ No. x,.
May 18 1 5, and was pirated at Edinburgh ** when the Bill for the introduction
of the trial by jury in civil cases in Scotland was before Parliament, and great
efforts were made to get lid of the unaniniity." The last three pamplileth bear
his name*

W. P. Courtney.

The Parish Rtgister of Great Barton, near Bury St Edmunds, Diocese of
Ely, contains the following entry :

*< 1630-1, Februnry 22, Edward Robinson. Student in St John's College,
Cambridge, was buried."

The name of Edward Robinson dnes not occur in the College Rei:ister of
Admi>siuns ; thus he must have entered the College before 30 January i629>30.

The Parish RigitUr of St Bene'l's Church, Cambridge, containi» the
following entry :

<* Henry Turner, B.D. clerk, of the Parish of All Saints in Camhridg^, and
Fellow of St Jolin's College, and Elizabeth Luun, spinster of this PiiriNb,
were married iu this Church by Licence this iilteenih day of Febiii^uy in the
>ear one thousand seven hundied and fifty three, by me \V. Colmau, Miiii^tcr.*'

Henry Turner, the son of Mr Bernard Turner, the College Organist, was
admitted to St Johu*8 18 June 1752, and became a Fellow 25 Match i7(>o.

[The following note on two early Fellows of the College is taken from
Th4 Palatine NoU-book, iii, 46. J

Seton's "Dialectics," edited by Peter Carter of Prrstoh. —
Mr Alley of Blackfriars, Manchester, has lent us an old copy of the above
work, once a popular book and the standard treatise on Logic. Seton was in
1554 Piebendnry of Ulskelf in the Church of Yoik, and one of the divines sent
to urge John Brail foid to recant. He dedicated his Logic to Gardiner, Bishop
of Winchester. The present copy has no tiile-page. It contains the auto-
^aph of " Tho : Fairfax " boldly wtittcn on the page bearing Carter*s dedica-
tion to Edward Earl of Derby. This nobleman died in 1 574, and Carter, who
seems to have known him, calls him the ** most beni)>n patron of letters."
The volume has also autographs of "John Duncalf,'* " Benjamin Banister,"
and others, and a crypiogiaphic Alphabet, with John Duncalt's name wiitten
in the same. The book possesses some local value. Its Editor Peter
Carter M.A., of Cambridge, was elected Ashcton Fellow of St John's
College, Cambridge, in 1554. See Baker's S /ohn*s, p. 286, who adds
** Petrus Carter scripsit annot. in Jo. Seloni Dialecticam." He was a native
of Lancashire, and born about 1530. Cooper in the Ath, Cantab., i 382, says
that he is believed to have been living in 1577. From Doilsworth's MSS.
(vol. 145, fo, 145), we may derive the date of his death, and m.iy connect him
still clober with his native couuty. Dod&worlh, who was fiequenily at Preston,
describes the

Epilaphiu' Petri Catlcri, eiigi..veu about a fail scjnaie slope, .siipportc4

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>39

yfi\\\\ four stones at each comer half a yard fro the ground, in ye Church yard
ol I'reslou iu Amoundernes w'thin ye co. of Lane* :

f*Hoc monumentum legit P.C. Cantabrif>ien*
Magistrum in artibus Sociiim Colleg' S. lo.
Annotalionu' in lo. Set : Logic. Autbore'
Piestoiiie ludimag' Mottuu* juxta annu'
^tatis LX anno dom*i 1590 SepuU' octo Sept."
Seton*s work is commended in verse by Thomas Drant, Thomas Newton
"Cestreshyiius" William Carther, Thomas Watson, Alban Langdale and
Thomas Vavisor. The lines of Newton, the Cheshire poet, are as follows :
Te iuuenum philomusa probat, Setone, caterua,

Euehit Sc laudes sydera adtisque tuas.
Te nihil6que mintis Cattere diseite, foutbunt.

Qui Logicae griphos enucleare doces.
Plaudite tyrones : laetare scholastica pubes,

£t gratum grata concine voce melos.
Setonum sertis, Carteruni omato corollis :
Messis vt in vestio luzurietur agro.

T.N.
To the edition before us is appended Arithmetica Memoratrva by William
Buckley of Lichfield and Cambridge, prefaced by T. H. This consists of the
arithmetical rules turned into Latin verse.

B.

University Examinations, June 1905.

Mathematical T&ipos Part I.

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Hardy, G. S. (br)
Strain, T. G. {br)
Khan, F. M. (br)
CuUis, L.

Senior Optime,
34 Balcombe, H. F. J. (br)

Classical Tripos Part L

Junior Optimes.
45 Watts, B. T. (hr)
51 Robinson, H. I.

Itrsi Class,
Division 2,

Second Class.
Division I.

Third Class.
Division 2.

Brooke, Z. N.

Harris, H. W.

Cheese, W. G.

Division 2.

Division 3.

Coop, W.
Sharp, W. H. C.

Finch, H. K.

Division 3.

Bell, R. E. T.

Classical Tripos Part IL

First Class.

Ds Crecs, J. H. E.

Ds Sands, P. C.

Both placed in the First Class for History.

Natural Sciences Tripos Part L

First Class.
Airey, J. R.
Bosworih, T. O.
Cullen, A. £.
Jones, P. C. V.
Slansfeld, A. E.
Wiihey, W. H.

Second Class.
Ds Beckett, J. N.
Koh, K. S.
Weston, T. A.

Third Class.
Coad, C. N.
Cummins, C. A.
Hyams, A.
Moore, R. M.
Thompson, £. £.

14a Our Chi 01* Lie.

Natu&al Sciencss Trisos Pail II.

First Clas9.

Crowther, J. A. (Physics)

Law Tripos Part I.

Third Class,
Van Hccs. A. S. M.
Checkland, M. B.

iLkM Tripos Part IL
First Class, Third Class,

Taylor, J. N. Rose, H. C.

Kingdon, D.

Hamilton, A. J. S»

Approved for the degree of LL.B,
Ds Allen, J. £. P. Ds Hazebigg, G.

Historical Tripos Pavt I.
First Class, Second Class. Third Class^

Browne, A. E. Tarvis, C. H. Clissold, W.

Young, P. N. F. Squire, J. C. Kecble, C. F. A.

Historical Tripos Part II.
First Class, Second Class, Third dass^

Ds Yeob, G. S. Grant, F. H. S. Shannon, G. C»

Hamilton, K. L. B.
Wilkinson, L. U.

Moral Sciencss Tripos Part I.

Third Class,

Division 2.

Knight, C.

Thbolooical Tripos Part I»
First Class.
Rostron, S.

Theological Tripos Part II.

Second Class,

Ds Pope, N. C.

Mechanical Sciences Tripos Part I.
First Class, Third Class.

Sean, J. C. Lusk, J.

Economics Tripos Part L

Second Class,

Division 2.

WhUe, F. A.

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141

CoLLKGE Awards at the Aknual Election, June 1905.

Pkizembn.
Mathematics.
Third Year (1904 Dec) Second Year,

First Class. First Class.

Hardy 1 D«

•Hass6i| ♦Hume )

Strain Jackson l

Khan TitteringtonJ

Tripos, Part I. Belgrave

Cullis Piaggio

♦ Second Year. ♦ First Year.

Thboloot.
First Year.
First Clots.
Cripps

Law.
Third Year.
First Class, Tripos Part 2.
Taylor, J. N.

Meoieyal and Modern Lamquaqes.
Second Year.
First Class.
Worrall

Oriental Languages.
Second Year,
First Class.
Bentley

Classics.
Second Year. First Year.

First Class.

Meldnim
Ellis

Johnston, A. B.

First Class,
Twinn
Gledstone
Campbell
Gaudy

Natural Sciences.

Third Year.

Second Year.

First Year.

First Class^ Tripos

Parti.

First Class.

Cullcn

Airey

Adams

Tones, P. C. V.
Stansfeld

Bofiwoith

^

Withey

Mechanical Sciences.

History.

First Year.

Second Year. First Year.

First Class.

First Class, Tripos Part I. First Class.

Rennie

Brown,

A. E. Wadia

Young

Ward

ouNDATioN Scholarships Continued for the Ensuing Year.

ns Adams, F.

ns

Koh, K. S.

ns Airey, J. R.

m

Khan, F. M.

tf Brooke, Z. N.

h Ds Nissim, J.

c Campbell, A. Y.

m

Piaggio, H. T. H.

c Coop, W.

h

Reddy, C. R.

c Ds Crees, J. H. E.

c Ds Sands, P. C.

ns Crowlher, J. A.

mech

Sears, J. E.

ns CuUen, A. E.

c

Sliarp, W. H. C.

c Darwin, J. H.

ns

Stansfeld, A. £.

m I>6, B.

c

Stewart, D. M.

€ Gledstone, F. F.

m

Strain, T. G.

m Hardy, G. S.

ns

Templeman, W. H.

e Harris, H. W.

m

Tittcrington, E. J. G.

m Hass^, H. R.

h

Ward, D. W.

ns Hill, J. K.

ml

Worrall, N.

m Jackson, C. A.
ns JoUy, E. H. P.

h

Ycoh, G. S.

142

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EXHIBITIONEKS.
ol Bentley, J. H.
ns Hume, P. J.
nuch Rennie, D. W.
c Twinn, F. C. G-
h Wadia,N.J.

Foundation Scholars Electkd,
m Bel grave, A. C.
ns Bo&worth, T. 0«

h Brown, A. £.
m Cullis, L.

e Ellis, A. L.

€ Johnston, A« B.
ns Jones, P. C. V.
ns LAII. P.

c Meldtum, R.
ih Rostron, S.

/ Taylor, J.N.
ns Wiihey, W. H.

h Young. P.N. F.
e classics; m matktmoHcs ; h history; I law; ns natural sciencgs;
al orisnlal languages; th thioUgy*

Mason Prize.

(/#r Hebrew),

Bentley

English Essay Paizb.
Ihtrd Yeir.
McDonnell
First Year,
Meldium)
Young J

Reading Prizes.
Skene )
White/

Greek Testament Prize.
Rostrou
Ream

Adams Memorial Prize.
Seats
Highly commended.
Airey Hardy

Collis Tittciinstoa

College Prizes.
(Research Students).
Barlow, P. S.
Dyer, C. H.

Wiioht's Prizes.
Second Year, First Year.

Airey Hume

Hass« Jolly, E. H. P.

Meldrum Kennie

Worrall Twinn

Wadia

Hughes Prizes.
Third Year,
Crowthcr Brooke \

Rostron >
Sean )

Newcomr Prizk-

(for Moral Philosophy),

not awaidtd

HocKiN Prize.

(for Physics).

Airey

Hutchinson Studentship.

{for research in Physics).

Crowther.

Open Scholarships and Exhibitions, December 1904.

Foundation Scholarships of £%o :

{for Mathematics) Barnes, G. G. (Owens School, Islington).

{for MathemcUics) Jouts, R. McN. (Latymer Upper School,

Hammenmith).
(for Classics) Dodd, R. P. (Dean Close School, Cheltenliam).

Foundation Scholarship 0/ £to :

(for Mathematics) Dunkley, H. F. (Wellingborough Grammar

School}.

Our Chronicle, 143

Foundation Scholarships o/'^^o :

(for Mathematics) Leonard, P.J. (Newport Intermediate School).

I/or Mathomaiics) Ross, T. E. C. (Rugby School),

{for Classics) Rose, H. A. (Uppingham School).

Aftnor Scholarships of £to :

{/or Mathematics) Marrack, J. R. (Blundeirs School, Tiverton).

{/or Classics) Anderson, L. R. D. (Rugby School).

I /or Natural Science) Parnell, F. R. (Noi ihampton and County School).

( for Natural Science) Whiddington, R. (William Ellis Endowed

School, London).
Exhibitions 0/ £^0 :

( for Classics) Coroey, L. G. (Warrington Grammar School).

{/or Classics) Hicks, F. W. (Durham School^.

(/or Classics) Brice-Smith, R. (Pocklington (jrammar School).

{/or Natural Science) Dollraan, J. G. (St Paul's School).

{/or Natural Science) AUott, C. B. S. (Dewsbury Grammar School).

Exhibitions Limited to Schools ani> Open Exhibitions.

Elected 30 September 1905.

Exhibition, School.

Baker Duiham F. W. Hicks.

Dowman Pocklington R. Biice-Smith.

Lupton Sedbergh A. M. Dawson.

Somerset Manchester W. S. Monigomerie.

„ Hereford G. A. R. Thuisficld.

Open Exhibitions 0/ £lo.
M. Kraus, Manchester Grammar School and Owens College.

A.J. D. Tony Bedford Grammar School.

R. S. Hawcridge Manchester Giammar School.
J. E. Hughes St John's College School, Ystrad Mcuiig.

E. V. Iremonger Christ's Hospital.

English Essay Prizes 1905.

{For the subjects see Vol xxvi, p. 418.)

Jhird Year : J. Eraser.
Second Year: P. N. F. Young.
I'irst Year: D. W. Ward.

General Athletic Ciub.

A Committee Meeting was held in Mr Sikes' rooms on
October 25, when Dr Shore explained the effect of the new
Licensing Act upon the licence of the Cricket Pavilion, and it
was subsequently decided not to take out a licence of any kind
for the present year.

Mr Graves' resignation having been read and reluctantly
accepted, the following were nominated to serve as junior
members of the Committee : — F. Johnston (to be Secretary) and
T. M. Sibly. Messrs J. Fraser, H. S. Crole-Rees, and J. G.
Scoular were elected to serve on the Reading Room Committee.

A General Meeting was held in Lecture Room VI on
November 14, at which the two junior members were elected
for the ensuing year, and the Trea^^nrcr submitted his report.

144 Our Chronicle.

St John's Collbob Amalgauatbd Athletic Club,

BaUnu Sh*ii for thi Ytar 1904-5.

£ '• *'
Balance in the Bank .... 15 16 1 1

Subsciiptionf :
Ms. Terin....S27 15 o
Lt. Tenii....l73 15 o
E. Term....S32 o o

623 10 o

From Deposit Account 127 3 o

jf766 9 "

Exp^ndiiurt,

£ J. d.
To Lady Margaret Boat

Club 360 o o

„ Ciicket Club iia 4 10

„ Football Clubs 48 8 8

„ Alliletic Club 27 4 6

„ Lawn Tennis Club . . 59 19 6

„ Lacrosse Club 8 6 2

,, Hockey Club 9^3

„ Fives Club 17 18 7

„ Collector's Fee 12 9 5

M Cheque Book o 10 o

Balance at the Bank .... 1 10 o o

;t766 9 II

R. F, Scott, Treasurer,
Audited and found correct, L. H. IC Bushe Fox.

6 November 1905.

Lady Margaret Boat Club.

President^lir L. H. K. Bushe-Fox. Treasurer^lir R. F, Scott.
isi C(iptam—F, f. Lewin. 2nd Captain — ¥» A. R. Hiegins. Secretary^
T. M. Sibly. Junior Treasurer— X. Meldrum. \st Lent Captain -"hlL.
Henderson, tnd Lent Captain— J, B. Konaldson. ^rd Lent Captain —
N. Lincoln. Additional Captain^ K. G. P. Fayerman.

The Cambridge Regatta was held on August 3. There were
not many members of the L.M.B.C. taking part, but the Club
was represented in the Pairs by J. B. Ronaldson and H. A. L.
Laidlaw — unluckily they ran into the bank in the first heat and
so spoilt their chances; by R. H. Vercoe in the Maiden Sculls,
who won his first heat, but was beaten in his second ; and by
F. A. R. Higgins in the Scratch Eights, having stroked a boat
to victory in three heats, unfortunately he lost in the final. Some
days earlier the following crew journeyed to Upwarc in the
•»Brocas":—

J. B. Ronaldson {hew)
2 P. T. Lewis

li.

A. R. Higgins

5 H G. Frean

6 Mr J. J. Lister

7 H. Sanger

Mr L. H. K. Bushe.Fox {siivke)
A. G. L. Hunt {cox)

Returning after a swim, and tea (for which they were indebted
to Mr Bushe-Fox), they were entertained to dinner by Mr J. J.
Lister. At the Nottingham Regatta in July 11. Sanger and
J. Towle won the Open Pairs.

As usual, the College Coxwaiuless Four was piactising some

Our Chronicle. 145

d^y% before the commencement of full term, and were rowing to
within a week of the races, when it had to be taken off, the
doctor having forbidden ' stroke ' to row any more for a fortnight.
This was extremely unfortunate, for if they had escaped being
drawn against 3rd Trinity we should have been surprised not to
have seen them in the final ; the crew consisted of T. Fraser
(bow and steerer), F. A. R. Higgins (2), R. Medrum (3), P. J.
Lewis (stroke).

The Coxwainless Four Races took place on Wednesday,
Thursday, and Friday, November i, 2, and 3.

Wednesday. Christ's beat Pembroke, and Third Trinity
beat Jesus.

Thursday. Third Trinity beat Christ's in 11 mins. 15 sees.
First Trinity beat Trinity Hall by 30 yards. This race would,
no doubt, have resulted differently if Trinity Hall had not had
the misfortune to break a rudder line at Post Corner ; in order
to get round at Ditton they were obliged to hold the boat up,
and were much hampered all over the course.

Friday. Third Trinity easily beat First Trinity in 1 1 mins.

There were three entries for the Pearson and Wright Sculls,
which were rowed on Thursday, November 9 ; the result was as
follows:— ist T. M. Sibly, 2nd H. A. L. Laidlaw, 3rd R. H.
Vcrcoe.

The Colquhoun Sculls took place on Tuesday and Wednesday,
November 14 and 15, in splendid racing weather ; both days
were bright, and a slight following breeze was blowing. The
entry was rather small, but the four competitors made up in
quality what they lacked in quantity, and we saw the record
lowered on both days.

Tuesday. R. V. Powell (Third Trinity) beat B. M. Arnold
(Jesus) by no yards in 7 mins, 49 sees., thus beating Nelson's
1902 record of 7 mins. 57 sees, by 8 sees. D. C. Stuart (Trin.
Hall) easily beat H. E. Blackburne Daniell (First Trinity) in
8 mins. 15 sees. Stuart, who had second station, was paddling
just behind Blackburne Daniell over the last half of the course.

Wednesday. R. V. Powell beat D. C. Stuart by about 2 sees.
in the splendid time of 7 mins. 46 sees. This was a most
exciting race. Stuart, who had second station, gained consider-
ably up the Post Reach, but after this Powell, aided by fine
steering, began to draw away. When they had turned into the
Long Reach they were their distancs apart again, and Powell
continued to gain very slowly until the winning post was reached.
A barge, which had stopped at 100 yards from the finish, forced
both competitors to make a slight detour, and Stuart just touched
it with his scull, but this apparently did not affect the result.

The College Trial Eights have been rather above the average
this year. A good number of men have been rowing this term^
a large proportion being freshmen, several of whom have already
VOL XXVII* U

i4ii Our Chronicle.

learnt how to shove ; in the Senior Trial, stroked by N. Lincoln,
there were six Freshmen, including the cox, and three in the
boat stroked by H. A. L. Laidlaw. In practice the times of
these two boats were both good, and it was evidtnt that the race
would be a good one. It is quite probable that Lincoln's boat
would have lowered the *' Crock" £ight record (8 mins. i sec.)
if conditions had been favourable ; in spite of a considerable
head wind the course was rowed in 8 mins. i6 secs.» Lincoln's
boat beating Laidlaw's by about 30 yard^. There were four
Junior Trials, including a " Soccer " boat, all of which raced
well. In the first heat the boat stroked by J. G. Stokes defeated
a boat stroked by K. T. Khong by little more than a second ; in
the second heat the boat stroked by A- C. Belgrave gained
considerably on the ** Soccer *' boat ; the final afforded another
excellent race, Bclgrave's boat winning by about 15 j-ards. On
the following Monday evening a successful Boating Dessert was
held in Lectun* Room VI. Mr J. Collin was in the chair,
Mr £. £. Sikes and Mr C. B. Rootham were also present.
A. L. Gorringe, in replying to the toast of other clubs, remarked
that boating was the only sport in which the voice was much
used, the advantage of this was amply displayed in the oratory
of the Captain and others.

The following are the names of the winning crews : —

Siftiors. Juniors,

P. G. AU](aiid«r (h(m) Q. H. Allen {Jb9w\

% B. C, Alexander a M. W. PaterbCMi

3 W. S. Montgomcila 3 D. Ward

4 G. A. R. Thuibficia 4 B. M. Jones

5 K. T. Cole 5 F. Dunkley
o T. M. Sibly 6 W. VVUlclt

7 V. C. Boddington 7 W. C. Hallack

N. Lincoln {stroke) A. C. Belgrave (stroke)

V. W. J. Hobbs (cox) E. F. Tuaer (cox)

Several L.M.B.C. men were tiied in the 'Varsity Trials during
practice ; P. J. Lewis has been stroking and A. G. L. Hunt coxing
one throughout ; their crew won the race at Ely on Saturday,
December 2, with great ease. This is the second occasion on
which P. J. Lewis has stroked the winning Trial Eight. We
hope his merit will be recognised, and ihat we shall see him
stroking the 'Varsity Eight next term.

On Friday, November 14, the fifth annual Lady Margaret
Concert, in aid of the Boat House Fund, was held in the College
Hall at 8.30 p m. The Hall was fairly >vell filled, and to judge
from the numerous encores the Concert was much enjoyed.
The' Rev H. Sanger came up from Strood, and contributed
gteatiy to the success of the Concert by his comic songs. The
two posters designed stnd executed by the second Lent Captain
were •yen more alluring than those of last year, and must have
convinced the undecided that, if they did not come, they would
be missing the opportunity of a life-time. The amount realized
(or the Fund was about / 28 y.

Our Chronicle. 147

The programm6 is appended : —

PART I.

1 PlAlforo&TB Solo . . <* Hochzeitstaf anf Troldhaugen " Grug

G. S. Ha&dt.

2 SONO "ToMary" WhiU

J. W. Whte.

3 Quartette •< The long day closes" SuUivan

R. Turner. C. C. Plowright.

C. F. A. KEEBLB. £. H. MUNCEY.

4 Song. "Varmcrjan" ,..

O. V. Patne.

5 SoNO " Serenade " Sckuberi

V. C. BODDINGTON.

6 SOHO <'.It was an English Lady Blight" Rootham

R. Turner.

7 Song " The Perfect Oar "

H. Sanger.

PART n.

1 Pianoforte Solo. • <* German Rounds No. 5 " Uosk<fwski

A. Chappls, J. Eraser.

2 Song "HoochAye" .,. Frame

J. B. RONALDSON.

3 Quartette " Break, break, break " Root?iam

R. TuRNE. C. C. Plowright.

C. F. A. Keeble. £. H. Muncet.

4 Song.. • " Mary of Argyle" NeUon

J. W. Whyk.

5 Violin Solo • .. *' Benedictus" Macluntu

A. G. P. Fayerman.

6 Song " A Voice by the Cedar Tree " ...Somervell

E. H. Muncet.

7 Song '^ Accompanied by the Composer " Kent

L. R. Frrgusson.

8 Solo & Chorus . . " Lady Margaret Boating Song [* Garrett ^

Solo by First Boat Captains.

m8

Cur Chroiiu le.

Lady Marqarst Boat Clu&

Balame Sheet for the Year 1904-5.

Receipts,

Balance at the Bank ....
CMkb ill haniif of Juuior

Treasurer

Geneial Athletic Club ..
Entrance Fees, Fines, &c.

12 12

d.

4 «

360

" 4

9

6

/398 9 3

Expenditure.

£ *. ^-

C.U.B.C. Assessment 92 10 o

„ Entrance Fee . . 3

,y Fines 3

Horse hire (Metcalfe) .... 26
Hoises standing (Callaby) 2

Hire of Bicycles • • 5

Boat House :

Rates 15

lokperial Taxes a

Insurance I

New Flag o

Forster (washing) 14

Prizes 26

Water Rates 6

Gas Rates I

Aylxng for Oars 21

Wages (Forster and Taylor) 75

Coal and Coke 2

Bills: Repairs and Main-
tenance 30 14 7

Ferries and Locks 3 14 o

Royston (painting names

of crews) x o 6

Blazers and Caps for Boat-
men • 5 10 6

Sundty Small Bills :

Senior Treasurer «•.. 7 8 11
Junior Treasurer . . • • 4 16 i

Cheque Book o 10 o

Cash in hands of Junior

Treasurer o o 8

Balance at the Bank .... 42 411

;f39« 9 3

R. F. Scott, Treasurer,
Audited and found correct, J. G. Lbathem.

23 October 1905.

Association Football Club.

The Soccer team made a better beginning this year than
last, and except in one or two matches have fairly well held
their own. Oat of 8 League Matches they have won 4 and
lost 4, and altogether have done auite as well as was expected.
Their success, such as it is, is due partly to I. J. Best, the
Captain, who has scored 16 goals out of a total of 35, and partly
to G. M. C. Taylor in goal, without whose efforts the goal
average against them would be far higher. The and XI. has

Our Chronicle. 149

done well on the whole, and we hope to see them in the
League by next season. We are glad to see so many Freshmen
playing Soccer this year, and hope they will continue to do so
in future years. We offer our congratulations to G. M. C. Taylor
on playing for the *Varsity in the last few matches, and wish
him the best of luck; we also congratulate F. Johnston on
playing in the Seniors' Match and R. Brice-Smith in the
Freshmen's Match. We append a list of matches :—

OpponenU.

King'f

Sidney (A)

Result.

...Won

....Lost

For

...
... 6

Agst.
....
...• 6

WestWratling..
Trinity Hall* ...
Pembroke ••••••,

...Lost

...Won

...Won

.... 3
....

Clare*

....Lost

Caius

....Won

Trinity Hall* ...
Christ'f

....Won,....
....Won

KingV

,,..Won.,.,.

Trinity Rest* . .
Queens'*

....Lost

....Lost

.... 6
• ••. I

Pembroke* ..••
Caius*

....Lost

....Won

* League Matches.

Played 8, Won 4, Lost 4, Goals for 23, Goals against 33.

Other Matches.

Played 5, Won 4, Lost i. Goals for 13, Goals against 6.

RuoBT Football Club.

The season opened with bright enough prospects, as we
were fortunate in having eleven old colours up and also suflScient
good material to fill the remaining places — from a limited
number of ''Freshers" and from last year's 2nd XV. These
prospects have been fairly well realized, as will be seen from
the record given below, which is the more creditable considering
how often the team has been weakened by the absence of
several prominent members. Out of a total of 15 matches
played we have won 10, lost 4, and drawn i. It is also satis-
factory to have added another to the list of our wins against
B.N.C, Oxford. Colours have been given to C. D. D. Hogan,
A. Thornwaite. S. Brayshay, R. M. Moore, J. £. Sears, and
£. W. Greene. We were represented in the Freshmen's Match
by C. D. D. Hogan and A. Thornwaite, and in the Seniors' by
A. E. Evans, J. G. Scoular, W. C. Thompson, and R. V. J. S.
Hogan. We heartily congratulate J. G. Scoular on being
chosen to play for Scotland against the New Zealanders, also
for Cambridge v. Oxford.

1 50 Our ChramcU.

Ftr, Agmimtf,

Date. Opp^mnU. Ground. R$tUU. G. T. P. G. T. F.

Oct. i7..£ininMiu«l •.••Emitiaiiael ••••I.oit.. 01 6 .« « 4 22

„ acTriniiy.. .Trinily Lost.. 00 o .. 1 o 5

,, 34..Ciart St John's Woa.. I i 8 .. o i 3

,, i7..Caius Cams Won.. 10 5 .. o 1 3

,, 31 .. Pembroke ....Pembroke ....Won.. 10 5 .. o o o

Nov. 3.. Trinity Hall.... Trinity HaU.... Lost.. 00 o .. I o 5

„ 6.. Emmanuel ....St John's Won., 03 9 •• o o o

M 8.. Jesus Jesus Won., i 2 ii .. i o 5

,, io..Caius St John's Lost.. 01 3 .. 2 1 16

„ 14.. Queens' Queens' Won., i 6 23 .. i i 8

„ i5..Chiisi's St John's Won.. 11 8 .. *i o 3

,, 16.. King's King's Won.. II 8 .. o i 3

„ 20.. B.N.C.,Oxrord..St John's Won., o 4 12 .. o i 3

„ 24.. Trinity Hall.... St John's Draw.. 00 o .. o o o

„ 29. .Trinity St John's Won.. I 4 17 .. o o o

* Penalty Goal.

Lawk Tennis.

Lpng Vacation 1905.

When the team bad settled into working order, after the first
three matches, we had a very successful time. The complete
record shows 7 matches won, 4 lost, and 1 drawn. In the photo*
graph before going down were included L. H. K. Bushe-Fox,
P. H. Winfield, H. G. Frean, A. E. Evans {Secretary), A. C.
Belgrave, and A. Chappie {Captain).

Long Vacation Cricket Club.

Cdptain^VL. Chappie. Secretary— M, B. Checklaod.
Matches played 12, Won 3, Lost 5, Drawn 4.

The batting and bowling averages have unfortanately been
mislaid. The best batting was shown by A. C. Belgrave, who
was very consistent, A. J. S. Hamilton, A. £. Evans, H. Chappie,
and B. W. Green.' In bowling the most successful were R. G.
Gill, A. E. Evans, and M. B. Checkland. The College Mission
were unfortunately unable to get a team this year; but the
College Servants' Match, followed by an enjoyable Supper and
Concert, was played as usual.

Chess Club.

Prnidmt^'Mx W. H. Gunston. Vice-President— -IE.* E. Thompson.
Secretary — A. Geake. Treasurer^-C, G. Sharp. Committee ^D. M.
Stewart, E. H. P. Jolly.

The first meeting of the Club was held in Mr E. £.
Thompson's rooms, on October 13, when the above-named

Our Chronicle, 151

officers were elected. Up to the present two matches have
been played; the first, against Trinity College, resulting in
a victory for St John's by 5^ games to \ game. The second,
against the University at the Lion Hotel, in which the Club
suffered defeat by 3^ games to 6^ games. On November loth
Mr W. H. Gunston, the President, played a simultaneous series
of games with members of the Club, winning 9^ games out of
10 games.

The membership of the Club continues to be satisfactory.

C. U. R. V.

"G" Company.

Captain — ^R. D. Brownson. Lieutenant — Ferguson (attached). Colour
Sergeant— C, F. A. Keeble. Corporals--^. M. Moore, H. I. Robinson,
JL. C. Newberry.

The Company went into Camp in June with the Corps, when
a most instructive and pleasant week was spent on Salisbury
Plains. The Corps was favoured with excellent weather, and
thus enabled to carry out a series of operations, in which the
Company showed to great advantage. On the Saturday sports
were held, and members of *' G" Company won the admiration
of all spectators by their heroical '* cock fighting" and other
tranches of sport.

This term a Field Day has been arranged in conjunction
with other Corps at Easton Park, near Bishop's Stortford, when
it is hoped a good number will be present to take part.

Recruiting is now going on, though not very fast, and many
more new members are needed to fill up vacancies left by those
who have gone down.

The Shooting of the Company throughout the year calls for
special commendation, as the Company stands second in the
Annual Returns for the year ; while in the field practices carried
out in Camp the Company was bracketted first with **E" Co.
'J his, in a Company of such small dimensions, is highly credit-
able, and it is to be hoped that the next year will show that the
Company is capable of a further effort, and will stand at the
head in both parts.

Captain Brownson attended the School of Musketry, Hythe,
in September, where he passed out first*of 177 in the course for
Officeis and N.C.O.'s of the Auxiliary Forces.

Musical Society.

President-^'Dt J. E. Sandys. Treasurer— ^t\ A. J. Stevens. Librarian--^
Mr C. B. Rootham. Committee — A. Chappie, J. Eraser, R. Turner, C. B. L.
Yearsley, A. Y. Campbell. Hon, Sec— A, G. P. Fayciman. Conductor —
"hir Rootbam M.A., Mus.Bac.

The following are the programmes of Smoking Concerts

t5i Our ChfonicU.

giveD on Thursday, October 26, and Thursday, November 16,
respectively : —

Fint Conctrt-^

PART I.

I PiAMO Solo <* Serenade Espagnole " SiUo

J. K. Dkane.

s SOMO, • ** On Wings of Song " .....•.•••. ,Mtnd£lssokn

V. C. BooomoTOM.

5 SoNa

J. B. ROKALDSON.

4 ViolxmSolo "Sonate" DeMcUr

G. M. CaUICK8HANK«

5 SoNo . •

L. R. FSRGUSSON.

PART n.

I Piano Solo

G. A. R. Thursfikld.

a SoNO " Three for Jack *' Squirt

£• H. MUNCKT.

3 Banjo Solo • Anmi

R. V. J. S. HOOAN.

4 SONO • ••

V. W. J. HOBBS.

5 SONO A. N. Other

L. R. Fbrousson.

GOD SAVE THE KING.

Chairman — Dr Tanner.
Second Concert —

PART I.

1 Piano Solo .... Selection from " Caisse Noisette "

J. K. DSANB.

2 SoNO A . " Serenade " Tschaikawsky

V. C. BODDIMOTON.

3 Violin Solo «• Madiigal" Catl Bohm

A. G. P. Fatbkuan.

4 SoNO «* She wandered down the mountain side " Clay

C. C. Plow&ioht.

5 Vocal Quartette

R. TUKNKR. C. F. A. Kekblr.

C. B. L. Ykarsley. C. C. Plowriqht.

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PART n.

t Piano Solo

G. S. Hardy.

2 SoNO "The Daily Question *' . * Meyer-Helmar

R. Turner.

3 Vocal Quartette . . . . " The long day closes " Sullivan

R. Turner. C. F. A. Kbeblb.

C. B. L. Yearslet. C. C. Plowright.

4 Song "I mind the day •' Willeby

C. F. A. Kbeble.

5 Song Louis

L. R. Fergusson.

GOD SAVE THE KING,

Chairman — Mr Bashe-Fox.

We were glad to see so large attendances at both the Smokinjc
Concerts. Our best thanks are accorded to Dr Tanner and
Mr Bushe-Fox for so kindly taking the chair at the Concerts.

Organ Recital.

On Sunday, December 3, an Organ Recital was given in the
College Chapel by Mr C. B. Roolham, College Organist. The
following pieces were played :—

, \{a) Pastoral Symphony from Chiistmas Oratorio) j ^ n,^.

'• t(*) Prelude and Fugue in C mmor \ J.i>.isacn

2. Fantasia on melody, << Now thank we all our God " Herwgihberg

3. Sonata in G major (op. 28) Rlgar

{a) Allegro maestoso (h) Allegretto

{f) Andante cspressivo (d) Presto

4 . Barcarolle from 4th Concerto Sterndali- Bennett

5. Offertoire (No. 2) sur des Noels Guilmant

Debating Society.

President^h. G. Coombs. Vice-President— C, F. Hodges. Secretary^
P. N. F. Young. Committee—K, A. L. Laidlaw, A. L. Goninge.

We have turned over a new leaf; in other words the Society
lias equipped itself with a revised and improved edition of th^
Rules, and nearly ^11 are now intelligible. The revision was
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154 Our Chr ancle.

can led through wilh remarkable ease, owing to the enforced
absence of the chief obstructionist during most of the business
meeting.

In the number and quality of new speakers, though not by
any means all that could be desired, the term has been on the
whole successful, but in numbers in general it has been distinctly
disappointing, since on one occasion only has 50 been passed.
We might remark to Freshmen and others that it is never too
late to join.

We heartily congratulate H. W. Harris on his Presidency,
and C. R. Rcddy on his Vice-Presidency, of the Union.

Saturday, October 21. C. F. Hodges (Vice-President) moved
that •• Language is more futile than useful." P. N. F. Young

Son. Sec.) opposed. For the motion there spoke H. A. L.
idlaw, W. Byron-Scott, and C. R. Reddy ; and against it A. L.
Gorringe, Z. N. Brooke (Ex-Pres.), A. D. Allen, W. K. Hav,
|. W. H. Trumper, W. Vcevers, C. W. Previt^-Orton, M. Kraus,
J. S. Smith, and A. S. Thomas. I'he motion was lost by 5 votes.
Forty-five members and others wcie present during the evening.
We cannot forbear congratulating the Hon. Opener on his most
brilliant effort ; he quite surpassed himself.

Saturday, Octobet 28. J. C. Squire moved that ** Acting is not
an Art." A. Y. Campbell opposed. W. K. Hay, A. D. Allen,
and H. Gandy spoke for the motion ; and against it J. W. H.
Trumper, N. Worrall, C. F. Hodges (Vice-Pres.), W. Vecvers,
Z. N. Brooke (Ex-Pres.), D. W. Ward, E. F. Tozer, R. P. Dodd,
C. W. Prcvitd-Orton, M. Kraus, R. Mcldrum. H. A. L. Laidlaw,
G. A. R. Thursfield, and C. R. Reddy. The motion was lost
by I a votes. Thirty-seven members were present.

Saturday, November j^, R. Meldrum moved that "The British
Empire is too large." Z. N. Brooke (Ex-Pres.) opposed. C. R.
Reddy and D. W. Rennie also spoke for the motion ; E. A.
Benians, M. Henderson (Hon. Aud.), P. N. F. Young (Hon.
Sec ), J. H, W. Trumper, E. F. Tozer, and W. L. Wood against
it. The motion was lost by 17 votes. Forty-five members and
others were present during the evening.

Saturday, November 11 {the Freshmen's Debate) R. P. Dodd
moved that •• Environment is the most pottnt factor in deter-
mining character." W. Veevers opposed. For the motion there
spoke A. D. Allen, R. S. Cripps, L. R. Fergusson, A. Y. Camp-
bell, and A. L Gorringe ; against, C. W. Previt^-Orton. P. N. F.
Young (Hon. Sec), R. T. Cole, and H. W. Harris (Ex-Pres).
The motion was lost by 3 votes. Forty members were present
during the evening.

Saturday, Nwember 18. R. T. Cole moved that "Delilah is
Stronger than Samson." A. L. Gorringe opposed. There also

Our Chronicle 155

spoke, for the motion, E. F. Tozer, J. Fra«er, Z. N. Brooke (Ex-
Fres), and I. C. Squire; against the motion, L. R. Fergusson,
G. H. Castle, H. A. L. Laidlaw, and M. V. Townend. The
motion was lost by 16 votes. Fifty-eight members were present.

Saturday^ November 25. An Impromptu Debate was held so
that all members might have a fair chance of speaking.

The Hoase first selected L. G. Crauford to propose that
''Professionalism has a degenerating influence on b^port." The
Hon. Opener was quite in earnest; but the Hon. Opposer
(A. L. Gorringe), who, meanwhile, had been applauding most
vociferously the Hon. Optner*s speech, respected his conscience,
and turned to personal remarks in which he was not too felicitous.
The motion was therefore won by 1 8 votes.

M. V. Townend, then proposing that *' Rain is more pleasant
than Snow," said that it was so ; but C. H. G. Philp was quite
confident to the contrary, and was not at all surprised that the
motion was lost by 5 votes.

R. M. Jones then put a masterly interpretation on the
motion that '* Most laconic aphorisms are archaic prevarica-
tions." Of course, C. F. Hodges (Vice-President) had long
felt deeply on the subject, and this appeared to be sufficient, for
the motion was lost by 6 votes.

T. F. Smith was so overcome with emotion when having to
propose that "Crock eights ought to be abolished," that he
spoke for less than two minutes. The Hon. Opposer, however
CW. L. Wood), was not to be outdone, and put a similar limit to
his speech. The motion was lost by 4 votes.

That '* Love casteth out fear " was proposed by R. P. Dodd,
who was youthfully romantic. The Hon. Sec, however, thought
the motion theological, and was therefore not very happy. The
House preferred romance to theology by 14 votes.

£. J. Mills proposed that '*A soft answer tnrneth away
wrath." C. W. Previt6-Orton opposed. The Hon. Opposer
pointed out that a soft answer would on occasion be singularly
ineffective. The motion was won by i vote.

J. H. W. Trumper moved that " A policeman's lot was not
a happy one." N. Worrall opposed. The Cambridge police-
man was taken as a type: the motion was therefore won by
8 votes.

'* That this House deplores the gastronomical tendencies of
the Age," was proposed by L. R. D. Anderson. G. H. Castle
opposed. The Hon. Opener drew a dreadful picture, and
ventured to hint that some member of the College ate too much
in Hall. The Hon. Opposer somewhat damaged his case by
expatiating upon vegetarianism; the motion was accordingly
won by 3 votes.

G. A. R. Thursfield moved that "Exception does not prove
the rule," but unwittingly sat down too soon. M. Henderson
opposed; during his speech the Vice-President mistook tiie

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motion and made some exceedingly fataous inlerruptions. The
motion was lost by 7 votes.

L. R. Fergusson moved that "The rural opposition to motor-
cars is absurd." He had a particularly telling gibe at fowls.
T. C. Squire, who opposed, treated the matter '* politically,
socially, and morally," and took his stand on the inalienable
rights of man. The motion was lost by 3 votes.

£. C. Dewick moved that ''Teetotalism is a growing eviL
W. Byron-Scott in opposing saw no necessary connection with
tea. The motion was lost by i vote.

R. Meldrum moved that *' Byron is greater than Scott."

At this point the Junior member of Committee, whose not
unexceptional behaviour had already called forth rebuke, became
guiltv of a grave disturbance, and provoked the statuesque
wrath of the President. Requested to withdraw he refused.
A struggle ensued ; and in the midst of the tumult the House
was summarily dissolved. Some 31 members were present
during the evening.

Historical Society.

Pretident — Dr Tanner. Stcrtiary—'E,, A. Benians.

The past term has seen the foundation of a Historical Society
In the College. This welcome development has been rendered
possible at last by the increasing number of our historians, and
their accumulating distinctions during recent years. Early in
the term a constituent assembly met in Mr Ward's rooms to
draw up a constitution for the Society and elect the officers.
At the inaugural meeting on November 8ih Dr Tanner read
a paper entitled "Notes on the First Dutch War" ; at a second
meeting, on November 29, a paper was read by Mr Reddy on
••The Study of Burke." The excellent discussions which
followed both the papers, and the general support which the
Society has received, promise it every hope of success.

Natural Sciknce Club.

Fnsidsnt^K. E. Stansfeld. 7firAftirtfr— >Dr Man*. Secretary —J, A.
Crowther.

Four well attended meetings have been held. The first of
the term, and the 39th of the Club, was held on October 16,
when J. A. Crowther read a paper on " Radwaeturtz.*' On
October 30 J. R. Airey gave an interesting paper on ••Circle
Squares," and on November 13 T. O. Bosworth contributed
a paper on "The Classification of the Sewer Chalk." The last
meeting of the term was held on November 27, when Dr Rivers
read a most interesting paper on •'Survivals."

The following new membeis have been elected to fill

Our Chrot/icle. 157

vacancies in the membership of the Club :— Messrs Moltram,
Foster, Strain, Jolly, and Coombs.

At the last meeting of the term J. A. Crowther was elected
President, and H. C. Honeybourne Secretary for the ensuing
Lent Term.

The College Mission.

President-^Tht Master. Fice-PresiJenis -The President, Mr Mason,
Mr Graves, Dr Sandys, Mr Cox. CammitUe^yix Dyson, Mr Hart {Stnior
Secretary), Mr Rootham. Dr Shore, Dr Tanner, Mr Ward, Dr Watson
{Senior Treasurer), G. H. Castle, W. Clissold, R. T. Cole, H. S. Crole-Rees
{Junior Secretary), W. W. S. Fleet, J. Fraser, F. A. R. Higgins, H. C.
Honeybounie, G. M. C. Taylor, J. H. W. Trainper, F. N. F. Young {Junior
Treasurer),

Boyi Camp, — ^This was once more held at Rye Harbour.
We did not this year take any boys who had not left school, but
twenty-six lads, from fourteen to nineteen years of age, spent a
capital week on the Cambridge House Holiday Boat, under
charge of Messrs C. Elsee, H. Sanger, J. B. Irving, and E. J.
Dodgshun. It is difficult to give a short account of a week at
Camp. Those who have taken part in such things know the
pleasures and perils that they involve, whilst to those who have
not we can only suggest that they should try the experiment.
Suffice it to say, that this year Camp was perhaps the most
enjoyable of the four that have been held in recent years. We
had one wet day, but otherwise the weather was perfect. One
lad was stung by a fish in the " keddle nets,'' but with that
exception we had a clean bill of health. Our best thanks are
due to Mrs Sanger for inviting the whole party to Hastings for
the day, an expedition which, in spite of the weather, formed
the climax of a most successful week.

The most prominent event of the Term has been the College
Missions Conference, held in our Combination Room, on
Thursday, November 26. The Master presided, and was sup-
ported by the Bishops of Ely and South wark. Dr Watson
opened the discussion by readini? a paper on the object of
a College Mission, in which he advocated our own policy of
founding and supporting a parish, as against the narrower
conception of exclusively pioneer work. Mr Ingram and
Mr Clark both came up to attend this Conference, and took
advantage of the opportunity to renew and extend their
acquaintance with members of the College. Later on Mr Elsee
came up for a few days, and pressed home the claims and aims
of the Mission as a part of our College life, and the advantages
of the Hostel as a place of resort during the Vacation. His
success seems to have been phenomenal. The interest vaguely
existing has been stimulated to the extent of definite promises
of a visit on the part of a large number. All who fulfil these
promises will have reason to endorse ihe thanks which tho

158 Our ChronicU.

Committee hereby htg leave to offer to Mrs Dyson for her great
kindness in the matter of the decoration of the Hostel. At this
end one has heard vaguely of new curtains and table-cloths
suddenly appearing on a day of fog and gloom. Here is
another incentive— if any were needed — for a visit to Walworth ;
the path of duty is made comfortable. But the boon thus
bestowed will be appreciated most by the Assistant Missioners,
who are permanent inhabitants of the Hostel. Their rooms and
the guest' room will now be more homelike than before. One
is always inclined to ac(juiesce in an existing state of things,
however unsatisfactory, if only it comes short of actual dis«
comfort. Every reformer has to supply her or his own initial
and continued enthusiasm in order to overcome the inevitable
vis ineriiae. But each reform prepares the way for the next.
On behalf of the resident Missioners and of casual residents the
Secretaries beg leave to express their gratitude to Mrs Dyson,
whom for want of a better title they define as one of the
Associates of the Executive.

It is inevitable that those who have seen the homes of the
parishioners of the Church of the Lady Margaret should be
anxious to do something to make them also more comfortable.
The winter is npon us — and them — and work is scarce. They
are country-folk for the most part, though now imprisoned in
the city, their stony-hearted stepmother. Lack of resources —
the back-yard with a pig or fowls, the bit of garden with ils
vegetables — stifles their natural instinct of mutual help. They
cannot dig, and to beg and to take advantage of the Poor Law
relief they are ashamed. It may be wrong and immoral — econo-
mically—to try to help them to struggle through the winter in
their own homes, though the home be only one or two rooms in
(at best) a model dwelling. But it is impossible for an eye-
witness of their hopeless destitution to find comfort in academic
views as applied not to unknown masses, but to known indi-
viduals. Money is needed even more urgently than last year,
and happily money breeds money for the purposes of relief. If
readers of the Eagle will only send contributions freely to the
Senior Missioner, Lady Margaret Vicarage, Walworth, he will
be able to extract corresponding grants from funds such as that
so happily inaugurated by H.M. the Queen. They are our own
people, and they cannot help themselves.

At this end we are doing well. The new officers, Mr Young
and Mr Crole Rees, are already hard at it, choosing collectors
and setting them judiciously to work. The regular subscriptions
for the whole work of the Mission must not be allowed to flag
at this of all times, when we have got our new Senior Missioner.
We have confidence in Mr Ingram, and must show him that we
are ready to do all that is in our power to back him up. The
College must not fail the College Mission, which looks to us
for growth of regular subscrptions and also for a good crop
of spLcial donations.

Our Chronicle. 159

The Bbaufokt Society.

Pnsident—C. H. Dyer. SecrtUry^H. W. Harris. CcmmitUi-^lE, A.
Beoians, £. A. Phillips.

This Society, which, in the language of its rules. ** exists for
the purpose of theological discussion and religious fellowship/'
has come into boing this term. The object of those who
originated it was to establish a Society whose numbers should
be sufficiently small, and whose members should be sufficiently
united in motive and aim, though not necessarily in their
religious opinions, to give the fullest opportunity for free
discussion. Accordingly the numbers have been limited for the
present to fifteen, and a somewhat rigorous system of black-
balling is practiced. Five meetings have been held this term,
at which both the papers and the discussions have been most
satisfactory. The Society was fortunate in its first paper, in
which Mr C. F. Angus, of Trinity Hail, indicated some of the
functions and aims of a Theological Society ; it also had the
privilege of an admirable paper from Prof H. M. Gwatkin. The
following papers have be^n read this term : —

Oct. 12. " The Idea of a Theological Society." C. F. Angus, Trinity Hall

Oct. 16. •« The Society of Friends." H. W. Harris

Nov. 9. «« The Church in the New Testament." C. H. Dyer

Nov. 23. " Fear as an Element in Religion." Prof Gwatkin

Dec. 9. *' The Convenlionfll in ReIt|;ion." £. A. Benians

The Theological Society.

PresidMt—D, Macaulay. Secretaty-^C F. Hodgei. Trtctmrer—H,
Cooper. CommitUe — £. C. Dewick, A. M. Walmsley.

This Society, which celebrates its twenty-first birthday this
term, has been appropriately vigorous ; a new departure is the
establishment of an annual prize to be given for the best essay
on a Theological subject, open to Members and Associates of
the Society.

There are thirty-three Members and nine Associates now in
residence.

The following papers have been read during the term : —
Oct. 20. " Jeiuf , which was a prophet," by Rev Prof Kennet
Oct. 27. "Babylon and the Bible," by Rev Dr Watson
Nov. 3. " Preaching," by Rev H. L. C. V. de Candole, Vicar of Holy Trinity

Chuich, Cambridge
Nov. 17. "The first two Chapters of S Matthew and S Luke," by Rev
Monsignor A. S. Barnes M.A., Trinity College

Another paper, which was to have been read by the Rev
J. F. Buxton, Vicar of St Giles* Church, Cambridge, was
unavoidably postponed.

i6o Our Chronicle.

Among those who have promised to read papers before the
Society next term are the Very Rev the Dean of Ely, the Veu
Archdeacon Hodges, and A. C. Benson Esq.

CoLLEGi Calendar, 1906.
Lent Term (79 days, 60 to keep).

All years come up Monday January r5.

Lectures begin Wednesday January 1 7.

College Examinations . . . .about March 1 2 — 15.

[Term kept Thursday March 15.]

Easter Term (68 days, 51 to keep).

Examination for Choral }

Studentships | Thursday April 19.

All years come up ... . )

Lectures begin Saturday April 21.

College Examinations . . . .about June 4 — 9.

Sizarship Examn begins • .Tuesday June 5.

[Term kept Friday .« June 8.]

Michaelmas Term (80 days, 60 to keep).

First year come up Monday October 8.

Other years come up ... .Thursday October 1 1 .

Lectures begin Saturday October 13.

College Examinations . . . .about December 3 — 6.

FT^rw* i,-«f / "P'^^^ year . . Thursday December 6.

Lierm kept ( other years.. Monday December 10.]

Entrance Examinations will be held on January 15, April 19^
August I, and September 29.

THE NEW BOAT HOUSE FUND.

Steady progress is being made towards paying oflF
the debt on the Boat House. The last hundred pounds
has been broken into, and the hope may be expressed
that the end is now in view.

The subscription list now stands as follows :

£ s. d.
Amount acknowledged in the June

number of The Eagle, xxvi, 430 • • 311 10 o

T. W. Brogden • 2 2 o

A. G. Coombs 5 o

H. S. Crole Rees 10 o

C.H.Dyer S o

P.L.May 5 5 o

Rev H. Sanger i o o

Anonymous • 25 o o

Through the Treasurer 10 o o

Proceeds of the Concert on November

24 (about) •••• 28 o o

The balance now owing, including Bank charges up
to Midsummer last, iS;^43 175. od.

VOL. XXVII.

THE LIBRARY.

• Tki asUruk dtnoUs past or prtsmt Af embers of thi College^

Donations and Additions to the Library during
Quarter ending Midsummer 1905.

Donations.

Fedantiofl : a Latin Comedy formerly acted in
Tiinity College, Cambridge. Edited by
G. C. Moore Smith.* 8vo. Louvain, 1905.

4.3»3 i

Hiddleton (T. H.^. The Improvement of Poor^
Pastures. (Prom the journal of Agric,
Science, Jan. 1905). 4to. Canib. 1905.

Cuiry (C. £.). Electromagnetic Theory or Light.
pMit I. 8vo. Lond. 1905. 3.45.42

*Suyema(su (Baron). Chinese Expansion hin*
totically reviewed. (Proceedings of the
Central Asian Society). 8vd. Lond. 1905.7

Poinca«6 (H.). Science and Hypothesis. With^
a Picface by J. Larmor.* [Translated by
W. J. Gieenitreet*]. 8vo. Lond. 1905.

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John Ky lands Library, Manchester. Bulletin..
Vol. L No. 3. April i904~March 1905.
4 to. Manchester, 1905.

— Catalogue of the MSS. and printed Books
exhibited on the Occasion ot the Visit of
the National Council of the Evangelical
Fret Churches. 8vo. Manchester,

"905.
Aiiitophanes. The Achamians. Edited hy\

C.E.Graves.* 8?o. Camb. 1905. 7.24.57. [
•Hildyard (G. G.). Notes of a Voyage to the'

West Indies on the Steam Yacht Argonauh

in the Winter of 1902-3. 8vo. Stamford,

1903-

Heard (Kev W. A.). The Testimony of Life.
A Sermon on the Occasion of the Death of
J. S. Yeo.* 8vo. Edin. 1904.

*Harman (N. B.). Piisoners, Boer and British.
Reprinted from "The Middlesex Hospital
Journal," July iqo3. 8vo. Lond. 1902.

The Kegisteis of the Faii&h Church of Middleton
in Lancaster. Christenings, Burials, and
Weddings 1653- 1 729. Transcribed by Giles
Shaw. 8vo. Rochdale, 1904. 5.42.10..

Penny (Rev F.). The Church in Madras.
8vo. Lond. 1904. 9.16.31

Benson (A. C.) Fasti Elonenses, a bio^r.iphical
History of Eton selected from the Lives of
celebrated Etonians. 8vo. Eton, 1899./
S-V'-^ , /

DONOR9.

The Editor.

>• Dr D. MacAlister .

The Publisher.

The Librariait of Joho
Rylands Library.

Sjmdics of the Cambridge
University Press.

) Mr Scott.

The Library

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Aiwals of the Cape Observatoiy. Vol. XI. ^

Part ii. A Catalogue of 917 Circumpolar*

Stars. By S. S. Hough.* 4I0. Kdin.

1904.
Greenwich Royal Observatory. Results of

Measures of Photographs of the Sun taken

at Greenwich, in India, and in Mauritius

in 1902. 4to. Edin. 1904. 4.13

Aslrunomical and magnctical and meteoro-

]o{;ical Observations in 1902. 4to. Kdin.

1904. 4.12 *

•Hudson (R. W. H. T ). Kummer's Quartic

Surface. Svo. Camb. 1905. 3.50.12....
Gant (F. J.). Modern Natural Theology. 8vo. '

Lond. 1901. 11.34.74

From our dead Selves to Higher Things.

3rd Edit. 8vo. Lond. 1904. 11.3473..^
Specimens of the Kharosthi Inscriptions dis-\

covered by Dr Stein 'at Niya in Chinese

Turkestan. Tentative Transcriptions and

Translations by £. J. Rapson.* 410.

[Lond. 1905].
♦Mullinger (J. Bass). The Ancient African)

Church : its Rise, Influence, and Decline.

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Edmunds, C. (E. 1908)
Edmunds, L. H. (E. 1908)
Edwardes, H. F. E.
Edwards, Rev N. W A.

Elliot-Smith G.

Ellis, A. L

Elsee, Rev C. (E. 1906)

Evans, A. E.
Evans, E. D.
Evalt, Lieut G. R. K. (E.

1908)
Ewbank, Rev A. (E. 1909)

Murston Rectory, Sittingboume

30, Chalfont Road, Oxford

Great Gransden, Sandy

30, Homsey Rise Gardens, London, N.

I, Garden Court, Temple, E.C.

Wistaria, Crediton, Devon

Lady Margaret Mission, Chatham Street,

Walworth, S.E.
Cairo, Egypt

Bishop Fisher's Hostel, Chatham Street,
Walworth

Erianfa, Eaton Grove, Swansea

Middlesex Regiment, c/o Cox & Co, 16, Charing

Cross, London
7, Lyndhurst Gardens, Ealing, W.

Fayerman, A. G. P.
Fergussou, A.

Fergusson, L. R.
Fc wings, P. J.

The Duke of Cambridge Own, Wellington
Bariacks, Dublin

Kingsbridge House, West Marlandi, South-

amp ton

LiBt of Subscribers.

Vll

Field, Rev A. T. (£. 1906)
Field, A. M. C. (E. 1905)
Field, ReviF. G. E.
Field, J. H.
Finch, H. K.
Fleet, W. W. S.
Fletcher, W. C. (E. 1907)
Flux, A. W. (E. 1905)
Forster, R. H. (E. 1910)
Forster, T. E. (E. igo8)
Foxwell, E. E.
tFoxwell, H. S. (Fellow)

(E. 1906)
Franklin, T. B.
Eraser, J.
Frean, H. G.
Fryer, S. E.

Address,
Rythei* Vicarage, near York
7, Maylield Road, Gosforth, Newcastle-on-Tync
Grammar School, Southport
Hoath Cottage, Crowborough Cross, Sussex
34, Clapham Road, Bedford

37, Cable Road, Hoylake
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Artillery Mansions, 75, Victoria Street, S.W.
3, Eldon Square, Newcastle-on-Tyne

I, Harvey Road, Cambridge
Hilden, Tonbridge, Kent

Cranicombe, The Avenue, Bournemouth
55, Childebert Road, Balham, S.W.

Gamer-Richards, D. B.
Gamctl, W. (D.CL.)
fGanett, H. L.
GaskeU, J. M.
Gaskell, W. (E. 1908)
Gauvain, H. J.
Gaze, E. H.

Genge, Rev £. H. (E. 1910)
Gibbings, Rev W. T.
Gibson, J. (£. 1905)
Giles, R., CLE.
Gill, R. G.
Gillespie, T.
Gledhill,W. G.
Gledstone, F. F.
Glover, F. B. (E. 1905)
Glover, Dr L. G. (E. 1906) .
Glover, T. R. (Fellow)
Gold, £.

Godson, F. A. (E. 1905)
Godwin, Rev C. H. S.
Gomes, Rev E. H. (E. 1906)
Gorringe, A. L.
Goulton, Rev J.
Grabham, G. W.
Grant, F. H. S.
fGraves, Rev C. E. (Fellow)
(E. 1908)

Brandon, Suffolk

1 16, St Martin's Lane, London, W.C.

Queen's College, Hong Kong

The Downs School, Colwall, Nr. Malvern ^

Behra Dun, U.P., India

57, Chancery Lane, London

c/o E. Balding, Esq., 9, Pemberton Gardens^

Upper HoUoway, N.
Lilley Rectory, Luton
65, New Road, Peterborough
15, Menai View Terrace, Bangor
13, The Grove, Boltons, London, S.W.

Forest Lodge, Shirley, Southampton '
13, Kent Street, Gt. Yarmouth

17, Lyncroft Gardens, West Hampstead,- N, Wv
17, Belsize Park, N.

Anstey, Shilton, Coventry
7, Station Road, Cheadle Hulme, nr. Stockport
St Aidaii's Lodge, Middlesborougb-on«Tees
194, Hagley Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham

22, Sherwood Road, Worksop
Geological Survey, Edinburgh

viii List of Stiiscrtders.

Nam€, Addnss,

Green, E. W. Ridley Hall

GreenhUl, Prof A. G. (E, •09) Royal Artillery College, Woolwich
Greenlees, J. R. C. Langdale, Dowanhill, Glasgow

Greenstreet, W. J. (E. 1908) The Marling School, Stroud, Gloucester
Greenup, Rev A. W. (L. '08) St John's Hall, Highbury, N.
Gregory, H. H. (£. 1906) I, Warwick Place, Francis Road, Edgbaston
Gregory, H. L. (E. 1906) Englefield House, Highgate, N.
Gregory, R. P. (Fellow)

Grenfell, J. S. G. (E. 1906) Heath Mount, Hampstead, N.W.
Grigson, P. St. J. B. East Harling Hall, Thetford

Groos, A. W. J. 12, Farquhar Road, Upper Norwood, S.£.

Gruning, J. T. Dibrugarh, Assam, India

Gumey, T. T. (E. 1908) Chesterton Hall
Gwatldn, Rev T. (E. 1906) 3, St Paul's Road, Cambridge
Gwatkin, Rev Prof H. M. 8, Scroope Terrace, Cambridge
Gwatktn, Rev F. L. Oak Lodge, Crawley, Sussex

Hagger, Rev W. Canvey Island Vicarage, S. Benfleet, Essex

fHaigh, P. B. c/o Messrs Crrindley Groom & Co., Bombay

Hallack, W. C.

Hallam, G. H. (M. 1907) The Park, Harrow on the Hill

Hamilton, A. J. S. Hollyholm, Hulse Road, Southampton

Hamilton, K. L. B.

Hammond, F. The School House, Market Harborough

Hannam, Rev F. A. (E. 08) St Matthew's Clergy House, Norfolk Street;

Cambridge
Hardy, G. S.

Harding, W. I. (E. 1908) Churchfield's House, S. Woodford, Essex
fHardwich, Rev Jf . M. (E.'o6) St John's, Horton Crescent, Rugby
Harker, A. (Fellow) (E. '08)

Harker, Rev G. J. T. (E. '09) Aldenham Grammar School, Elstree, Herts.
Har KUhan Singh (£. 1909)

Harman, N. B. (E. 1907) 34, Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square
Harnett, Rev F. R. c/o Hongkong U Sbangai Bank, Colombo,

Ceylon
•Harris, H. W.
Hart, J. H. A. (Fellow)

Hart, S. L. (Sc. D.) (E. 1906) London Mission, TienUin, China
Harwood, S. F. D. Battisford HaU, Needham Market

Havelock, T. H. (FeUow) (E. 1908)

Haalam, F. W. C. Canterbury College, Christchurch, New Zeahmd

Haslam, Rev A. B. (E. 1908) Royal Grammar School, Sheffield
Hass^, H. R.

Hathomthwaite, J. (M. *07) Raeburn, Boscombe, Bournemouth
Hatten, A. W. Bodle Street Green Rectory, Hailsham, Sussex

Hawkes, W. J. 49, Honiton Terrace, BeUe Vue, Shrewsbury

fHayes, J. H. The Leys, Cambridge

Hayman, C. H. T. Edwinstowe Vicarage, Newark, Notts.

List of Subscribers.

IX

Name»
Haytcr, K. S. R.
Hayward, A. W.
Hay, W. K.
Heath, F. C.
Heitland, W. E. (Fellow)

(E. 1905)
Henderson, M.

Hepworth, F. A. (E. 1905)
Herring, Rev J.
Hibbert, H.

Hicks, Prof W.M.(Sc.D.)
tHiem, W. P. (E. 1906)
Higgins, F. A. R.
HU1,A.
HUl, F. W.
HUl, J. R.

HiU, RevE. (£. 1906)
Hill, Rev W. N.
Hillcary, F. E. (LL.D.)
Hoare, H. J. (E. 1908)
Hodges, C. F.
Hogan, R. V. J. S.
Hogg, R. W. (M. 1908)
Holmes, H. T.
Honey bourne, H. C.
Honeybourne, V. C.
Homibrook, M. (£. 1905)

Horowitz, S.
Horton, F. (Fellow)
tHorton-Smith, L. (F.S.A.,

Scot. (E. 1910)
Hough, J. F.
Hough, S. S. (E. 1909)
Houston, W. A. (E. 1909)
How, Rev. J. C. H.
Howard, A. (E. 1909)
Hoyle, J. J.
tHudson, Prof W. H. H.

(E. 1906)
Hudson, E. F.
Hulme, T. E.
Humfrey, J. C. W.
Hume, P. J.
Humphries, S.

Hunt, A. G. L.

Jiddress.
Heath Mount, Hampstead, N.W.
Holmlea, Ongar, Essex

Tudor Hall, Hawkhurst, Kent
Carmefield, Newnham, Cambridge

7, Lansdowne Terrace, Grand Parade, Easi-

bourne
Woodfield House, Dewsbury, Yorks
Redness Vicarage, Goole, Yorks.
Broughton Grove, Grange-over-Sands, Camforth
Enddifife Crescent, Sheffield
The Castle, Barnstaple

Fritham Lodge, Lyndharst, Hants.
EUerton, Mill Hill Park, W.

The Rectory, Cockfield, Bury St Edmunds
22, Clarkson Street, Ipswich
Bleak House, Stratford
Catherington Ifield, Crawley, Sussex

Christ's Hospital, W. Horsham

12, Bedford Road, S. Tottenham, N.

St Thomas's Hospital, London, S.W.

31, Upper Hamilton Terrace, St John's Wood,

N.W.
19, Solent Road, West Hampstead, N.W.

53, Queen's Gardens, Lancaster Gate, W.

The School House, Brentwood

Royal Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa

The Ministry of Public Instruction, Cairo, Egypt

Wellington College Mission, Walworth, S.E.

The Experiment Station, Pusa, Behar, Bengal

Johannesburg, South Africa

15, AUenberg Gardens, Clapham Common

S.W.
Churcher's College, Petersfield
63, Gower Street, W.C.
Wilden, Nr. Stourport

City of London College, White Street, Moor-
fields, E.C.
Great Snoring Rectory, Fakenham

X List of Subscribers.

Name, Address,

Hunt, Rev A. L. (^f. 1906) Great Snoiing Rcctoiy, Fakenham

Hunter, Dr W. 103, Harley Street, Cavendish Square, W.

Hutton, Rev W. B. Langenhoe Rectory, Colchester

Hyams, A. 24, St Peter's Road, MUe End, £.

Ues, G. £. (£. 1908) Khartoum, Sudan

Uifie, J. W. Central Higher School, Sheffield

Ingram, Rev D. S. (E. 1909} Great Onkley, Essex

Ingram, RevA.R.(L. 1909) The Lady Margaret Mission, Walworth, S.£.

Irving, J. B. 14, Heath Hurst Road, Hampstead, N.W.

Ismail Khan, M. 51, Manchester Street, Manchester Square, W.

Jackson, Rev A.

Jackson, E. W.

James, G.

Janvrin, Rev R. B. le B.

Jarratt, G. L.

Jenkins, F.

Jessopp, Rev A. (D.D.)

Jinarajatlasa, C. (E. 1 905)

tjoce, J. B. D.

Johnson, Rev E.J. F. (£.* lo)

Johnston, A. B.

Johnston, F.

Jolly, L. J. P.

Jones, H. T. G.

Jones, P. C. V.

Jones, R. F.

Jones, Rev B. T. White

Jones, Rev G.

Jones, Wilton J.

Jose, C. H.

All Saints' Vicarage, Northfleet, Gravesend
2, North Terrace, Grantham

St Peter's Vicarage, Hereford

24, Belmont Park, Blackheath, S.£.

Seaming Rectory, E. Dereham

Coiso Garibaldi 20, Milan, Italy

The Strand, Bideford

Sarsden Rectoiy, Chipping Nort6n, thsm.

Heme House, Cliflonville, Margate

38, St John's Road, Bedminster, Bristol
St Martin's, Stafford Road, Croydon
Saltgate House, Beccles, Suffolk
Ethersall, Tarbock Road, Huyton

Keeble, C. F. A.
fKeeling, Rev C. P.
Kcmpthorne, Rev P. H.
Kennctt, W. H.
Kerly, D. M. (E. 1908)
Kerr, Jas. (M. 1907)

Kershaw, Rev A.

Kerslake, Rev £. K.
Keyworth, F. M.
Khan, F. M.
Khong, K. T.

St James' Rectory, Collyhurst, Manchester
Wyck Rissington Rectory, Slow on the Wold
Wellington College, Berki»hire
I, Paper Buildings, Temple, E.C.
School Board for London, Victoria Embank-
ment, W.C.
52, Ajspinall Street, Hey wood, Lanes.

Burnham, Beepdale, near Lynn
Royal Masonic School, Bushey, Herta.

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XI

Name.
Kidd, A. S.

King, G. K.
King, Rev H. A.
King, L. A. L.
fKingdon, D.
Kingdon, C.
Kirby. A. H.
Kirkness, L. H.

Kitto. J. L.
Knight, C.
Koh, K. S.

Kynaston, Rev Canon H.
(D.D.) (E. 1906)

Address,
College, Grahamstown,

Cape

St Andrew's

Colony

Peiry mount Road, Hay ward's Heath
43, Ainger Road, Regent's Park, N.W.
St Mungo's College, Glasgow
Maisonette, De Koos Road, Eastbonrne
Maisonette, De Roos Road, Eastbourne
St John's, Antigua, British West Indies
Madras Railway Company, CeiUral Station,

Madras
Porlhleven, Cornwall
510, Blackburn Road, Bolton, Lanes.
109, Lambeth Palace Road, London, S.E.
The College, Durham

Lake, P.

LaW, P.

Lamplugh, A. A. F.

Lamplugh, Rev D.

Lannor, J. (Fellow) (E. '07)

Latifi, Alma, I.C.S.

Laver, L. S.

Laycock, A. P.

Leadman, W. M.

Leatham, G.

Leathern, J. G. (Fellow)

(E. 1900)
Ledgard, W. H.
Lee, H.

tLee, W. J. (E. 1910)
Leftwich, C. G. (E. 1906)
tLee Warner, Sir W. (E. '09)
Leighton, F. F.
Lewis, Dr C. E. M.
Lewis, H. G.
Lewis, H. S.
Lewis, P. J.
Lewton Brain, L.
Ley, Rev A. B. M. (E. '09)
Lim, G. C.
Lincoln, N.
LinneU, J. W.
Linney, D.

Lister, J. J. (Fellow) (E/ 05)
Little, Rev J. R.
Liveing, Prof G. D. (Fellow)

(E. 1910)

67, Jesus Lane, Cambridge
Rokeby Rectory, Barnard Castle

c/o Punjab, Civil Secretariat Lahore, India

1 16, Musters Road, West Bridgport, Nottioghnin

London Hospital

Oak House, Pocklington

39, Clarendon Road, London, W.

Wixenford, Wokingham, Beiks.

28, Victoria Avenue, Surbiion

The Scaurs, Jedburgh, N. B.

BetuI, Central Provinces, India

Eaton Tower, Caterham Valley, Surrey

Grammar School, Bristol

Widmore, Bromley, Kent

Clifton Lodge, Clifton Gardens, Maida Vale, W.

Toynbee Hall, London, E

S wanton Morley, East Dereham

White Colne Vicarage, Earls Colne, R.S.O.

Pavenham Vicarage, Bedford

Education Department, Amersfoort, Transvaal

SUnsEdd Rectory, Clare, Suffolk
The Pightle, Newnham, Cambridge

xu

Lt$t of Subscribers.

Uoyd, J. H. (E. 1906)

Locke, G. T. (E. 1906)

Lockton, Rev W. (E. I9O9)

Long, Rev B.

Long, H. E.

Love, Prof A. E. H. (E. 1910)

Lucas, £. C.

Luddington, L. H. (E. '07)

Lupton, A. S. (E. 1907)

Lupton, J. (E. 1906)

Lusk, J.

Lydall, F.

Lymbeiy, A. W.

Addftss.
High Croft, Somerset Road, Birmingbanv
Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester
31, Magdalen Road, Exeter
Wokingham Rectory, Berks.
43, Eldon Terrace, Wakefield
34, St Margaret's Road, Oxford

Audley House, Littleport

7, Earl's Terrace, Kensington, W.

19, Edith Villas, West Kensington, W.

Coulter House, Coulter, Lanarkshire, N.B.

65, Ladbroke Square, Notting Hill, W.

Cobton House, Sherwood Rise, Nottingham

tMacAlister, Dr D. (Fellow)

(E. 1909)
Macalister, Prof A. (M.D.)

(Fellow)
Macalister, G. H. K.
Macaulay, D.
Macaulay, F. S. (E. 1909)
fMcBride, E. W.
Mc Cormick, Rev Canon
Mc Cormick, Rev J. G.

fE. 1908)
Mc Cormick, Rev W. P. G.
fMcDonnell, M. F. J.
Macdonald, A. K.
MacDonald, S. G.
Mackintosh, Rev A. (M. '07)
Maclaurin, Prof R. C.
Mainer, E. (E. 1906)
Manohar Lai (E. 1906)
Marr, Dr J. E. (FeUow)
Marrs, F. W.
Marshall, Prof A. (Fellow)

(E. 1909)
MarshaU, W. B.

Mason, Rev M. H. H.
Mason, Rev P. H. (FeUow)
fMasterman, Rev Canon

J. H. B.
Mathews, G. B. (E. 1907)

(Fellow)
Matthews, J. C. (E. 1908)
Matthew, Mrs (E. 1908)
May, O.

Torrisdale, Lady Margaret Road, Cambridge
Guy's Hospital, S*E.

19, Dewhurst Road, Brook Green, W.

McGill College, Montreal, Canada

St James's Rectory, Piccadilly, W.

St Paul's Vicarage, Prince's Park, Liverpool

St James's Rectory, Piccadilly, W.

5, Coleheme Road, Redcliffe Square, S.W.

Avondale, Albert Road, Kingstown, Ireland

Student's Club, St Thomas's Hospital, S.E.

Hamble Vicarage, Southampton

Victoria College, Wellington, New Zealand

The County School, St Asaph

3, Ashgrove Terrace, Gateshead-on-Tyne
Balliol Croft, Madingley Road, Cambridge

Danehurst, Greenbank Drive, Seftou Park,

Liverpool
24, Sydenham Road, Croydon

3, Newhall Street, Birmingham

10, Menai View Terrace, Upper Bangor, N. Wiles

Palgrave Hall, Swaffham
56, Regent Street, Cambridge
15, Highbury Quadrant, N.

List of Subscribers.

Xlll

Name, Address,

Mayor, Rev Prof J. E. B. (President)

t Mayor, Rev J. B. (£. 1908) Qaeensgate House, Kingston Hill, Surrey
Meldrum, R;

TMerivale, B. 3, Victoria Villas, Newcastle- on-Tyne

Meyer, R. 23, Beethoven Street, Frankfort on Main,

Germany
Middlemast, £. W. (E. '05) Victoria Crescent, Egmore, Madras
Middleton, C. B.
Mills, £. J.
Moore, F. J. S.
Moore, Rev C. (E. 1909)
Moore, C. H.
Moore, R. M.
Morrison, D. C. A.
Morshead, R.
Morton, W. B.
fMoss, Rev H. W.
Moss, J. C. (E. 1910)
Mo»s, W. (£. 1910)
Mountjoy, V. U. A.

The Grange, Leominster

H.M.S. Revenge, Channel Squadron

The School HaU, Bury St Edmunds

2, Clyde. Villas, Swindon
Hurlditch Court, Tavistock, Devon
Queen's College, Belfast
The Schools, Shrewsbury
Church Hill, Harrow-on-tbe-Hill
Charterhouse, Godalmiug
I, Stafford Road, Bow, £.
Moxon, Rev T. A. (£. 1905) High School, Notdngham
Muirhead, F. L. (£. 1906) Downe Lodge, Downe, Famborough, Kent
Mullineuz, Rev M. The Sanatorium, Banff, Rocky Mountains,

Canada
fMullingcr, J. B. I, Bene't Place

fMullins, W. £. (£. 1908) 18, Lyndhurst Gardens, Hampstead, N.'W.
Murphy, W. L. Dartry, Upper Rathmines, Dublin

Neave, D. H.

Neave, W. S. (£. 1908)

Neill, N. C.

Newbold, Rev W. T. (£/io)

Newling, S. W. (£. 1909)

Newton, H. G. T.

Newton, Rev Canon H.

(E. 1906)
Newton, T. H. Goodwin

(E. 1906)
Nicklin, Rev T.
Norbury, F. C.
fNorwood^ £. (E. 1910)
Norwood, G. (Fellow)

Elmhurst, Fordingbridge, near Salisbury
Elmhurst, Fordingbridge, near Salisbury

Aldridge Rectory, Walsall
Woodleigh, South Woodford, Essex
Holmwood, Redditch
Holm wood, Rcddich

Barrell's Park, near Henley-in-Arxien

Rossall School, Fleetwood

Bridge House, Stratford on Avon

York

Victoria University/ Manchester

Oakeley, H. £. H. (E. 1910) London Hospital, £.

Ohm, D. McK.

Oliver, Rev J. (£. 1906) Cowlam Rectory, Sledmorc, Yorks.

XIV

Ltsi of Subscribers.

Nami,
Orgill, W. L.
Orr, W. Mc F.
Orr, J. W.

Jiddrtss,
The Cottage, Hill Ridwaie» Rugeley, Staffs.
Hoyal College of Science, DDblin
44, Harcourt Terrace, Loudon, S.W.

Page, T. E.
Palmer, J. T. E.
fPalmer, T. N. P. (E. 1909)
Palmer, Rev J. J. B. (E. *o5)
Paramore, W. E. (E. 1908)
Paranjpye, R. P. (FeUow)

(E. 190S)
Parker, Dr G. (E. 1909)
Pamell, T.
Pascoe, E. H.
Pass, H. L.
Peckover, Alex., LL.D.

(E. 1907)
Pendlebury, C. (E. 1906)
Pennant, P. P. (E. 1908)
Pcrcival, B. A.
Percival, John (M. 1907)
Pethybridge, G. H.
Piaggio, H. T. H.
Philp, C. H. G. (E. 1909)
Phillips, Dr J. (E. 1909)
Phillips, E. A.
PhUlips, S. H.
Picken, Rev W. S. (E. '08)
Pilkington, A. C.
Plowright, C. C.
Pocklington, H. C. (E. 1905)
fPocock, G. N.
Pollard, C. (L 1908)
Poole, A. W.
Pooley, H. F.

Portbury, Rev H. A. (M. '05)
Porter, T. H.

Powell, Rev C. T. (E. 1907)
Powell, Sir F. S.
tPowell, N. G.
Powning, Rev J. F. (E. '07)
Prescott, E.
Prest, E. E.
Prideauz, H. S.
Prior, Rev Canon A. H.
Priston, Rev S. B.
Prowde, O. L.

Charterhouse, Godalming

17, Brand Lane, Ludlow, Shropshire

St John's Hall, Highbury. N.

2 , Gordon Square, London, W. C.

Fergusson College, Poona, India

14, Pembroke Road, Clifton, Bristol
Trinity College, Melbourne, Australia
Montague House, New Barnet

Bank House, Wisbech

40, Glazbury Road, West Kensington, W.

Nantlys, St Asaph

The Isthmian Club, Piccadilly, W.

Univer&ity College, Reading

II, Whitefield Terrace, Plymouth

68, Brook Street, London, W.

Strathaven, Risca, Newport, Mon.
12, Hill Park Crescent, Plymouth
12, Bar dwell Road, Oiford

41, Virginia Road, Leeda

Fircrofl, Albury Heath, Nr. Guildford

Wesleyan Mission, Royapettah, Madras

Park House, Stubbington, Fareham, Hants.

Scotter, WeU Walk, Hampstead, N.W.

St Paul's, Fence Avenue, Macclesfield

School House, The Close, Hereford

College Yard, Worcester

I, Cambridge Square, Hyde Park, W.

Mathon Vicarage, Malvern

Landkey Vicarage, Barnstaple

76, Cambridge Terrace, Hyde Park, W.

I, Beckwith Road, Heme Hill, S.E.

Tmthall, Helston, Cornwall

Horsley Vicarage, Derby

Theological College, Ely

19, St George's Square, Sunderland

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Name, Address,

Pryce, H. V. (E. 1905) New College, Hampstead, N.W.

Pryke, Rev W. E. (E. 1905) The Vicar's House, Ottery St Mary
Pkytherch, D. R. O. Ll.maith, Llandyssil, South Wales

Radcliff, R. T. M.

Radford, Rev L. B.

Rae, F. L.

Ramage, H.

Rapson, E. J. (E, iyo6)

Rau, K. R. R. S.

Raw, W., I.C.S. (E. 1969)

Read. A. J.

Read, Prof H. N.

Ream, C. F.

Reddy, C. R.

Reece, M. G. B.

Rcid, S. B.

Rennie, D. W.

Reynolds, C. W.

Rice, H. G.

Rice, Rev C. M. (K. 1905)

Ricbardsnn, A. H.

Ridley, F. T.

Rigl>y, Rev O. (E. 1908)

Ritchie, J. N. (E. 1907)

Rivers, Dr W. H. R. (Fellow) (E. 1906)

Arcachon, Gironde, France
Holt Rectory, Norfolk
Berkeley House, Cheltenham
Ridjjmont, C arrow Hill, Norwich
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NOTES FROM THE COLLEGE RECORDS.

(Continued from p, 27.)

|E deal in this instalment of notes with some
documents relating to the College benefice of
Freshwater in the Isle of Wight. The first
group of documents printed consists of a
selection from the depositions of witnesses taken in an
action in which John Kemp, Rector of Freshwater, was
plaintiff, and one Robert Jackman was defendant. We
may infer from these that Kemp was trying to collect
his tithes in kind ; a course the parishioners, or some of
them, were resisting on the ground that there was a
custom of the parish that dairy produce should not pay
tithe in kind, but that in lieu thereof there was a
customary payment to the Rector at Easter of three-
pence for each new milch cow, three-halfpence for a
heifer and a like sum for a winter milch cow.

These witnesses gave their evidence on the i6th and.
17th of April 1583. While there is a good deal of
repetition (and some direct contradictions as to facts),.
it will be found that the evidence of each person has
some curious fact embedded in it. The whole forming
a somewhat amusing picture of life in a country parish
between three and four hundred years ago. The Rectors
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1 68 Notes from the College Records.

of Freshwater mentioned by witnesses as having been
known to them are Phillips, Porter, Glasier (1550)1
Champion (1561), and Kemp (1575); the year in
brackets being that of institution to the benefice when
that has been ascertained.

Agnes Graunty of Compton in the parish of Freshwater,
where she has sojourned in the family of Robert Jackman for
fifteen years, aged about fifty, deposes :

That in the tyme whitest Mr John Glasier was parson of
ffreshwater and Mr Girling then Capitayne of the Wight bis
farmer, she this deponent dwelt with the said Mr Girling as his
servant in the parsonadge of ffreshwater by the space of fewer
yeres. And in one of those yeres abowt Midsummer or Lammas
there was brought vnto and left in the porch of the parsonadge
howse of (freshwater, from Agnes Belveredge, widow, then
dwelling in Awton farme, two tyth cheses vpon a horde. But
because the said tyth cheses were then newly had owt of the
presse and sent thither vpon the horde withowt salt or clowte,
Mris Girling then this deponents mistress, seeing the said
cheses in that sorte, misliked greatly therewithal! and did not
take them to be fitt or lawfull tyth cheses, and therefore this
deponent by her commaundment and appointment carryed back
the said two cheses vpon the horde to the said widow Bellver-
edge's howse at Awton and there left them at the dore, and
came her way again e. And further she deposeth that at that
tyme she heard it talked in the said parsonadge howse amongst
her said master's servants that William ffeare payd tyth chese at
that tyme to her said master, but she of her owne knowledge
cannot so depose for that her service in that howse was other-
wise employed, and not in receiving or keping the tyth chese of
the parish. That the milkyng of ewes is commodious and
profitable to the owners, although troublesome and painfull to
the servants. And ewes mylk renned yeldeth much more crud
then cow mylke, and mingled with cow milke increaseth the
dayrie. She heard no speech of any money to be payed for tyth
white of heifers.

That though Mr Girling was then Captaine of the Wight, yet
widow Bellveredge did not feare him, for she was thought to be
as hable to maintaine th' expences of law, as he the said
Mr Girling was, she was accompted verie.rich.

Noies from the College Records. 1 69

Dorothea, wife of William Cappen, g^nerBsus, of Shalfleete,
aged aboat 50, deposes :

That about xxlj or xxiij yeres past Mr Girling, the Captaine
of the Wight was farmer of the parsonadge of ffresh water under
Mr Glasyer then parson there. And this deponents husband
farmed the said parsonadge vnder Mris Girling, his widow,
abowte one year aiKl an halfe, namely, they took it for three
yeres, but held it but one yere and an half. And they dwelt in
the said parsonadge, and in that yere of their enic^ing the said
parsonadge and the tythes thereof this deponent and her
husband had tythe chese payd vnto them owt of diverse howses
vithin the said parish, many of which howses she hath now
forgotten, but she specialty remembreth that upon one day
abowte Midsomer she wente abowte the parish with her
servantes to take vp the tythe chese. And she had tylhe chese
of widdowe ffeare and William her sonne, who then occupyed
the ffarme of ffresh water. And shejaJso* had tythe cheses at
widowe Belveredge's who dwelt at Awton farme. And she also
had tythe cheeses at widow Godfrye*s, then called midwife of the
parish. In such sorte that in one dayes going abowte the
parish she had gathered abowte xvij cheses, although some of
Ihem were verie smale and badd. And other tithe cheses of
others in that parish^ her folkes and servantes did gather after
that day but the certeyntie thereof she remembreth not.

That ewe milke is verie profitable to the owners. That her
husband and she, this deponent, vsed not any exaction or
threates to any of the parishioners of firesh water who payd their
tyth chese as she hath before deposed, but this deponent did
frendly and quieily aske and send for the said tyth chese and it
was presently quietly payed vnto her and her servantes, and
without any grudging or repyning, and without chalenging of
repeating any such custome.

William Goppin of Shalcomb within the parish of Shalfleete
hi the Isle of Wight, where he has sojourned about thirty years^.
aged about 53, deposes :

That in the second yere of the reign of Queen Mary,.
Mr Girdling, then Captaine of the Isle of Wight, was also farmer
of the parsonadge of ffreshwater and so continued abowte five
years, and this deponent then dwelt with him and attended vpon
him. And this deponent doth very perfectly remember that io-

170 Notes from the College Records.

that time the said Mr Girdling demaunded tythe chese in the
parish of ffreshwater of the parishioners there (being enformed
as it then seemed by one old Coiman of that parish, that it had
byn payd before his tyme). And against sundry of them who
contradicted the payment thereof, he this deponent remembreth,
he commensed sute, and amongst them this deponent
remembreth he commensed sute against widowe Bellveredge,
farmer of Awton farme. And therevpon they, but especially she,
agreed to paye tythe chese. And this deponent remembreth
that afterwardes daring the said Mr Girdlinges life tythe chese
was payd vnto the said Mr Girdling by the said widow fielWer-
edge owt of Awton farme of this deponents speciall knowledge.
And this deponent dolh verely beleeve that the most part of the
parishioners of ffreshwater then payd there tyth chese to the
said Mr Girdling during his life. Further that after Mr
Girdlinges decease this deponent held that parsonadge of
ffreshwater vnder Mris Girdling his widow for one year ; in the
which yere this deponents wife and his servants had tyth chese
payd vnto them by the most parte of the parishioners of
ffreshwater, and especially owt of the farme of Awton, by widow
Bellveredge, and owt of ffreshwater farme wherein widow ffeyre
and her sonne William dwelt. And this deponent remembreth
one good token, for widow Veyres tythe chese was the best
tythe chese in all the parish. And his wife and servantes going
abowte the parish to gather vp tyth cheses have brought home
to the parsonadge sometymes in a day, x, xvj or xx. And the
tythe chese was payd at two tymes in the yere, namely, at one
tyme fower cheses, and at the other tyme v cheses, but many of
the tythe cheses were smale and bad.

That he has known, John Glasyer, John Champion and John
Kemp successive Rectors.

That he beleeveth the parishioners of ffreshwater, that payd
tythe chese to Mr Girdling in his life time, would not willingly
have payd it but for feare of law, and at their first paying of it to
him, they payde it wilh an ill will and grudginglie (as did
appeare by the ill tythe chese, except widow Veare's tythe chese,
which was good). And yet after his decease when this deponent
was farmer there for one year, the tythe chese before by him
deposed, was quietly payd vnto him by the parishioners, and he
thinketh would have bin payd vnto this tyme if he had continued
in that parsonadge so long.

Noies from iht College Records. 1 7 r

That he thinketh the parishioners of (freshwater stood not in
feare of Mr Captaine Girling, and especially widow Beilveredge,
for she was of as good or better habiliiic m riches then the said
Mr Girdling was.

William ffeare of fFiesh water, yeoman, where he has sojourned
Bboiit thirty-eight years, born at Downton, aged about forty-
seven, deposes :

That abowt xx or xxj yeres past in the tyme when Mr
Champion was parson of fFreshwater within a year or ihere-
abowtes after his first coming to that parsonadge this deponent
and his mother Agnes ffeare did occupye and hold the farme of
ffreshwater. And one yere at that tyme Mr Champion received
and had tyth chese within the parish of ffreshwater of this
deponent and his said mother, at midsomer five tyth cheses owt
of the sayd farme, but afterwardes during all tiis incumbencie he
was content to take money yerely for his tyth chese in that
parish. That he doth not think it very profitable to the owners
{]lo milk ewes] by that tyme the decaye of the wooll and bodies
of the ewes be accompted.

That the tythe chese which he and his said mother payd to
Mr Champion, they payd the same by ignorance, not knowing
the custome of the parish. That he cannot tell whether these
i^js^ tyih cheses by him and his mother as aforesayd payd was
the full and iust tyth of all her cheses that year, yea or no. And
he thinketh the money for the tyth white to haue bin payd
according to that custome would haue bin of as much vakw as
the said fyve cheses were. And that Mr Champion at shere-
Cyme came vp into his chese loft, where seeing this respondents
cheses, he chose owt fyve cheses for his tyth cheses, which this
respondent was content to pay him for his tyth cheses, because
Mr Champion sayd they were due to him, and for that then this
respondent knew not the custome of that parish to be to the
contrarie.

He believes the cause of the discontinuance thereof to be, for
that he thinketh parson Champion in his conscience was touched
with the brech of the custome.

Elizabeth Champion, of Newport, widow, aged about fifty-
five, deposes :

That abowt xxj yeres past, Mr John Champion, this deponents
husband was parson of flfreihwater. And the first yer« of his

t-ji Notes from the College Records.

incumbende in that parsonadge, namely, he entered abowt a
fortnight after Easter, and at Midsomer and Lammas then next
following, all the parishioners of ffrtrsh water (except the persons
in this article excepted for the causes therein declared excepted,
and except Henry James, who also agreed with her said
husband at his said first entraunce to pay a certaine rent for all
his tythes of that yere in greate) and except the parishioners of
Brooke, did quietly pay their tyth cheses for the tyth of the
white of their kyen kept in that parish, vnto her said husband
then parson thereof, namely each of them payd fyve tyth cheses
at Midsomer and fower tyth cheses at Lammas. And of the
said parishioners paying their tyth chese as is aforesaid, this
deponent doth perfectly remember and knoweth that Richard
Lacey of ffreshwater then dwelling at Weston in ffreshwater
parish payd vnto her said husband in that yere nyne tyth cheses
for the tyth white of his kyen kept in that parish that yere, at
the severall tymes aforesaid. And this deponent remembreth
one good token thereof, for her husband afterwardes told the
said Richard Lacey of the badnes of his said tyth cheeses. The
said Lacey presently made this answer to her said husband being
\vL the Hall of the parsonadge of ffreshwater, namely, " Trewly
Mr parson we can make no good chese, for we haae an ill
neighbour by vs that doth overlooke our cattle," in the presence
and hearing of this deponent. And further this deponent
specially remembreth that her said husband had and received
owt of Freshwater farm, then in the occupacion of Agnes Feare
and William Feare, in that yeare being deliuered by the said
parties vnto this deponents husbandes messingers when he sent
for it, quietly and without any grudging as it seemed, namely at
Midsomer fyve fay re tyth cheses worth then by estimacion iji. a
peece, and at Lammas after iiij other tyth cheses worth zij^.
apeece or better as she esteemeth. And George Champion, this
deponents said husbandes vncle brought home the said nyne
cheses to the parsonadge of ffreshwater, for he gathered vp for
her said husband the tyth cheses of that parish that yere, and
this deponent doth perfectly remember the premises to be truet
for that she received the said nyne cheses at the said two
severall tymes of her said vncle owt of the said farme, when he
had brought them home to the said parsonadge. And for that
the baid cheses were the fayrest and best tyth cheses which were
payd in the whole parish that yere vnto her sayd husband^ and

Notes from the College Records. 173

this deponent her self at that midsomer accompted and reckoned
abowt seven score tyth cheses which were so payd to her said
husband. But the said tyth cheses was such filihy disordered
meate, that her said husband after the first 3'eres receipt thereof,
doubting that his familie and servantes might be hurt by eating
of that chese, contented himself rather to take money of the
said parishioners for his said tyth chese then to take any more
tyth cheses of them. And thenceforth during his tyme,
beginning the next Easter after, he had and received of his
parishioners money for the tyth of his sayd cheese according to
the proportion as stated.

Thomas Pedder, weaver, of Freshwater where he has
sojourned from his birth, deposes :

That about xxvj yeres past, as he beh'eves, Mr Girling then
Captaine of the Wight, was farmer of the parsonadge of
ffresh water, and there dwelt, and his wife after his decease.
And afterwards Mr Copping was farmer of the same parsonadge
under Mris Girling, and this deponent was vsing vp and downe
to the said parsonadge howse in all their three tymes. And one
William Lord then also was servant in the said howse vnto those
three persons. And in one yere in that tyme, this deponent
accompted and went with the said William Lord (who was sent
to gather vp tyth cheses in that parish as he then told this
deponent) vnto widow Willyer's howse and to old Wall's howse,
and to old Webb's howse, all dwelling within the said parish, to
take vp tyth cheses at those bowses. And this deponent doth
perfectly remember that at two of those howses the said Lord
received and had tyth cheeses payd to him, but he hath
forgotten which of the two howses they were, namely, he had iii
or iiij cheses at each of these howses. And this deponent did
see the cutting of some of these cheeses in the parsonadge
howse aforesayd and it was verie filthy meate, having in it
crabbs legges, earwigges and spyders, the makers thereof being
verie sluttes.

William Walton, husbandman, of Fieshwater where he has
sojourned forty years, born at Weeke in Wiltshire, aged about
fifty-three, deposes:

That when Mr Girling was farmer of the parsonadge of
ffreshwater there were some parishioners of that parish troubled

174 Noles from the College Records.

and served with processe at his suite for tyth chese as this
deponent then heard say. And specially he remembreth that
then he heard old Brett say that he was one of them that was so
troubled and cited.

That abowt the beginning of Mr Champion's entrance into
the parsonadge of ffreshwater, namely either the first or second
year, one George Champion, vncle to the sayd parson vpon a
day as he came along the streete by this deponents howse, came
into this deponents howse bringing with him a wallett, and
cheeses in it. And ihis deponent then asked him where he had
byn and he answered that he had bin abowte the parish and
gathered tyth cheeses. And this deponent asked him these
were tyth cheeses, and he answered and sayd that they were the
tylh cheeses which he had that day received. He further
deposes that in the harvest afterwardes he this deponent was
one of Mr Champion's harvest folkes, and at their meales he
remembreth there was chese layd before them, which Mris
Champion said was tyth chese of that parish, but some of the
said cheese was very badd and fylthy cheese, not man's meate.

That after that tyme the sayd Mr Champion received money
for his tylh while in that parish.

Henry Arnold deposes:

That abowt xl yeres last past there was one Mr Porter, which
was parson of ffreshwaler, and during the tyme of his incum-
bency there he had right to all such tythes as by law and
ancient custome were then due to the parsonadge aforesayd.
That abowte xliij years agone, in the tyme while Mr Porter was
parson, David Bellveridge sent by one Prince a cheese vppon
the vate withowt any clowte or salt vpon it to the said Mr Porter,
but Mr Porter refused to receive it, whereupon the said Prince
carried the same away againe, and afler that tyme this
respondent never heard of it againe.

That Mr John Glasyer was next and immediate successor in
the parsonadge of ffreshwater aforesayd to Mr Porter, which
sayd Mr Glasyer was lawfully possessed of that parsonadge.
And in the tyme of his being parson there, namely abowte
xxiiij yeres agone, this respondent verie well remembreth he
being served with processe at the sute of Mris Girling, being
farmer of the parsonadge of ffreshwater, for quietness sake he
this respondent, being Ihen a poore man and loth to travaile to

Notes from ifU College Records, 173

tins court to wage law in the matter, payd to the said Mris
Girling five cheses for the tyth of his cheses that yere made,
which thing to do this respondent was the more willing for that
the five cheses was then scarce worth, or at least no more worth
then the monie came to if he had payd for each cow according
to the custome. And also for that at that tyme the world was
verie troublesome by reason of warres and the Isle of Wight
then pestered with soldiers, there lying in garrison, and think-
ing that the once paying of those cheses would not prejudice
their custome.

That Mr John Champion was next and immediate successor
to Mr Glasyer, and next and immediate predecessor to Mr
Kempe in the parsonadge of ffresh water aforesayd.

That once in Mr Champion's tyme, Mr Champion having
neede of monie desired this respondent and generally all or the
most parte of the parishioners of ffresh water that they would
lett him haue before hand in monie as much as their payment
would extend vnto at Easter then following, accompting three
pence for every new milch cowe, three halfpence for other kyen
according to their custome then and long tyme before and yet
vsed. At whose request they so payd him for that he was an
honest man, and they knew not what neede he had of monie at
that tyme.

That accompting the greate labour bestowed abowt the
milking of ewes, and the choyse feeding of them while they are
in milch, the milk of ewes is not profitable, but otherwise
profitable somewhat.

That in March or Aprill anno 1582 this respondent had ^ve
new milch kyen, over and above the number of kyen by this
respondent confessed in his his personall answers made to Mr
Kemp's libell, feeding within his growndes within the parish of
fifresh water, which said five kyen with their calves by their sydes,
and before the calves were weanied, this respondent in May then
next following did lett and demise to one Nicholas Steven
together with pasture and feeding for the sayd kyen for a
certaine rent betweene this respondent and the sayd Nicholas
Steven agreed vpon from Whitsuntide last past vnlill AM hallow*
tide last past, by reason whereof this respondent thought
himself to haue no propertie in the said kyen vntill the tyme
was expired for which he demised them as aforesayd. And
lastly that he this respondent did promise the said Nicholas
VOL. xxvn. A A

176 Nolesjrom the College Records.

Steven at the tyme when this respondent demised his sajd fjve
kyen vnto him that he this re.spondent would paye to Mr
Kempe, parson of ffresh water soch monie as by the custome of
the parish he ought to haue for the tythe of the white of those
five kyeu. which promise this respondent meaneth to perform at
Easter when it shalbe due.

Nicholas Burt, yeoman, of Freshwater where he was born,
aged about seventy, deposes :

That he hath dwelt in the parish of flfresh water ever since he
was borne, and hath had good knowledge and remenibraunce
of the continuall use of that custome throughout all that parish
by the space of Ix yeres. And for the space of these fiftie yeres
past he hdith kept howse and not vnder six, five or fowcr kyen,
and hath paied money for the tithe white of the said kyen,
which he hath so kept in that parish vnto the parson there, or
his farmer for the time being, according to the sayd custome.
And he this deponent hath not at any time since he hath byn
of remembratmce heard or knowen any tithe cheese or tithe of
ewe milke demaunded, challenged or paied of or by any the
parishioners of ffresh water. Saving that in paison Porter's time
this deponent did heere say that the said parson Porter and
David Beluerldge, farmer of Awton f.inne in that parish being
for other occasions at vaiiance and fallen out, the said parson
Porter demaunded tithe cheese of David Belueridge. And
David Belueridge sent hiui a cheese out of the presse vpon
a boord without salt or clothe. And when the sayd parson did
see the cheese he sated to the messenger that brought it, I hope
my cosen Davyd will not vse me thus. The messenger answered
that the parson if he would haue tithe cheese must finde salt and
clootes. Then the parson would have had the messenger carrie
the cheese back agaiue, but he would not. And saving that in
the time when Mr Girling was Captaine of the Wight, and
farmer of that parsonage, he demanded tithe cheese in that
parish of divers poo re men, whoe for that he was Captaine of
the Wight and for feare of lawe durst not stand against him,
and therevpon paied him some tithe cheeses as he heard say.
And after Mr Girling's decease his wife continuing in the
parsonage did also demaund tithe cheese of this deponent and
caused him to be cited to Winchester about it, but after this
deponent was cited, Mrs Girling by his intreaty talked with

Noies from the College Records. 1 7 7

diveis ancient men of the parish and by them beings advertised
that her demaund was contrary to the ancient custom of the
parish, she was contented not to proceede in sute against this
deponent but tooke mony of him for his tithe white according
to the said custome. And this deponent doth very well
remember that when he was a youth vnder zx yeres of age he
hath heard his father and divers ancient men of that parish
declare and report that th« custome was generally observed
throughout the sayd parish in all their time.

That there is no profit or commodity either to the owner or
parson in milking of ewes for the ewes thereby are in wooll and
body the lighter and leaner. That the very vse in that parish
was of this respondents sight and knowledge, that he himself
and the other parishioners there allwayes at Easter or against
that time when they reckoned with theire parson or his farmer
or deputy for theire offerings and other smale tithes, then they
also reckoned, accompted and paied for their tithe white accord-
ing to the custom, and it was a generall vse. That this
respondent bought and agreed with Mr Champion for all this
respondents tithes and gaue him a yerely rent in money for
them all by the space of Eve yeares after his first coming to that
parsonadge.

Rosa Dove, widow, of Freshwater, whece she has sojourned
from her birth, aged about seventy years, deposes :

That she hath kept kyen in the pari<ih by the space of 1 yeres
and hath allwayes duering that time yerely at or towardes Easter
when she reckoned with the parson, or his farmer ilier«, for her
offeringes and other sinale tithes, reckoned hUo and paied for
her tithe white of her kyen according to the ctislome. And she
knewe her father and mother doe the like before their decease.
And she hath heard her father Joha Godfrey and also J one her
mother, whoe were both borne in that parish and there deceased
in theire live tyme oftentimes declare to this deponent that the
sayd custome was observed and kept generally through the-
whole parish of ifreshwater during all theire tymes as it is stated.
And her father deceased aboue xxx yeares past, being as he said
himself Cxx yeres olde at his decease ; and her mother deceased
within two yere after him, and was by her report C yeres old at
her decease. And this deponent did never heere any tithe
of ewe milk demaunded in the parish since she was of remenie-
biaonce» -_^—

178 Notes from the College Records.

In the Eagle^ vol xix, pp. 229-246, there was printed
a curious document with regard to the long-standing
controversy that Brook was part of the parish of Fresh-
water. That document set forth the arguments in
favour of the view that Brook was a parish of itself.
We here print two Briefs for Counsel on behalf of the
Rectors of Freshwater, which set forth the facts and
arguments in favour of the other view that Brook was
part of Freshwater. In the first Brief it will be noticed
that the nature of the evidence, whether documentary or
oral (with the names of the witnesses) is given at the
end of each paragraph.

Goodman was successful in his action, but did not
gain much by it as he was ejected during the Common-
wealth.

The second Brief is that for the Rector ot Freshwater
in the case BuUingham v. Ellis ; the document printed
in our Volume xix is the case for Brook as stated by
Ellis. It will be observed that in the last paragraph of
this Brief it is stated that Mr Bowreman started a
Parish Register for Brook. The present Rector of
Brook, the Rev. R. Leslie Morris, states that no exist-
ing Registers of Brook are earlier than 1653. The first
entry is: "a True Register of all the Marriages
Bearthes and Burialls within the Parish of Brook since
the 30th day of ffebruary 1653." This seems to support
the statement. The queer day of the month seems to
ahew that the entry was made under some excitement.

In Trespas.

Cardell Goodman, clerke, Parson of -Freshwater, plaintiff;
John Percivall, clerke, pretending himself to bee Parson of
Brooke, defendant.

The plaintiff declares in an accion of trespas, and setts forth»
that the defendant the xth day of September in the zvjth yeere
of the now King's Reigne etc. [1640], by force and armes, the
goods and chattels, videlicet^ one cartloade of wheate, one cart*

Notes Jrorn the College Records. 179

loade of barley, and one cartloade of hay, to the value of x //
within the parish of Freshwater there found, did take and carry
away, and did him other enormous wrongs, whereby the plaintiff
is dampnified to the value of 40//'.

The Defendant pleads, Not guilty.

This tryall is now to be had by consent of both parties.

The defendant is to confesse the taking of the goodes as
parcel! of the tythes growne in Brooke, which the plaintiff
challengeth as belonging to the parsonage of Freshwater ; and
the defendant challengeth the same in his owne right, prelend-
lug Brooke to bee a parochial 1 church, and himself to be
presented and inducted therevnto, and hee to insist onely vpon
the title without taking any advantage of the pleadings, which
was promised by Mr Goddard, being of Counsell for the
defendant.

The plaintiffs title.

The plaintiff is parson of Freshwater in the Isle of Wight^
instituted and inducted, and doth conceive that hee hath two
waies to warrant his title to the tithes of Brooke ; videlicet ^ Jure
Rectoriae et Jure Composiitonis.

By divers auntient perambulacions, the Manor of Brooke
with the Chappell there were all taken in as belonging to the
parish of Freshwater.

That the inhabitants of Brooke have byn chosen church-
wardens of and executed all other offices for and within the
parish of Freshwater, payes Quarter setts, and all rates to the
poore and Church of Freshwater, as all other parishioners there
doe ; And all buryalls, christenings, marriages, and receiving of
Sacramentes, by and for th' inhabitants at Brooke (Mr Bowre-
man's family onely excepted) have alwaies byn performed in the
<;^hurch at Freshwater (John Temple, William Bay, John Mewes,
Richard Godfrey).

To Prove the payment of tythes in Brooke to the parson of
Freshwater, sometimes paid in kind, and sometimes money
paide by Mr Boreman for a composition in lieu of all tythes
there (William Vrry, William Bay, John Temple, Richard
Godfray).

In the Remembraunce office in the Exchequer amongst the
valuacions of Benefices is conteyned a list of all the parsonages
4n the Isle of Wight. But no mention made.of Brooke there.

i8o Noietfrom the College Records.

bat in the end of that Roll there is Poriio Procuraioris AhUiis Jt
Lyra (Nicholas Sexton, John Oglander).

And in another Roll there is the presentment of the nynth
part of corne, wooll and lambe ; Is a list of all the parishes in
the Isle of Wight, beginning with Freshwater and ending with
Portio Procutator Abbaiis de Lyfa, and no mencion of Brooke at
all (Nicholas Sexton, John Oglander).

By an Award made by Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winton
Anno 24 Hen viii, the tythes of Brooke were by him awarded
to the parson of Freshwater and his snccessors for ever.

And arterwardes at an Assizes at Winton in a tryall had
betweene Dr Fell, parson of Freshwater, plaintiff, against
William Booreman, esquire, defendant in an accion of debt
vpon the Statute, for not setting forth of tythes at Brooke ; by
the Judges direccions, with the consent of both parlies, the
bussinesse was then referred to Sir Henry Wallopp and Sir
Richard Tichbourne, knights, and they made theire awarde
vnder theire hands and seales. That the parson of Freshwater,
and his successors for ever after, should take and enioy all
manner of tythes in Brooke whatsoever, William Boreman to
repaire the chappell, and to find a mynister there, and the
parson of Freshwater onely to allowe viij it per annum towards
the maintenance of a Minister ( Vide The Award vnder hand and
seale).

The tythes of Brooke have byn allotted to the parson of
Freshwater by divers sentences in Court Christian, where the
depositions of many auntient men are recorded concerning the
continuall payment of tythes in kind to the parson of Fresh-
water ( Vide le sentences).

By a Verdict exemplified in the Common Pleas, Anno 12
Hen. VIII, wherein Nicholas Porter, clerk (being then parson
of Freshwater) was plaintiff, against Nicholas Boreman, gentle-
man, and others, th' inhabitants of Brooke^ defendants, in an
accion of trespas for taking and carrying away his come;
A judgment was for the plaintiff, and satisfaccion of the said
judgment was afterward acknowledged vpon record {Vidt the
exempli ficacion. Porter was presented to the parsonage of
Freshwater, November 1522).

By another Verdict exemplified in the Court of King's
Bench, Anno 5 James, Wherein Edward James, parson of
Freah water was plaintiff against Robert Adyn ti mImm defendanlea

Notes from the College Records. 1 8 1

in Trespas» for carrying away a loade of hay at Brooke within
the parish of Freshwater, judgment was likewise had for the
plaintiff [Vidt the exemplificaccion. This Adyn was a clerke
presented to Brooke Church by Mr Boreman).

By the generall writing of William, Earl of Devon, Lord of
the Isle of Wight, hee giveth, graunteth and confirmeth vnto
St Mary of Lyra inter alios, the tythes of the demesnes of Fresh-
water, Aston, Compton, Brooke and Ryngwood, and in
Compton and Brooke two men with two yard lands.

Godfrey, Bishopp of Winton, he confirmeth to the Abhy
of Lyra by the guift of William sonne of Albert, the tythes
of the demesnes of Freshwater, Aston, Compton, Brooke and
Ryngwood.

William Maskarell and Ralph Maskerell doe give and graant
vnto St Mary of Lyra, and to the monks there serving God, the
whole tythes of the demesnes of Brooke in all things as freely
and wholy as ever the monks had the same in the tyme of Ralph
theire grandfather and Robert theire ffather.

Ralph Maskerell confirmeth to God and St Mary of Lyra,
and to the monks there serving God, for the health of his soule
etc, the whole tythes of his Lordship of Brooke, in corne and
hay, in lambe, piggs. wooll, cheese and all thinges whereof
tylhe ought to be hadd or paied, To hold freely for ever in
perpetuall almes, free from all secular service. Witness etc.

King Henry, sonne of King John, for him and his heire«,
confirmeth to God and St Mary of Lyra the whole tythe of his
Lordship of Brooke in all things etc.

William, Prior of St Swithen, hee confirmeth among other
things the title of the Lordship of Freshwater, Aston, Compton,
Brooke and Ryngwood, strengthened with theire Chapter
Seale. 1257.

And after the dissolucion of the Abbey of St Mary of Lyra,
the lands and revenues thereof came to the Priory of Sheene,
and the Prior and Convent of Sheene, by their graunt dated
8 December, graunted to William Willpoole, parson of Fresh-
water and his successors for ever, all manner of tythes greate
and smale, and portions of tythes whatsoeuer which they had
within theire parish of Freshwater as in theire right of theire
Priory of Carisbrooke and of theire possessions of Lyra, namely,
all the tythes of the Lordshipps of Freshwater, Aston, Compton,
and Brooke in the said Isle paying yeerely to the Priory and
Convent and theire successors for ever [/*7 13J. 4(/.]

1 82 NoUs from the College Records,

This was afterwards confirmed by the Bishopp of Winchester,
and by the Pryor and Chapter of the Calhedrall Charch of
Winchester the same year.

Obiections against the plaintifTs title, whereby
the defendant will endeavoure to prove that the
parson of Freshwater hath not the cure of the
Chappell of Brooke.

In the Valuacion of benefices in the Exchequer, anno 1291 :
19 Edward I, there Freshwater church is valued at 60 marks
per annum, dectme 6 marks, EUsi pensionar, 6t. 8^., decime tnde %d. ;
and there is no mencion made of Brooke either as a Church or
Chappell.

In the Valuacion of benefices made anno 26. Hen. VIII now
remayning in the Office of the first fruits, Brooke Chappell is
distinguished from the parrish Church of Freshwater as
followeth :

The Chappell of Brooke whereof now is noe incumbent;
Nevertheless one Nicholas Boreman, gent, take th all theyeerely
profitts.

The yeerely value of which Chappell in all manner of profitts
after the best eslimacion is 38J. o8i/., videlicet :

Glebe Lands, 28 acres 28X. od.

Oblacions 00 20

Tythes of all natures 09 00

Other casuall profitts 00 00

This endowment of 28 acres of land which belongs to the
Chappell of Brooke, the parson of Freshwater hath it not, but
are in Mr Boreman's possession.

Divers scuerall clerkes presented to the Chappell of Brooke ;
but the second clerke was presented Ad capellam de Brook
infra parochiam de Freshwater^ as appeares by the Register, vide*
licet

Contulit Dominus Episcopus Johanni de Middle-
ton, clerico, Capellam de Brooke infra parochiam
de Freshwater in Insula Vectis, constitutum inre
ad eum per lapsum temporis ultimo devoluto
ipsumque Rectorem institut. canonice in eadem,
et scriptum fuit Archidiaconum Winton. ad
inducendum etc.

Notes from the College Records. 183

That it was and had byn 18 yeeres in controuersie, betweene
Boreman and the parson of Freshwater, but what landes
tenements, tythes or any other annual profitts they cannot
krarn.

Mr Boreman repaireth and dyspotheth all things at his
pleasure in his Chappell, and it is meerely for him and his
family.

Mr Boreman tooke away two bells out of the Chappell as his
proper chatteils.

Mr Boreman paide lately the Tenths to the Sherifife.

In Commnni Banco.

Nicholas Bullingham, clerk, parson of Freshwater in the Isle
of Wight, plaintiff: John Ellis, clerke, the pretended Rector of
Brooke in the said He, John Peirson, Nathaniel Beckett and
Arthur Oakes, defendants.

In an accion of Trover, by consent, for taking
of Tyths in Brooke.

The plainti/f first brought his accion of Trespass against the
defendants for takeing away several! quantities of corne and hay,
sett out for tythes in Brooke in the parish of Freshwater to
which the defendants plead not guilty, which issue was tryed at
the last Lent Assizes held at Wiulou for the County of South-
ampton, when and where it was proved against the defendants
that they were guilty of takeing away of come and hay soe sett
out for Tyths to the value of uyneteene pounds and ten
shillings.

Jiut the furiher proofe of each parties title to the said tyths
being then like to be tedious and weighty it was consented to
by both parties, and a Rule was then accordingly made that it
should be tryed at the Barr this present Terme by a Middlesex
Jury, by an accion of Trover and convercion, and that the said
Rule should be made a Rule of this Court which by motion is
accordingly done. Wherevpon—

The plaintiff by accion of Trover and Convertion declares

against the defendants for deteyning and converting to theire

owne vse severall goods of his the plaintiff's, videlicet, seaven

cartloades of wheate, three cartloades of barly, one cartload of

VOL. XXVH. B B

1 8-1 Notes from the College Records.

pease and one cartload of hay to the value of nynteene pounds
and tennesliillings, which came to tlie hands and possession of
the defendants, at the parish of St Clement Danes, on the
thirtieth of September last. And which the said defendants on
the same day and at the same place to their vse as aforesaid
converted to the damage of the plaintiff— 40/1.

To this the defendants plead not guilty, and soe joyning
issue. But by the said rule they are vpon tryall to confess the
takeing away of corne and hay, sctt out for lythes al Brooke
aforesaid to the value of nynteene pounds ten shillings, and soe
stand vpon their tytle only, to defcate which the plaintiff
alledgeth as follows.

The State of the Case.

Many ancient controversies have been betweene the parson
of Freshwater and the Lords of the manor of Brooke, and sucb
pretended Rectors as have been by them thither presented,
concerning the tythes of Brooke, and the glebe lands wherewith
the Chappell of Brooke was endowed, which the Lordes of
Brooke have endeavoured to make a parish church. And the
better to compass their designe have made severall presentacions
clandestinely of incumbents to it as to a Rectory or parish
church. Which soe soone as they have been discovered have
allwayes been controverted by the parsons for the time being of
Freshwater, who have allwayes had the better in those suites.
The parsons of Freshwater alledging the sanoe to be but a free
chappell within the parish of Freshwater, formerly built by the
auncestors of Mr Bowreman, Lord of the Manor^of Brooke, to
have a preist to sing Mass there for their ease. And to bring
their owne family in, itt being two miles distant from the*parish
church of Freshwater. And is noe parish. And that all the
tythes of Brooke, and of other paries of the parish of Fresh*
water, were before the Council of Latteran granted by William,
Earle of Devon. Lord of the Isle of Wight, William MaskereU
and Ralph MaskereU, Lordes of the mannor of Brooke to the
Abby of Lyra, which afterwards came to the parson of
Freshwater and his successors, by which tytle he claymith the
tythe. But the chiefe thing, which (as we suppose) will now be
endeavored to be proved by the defendants, is thai Brooke is a
parish by it selfe and that the demeanes of the said mannor,
and another tenement or two, from which the said hay and

Notes from the College Records. 185

corne (being tytlie) were taken are not in the parish of Fresh-
water.

Therefore to prove that Brooke is within the parish of
Freshwater and that the parson of Freshwater is intitled to the
tythes of Brooke as parson — He proves :

That the inhabitants of Freshwater in their perambulacions
allwayes have and still doe take in Brooke and the free chappell
thereof into their parish and are yearely enterteyned by the
inhabitants of Brooke Village and Brooke Greene when they
goe their Bounds.

That the inhabitants of Brooke have been chosen in the
office of Churchwardens and Overseers of the poore for and
within the parish of Freshwater and have executed them.

That the inhabitants of Brooke bury, christen, are asked,
marry, receive Sacraments and have seates in the church of
Freshwater.

That the inhabitants of Brooke did allwayes pay rates to
the Church and poore of Freshwater. And that severall poore
liveing in Brooke have been carryed or sent to Freshwater and
placed out, and provided for as parishioners by the inhabitants
of Freshwater perticularly one Ephraim Fox, alias Beeres, his
family, and one William Poore, a blind man with a great family,
was brought thither from Brooke as to his owne parish and was
allowed twelve pence per weeke by the Overseers of Freshwater,
and forced to doe it by Mr Bowreman himselfe, the Lord of the
mannor of Brooke, being then a Justice of the Peace.

That the said Mr Bowreman himself hath been distrained
for Poor Rates to Freshwater, and has payd them, for his land
in Brooke and has allsoe payd Church rates to Freshwater.

That all the inhabitants of Brooke, even Mr Bowreman
himselfe. Lord of the said mannor, have formerly payd all
tythes in kind to the parsons of Freshwater (videlicet) to Doctor
Fell, Deane Warburton and Mr Goodman, and since his
Majesties returne all the inhabitants there, except Mr Bowre-
man have payd them.

The parsons of Freshwater have had three
verdicts for the tyth of Brooke (videlicet) :

Nicholas Porter, parson of Freshwater, 22® Hen. VIII, bringy
a Trespasse against Nicholas Bowreman and others the
inhabitants of Brooke for breaking his close at Brooke in the

1 86 Notes from the College Records.

parish of Freshwater and taking away severall quantities of
come, and hath a verdict and judgment — in Common Picas.

Edward James, s® jacobi in Trespass against Robert Adin,
the then pretended Rector of Brooke and other defendants for
carrying away a load of hay at Brooke within the parish of
Freshwater, a jadgment and^Jverdict for the plaintiflf— in the
King's Bench.

Cardell Goodman, 17 Caroli primi in Trespass against
John Percivall the then pretended Rector of Brooke, a
judgment and verdict against^ the defendant^in Common
Pleas.

Mr Goodman by vertae of this verdict, aswell as of his
undoubted right, enjoyed the tythes of Brooke as parson of
Freshwater qaietly for fower yeares, videlicet, from 1641 (when
he had the verdict) till 1645, and during these fower yeares he
lett out the tythes of Brooke to— Goodall and — for 50//. per
annum. But in 1645 Mr Bowrenian got a sequestracion.

The plaintiff hath allsoe two Non-suites (videlicet).

At the Summer Assizes held at Winton anno ::xvij of this
King, in a declaracion on a prohibicion, Mr Bowrenian, Lord
of the Mannor of Brooke, being plaiutinf against Mr Dickonson,
coadjutor to the parson of Freshwatei and other defendants,
wherein the issue was, whether Mr Bowreiiiau's farnie, lying in
Brooke, were within the parish of Freshwater - And after two
houres tryall on full evidence the plainiiflf noiL^nited.

And at the last Summer Assizes held at Wiiuoii, anno xxviij
of this King, in the like accion, Nathaniel Beckett being
plaintiff against the same defendants.

The parsons of Freshwater have had nine severall sentences
in the Spirituall Court against such of the inhabitants of Brooke
as withheld their tythes from them.

In a certificate made anno ^-f Hen. VIII on a Commission
to enquire of all the hospilalls and Free Chappells in the said
Isle of Wight etc, (which certificate is now in the Angmentacion
Office) is mencioned the Free Chappell of Brooke within the
parish of Freshwater. And that it was founded by the
ancestors of Nicholas Bowreman to have a Preist to sing Mass
there for ever for the ease of them and their family.

In the Remembrance Office in the Exchequer among the
valuation of Benefices are two severall lists of all the parishes of
the Isle of Wight, the one in 1291 and the other in 1340. And

Ko/es from the College Records. 187

no mencion is made of Brooke in etlher of them, which had it
been a parish it wmild have been uamcd among the rest of the
parishes.

By an Award made by Sir Henry Wallop and Si' Richard
Tichbourne in the year j6i8 vpou a reference to tl«em made
▼pon a tryall betweene Dr Fell, parson of Freshwater, and
Mr Bowreman, Lord of the Mannor of Brooke, concerning
tythes of Brooke ' it was by them awarded that the parsons of
Freshwater should have all tythes in kind of Brooke.

By an ancient Award made anno 1527, Richard Fox,
Bishopp of Winton gives all the tythes of Brooke to the parish
of Freshwater.

In or about the yeare 1649 the aforesaid Goodman, who had
one of the verdicts, being put out of his parsonage for refusing
the Ingagement, Mr Bowreman, his antagonist, then Deputy
Governor of the Isle, and in great power there (the Chappell
standing in his owne ground) rayled in a peece of his ground
for a Chiirchvdrd. made a Register Booke and caused the
inhabitants of Brooke to bury there and to christen, marry and
receive Sacraments at the Chappell, sett vp seates there for
them made Churchwardens and Overseers and caused the
inhabitants to pay poore rates, parti'uilarly in the year 1653 he
made them pay towards healing the sayd Chappell v/iih Purbeck
stone. And did allsoe cati'^e them to pay their tythes to such
person or persons as he had presented, or gott into the said
Chappell. All which continued from 16^(9 till 1662. But
before, there were never any of these badges of a distinct pcirish,
cor was the same since any man's remembrance ever called or
accounted soe.

The return of the Comnxissioners in the reign of King
Henry VIII, which Is alluded to in the last Brief is here
printed. It certainly seems to beai* out the contention
of the Rectors of Freshwater that Brook Chapel was not
a pari.sli church. It also discloses the fact that as early
a» 1545 the Rectors of Freshwater were at variance with
the Bowreman family.

In the bundelles of certificates of diverse Counties
in the xxvijth yere of Kinge Henry the eight, inter
alia sit anno 1545.

I ^S A^oUs from ike College Records,

To the Ryght honorable Syr Edwarde Norths knjght,
Chauncellor of the Cuurte off Thagmentations off the Revenues
of the k)nges highnes Crowne, and other off the Counsell off
the same Courte.

Ill tlie certyficatte off thole Inquisition and Survey bad made
and taken by Sir John Wellesbourne, knight, Walter
Hendley, esquier, Richard Worsley, esquier, George Pawlett,
esquier, Richard Paulett, esquicr, and John Ramond, gentyl-
man, Commissioners according to the tenor of the kinges
Majestie commission to vs addressede hereunto annexede of all
suche Hospitailes, Colledges, free chappells. Fraternities,
Brotherhoodes, Guyldes, and Stipendarye prestes as ben withia
the Counties of Southampton and Berkshire, and of all other
our proceedinges touchinge the contentes of the said Commis-
sion as hereafter Camongst others) more plainlie itjs sett fourthe
and declared.

Com. Suthampton — Berkshire

(i) Tlie nomber and names of all the Chauntries, Hos*
pitalles, Colledges, Free Chappells, Fraternities, Brother-
hooddes, Guyldes and stipendarye prestes having
perpctuitie for ever.

(2) To what ententes, purposes and dedes of chariiie the
same and every of them were founded ordenede and mad«
and by whome.

(3) Which and howe manye of them ben parish churches
and howe farre distant they and every of them ben from
the parishe churche. And within which parishe eny of
them doo stande and be sett.

(4) The yerclie value of the londes and possessions apper-
teyninge or belonginge to them and everye of them, with
the yerelie resolutes and deduccions of the same. And
how yt is employede and expendede.

(5) The value of the ornaments, Jewells, plate, goodes and
cattalles merelie apperteyninge or belonginge to everye
of the said Chauntries, Hospitalles and other the said
promosions yet vndissolvede.

(6) Howe many Chauntries, Hospitalles, Colledges and other
the saide promosions sithe the iiijth daye of Februarye in
the xxvjth yere of the Kinges reigne haue ben dissolued

Notes from the College Records. 189

or eny parte or parcell of them optcyned by eny person
withoute the Kinges lycence. With tlie clere ytrelie
vahie of the possessions thereof and llie value of the
goodes and Cnttells of the same.

Suthampton— The Isle of Wight.

(i) The Freechaple of Broke within the parishe of Fresh-
water : founded by

(ii) The auncestors of Nicholas Borman, gentilman, to
haue a preste to singe there for ever, as it is supposed,
for the ease of them and theire family. Howbeit at this
time it is in controversy betweent: the said Nicholas
Borman and the parson of Freshwater. And hathe soe
contynued in variance thys xviij yeres.

(iii) The said chapell 3's scytuate within the pari^ihe of
Freshwater nygh to three myles frome the parishe
churche there.

(iv) What landes, tenementes, tythes or other annuall
profytes belongythe thereunto wee can no learne.

(v) There belongilh to the same chappell one Chalyce, ij
payre of olde vestementes and ij litle belles, whereof there
ys noe inventory made.

(vi) [No answer is given to this question].

J. Oglandsr.
Nics. Sexton.

This is a true copy as I examined the same in the Augmen-
tation Office this 2olh of June 1675.

Thomas Locke.

We now come to the last struggle on the part of the
Rectors of Freshwater for Brook. The contest lasted at
least two hundred years. On the one side we have the
rights of Brook asserted by successive members of the
Bowreman family (the name appears in many forms),
while the Rectors of Freshwater, each in his turn, take
up the struggle.

1 90 Notes from the College Records.

The previous law case was carried on nominally in
the name of Nicholas Bullingham, but really by hi3
curate, or "Coadjutor," Daniel ]>ickonson. It seems
probable thac this case was decided In favour of the
claims of Freshwater. On Bullingham's death in i6q4
the fiowreman of the day presented Dickonson to Brook,
and on Dickonson's death in 1701, Crefficld, then Rector
of Freshwater, was presented to Brook. This probably
decided matters, the representative of the rights of
Freshwater, by accepting presentation to Brook from
its hereditary champion, and institution at Ihe hands of
the Bishop, unwittingly perhaps, took a decisive step
by recognising in a formal way the rights of the rival
power.

On Creffield's death the College presented Edmund
Brome, then President, to Freshwater. Mr. Bowreman
presented John Woodford (an Oxford man bom at
Newport in the Isle of Wight; to Brook. Both were insti-
tuted by the Bishop ot Winchester, Woodford after some
delay. The letters which follow shew how the College
and Brome were feeling their way to another law suit.
The College Bill of Costs has been preserved. It is a
somewhat lengthy document beginning in Hilary Term
1 7 24 ; by May 1 726 costs to the amount of ^ 153 i ts. i \d.
had been incurred ; one of the last items being fees to
Sir Thomas Pengelly and Mr Serjeant Chappie to
advise whether the ca^e should be proceeded with or not.
Apparently their advice (which has not been preserved
in College) was not favourable to the claims of Fresh-
water, for no further costs were incurred ; the College
began to pay off the bill by instalments, the last instal-
ment being paid in December 1730.

As regards the writers of the letters. John Bird, son
of the Rev John Bird of Cambridge, was admitted
to the College 8 January 1 689-90 ; at the time he wrote
the letter he was Vicar of Reigate in Surrey.

Robert Lambert was Senior Bursar ot the College;
it will be noticed that in his letters he refers to the

Notes from the College Records, 191

disputes as to Shrewsbury School, which have been
dealt with in the EagU^ and to other College business.

Edmund Brome, the Rector of Freshwater, was a son
of a Johnian, also an Edmund Brome who was Rector
of Great and Little Bealings in Suffolk, and Master of
Woodbridge School. Edmund Brome, the younger, was
born at Woodbridge 10 February 1670-1 ; he was
admitted to the College 25 March 1686, and became a
Fellow 16 March 1691-2. He was ordained Deacon
3 June 1694, and Priest 20 May 1695 by the Bishop of
London. He was instituted Vicar of Witcham in the
Isle of Ely 4 February 1704-5; this he ceded in 1709,
being succeeded there by his brother-in-law Richard
Taylor (of St John's, B.A. 1700, MA. 1704), who had
married Brome's sister Dorothy. Taylor died 6 October
1720, Brome refers to him and to Witcham in the first
of his letters. The Mr Stillingfleet who was curate to
Brome at Freshwater, was Fairfax Stillingfleet.
A pedigree of the Bowreman family will be found in
Berry's Hampshire Pedigrees^ pp. 78, 79. The Bowreman
whom Brome describes as " the Colonel," was William
Bowreman who was buried at Brook 15 May 1745.
Berry states that he died 15 May 1745 aged 82, and that
there is a monument to his memory in the Church of
Brook. Uniortunately this was the old Church which
was burnt down in 1863, when no monumentof any kind
was saved. The family is now extinr^t in the male line.
There is a brass in the present church of Brook which
thus preserves the memory of the last of what one feels
must have been a stout-hearted race of Squires : " To
the Glory of God | and in memory of Thomas Bowreman
who died January 6, 1844 aged 69, | Elizabeth his wife
who died August 30, 1850 aged 71 | Jane their third
daughter who died March 2, 1810 aged 3 | and of Mary
Stoddard their eldest daughter, | the wife of Thomas
John Blachford | who died March 17, 1864 aged 64 |
and was buried in the cemetery of Holywell, Oxford. |
The above Thomas Bowreman was for 35 years the
VOL. XX\II. CC

192 Notes from the College Records.

Rector | of this Parish, and was the last male des-
cendant of his family | whose remains have been for
many generations | laid to rest within these walls.

Reigate
October nth. 1723.

Dear Sir

When I parted with Dr Bennett it was agreed that if possible
I should get to the Isle before Mr Brome, least I should be
dissappointed of the papers. I accordingly set forward on nijr
Journey and reached Chichester the same day, but having the
misfortune to lame one of my horses, I was forc'd to leave him
behind and hire a hackney to Portsmouth the next morning.
When I came thither I found no passage, without hiring a boat
on purpose or loitering there till the Tuesday following.
I chose the former and agreed to be landed at Newport, but the
tyde not serving, I was obliged to land at Cowesand hire horses
for Newport whither I came before night. I immediately sent
for Mr Dickonson, who freely answered my expectation, took
me home with him, and shewed me his papers. They were too
many to look all over and in such confusion that it required
more time to put them into order than I could spare, though
I took a friend with me, one Mr Barnard, instead of a servant,
who assisted me in the search and designs in a lille lime to see
Cambridge and will give you then a fuller account than I can
do this way. However I have brought some with me, which
you will find useful upon severall accounts, and have sealed up
the rest in a box, which Mr Dickonson has promised to deliver
upon order sent from the College (the seal is u a dove k).

The next day I had the honour of preaching twice before the
Major and Aldermen, which I should not have mentioned
but that I heard there was a greater appearance of the fair sex
than usuall, who knowing Mr Brome to be a Balchelour, and
taking me for him, had certainly a design. How he may
guard his heart I know not ; I am sure mine was not the least
affected.

The same evening we went out of town to one Colonel
Stevens, whom Mr Parsons had recommended to me by a letter
and desired his assistance to me as his friend. He received me
wviih a great^ deal of civility, and told me that tho' he knew

l^otes frofH the College Records. 193

nothing particularly lelating to the contest, yet he would
endeavour to inform himself and ohiige the College.

The next day we set out for Freshwater, which is 10 miles at
least distant from Newport, and in a manner an Island of it&
self, but I made an excursion to take Mottiston in the road,
where I was extreamly surprised to find Mr Owen transformed
into our old friend Johnny Foulkf's. Such indeed I thought him,
his face, his speech, bis air, his every moiion bespoke him to be
the man ; that if they really were two I could scarce persuade
myself, but that Johnny*s mother had stern a leap. AH his
information appeared to be only airy and hearsay, not one paper
produced, nor any thing appeared like proof. I am afraid that
his resentment to Boreman on one side and his expectations of
serving the Cure of Freshwater on the other, have prevailed on
him to be officious (this should in my judgment be kept in
reserve, but the man at present not to be discouraged). One
thing I met with which may be usefull, Mr James Salter of that
paribh and aged — , told me that the contest with Boreman
concluded in favour of the College, and that Ellis was ejected
from Brooke, and the profits of Mottistone sequestered
towards the payment of the costs, himself being then church-
warden of that parish.

I called next on Boreman and expostulated the matter with
him. His answer was that he layed no claim to Freshwater, but
was resolved (having had three several uncontested presenta-
tions to Brook) to insist upon his right, and the law should
decide it.

I then came to Freshwater and waited on the Colonel,
he told me he should be willing to encourage the incumbent,
but was a stranger to the case, his son was much more free and
by his asbistance I gained the two following depositions from
two ancient parishioners there, which take as follows: —

James Atkins, aged 70 and more, alledged that Brooke was
always reputed a part of Freshwater and that the poor of Brook
were relieved joy ntly with Freshwater.

John Osborn, aged 70 or more, affirmed that he was formerly
an overseer of Freshwater, but the particular year he remembred
not ; and then Brooke was esteemed a part of that parish, and
he relieved the poor of Brooke as such, and that money was
levied on Brooke which he received.

The parsonage house is very agreably scituated, the dwelling

194 Notes from the College Records.

house exceeding good, that and the oulhonses being ia much
better repair, than I think I have ever seen any.

Mr Berkett, the present curate, told me he had secured what
papers he could meet with of the late incumbent's, which related
to the parish, but he took so little, nothing of anything bat
money, that he believed they would prove but of litile use. He
is a man of a general good character, I wish Mr Brome would
continue him.

The common way is to let every man his tithes by the lump,
and I can't but find they have lumping penny worths. I desired
Mr Dickonson to wait on Mr Brome, so soon as he should hear
he was come into the Isle, to entreat him to make no hasty
bargains, for I find he will be besett on all sides. He has
promised to do it, and refused any gratuity I offered him, saying
that his papers and himself were at your service, but hoped he
might receive some favours from the College if ever his son
should be capable of being elected. My next stage was to
Sallfleet, where I only learned that Mr Henrey is in Boreman's
interest and seemed surprised at the delivery of my errand.

'Twas now time to return to Newport and the next morning
we were forced to lake a guide to Ryde, that being the shortest
passage to Portsmouth, but the wind being brisk no vessell
cared to stir, so that we ventured in a fisher boat and came safe
though soundly soused. For the seas running high the waves
burst over our heads, which we were sensible of when we came
on shoar, we were not much commended for our courage,
though had it been less, we might, have stayed in the Isle till
now.

This is all I have been able to do. I wish it might turn as
much to your service, as I am really

your most humble servant
J. Bird.

Wherever your please lo order me to send the papers they
shall be sent.

London
24 October 1723
DeariSir

Yesterday Mr Bird came lo town and brought me papers
from Mr Dickonson, to whom I write by this post to send me the

Notes Jrom the College Records, 195

remainder sealed up in a box by the safest way he can. I had
the pleasure of perusing about 60 sheets of paper this morning,
when I laboured hard, and at one a clo-k came Mr Johnson
y^xy opportunely to renew the work in the afternoon. There
are several Breviates of the case abput the tythes of Brook
belonging to Freshwater. They clame a right Irom the
evidences of diverse persons, that the inhabitants of Brook were
in the parish of Freshwater, as being obliged to Christen,
marry, and do all other parochial dutys at that church, which
provided overseers for Brook, and their poor were taken care of
by the oflScers of that parish, and Mr Boureman had paid both
poor and church rates there, as well as others. This continued
till about 1653 when Mr Goodman was sequestered for refusing
the Engagement, and after the King's return all paid tythes
except Boureman.

Several disputes happened before this and.three verdicts were
given in behalf of Freshwater for the right of tythes from Brook.
First in the 22nd of Henry 8th, next in the second of King
James, third in 17th of Charles I. Two nonsuitcs in the 27th
and 28th of Charles 2nd. Nine sentences were passed in the
Spiritual Court to the same purpose for non-payment of tythes.
In a book for Taxation of Livings 1520, Brook is said to be in
Freshwater parish, as likewise in a certificate in the Augmenta-
tion Office. Some other particulars there are of old writings,
wherein Brook is not taken notice of as a parish, where it was
to be expected, if it had been such. William, Earl of Devon,
Lord of the Isle of Wight, gavQ to Abbey of St Mary of Lyra the
tythes of Freshwater, Aston, Compton and Brook. I'his was
confirmed to the Abbey by Godfrey, Bishop of Winton, and
William and Ralph Maskarell gave the whole tythe of the
demeans of the Lordship of Brook. This was confirmed by
King Henry 3rd.. After the dissolution of this Abbey of Lyra,
the lands and revenues went to the Priory of Sheen, who by
their grant, 1 July 1459, granted to William Willpool, parson of
Freshwater all their tythes, great and small, which they had in.
the parish of Freshwater in right of their Priory of Carisbrook and
of Lyra i.f. all tythes of the Lordships of Freshwater Aston,
Compton and Brook, they paying to the Priory yearly 7/. i^s, ^d.,
confirmed by the Bishop, Prior and Chapter of Winton the same
year.

All this seems very favourable to our cause, yet at last

196 Notes from thi College Records.

I doubt it will prove an intricate business, and it plainly has been
so formerly, and appears particularly in the case of its being a
presentative church or chappell, which we are to dispute now.
I have before me a long roll of the Rectors of Brook, which
begins in 1 305, which mentions the names of near 20 presented
and instituted. I give you here what occurs 1520. The rest are
generally much the same.

1320 Johannes Dodecole, presbyter, presentatus per
Willelmum Baselew ad capellam de la Brooke.
Ad missus fuit et canonice iiistiiutus Rector ejusdem
capellae 3 tio Id Junij ejusdem anni. In ductus
ibidem ab Archidiacono, a Rigando, Winlon. £pis-
copo.

The next was presented by the Crown for that turn, the
Patron being an idiot and his institution notifyed 1350. 1376
the Bishop presented upon a Lapse. 1525 William Botyll was
presented by Nicholas Bowreman, esquire, and is said to b«
instituted Rector of the parish church of Brook, but as none is
menticned between this and 1451, too long it seems for one
incumbent, so they are not so particular in those that follow, as
to Patron and time of institution, though the paper names the
year and says: "about this time— was presented, instituted and
inducted," till 1540, Bowreman is named again as presenting
Richard Elyot, who prays to be instituted, but we find no more
of him. Here seems to have been a turn of affairs, for the
next named is Robert Birch 158 f» lycensed by John, Bishop
of Winton "ad peragendum officium curati parochialis in
ecclesia parochiali de Brooke."

But in 1586 William Hayes was presented by Thomas
Bowreman and the words of his institution are : " te rectorem
admittimus et regimen et curam animarum tibi committimus.'^
1635 John Percival comes next, presented by King Charles on
a lapse. With him the Rector of Freshwater commenced a suit
for tythes of Brook, and carried it, 1653. Bowreman came in
with his clerke Joshua Tomkyns, who was alive 1674. The
legal ways of institution etc. being then laid aside, he was
confirmed in his possession by the King, 't is said, instead of
Institution.

By this account it seems that Brooke was a presentative
church and finding a distinction of Upper and Lower Brooke

Notes from the College Records* 197

I suspected there might be a right of tythes to Freshwater from
one part, and the Rector of Brook might enjoy the glebe with
the other. For I don't find that our Rector claimed the glebe,
which seems granted by the Lords of Brook for support of a
chaplain to the Lord, as in the case of a House Chappell, and
thence the Lords formerly repaired the building at their own
expense till about 165- (paper torn), but the late depositions
know nothing of that Upper and Lower, though it seems as old
as Bishop Gardiner*s award.

I hope the papers out of the Isle will give more light into
ihis dark affair. I have by me one notable paper to show, how
in the three suits our Rectors have proceeded each upon a
different scheme, which perhaps is true. But still whatever
becomes of your presentation if we can make out a right to the
tythes, there will be no encouragement to present, the glebe
being reduced from 28 acres to 12. But enough for this time.

The Bishop of Norwich elect is not confirmed till Monday
next, and the consecration will be Sunday after. Has young
T. White been with you about Rawreth ? I wrote to Mr Shaw
to be cautious, for I question whether the widow has a power to
part with the Lease, there being a minor, unless the agreement
between the brothers empower her to do it.

Duty to the Master and service to all. I have finished the
Culler's affair. Mr Kinaston was not come yesterday

yours heartily

Robert Lambert.
I hear nothing of Mr Clark, junior.

Addressed: To the Reverend Dr Edmundson, Fellow of
-St John's College, Cambridge.

London
26 October 1723
Dear Sir

Last Post I sent you a large account, how our affairs stood in
the Isle of Wight, but hear nothing of the Rector, nor have
I one letter from thence, since his arrival there. I desire my
last may be considered by the Master and Seniors that I may
know their thoughts upon the matter, what is proper to be done
and whether we should not be cautious how we engage upon the

1^8 Nohs from the College Records.

presentation, when there are such a number of precedents to the
contrary. I think we shall wait till the other papers artive, then
offer what we can to the Bishop, let the case be drawn np as to
facts, which a soUicitor may do, and laid before him, how it has
been determined, I mean at different times, and try his Lordshxpf
how he will act. If he grants an institution, it seems to me
Mr Brome can sue for the tythts of Brooke (I don't say glebe)
notwithstanding. For I observe the old suits went upon the
right of tythes to the Lordship, and are very silent, or rather
disown the glebe. Dr Fell in particular as you'l find quickly.

I send by W. Bridge a duplicate of a Breviate ; there you will
see the case, and a list of the Rectors of Brooke, to which are
to be added Ellis, Dickonson, Creffield. I think yon will do
well to lay these papers before Mr Gatward, give him a fee, and
let him suppose llie facts as there laid down, that they may be
proved, and the list of Rectors of Brooke fairly taken, which
I take for granted, and then judge what he thinks upon the
whole may be concluded, as to the presentation of Brook, and
as to the right of tythes from thence, for I much suspect
a difference is to be made; and though it was denyed in
Dickonson*s time, there was an old distinction of Upper and
Lower Brook (the latter by Stephen Gardiner's award paid
tythes to Freshwater) and they appeal to deeds for it in Richard
2nd*8 and Henry 6th's time, but deny that Upper Brook ever
paid tythes to Freshwater. Dr Fell in a rough draught of
collections putts three querys: — (i) Whether the tythes of the
Manor of Brook belong ywrif to Freshwater; (2) Whether the
manor be in the parish of Freshwater ; (3) Whether the cure of
the chapel of Brook do htXtyng jure to the parson of Freshwater.
He affirms the two former. He proves it from the grant to
Lyra, and that confirmed 1457 by the Bishop of Winton, Dean
tic (Wainfleet's time) His next proof is, from payment of tythes
in kind 1523, and the following years to about 1536. From
Porter*s book, from the sentences of Ecclesiastical Courts

That the cure of Brook belongs not to his parish of Fresh-
water he proves from the value of benefices, first fruits being
distinct, from the endowment of the Chappell in 28 acres of
land, which the parson of Freshwater has not, from Mr Bowr-
man's repairing and ordering all in the Chapel, using the
bells as his proper chattells, paying the Tenths, presenting one

Notes from tht College Records. 199

Adyn, as he hears, the chapel is meerly for Mr B*9 use and his
household, and heard there was a Bull for the indowing of it.

Cardetl Goodman sues for tythes o{ ^xook^ Jure Recioriae it
being wiihin his parish, as appears by perambulations, poor
rates, christenings and sacraments in the church of Freshwater
by the inhabitants of Brooke (except Bowreman's family),
tythes paid or a composition in lieu, no mention of Brook as a
parish.

His arguments are the same as Dickonson's afterwards. I do
not find that Mr Dickonsou when he pleaded and managed the
cause for BuUingham, though it was expected from his first
setting out, went further than sueing for tythes of Brook. If
those were settled by a grant to the parson of Freshwater from
the Priory of Sheen, upon a certain payment, which still
continues, whatever becomes of the cure, the Rector of Fresh-
water comes in for tythes of the Lordship, and this I think it
will be proper to notify to the Bishop, when Mr Brome returns
hither, if he is inclined to grant Bowreman's dark institution.

The great suite in Henry 8th's time when Porter was Rector
of Freshwater 'tis observed, allows Brook to be a parish distinct
from Freshwater, presentative and the Bouremans patrons,
clerks presented by them, but claims the tythes of Lower Brook,
as part of the parish of Freshwater belonging to him as Rector.
This lasted 20 years with clerks of Brooke, Botyll, Bust and
Gatwick. The second suit was commenced to gain the tythes
of Upper Brook, but allow the glebe land to belong to Brook
chappell, which they deny to be a Rectory or chappell presen-
tative or parochial, but merely an house chappell for the Lords
of Brook, the serving of it to be provided for by them, for
which they have a glebe, but no tythes. Mr Dickonson's
sequestration extended to glebe and all tythe as if it were
a chappell of ease to be served by the Rector of Freshwater,
who might clame the glebe on that account, but his argument is
in the point of tythes chiefly. I send *he Breviate, that yon
may judge of it.

Pray keep these letters, that if there be occasion, I can better
recollect, what I have here, at my return to College and know
more particularly how the case is.

If we proceed in this business, it will be necessary to have a
sollicitor near the place, and Mr Bird recommends Mr Bissall,
atturney at PorUmouth, as the fittest person, and he has a
VOL. XXVU. A D

20O Notesjrom the College Records.

special interest in Mr Kirde of Newport, who is supposed to
have papers in his custody relating to the title of Bowreman in
the dispute with Creffeild, which lasted I suppose a short time,
till the compounding matters.

Yesterday I inquired at Lincoln's Inn for Mr Kinaston, bat
he is not yet returned that I hear of. I have a letter at his
chambers, and his dark is to let him know where to find me.
More of that next time. This putts a stop to all.

Pray let me know whether you hear from Mr Brome and
what he does there at his parish. His silence makes me return
no answer to Owen, who had been out of order, Mr Bird
tells me, but the feaver was turned to the late distemper,
gripes etc.

Mr White, and Trent, and the widow have all been with me,
she then declared that she was willing and desirous to assign
her lease to the brother, and would sign an instrument to that
purpose for the satisfaction of the College, which I send, that
the College may empower her to assign it over to him in form.
I told them where I thought it stuck, the child being alive, but
Mr White gave it for law that the widow having administered,
as she assured me she had, the right and interest of the lease
was entirely in her, and she appeared so well satisfyed, that
I promised to send the inclosed, that the Licence of Alienation
for the whole term be granted to the widow. If the College
agrees to it, as 'tis best for us, if it can be done in law, you may
let Mr Yorke draw it up, and he will be able to tell you the law
as well as White, but you need not seal it yet; Trent has paid
this years rent in confidence of this agreement, and though my
friend While does not give me more than his word for it,
perhaps the widow, her husband dying intestate, and the lease a
chattell, may have a good clnme in right of her Thirds, as well
as being administratrix, which he seems to lay a stress upon.
I believe it is the best way as things are now left, to provide for
the widow and child, who else had be -n at the mercy of hir
brother, who seems not overstocked with good nature, but a sort
of rough hard mortal.

Since I am got thus far I may as well go to the bottome
of the page, and then J think you will have enough for this
week.

Yesterday I spent some time with S. Cumyns, and talked
over our Salop affair freely between ourselves. The distemper

NoUs from the College Ruords, 201

fnusi not be concealed from the physician. I told him the
misfortune of our case, in more respects than one. What we
had lost, what me might suffer ; short hints served in the latter
case ; 'tis notorious what is to be expected. Before we pro-
ceeded, he desired I would talk matters over with Mr K., and
he wished if we could avoid it, not to go to law. It must be in
Chancery. If I could bring Mr K. to a reference of some
considerable persons, this he thought was the method we should
take. He had talked with our friend the Baron, who being ill
of the gout I did not care to trouble needlessly, and I doubt not
but it was your common sentiment. You must let me iiave
directions but conceal our weaknesses, as much as you can.
With this you'll receive three papers about Brook, which take
care of with these letters about business, that I may have them
again.

Yours
Robert Laubbrt.

Freshwater

ID November 1724
Sir

We begin to conclude that all designs of recovering Brooke
this year are now laid aside. And it does not appear to me
unreasonable to suppose that this may be only a greater part of
that coldness which has been shewn towards myself in Mr Bird's
being hindred to assist about the tythes in the delays that were
made as to directing how to proceed in this affair till it was in
some respects too late &c. And here I can't but ask leave to
observe that the unkindness which has been shewn towards
myself, by some at least in the College, to one who for so many
years has used his best (though weak) endeavour to serve that
Society, to one against whom, bating all uncharitable as
illgrounded surmises, I presume there has not been any just
exception to be taken, unless it were that of an infirm health
(with which it has pleased God to exercise me all my life long,
and which I thank God, I had rather enjoy than any ungodly
health whatever). I say the unkindness and coldness.which on
many occasions, has been shewn to myself from some in the
Collfge, to a person who ever bore so much good will to that
society and every member thereof, is such, as I presume to say
and believe has not been known in any time in the same

202 Notes fr&m the College Records.

circumstances, and which I am now the more concerned at, as
I perceive the interest of the College like to suffer through
personal prejudice. Since the longer this affair is delayed the
more strength (no doubt) will the opposite party gain. Who if
the College had proceeded with any quickness this Term, it was
believed hereabouts that our adversaries would as readily have
given up the cause, or at least not have maintained any long
dispute. I have sometimes been thinking whether the College
expected that I should contribute any part of the charge,
whatever that proved. But as the demands were all made in
W\% name, as they were by the direccion, of the College (which
indeed was a thing that most disposed our antagonists to
justice), so I am present in nocondicion for any such assistance,
having enough to do to answer all demands made upon myself
for remaining arrears, and to supply what is wanting in the
house and elsewhere. Which in several particulars I am forced
to defer till I am better able to allow them. And as to any
help from my sister, whatever some may promise, I see no
prospect that way, at least before her death. I am fain to be
thus particular, because where there are prejudices you don't use
to want arguments however superficial. Though I yet wish
I haue not said too much, since I am still willing to beleaue that
I shall meet with so much honour in the present case as will
accept my endeavours in good part.

I know there are some who would represent my health as
unfit for my present situacion, but as I have had experience in
the same concern before, in another Isle, and that with such
success and acceptance, through God's mercy, in some respect
or other (without any advantage of health) that upon the death
of my brother Taylor, some of the chief of the parish would
have persuaded me to have procured the same again, so I am
not to be discouraged that way. My commendacions I pray to
the Master, and all as due, from your humble servant

£dm. Bromb.

I have been told by one who affirmed he saw the letter that
Mr Owen should write to colonel Boreman to this effect, that if
he would be his friend, he would serve him what he could.

Addressed: To the Reverend Dr Lambert, Senior Bursar of
St John's College in Cambridge. By London.

Notes from the College Records. 203

Freshwater
a January 1724-5
Sir

By yours of December 15th I perceive that we began to con-
clude too fast that the College had dropped the affair of Brooke.
Upon your letter I have made the best enquiry that I could, and
do hope not without Success. I can now acquaint you that
Mr Salter, the late churchwarden of Brooke, since the colonel
and his clerk used hixA so roughly for laying the load of corn
(which you remember) at the demand of our servants, is now
become intirely in our interest, and without urging has lately
obliged us with the following particufars. That he gave
Mr John Woodford (the present minister of Brooke chappel)
20 It per annum for the tythe of the common field, or of what is
commonly called the Tenements of lower Brooke, and 1 0/1 per
annum for the glebe. That the rest of Brooke consists intirely
of what is called Brooke Farm, for the tythe wherof the colonel
alloi^s 21/1 lox. per annum to the minister; the cheef grain of
both being wheat and barley. It may be also proper to mention,
that having on this occasion consulted our Church Registers, I
find that Brooke is in all of them entered as a part or quarter of
the parish of Freshwater. To make which account the more
clear, I must not omit to tell you, that this large parish, to the
^eat convenience of the inhabitants, is divided into so many
several Tythings, distinguished by the names of Easton, Weston,
Norton, Sutton, Middleton, Wilmyam and Brooke, according to
such divisions, every person is christened, married, and buried,
is registered in our Church Books. And by all the observacion
that I can make, Brooke is constantly mencioned as one of
those Quarters, and no where called the parish of Brooke, as
would be inconsistent in a Register the title whereof has nothing
but Freshwater. The first mencion of Brooke (in the manner
related) bears date above an 100 years ago, viz. AD. 16 17.
From whence the same form and method is continued without
interruption to the year 1653, those days of confusion, when
there happened an altercation, and no more mencion of Brooke
till the year 1673, when the old form renewed again in the time
of Mr Bullingham and Mr Dickonson his coadjutor. The like
is also to be found, though not so frequent, as to churchwardens.
I perceive that witnesses enough may be produced who
remember the paying the poor of Brooke in our churchyard

i04 Notes from the College Records.

their share of the rates ; as also of the colonel's tearing the leaf

that contained that account out of the colleccion book. I have

lately been informed by another hand that there is a piece of

land ill that pnrt called Brooke, called the Parsonage Close

consisting of about lo acres in all, and indeed it can't bat

appear strange that there should be so much glebe as I have

before hinted belonging to Brook, and so little or none (not

above 3 or 4 acres) here in Freshwater, unless the former

be allowed to be a part of the latter, and to make up one parish

with it. This, Sir, is the best account I can give at present.

I am glad to find that the cause is entrusted in so good hands.

I beg services as due from. Sir

your humble servant

£. Bromb

The colonel paid Mr Creffield 26 pounds per annum as I can
make appear.

I wish no time may be lost, because several of our witnesses
are dead, and those that remain few in number, though I hope
yet sufficient.

Addressed: To Mr Browne at his house in Thriplow near
Cambridge. By London.

Freshwater
29 October 1725
Sir

I expected to have seen you here again before now towards
the examining of some further witnesses, but since Mr Browne
is willing to hear whether such an account might probably
answer the charge and trouble I shall mencion the effects of
some small pains that I have lately taken.

Thomas Bay of this parish, near 70 years of age, affirms
that he remembers the poor of that quarter called Brook
joyned or united in the rate or colleccion with the rest of the
parish of Freshwater.

William Lake, of the said parish, and near the same age,
witnesses the same thing and adds that he well remembers one
Mr Gleed, an inhabitant of the Brook quarter, to appear at our
parish meetings and act for the said quarter (which was sett at
the rate of 60/. per annum), particularly at one Easter time
about 40 years ago.

Notes from the College Records. 205

William Jolliffe, of 60 years of age and upwards, well
remembers that the Brook quarter was taxed jointly with the rest
of the quarters in Freshwater, and that when Collector of the
said parish, he did gather the same there and from thence.

John Denham, a labouring man of this parish, and nearer
70 than 60 years of age, testifies that he remembers the poor of
the Brook quarter coming to receive colleccion, and paid the
same in our church-yard.

Joseph Waggelt, sexton of this parish, and now about 50
years of age, declares that he has heard his father say that in
his time the tythes of Brook were carted over the cliffe (i.e
a high hill between Brook and this place) to distinguish it from
another way which has been since used in this countrey.

And to the forenamed particulars I have now to add, that on
Wednesday in this week, I took occasion in company with
Mr Siillingfleet (now a Fellow of St John's in Cambridge and at
present my own curate in this parish) to wait on captain Salter
ofMottistone, about 5 miles distant, who directed us to the sight
of a deed in the hands of a neighbour of his, which plainly
expresses concerning land lying in Brook in the parish of
Freshwater. This writing, which is of the date of six score
years, having been made in the beginning of the reign of King
James ist is plainly expressed to concern one party of Brook
in the parish of Freshwater, and the other of Compton in the
said parish. Which is so clear for the union of Brook with the
parish at that time that the captain told us, at our return to his
house, that it was his opinion from the first time that he
saw that deed that it seemed to him enough to determine the
dispute.

Mr Stillingfleet and I both read what was sufficient in it to
our purpose, and since it was never doubted whether Compton
belonged to this parish, 'tis not easy to imagine how the other
should be parted from it, or if it had not belonged to Fresh-
water how it could have been mentioned as it is in the deed.
Captain Salter is reputed a gentleman of much integrity, and the
honest farmer, in whose hands the writing is, will reserve it for
the use of any persons who shall desire it. Captain Salter, as
I have been since informed, has been heard not long since to
say at Newport that he believed that Brook did belong to
Freshwater, and that thither it would return again. AH which
evidence so soon as it is obtained in a legal way, together with

2o6 Noies from the College Records.

what Mr Browne and yoartelf have already discovered (if tbere
be need of more) I can't but hope and expect from men of yoar
abilities and characters that this matter will be brought to a
speedy and happy conclusion. I'm sure 'tis a great prejudice
to me not only whilst I am kept out of Brooke, in being
deprived of that part of this cure, but also from several other
inconveniences to which this parish is exposed in the meantime,
by the shifting of cattle from one part to another, to my loss,
and I need not to inform such gentlemen as you of the hardship
of delaying these concerns any longer than necessity requires.
With my service to Mr Browne, I am Sir

your servant and friend
£. Broiib.

Freshwater
29 April 1726
Sir

In a letter lately received from the Bursar, of whom I had
desired more particular direccions about going the Bounds of
this parish on the approaching occasion, he refers me to your-
self in that and all other matters. The day by custom here is
always Ascension day, this year May 19th, against which time
I desire your opinion about the necessity or expediency thereof.
The last year upon a general order from the College to make aU
demands, I was prevailed on to make an attempt that way, but
as I suppose you have heard, by the Colonel's opposition and
threatening to sue any man that should go over any part of his
corn or hedges the company that attended me were frightened
from proceeding, on pretence that it being many years since
they went those Bounds before they could not be certain to
every foot, of ground. But against another year they said they
would learn the way more perfectly, and then they would not
fear anything. I would now therefore. Sir, desire of you to
inform what we had best do in this case. I need not tell you
that it would be less trouble for us all to sit at home, if the cause
might receive no detriment thereby. If you determine for
going the Bounds, pray, send your direccions with such clear-
ness and authority as may leave no room for scruple or distrust.
On Monday last being St Mark's day (as I understood the
opinion of Ci^unseUor Gatward to be) I took an honest man of

Notes from the College Records. 207

this paiish with me and went and made a personal demand of
the tythe lambs which then became due. The Colonel
answered to the effect that he used to do, that I had no riglit
then and that nothing should be allowed me. From him I went
to several lesser farmers who all answered that they had agreed
with Mr Woodford till Michaelmas and so could not allow any
tythe to any one else. I told them I could not tell for that, but
I was obliged to make a demand of ail the tythes that they
should have, as I had lately received orders from the College to
do. Mr Woodford, who was then at the colonel's would needs
(without being desired) attend me to all the houses that I went
to in Brooke, and before I could get to speak with several of
them, would himself run into their houses and forbid them at
their peril to give me any answer of allowances of tylhe ; and
when some of them in my hearing told him they did not doubt
but he would bear them harmless, he replied, he did not engage
for any such thing, but let them pay their tythe to anybody else
if they dare. When Woodford asked me before some of them
whether I would undertake to indemnify them^ if they paid their
tythe to me, my answer was that I had no such orders from the
College, I had executed the direccions fgiven me, and those
I would stand by. At Mr filake's of Compton (whither
Mr Woodford followed me) 1 took occasion then to say before
Mr Blake and other company, that I perceived it was to no
purpose to require anything of the people of Brooke, who had
all been preengaged by Mr Woodford, and that therefore before
that company 1 made the demand of Mr Woodford himself, and
desired them to bear witness of the same. Mr Woodford made
reply that before the same company and witness he made the
same demand upon me. I told him 1 did not think that he
would have ventured to have made any such agreement with the
people, and yet it would be well for him if he took good advice
therein, when he could not but remember about a twelvemonth
ago I made a demand of the tythes of Brooke before the
Colonel and himself, to which there were several witnesses. He
could not deny the thing, but said he knew what grounds he
went upon in what he had done.

Mr Woodford among other things said that the particular of
seats in our Church went much against our case at the late
commission. To which we have to answer: (i) That there is
a large pew in our Chancel which belongs to Brook Farm, o \^

VOL. xxvu. eb;

2o8 Notes from the College Records.

none else, as appears, for there are .'none sit in it now there is
preaching at Brooke Chappell ; (2) That one Mr Gleed who
lived formerly in that .farm is still , remembered to have sate
there, as it is also known were others of the Brook people sate
when they came to this Chnrch, though by the mach greater
nearness of the said Chappel to their houses and other causes
the matter of seats has by degrees grown into disuse, and so no
wonder if that particular thing can't be so well minded (as theJ
speak here) as many others are. But this circumstance of the
seats being a matter of some uncertainty, and yet bearing the
colour of an argument is a proper part for their cause to insist
upon and indeed I doubt the best of their reasons are not much
better grounded, and particularly the three presentacions which
the colonel lays claim to. But as far as I hear, were all, or
most of them, granted in times'of great confusion during the
Grand Rebellion, and one of them, they say of so short a date,
that it is questioned whether the clerk presented ever took
institution. I don't pretend to certain authority for these
things, which will be better known from your more perfect
enquiry. I hope you have already satisfied yourself about Sir
Thomas Miller's demand of 8/1*. per annum of this parsonage,
the true ground and reason whereof I should be glad to learn
more perfectly. And also to be informed if that payment is
made in lieu of Brooke tythe, as is generally supposed.
Whether the present suit makes no difference as to the demand
thereof. Sir Thomas Miller is expected here about Whitsontide,
and I much desire to be informed herein before he comes.
I have paid him this sum but once since my being here, and
then he was contented to receive the money on condicion of
returning it, if payable on account of Brooke. Mr Woodford
was much put to it to answer why colonel Bowreman did not sue
Mr Creffield for taking in Brooke when he went the Bounds of
Freshwater. He could only say the colonel wan't at home,
which does not prove true. Please to let me hear from you as
soon as you can

your humble servant
£. Bromb.

R. F. S.

{To he continued,)

mmmm^^

TWENTY-ONE.
{To G. V. r.)

Last night I went to bed a boy,

To-day I rose a man,
This riddle of the universe

Please solve it if you can !

The guileless tadpole in the pool

When he is twenty-one.
Looks sadly for his little tail,

A frog— he finds it gone :

The moping chrysalis awakes
When he has reached this hour,

A butterfly on gauzy wing
To flit from flower to flower:

And when the rose-bud comes of age,

Her blushing cheek betrays
Half hidden 'neath a veil of leaves.

The number of her days:

No tail have I; I cannot fly;

No change there is I ween

No sudden metamorphosis.

From what I've always been.

Yet such the machinations strange

Of nature's subtle plan,
That, though last night I was a boy.

To-day 1 am a man.

W. K. H.

$out>enf me $oumeitf:
•COLLARS OF SS/

jHIS motto* of our Foundress, and perhaps of
her family, is found in a portrait at Christ's,
in another at our Master's Lodge, in the
Knowsley portrait belonging to her descen-
dant the Earl of Derby,t and in a portrait in the National
Portrait Gallery. If a surmise in TAe Eagle for last
May Term, endorsed by Professor Skeat in the October
number, be correct, it once stood beneath the figures of
our Foundress's parents in the ancient glass now at
Landbeach, but formerly, it is believed, in Wimbome
Minster, where the beautiful monument she erected to
them is still preserved, and where the Landbeach
window may have originally been placed by her.

Various other portraits are mentioned in the
catalogue of the National Collection, and in that of the
Tudor Exhibition (1890), and some of these probably
show the motto ; but the catalogues give no information
on this point.

From the motto I pass to the * Esses ' and * collars of
SS' mentioned in the last two numbers.

On the Wimborne monument of our Foundress's
parents, both figures wear the collar. On the Canter-
bury monument of her grandparents, John, first earl of
Somerset, and Margaret Holland, his wife, the collar is

* The words zrjf/^iW^ mihi suhvenit^ i.e. *the thought often occiin to
me,' * I often remember.*

t Freeman, ColUgt Portraits {Tht EagU, vol. xr).

Souveni me SouvienL 1 1 1

worn by neither, but by a third effigy only, that of
Thomas, Duke of Clarence, second son to Henry IV.,
Margaret Holland's second husband, who lies on her
right hand. In the canopy of Henry IV.'s tomb, also at
Canterbury, the royal arms appear on three shields
encircled by collars of 23 SS, but the Queen's figure
alone wears one (Beltz in Retrospective Review^ ii 508).

In South wark Cathedral the effigy of John Gower
(died 1408) wears a collar of SS. He was a strong
partisan of the Earl of Derby (afterwards Henry IV.) ;
and a document in the Records of the Duchy of
Lancaster mentions Henry's presentation of the collar
to him in 1393-4 (Beltz iJ. p. 503).

A portrait of Henry VI. in the National Portrait
Gallery wears ^ a massive collar or chain decorated with
SS' (catalogue 1884).

Turning from art to literature, we find John Gower,
in a passage of his Chronica referring to the year 1387,
thus introducing the Earl of Derby :

' Qui gerii S tandem turmam comitatur eandem.'

In another place, where the poet is exalting Henry at
the expense of Richard, he has five consecutive hexa-
meters beginning with S. In a third, Henry is described
as ^Signans Se Christo {yox Clamantisd^nd Chronica^ed.
Coxe, pp. 412, 3).

Beltz, without giving his authority, says that
Henry IV. ' distributed with a liberal hand amongst his
adherents his own device, or collar, called S or SS '
(op. cit. p. 503). During a rising against Henry, the
Earl of Kent * tooke awaie the King's cognizances from
them that ware the same, as the Collars from their
necks ' (Holinshed quoted by Anstis, Register of the
Garter, Pre/, xx.).

An old French author, Favine, says that, after the
battle of Agincourt (1415), Henry V. gave his followers
*cong6 de porter un collier sem^ de lettres SS de son
ordre ' (Willement, Royal Heraldry, p. 43). But Anstis
finds no trace of this in the Records (i, 1 18).

2 1 a Souvent me Souvient

There is no clear evidence of the use of this collar
before the time of Henry IV.

The effigy of Sir Simon Burley (died 1387) "in old
St Paul's is said to have worn it, but perhaps the
monument was erected by his widow later (Beltz, Ordtr
of the Garter^ 1841, p. 293 and R. R. p. 505).

' Under Edward IV. the white rose was substitnted for the
letter S in the collar of the King*8 livery*. . . .The Lancastrian
device again became general upon the restoration of that
house to the regal power. Since the accession of Elizabeth no
mention has been discovered of the issue of collars of the rojal
livery excepting those which are still provided (1828) by the
Lord Chamberlain for the judges, the kings and heralds of arms,
and certain officers of the royal household' (Beltz, R. R. ii.
509, 10.)

There is thus good evidence for regarding S or SS
as a Lancastrian badge from the time of Henry IV.
while still Earl of Derby.

On the meaning of the S antiquaries are disagreed.
' The common derivation/ according to Ashmole, is from
Saint Simplicius, a Roman Senator believed to have
suffered under Diocletian {Order of the Garter^ p. 224).
Anstis mentions another from the Lady Salisbury
whose garter came down at a ball in the time of
Edward III {Register^ i log). Beltz mentions a third
from \Signufn (R. R. p. 506).

Of this badge, and of our Foundress's motto as
connected therewith, Professor Skeat, in the article
which he so kindly sent last term to The Eagle, as well
as to The Christ's College Magazine^ has given a most
interesting and attractive, if not quite convincing,
explanation. The explanation of the badge was, indeed,
proposed by Anstis as long ago as 1724, and was
accepted by Beltz in 1828. Professor Skeat has, how-
ever, adduced some fresh evidence though similar to

* i.e. issued or delivered fiom llie Great Wardrobe,
t i .e. sign of honour.

Suuvent me Souvient 213

that already urged by Anstis ; his explanation of the
motto is, so far as I know, entirely new. Indeed, the
motto does not seem hitherto to have received any
attention.

But, before entering upon this, let us notice one or
two points about mottoes and badges in general.

Our Foundress's motto then, like so many others,
evidently contains a play upon words. If it was also
a family motto of the *Somersets, there is, perhaps, a
further play upon their title. The motto would, in that
case, be analogous to the net vile elis of the Nevilles and
the sero sed serio of the Cecils. As a general rule,
mottoes profess or enjoin some virtue or other, f Often
too, no doubt, they contain a reference to the family
history. Burghley's motto, for instance, may mean that,
long obscure, the Cecils had now at length {sero)
attained greatness. Among the virtues most frequently
enjoined or professed is that of a good memory. Com-
pare mentor estOy hand immemor ; oublter ne puis^ je
n'oublierai jamais ; the ne oubliez of the Duke of
Montrose, and the ne obliviscaris of the Duke of Argyle.
So in our Foundress's Souvent me soument. We need
not ask what specially is, or is to be, remembered. All
and everything may be meant that it behoves one to
remember. The form of expression in our Foundress's
motto may, perhaps, seem to point to some definite
object of remembrance, but I do not think that this is
quite clear.

However this may be, it is pertinent to remark that
our Foundress possessed the virtue in question. * She
was good in remembrance and of holdynge memory,'
writes Bishop Fisher. 'Unkynde she woulde not be
unto no creature, ne forgetful of any kyndeness or

* Often spelt Samset.

t The motto of the Cranstouns, thou shaXt want tre I want, is an excep«

tiOD.

2 1 4 Scuvifti me Souvient.

servyce done to her before, which is no l3rtel part of
veray nobleness ' {Funeral Sermon^ 1509).

The difficulty of explaining many mottoes and badges
is noticed by Ashmole :

'The age we speak of (that of Edward III.) did exceedingly
aboand with Impxeses, Motto's, and Devises. • • .many of which
fur any man now to descant upon would be an endless and
fruitless attempt, seeing the occasion of their invention and the
circumstances thereupon dependent are irrecoverably lost'
{Order 9/ the Garter 1672, pp. 184-5).

An illustration may be given.

The fool that 'is not altogether a fool' in Kif^[
Lear calls his master ' a shealed peascod ' (i. 4). 'The
outside of a king/ comments Dr Johnson, ' remains, but
all the intrinsick parts of royalty are gone. He has
nothing to give.' But another critic adds :

'The robing of Richard XL's ^fSif^ in Westminster Abbey
is wrought with peascods open and the peas out, perhaps an
allusion to his being once in full possession of sovereignty but
soon reduced to an empty title.'

This ingenious suggestion, however, must be wrong.
The badge was of Richard's own devising. * He also
used a pescod branch/ says Camden, ' but the pease out,
as it is upon his robe at Westminster' {Remains^ 1674,
art. Impress), Moreover, as Neale has shewn from the
Indentures still extant, the monument was erected from
Richard's instructions and during his reign ( Westminster
Abdey, 1823, ii p. iii). As the open peascods (or
broom-pods rather) are found on the robe side by side
with another badge of Richard's, the rising sun, perhaps
the idea intended was that of the bursting forth
(iclosion) of flower and fruits, the same French word
being used of buds and grain, of the emergence of the
chick from the shell, and of the rising of the sun.

To return : the explanation given in the last number
of our Foundress's motto is that it was the loyal
response of the Beauforts to Henry of Lancaster's own

Souvent me SonvienL 2 1 5

motto; while the letter S is merely the first letter of
that motto and of the name of the flower from which
the motto was derived, and which Henry used as a
badge.

Henry's motto, it is said, was Saveigne vcus de mot
(otherwise, Soveuez or Souvetus^), the old French name
of the forget-me-not. In full, then our motto would be —
Souvent me souvieni de tai.

In 1390-3 Henry was crusading in Lithuania and
Prussia, then deemed heathen countries. He travelled
with some 150-200 followers, and was received as
befitted the grandson and cousin of English Kings, and
the son of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster His
treasurer, Richard de Kyngeston, went with him and
kept a compottis or book of expenses which is preserve I
in the Records of the Duchy of Lancaster, and part of
which has been recently edited (1894) for the Camden
Society by Miss L. Toulmin Smith. An occasional
item is 'pro floribus domini.' In her Index III. p. 342
Miss Smith quotes from a part of the Compoius not yet
published :

(139 1 -2) pro 320 fol. (? flo.) de sotuine vous de moy ;

and from another compottis :

(1397-8) coler fact cum esses et floribas de s^uemivous it
moy pendentibus et amaill ' (enaineUed).t

In passing we may remark that, as the flores de
saveine receive special mention, the ' flores domini ' were
no doubt flowers of some other kind, perhaps 'the
Lancaster rose,' as Miss Smith conjectures.

Now very similar extracts from the Compoti were
made by Anstis [Register of the Garter^ i7*4i i '17):

(Anno 15 Richard XL) 'pro j coler auri fact' pro Domino
cum XVII. Uteris de S ;

* The penonal construction is not found in French till the XVI. century
(Littt6), but in Anglo-French (e.g. Gower) instances are found earlier,
t These two passages are quoted by Prof. Skeet in the October number.
VOL. XX VH. FF

2 1 6 Souvent me SouvienL

(Anno 20 Richard II.) 'pro pondere unius Coleiii facii cum
Esses de Floribus de Soveigne vous de moy penden and
amaiir ponderis viii. iinc.

Anstis infers that Henry * bore the cognizance of S/
and then continues :

'It might be esteemed a very pncarvmt conj^iun to guess,
that the Repetition of the letter S took its Rise from tlie iaitial
letter of this motto, or Sentence, though possibly ' tis on as
good a Foundation as the Common Derivation of it from

Sanctus Simplipius ' [ih.).

The conjecture thus timidly advanced by Anstis is
< presumed' to be correct by Beltz (R. R. p. 507 j.
Another well-known writer on heraldry, however,
Willeroent, dissents precisely on the strength of another
fact mentioned by Anstis but not noticed by Beltz.

Anstis writes :

' We find indeed that Richard IL himself had a gown made in
his fourteenth year ( 1 390) whereon this motto {i.e. Soveigne vous de
moy) was embroidered^ to be used at the famous tilt in Smithfield '
(op. cit. i, 117).

From this Willement infers :

* It is probable that the flower might have been onlj united
hy Henry to his own badge in Compliment to a device or motto
affected bj the Monarch' {Royai Heraldry 1829, p. 42).

What, then, according to Willement, was Henry's
own badge? Clearly the letter S. But what did S
stand for? Willement answers, ^oDera^ne.

This word, in fact, occurs six times on the South side
of the canopy of Henry's monument in Canterbury
Cathedral. This is clearly shown in the engraving in
Dart's Canterbury CathedrcU (17^6, p. 85), and the word
is probably to be seen on the monument still.

Another motto, A Tempirance^ is found on Henry's
tomb, and this, says Beltz (p. 508), * was the motto of
the illustrious family of the Queen.' It seems probable,
then, that Soverayne was the King's motto.

Souvent me Souvient^ 2 1 7

We have then these facts :

{a) Richard II. wears the soveigtu motto at Smith-
field in 1390;

{b) Henry, perhaps out of compliment to him, wears
the/lower 1391 and 1397;

(c) Henry joins his own badge, i.e. S for Soverayne^
with the flower in the same years ;

{d) Sozerayne is the motto on Henry's tomb. (He
died in 1413)

An objection to Willement's view will at once occur.

Could Henry in 1391, eight years before Richard's
deposition, assume such a motto as Soveraynef It may
be replied (i) that, as being closely related to the King,
being in fact his first cousin, he might well do so;
(ii) that his father, John of Gaunt, by his second
marriage with Constance of Castile, had become King of
Castile and Leon; and (iii) that the letter S was
possibly used as a veiled claim lo the English Ihrone
itself.

In the Parliament of 1399 Henry claimed the
throne * as that I am descended by right of blood,
coming from the good King Henry III.'

Alfred Bailey writes :

' Suspicious of John of Gaunt's designs upon the throne were
so rife during the latter years of Edward III., that in Richard
ll.'s first Parliament (1377) he thought it necessary to disavow
them,* the haughty prince, now nearly forty years old, kneeling
as he uttered his disavowal before his nephew the boy prince of
eleven' {Succession to the English Crown, 1879* PP- 27* ^)»

It is unnecessary then to suppose that Henry him-
self on his accession, or that his partisans during his
reign or after his death, substituted Sovcrayne for
Soveigne^ or to conjecture with Beltz (R. R. 508) that
Soveigne may have been 'transformed into Soveraynt

* The claim was based on the alleged leniority of Edmund Croach buck,
Henry III.*s secoiul sou, to Edward I., and the descent of John's fiisl wi(e
fiom Edmund.

2 1 8 Souvent me Souvt'eni.

by a blunder of the painter, or read incorrectly by those
who have described the decorations of the monument'
{pp. ciL p. 5o8>

For Richard's wearingf the Saveigne motto at Smith-
field, Anstis refers to Lib. Cotan in Garderob. p. 157,
an unpublished wardrobe account, I believe. But
Anstis is a most learned and careful writer; and the
fact, as Willement saw, tells against Anstis s own
conjecture as to S.

It is strange that John Gower, Henry's adherent,
who often mentions great nobles by their badges, who
describes Richard as the prince 'qui gessit solem,' and
who has left us, in his Vox Clamantis and Chronica^ a
rather full account of Richard's reign and dei>osition,
should throw no light on the meaning of S, especially
as he calls Henry the lord ^qui gerit S,' and himself
received from him the SS collar. In two places where
Henry is mentioned, he explains in the margin that he
is speaking of the * Comes sirenuissimus DerbeicsJ Does
he suggest that adjective as the meaning of S ? In
another place (see above) Henry is described as
^ Signans Se Christo* The only flower mentioned by
Gower in connexion with Henry is the rose :

' Ut rosa flos florum melior fuit ille bonorum * (Coxe^s ed.
P 4>»)-

In his portrait in the National Portrait Gallery
Henry IV. bears a red rose.

Willement's view appears to me preferable to that
hesitatingly put forward by Anstis. If, then, Souvent me
Souvient be a response to Saveigne vous de moy^ it would,
I think, be better to regard it as a response to Richard's
appeal rather than Henry's. But, in fact, neither of
these can be shewn habitually to have used the motto;
nor is it clear that Henry used the motto at all.

The Beauforts were, in truth, under the deepest
obligations to Richard.

Souvetii me Souoient. 1 1 9

John Beaufort (born 1372), his two brothers and
their sister, were John of Gaunt's illegitimate children
by Katherine Swynford, gouvernantt to the children of
his first marriage with the heiress of Lancaster. Soon
after the death of his second wife, the heiress of
Castile, in 1394, John married Katherine in 1395.

Now let Beltz tell the tale of the favours and honours
heaped upon the Beauforts by King Richard II. :

'On Februarj 9th 1396-7 the King's letters patent legiti-
mating their issue' (i.e. of John and Katherine) 'with the
previous sanction of the pope, were ratified and confirmed by
parliamentary authority; and on the day following John
Beaufort was created Earl of Somerset.'

'September 1396 the Garter was conferred upon John
Beaufort.' Com p. Anstis, i 36.

In 1397 * substantial benefits out of the spoils' of
their and Richard's enemies were conferred upon him.
Beltz proceeds :

•The offices of King*s Lieutenant in Aquitaine, Constable of
Wallingford Castle, Steward of Wallingford and St Val6ry,
Admiral of the fleet northwards and westwards, Constable of
Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports were conferred
upon him in rapid succession' {tb p. 355).

Thus legitimated, ennobled, decorated, and loaded
with honours and riches, the Beauforts were, indeed,
under a debt of gratitude to Richard.

Henry, it is true, on his accession, after a shoit
disgrace, bestowed his royal favour on his half-brothers ;
but, in his renewal of their patent of legitimation, he
added the words * excepta regia dignitatem a bitter blow.
The Beauforts, no doubt, readily transferred their
allegiance to the de facto King, but surely they must
have cherished the meuiory of their hapless cousin
Richard.

Whether, however, the motto Souvent me souvient^ if
they took it, was taken by them as a response to the
Soveigne vous de moy^ either of Henry or Richard, seems

220 Souveni me SouvicnL

doubtful. Is there an analogous case ? Would it not
have been more natural simply to adopt the motto of
their benefactor, or of the head of their house ? The
motto Souvenez is, in fact, still used by the Graham-
Maxwells.

Their descendant. Lady Margaret, we must remember,
was no Lancastrian acharnie, Mr Bailey writes :

' She had been specially exempted from the sentence directed
against Henry VI.'s adherents, and apparently acquiesced in the
existing settlement of the crown in the reigning family {pp. cit.
P- 54).

She sought her son's advancement by promoting his
marriage with the heiress of York. Henry Tudor him-
self was probably conscious of the weakness of his claim
through the Beauforts. We are familiar with the
portcullis as a Beaufort and Tudor Badge. It is derived,
like their name, from the Castle of Beaufort in Artois,
which John of Gaunt lost to the French in 1369 before
the oldest of the * Beauforts ' was born.* To this port-
cullis

* Henry VII. sometime added the words Altera SccttiUas.t
intimating that, as the portcullis was an additional defence to a
fortress, so his claim to the crown through the blood of
Beaufort should not be rejected ' (Willement, R. H. p. 86).

A few words about the * forget-me-not.'
Miss Strickland, going far beyond her authority
Anstis, speaks of the forget-me-not, the flower of love
and friendship, as owing its vogue to Henry IV.

' This royal adventurer, the banished Lancaster, appears to
have been the person who gave to the Myosotis its emblematic
and poetic meaning by uniting it at the period of his exile on
his collar of SS with the initial letter of his watchword

Souveigne vous dt moy.

• ArmiUge-Smith.yc^A/i of Gautit^ 1904, p. 199.
t Sec Wacc iti Eagle XV, 431.

Souveni me Souctent. 22 1

'Poets and lovers have adopted the sentiment which
makes the blue Myosotis plead the cause of the absent. .
but few indeed are aware that it was first used by a
Plantagenet prince' {Queens of England^ 1841, iii 67).

Now Sowerby tells us (vii 80) that the ground-pine,
ajuga chamcBpUys^ was the * forget-me-not ' of all
(English) authors till the beginning of the xixth cen-
tury.'* This is a yellow flower, and got its name from
its disagreeable taste. In Germany, however, the name
seems to have been borne for five and a half centuries
by a blue flower, either our * forget-me-not,* or one
resembling it.f

In 1350, writes Giles Tschudi, Count John of Habs-
burg was imprisoned in the Wasserthurm at Zurich and
wrote the song,

Ich weiss ein blawes Blumelein, etc.

Two hundred years after this, perhaps much earlier,
there was a popular song, evidently suggested by the
Count's :

Weiss mir ein Btiimli blawe,
Es heisst vergiss iiit luein.

In 1798 Goethe, who had been reading Tschudi,
wrote his ballad on our flower,

Ich weiss ein Bliimlein wunderschon.

The colour and identity of the flower in the three
poems seem clear, and its cult, therefore, is far earlier
than Henry's exile (1398) or crusade (1390-3), and is
perhaps of German origin.

Certainly the flower does not seem to have long
retained Lancastrian associations. In 1465 under

♦ Queiy. Lyle (1578) uses •forgel-me-not* of gruand-pine, while
Myositis is 'mouse-ear.' But Dewes {c. 1530) makes ibe Queen send the
Princess Mary a * flour of forget me nat.' This, like de Wodevile's ' Floure
of Sonvenauncc ' (1465), was surely the blue flower of love and friendship.

t Uhland {Schri/ten, iii. 436) thinks that the colour, * true blue,* mattered
most, the fliwer being the violet or sometimes the cornflower. Later
{} 14th cent.), ftamg combined vith colour won for our flower iis vogue. But
ihe name was originally meant as the modest flower's own pica for lecognitiun.

>12 Souunl mc SouvienL

Edward IV., the * sun of Yark^ a lournat*ient took place
between Lord Scales, the Queen^s brother, and the
Bastard of Burgundy.
The price was

'AColer of goolde garnysshid with precioas stones, and was
-made of a letter the which, for to say trougih, was more nygh
my harte than my knee : and to the same Coler was attachid
and tied a noble Fioun of Souvenaunce enameled and in a
manner of emprise.' See S. Bentley, Excerpta Historical 1831,
p. 178.

The Fleur de Souvinance is clearly the * forget-me-
not,' the flower of love and friendship, for the combat
was undertaken 'pour obeyr et complaire k ma belle
dame' (t3. p. 180).

The * letter ' was clearly not S or SS, but was the
initial of the name of Antony de Wodevile's belle dame.

The issue of the conflict is so quaintly told (1*. 211,2),
that I subjoin it, though not pertinent to the matter in
hand. The Bastard being hard pressed,

'The Kyng, pceyvyng the cruell assaile, cast his staff and
with high voice, cried Whool. • . • And so they were brought up
before the Kyng. He commaunded them ych to take othir by
the handes, and to love toogedirs as brethirs in armcs; which
they so did. And there they immediately yafe yche to othir
as courteis godely and frendely langage as coude be thouj^hl;
and went togidre into the middes of the felde. And there
departid iche man to his loggyng. Finis &c.'

The origin of our Foundress's motto is, perhaps,
* irrecoverably lost.' The punning tendency is a vera
causa in heraldry; a slight reason for thinking it a
Somerset motto. But Duke John's motto at Wimbome
is mutare vel timere sperno. Perhaps, then, the motto
was her own. It is, in fact, only found in her portraits,
and probably beneath the figures of her parents, placed
there by herself — she and they alike in the attitude of
prayer. Deeply religious, her motto should, I believe,
be understood in a religious sense. Fisher speaks of

Soauvent me SauKient 223

• the veray nobleness ' of her * holdynge memory/ In
her Will the phrase * holding* in remembrance ' (the
truths of religion) occurs three times (Nichols, Royal
Willsj p. 385). Lastly, the only comment I have any-
where found upon her motto, on a gold label below her
portrait in Ihe national collection, PII FACTI
MEMORIAM NON OBLITERABIT ^TERNITAS.
takes it so too. The writer of this comment meant,
I think, one or both of two things :

1. the Lady Margaret habitually bore in remem-
brance some holy deed, assuredly not Henry's usurpation
or Richard's death at Pomfret, but some * sweet story of
old,' like the Anointing at Bethany, and sought to < do
likewise ' ;

2. her own good deed in founding her two Colleges
should never be forgotten, and of her, too, the saying
should be fulfilled. Amen dicp vobis^ ubicunqtiepfcBdicatum
fuerit hoc evangeltum in universo mundo^ dicetur et quod
luBc/eciit in memoriam eius.

W. A. C.

VOL. XXVII.

SONNETS-

Are there then secrets in this world of ours,
This rock with moss of custom overgrown.
Traced o'er with dreams and shaped of echoing stone

That answers to the voices of the hours ?

All here seems clear and lucid ; woodland bowers.
The silent depths of ocean, no less known
Than those short-lived creations of man's own.

Temple and tool and hut and city-towers.

Yet these may be the shell; the real life

Be claspt within them unguess'd, unperceived.
To all we know, about, apart, beyond :

We form an atom of a larger strife.

It may be, surging round us unachieved,
Slaves too perchance and to an unknown bond.

II. • QUI REGNA AMORE/

I wander'd in a green and flowering land

Within a cirque of grey and greyer hills;
On one side lay a lake, on the other hand

A wood whence came the sound of flowing rills.
Nor sound alone, with them the air seem'd cool;

And beds of bluebells slanted o'er the sward.
The tree-rimm'd sky made in the lake a pool

Of deeper blue with cloudlets swanlike stored.
These the true swans swam over, and around

The martin darted and the wild-bee made
A sleepy burden to each clearer sound.

There roses deck'd a rose that will not fade
With that green earth or those bright skies above.
For she is bride of visionary Love.

CARAUSIUS.

I HERE are many picturesque figures in the
long pageant of Roman Britain, but most of
them appear in the earlier part of the pro-
cession. Julius Caesar comes, as it were, to
speak the prologue, and a considerable interval follows
his exit ; but from the time of Claudius the succession
of scenes and characters is well sustained — Ostorius
Scapula and Suetonius Paulinus, Boadicea, Caractacus
and Cartismandua, Vespasian and Agricola, Hadrian
and Platorius Nepos, LoUius Urbicus and Ulpius Mar-
cellus, Septimius Severus and Caracalla. In a.d. 2 1 1
we see Severus travelling in his litter from Caledonia
to his death-bed at Eboracum, and then three-quarters
of a century elapses without showing us any noteworthy
personage. During the earlier part of this time there
was much activity in Britain : we find a considerable
number of inscriptions of the reigns of Caracalla,
Elagabalus, and Severus Alexander recording the re-
pair or rebuilding of temples, baths, arsenals, and other
public edifices, and some of the emperors of the stormy
period that followed have left a trace of their brief
dominion in the titles they bestowed on various regiments
of the garrison of Britain — Gordiana, Tetriciana, Postu-
miana, and so forth ; we even know the names of many
of the propraetors who governed the island during the
third century, but they are names and no more. Not
until the year 287 do we come upon a definite and
interesting figure in the person of Carausius, the pirate-
emperor of Britain. His story is one of the most
romantic in history, and for us it has a special interest.

226 Carausius.

and significance ; in a sense Carausius was the father
of the British Navy, and his successes, together with
the failure of his murderer Allectus, may form profitable
subjects of study for those who are interested in the
naval science of the present day.

Carausius was a citizen \oi Menapia, and one would
like to believe that he'was an Irishman : Ptolemy places
a tribe of Menapii in Ireland, somewhere in the Wexford
neighbourhood ; but probably our hero was one of those
Menapii who inhabited the country on the left bank of
the Meuse, near its junction with the Rhine. He was
a self-made man : Eutropius calls him vilissime na/us^ a
person of the meanest origin ; but his chance came with
the troubles that arose in Gaul not long after Diocletian
and Maximian had assumed the purple, and he proved
himself an energetic and successful soldier.

Carausius came to the front at a time when the
character of the Roman empire was changing: the
simple forms and constitutional fictions of earlier times
were passing or had passed away, and the seeds of the
final division of the empire between east and west had
just been sown ; already the title dominus h^,d crept into
inscriptions dedicated to the emperor, and Diocletian
was the first to assume the diadem and other trappings
of oriental monarchy. The anarchy of the past thirty
years must have finally destroyed all feelings of loyalty
towards the empire as an institution, and Christianity
was still a despised and persecuted creed. A still more
sinister omen was the fact that the barbarians were
beginning to trouble the outlying provinces of the
Roman world. Frank and Saxon pirates were infesting
the Channel and harrying the northern coast of Gaul
from Belgium to Armorica, and the complaints of the
plundered provincials came to the ears of Maximian.

The Romans had maintained a Channel squadron
ever since the days of Claudius, and this squadron was
now strengthened and placed under the command of
Carausius. Gessoriacum (otherwise called Bononia, the

Carausius. 22f

modern Boulogne) was his naval base, and be set about
his business energetically and unscrupulously : he seems
to have allowed the pirates to continue th^ir depre-
dations, but to have intercepted them on the return
voyage and relieved them of their booty, which he
retained for his own profit, instead of handing it over
to the Imperial exchequer, or restoring what was trace-
able to the original owners. Perhaps he was, in the
first instance, actuated simply by covetousness, but it
is more probable that ambition had already dreamt its
dreams of the purple, and counselled^ him to secure the
necessary resources when and where he could. At any
rate, his conduct brought about a crisis : the complaints
of Gaul were brought before Maximian, and a decree
was issued (so, at least, it was reported; condemning
Carausius to death.

The decree slung Carausius to that course of action
for which he must long have been preparing in secret.
Probably, like so many great leaders, he was a man of
much personal charm and magnetism, and certainly he
would not neglect to increase his popularity by spending
a portion of his plunder on the men under his command :
at any rate, he had sufficient influence to carry the
Channel Fleet with him when he answered Maximian's
decree by renouncing his allegiance and setting himself
up as an independent emperor. He seized and fortified
Gessoriacum, formed an alliance with the Teutonic
pirates (no doubt, the price he paid was free permission
to plunder the north coast of Gaul), and then proceeded
to take possession of Britain. The details of this last
exploit are obscure; but Eumenius, in his panegyric
of Constantius, gives a hazy account of it, from which
we may be able to get some glimpses of the truth if
we read between the lines and discount the courtly
rhetorician's hyperboles.

" By a nefarious act of robbery," he says, " the fleet
which had protected the coasts of Gaul was carried
away by the fugitive pirate; he then proceeded to build

12% Cur Justus.

a large number of ships of the Roman pattern, he
obtained control of a Roman legion (occupata Ramana
legiane)^ and cut off or blockaded a number of regiments
of non-British soldiers; he enlisted the merchants of
Gaul (perhaps this means the crews of merchant vessels),
and with the plunder of the provinces he engaged the
services of a considerable force ot barbarians : all these
were trained for naval service by the personal instruction
of the author of the outrage, while our armies, though
invincible in point of valour, were novices in nautical
matters."

It is clear that Carausius had as just an idea of the
value of sea power as Captain Mahan himself: the
Roman Channel Fleet — the only naval force in those
waters — was at his service, and his first proceeding was
to strengthen it ; he recruited crews for his new ships
{coniraciis ad delectum Gallicanis mercatoribus certainly
suggests a press gang) and trained them himself. He
had only to maintain the empire of the narrow seas,
and he could defy the armies of Rome as effectually as
Great Britain withstood the might of Napoleon more
than fifteen hundred years later.

What, in the meantime, was happening in Britain ?
From the passage above quoted we may gather that, at
any rate at first, there was no unanimous revolt, no
peaceful revolution. At that date the army of Britain
was composed of three legions and a large number of
auxiliary troops : the Legio sexta mctrix pia fdelis was
stationed at Eboracum (York), the Legio vicesima valens
victrix at Deva (Chester), and the Legio secunda Augusta
at Isca Silurum (Caerleon on Usk). Now, as the
Twentieth Legion had ceased to form part of the army
of Britain when the Notitia Imperii was compiled — and
Mommsen sets down the British portion as dating from
about A.D. 300 — it is perhaps not unreasonable to con-
jecture that the Twentieth Legion declared for Carausius
at once, and was accordingly removed or disbanded
after the reconquest of the island ; and the same may

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be true of many cohorts of auxiliaries which are not
in the Notitia list, though we have evidence of their
presence in Britain in the middle of the third century.
When the Romans recovered Britain, the army of
occupation was evidently reorganised and reduced, and
we should naturally expect that the troops which took
the most active part in the revolt would in that case
be either disbanded altogether or removed to stations
where they could be more easily kept under control.

However, it is clear on the one hand that a sufficient
force declared for Carausius to enable him to overawe
the rest, and on the other hand that some remained
faithful to their old allegiance. IntercluMs aliquot pere^
grinorum militum cuTieis, says Eumenius : Carausius was
strong enough to blockade or cut off the recalcitrant
troops. Possibly they may have been isolated garrisons,
but on the whole it is more likely that they were the
troops occupying one particular district, and not im-
probably that district was the eastern half of Hadrian's
wall — the fortified strip which stretched from the mouth
of the Tyne to the Irthing valley in north-east Cumber-
land. When the army of Britain was reorganised, wo
find the garrisons of the twelve easternmost wall-
fortresses remaining in their old quarters, while on the
western half and along the Cumberland coast consider-
able changes were made. Can it be that these twelve
regiments, which were certainly composed of peregrini
miUt€$y with the Sixth Legion, which remained at York,
held out, at least for a time, against Carausius, and
were in consequence allowed to remain in their old
homes? It is not likely that they maintained an in-
dependent position throughout the nine years during
which Britain was separated from the empire ; but when
Carausius, as we shall see presently, was formally
recognised by Diocletian and Maximian, they would
have no reason for continuing their resistance.

It is a curious fact that the coins of Carausius in
some cases show the names of legions which formed no

230 Carausius.

part of the army of Britain — the Legio secunda Partkica,
the LefflO qnarta Flavia^ the Legio septinia Clara^ the
Legio octava Augusta^ the Legio XXI Ulpia, and the
Legio XXII Primigenia, A vexillatio, or detachment of
the last mentioned force, was once in Britain, and has
left its name on a stone found at Plumpton in Cumber-
land, and the boss of a shield belonging to a soldier of the
Eighth Legion has been dredged up at the mouth of
the lyne^ but there is no reason to suppose that either
of these relics dates from so late a period. It is
impossible to imagine that Carausius brought six legions
with him from the continent, and perhaps the true
explanation is that detachments from these legions
were drafted into the Channel Fleet when the latter
was strengthened to meet the new danger of the Teutonic
incursions.

But whatever the internal complications may have
been, the fact remains that Carausius got possession of
Britain and maintained his position for seven years.
Maximian and his generals were helpless : they could
not improvise such a navy as might with any chance of
success contend against the first British Channel Fleet.
Eumenius speaks of the inclemency of the weather as
an excuse for the failure of the Romans to recapture
Britain, and certainly the attempt was made: one is
inclined to suspect that an officially suppressed naval
engagement took place somewhere in the narrow seas
and ended in the victory of Carausius ; but in any case
peace followed, and the arch-pirate^ as Eumenius calls
him, was formally recognised as a legally constituted
emperor, though no doubt Carausius understood that his
title was valid only so long as he could maintain his
position.

Of the dangers and vicissitudes of his reign we know
nothing, till we come suddenly upon the tragic end ;
but it is pleasant to catch a few glimpses of fanciful
history from his coins, which are comparatively
numerous and often bear a suggestive legend on the

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reverse side. One such^ which is of frequent occurrence,
is ^^Adventus Augusti^* and possibly this may mark
the beginning of his reign. Britain, poor harassed,
neglected Britain, had seen no emperor since Severus
died and Caracalla hurried post-haste to Rome; but
now an emperor had come at last, not as a passing
visitor, but as a resident sovereign and permanent
protector : a new age was about to dawn, and perhaps
did dawn, if we may judge by the legends *' Renovata
Roma " and •* Temporum Felicitas " ; the long wished-for
hero had come at last (" Expectate veni"\ a hero liberal
(" Uberitas AugusHy") and affable (" HilarUas Augusti ")
A number of coins bearing the legend " Concordia
miliium " seem to record the time when the inierclusi
cunei agreed to accept the sovereignty of Carausius;
others, with the legend ^^ Vicioria AugusH^" may
commemorate the failure of Maximian's attempts, and
**Pax Augustorum'* no doubt tells us of the treaty by
which Carausius was recogpiised as Emperor of Britain ;
indeed, one coin with the last mentioned inscription
bears on the obverse the heads of Carausius, Maxi-
mian, and Diocletian, with the legend " Carausius et
fratres sui."*

The designs are often no less interesting than the
inscriptions. A frequent and appropriate ornament is an
oared wargalley, and military figures or symbols are
numerous ; the legionary coins, which we have already
mentioned, generally bear on the reverse the badge of the
regiment — a sea-goat for the second (Augusta) and the
twenty-second, a centaur for the second (Parthica),
a lion for the fourth, a bull for the eighth, and a boar
for the twentieth. But the chief interest attaches to the
portraits of Carausius on the obverse, and in spite of
some diversities we are able to form a fairly good idea
of his personality. Usually he is represented facing to
the right, wearing the toga, and crowned with a
radiated crown, but sometimes he is armed and
helmeted, and then he faces to the left — a man, curiously

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232 Carausius.

enough, of the regular John Bull type, sturdy, business-
like, and enormously thick in the neck. This last is a
point on which all his coins agree.

Sturdy and business-like he certainly must have been,
and perhaps we ought not to blame him very severely
for his absorption of the booty recovered from the Saxon
pirates ; on this point Roman morals had been lax for
centuries, and few of the imperial officials of that age
would have acted otherwise. At any rate we can feel
some admiration for his daring, and some gratitude for
the lesson of his success, though perhaps we may also be
thankful that his success was of no longer continuance.
If Carausius had lived and established a dynasty, the
course of history might have been considerably altered:
the influx of Angles and Saxons would doubtless have
occurred, but it might have come more gradually and
peacefully, and without that break of continuity which
so profoundly influenced our history: the Teutonic
immigrants might have settled down under the forms of
Roman government, and the evolution of our language
and institutions might have taken a widely different
course.

But Carausius lived only seven years after his
assumption of the purple, and then he was murdered —
treacherously murdered by his own familiar friend.
There is an element of true tragedy in the story:
Carausius himself had rebelled against his master in
order to avoid the consequences of his own wrong-doing,
and after seven years of prosperity his own crime was
repeated against himself. Allectus had been what we
should call Carausius' Prime Minister, and in that
capacity he had been guilty of offences which merited
death; in his fear of punishment he found his only
means of escape was the murder of the man who had
trusted him, and he slew Carausius not by open rebellion
but by secret treachery.

His reward was present safety and the blood-stained
purple. Allectus declared himself emperorj but the

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glory and the genius had departed. Any one can
destroy a work of art, but only an artist can create it ;
a common marine shot down Nelson, whom even a
Villeneuve could not defeat ; Allectus could murder the
man who had baffled Maximian, but he could not hold
Britain as Carausius had held it, especially when a new
star was rising in the opposite quarter of the sky.
Flavins Valerius Constantius, commonly known as
Constantius Chlorus, had been created Caesar in A.D. 292,
two years before the murder of Carausius, and in
the same year he had begun his preparations for the
recovery of Britain. His first step was to besiege
Gessoriacum, which was still in Carausius' possession,
and its retention was certainly a mistake : the harbour
was tidal (porous quern staiis mcibus aestus alternate and
peculiarly ill-adapted for naval defence, while the
necessity of maintaining a garrison was a drain on the
resources of Britain. " Measured by substantial value,
the loss of Calais was a gain," says Froude of a similar
case at a later period of our history, and the same
verdict may be given here : Carausius would have been
in a stronger position strategically, if he had been
content with Britain alone, " bound in with the trium-
phant sea."

The tidal nature of the harbour was fatal. Constan-
tius worked hard when the tide was low, and constructed
a mole across the harbour mouth which cut ofiF all
possibility of relief from the sea ; in due time the place
was taken and became the base of operations for the
reconquest of Britain. But before that could be
attempted Constantius had to create a navy, and four
years were spent over the work]; it was not completed
till the year 296, and in the meantime Carausius had
fallen. Had he lived he might have adopted the more
Nelson-like policy of attacking and destroying the
enemy's fleet before it was ready for sea ; there must
have been glorious opportunities for cutting-out
expeditions or fire-ships or some such offensive measures.

234 Carausius,

But AUectus did nothing, and when the crisis came he
followed the timid and mistaken plan of waiting for the
enemy on the defensive.

Eumenius' account of the expedition, being a
panegyric and not a history, is much obscured by
grandiloquent phrases and rhetorical compliments, but
if we read it judiciously, we may be able to disentangle
the thread of the story. The orator says that Con-
stantius set sail first, presumably from Boulogne, and
was followed by a second squadron, which had been
lying in the mouth of the Seine ; but the pains which he
takes to prove that Constantius inspired everybody and
defeated Allectus by the mere terror of his name^
certainly suggest that the Caesar remained in Gaul till
the work was over: indeed Aurelius Victor expressly
says that Asclepiodotus, the Prefect of the Praetorian
Guard, preceded him, and Eutropius makes Ascle-
piodotus the sole commander of the expedition. Nor
can we blame Constantius, if he directed the campaign
from the base instead of thrusting himself into the
fighting-line: he was deputy-emperor of half the
civilised world, and not merely a general entrusted with
a particular piece of work.

However, it seems probable that the Roman fleet
sailed in two divisions, one from Boulogne and one
from the Seine, and Allectus waited for them beside the
Isle of Wight, "t« speculis atqtie insidiis" which seems
to mean that his cruisers were out on the watch and his
battleships lurked about Spithead or in the Solent. The
weather was bad and the wind unfavourable, at any rate
for the Seine squadron, but as they neared the British
coast a dense fog came on, and the Romans were able
to slip past their enemies and efiFect a landing. Where
that landing took place we cannot say: it is usually
assumed that their fleet passed to the west of the Isle
of Wight, but Eumenius states that they passed the
enemy's ships, not that they passed the island, and a
landing on the east side of Spithead would be quite

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consistent With his account. Incidentally we learn that
some ships parted company from the rest in the fog, and
of these we shall hear more at a later stage.

However, the landing was effected somewhere—
possibly in two places — and the Romans proceeded to
burn their ships : Eumenius, of course, ascribes this to
their confidence of victory and belief in the ^^felicitas "
of Constantius, but probably the reason was more
strategic: certain indications point to the fact that their
plan was to make a dash for London, and in that case
they would not be able to spare a sufficient guard;
perhaps the fog had cleared by this time, and the fleet of
AUectus was in the offing. As for AUectus himself,
Eumenius says that he abandoned his fleet and harbour,
in fear, of course, of the lightning of Constantius'
majesty: that is the official explanation, but if the
invaders were making for London he could not well
remain at the seaside. Eumenius seems to imply that
the Roman army was in two divisions, one of which
shepherded the usurper into the arms of the other, but
possibly this is based on the necessity of accounting for
the fact that Constantius was not present at the final
encounter. But in any case that final encounter took
place : the armies met, and AUectus seems to have lost
his head ; he could not manoeuvre his troops — probably
a large proportion deserted him — and he rushed into
battle with a few faithful adherents and a number of his
Teutonic allies: the conflict was- little better than a
massacre, and AUectus was found in the centre of a
ring of dead barbarians, slain and stripped almost
naked. A remnant of his army escaped to London, but
by this time the ships, which had parted company in the
fog, had arrived in the Thames, and the troops they
carried at once attacked the vanquished, just as the
latter were meditating a further retreat: after some
street fighting the place was carried, and the indepen-
dent empire of Britain was at an end.

Eumenius gives a glowing account of the acclama-

2^6 Carausius.

tions with which Constantius was received when he
landed in Britain— acclamations so efiiisive as to
strengthen our suspicion that he did not cross the
Channel till the work was done; the Caesar himself,
says the orator, the people regarded as one dropped
down from heaven, and they went so far as to venerate
the sails and oars of the ship in which he had made the
voyage. It is not necessary to credit Eumenius'
account of the slavery and oppression from which the
inhabitants of Britain were thus delivered, but probably
the joy was to a large extent sincere: the whole episode
had been an experiment, and in the feebler hands of
Allectus the experiment had failed ; independence pro-
bably meant economic loss, at least for a time, and the
strange mixture of peoples that formed the population
of Britain was not ripe to stand alone, nor was it likely
to become so after two centuries of a system which
entrusted the defence of the country to foreign troops
drawn from a dozen over-sea provinces. It is possible
that if Carausius had lived longer, he might have welded
the diverse races into one people, but with his murder
the last chance of strength, cohesion, and self-reliance
was lost for a time, till the great force, of whose early
begfinnings Carausius had availed himself, was ready to
work out the salvation of Britain on lines other than the
lines of Roman imperialism.

But the real lesson of this passage of history is naval.
With an efficient fleet Carausius was able for seven
years to maintain his position against " the four comers
of the world in arms " : it is probable that Allectus had
allowed the fleet to deteriorate, but the fact that he
adopted a mistaken plan of naval defence is enough to
account for his downfall. Would a Romano-British
Nelson have allowed the enemy to approach the Isle of
Wight without a battle ? No, he would have met him
outside his own ports, where the line to be watched and
guarded was only a few miles of water instead of the
whole coast of Britain.

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But what of the fog ? Is the invasion of England
possible under similar circumstances nowadays ? Could
a fleet of transports from (let us say) Ruritania slip over
in the white smother of a sea-fret ? Perhaps that might
happen if we had an Allectus at the Admiralty, and if
we ever allowed the enemy to approach our shores
without fighting. But difficult conditions always tell in
favour of the more efficient navy> and our best defence
against the possibility is to see that the efficiency of our
fleet is not impaired.

R. H. F.

Thb Rev Joseph Hirst Lupton D.D.
(1836 — 1905).

On December 15th 1905 a distinguished old Johnian passed
away in the seventieth year of his age, leaving behind him the
record of a brilliant University career and of a strenuous life in
which the successful schoolmaster, the indefatigable author,
and the scholarly preacher were combined in the perfect type
of a Christian gentleman. Fesiina Unit — ** without haste, without
rest" — ^might have been the motto of his life, if it were not that
another side of his character, and that a very real one, might
be more fitly expressed by the old saying — .Si' vis divinus esse^
latt ui deus,

Joseph Hirst Lupton was born at Wakefield on January 15th
1836, the second son of Joseph and Mary Lupton. At an early
age he was sent to the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School at
Wakefield, then under the Rev James Taylor. The school had
not at that time moved into the fine buildings erected in
January 1834 for the West Riding Proprietary School, but was
still in the place which Richard Bentley, Joseph Bingham*
Archbishop Potter, and the Oxford benefactor, Dr Radcliffe,
had made famous. It may well be that the antiquity of the
two schools in which the future biographer of Dean Colet
studied, the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School at Wakefield and
Giggleswick School to which he afterwards went, implanted in
him a love for all that was old and venerable, and exercised an
unconscious influence on the turn that his studies were after-
wards to take. He had a " rough time of it " when first sent
to school, but he stayed on till he was about fourteen or fifteen
years old. He was already singled out as a boy of great promise,
and it was confidently prophesied of him that ** that boy would
be a bishop.*' In spite of the rough treatment he met with at
the school, he always looked back on the days spent in it with
affection, and when its tercentenary was kept on November 19th
1 89 1 he preached the sermon, and wrote special hymns for the
occasion. The school had for some time previous to this been

Ohiiuary. 239

in its present qaarters, but he made a pilgrimage of love to the
old building, and, though saddened to find it liltle better than
a lumber room, noticed to his no small amusement that the
bust of Queen Elizabeth which had once graced the schooN
toom was still in position* though ndw mUch battered and
defaced (in fact, the august nose itself had been clumsily
restored), but still with the old motto nndtmeath— SsiiPSR
Eadem.

From the Wakefield Grammar School he passed into Giggle^'*
wick School, which, since 1846, had had for its Headmaster the
Rev George Ash Butterton D.D., then in the prime of life.
Bom on January 22nd 1805 he had graduated as 8th Wrangler
and 3rd Classic in 1827, a double degree surpassed by very few
tnen, and had been admitted along with his old schoolfellow^
Benjamin Hall Kennedy, to a Fellowship of this College on
March 25th 1828. He became Headmaster of Giggltswick
upon resigning the similar position which he had held for six
years at Uppingham School. For him my father had a high
admiration and great esteem, and an affectionate correspondence
continued between them till the death of the older man on
August 3rd 1 89 1.

The change of school from Wakefield to Giggleswick was
beneficial to the young scholar, not only for the better teaching
it ensured, but also for the far finer climate and scenery in which
his schooldays were now to be spent. He wrote afterwards*
that *' the salubrity of this beautiful and picturesque district ii
indeed remarkable, if we may judge by the longevity of Head"
masters of Giggleswick. . . .For nearly a century and a half only
two Headmasters have been removed by death.'' It was a
happy and healthful time this that he spent in the grand Craven
district. He boarded with a Mrs Edmonson, the widow of a
Scotch advocate, who made him thoroughly comfortable; he
took long walks over hill and dale, and became familiar with
Malham Tarn, Gordale Scar, Gaping Gill Hole, Clapham Cave,
and similar natural curiosities peculiar to a limestone district.
The love of a " good blow," which prompted him as a lad to
put on an old suit of clothes to get well wet in, remained with
him to the end of his days. One such expedition might have
had serious consequences. H« had walked across the moors to

• Thi BagU rvir, p. 63.
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i^o Obituary*

Threshficld, a walk of some twelve miles, and on Ins return got
caoght in a snow-drift and only reached home in an exhausted
condition. In the holidays he went tor longer walks, once to
the Lake district, and once over the Border. The latter tour
occupied a fortnight ; and, as a proof of his activky and
endurance at this tkne, it may be worth recording that on each
of the three first days he walked thirty-five miles, while for the
remainder of the time his daily distance was between twenty
and twenty-five.

While still in his teens he entered St John's College, being
admitted to a sizarship on July 3rd 1854. His tutors were
Mr Field and Mr James Atlay, afterwards Bishop of Hereford, a
man of fine presence and krnd, genial manners, whose influence
in the College was very good. His rooms were in the Laby-
rinth,* behind the chapel, both now demolished. He read with
H J. Roby as a pupil in 1855, and afterwards with Richard
Shilleto, for whose compositions, especially those in Greek, he
always expressed great admiration. In after years he made
more than one attempt to be alloAved to collect and edit some
of his work, but was never able to gain his end. When he first
went into residence he had to be very careful ; a sizar in those
days meant a poor man, and for the first winter at any rate he
never had a fire in his grate. It is only natural, therefore, that
he made few friends, but that those friends remained throughout
his life true to him. Two of his old schoolfellows, J. Lang-
home, of Christ's (nth Classic J 859), and John Burrow, of
St Catherine's (Natural Sciences Tripos 1856), afterwards an
accomplished geologist, were in residence at this time. J. R.
Lumby, of Magdalene and afterwards of St Catherine's, W. J.
Savell and William Finch, both Senior Optimes in 1858, also
became life-long friends. That he was intimate with some at
least of these is evident from the fact that he afterwards
persuaded two of them to act as godfathers to his two eldest
children.

His tutor subsequently bore testimony to "the blameless
tenor of his life, which no College or University examination
could test," while the present Professor of Latin was struck by
his •' great appreciation of classical literature, and (for so young
a man) unusually wide acquaintance with it."

* In ihc liht compiled by Mr G. C. Moore Smilh the roomi are styled
•» C5 or C4 ; ' see the list added as an appendix to 'Iht EagU^ vol xvii.

Ohiluary. 24 1

Athletics were not then so highly esteemed as they are now,
nor were they so elaborately organized, but, such as foolbaU
then was, he was regarded as one of the best players of it in
residence.

His place in the Tripos, high though it was, was to some
extent a disappointment. He may have sacrificed ultimate
success to immediate gain in accepting some coaching work
during his last Long Vacation ; and another circumstance,
slight in itself, which may have tended in the same direction is
that in the Tripos examination, which was then held in March,
the weather proved bitterly cold ; he was always slow at com-
position, and on this occasion he found, when he came to copy
out his Greek prose composition, that his fingers were so
numbed that he could not transcribe more than half his rough
work before the papers were collected, and rough and fair copy
had to be given up together. That even so his work was very
good may be gatliered from the words of one of his examiners
who afterwards wrote that '* in the Tripos examination there
was only one who was decidedly superior to him in this respect."
In the Mathematical Tripos, which in those days a candidate
for classical honours was required to have taken before he could
be admitted to the Classical Tripos, he was only low ; in fact,
he was the first of the "apoatles." His sense of humour, how-
ever, was no doubt tickled by the odd coincidence that when
the list was published it was found that he was equal to a
Johnson, and like him followed by a Boswell. It was the same
year as that in which Campbell of Trinity, now Sir H. Campbell
Bannerman, took his degree. Though below him in Mathe-
matics, he completely outdistanced him in Classics, being
bracketed fifth on the list. He was immediately above the
present Regius Professor of Divinity, and three places above the
late Dr Lumby, who was Norrisian Professor of Divinity 1879-92,
and afterwards Lady Margaret Professor till his death in 1895.

He was back at the Wakefield Grammar School, helping his
old Headmaster before the result of the Tripos was published, and
it was there that he received a letter from Dr Henry Philpott
saying that he had that day (26 June '58) been elected to one of
the Members' Prizes for a Latin Essay. The other prize went
to another Johnian, F. Heppenstall, while in the previous year
the same distinction had been won for the College by R. Hortoa
Smith (now K.C.),

2iZ Obiiuary.

Whether be would have gained either of the Chancellor's
medals it is impossible to say. The examination for them would
probably have suited his abilities even better than that for the
Tripos had done, but he was not eligible, as, until 1871,
candidates were required to have gained a place at least among
the Senior Optimes. As a matter of fact the two medals for the
year were awarded to E. C. Clark, of Trinity, and A. W. Potts,
of St John's.

He was admitted a Fellow of the College on March 19th
1861, succeeding to the Fellowship vacated by (Sir) John Eldon
Gorst (3rd Wrangler, '57), and he was himself succeeded
(Nov. 8th '64) by Chas, Hockin (3rd Wrangler, '63), in whose
memory the Hockin Prize was founded. To conclude at once
the record of his University distinctions, it may here be addec)
that in 1887 ^'^ ^^^ appointed Hulsean I^ecturer, and the same
y^ar pres^ched the Commemoration Sermon in the College
Chapel, a sermon which was afterwards printed by request. He
also examined on one occasion for the Le Bas Prize, a compli-?
ment^of which he was not a little proud. He took his B.D. in
1893, ^^^ ^^s T)J>. in 1896. The following year (1897) he won
the Seatonian Prize with a poem on The Mount of Olrvts, no
mean feat for a man in his sizty-secoiid year.

We must return, however, to the year 1859. After a short
time spent at Wakefield Grammar School he was appointed in
that year Second Classical Assistant Master of the City of
London School, then in Milk Street, in the City, He took the
entire classical work of the fourth class, that of the fifth partly,
and that of the sixth occasionally. The Headmaster, the Rev
G. F. W. Mortimer, D.D., afterwards bore witness to the
conscientious efficiency with which his duties were performed,
and to the perfect discipline he maintained while at the same
time inspiiing his boys with a real affection for himself. He
also taught the boys football, and thus has the merit of having
introduced the first game played at the City of London School.
It was a time when most of the successes won by boys from that
school at the University were gained in the Mathematical Tripos,
among whom Purkiss of Trinity (Senior Wrangler, 1864) was
the most distinguished. With these a classical master can have
had little to do, but two boys, afterwards distinguished in
other subjects, who passed through his hands, were H. P.
Gurney, afterwards fellow of Clare, and Principal of the Durhao^

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College of Science, Newcastle, one of the partners in the well-
known coaching establishment of "Wren and Gurney/' and
J. S. Reid, of Christ's (bracketed Senior Classic in 1869, and first
Chancelldr's Medallist), now the Professor of Ancient History.

He had a long walk to and from the school every day, as he
lodged at this time in Stanhope Street, Mornington Road»
nearly opposite the famous Terry family. He was ordained by
Dr Tait (Deacon 1859, Priest i860), and became Curate to Dr
Peile at St Paul's, Avenue Road. His literary taste, no
less than his sense of humour, was of service in one instance
when he succeeded in persuading its author to revise the title
of a pamphlet that was being prepared for the press on *' Christ,
the Homoeopathic healer of mankind.''

While at the City of London School he had as one of his
colleagues Mr Thomas St Clair MacDougal, and it was on his
recommendation that he obtained the work of giving lessons to
Viscount Mandeville, son of the Duke of Manchester. There
)ie made the acquaintance of Mr MacDougal's eldest daughter,
Mary Ann, whom he afterwards married (August 30th '64).

Before the marriage took place, however, he had been
appointed to St Paul's School, where he was to remain for
thirty-five years and where his life-work was to be done. At the
time of his appointment the High Master was Dr Kynaston, but
during the greater part of his school life he served under Mr
F. W. Walker, for whose ability and genius he always felt the
deepest admiration. St Paul's School was then in the City, under
the shadow of the east end of the Cathedral, separated from it
only by that road with reference to the paving of which with
blocks of wood Sydney Smith had once humorously said to the
Pean and Chapter that. if they would only put their heads
together the thing would be done. It was in 1864 that Mr
Ltipton was appointed Sur- Master and Second Mathematical
Master, in succession to Mr J. Kempthorne, afterwards Head-
master of the Blackheath Proprietary School. He also came in
during many years on what were known as '* French afternoons."
The modem generation of Schoolmasters can hardly conceive
the difficulties under which work was then carried on. The
roar of traffic from both the back and the front of the school
was incessant. Six of the eight classes into which the school
was then divided worked together in the same large hall. The
babel of voices may be imagined. 0( the remaining two forms.

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the Eighth usually sat in the library, while llie other was held in
B class-room to which access was gained by an iron spiral
staircase at one corner of the hall. Each Master was respon-
sible for two forms, and the usual practice was to have one
form, sitting at the side of the hall, doing written work
while the other sat on horse-shoe benches round the Master's
desk doing viva voce work. The Sur- Master had the almost
impossible task assigned him of taking two forms, of which
one was in the class-room, the other in the hall, and
frequently had also to supervise the two highest forms in the
temporary absence of the High Master. That on suddenly
emerging from the class-room at the top of the spiral staircase
he should occasionally have found boys of the Eighth form
playing chess on the seat of the High Master*^s chair is no more
than what was to be expected. Some idea of the amount of
work which he got through may be gathered from the fact that
in addition to the exhausting nature of his class teaching he
found time to play cricket with the boys, to help in their Musical
Society, to take at any rate for a short time private lessons in
French, in German, and in Hebrew, to read prayers every morning
to the employes of the firm of Messrs I. and C. Boyd, and to act
on Sundays as Curate to the Rev W. Sparrow Simpson, Rector of
St Matthew's, Friday Street. As if this were not enough, he
supplemented the drudgery of correcting the inevitable home-
work of his classes by editing the works of Dean Colet, bringing
out on an average a volume every alternate year.

On the appointment of Mr Walker t6 the High Mastership
a great change for the better took place. The staff was
augmented, and the work was more evenly and reasonably
apportioned. But though the labour of the Sur- Master was in
this way lightened, he added to it by accepting the post of
Librarian. This he held from 1876 till he resigned. It was a
task very congenial to his temperament, and no one on the staff
was better qualified to hold it, though he himself used modestly
to say that the qualities of the housemaid were those of most
importance in a Librarian. The books were in a terrible state
when he first took over the charge of them, as they had previously
been left to the casual care of the captain of the school for the
time being. The shelves of the bookcases were fixed, and the
covers of the books that stood at the end of each shelf were
uniformly stuck to the varnish of the frame work. It was at

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once necessary to re-arrange the books and to make a catalogue
of them, and the labour of this had to be repealed when the
School moved to its present buildings at Hammersmfth. The
post was an honorary one, but I do not think that the Librarian
ever grudged the time that he spent on it.

Till 1876 he had had charge of the Fifth and Sixth Forms ;
from that year onwards he was master of the Seventh, and it is
in connection with that Form that most Old Paulines will
remember him. A few years before his resignation he took the
Lower Eighth, and finally the Latin work of the Upper Eighth.
He had a wonderful po\ver of getting work out of his boys, and
while he did not spare them, he spared himself even less. On
the last three days that he taught before his retirement, he
performed the feat of translating aloud to his class three books
of the i^neid, with such felicitous renderings as held the boys
attentive to the end. Hardly any of the classical boys whose
successes at the Universities have made the name of St Paul's
School illustrious during the last two decades failed to pass
through his hands.

A glance at the Bibliography appended to the end of this
article will show how the Sur-Master's leisure hours were
employed. A holiday was no holiday to him unless he had his
books about him. He was a constant reader at the British
Museum, where his research was directed chiefly to the
age in which Colet lived. The results of his work were given
to the world when, in 1887, he published his admirable Life of
the founder of St Paul's School. Colet's work in relation to the
general tendencies of Renaissance thought is there shown in
its true light, and the book is a veritable gold mine for all those
interested in fifteenth century schools and studies. It must not be
supposed that he lived entirely in the past, though we may wonder
how he contrived, even with his remarkable powers of memory,
to gain in addition the knowledge he possessed of modern poetry^
long passages of which he would quote freely. He was especially
fond of Tennyson, and he had much ballad poetry by heait.
Longfellow and Scott he also knew well, and the broad Scotch
in some of the lattei's novels was peculiarly to his taste. It
was not as though he had no clerical work to perform. For a
period indeed after St Paul's moved to its present quarters he
took no regular duty, though he was at all times ready to preach
an occasional sermon, but from 1890 till 1901 he was preacher
at Gray's Inn Chapel.

246 Obituary.

Thii was a post he greatly coveted, and he had been a
candidate for it when a vacancy occurred, in 1883, on the death
of Dr Lee. On that occasion he was unsuccessful, but on the
resignation of Dr Stokoe in 1 889 he again became a candidate,
and this time he was elected (January 18th 1890). His sermons
were always preached from manuscript, and were distinguished
by a piety, style, and temper peculiarly fitted to the legal
acumen and literary instinct of such a congregation as gathered
there. Nor was his preaching a barren display of choice and
elegant phrasing ; it had practical results. Some share at least
of the credit must be given to him for the fact that it was daring
his tenure of office, in the Treasurership of Master John Rose,
that the old chapel was restored.

This afforded the preacher an opportunity of indulging his
generosity ; and he was not slow to avail himself of it, for he
had always had an almost exaggerated sense of the duty of
giving away. Apart from the gifts that he made to the Library
from time to time of old books and prints, he, in conjunction
with Mrs. Parker» the widow of a former Bencher, gave a new
case to the organ in the chapel ; and when the east window was
filled in with figures of ^yt archbishops connected with more
or less historical accuracy with Gray's Inn, it was at his cost
that Wake was added to the company of Beckett, Whitgift,
Juxon, and Laud.* Some years previous to this he, along with
other members of his family, had placed a very beautiful window,
designed by Kempe, In Wakefield Cathedral, to the memory of
his father and mother; and he a?so placed in the Library of
St Paul's School a window copied from a design in a MS in the
University Library introducing the figure of Colet. Nor was
his liberality confined to gifts of stained glass windows; a
drinking fountain was placed by him on Brook Green, Hammer-
smith, to the memory of his first wife, who had died October 4tb
1879; and in memory of his second wife (Miss Alice Lea,.
married August 26th 1884, d'^d February 20th 1902) he founded
prizes in the North London Collegiate School and in the newly-
opened St Paul's School for girls. Though thoroughly appre-
ciating the value of money, he gave away large sums. None of
the money which he derived from his Fellowship was spent on
himself; most of it was devoted to the education of a brotheri

* The window was inaugaraled by a setmou preached in the chapel by
Bishop Creighton, November i9lh 1899.

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while £too of it was given to the fund for rebuilding the
College Chapel. To the College he also in after years gave
another /^loo, which was spent on books. It was his constant
practice to devote a tenth of his income to charity. To all
subscriptions connected with St Paul's School he gave liberally,
and after his retirement he gave /'loo towards the cost of
completing the mosaic of the Child Jesus teaching in the
Temple, which adorned the end of the hall over the organ.

With the movement for the higher education of women he
was thoroughly in sympathy, and a review of a 14th century
English Biblical Version which he wrote for the Journal of
Theological Studies during the last year of his life had an
additional attraction for him in that its editor was a lady, Miss
Anna C. Panes Ph.D.

Of his powers of memory something has already been said ;
it was extraordinarily tenacious of verbal accuracy. He probably
inherited this gift from his mother, whose memory was almost
abnormal ; it is related of her that she could read a long poem
over three times and then repeat it by heart. Another gift that
he inherited from the same source was his poetic faculty. He
wrote several hymns, and a very fine translation of one by John
of Damascus is printed in his life of that Father published for
the S.P.C.K. Of his Seatonian poem mention has already been
made. The same taste which rendered him an admirable
composer of Latin Lyric poetry showed itself in a very different
accomplishmenti that of an ingenious writer of " lapidary
Latin."

With these scholarly accomplishments was combined the
true scholar's humility. He was free from the slightest tain^
of self-advertisement. Had it not been so, he would no doubt
have been a more successful man, as the world understands
success. Preferment had a way of just bowing to him and then
passing on, leaving him to the humble routine of his busy life.

He had a keen sense of wit and humour, and such a book
as Mr Justice Darling's Scintillae Juris was a joy and a delight
to him. "Pick up that current coin" was rapped out once
when a stray coin fell from a boy's pocket and ran across the
class-room floor. He was fond of telling how, when he was a
b6y at school, one of the masters used to translate TpcScc apa
by the quaint phrase, "The Trojans, God bless 'em!" It was
no doubt with a twinkle in his eye that he used frequently to
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ei)d an examination on Euclid with the question "Who was
Euclid?" until the senior mathematical master expostulated
with him on the ground that Euclid was a book, not a man.

He was not a great traveller, and till late in life he had nerer
been out of England, but he was fond of open-air life. He
probably regarded skating as the finest exercise, while gardening
might have been his hobby had he had time and opportunity
for one. Quaint, old-fashioned plants, such as Mo.ses-in-thc
bulrushes, he eagerly planted in his London garden, by the side
of the Glastonbury thorn, which flowers at Christmas ; and he
did not rest until he had secured a cutting from Milton's
mulberry tree at Christ's to be planted in Milton's old school
playing fields at Hammersmith. A comparison of the crystal
purity of the Aire as it issues from the base of Malham Cove
with its filthy state below Leeds may have led him to insist as
strongly as he did on the need of purifying rivers. Every one»
he urged, ^as entitled to pure air and pure water.

Such were some of the principal characteristics of Dr Lupton.
It would ill be*come a son to attempt any appreciation of a
father*s merits ; it will be forgiven me, therefore, if I add two
extracts which show him as others saw him. The former is
from the pen of his successor in the Sur-mastership at St Paul's
School, the Rev J. W. Shepard MA. ; the latter speaks for
itself.

John Lupton.

L — From Tht Layman (December 22nd 1905).

The Rev Joseph Hirst Lupton, who served for thirty-five
years, from 1864 to 1899, as Sur-inaster of St Paul's School, was
a specimen of that comparatively rare type of men who find in
the conscientious discharge of one set of duties — in themselves
sufficiently laborious — a charge and a stimulus to enter upon
other fields of labour not less exacting, but, in many cases, more
congenial to a scholarly mind. Dr Lupton was always a student,
precise and painstaking ; and, within limits, a many-sided
student. By natural bent he was an antiquarian, fond of old
.times and of old books : he lived largely in the past ; research
to him was its own exceeding great reward ; Erasmus and More
Savonarola and Ficino, as well as the days in which they lived,
were closer to him than the Victorian age, with its questions
and controversies ; the sermons and expositions of John Colet

Obituary. 249

touched in him a more sympathetic nerve than did Essays and
Reviiws^ not to speak of the poets, novelists, and other popular
writers of the nineteenth century, with whom he had scarcely
a bowing acquaintance.

In spite of this great pressure of work during the earlier
years oi his Sur-mastership, Mr Lupton was unflinchingly true
to his self-imposed task of rescuing from undeserved neglect
the extraordinary merits of the founder of St Paul's School. It
had been his original purpose to accomplish this by the labour
of editing and translating into English the extant works of
Colet, and in particular by the publication of the Lectures on
St Paul's Epistles, delivered by him at Oxford in the year 1497*
In successive years this programme was substantially accom-
plished ; and in 1887 ^^ Lupton completed, as an afterthought,
the valuable " Life of Dean Colet," which was undertaken by
him in answer to repeated requests. Add to this the various
important contributions made by him at different times to NoUs
and Queries^ to the Dic/tonary of National Biography^ as well as
to other standard works, and notably the elaborate article on
English versions of the Holy Bible, written by him in the
evening of his days for the supplementary volume of Hastings^
Dictionary, and some idea will be formed of the amazing industry
which was his abiding characteristic during th^ whole of his
life.

It is by these labours of love, persevered in throughout a
strenuous literary career of more than forty years, that the
memory of Dr Lupton will live. To him, more than to anyone
else, belongs the credit of having placed the figure Dean Colet
in its true light as that of a great Englishman who, in many
ways, was before his age, and the significance of whose work is
now at last beginning to be appraised at its proper value. It is
true that Dr Lupton was never weary of repeating his acknow-
ledgments to Mr F. Seebohm, whose admirably written work^
The Oxford Reformers of 1498, first "showed Colet in the \xxxp
greatness of his Character." But it is in Mr Lupton's Lift of
Dean Colet, and in the light there thrown upon his opinions an^d
character, that we are made to understand what manner of man
he was, and wherein his greatness as a reformer consisted. It
has been well said by J. R. Green, in his History of the English
People^ that " the awakening of a National Christianity, wheti\cr

2 JO Ohiluary,

in England or the Teutonic world at large, begins with the
Florentine studies of John Colet." Dr Lupton has shown his
readers in what sense this assertion is true, and, by the manner
of his doing so, has rendered a genuine service to his country.

II. — Concluding portion of a sermon delivered in Grays Inn
Chapil^ on Sunday ^ ijJh December, 1905, by the Rev. /?. /•
Fletcher, Preacher to the Inn.

Suffer me now to turn to another subject and pay a brief
tribute to that former Preacher of Gray's Inn who for the last
decade of the 19th century taught from this pulpit. Probably
there are few here to-day who cannot recall the fine, scholarly
face, the gentle manner and voice, which helped home the
messa<,'e Dr Lupton delivered. Many of us will remember all
our lives the modesty and charity and sweet antique courtesy
which enabled him to wear in social intercourse

all that weight
Of learning lightly, like a flower.
Of his keen attachment to this Honourable Society he gave
many proofs, and by his devoted labours upon the works and
Life of Dean Colet he has deserved the regard of all who have
been associated with the school Dean Colet founded.

Over his inner life he kept a veil drawn. Jlis faith, one
may surmise, was untroubled, His benevolence was secret save
when its recipients made it known. His affections were not
blazoned in his language. Yet one could not doubt that his
life was a humble walk with God.

His heart was in the past among the men and the ideas of
the i6ih century, and he did not care to plunge into the religious
and ecclesiaslical questions of our own time. We know that he
Joved simplicity both of doctrine and of ritual, and that he had
no taste for any kind of spiritual exuberance. But if one wished
to indicate his position in Christian thought, one would instinc-
tively avoid modern terms and choose instead to say that the
bent of his mind and temperament was rather that of Erasmus
than that of Luther.

In his industry, accuracy, thoroughness, as teacher, author
editor, preacher, our generation might well find a pattern.
When ill-health obliged him to retire from St Paul's and from
Gray's Inn, he still wo^ed on in such channels of effort a«

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remained open to him, worked till the angel of death peremp-
torily bade him keep his Sabbath.

We have lost, brethren, a scholar, and a Christian gentleman,
of whom I can never think without recalling the well-known
lines of Chaucer ; —

Cristes lore and His apostles twelve

He taught, and first he folwed it himselve.

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1864. Wakefield Worthies ^ or Biographical Sketches of Men of Note,
connected, by birth or otherwise, with the town of Wakefield in York'
shire, by the Rev. J. H. Lupton, M.A., Fellow of St John's College,
Cambridge, and Second Classical Master in the City of London School,
cr. 8vo, vii + 260 pp. London, Hamilton & Co., 1864.

1867. foannis Coleti de Scuramentis Ecclesiae. A Treatise on the Sacra-
ments of the Church, by John Colet D.D., now first published, in the
original Latin, with an Introduction and Notes, 8vo. 1867. London,
George Bell & Sons.

1869. foannes Coletus super Opera Dionysii, Two Treatises on the
Hierarchies of Dionysius, by John Colet D.D., now first published, with
a Translation, Introduction, and Notes. 1869.

1873. loannis Coleti Enarratio in Epistolam S Pauli ad Romanos, An
Exposition of St Paul's Epistle to the Romans, delivered as Lectures in
the University of Oxford about the year 1497, by John Colet D.D., &c.

1 874. foannis Coleti Enarratio in Primam Epistolam S Pauli ad Corinthios.
An Exposition of St Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians, by John
Colet M.A., &c.

1876. foannis Coleti Opuscula Quaedam TheoUgica, Letters to Radulphus
on the Mosaic Account of the Creation ; on Christ's Mystical Body the
Church ; Exposition of St Paul's Epistle to the Romans (chs. I— V), &c.,
by John Colet D.D., &c.

1882. St fohn of Damascus, in the Scries of The Fathers for English
Readers, S.P.C.K. 1882.

1883. The Lives of fehan Vitrier, Warden of the Franciscan Convent at
St Omer, and fohn Colet, Dean of St PauVs, London, Written in
Latin, by Erasmus of Rotterdam, in a Letter to Justus Jonas. Tran-
slated, with Notes and Appendices. 1883. London, George Bell & Sons^

1885. An Introduction to Latin Elegiac Verse Composition, 1885. London,
Macmillan & Co. Reprinted 1888; reprinted and Vocabulary added,
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25 i Ohttuary.

1886. ITey to the above. MacmillaQ k, Co.

1887. A Life of John CoUi D.D,^ Dean of St PauVs and Founder if
Si PauVs School, Wilh an Appendix of some of his English Writiogs.
Portrait, 8vo. ziv+323 pp. Loudon, George Bell & Sons.

1888. An Introduction to Latin Lyric Verse ComposiHan^ 1888. I^ondoo,
Macmillan U, Co.

Key to the same, 1888.

1888. Commentary on the First and Second Books of Esdras, in the
Apocrypha, edited by Dr Wace. 2 vols.

1893. The Influence of Dean Colet upon the Reformation of the English
Church. London, George Bell & Sons. Cambridge, Deighton, Bell
& Co. 1893. vii+68. (Dissertation for the B.D. degree.)

1895. The Utopia of Sir Thomas More, In Latin from the Edition of
March 1518, and in English from the First Edition of Ralph Robynson's
Translation in 155 1, with additional Translations, Introduction, and
Notes. With Facsimiles. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1895. c +347 pp.

1896. Archbishop Wake and the Project of Union (1717-1720) between the
Gallican and Anglican Churches, George Bell & Sons. 8vo. 1896,
xi+ 142 pp. (Dissertation for the D.D. degree.)

190X. ' Brasmi Concio de Puerojesu, A Sermon on the Child Jesus by
Desfderius Erasmus, in an Old English Version of Unknown Authorship,
Ediied with Introduction and Notes. London, George Bell U Sons,

(6) Pamphlets.

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in the School-room of St Vedast's, Foster Lane, April i6th, 1886.

1887. ^ Sermon preached in the Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge,
at the Commemoration of Benefactors. May 6th, 1887. (Printed by
request.)

1897. A Sermon preached in the Chapel of Gray*s Inn, June 20tb, 1897, the
60th year of Queen Victoria's reign. (Printed by request.)

Also Articles in the Dictionary of Christian Biography, edited by
Smith and Wace, on Dionysius the Areopagite, St John of Damascus,
the Sibylline Oracles, &c.

The Article on English Versions, in the Supplementary Volume of
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible.

Also Articles in the Dictionary of National Biography, Notes and
Queries, &c.

J. L.

Obituary. 253

C. J. Ellicott, Bishop of Gloucester.
f Supplementary J

American cousins.

Judge Ellicott writes: "My father, during the last year or
so of his life, received communications from American citizens
bearing the name of Ellicott, and one or two have come ovt^r
to England and stayed for a few days at the Palace, Gloucester."

Now, in James Savage's American Genealogical Did ionary
i86o(ii. 13), we read: •* Ellicott, Vines, and Boston came in
the Supply; embarked at London May 24th 1679."

A century later we meet with a distinguished American
citizen, Andrew Ellicott.

Of him Dr William Allen, in his American Biographical
Dictionary^ 3rd ed. 1857, says: "Andrew Ellicott, Professor of
Mathematics at West Point, was a native of Pennsylvania, and
was employed in surveying and planning the city of Washington.

" lie was also employed in ascertaining the boundary between
the United Slates and Spain, which labour he commenced in
J 796.

"He died at West Point August 28th 1820, aged 67. He
published ^ Journal vi\\\i a map of Ohio, Mississipi, and a part
of Florida ; astronomical and other papers.''

He is best known by his part in planning and laying out the
city of Washington.

In 1790 Congress decided that the seat of Government should
be on the Potomac. Washington, Jefferson, and Madison
selected the site, and entrusted the planning of the city to
Major d^Enfant, who had come over with Lafayette in 1777.

In Washington, the Capital City (1902, i. 25) R, R. Wilson
tells us that "early in the spring of 1791 the Commissioners
began running the lines of the new territory, the actual surveys
being made by Andrew Ellicott^ a young Pennsyivanian of marked
ability, who later became Geographer General of the United
States."

More to the same effect will be found in Todd's Story of
Washington (1889).

In the Index to the Atlas of the Enc, Brit, we find the name
Ellicott occurring five times in the U.S.

John Ellicott F.R.S. (1706-72), the Bishop's ancestor, was

254 Obituary.

also dislinguished as a mathematician and astronomer. The
Bishop's own first published work was on a mathematical subject
(see the October number).

The non-award of the Chancellor's Medals for Classics in 1841.

Charles Sangster, Ellicott's contemporary, since 1855 Vicar
of the mining parish of Darton, Barnsley, writes:

'* I seem to have a distinct recollection of a letter from Dr
Graham (V.C. in 1841) merely saying that they regretted not
to give the medals, but without mentioning any reason."

The reason assigned by tradition is that Ellicott and Sangster
only got a Second Class (see October number).

Mr Sangster, in fact, won the Browne Medal for Greek and
Latin Epigrams in 1840 and the Chancellor's English Medal
in 1839.

Music.

Various friends speak of the Bishop in later life as unmusical*
To shew that he was not a man *'who had no music in his
soul," I quote a few words of his old school (Stamford) and
College friend, the Rev J. S. Clarke:

*'Ves, both Ellicott and Sheringham played on the flute;
Ellicolt with softness and delicacy, Sherry with more power.
We used also to sing glees, got up for the school concerts.'^

During his second residence at Cambridge (58-61) concerts
were given by the Fiimoilliam Musical Saciely, parent of the
CM.M.S. In these Mrs Ellicott took an active pait.

A congenial neighbour,
Mr Clarke writes further: **I think I am right in my recol-
lection that a near neighbour, T. Kerchever Arnold, author of
La/in Prose and Greek Prose, was a help and encouragement to
Ellicott at Pillon (48-58). Arnold was Rector of Lyndon."

Commmenlaries on Si Paul,

Arthur Hoare had projected a commentary on St Paul's
Epistles, to be written by Fellows of St John's only. Professor
Mayor was invited to take part. The plan, however, fell through,
and Ellicott carried on the work alone. He wrote on all the
Epistles except Ro. and ii Cor,^ the earliest commentary ap*
pearing in 1855, the latest in 1887.

A like abortive scheme for a joint commentary on the New
Testament was started at Trinity about the same time. West*
xott, Hort, and Lightfoot were to have written ; but here again

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one only, viz., Lightfoott went on with ihe work, with the
magnificent results We khow.

As a Preacher,
n the Life of S. Wilberforce we read of thdt eminent
preacher, when prevented by illness from keeping ah engage-
ment, getting EUicott to take his place almost at a moment's
notice, ^.^., on April 30th 1871.

He made it a rule of late years to preach in one or other of
his cathedrals on the Great Festival. His last published volume
is a collection of these sermons.

Mr D. W. Rootham writes: '*The Bishop was an excellent
preacher. I remember his sermon oh the Ascension. The
intense stillness of the congregation in the cathedral (Bristpl)
as they followed the discourse yr^^ most impressive. I shall
never forget it."

The last occasion, so far as I can discover, when he preached
in Cambridge Was on August 2nd 1696. This was before a
number of clergy who were up here for a fortnight's course of
theological lectures.

Controversial Writings,

In Christu^ Comprohator the writer chiefly combated, though
not named, is, 1 believe, the Rev Charles Gore, soon to become
the Bishop's Right Reverend brother of Worcester, now Bishop
of Birmingham. In Shall we abandon Fundamental Doctrine?
our own Dr Bonney's Influence of Science on Theology is several
times quoted and criticized.

The Bishop's tone in controversy was urbanity itself;
and not less delightful are the openness and hopefulness of
mind shown in his final charge (1903, see the October number).

Proposed Monument,
A general meeting of subscribers and others interested in
the proposed memorial to Bishop EUicott was held in the Chapter
House of Gloucester Cathedral, yesterday, under the presidency
of the Lord Lieutenant of the county (Lord Ducie). A pre-
liminary committee recommended that the memorial should
take the form of a recumbent tScL%y (in accordance with the late
Bishop's expressed wish), to be placed in Gloucester Cathedral
in such a position outside the choir as may be found most
suitable, and this recommendation was cordially approved. A
representative committee was also appointed to take the necessary
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the College against the Servants in the long vacations of
1862-4-5, in the long vacation University eleven in 1865, and in
the College first eleven from 1865 until he went out of residence
in 1 868. On his return he was President of the Lady Margaret
Boat from 1876 to 1886.

As an undergraduate he attached himself to the band of
teachers of the Jesus Lane Sunday School, then under the
superintendence of A. D. Mathews, aAerwards Archdeacon of
Mauritius; he became the Secretary in 1862, when he was
reading for the Theological Tripos. He was subsequently
Treasurer of the College Mission.

Without being either a composer or a distinguished per-
former, he became a member of the Musical Society, and
devoted much study to the subject of Church music, especially
psalmody, trained his own choir, and contributed papers to
Magazines on that subject.

The series of articles on our Founders and Benefactors which
interested so much the readers of Vols, xiii, xiv, xv of Tht
Eagli^ were an evidence of his attachment to the College of
which he was a worthy disciple, to which he rendered devoted
service as Dean from 1878 to 1886, and in which his influence
for good was felt not only by undergraduates. It would be
appropriate if the present editors could preserve the material he
was collecting concerning the past history of his Church and
parish of Marston Monteyne.

His death occurred only about two months after that of his
wife, who was tne daughter, sister, and mother of Johnians^
sister and aunt of University oars. Her ilNhealtb had been a
long continued anxiety to him.

He was a man of unaffected simplicity, with a keen sense of

humour, of earnest piety, absolutely free from humbug, cant, or

^^gotry, holding his own opinions, tolerating those of others —

^ man of the greatest amiability and unselfishness, of many-

^ided interests, with a full repertoire of anecdote, enjoying

^^oiijpan ion ship, cheerful under his own troubles, which were

^Cit/ier few nor small, sympathetic with those of others. His

'®«» 13 deeply mourned.

W. H. H. H.

^ Alrr^€l Freer Torry was bom at Barrow in Lincolnshire, oil
^ceiiat>«x- I ^jjj^ ,g^^^ j^jj^j ^i^jj ijjg eldest of a family of four sons

258 Ohiluary.

and five daughters, his father being Mr James Tony, and his
mothers name before marriage Ann Freer.

He was edacated at Brigg Grammar School 1851-8, and came
into residence at College in October 1858, as a sizar; obtained
a Foandation Scholarship in 1861; and was 4th Wrangler in
the Tripos of January 1862. In the following year he was
placed in the First Class in Theology together with our Maslec
and two others, obtaining like them distinction in Hebrew.
He was elected to a Fellowship in the following November, was
ordained in 1864, and continued in residence until 1869, taking
private pupils.

A contemporary has given a striking sumaiary of the many
interesU and activities which filled hts life as an under-
graduate and a young fellow. Athletics, mathematics,
archieology, Church music, and many other subjects in turn
attracted his attention ; and anyone who has been brought into
close contact with him will remember the persistent energy with
which he threw himself into the investigation and discussion of
any subject under consideration. But by a large number of
Johnians he will be best remembered as Dean of the College*
and Proctor.

He had been appointed in 187 1 by the Archbishop of York
to the living of Sculcoates in Yorkshire ; but resigned it in 1875
to accept the CoHege iivtng of Hot ningsey. His mother and
one of his sisters were living with him at the Vicarage ; but be
also had^a set of rooms in CoHege where he took a few private
pupils ; and he lectured on Theology at the newly established
Ladies' College at Newnham. ,When he lefl Horn^ingsey to
reside in College as Dean his mother became President of
Norwich House, where some 22 Newnham [students resided
untH the North Hall at Newnham College was built.

Even during his incumbency at Horningsey he liad takes
part so far as parish duties permitted in the lib of 4h« Univer-
sity and CoHege ; and in October 1^76 he was chosen President
of the Lady Margaret Boat Club in succession ito Mr Graves;
iie took great pride and pleasure in this post, which "be held for
ten years, till he again left Cambridge for a distant parish ; and
one relic of his presidency remains in the brass Eagle which he
presented to the club, and which still adorns the staff of the first*
boat flag.

{iis appointment as Junior Dean came early iu 187JB, .on th^

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retirement of Mr Henry Rcssell ; and he became 3<?pipr Deaa
in 1883, when Mr P. H. Mason wa^ appointed President of the
College. His knowledge of music was turned tq good accopnt
in the Chapel services ; and the active p^rt whiph he still took
ifi various games enabled him to become familiar wjth very
many undergraduates, whom he set himsplf ^o influpi^cp, and to
help in any way that was open to him- He wjl) be ren^embered
as unusually bright and kindly, ^nd remarkably ui^selfish find
goodnatured. |ie was Pro.ctpr during the ypars 1882-4, and
became almost as well known in tbp l/niversjty as in the
College ; some will remember a cartoon of hiin which appeared
in an undergraduate paper with the tj^e " Auc-Tprry-tas." His
experience of the office made him a ;$trpng ))elieyer ifi its
utility ; hp enjoyed thje iacidents connected wi.th the enforce-
ment of discipline in the streets ; and he to.pJ|c with great good
humour the discomforts to which his short stature made \i\m
more than usually liable. On one occasion an undergraduate
snatched off his College cap and got away safe with it; chance
aubsequently brought to his knowledge the name of the hero,
and the whereabouts of the trpphy .(i^ reposed under a glas^
case in a iiie^ of rooms in another College), b.^t he preferred to
remain in apparent ignorance.

His fellowship was held under the o^dfit^tu^e whici^ did not
permit of marriage ; and as he had been for some years engaged,
be accepted at thiS end of 1885 the College living of Marwood,
near Barnstaple. Mrs Torry was the eldest si^ryiving daughter
of a well-known Johnian, Charles Dashwood Goldie, Vicar of
St Ives (of whom an obituary jiotice wjU be found in TJ^e Eagle
for December 1.885), th.e eldest son ]being the stroke of the
Ujuversity ^oat in the years 1869-187;, now commemorated by
a brass in our Ante-chapel. It cannot have been an entirely
Aoited parish to which the new Rector brought home hi^ bride ;
for while one aectioja of the parishioners had expressed their
.welcome iby a 4ecoxated arch erected acro^? the usual road from
ihe Station to the Rectory, the carriage ^$is in some way
diverted along .another .road. The trick wfis discpvered in time
for a passage through the arch later in the d?y> aft.er (I believe)
a reception iA the School.

During his eight y^ar^ tenure of ,th^ .benefice various
improvepiients v^re made in the Church. Warming apparatus
was obtained at once; an organ and a leci^ra /soon followed ;

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and before he left, the sanctuary had been panelled, the pulpit
re-erected at a lower level, and without a sounding-board, one
bell had been re-cast, and all the bells re-hung. The Parish
Magazine speaks of the charity and sympathy which endeared
him to so many. He found time to give lectures, illustrated by
lantern -slides, in other parishes; and enjoyed the long walks
over the moors, Mrs Torry accompanying him on a pony.

In August 1 893 he moved to a third College living, that of
Marston Mortaine in Bedfordshire, vacant by the death of
Dr Wood. Here also many forms of work filled his time, and
among the improvements effected were the extension of the
churchyard and the purchase of an organ. He gave mach
attention to Church music, and especially to the best way of
arranging psalm-chants for country choirs, " The Organist and
Choirmaster" published several leading articles by him on this
subject. He was on the Committee for the Ely Diocesan
Choral Festivals, and contended strongly for the insertion in
the Festival Book of such music as could afterwards be used io
the separate parishes. He trained his own choir with great
care, making the most of the material at his disposal, and
taking great pains in the choice of simple music appropriate to
the words.

Mrs Torry's health had for long been failing, and for her
sake he spent the winter of 1897-8 at St Jean de Luz, their
son and daughter being with them. He was acting temporarily
as Chaplain at Pau (50 miles distant), when the death
of Bishop John Selwyn (the second Master of Selwyn College)
took place there. No permanent improvement in his wife's
health was obtained, and she became a great invalid and
sufferer. His own health also gave way, and last July he had
to give up all duty for a short time. Mrs Torry*s death came in
November ; and he then went away for a change, but did not
recover strength, and died on January 16th of this year. There
was a large gathering both of clergy and parishioners on
January 20th at the fufieral, which was conducted in exactly the
same simple inexpensive way which he had endeavoured to
persuade others to use. One of the neighbouring clergy
writes of him as an unassuming and friendly man who took
moderate and scholarly views, and than whom few were more in
earnest or more unworldly ; his loss will be widely felt, both in
his parish, and hi his many friends.

J. T. W.

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Rev Canon Fredkric Watson D D.

On New Year*s Day the College lost one of its principal
Teachers, and the University and Town one of their most
prominent members and citizens when Frederic Watson passed
away. His life since he came np to Cambridge forty years ago
had revolved round two centres, the cause of the Church of
Christ in parochial work and in St John's College. By these as
intermediaries he sought to promote the glory of God and the
increase of learning and virtue with a definiteness that gave a
marked consistency to a strenuous and vigorous life.

A personalty is as a rule but little exhibited by recounting the
details of the career, but readers of the Eagle naturally turn to
academic records as having significances for them which others
would not find. With these details therefore we commence.

Watson was born in the city of York in 1844, and went to
the Cathedral School, St Peter's College, as it is ofiicially
designated. His attention was directed principally to Mathe-
matics, and he gained an open Exhibition at St John's, which
was exchanged next year for a Foundation Scholarship.

In his undergraduate days he lived the life of a student,
making his Tripos and his religious duties the main business for
which he came up. It is probable that he never missed morning
Chapel at seven in those days, and he was not a man to miss
lectures or to do anything else than work hard in preparation for
them. His name does not appear in any of the College Boats
or Football or Cricket teams, nor is it in the roll of our Editors
or Contributors. He joined the Rifle Corps, but otherwise the
old-fashioned "constitutional'* satisfied him and laid the
foundation of that love for walking which always marked him
whether in his holidays or, as often, marching along the
Newmarket Road from his lecture room to Quy. His name does
not appear in Mr G. C. M. Smith's list of College rooms, so
probably he was in lodgings as an undergraduate: his long
tenure of rooms in the Second Court as a Lecturer made up for
this afterwards. When he came up the College was almost at its
height for numbers: the Mathematical staff were especially
strong. Parkinson (his Tutor), Todhunter, Besant, Home, and
F. C. Wace. Among his contemporaries were Lord Justice
Moullon, Mr Page, Mr. Wilkins, Mr W. S. Wood. Professors
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these in the schools: Mr Marsden, Dr Watney and Archdeacon
Bonsey were in the First Boat; with the present Master, Mr
Bourne, Mr Snowdon in other boats. His own closest personal
friend at the time were Leonard Williams, afterwards Doctor,
now deceased, and Mr William Griffith, still alive, but in
seclusion.

His Tripos was that of 1868, in which he was placed twelfth.
It was a year productive of notable men, no. less than four of oar
Judges being in that Tripos: Moulton (Senior Wrangler),
Buckley, Sutton, and Barnes, besides Kennedy, who was Senior
Classic. The Second Wrangler was Sir George Darwin ; the
present Astronomer Royal ; Christie, was fourth, and the Master
of Sidney third, so that it was a remarkably strong year. But
Watson immediately turned to Theological studies, taking the
Theological examination for Graduates which was afterwards
formed into the Tlieological Tripos: and he won the Hulsean
Prize for an Essay on the Ante-Nicene apologies. He then
secured in succession the Carus Greek Testament prize, the
Crosse scholarship, and the Tyrwhitt Hebrew scholarship,
laying the foundations for a most promising academic career.
In 1871 he was elected to a Fellowship, the one which fell to
him being that vacated by Mr C. F. Eastburn and afterwards
held by W. W, English ; Mr Heitland and Mr Saward were
elected at the same time. He was ordained in 1871 and served
the curacy of Stow-cum-Quy, where he acquired a love for the
pastoral work which ever afterwards lay very near his academic
intereslSp even if it was not actually the stronger attraction. He
then took the curacy of St Giles under Francis Slater, whose
name is still honoured in Cambridge, and with him Watson
had the most intimate mental and spiritual sympathies. As
for efficiency Slater said afterwards when surrounded of three or
even more 'half-time curates,' college fellows mostly, working-
with him, that the parish was never so well worked as when I and
Watson alone were the staff. Money was none too plentiful and
the future had to be provided for, yet Watson's Yorkshire thrifti-
ness did not prevent his expending a sum which came to him
while curate upon a mission room in that parish which no one else
came forward to provide. As he had come up to Cambridge
from an Evangelical family a change had in some way been
effected in his theological views, but our enquiries have failed to
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that the time of Professors Jeremie, Selwyn» Swainson, and
Lightfoot, which was effective in Cambridge at that time, was
congenial to Watson's temper and led him quietly towards the
calm and cautious churchmanship by which Cambridge has
been privileged to influence a large number of English Church-
men, and at one a little beyond it. But Watson was never an
•extremist, emphatically never a " Ritualist," for as C.B.D. writes
in the Church Times^ ''he held that ritual divorced from
teaching was next to useless, and therefore he used ritual as
a means of teaching the Catholic Faith,*' and though he joined
the " English Church Union " he often felt qualms about what
was done by that Society^ and in the end he felt obliged to
leave it.

His Cambridge life was suspended in 1878 when heaccepted
the College living of Starston iu Norfolk : but not for long as
the College required an addition to the Theological staff when
our present Master vacated a Lectureship, and C. W. Body
went to Canada. Watson was invited to lecture without leaving
Starston. For some years he spent part of the week in College,
lecturing in General Theology and assisting Mr Mason in
Hebrew. It was an inconvenient arrangement, and he gladly
accepted k an invitation to bo vicar of:Quy<in 1887, combining
^his with his Jectures'more easily. In 1893 he was appointed
by Trinity Hall to be vicar of St Edward's, the Church of
Maurice ,and Harvey Goodwin, and became a resident in
Cambridge altogether. On the retirement of Mr Mason. in
J 904, Watson became principal College lecturer in Hebrew and
in Theology, with the further title of Director of Theological
Studies in the College. In the varied occupations of these
offices together with those of his parish he was employed, when
after several recurrences of exhaustion and heart-trouble he
had the seizure on January ist which laid him on his study-
rouch and closed his earthly life.

Before turning to his College life let us say that in the
University, Watson, though well known, was not so influential
as his abilities would have justified. His high conscientiousness
made his pastoral duties a real " care '* to him : the preparation
of sermons, frequently two for every Sunday, of addresses and
lessons to classes consumed much energy. All his sermons
were prepared with scrupulous attention and delivered with
emphasis, and must have drawn considerably on his mental
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forces. It was in consequence of this, we think we are fallj
Justified in Saying, that he was not able to devote time and
thought to the kind of studies which won favour in our Cam-
bridge school, and have brought the University into its special
position in theology in recent years. He was therefore never
elected to a Professorship, equipped though he was for studying,
lecturing, and writing, with the abilities to which his Universitj
record bore witness ; and his friends always desired for him the
opportunity of leisure and stimulus afforded by a University
Chair. He issued an address to the electors to the Margaret
Professorship on the death of Hort, but Lumby secured a wider
support. On other occasions he thought he might be con-
sidered, but other men were elected, and he had ceased to look
for any change in that direction. It appears to some of us that
had Watson held one of the Chairs for dealing especially with
construction and history of Doctrine, he would have contributed
an element to the Cambridge Theology of our time, which
outsiders at least almost unanimously regret that it has lacked.
The systematic character of his mind, the firmness of its texture,
and his gift of lucid expression, rising withal on due occasions
to a noble eloquence, were gifts which could scarcely have
failed in making him an impressive lecturer in the University
schools, and would perhaps have issued in some notable treatise
on doctrines and their history.

For University business he had little taste, and instead of
it he took part in such town affairs as bore closely on his duties
as one of the town incumbents. In the elementary schools he
was keenly interested, and held several laborious offices ; and
for some years he was one of the local secretaries for S.P.G.,
and organised an association for missionary study and inters
cession. In the diocese his position was recognised by Bishop
Alwyne Compton, who conferred upon him one of the honorary
canonries of Ely Cathedral, and just before his death Dr Chaae
had appointed him one of his Examining Chaplains.

Among his pastoral duties Watson found time^-or rather
made time — for an extension of hit work at St Edward's by
instituting a Sunday afternoon Children's Service designed for the
children of households in all parishes who were not in the habH
of resorting to the ordinary Sunday schools. The response was
very encouraging to him, and Sunday by Sunday a large number
of the children of University residents and others benefited by

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his admirable addresses. He never spared himself in preparing
them — indeed, he had a special interest in them, and hy his
sympathy with young minds of intelligence, and eagerness to
learn and know, he won many friends among the boys and girls
of our Cambridge homes.

From circumstances above alluded to Watson's writings do
not show him at his strongest. They are The Antt-Nictnt
Apologies (his Hulsean Essay), 1870 ; Defenders of the Faith (for
an S.P.C.K. series), 1878; The Law and the Prophets (his
Hulsean Lectures), 1882; The Book of Genesis: a True History^
1892 ; and an Essay in Lex Mosaica. But he had latterly been
pondering over the subject of Inspiration, and had written out
his thoughts upon it. The MS is so nearly complete that
negotiations are now being undertaken for its publication. It
will have its value as indicating a very cautious and well-
considered advance upon his earlier attitude towards the results
of critical studies, and can hardly fail to be helpful to those,
both of the clergy and the laity, who desire to reap the benefits
of these studies in a conservative spirit. Certainly in all that
he thought from beginning to end all his hearers could feel for
themselves that every doctrine must be judged by Christian men
in relation to the manifestation of God in Christ.

Of his family life this is not the place to say more than a
few words. Whilst in bis curacy at St Giles' he met Miss
Margaret Lockhart Adam, daughter of a North London incum-
bent, and they were married when he went to Starston Rectory.
The widow, with six sons and four daughters, survive him. We
can only say that those who never saw Watson in his family
circle had not fully seen him : it was one of those households
of the parsonage and the manse which have counted for so
much in the history of English and Scottish domestic life. The
future careers of so many young people formed indeed a problem
always on his mind, and his friends could have desired, humanly
speaking, that another ten years under his guidance could have
been granted to them. We may be permitted to say that his
wife shared his mind so fully that, with the assistance of the
older children, there is every promise that the double share of
anxiety which falls upon a surviving parent will be borne with
fortitude, and, we trust, be crowned with blessing.

We have reserved to the last what is to not a few readers of
The Eagle the most significant feature in the varied life-work

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we are recording — Dr Watson and the College Mission. Here
indeed he has written his name on the rock. For the Mission
appealed to two of the strongest fibres of his interest in life.
Johnian as he was, and Churchman as he was, the combination
of these stimalated him to the utmost. To see the College a
centre from which spiritual influence should go out to the dense
masses of South London, passing, as thejr were, beyond the
power of the diocesan and parochial organisation of the Church,
and indeed of social organisations generally, this was to him t«
see indeed the purposes of the Foundress of the College carried
out. Lady Margaret and Bishop Fisher were names of honour
not for themselves but for their ideals and purposes, and lol
these ideals and purposes were revived among us in their noble
Christian character. When the undergraduates responded to
his friend Whitworth's appeal, and came to Watson for counsel*
great was his gladness. Then commenced a period of over
twenty years of assiduous devotion to this new cause. Many
Johnians have done, or have attempted, something for the
Mission, but we all speak with one voice in saying that no one
can stand in the same place with Watson — the mainstay, the
foster-father, the central power of it all. It is not possible ta
say where his influence was felt most: stimulus and counsel
flowed from him in ample streams alike to the Committee, to
the undergraduates, and to the missioners.^ One expression
must sufiice. One of the best known of the junior missioners
of a few years ago wrote to Mrs Watson : *' You could not be
aware what a father he has been to many of us — ^perhaps he did
not know himself— but his words and his letters and hisr presence
have made a real difference to our lives.^^ In the district itself
his form had become as familiar as was possible to one unable to
leave home frequently, and when they saw him they understood
something of what they were told of him. As the connecting
link between old Johnians and this College enterprise he was
unique. If their subscriptions did not arrive spontaneously it
was often because they did not desire to forego his genial letter
of application : this, or the letter of acknowledgment, has been
to not a few Johnians their only recurrent contact with the life
of their old College.

Of late the problems arising as to the future of all the
College Missions engaged his thought. Are thiey to be fixed or
migratory ? Can undergraduate interest be aroused for parishes

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in the same way as for new Mission districts ? How are we to
replace the subscriptions of senior members of the original
days? At the Conference in our Combination Room last
November Watson was prominent, and in the volume, The
Cambridge Mission to South London (1904), his story of our
pioneer enterprise naturally heads the series. How his loss is
to be supplied no one has foresight enough to tell. We would
fain hope that upon his twenty years of glad yet anxious toil
will fall the consummating blessing that when the worker is
gone his work, in other hands, follows on. Is it out of place
in this record to insert the expression of a wish on his behalf
that each reader will register a resolve not to cease to hold as
a part of his interest in St John's the welfare of its Mission in
South London ?

If the writer may be permitted in these pages to lay a small
chaplet upon the grave of a friend, it will be to say that he
thinks of Frederic Watson as combining the qualities of severity
and tenderness in a singularly impressive and attractive balance.
Against what seemed to him to be unworthy it was saeva
indignatio, expressed with flashing eye, vibrating voice, and
pungent epithet. But in the presence of modesty, enquiry,
weakness, need, and even frailty if confessed, it was the sympathy
and helpfulness of a heart which loved to be kind. Nay, more,
it was that tenderness wliich surpasses natural kindliness, the
cVuirf/a of the soul trained in the school of Christ.

Rbv R. S. Bkacebkidgb Hbming Hall M:A.

Mr Hall, Rector of Weddington, who died at the Rectory on
February 5th 1906, aged 72, was the only son of Captain Joseph
Hall and his wife Ellen. He was born August 6th 1833, in
Paris. Mr Hall was related both to the Hemings and the
Bracebridges, two of the oldest families in Warwickshire and
Leicestershire. He was the closest surviving relative of the late
Mr Charles Holt Bracebridge, who was well known throughout
the midlands as the man who took Miss Florence Nightingale
(the first Army Nurse) ta the- Crimean War. Mr Bracebridge
was a great Shakespearian enthusiast, and through his instru-
mentality the poet's house at Stratford-on-Avon was preserved to
the natron.

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After taking his degree in 1856 Mr Hall was ordained, bis
first curacy was at Barlaston, Staffordshire, where he remained
from 1858 to 1861, then going to West Lulworth and Benton in
Dorsetshire. In 1864 he became Vicar of Slapleford in
Wiltshire, where he remained until 1872 in that year he
succeeded his cousin, the Rev G. W. Sanford, as Rector of
Weddington. His uncle, the Rev Dempster Heming, had been
Rector of the parish for 38 years. At Weddington Mr Hall
spent the rest of his life, ministering to the spiritual needs of a
country parish. He was fond of all kinds of out-door sports,
especially of fishing and shooting, these he enjoyed almost to
the last, attributing to them his great vitality.

After succeeding to Weddington Mr Hall married, June 22nd
1873, at St Paul's Church, Bath, Miss Selina Frances Chowne,
daughter of the Rev James Henry Chowne M.A., Vicar of
Christ Church, Bradford-on-Avon. Mrs Hall died January 1 ith
1891 and was buried at Weddington. They had a family of five
children : — two sons, the Rev Bracebridge Lindsay Hall (of
St John's, B.A. 1 899), now curate of Broadway, Worcestershire,
and Mr Alexander Tilson Hall ; and three daughters, Misses
Ellen Sanford, Amecia Frances and Selina Poyntz Hall.

Mr Hall was buried at Weddington on February 8th, and the
funeral was very largely attended.

The following members of the College have died during
the year 1905 : the year in brackets is that of the B.A. degree:

Rev Francis Edwiird Ainger (1883), son of the Rev George HetiTy Ainger,
Principal of St Bee's College; baptized at St Bee*9 27 March 1859.
Curate of Hemel-Hempstead 1884-86; of Rothbiiry, Northuinber*
land 1886-87; of Newburn, Northumberland 1887-89; of St George,
CulUrcoatt, Northumberland 1889-91; Vicar of Sparsholt, near Win-
Chester 1893-1904, also Rector of Lainston 1894-1904; Kectorof St John's,
Jedburgh, Scotland 1904- 1905. Died 25 October at Whitley Bay.

Rev Henry Francis Bather (1856), son of John Bather, Barrister; baptised in
St Alkmund's parish, Shrewsbury, to February 1832. Died at The Close,
Hereford, 10 September, aged 73 (see p. 109).

Rev Henry John Borrow (1851), son of Henry Borrow; bom in St Mary's
parish, Truro, Cornwall, 19 February 1829; baptized i April 1824.
Sometime Curate of Hayle, Cornwall; Rector of Lanivet, Cornwall
18624^1. Latterly resided at 38, Nevern Square, London, S.W. ; died
there 21 November, aged 7 c. Mr Borrow married a daughter of John
Ward M.RC.S., of Bodmm. He published: *<A description of the
mural paintings discovered on the walls of Lanivet Church during its
restoration in 1864. With some speculations as to their meaning and

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date, accompanied by illustrations, reduced from actual drawings by the
Rector *' (Truro, privately piinted, no date).

Rev William Jackson Brodribb (1852), son of William Pcrrin Brodnbb, of
Warminster; born i March 1829; educated at King's College, London.
Fellow of the College 1856-60; Rector of Wootton Rivers, near Marl-
borough 1860-1905. Died at the Rectory 24 September, aged 75. In
conjunction with his cousin, the Rev A. J. Church, he issued many
classical works.

Frederick Burfotd (1876), son of Thomas Burford; bapticed at Stratford,
Essex 21 September 1853. Admitted a Solicitor July 1879; practised at
Bristol. Died 29 March at Thorncliffe, Saltiord, Bristol, aged 51.

Rev John Donthorne Coe (1899), son of Frederick Coe, bom at Fincham,
Notfolk 23 January 1876; educated at the Giammar School, Kind's
Lynn. Curate of Harrow Green, Diocese of St Alban's 1899-1905.
Died 25 October at Hill Grove, Somerset, aged 29.

Rev Walter Collier (1890), son of Edwin CoUier, bom at Wigan, Lancashire
9 September 1864; educated privately. Curate of Skipton in Craven
1891-95 ; of St John the Evangelist, Altrincham 1896-90 ; of Timperley
1898-1903; of Hoylake, near Birkenhead 1903-1905^ Died suddenly
5 January, aged 41.

Edward Lockyer Curry (1877), fourth son of Rear Admiral Douglas Curry
bom at Chetlle Lodge, Blandford 15 Februarv 1854 ; educated at Rugby
School. Many years Master at the High School, Montreal. Died at
Montreal 19 June.

Rev John Bayley Davies (1863), son of Evan Davies, farmer; baptized at
Polton, Salop; educated at Shrewsbury School. Assistant Master at
Rossatl School 1862-64; Curate of Morton, Lincolnsliire 1864-66;
Rector of Waters Upton, near Wellington, Salop 1866- 1905. For many
years a member of the Wellington Board of Gaardians and of the Rural
Distiict CounciL Died 23 November, after an operation.

Rev William James Earle (1849), son of the Rev Henry JohnEarle, of High
Ongar, Esitex ; baptized at High Ongar 3 October 1826. Second Master
and Sub- Warden of Uppingham School 1849-81 ; Cm ate of Great
Yeldham, near Halstead 1861-87; Rector of Great Yeldham 1887-1905;
Rural Dean of Yeldham 1895-99. Died at the Rectory 31 July, aged 78.
In 1853 w^n ^i* Earle joined the Staff at Uppingham it consisted of two
masteis engaged m teaching 25 boys; four years afterwards Edward
Thring became Headmaster and Mr Earle was his senior colleague for
28 years; duiing that time he saw the diminutive Uppingham expand
into a public school of 300 boys under 30 masteis. In the Uppingham
School Magazine for October 1905 is printed a letter from Mr William S.
Patterson, of The Gables, Fulwood JPark, Liverpool; from this we take
the following passages; thet« is a picture, and not an unkindly one, in
Mr Rawnsley's book, lately published, of the Usher as he appeared
50 years ago teaching the younger boys in the inner roosa of the old
Schoolroom in the churchyard, which recalls vividly the impression
Mr Eaile made on his early boys, now, adasj advancing far in life, and
shews how he gained the firm affection of that and several succeeding
generations of his *old boys.' I think that it was in 1849 that he was
appointed Usher and Sub- Warden, as the quaint title ran, it was in 1861
that "Brouklands" was built, and at the end of x88o he left Upptngbam
in search of that partial leisure which he had well earned by lon^ and
faithful service. For nearly a quarter of a century he filled the position
of a country Rector, and gained the iCsteem of « large district and
population.

270 *Obiituiry.

These dates cover an unuiually long period. Mr Ear1e*s interest in
Uppingham wai keen to the end, and it is doubtful if at any school
a master has liad so varied an exuerience or seen so many changes.

It was perhaps in his friendships and associations with **Old Boys**
that Mr Earle's genial nature was best shown. In the old, almost pre-
histoiic, days of tne half-year, when the " OKI Boys' " ciicket match was
played towards the end of August, an annual feature was the breakfast, in
Its elements more like a banquet, to which we were all bidden by Mis.
£arle, and where our host was never tired of telling of the cricketers who
had been in his house. Later in the day he would like to hang on the
arm of one of these special **oId boys" of his, and walking round the
■cricket ground dilate on the victories of Brooklands in the house-cup con-
test — they held the cup for four consecutive years in the early seventies.

Another familiar scene was his gowned and running figure, breasting
the hills for first school—for which he was never once late in over
30 years— and, although well advanced in middle life, holding his own
with most of us.

Another trait of our house- master was his accuracy and love of order
and dislike of slovenliness. Whatever other faults Brookland*' boys may
have had, untidiness was never Allowed to be one of them. Of the greater
virtues Mr £arle had certainly an abundant share, and especially he
cherished and practised a high sense of loyalty and honour. It was
a matter of common-knowledge among the older boys that in many things
he did not see *<c^e to eye" with Mr Thring, but he loyally carried out
. many plans of which he did not entirelv approve, and in his intercourse
with the boys at school never discussed, or allowed to be discussed, any
diiferences with his Chief.

In the world outside of the School he had many interests, and in
many houses in the neighbourhood of Liverpool — where three of his four
- sons began their career — he was a welcome and honoured guest.

A generation at school is necessarily a short one, and to many of vour
readers, Mr Earle*s name may hardly be known, but to those whose
memory goes back to the sixties and seventies of the last century, daring
which time the School was first making for itself a great name in England,
his name was closely associated with all that was best at Uppingham.

It is true that his successors give us the same cordial welcome, and it
is also true that the School flourishes more than ever under the present
Headmaster, but human nature as we grow older is inclined to go back
to early feelings and early associations. We must therefore be pardoned
if we look back through the long vista of yean and entwine some of our
most affectionate memories at Uppingham with the great Headmaster
and his great colleague, our Housemaster, who worked together and
built up the school through many difficulties during those 30 years.

Rev Augustin Gaspard Edouart (1840); bom in Middlesex; educated at
King's College, London. Curate of Deane 1840-41 ; Perpetual Curate
of St Paul, Blackburn 1841-50; Vicar of St Michaers, Burleigh Street,
and Chaplain of the Charing Cross Hospital 1850-62 ; Vicar of Leo-
minster, Herefordshire 1^62-96; Chaplain to the Leominster Union
1884-96. Latteriy resided at The Pnory, Kenilworth Road, Ealing;
died there 14 March, aged 88. Mr Edouart published : **The History,
Past and Present, of Leominster Priory Church," 1879.

John Hammerton Edwards M.D. (1882), son of the Rev John Edwards, of
Todmorden; baptized there 22 January i860. Educated at Bedford
Grammar School. After taking ms B.A. degree he developed some lung
trouble and was ordered to Australia. On his return to England he
entered St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he gained the Shuter Scholar-
ship. In x888 he became one of the late Mr P. Morrant Baker's dressers ;
he passed the examination for M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. in 18S9, and took
the M.D. degree at Cambridge. He was some time House Surgeon at

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St Bartholomew's Hospital. About 1891 he began to practice at Denmark
Hill, being Medical Officer of the Camberwell Ptovideiit Dispensary.
About this time he married his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of ihe late
Mr Thomas Bissett, of Barrow-in-Furness ; by her he had a son and
a daughter who survive him. After a year or two he moved to Bedford,
where he took an active part on the Town Council and was elected
Assistant Physician to the Bedford County Hospital. After a few years
his health again broke down ; he relinquished his practice and went to
India to visit two brothers, who aie well known as civil engineers.
Returning home, he mariied a second time on 15 September 1897 at
Trinity Church, Bedford, Grace Alice, widow of the laie James Braddon
McCallum M. lust. C.E., by whom he leaves one daughter. For a time
he lived at Biighlon ; for the last few years he has acted as Medical
Officer on one of the large steamship lines. He died i November at his
residence, Ashburnham House, Bedford, aged 45.

Bight Rev Charles James Ellicott, late Bishop of Gloucester (1841). Died
15 October at his residence, Tresco, Biichington-ou-Sea (see p. 84).

Alfred Lloyd Vandyke Ewbank (1864), son of Cooper Ewbank; baptized at
West Derby, Lancashire, February 1 840. Sometime Piincipal of
Patna College; Fellow of Calcutta University. Died 6 January at
31, Argyle Road, West Ealing, aged 65.

Venerable Edward Hamilton Gifford (1843), Honorary Fellow. Died 4 May
in London, aged 84 {EagU, XXVI, 372), .

Rev Edward Hadden Granger (186 1), son of Frederic Granger, Surgeon;
baptized at Bristol 22 December 1 834. Curate of Chiistian Malford
1861-63; of Naiberlh 1863-64; of Si Paul's, Dunedin 1864-65; Incum-
bent of All Saints', Dunetlin, New Zealand 1865-72; of Waikouaiti
1874-80; of Qneenstown 1880-82; of Taradale 1882-83; of St Mary,
Waipukurau 1883-86. Latterly resided in Bristol. Died 6 January at
212, Redland Road, Bristol, aged 70.

Rev Geoige Septimus Gruggen (1858), son of William Gruggen, Surgeon;
baptized at Chichester, Sussex 22 September 1834. Curate of Yafforth,
Yoiks 1858-60; of Brodfield, Berks 1861-62; Assistant Chaplain of
St Thomah', Newcastle-on-Tvne 1862-68; Vicar of St Peter- ill e-Great
(or sub-deanery), Cliichester 1868-96; Chaplain and Secretary to Bishop
Otter's Memorial Club 1878; Vicar of Amport, near Andover 1896-
1905; Rural Dean of Andover 1901-1905. Died at Amport 17 Marcb>
a|>ed 70. He wart an authority on all church matters, an<i a contributor
to Hyie and Spottiswoode's "Holy Bible with Notes original and
selected."

Rev Henry George Hastings (1876), son of George Hastings; baptized at
Stainforth, Hatfield, Yoiks 12 April 1840. Someiime Minister of the
Hampton Hill Congregational Church. Died 21 November, aged 65.

George Wirgman Hemming K.C. (1844), son of Henry Keene Hemming, of
Upper Tooting; bom 19 August 1821. Senior Wrangler 1844; Fellow
of^lhe Collet;e. Adniilted a Sludenl of Lincoln's Inn 15 November 1844 ;
called to the Bar 3 May 1850; Q.C. 25 June 1875; Bencher of Lincoln's
Inn 24 November 1876. He was a Cammissioner under the Universities
Act 1877, was Equity Editor of Law Reports from 1865 to 1894, and
was an Official Referee from 1877 to his death. He died 7 January at
2, Eari's Court Square, London, aged 83. Mr Hemming was a volumin-
ous writer on many subjects, and, in addition to contributions extending
over many years to various magazines and periodicals, he published
a number of books and pamphlets. Of his ** Diflfeiential and Integral
Calculus," editions were published in 1842 and 1852. In the latter year

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he published an income tax pamphlet, Fusion of Law and Equity pamph-
lets in 1873, and a work entitled " Billiards Mathematically Treated," of
which editions appeared in 1893 and 1904. Mr G. W. Hemming
married, 14 Tune 1855 at St Pancras Church, Louisa Annie, second
daughter of Mr Samuel Hemmini;, of Merry Wood, near Bristol, late
Bombay Engineers.

Rev John William Duncombe Hernaman (1848), son of John Hemaman, of
Leeds ; born at Leeds 27 June 1826; educated at the Kepier Grammar
School, Houghton-le-Spring. Was for two years an As&islant Master at
Repton School, appointed one of H.M. Inspectors of Schools 1852, and
become a Chief Inspector. Mr Hernaman mairied, 30 September 1858 at
Edwinstowe, Notts, Claudia, daughter of the late Rev W. H. Ibotson,
Rector of Edwinstowe. Latterly resided at St Mary's, Ditchling Road,
Brighton. Died at Biighton 17 November, aged 79.

James Hewitt (admitted to the College 20 February 1858 as a Ten-year man,
but did not graduate), son of Thomas Hewitt, of Cambridge; baptized
30 November 1832. In the 'fifties* Mr James Hewitt was one of the
Masters at St John's Training College, Battersea, and his name is
familiar to many as the compiler of Hewitt's Geography of the British
Colonies, Scriptural Geot^rapnies and other works. In 1863 he estab-
lished the preparatory School at Field House at Rottingdean, Brighton;
this was one of the fiist of its kind and was most successful. He carried
on the work of this School until 1887. He travelled widely in company
with a brother and sister, visiting many parts of Europe, Palestine, and
Egypt. In 1808 he purchased Lower Park, Dedham, where he latterly
resided. He died there 10 April, aged 72. Mr Hewitt never took much
part in public aflfairs, but in private life he was active and sincere in the
advancement of any good cause. He was never manied. He was
a brother of the Rev Thomas Hewitt (B.A. 1858, sometime Fellow and
Bursar of Emmanuel College); his sister, who died in 1896, was wife of
the Rev C. A. Jones (B.A. 1857 of St John's), Rector of Dedham.

Rev Thomas Hodges (1865), son of William Hodges; baptized at Reading,
Berks I August 1832. Curate of St Lawrence, Appleby 1865-71;
Vicar of Camerton with St Paul, Seaton, near Workington, Cumberland.
Died 16 February, ajjed 72. Mr Hodges worked most strenuously for
the welfare of the parish, and has left behind him many lasting records of
his energy.

Richard Hod(;con (1882), son of Richard Hodgson, born at Melbourne,
Australia 24 September 1855. Died at Boston, U.S.A. in December
1905. A correspondent writes as follows : R. Hodgson was undoubtedly
a man of considerable ability, though I believe he never produced any
work of the first order fiom the expert's point of view. In character he
was most remarkable. It is perhaps easier for an Australian, not
surrounded by early youth by a thick atmosphere of custom and
precedent, to think, speak, and live in an unconventional manner.
Anyhow the difference in ways of looking at life, that marked off Hodgson
from English students, was very striking. One important point with him
was the wish to keep up a high standard of body as well at of mind, and
in this effort he was successful. He had a well developed figure, and
was a particularly graceful mover, utterly free from the common defects
ot slouch shuffle and swagger. He was a noted boxer, and an active man
generally. I think he thought it right to keep his body in a state of
perpetual training as an efficient servant of the mind — whatever he held
the mind to be. You could imagine him wanting to discuss a philo-
sophical question with a man whose head he had just punched, but not
as wishing to punch the head of one with whom be had been arguing.
To some he merely seemed a prig, as a man will when he lives by rules,
and that rule is not the way of the world. Yet he was in truth no prig :

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he was too completely his own master, too free from affection and
passion, too conscious of imperfection, to fit that title. He was at one
time, in his zeal to benefii mankind, perhaps too ready to submit to
experiments. I have myself seen him under the influence of an Oriental
drug, taken for this purpose. Some years ago, before he settled in
America, he was sent out by Professor H. Sidgwick to India, to inquire
into the credibility of the claim of the then notorious Madam Blavatsky
to have opened relations with the unseen world. His report was most
unfavourable, and he seems to have detected a wretched imposture. But
this did not turn him from the subject. In his later years, spent among
a highly intellectual society at Boston, psychical research was his chief
interest. A kind letter from Prof Wendell of Harvard tells me that the
communications which Hodgson had for some time past with the 'spirits*
became more and more clear and articulate. He was apparently ' quietly
assurred that he was really in communication with higher than eaithly
beings.' Under orders (as he believed) from this quarter he gave up
articles of diet to which he had long been used. The Professor notes the
respect and affection with which this ascetic without asceticism was
regarded by his Boston fi lends, and the vi{{our and good health that he
enjoyed to the last. On a day in the middle of December (t have not
the exact date) he fell down and died without a moment of suffering,
while in the middle of a game of tennis. A post-mortem shewed that
his heart had been diseased in a way not to be detected bv external
examination. The Psychical inquiries to which he was devoted have been
taken in charge by friends. It was well that so kindly and virtuous a man
should have a painless end. He resided in College till long after he was
M.A., and since he settled at Boston he twice spent a Long Vacation in
College rooms for the purposes of study.

Charles Howard (i860), eldest son of Thomas Howard of The Springs,
Evandale County, Tasmania ; bom at Lannceston Van Diemen's Land in
1827. First admitted to the College 24 April 184 1, reailmitted
15 October 1855. Admitted a Student of the Inner Temple 11 November
1861, called to the Bar 17 November 1864. Piactised as a Cenveyancer
and Equity Draftsman. Mr Howard was a B.A. of the University of
London in 1867. Died 21 November at his residence 49 Queen's Gardens,
London, W.

Elliot Burrowes Hutchins (admitted to St John's 11 January 1867, but did
not graduate). Youngest son of Samuel Hutchins ol Anlragashel, and
of Fortlands Charleville co Cork and his wife Mary Burrowes, daughter
of Peter Burrowes, M.P. for Enniscortheyin the Irish Parliament. Born
2 April 1845 in St Peter's Dublin. Kept four Tcims at Tiinity College
Dublin before coming to St John's. Died i July at Headley, Epsom.

Benjamin Atkinson Irving (matriculated from St John's in 1846, B.A. 1850
from Emmanuel), son of the Rev William Irving, Towend, Boltei stone,
Yorks, born there 19 October 1826. A Justice of the Peace, died
20 March at Birthwaite Ho.use, Windermere, aged 78.

Rev Joseph Laxton Kitchin ^1858 as Kitchen), son of Laxton Kitchen,
baptized at Newborough, Northamptonshire 24 April 183 1. HeAdmaster
of Bideford Grammar School 1869-74; Curate of St James', Exeter
1874-76; Chaplain to theWonford Asylum, Exeter 1876-1901. Died at
his residence Montgomery, Teignmouth, S Devon 23 December,
aged 74.

Rev Walton Kitching, (1852), admitted to St John's 18 October 1850 from
Catherine Hall ; educated at King's College, London. Curate of Drayton
Beauchamp, Bucks 1853-54; of the French Episcopal Church of St
John Evangelist La Savoie, Bloomsbury, 1858-72. Latterly re^dent at
23 Kildare Gardens, Bayswater, London, W. Died at St Thomas'

274 Obiiuary.

Home, 30 September aged 77 ; baried at Old Windsor. Mr Kitching
married, 11 March 1852 at St Andtew's Guernsey, Margaret Elizabeth,
eldest daughter of the late Lieut. C. M'Kenzie, R.N.

RtT Joseph Hirst Lapton (1858), died 15 -December at 7 Earls Terrace, W.,
aged 69 See p. 238.

George Alfred Matthew {1878), ion of John Matthew of Cambridge, baptized
13 February 1856, educated at Cranbrook School. Was articled to Mr
John Eaden of Cambridge and was admitted a Solicitor in 1881. For
22 years he was a partner in the firm of Ginn and Matthew of Cambridge.
Mr Matthew never took a prominent part in local politics. He was
keenly interested in books, had a large and valuable library and was very
helpful on the Committee of the Free Library. He held the office of
President of the Cambridgeshire Law Society. Died very suddenly in
his office in St Andrew's Street, Cambridge, 5 Januajy, aged 49.

Rev Joseph Merriman (i860), son of Richard Merriman of Sheepshed*
Leicestershire, baptized 23 December 1835. Died at Freshwater Rectory
Isle of Wight 27 January, aged 71 years. See Bag^U xxvi, 389. Dr
Merriman married 20 August 1868 at Cranletgh Church, Julia Ellen*
only daughter of the late Thomas Wright Wells esquire, and step-
daughter of Henry Townsend esquire, Rydinghurst.

Rev Jonathan Clouter Parkyn (1857), son of James Parkyn, baptized at Stoke
jjamerel, Devon 11 June 1834. Curate of Wol borough, Devon 1858-59:
of Blisland, Cornwall 1870-78; Rector of Sydenham Damerel, Devon
1878-97. Latterly resided at Staffoid Terrace, Plymouth. Died at
Plvmouth 3 December, aged 71. Mr Parkyn mairied Mary Louisa,
eldest daughter of the Rev H. J. Morbhead, Rector of Kelby ; she died
18 July 1886 at Sydenham Damerel, from the results of a carriage
accident.

George Joseph Peachell (1865), son of Joseph Robert Peachell, bom
la April 1842, baptized at St Nicholas, Deptford 12 June 1842;
educated at Rochester School. For twenty-six years Headmaster of ibe
Koyal Grammar School, Wyccombe, Bucks. Died at High Wyccombe
6 March, aged 62.

Rev John Dawson Peake (1852), son of Robert Peake^ «f March, Cambridge-
shire; bom at March and baptized 21 February 1830; educated at
Oakham School. Curate of Medbourne 1853-5$; o^ Kirkby la Thorpe
1855.58; Vicar of Laleham. Middlesex 1859-83; Rector of Pitchcott,
Bucks 1883-85; Rector of Week St Mary, Cornwall 1885-95; Rector of
Buirough-on-the-Hill, near Melton Mowbray 1895-1904. Died at hts
residence, Week St Mary, Cornwall, 8 October, aged 75.

Rev Joseph Ray (matiiculated from St John's in 1848, B.A. from Magdalene
1854), son of the Rev Richard Ray, Wesleyan Minister, of Sittingbourne,
Kent ; born at Sittingbourne 26 May 1822. Curate of All Saints',
Northampton 1856-58; of Tamworth 1858-59; Curate and Lecturer of
St Philip's, Biimingham 1859-66; Rector of Ashton-on-Mersey, Cheshire
1866-94 ; Rector of Beaford, Devon 1894-99; Rector of Ayot St Lawrence,
near Welwyn 1900-1905. Mr Ray was Chaplain to Lord Leigh 1896
to his death. He died 15 June 1905. A tablet to his memory,
the gift of his old paiishioners, was unveiled in St Martin's Church,
Ashton-on-Mersey, on November 12th.

Rev Thomas Proctor Rigby (1849), son of Michael Rigby ; born at Lancaster
16 February 1825 ; educated at Sedbergh School. Head Master of the
Grammar School, Hoitonin Ribblesdale 1849-56; Perpetual Curate of
Aughton in Halton, Lancashire 1856-89. Continued to reside in Aughton ;
died there 6 January, aged 79. He was instrumental in building Aughton
Church about the year 1864.

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Francis James Roughton (1846), son of William Rough ton, surgeon, of
Ketteiing; born 29 April 1822; educated at Oakham School. Mr
Roughton was collated by the Bishop of Ely to a Fellowship in Jesus
College in the year 1849, and remained a Fellow until his death. Died
S October at Kvelyns, Kettering.

Rev James John Rowe (1849); bom in Devonshire; educated at Exeter
Grammar School. He was the eldest son of the Rev James John Rowe,
sometime Rector of St Mary-at- Arches, Exeter, and of Morchard Bishop,
Devon. Curate of Bickington, Devon 1849-51 ; of King William's Town,
South Africa 1857-58; Missioner at Keiskama Hoek 1859-68; Acting
Chaplain to the Forces in South Africa 1868-76, serving at Keiiikama
and King William's Town ; Curate of Morchard Bishop, Devon 1876-81.
Latterly resided at Marychurch, Torquay ; died there 19 May, aged 79.

Rev Theophilus Barton Rowe (1856}, son of the Rev Samuel Rowe,
Wcslcyan Minister, Croydon, Surrey ; born at Croydon 25 January 1833 ;
educated at Durham School. Died 13 January at St Aimc's, Surrey
Road, Bournemouth (see Eagle, xxvi, 217).

George Sills (1856), second son of William Sills, farmer, of Casthorpe,
Lincolnshire; baptized at Barrowby 26 August 1832; educated at
'Grantham School. Admitted a Student of Lincoln's Inn 15 November
1852 ; called to the Bar 26 January 1858. Mr Sills joined the Mid-
land Circuit ; he became a Revising Barrister, Counsel to the Post
Office on the Midland Circuit, Counsel to the Mint for Northamptonshire,
and a Commissioner for Trial of Municipal and County Council Election
petitions. He was Recorder of Lincoln from 1888 until his death. In
1894-5 ^ic was a member of the Bar Committee, and was also a membei
of the Bar Council from 1895 to 1898. He published *' A Treatise on
Composition Deeds" 1868; '<A Treatise on the Bankruptcy Act"
1870; "A Treatise on the Agricultural Holdings Act" 1870. Mr Sills
married, 8 October 1864 at Marylebone Church, Caroline Mary, eldes,
daughter of Frederick William Caldwell Esq, of 4, Hanover Terracet
Regent's Park, and Mishnish, Argyllshire, who survives him, together
with their eight children. Died 6 September at his residence, Casthorpe,
Barrowby, Lincolnshire, aged 73.

Rev Herbert Clementi Smith (1859), son of the Rev John Smith, of Mer-cr's
School; born at Bradford, Wilts, I March 1836; educated at St Paul's
School ; a Pauline Exhibitioner and Gower Exhibitioner at St John's.
Assistant Master and Chaplain at Shrewsbury School 1859-62 ; Curate of
Reepham, Norfolk 1862-64; of Battle, Sussex 1864-67; Curate of
•Grantham and Viscountess Campden's Preacher at Grantham 1867-70 ;
Minor Canon and Precentor of Manchester 1870-78 ; Fishbourne Lecturer
at Berwick-on-Tweed 187 7- 1905. Died 9 February at his residence;,
35 Holland Park Avenue, London, W. Mr Clementi Smith publishexl
*' An English adaptation of Dee Sieben fVoerte des i^rloesser am KreuM "
(Haydn's Oratorio). By his will he left the sum of ;f 1000 to be divided
among a number of charities.

Benjamin Bousfeld Swan (1849), eleventh son of Groves Chamney Swan, of
Dublin, Barrister-at-Law ; born in Dublin 2 December 1826. Admitted
a Student of the Inner Temple 6 June 1848 ; called to the Bar 9 June
1854. Mr Swan married, 24 June 1858, Laura, youngest daughter of
William Lycett Esq, of London. Died 7 February at his residence,
Bolton House, Teddington.

Rev John James Thomley (1867), son of John Thomley ; baptized at Preston,
Lancashire 14 April 1843. Curate of St Michael, Workington 1866-71 ;
Vicar of St John, Workington 1871-92 ; Vicar of Kerkoswald 1892-1905 ;
4ied at Ketkoswald Vicarage i December, aged 62. Mr Thornley won

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his spurs in the laborious work of building up Church life it Workington.
He was the organiser of the social side of parish life, and by lectures in
bis parish room did much among wot king men to awaken wider interests
and create a hteiary outlook. From first to last he was keenly interested
in elemental y education. To him this meant mueh more than the three
R*ii. It meant the rousing of sympathy in children for bird and animal
life, and fot the history of their native county. The scholars of the parish
school at Kerkoswald had in 1905 won Canon Rawnsley's challenge
shield, open to the County under the auspices of the Royal Society for
the Protection of Biids, for ess.iys on bird and tiee life.

Rer James Tillard (1861). son of the Rev James Arthur Tillard ; baptized at
Bluntisham, Hunts 21 April 1839. Tutor of St Columba's College.
Rathfamham, Dublin 1862-67 ; Curate of Buinsley, Gloucestershire 1867-
69; of West Mulling, Kent 1869-73. Mr Tillard marrietl, 5 February
1868 at Bilmiy, Gloucentei shire, Jane, eldest daughter of the Rev Henry
Snow (of St John's B. A. 1833). Vicar of Biburj'. Laileily resided at The
Glebe, Penshurst ; died there 25 January. Mrs Tillard died in 1888.

Robert Tucker (1855), son of Robert Tucker of Blucher Street, St Mary,
Newington, Suriey; born 26 April 1832. Many years Mathematical
M<<ster at University Collei^e School, and Secrctaty to the London
Mathematical Society. Died 29 January at his lesidence, Middleton,
Rowlands Road, Woithing, aged 72. See EagU^ xxr, pp. 119-123;
Proceedings of Tht London Alathematual Satiety, Seiies 2, Vol. ill,
pp. zii-xx, where there is a history of Mr Tucker's scientific papers.

Rev Henry Brooke Waterficld (1865), son of Wright Water field (and his wife
Susanna Draycott) born at Stamford, Lincolnshire, 18 December 1840;
educated at Stamford School. Curate of Porthlcven 1865-67; of St
Stylhian 1867-68; of St Gcrinoe 1868-73 5 of Flushing St Peter 1873-80;
Vicar of St Eval 1880-86; Curate of Charlton in Dover 1892-94; of
Tingrith, Beds 1894-99; Cumte of Foinham near Buiy St Edmunds
1 8^)9-1905. Died at Fornham All Saints 30 October, aged 65. Mr
Watertield mariied 25 Apiil 1867 at Porthleven, Mary Ann, daughter of
Thomas Nash.

Rowland Hill West (1871), son of the Rev T. West, baptized at Chippenham,
Wilts 1863. M.K.C.S. England and l.s.a. 1873. Studied at St
Thomas' Hospital. A certifying Factoiy Surgeon. Practised at 10 St
Mary Church Square, Taunton; died there 15 January, aged 62.

Frank Alfred White (Undergraduate), son of Chailes Leonard Jackson Wliite,
Civil Engineer; born 18 June 1881, at 15 Mount Pleasant Square,
Ranelagh, Ratbrneie, Dublin. Drowned 7 August while sailing on a
yacht on the Orwell, near Ipswich. See p. 113.

Rev William Allen Whitworth (1862), son of the Rev William Whitworth,
baptized at Runcorn, Chfshiie li Apiil 1840. Died 12 March, aged 65.
See p. 396. Mr Whitworth was one of the eailiest coiitiibutors to the
Mathematical columns of 71ie Educational Times, the same can be sail
of Mr K, Tucker mentioned above. Of the name which occur in the first
volume of the Reprints from the Educational Times, the only working
survivor is Prof VV. IL H. Hudson ; the names of our Master, Dr Taylor,
and of Canon J. M. Wilson, also occur. Mr Whitworth mairied 10 June
1885 at St John's, Hammersmith, Sai ah Louisa, only daughter of the
late Timms Hervey Elwes, esq., of Ipswich, and grand-daughter of the
late Lieut. General Elwes of Stoke College, Clare, Suffolk.

Augustus Samuel Wilkins (1S68), son of Samuel T. Wilkins, bom at Enfield
Road, Kin^sland, Middlesex, 2 June 1846. Died 26 July at Llandri/lo-
yn-Rhos, Wales. See p. 69.

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George James Wilson (Undergraduate), son of William Wilson, Methodist
Minister ; born 26 March 1885 at Maguire's Bridge, co Fermanagh,
Ireland. Educated at Campbell College, Belfast. Sometime a Scholar
of (he College. Died (by his own hand) 11 October 1905 near
Enniskillen.

William Sliepley Wilson (1861), son of John Wilson, Barritter-at-Law,
baptized at Lewisham, Kent, t March 1839. Died 5 July at his
residence, Burnside, Sandhurst Road, Tunbridge Wells, aged 66.

Rev Frederick Charles Woodhonse (1850), son of George Edward Woodhouse,
esq., of Hampstead; baptized at Hampstead 9 April 1828. Died
27 September at Holy Trinity Vicarage, Folkeston, aged 77. Set p. 106.

Rev Charles Yeld (1865), son of WUliam Walter Yeld and his wife Sarah
Hollier ; bom 4 March 1841 at Lichfield Street, Walsall, Staffordshire.
Educated at Rugby School. Curate of St Peter at Arches, Lincoln, and
Mathematical Master Lincoln Grammar School 1865-68 ; Senior Assis-
tant Master High School, Nottingham 1868-72 ; Curate of St Matthew's,
Nottingham 1868-74 ; Vicar of St John the Baptist, Leenside, Nottingham
1874-83; Headmaster of University School, Nottingham 1883-91 ; Vicar
of Grassendale near Liverpool 1894-1905. Died at Grassendale i Mav,
aged 61. Mr Yeld married 18 September 1867 at Etonia Church,
Harriot May, daughter of Ralph and Elizabeth Hawksmoore Stevenson,
of Sandon Lodge, Cobridge, Stoke on Trent. Mr Yeld published : * The
life of devotion * (from the French of St Francois de Sales) 1869 ; " The
Holy Communion" 1872; *< Absolution and Confession" 1878; **A
Ladder of H«avcn " 1890. He edited <' Florians Select Fables " 1887.

Rev Charles John Francis Yule (1873), son of Henry Braddick Yule, Master
R.N. ; born at East Stonehouse, Devon 23 March 1848. Died
10 February at Eynsham, Oxon. See Eagle^ xxvi, 399.

The following deaths were not recorded last year :

Andrew Lighton (1844), fourth son of the Rev Sir John Lighton, rector of
Donoughmore, co Donegal, by his wife Mary Hamilton, second daughter
of Christopher Robert Pemberton, M.D. of Newton, Cambridgeshire.
Born 26 December 1822, was for sometime a Captain in the 4th Battalion
Gloucestershire Regiment. Died 13 November 1904 at his residence
12 Hanover Terrace, Ladbroke Square, London aged 81. Mr Lighton
married 25 May i860 Eliza Amelia, youngest daughter of Henry
Sumner Joyce, of Freshford, Somerset. She died 1 1 January 1899 ; they
had no issue.

Herbert Raddiffe (1867), only surviving son of Joshua Radcliffe, cotton
manufacturer, baptized at Rochdale, Lancashire. Mr Radclift was of
Balderstone Hall, Rochdale ; he died in London 3 December 1904, aged
58, and was buried at Rochdale 8 December.

OUR CHRONICLE.
Lent Term^ 1906.

On January 26th it was announced that the King had been
pleased to approve of the appointment of Mr John Fletcher
Moulton (B.A. 1868), K.C, as one of the Lords Justices of the
Court of Appeal.

Lord Justice Moulton is the third son of Mr James £gan
Moulton, and was born at Madeley, Salop, 18 November 1844.
He entered St John's 2 May 1864, from New Kingswood School,
Bath. He was Senior Wrangler and first Smith's Prizeman in
1868. For many years afterwards Coaches and Lecturers used
to speak of his brilliance in examinations, the story being that
the mere difference in marks between the Senior and second
Wrangler in that year would have sufficed to place a man high
up among the Wranglers. In April 1868 Mr Moulton was
elected a Fellow and Lecturer of Christ's College, holding his
office as Lecturer till 1873. During this period he brought out
a new edition of Boole's FiniU Differences. He was admitted to
the Middle Temple 4 November 1868 and was called to the Bar
17 November 1874 ; he became a Q C. in 1885. He was M.P.
for the Clapham Division 1885-86; for South Hackney 1894-95;
and for the Launceston Division of Cornwall 1898-1905. He
was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society 3 June 1880, and is
also Officier de la Legion d'Honneur. He has served on various
Royal Commissions.

Lord Justice Moulton received the honour of knighthood
from the King at Buckingham Palace on Friday, February i6th.

The list of honours issued in connexion with the resignation
of Mr Balfour*s Ministry contained the name of Mr Clement
Kinloch Cooke (B.A. 1878), on whom a knighthood was con-
ferred. Mr Cooke was knighted by His Majesty at an
Investiture held in Buckingham Palace on December i8th. Sir
C. K. Cooke is editor and proprietor of the Empire Review,
which he founded in 1901. He published the Life of H. R. H.
Princess Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck, in 1900.

Mr T. G. Carver, K.C. (B.A. 1871) has been oppointcd

Judge of County Courts, on Circuit 12, in the place of his
lonour Judge Cadman deceased.

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The Most Reverend Dr Henry Lowther Clarke, Archbishop
of Victoria in Australia, has been appointed to represent the
University of Cambridge at the Jubilee of the University of
Melbourne to be held in April 1906.

At a meeting of the Court of Governors of the University
College of South Wales and Monmouthshire held at Cardiff on
February 15th, Lord Plymouth (B.A. 1878 as Lord Windsor)
was unanimously elected President of the University College for
the term of five years.

The Chancellor of the University of London has appointed
Professor J. Larmor (B.A. 1S80) to be his representative on the
Court of Governors of the University of Birmingham.

The following members of the College have been returned
to the House of Commons at the General Election in January
last :

G. W. Agnew (B,A. 1874) Salford Wert L.

T. A. Herbert (B.A. 1887) Backs., South L,

J. Massie (B.A. 1866) Wilts., Cricklake L.

A. M. Mond Cheater City L.

Sir F. S. Powell (B.A. 1850) Wigan C.

£. J. Soares (B.A. 1884) Devon, Barnstaple L.

The following were unsuccessful candidates :

tBigwood (B.A. 1863) Middlesex, Brentford Cv

H. Courtney (B.A. 1855) Edinbur^jh, We«t L,

L. H. Edmunds (B.A. 1883) Devonshire, Totnes L»

J. A. Foote (B.A. 1872) Bristol, North C.

Sir J. E. Gorst <B A. 1857) Cambridge University C»

E. A. Groulding (B.A. 1885) Finsbury, Central C.

£. M. Hall (B.A. 1883) Lancashire, Southport C»

Of the fifteen gentlemen selected on February 22nd by the
Council of the Royal Society to be recommended for election
into the Society, two are members of St John's: Mr F. F.
Blackman (B.A. i8gi), Fellow of the College and University
Reader in Botany, and Mr T. J. TA. Bromwich (B.A. 189S),
late Fellow of the College. The following statements give an
account of their work.

Mr Frederick Frost Blackman.
D.Sc. (Lond.). Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge.
Formerly Lecturer and noiv Reader in Botany in the University.
Has made distinguished investigations in the physiology of
plants, of which the following may be mentioned : Experimental
Researches on Vegetable Assimilation and Respiration, viz. : —

^'On a New Method for investig^ating the Carbonic Acid
Exchanges of Plants" (Phil. Trans. 1895); "On the Paths of
Gaseous Exchange betwe'^.n Aerial Leaves and the Atmosphere "

. ihid-^ J 895); by his pupiU Miss Matthaei, "On the Effect of
Temperature on Carbon Dioxide Assimilation" {ihid,^\ *' A

VOL. XX VII.

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Quantitative Study of Carbon-Dioxide Assimilation And Leaf-
Temperature in Natural Illumination" (f^/V/., with Miss
Matthaei); "Optima and Limiting Factors" (Ami. of Bot.,
1905) ; <* On the Reaction of Leaves to Traamatic Stimulation"
(fW.9 1901) ; and other papers.

Mr Thomas John FAnson Bromwich.

Formerly Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. Professor
of Mathematics in Queen's College* Galway. Author of the
following papers, among others, on mathematical subjects:
*'On the Reduction of a Linear Substitution to a Canonical
Form" (Proc. Lond. Math. Soc, vol. xxxi.); "Canonical
Reduction of Linear Substitutions and Bilinear Forms, with a
Dynamical Application " {ibid.^ vol. xxxii.) ; " Note on VVeier-
Btrasse's Reduction of a Family of Bilinear Forms" [ibid,^
vol. xxxii.) ; On a Canonical Reduction of Bilinear Forms with
special consideration of Congruent Reductions" {ibid.^ voL
xxxii.); Congruent Reductions of Bilinear Forms" (Amer.

{ourn., vol. xxiii,); "Theorems on Matrices and Bilinear
orms " (Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc, vol. ii.) ; " The Reduction of
Quadratic Forms and of Linear Substitutions " (Qnait. Journ.
Math., vol. xxxiii) : " The Roots of the Characteristic Equation
of a Linear Substitution" (Acta Math., vol. xxix.); **Note on
Nominal Surfaces" (Proc. Lond. Math. Soc, vol. xxx.);
''Classification of Conies and Quadrics" (Proc. Camb. Phil.
Soc, vol. X.) ; •* Conformal Space Transformations " (Proc.
Lond. Math. Soc, vol. xxxiii.) ; '*The Caustic by Reflexion of
a Circle" (Amer. Journ., vol. xxvi.) ; "The Infinitesimal
Generators of Parameter Groups" (Bull. Amer. Math. Soc, vol.
viii.) ; Note on Double Limits and the Inversion of a Repeated
Infinite Integral" (Proc Lond. Math. Soc, vol. i.); "Some
Extensions to Multiple Series of AbeFs llieorem oft the
Continuity of Power Series" {xbid,^ vol. ii.); •* Applications to
Dynamics of some Algebraical Results" {Jibid.^ vol. xxxiii.);
•• Note on Stability of Motion with an Application to Hydro-
dynamics" [tbid.^ vol. xxxiii.); "On the Influence of Gravity on
Elastic Waves, and in particular on the Vibrations of an Elastic
Globe" (i3/i/., vol. XXX.); ''On some Solutions of Laplace's
Equation" {ibid,^ vol. xxx.); "Note on the CharacterisUc
Invariants of an Asymmetric Optical System " {ibid,^ vol. xxxi.) ;
"Note on the Potential of a Symmetrical System" (Phil. Mag.,
vol. ii.) ; " On the Potential of a Single Sheet " (Arch, fiir Math,
u. Phys., vol. ii.) ; ** Note on the Wave Surface of a Dynamical
Medium, i£olotropic in all respects" (Proc. Lond. Math. Soc,
vol. xxxiv.).

The Geological Society of London have awarded their
Murchison Medal for 1906 to Mr C. T. Clough (B.A. 1875).
Mr Clough is Senior District Geologist to H.M.'s Geological
Survey for Scotland ; he has made prolonged observations on

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iliti L;turentian and other primitive rocks in tlie Western
Highlands, and has recently been making a survey of the Scot-
tish Coal-fields.

Mr. F. L. Kitchen (B.A. 1893), Palaeontologist to the
Geological Survey, has been awarded the WoUaston fund of the
Geological Society for the current year.

Professor H. G. Seeley, F.R.S., has been elected a Fellow of
King's Collegei London.

Mr J. G. Leathern (B.A. 1894.), Fellow and Lecturer of the
College, has been appointed University Lecturer in Mathe-
matics.

Mr H. T. Holmes (B.A. 1896), a Junior Inspector on the
Board of Education, has been promoted to be one of His
Majesty's Inspectors on the Technical Branch of the Board.

Mr L. D. Wakely (B.A. 1901) has been appointed private
Secretary to Mr J. E.- Ellis, M.P., Parliamentary Under-Secre-
tary of Slate for India.

Sir Arthur Godley, K.C.B., Permanent Under-Secretary of
State for India, has appointed Mr L. D. Wakely (B.A. 1901) to
be his private Secretary.

Mr J. A. Cunningham (B.A. 1902), Professor of Chemistry ae
the Presidency College, Calcutta, has been appointed tooOiciatd
as Meteorological Reporter to the Government of Bengal ane
Stcond Scientific Assistant Meteorological Reporter to tht
Government of India.

We have been favoured with a copy of the first issue of The
Japan Fear Book. This interesting little volume gives a great
deal of information with regard to the land of the Rising — or
perhaps we should say, with Baron Suyematsu, • of the Risen —
Sun. It consists of two sections. The first section is full of
information as to the Geography, the Court, Politics, Finance,
Banks, Trades, Education, Religion and Justice, Army and
Navy, somewhat on the lines of our own incomparable Whitakir.
Another Section is devoted to Contemporary Worthies,
corresponding to Whds Who. From this latter section we take
the following notices of two distinguished Japanese members of
the College :

(i) Kikuchi* Dairoku, Baron (cr. *02), Rigaku-hakushi.
President of the Peers' School, Mem. of the House of Peers,
b. Jan. '55 in Mimasaka; studied Mathematics at Cambridge,
England, *70-*77, and grad. it as one of the Wranglers. After
filling for a long while chair of Mathematics in the Imp. Tokya
Univ., he was transferred to the post of Vice-Minister of
Education, then to the President of the Imp. Univ. and lastly
Minister of Education June 19.01 — ^July 'oj. Was create d Baroa

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when the aTI-round ennobling was carried out in '03 to reward
the members of the Katsura Ministry for their merit in connec-
tion with the conclusion of the Anglo- Japanese treaty. He has
been a member of the House of Peers since '90 ; is the Presi-
dent of the Peers' School from '04,

(2) Suyematsu, Kencho, Baron (cr. '95), Bnngaku-hakushi,
Member of the House of Peers, b. Aug. '55 in Fukuoaka-ken ;
started public career as writer on the staff of the Nichi NichL
Drew Marquis Ito's notice for his uncommon qualities, and
through his recommendation he was appointed Chancellor of
the Legation at London, where he turned his leisure fully to
advantage by attending lectures by famous men. Finally he
obtained leave to study at Cambridge. Was a M.P. from his
native district '90-'95 ; Director of the Legislative Bureau
'92-'96. During the Japan China war he was sent to Seoul 00
some important diplomatic mission which procured for him the

fatent of Barony. Was the Minister of Communication of the
to Cabinet '98; Minister for the Interior 'oo-'oi of the
Seigukai Ministry. Soon after the outbreak of hostilities he was
sent to England where he continues to reside. Is a son-in-law
of Marquis Ito whose eldest daughter is Baroness Suyematsu.

The Bourmmouih Graphic for February 22nd has an article,
with portrait, on the Rev Percival Clementi-Smith (BJL 1871)
from which we take the following :

Mr Clementi-Smith has the distinction of being the only
clergyman who has been elected a member of the London Cor-
poration since the Reformation. He was born at Mercers'
School, then at College Hill, Cannon Street, but now moved to
Barnard's Inn, his father being then headmaster of the School.
He went to St John's College, Cambridge, and studied moral
Philosophy under his intimate friend the Rev T. B. Wilkinson,
Dean of Corpus, with whom during his third year he lived, by
permission of the authorities of St John's, occupying the Dean's
second suite of rooms, an unique experience, and there in his
turn, in 1870, he received at breakfast his colleagues in the
Lady Margaret Boat, of which the great Goldie was stroke* Mr
Clementi-Smith being number three, the boat being second on
the river and trying each night to bump Trinity, in which the
brothers Close rowed stroke and seven. His grandfather was
Muzio Clementi, called the <* father of the pianoforte " on the
stone slab over his grave in the South Cloister, Westminster
Abbey ; for he it was who brought that favourite instrument to
perfection, and made it possible for Beethoven's melodies to be
appreciated. Muzio Clementi was also the founder of the
famous firm of CoUard and Collard, which started on its enter-
prising career first of all as Clementi, and then Clementi and
Collard. The families became more closely united when
Colonel M. Clementi married a daughter of Mr Charles Collard,
of Ravensworth. Mr Clementi-Smith has had, therefore, con*

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nections in Boumemoulh, and has visited t^ie town often enough
to know it well.

That Mr Clementi-Smith is well qualified to be a civic ruler
may be inferred from the fact that he has for nearly a quarter of
a century closely followed the various institutions and ceremonies
in which London City is interested, and has associated himself
with and received the highest honours from some of the guilds.
He is chaplain to the Apothecaries Company ; and has twice
been elected Limborough lecturer and chaplain of the Weavers'
Company* a three years' appointment. Last year he had the
honour of being Master of the Mercers' Company, which is the
£rst of the twelve great companies of the City. At the same
time he was Master of the Middlesex Lodge of Freemasons.
He is also a founder and chaplain of the Guardian Lodge, and
prospective Junior Warden. Nor is London's civic representa-
tive of the Church less esteemed by his clerical brethren ; for as
Senior Dean he is approaching the presidential chair of Sion
College. This college is governed by a president, two deans,
and four assistants. Mr Clementi-Smith has served four years
as assistant, then as junior dean, and after next Easter will be
president. He is also a surrogate of the London diocese. Mr
Clemenii-Smith represents the Ward of Castle Baynard, and is
Rector of St Andrew by the Wardrobe with St Ann, Blackfriars,
two parishes which were united after the fire of London. The
*• Times " oflSce is in his parish. The interesting old church of
St Andrew by the Wardrobe was so styled from the Wardrobe
having been built adjacent to it, which, until it was burned
down during the fire of London, was used for the custody of the
Royal robes, just as the Tower is for the custody of the Royal
jewels. Before the building of the Royal Wardrobe, the church
was called St Andrew Juxta Baynard Castle.

A great lover of flowers — hot)) Mr and Mrs Clementi-Smith
are Fellows of the Royal Horticultural Society — the Rector's
garden and greenhouse, in the heart of the city, are examples of
floriculture which have surprised many who believed that
nothing beautiful could grow in confines so enclosed and
limited : this city garden was visited and admired by the late
Sir Wrilter Besant. The Rector's study is also interesling as
being the identical room in which the first meeting of the
' Church Missionary Society was held, in i779> from which the
first missionaries were sent abroad. The Rector himself had
four years missionary experience in Canada, workin;; there from
1876 to 1880 : and a few years ago, for one winter, was chaplain
to the Sherry wine-shippers of Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. He
was therefore much interested on being placed on the Reception
Committee of the King of Spain, at the Guildhall Banquet last
year.

A meeting of the committee of the Bishop Ellicott Memorial
f anil jvas held at the Chapter House of Gloucester Cathedral

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on Monday, January i5ihy Sir John £. Dorington presiding'.
It was reported that at a meeting on Saturdav the Dean and
Chapter unanimously resolved that no monument of any kind
could be placed in the choir of the cathedral. The Dean and
Chapter also objected to anything in the shape of a tomb or
cenotaph, but were prepared to admit a recumbent e^^^ as
referred to in a memorandum which was found among the late
Bishop's papers in some other part of the catliedral. Bishop
Ellicolt's memorandum was to the effect that if he should he
thought worthy of any memorial, what he would wish was simply
a recumbent form in stone in the cathedral of Gloucester similar
in support and structure to the celebrated bracket tomb attributed
to Abbot Scrlo. After discussion, it was proposed by Mr B.
St John Ackers, seconded by the Rev F. A. Lefroy, and carried
unanimously: "This meeting cordially thanks the Dean and
Chapter for their resolutions, and proposes that the coarse
indicated in them shall be followed.'* It was decided that this
resolution should be submitted to a general meeting to be held
shortly.

We take the fullowing paragraphs from The Guardian of
December 6th 1905 :

Dr J. M. Wilson (B.A. 1859), Canon of Worcester, who
recently resigned the Archdeaconry of Manchester and the
Vicarage of Rochdale, received on Wednesday, November 29tb9
from a number of the clergy and laity of the Archdeaconry a
cheque for £^^o. The gift, which was intended to mark the
esteem in which Dr Wilson was held and the regret that is felt
at his departure from Lancashire, will be devoted to the funds
of the Daughters of the Clergy School in Darley Dale, an
institution with which Dr Wilson has been closely associated.
The presentation was made by the Bishop of Manchester, and
the ceremony took place in 'the Chartered Accountants* Hall
in the presence of many of the subscribers to the fund. The
Dean of Manchester presided.

The Bishop of Manchester recalled the intense interest with
which, fifteen years ago, he learned of Dr Wilson's appointment
to the Archdeaconry, because he had heard of the fame of the
Headmaster of Clifton, and the remarkable success that he had
achieved at the college there. There were many occasions
when the Bishop was best served by his archidiaconal eye when
it was like Nelson's blind eye — and no one could have known
better than Archdeacon Wilson — perhaps his schoolmaster
experience taught him — when it was advisable to turn a bltml
eye towards the misdemeanours, if there were any, of the clergy.
But it was not his idea of the office simply to make it a place
of ease and neglect of his duty. None was so quick as he ^o
discern the opportunity of helping a brother clergyman, and
none so swift, when it was discerned, to seize the opporttiniiy.
It was that wonderful readiness of his to watch for opportunities

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of kindness, and to use them promptly and with the greatest
delight, that endeared the Archdeacon to all the clergy of the
diocese. But he was not a mere Archdeacon of the clergy.
He had a wider conception of his duties. If there could be
such a thing as a layman's Archdeacon, beyond what appertained
to the office of churchwarden^— one who could really see the
difficulties of the laity and try to interest them in the work of
the Church and to arouse their enthusiasm — that person was
Archdeacon Wilson. His whole heart was given to the defence
of the faith, with which work Bishop Moorhouse, in bidding
him farewell, charged him in those memorable words: "Go
on with your defence of the faith." Of this work he was never
weary, and many of the laity had been reassured, strengthened,
find settled by his labours. It was a great loss to the diocese
that he should have felt that his advancing years obliged him
to sever himself from the work which he had been doing so
long and so efficiently.

Dr Wilson, in replying, thanked the Bishop, the Dean, and
Canon Kelly for their kind words, and expressed his indebtedness
to the clergy and the laity for their splendid gift. At Worcester
he was not likely to have any more leisure than he had before,
but his work there was of a different kind. When he was at
Clifton College, after a time the pressure of the personal
responsibility for the lives and souls of those young people
began to weigh upon him, and it was this that induced him to
leave Ch'fton. And, again, after his years of pastoral work at
Rochdale, it was the sense of the personal responsibility, the
individual responsibility for his parishioners that became too
much for him to bear. As he analysed his feelings it was this,
and not the sense of work, which compelled liim to retire froni
Rochdale. He urged the claims of the Daughters of the Clergy
School upon the diocese of Manchester.

Dr Donald MacAlister (B.A. 1877), TJnacre Lecturer of the
College, has been appointed President of the Therapeutic Section
of the British Medical Association, which meets at Toronto in
August next.

At the meeting of the British Association to be held at York,
in August next, Mr J. J. Lister (B.A. 1880), Fellow of the
College, is to be President of Section D (Zoology).

Mr £. N. Marshall (B A. 1887), sometime Headmaster of
Kingston-on-Thames Grammar School, has been appointed
Headmaster of Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall, as from
Ea^ter 1906.

Mr R. A. Lehfeldt (B.A. 1890) has been appointed Professor
of Physics at the Transvaal Technical Institute, Johannesburg.

Mr £. W. Jackson (B.A. 1894) has been appointed to a
Mastership at Brighton College.

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Mr J. A. Staley (B.A. 1894), sometime assistant master of
Sandbach School, has been appointed Headmaster of Queen
Elizabeth's Grammar School, Alford, Lincolnshire.

Mr J. H. Beith (B.A. 1898), now a master at Darham School,
has been appointed to a mastership at Fettes College, Edinburgh.

Mr J. F. M. Haslam (B.A. 1898), assistant master* Dean
Close School, Cheltenham, has been appointed assistant master
at the South-Eastern College, Ramsgate.

Mr F. A. Hibbins (B.A. 1900) has been appointed Head-
master of the Bromsgrove Secondary Day School.

Ds Manohar Lai (B.A. 1902), MacMahon Law Student, has
been elected Principal of Randhir College, Kapurthala, India.

Ds V. U. A. Mountjoy (B.A. 1904) has been appointed a
master at the County Council Technical School, Hyde« near
Manchester.

Ds H. L. Kirkness (B.A. 1904) has been promoted to the
post of Assistant TrafiSc Superintendent of the Madras Railways.

Dr H. H. Tooth C.M.G. (B.A. 1877) has been appointed
Physician to St Bartholomew's Hospital in succession to Sir
Dyce Duckworth. Dr Tooth was on January 26th elected a
member of the Council of the Royal College of Physicians of
London.

Dr Percival Horton Smith Hartley (B.A. 1889 as Horton
Smith) has been elected to the Medical 'Staff of St Bartholomew's
Hospital as Assistant Physician. Dr Hartley is a late Fellow
of the College, he has held many of the principal teaching
appointments in the Medical School at St Bartholomew's
Hospital. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of
Physicians in 1899. and delivered the Goulstonian Lectures to
tliat College in 1900.

Dr W. Langdon Brown (B.A. 1891) has been appokiled
Medical Registrar and Demonstrator of Morbid Anatomy to
St Bartholomew's Hospital. Dr Brown has also been appointed
Physician to the Metropolitan Hospital.

Mr P. W. G. Sargent (B.A. 1894) M,B., B.C. has been
appointed Assistant Surgeon at St Thomas' Hosjiital.

Mr H. Hardwick Smith (B A. 1899) has been appointed
Junior Resident Administrator of Anaesthetics at St Bartholo-
mew's Hospital.

Mr F. A. Hepworth (B A. 1900), M.B,, B.C., has been
appointed Senior House Surgeon to the Derbyshire Royal
fniirmary. : .

Our Chronicle. 287

At the ordinary quarterly comitta of the Royal College of
Physicians of London, held on Thursday, January 25lh, the
following members of St John's, having conformed to the by-
laws and regulations and passed the required examinations, had
licences to practice physic granted to them: V. C. Honey-
bourne (B.A. 1902). and S. G. MacDonald (B.A. 1902), both of
St Thomas' Hospital. The same gentlemen were, on February
8th. admitted members of the Royal College of Surgeons of
England.

Mr J. E. P. Allen (B.A. 1904) was called to the Bar at the
Inner Temple on January 26th.

Ds J. A. Crowther (B A. 1905) has been elected to a Research
Studentship, offered by Emmanuel College to graduate members
of the University.

Ds S. B. Dhavie (B.A. 1904) has been awarded the Brother*
ton Memorial Sanskrit Prize, open to all Bachelors of Arts of
the University.

Ds C. H. Dyer (B.A. 1905) has been elected to a Nad en
Divinity Studentship, tenable for two years; and Ds S. Rostron
(B A. 1905) has been elected to a Studentship tenable for one
year.

Ds J. N. Taylor (B.A. 1905) has been elected toa McMahon
Law Studentship of ^ 150 a year for four years.

A framed sepia, platinotype, photograph of our late
Honorary Fellow, Bishop Ellicott, with autograph, has been
presented to the collection in the Combination Room, by his
son Judge Ellicott.

A photogravure portrait of the Right Hon. L. H. Courtney,
Honorary Fellow of the College, has been presented to the
Collection in the Combination Room.

Sermons have been preached in the College Chapel this
Term by : Mr J. G. McCormick, Vicar of St Paul's, Liverpool,
January 28, Mr A. R. Ingram, Senior Missioner, February 18,
and by the Rev Professor J. E. B. Mayor, President, on
March 11.

The Dean and Chapter of Durham have elected the Rev
Canon G. Body (B.A. 1863) their Proctor in Convocation.

The Rev W. E. Pryke (B.A. 1866), Vicar of Ottery St Mary,
has been elected a Proctor in Convocation for the diocese of
Exeter.

The Rev W. J. F. Vashon Baker (B A. 1875). Rector of
Biandesburton. has been elected a Proctor in Convocation for
the diocese of York, for the Ea^t Riding of Yorkshire.
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The Rev Dr H. H. B. Ayles (B.A. 1885), Rector of Barrotr,
Suffolk, lias been elected a Proctor in CoDvocalk>a for the
Diocese of Ely.

The Rev F. A. Macdona (B.A. 1869). Rector of St Mary's,
Cheadle, has been appointed Rural Dean of Stockport.

The Bisliop of T^ondon has appointed the Rev Prebcnda^
E. A. Stuait (B.A. 1976) to be Rural Dean of Paddingt(ji».

The Rev C. E Hopton (B A. 1883), Vioar of Si Stepheii'"%
Worcester, has been appointed Rural Dean of East Worcester.

The Rev J. W. Goodall (BA. i88a). Vicar and Rural Dean
of Kotherham, has been appointed honorary Canon uf Baiiiby
in York Minster.

The Venerable George Hodges (B.A, 1874), Vicar of St
James', Bury St Edmuuds, and Archdeacon of Sudbury, lies
been appointed an examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Ely.

The Rev H. J. Sharpe (B.A. 1861), Vicar of Marham m
Norfolk, has been presented by the College to the Rectory of
Marston MDrt^-yu*^, Bedfordshire, vacant by the death of the
Rev A. F, Torry.

The Rev. E. T. Burges (B.A. 1874) Vicar of Karkloof jbu\
Canon of Maritzburg, has been a|>poiated Superintendent of
Native Missions in the diocese of Natal.

The Rev O. R. Baniicott (B.A. 1882), Chaplain of Cottes-
more School, Brighton, and Lecturer of Prestoo, Brighton, has
been appointed Rector of Slratton-on- the- Fosse, Bkth.

The Rev C. M. Rice (B.A. 1892), Headmaster of the Cathe-
dral Grammar School, Dublin, has been appointed one of the
Chaplains of King's College, Cambridge.

The Rev C. T. Powell (B.A. 1895), Minor Canon and Sacrist
of Worcester Cathedral, and Masier of the King's School, has
been appointed Vicar of St John's, Dudley.

The Rev H. B. Hamer (B.A. 1897), Curate of St Paul's^
Bedford, has been appointed assistant priest and Precentor of
Inverness Cathedral.

The Rev G. A. Browning (B.A. 1899) has been appointed
Chaplain and Naval Instructor to the Implacable.

The Rev H. P. V. Nunn (B.A. 1899) has been appointed
Lecturer at St Aidan's College, Birkenhead.

The Rev T. W. Hunt (B.A. 1901). Curate of St Paul's
Slalybridge, has been placed in charge of Micklehurst^ Mill-
brooke, Stalybridge.

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2S9

T)ie following ecclesiastical appointments are announced :

Name,
Stoker, R.

Degree, From,

<i868^ late V, of Altddlezoy

Crowther, L. H. (1887) C £cclei»field

A.uslefi, <r.
Maish, F. de Q.

Sinallpetce, G.

Name,
Bennett, C. W.

Degree,
(1901)

To he,
R. Fariiham, Salis-

bury.
V. Wincobank, Shef.
field.
(i«63) R. Whitby V, Aislaliy.

(1880) C. St Maik's, Stttbiton V. Hook, near Sur-

Hill biton.

(1890) C. All Saints, King'a R. Pensthorpe, Faken-
Lynn ham, and P. C.

Henipton.
Molexworth, £. H. (1882) I. St George's, Edin- V. St Philip's, Maid*

burgh stone.

Keny, G. P. B. (1887) V. Veninor, I.W. V. Holy Tiinily, East-

bourne.

The following members of the College were ordained in
December last:

Dbacons.
Diocese,
Chestet

PRiiSTS.
Degree,
(1902)
(matric. 1875)

(1893)
(1902)

(«903)
(1903)
(1902)

The Ordination at Durham was on December 17th, in the
other dioceses on December 24th.

The following books by members of the College are
announced : A preliminary invesiigaiton of the more important
/eatures of the Meteorology of Southern Asia^ the Itidian Ocean, and
neighbouring counties during the period 1 892- 1 902. With appendices^
by Sir John Kliot M.A., K.C.I.E. (Indian Meteorological
Memoirs, Vol xvi, part ii); The Bacteriology of Peritonitis, by
P. W. G. Sargent M.A., M.B., B.C., Surgeon to out-patients,
Victoiia Hospital for children, Chelsea, and another (Constable);
The Book of the Revelation, by the Rev C. Anderson Scott (H odder
and Stoughton); A Fantasy of fapan, by Baron Suyematsu
(Constables) ; Elementary Algebra, by W. G. Borcliardt (Riving-
tons) ; Voung Bloody seven University Stories (all strictly untrue)^
by lau Hay [J. H. Beith] (the Tall is Press) ; fohannine Grammar,^
by E. A. Abbott (Black); Tekel I A study of the Educationa.
Problems of the Day , by Frank J. Adkins (Swan Sonnenschein) ;
A Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity, by A. E. H/
Love F.R.S., Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy in the
University of Oxford (Cambridge University Press) : The Victoria
history of the County of Lancaster, Vol i, by J. Brownbill, and
another (Constable) ; Quadratic Forms and their classification b^:

KAtne,
Stokes, C. H.
Crookes, J. W.
Radcliff, K. T. M.
Wrenford, H. J. W.
Davies, D. R.
Bennett, G. A«
Hill, W. N.

Parish,
St Peter's, RockfeiT)'.

Diocese^
Durham.
Canterbury.
York.
Bristol.
Chester.
Norwick.
Norwich.

^9^ Our Chronicle.

means of invariant factors ^hy'Y. J. TA. Bromwich (University
Press) ; Catalogue of Early English Printed Books in the University
Library^ Cambridge^ by C. E. Sayle (University Press).

The following University appointments of members of the
College have been made since the issue of our last number: Mr
A. C. Seward to be Chairman of the Examiners for the Natural
Sciences Tripos 1906; Mr R. F. Scott to be a member of the
Financial Board, to be one of the Sex viri and to be a member
of the Proctorial Syndicate; Dr H. F. Baker to be a member
of the Special Board for Mathematics; Dr J. R. Tanner to be
a member of the Special Board for History and Archaeology;
Mr H. S. Foxwell to be a member of the Special Board for
Economics and Politics ; Dr J. E. Marr to be a member of the
Board for Geographical Studies; Dr D. MacAiister to be a
member of the Appointments Board ; Mr £. J. Rapson to be an
examiner for the Oriental Languages Tripos in 1906; Mr J.
Robinson to be an examiner in German for the Previous Kxami*
nations ; Mr A. C, Seward to be a member of tbe degree
committee of the Special Board for Biology and Geologv ; Mr
C. E. Graves to be an examiner for the University Scholarships
and Chancellor's Medats in 1906; Mr G. T. Bennett to be a
member of the Special Board for Music; Professor J. Larmor
to be a member of the Board of Electors to the Cavendish
Professorship of Experimental Physics; Dr J. E. Marr to be a
member of the University Press Syndicate; Mr H. S. FoxweJ!
to be an examiner for the Special Examinations in Political
Economy; Mr A. H. Peake to be an examiner for the Special
Examinations in Mechanism and Applied Science ; Mr C. B-
Rootham to be an examiner in Sacred Music for the Stewart
of Rannoch Scholarship; Mr Fl. Woods to be an examiner for
the special examination in Agricultural Science, and for Part I
of the examination for the Diploma in Agriculture.

Robert Hill, the writer of the work mentioned in the following
extract, from a second-hand book catalogue, was a Derbyshira
man, admitted to a Beresford Fellowship in the College in the
year 1588-89. He was collated Rector of Dursley and Arch-
deacon of Gloucester September ist 1602; this he ceded on
becoming Rector of St Matthew, Friday Street, London,
October 10th 16Q7. He became Rector of St Bartholomew-
by-the-Exchange February 24th 161 3-14, and dying in 1623
was buried in that church. There is a life of him in the
dictionary of National Biography.

47 QUEEN ELIZABETH ARMS on Bindlnff.—
Buoanus (William), Prof at Lausanne.— Kill (RobX

Fellow 0/ Stfohn's Coll.^ Catnbridge. Institutions of Ch ristian
Religion, framed out of God's Word and the Writings of
the best Divines. •• .Published in English by R. Hill for
the btnefit of our English Nation, to which is adc^ed in tht

Our Chronicle. 291

end^ the practice of Papists against Protestant Princes.
Rom. type, with Greek and Ital. pass., 4to, (8) 11., 888 pp.,
wrongly numb. 908 (with sign. A-Z®, Ad-Zz*, Aaa-Kkk*,
Lli^), pp. 245-252 wanting, good copy, bound in con-
temporary cf., clasps wanting, back repaired. The sides
bear the Arms of Queen Elizabeth on a small medallion
stamped in gold, viz., the shield of England (three lions
passant and the fleur-de-lys) under the royal crown and
circumscribed by the motto Honi soit qui mal y ptnse stamped
in brown on gold. This stamp was first used in 1595,

George df Leonell Snowdon^ London, 1 606.
Rare work, dedicated to Robert Devoreuz, Karle of Essex, and to Sir
William Cecil], Lord Cranboume, son of the Earl of Salisbury,
Geor};e Lionel Snowden, piinted only 1605-1606, nnd in Sayle only
4 books are enumeialed. Sayle 764, 361 1 ; Hazlitt, IV, 47, quotes
only 2 copies, Br. Mus. and *' Another copy, Sotheby, July 9, 1901,
375» oii^* c^lf* with arms of James I on the sides, gartcied, but
imperfect."

48 •^— Another fine copy in contemporary vellum worked in
gold. The sides have a single thick line of gold sur-
rounding a panel with a central ornament and heavy corner
pieces in gold. The back is banded at near intervals with
double bars having a gold ornament between each. A
remarkable binding, £1 ioj.

A Summer School of Theology is to be held at Westminster
College, Cambridge, July 9th — 20th. Among those who have
promised to deliver lectures are the following members of the
College: The Rev C. A.Anderson Scott (B.A, 1883), one of
the examiners in Theology to the London University, will
lecture on the relation between the Apocalypse and the Fourth
Gospel; Professor A. Macalister M.D., F.R S. (M.A. 1883) will
survey the present position of Christianity in the light of recent
scientific progress; Mr R. A. S. Macalister (B.A. 1892), the
Director of recent Excavations under the Palestine Exploration
Fund, will give the latest information on archaeological research
in Palestine.

In accordance with recent custom, lectures on theological
subjects are to be given in the Library of the Archdeaconry of
Huntingdon during Lent. Two lectures, on March 20th and
aylh, are to be given by Mr J. H. A. Hart (B.A. 1895), Fellow
^nd Lecturer of the College, on "Jesus Ben Siva, Sage and
Scribe."

Mr G. R. S. Mead (B.A. 1884) will deliver a course of lectures
on ** Four Visions of Hades, and their relation to the Mysteries"
in the lecture-room of the Iheosophical Society, 28 Albemarle
Street, on Tuesdays during the month of March. The subjects
of the several lectures are as follows: March 6th, The Vision
oi Er (from Plato); March 13th, The Vision of Scipio (from

igi Our Chronicle.

Cicero) ; March aolh. The Vision of Thespesius (from Plutarch) ;
March 27th, The Vision of Zosinius (from Zosimus).

Mr R. A, S. Macalister (B.A. iSgz) lectured on "Recent
Kxcavalions in Palestine" before the members of the Oxford
Architectural and Historical Society at the Ashniolean Museum
on January 31st.

Entrance Scholars and Exhibitioners.

Elected 15 December 1905.

Commencing residence October 1906.

Foundation Schotai ships 0/ £Zo :

Clottgh, T. (Latymer U>>per School, Hammersmith), >Vr Jtf'tf/AfMoi&v

and Natural Scitnct,
Weightman, W. H. (Liver|M>ol College), /^^ Matlumatics,
LUter, T. (Wheelwiigbt Giaminar School, Dewsbury), /<ir Natural

Science,

Foundation Scholarship 0/ £(>o:

Scougal, K. H. (Rugby School), /^r Classics,

Minor Scholarships of £to :

Thompson, A. R. (Horsham Grammar School), far Aiaihemattcs.

Barrett, II. S. (Aldenham School), for Classics.

'lillard, L B. (Aldeoliam School), fer Classics.

Sl^pheid, W. L. (Pocklington School), /^r Natural Seimct,

Foundation Scholarships 0/ £^0 :

Rus^ellSniith, H. F. (Rugby School), for Classics,

Wilmott, A. J. (Cambridge and County School), /or Natural Scienct.

Fiaser, D. S. (Dulwich CoWtge), for if itlof^.

Exhibitions 0/ £^0 :

Frekc, C. G. (Merchant Taylors' School, London), for Mathematics.
Sewell, S. E. (Wellingborough School),//^ Afi/A/^MO/f^x.
Constable, W. G. (Derby School), for Atathemaiics.
Guest- Williams, W. K. (Durham School), for Classics,
Sheppard, W. G. (Aske's School, Hatcham), for Natural Science,
S)M>ie« I. H. G, (Dulwich College), for Natural Science.

Adams Memorial Prize.

The Adams Memorial (College) Prize for 1905 has been
awarded to H. R. Hass6.

The examiners report that the essays sent in by C. A. Jackson
and £. J. G. Titterington are deserving of honourable mention.

Mr Hass6 and Mr Jackson chose as the subject of their
essay, *' Normal coordinates, normal functions, and vibratory
systems." Mr Titterington chose as his subject, *' Lines of
curvature, geodesic lines, and other lines drawn on surfaces."

Our Chrome fe, 293

A musical recital was given in the College Chapel on
Sunday, February 4th at 8.45 p.m. The following is the pro-
gramme :

At the Organ . * . . Mr, W. L. Ratnes,
Conductor Mr. C. B. RooTHAM.

1. ORGAN SOLO. . . .Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor f.S, Bath'

Mr. W. L. Raynes.

2, HOTETT for Double Chorus (8 parts).

'* The Surrender of the Soul to the £vet la sting Love " . . . . Cornelius

Saviour, whu in Thine own image, to create me didst once deign,
Love, who gently now habl led Die back to Paradise again,
Love, I give myself to Thee ; Thine to be eternally.

Love, who ere I was created, chosedst nie to be Thine own,
Love, who hast my manhood taken, all uiy joys and sorrows knowv.
Love, who once on earth has suffered here lor me content to die,
Love, who in the strife hast won ine everlasting joy on high.
Love, %«hose yoke is laid upon me, niakii>g nie fur ever Thine,
Love, whose {tower is all-subduing, claiming every thought of mine,
Saviour, who alone canst rai^e me from the grave of mortal woe.
Thou, who one day wilt the mantle of Thy glory round me throw.
Love, I give myself to Thee, Thine to be elemauly.

From the German of Johannes SchdjJCer,

(Peter Cornelius, a near relation of the painter of the same name,
was born at Mayence in 1824 As composer and author he was
a piOHUDcnt representative of the so-called New-German School,
a coteiie of young artit>ts at Weimar, who, under Listzt^s leadev-
ship, were striving to carry out the ideas of Richard Waguev.
Cornelius always remained an ardent disciple of Wagner, whom
he followed from Wtimar to Vieima and later to Munich : in
the latter city he was made professor f»f harmony and rbetoiic
at the Conservatorium. His published works, mostly vocal,
include an opera, songs, duels, ami churui«es ; largely settings of
his own poems. He died at Mayence in 1874).

9. CONCERTO DA CHIESA (for Strings and Organ )...Z>a//' Ahaeo^
(a) largo andante. {Jb) largo. {c) Allegro e spiccato.

(Evaristo Felice Dall' Abaco was bom at Verona in 1675 and died
at Munich in 1742. He studied the violin at Verona and
Modena, and was ultimately director of the orchestra and
electoral senator at Munich. This ** Church concerto" was
written between 17 12 and 1715).

4. OHORAIa WORK (for Solo Voices, ChoruA, Strings,

Hautboy & Organ) : *< As pants the hart ^ G, F, Handel

(1685-1759).

{Alio, , . .Mr. S. J. Dunn. Solo Quintktt : Members of
7enor . . Mr. J. W. Whye. St. John's Choir.

Bass . . ..Mr. R. TURNER.

1. OVERTURE. {a) Andante larghetto. (b) Allegro.

2. SOLO VOICES & CHORUS. (6 parts 5 S.A.A.T.B.B.)

As pants the hart for cooling streams^ so longs my suul for Thec^
O God.

294 Our Chronicle.

3. ALTO SOLO.

Tears are my daily food, while thus they say : Where is no« (fif
God?

4. BASS RECITATIVE.

Now when I think thereupon, I pour out my heart by myseir.

5. CHORUS (unisou) : TENORS & BASSES.

For 1 went with the mulutude, and brought them out into the hoo«e
of God.

6. CHORUS.

In the voice of praise and thanksgiving among such as keep holy day.

7. DUET (ALTO & TENOR).

Why so full of grief, O my soul ? Why so disquieted within me?

S. BASS SOLO h CHORUS.

Put thy trust in God, for I will praise Him. Alteluja.

(Four versions of this work exist : the first was composed for Uie
Duke of Chandos' chapel choir at Cannons, the second for the
Chapel Royal, the two lemaining ver&ions being of later datc«
The work was thus evidently a favourite with its composer).

A brass lias been placed in the Ante-Chapel with the following
inscription :

In affectionate remembrance of

Ronald William Henry Turnbull Hudson M.A.,

Senior Wrangler 1898, Smith's Prizeman 1900, Fellow

of the College and Lecturer in Mathematics at the

University of Liverpool. Who was killed by a fall on Glydr

Fawr North Wales 20 Sepf 1904. Aged 28 years.

JOHNIANA.

When Sir Symonds Dewes in 1627 was on his wedding tour, after shewing
his bride diveis of ike College**: **wee went both upp to the top of King's
Colledge Chappell, on lh« noith side whereof upon the leades my wives foot
was sett, being one of ihe least in En^fland, her age and slalnre eoiisMeref^i
and her arines ezsculped within the conipasse of the foote in a small
escocheon." Notes to Heai lie's Liber Niger ScaccMrii, p. 644.

Sir Symomts Dewes entered St John's in 1618 i some exli acts from his
diary were priuted in TPu EagU, Vols. IX and X,

In a list of Grants and Certificates of Arms, piinted in The Geneahgi^if
N.S. XV, 242 there is the following : •* Gilbert, William, Dr of Ph)sick.
Confeired by Robert Cooke, Clarencieux, 27 November 1577. Argent on a
chevron sable between three leopards' fHies azuie, three roses of the fir&J-
Crest— On a mount vert a dcmi eagle displayed argent. Slowe MS. 6;6."
These are therefore the arms of William Gilbert, authoi of De Mign^f*
MagnetUitque Carporibus, sometime a Fellow of the College.

In the year 1862 a heraldic exhibition was held by the Society of
Aniiquaries in London. A list of the moie important exhibits is given in
The He* aid and Genealogut, Vol I, 69-83. Among the exhibits were two
granu of Arms to Sir Ralph iiaie of blow fiardolph and hi» elder biolbci

Our Chronicle. 295

Sir Ralph Hare, it will be remembered, was the founder of tlie Hare
£xhibiiion.s and a benefactor to the Library, The grants are as follows (/. c.
p. B2 and 83):

1574, Oct. 24. Nicholsis Hare, of Stow Bartlolph, gentleman, sob
aiul heir of John Haie of London, t;eiitleman, .^oii and heir of John
Haie of HuinHr>field, co Suffolk, );eiilleni'iii. Coiifii ination of Arms
and Ciest fiom Cooke Clareuceus : Gules, two bars gold, a chief
silver. Crest, a deuiy lion argent, a crown about his necke golde.
Signature and one seal.

1613, Feb. 14. Sir Ralph Hare, of Stow Bardolph, K.B. son and
heir of John Hare of London, gentleman, brother and heir male of
Sir Nicholas Hare, privy councillor to Henry the £i}>htli, and
Master of the Rolls in the lime of Queen Mary, both sons of John
Hare of Humarsfield. Grant from Camden Claienceuz, ahering the
chief (see above) from silver to gold, on consideration thai " diver-
sitye of Armes argueth diversity of lamilies.'*
Signature of Camden : no seal.

The following curious little note on Dr James Wood, Master of the
College from 1815 to 1839, and Dean of Ely from 1820 to his death, is taken
from The Palatine Aote-bookt ii, 1 10 III. Dr Wood's parentage is not
given in the College Register of Admissiions, and does not appear to be
kitown.

<* Dr James Wood, Dean of Ely.— This eminent and good man, the author
of treatises on Algebra and Optica, was horn at Tar ton, Lancashire. I will
tell you one or two things about him which may be of some interest. My
mother told me that she remembered his father luingtng his son to spend a
day at my grandfather's at Over Darwen. He was then a student at
Cambiidge, and already spoken of as being of great promise. Mr Gilbert
French told me that Dr Wood employed him to distribute money among all
his poor relations about Bolton and Turton. I learned from Canon Parkinson
that once when he was on a visit to Dr Wood at the Deanery at Ely, the Dr
showed him a Iari;e quantity of Lancashire clogN in an attic. The Dean had
had them sent from LancaNnire with the hope of introducing their use among
the peasantiv about Ely, but had failed to do so. We ought to have a life of
this Lancashire worthy, who died on 23rd April, 1839, aged 79."

Cranlesgh, Guildford. S. C.

In The Palatine Note-Book^ ii, 71-73, is given a list of the Rectors and
Vicars of Hanmer, co. Flint. In this list occurs the name of Richard Steele,
a Commonwealih incumbent, and the following details are given with regard
to him :

'* 1650? Richard Steel, M.A., of St John's, Camb., afterwards of Oxfoid,
ejected 1662. He was born at the Clayrofts, in the township of Hailington,
paii>h of Baithomley, xo May, 1629, where his family had residetl from the
time of Henry VIL He was settte«t at Hanmer through the influence of Mr
Poller. He livcil at Hanmer until 1666, when he went to London, and he
died there 16 Nov., 1692. His portrait b> Roffe is in Wilson's Dissenting
Churches, ij 448. He was the author of several popular religious works.
See £arwaker*s Local Gleanings, 8vo, pp. 322 seq.**

Richard Steele, son of Robert Steele, husbandman, bom at Barthomley,
Che^iire, and educated at Northwich School, was admitted to St John's
I April 1642. aged nearly 15. It would appear therefore that he wns born in
1627 »"^ not in 1629. He took the degrees of B.A, 1649-50, and M.A. 1654
at Cambridge. He incorporated at Oxf«>rd 5 July 1656, and was sometime
chaplain of Corpus Chiisli College, Oxford.

VOL. xxvn. OQ

296 Our Chronicle.

Lady Margaret Boat Club.

Prtsidint^l., H. K. Bashe-Fox. Trtasurgr—K. F. Scolt. First
Ctptain-^T. J. Lewis. Second Captain^F, A. R. Higgiiis. IIo*t.
Secrttaty—ll. M. Sibly. Junior Treasurer-^K. McKlnino. First Ltnt
Captain — M. Hrndenon. ^cond Ltnt Captain-^l. B. Ronaldson. Third
Lent Cdptain—N, Lincoln. Additional Captain— ti, A. L. Laidlaw.

The *Varsity Boat Race is to take place on Saturday. April ytb.
The crew have not gone to Ely at all this term, but have been
practising on the Cam, from whence they will remove to the
Thames on March 10. The President has had an eight built
which is 'stroked' on the opposite side to that which is usual:
he is to be congratulated on this departure, which makes it
much more probable that a first-class ' stroke ' may be found for
the 'Varsity boat every year.

The Lent Races were held this year on February 28 and
March i, 2 and 3, Practice was commenced on January 1 1 and
has been carried on under favourable conditions, very few high
winds being experienced and the rainfall, at least during rowing
hours, being particularly light. A few weeks after the commence-
ment of term it seemed probable that we should have quite a
good first boat this year, but instead of improving it rather
seemed to go off in later stages of practice. The second boat
improved very much under the coaching of the first captain ;
their improvement was due also, no doubt, to especially good
stroking. A week before the races the two first boats were
changed with one another except that ' stroke ' and * seven '
remained in the first boat at ' six ' and ' seven,' thus a first boat
was formed which was quite fast over a short distance, but
sadly lacking in * last.' The ' second ' boat, with their new
stroke, tumbled together wonderfully well considering the short
time it had to do it in, and, by the end of the Races, was
undoubtedly the fastest second boat on the 'River' by several
full courses, it showed it could last well.

The second captain managed to infuse much of his keenness
and ' push ' into the members of the third boat, so that they
shewed themselves quite above the standard of the boats, in
the lower part of the second division, in the Races.

First Night, The third boat got a good start, and rowing
very hard were within quarter of a length of ist Trinity IV. at the
Gravel-Shute, the latter being within half a length of Trinity
Hall III. Both boats continued to gain, and in the Gut each
was overlapping the boat in front. On Grassy Corner Trinity
shot at Hall, but missed, and they were immediately bumped by
our boat.

Second boat were not clear of the bank when the gun went.
However they soon got together, and began to gain almost
immediately on St Catharine's. A great race ensued. Gaining

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considerably on Ditton Corner, our men were overlapping at
the Willows, and made their bump at the Glass Houses. They
thus ascended into the first division.

As Anderson, who had not had time to get fit, was completely
knocked up by the first race, Bentley rowed as substitute
untrained. The boat got a good start and gained rapidly on
Trinity Hall II. up the Post Reach, just overlapping at the
corner. Here Hall spurted, and drew away slightly, but our
men stuck to it and spurting up the Long Reach made their
bump at the Willows. Bentley rowed very pluckily indeed, and
it was very fortunate that he was at hand.

Owing to the terrible accident to one of their men, the
Jesus boats did not start on the first night. Our boat therefore
rowed past their post, but did not claim the bump.

Second Night, The third boat gained very fast on Trinity
Hall III., and would have bumped them before the Ditch, if
the cox had not lost his head. In spite of this, however, our
men succeeded in rowing them down on Post Corner.

The second boat rowed over behind Corpus. They were
unfortunate in having this boat in front of them on all the
succeeding nights.

The first boat, getting a good start, gained rapidly on Jesus,
and got within half a length at Grassy; here they began to fall,
away. They rowed very pluckily, and were going well, but
were rowed down at the Willows by ist Trinity, a very heavy
crew, which eventually went head.

Third Night, The third boat gained fast on King's II, and
were just overlapping at Post Corner. The cox made a wild
shot, and, missing, lost about quarter of a length. A very close
race followed, our boat being never more than quarter of a
length behind King's, who were close up on Queens'. Both
boats spurted continuously, but King's just managed to get
over, our cox making wild shots at nothing all over the course.

The second boat got a good start, and kept well away from
Caius II, who had come up three places. They failed, however,
to make any impression on Corpus.

The first boat started very well, and gained a good half length
on First Trinity up to Grassy. Trinity Hall, an exceedingly
heavy crew, now began to gain slowly, and, getting within a
length at Ditton, came up on the corner and were almost
bumping us at the Trees. Our men, however, stuck to it most
pluckily, and almost succeeded in getting away, as at the
Railway Bridge, when Hall made a shot and just touched our
I udder. Emmanuel, who had been gaining very rapidly up the
Long Reach, were only a few yards behind.

Fourth Night. The third boat went off at an exceedingly
fast stroke, but did not gain quite so fast on King's II. At
Ditton Corner, however, they were almost bumping, when the

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cox made another of his hopeless efforts to cut the other boat
off. Failing, he went right outside and lost al>out quarter of a
length. A very fine race followed np the Long Reach : oar
boat was just overlapping King's II, who were withii^ a Few
feet of Queens', while tlie laiter were overlapping Peterhouse.
At the Glass Houses Queens' made their bump, and the two
following boats were held up. They rowed again at the close
of the races, and, after an exciting race, our boat succeeded id
naking their bump at the Willows.

The second boat made a very good start, and, gaining rapidl/
on Corpus, were within a half a length at the Ditch. From
there, however, they fell away slightly, and fini»hed about their
distance behind Corpus, and well away from Cains II. On all
four nights they rowed very well, stroke keeping them going at
forty all over the course*

The first boat rowed very hard, and stuck to it without ever
falling to pieces. Emmanuel, however, gained steadily on them
and rowed them down at the Willows.

Names and weights of the crews :

First Boat.

St. Ihs,
W.S. Monl{;oineiic(d<;w).. 913
a D. McK. Ohm 10 a

3 P. G. Alexiiiidcr 10 4

4 R. M. Joiien ............ 10 44

5 R.T.Colt 13 7

' H. A. Laidlaw 10 11

6

71
6

J. Fraser 1 1

N. Lincoln {strokt) 10

L. G^ Ctauford (<:Mr) 8

Sicond Beat,

st.lhs^

D. Ward {bow) lo o

a L. R. D. Anderson lo I

3 T. M. Sibly II S

4 W. S. Fl«cl II 5

5 H. Es Stuart , 12 5

6 G. A. R. Thursftrid ..... ^ 11 12|

7 V. C. Buddii.gton .11 |

A. M. D«wtoii {stroke) .... 1 1 a

V. W. J. HobbB {cox)

8 la

mrd Boat,

St. tbs.

G. A. Allen (Mr) 10 4

a R. C. Alexander 11

3 C. G. Philp II

4 F. G. Ro«»e II

A.D.Allen il

5

3

11

5

3

a

A. C\ BelKiave {stroke) lO IG^

G. C. H. Canopbell {cox) .... 813

6 I.E. C. Ko»8 II

7 W.C. Hallack lO

Tho crews were entertained at Breakfast by the President and
Mr Scoit« and to dessert by Mr Lister and by the captains and
coaches of the boats.

Characters of the Crews :—

First Boat,

BoW'^Hmm • nice easy itylc, but thoiild swing moie and talbe the water
quicker*

Ttoo-^A hard woiker ; hat {mprovcd very much during the term, bai ilUl ii
ttnateady forward.

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7%r#/— Uses his legs with good effect, bat is short in the swing and slow with
his hands. Work» hard all over the couise.

Four — An honest woiker; can always be relied on to do his best. Must
cultivate an easy finish and watch the time.

Fiv€ — Greatly improved; is rather slow taking the water and ofien late.
A genuine trier.

Six — Has good style and uses his legs well, but his finish is weak, as he lies
too far back. Has come on considerably since last year.

Seven -"Rowed with great power and determination, and has never shown to
better advantage. His finibh is still weak at times.

Siroke—Has life and pluck, and never got flurried in the races. Needs moie
length in the water and steadiness forward.

Cox — Steers faiily well in the straight, bat has much to learn about the corners.

Second Boat,

^(MV—Rows hard ; would probably keep better time if he were to control his
swing forward, and so keep hi!> hands light over the stretcher. Has
improved a great deal since last term.

Two — Rowed very pluckily, especially considering the fact that he was unable
to row for a week just before the races. Though light, does a lot of woik,
but should try and sit up at' the finish and be smarter with his hands.
Must watch the lime carefully.

Three^HM hardly been rowing up to his last year's form. Works hard, but
not with coirespon<ling effect on the boat. Must learn to use his legs
and row the finish right out.

/biir— Tries very hard and shoves pretty well at a slow stroke, but is stiff over
the stretcher, and so misses the beginning and is consequently short.
Must control his swing forward.

Frtfe — Improved considerably since last term. Can do a lot of work when he
likes, but should remember that for a heavy man to save himself over the
first part of the course means great loss of pace to the boat and much
harder work for the rest of the crew. Should be smarter with his hands.

Six — Was rather disappointing during the last part of the term, but towed
much better in the races. His chief fault is a tendency to flop over the
stretcher and over reach, thus failing to get hold of the water; when he*
^ Temembers to guard against this hisblade is very fair.

Seven — Though his blade is weak made a very fair seven, and backed up stroke
well. Should try not to hurry the first part of the swing forward ; would
get hold of the water better if he were lighter with the hands and smarter
dropping in. *

5/f0JI^— Stroked his boat excellently, though he had only a week's experience
in that position. Improved considerably after the change, being very
much smarter with his hands; his f^reat fault is shortness at the finish,
due to his not getting in where he reaches to and failing to get hold of the
water with his legs.

Cox^Sitered well in the races, though he is very much inclined to wander in
the straight. Must keep awake and use his wits a little more.

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Third Boat,

Bom — ^Has improTed a good ileal this term. Should try and keep his leg-woik
on to the end of the stroke. Works hard.

7W — ^Is rather unsteady over the stretcher, which often makes him late.
Should not let go with his outside hand. Tiies haxd and docs a good
deal of work.

Zifv#— Has improvetl since last year. Should get his hands away quicker
and not let go wkh his outside hand. Works hard.

Four — Did not seem comfortable on stroke side. Should get his hands away
before he starts his boily. Should swing out more and finish further back.
Must do a lot more wot k for his weight. Tries hard.

Fivo — Is very slow in getting his hands away. This causes him ta rush his
swing forward. Consequently he is heavy with his hands and is often
late. Always does his best.

Si» — ^Uses his legs well and rows hard. Should always remember to keep his
back straight and sit up at the finish and bring the oar well home on to
the chest. Backed op stroke well tn the races.

Sivtn — Has improved considerably this term. Has a nice swing, but should
use his legs more and always keep the outside hand on the oar.

Stroke — Rows with plenty of life, and can row a very fast stroke, especially
over the first part of the course. Should only cover his blade, and take
care not to get short with a fast stroke. Rowed very pluck ily in the races.

Cox — Steered very well in practice, but seemed to lose his head entirely in the
races. He followed the boat in front all over the river and otten made
wild shots at it long before his boat was overlapping. Should always
slick to his own course and give his crew a chance to row down the boat
in front. He should remember that, mathematically speaking, a Curve
of pursuit is not a Geodesic.

Non-Smoking Smokbr.

The Non-Smoking Smoker, held on February 27 in Lectore
Room VI, was very much enjoyed. The programme left one in
considerable doubt as to what might be expected to happen, but
our surprises were of a very pleasant character; we are much
indebted to ' The Custodian ' who twice ' ran out ; for our benefit.
Among those present were Mr Scott and Mr Rootham.

The programme was as follows :^

L. M. B. C.

Non-Smoking Smoker,

February zj/A 1906.

Eights <ml •• .. 8.15 p.m.

Mentor . . • . . . BusHKT.

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AMENDED ORDER OF ROWING ,

('Old on t'yer oars ffenelmen, please).

1. The Screech Owl The Fairy s Saw

By Bow anc) Scrape.

2. **I couldn't help but laugh".. .Ofiera des Colonia

By One Smiler, V.C.

3. A Run Out ;.From '* The Light Bluer

By The Custodian.

4. A Hoarse Grind Fox

By The Tight Four.
{JBwd) Bottle

2 Bruce

3 Mkrvyn

(S'/r.) Jkames*

• Stecrer.

5. The Mayoral Banquet Sprouis

By The Herbivorous Carniphobe.

6. A Thumping Row Lord Lovai

By An Ancient Mariner.

7. A Sermon as delivered in Westminster Abbey

By The Little Minister.

8* A Biblical Story .Mackay

By A Pseudo-Scots Laddie.

9. Abi Tosi Lefo Oluri

By Waldi Alah.

1 o. An Exhibition

By The Peckham Prodigy.

1 1. Boat Song

{Chorus) Vive Laeta

Margareta

Beatorum insulis !

Si possimus

Fuerimus

Semper Caput Fluminis.

N.B.-*Gentlemen are respectfully reminded that the Officers accept
no responsibility for the eccentiicities of pei formers, <<nd
will in no ciicumstances be held liable for night-mares
and other injuries that may ensue.

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How doth the little F.A.R.

Imptove on Nalure's hues
And shed a radiance fiom afar

From buttons, tie, and shoes.

How cheerfully he teems to grin
No matler what the cause,

And laketb little freshers in
With gently smiling jaws.

< With Ap0i. U *Ali€€ in WmuUrUnd:^

YOUR CHEST

Dtothptd Six Inthtt.
FREE!

Ho you feel yourself deficient
as to a plump well-rounded figure?
Is your chest measurement all that
you desiie — t.g, as big as that of
the CHIKF CONSTABLE OF
NO 11 INGHAM ? WhHtever you
may lack in this way Nature will
supply if you use the KOYO
nethiKl. A wedge let in to your
Waistcoat will be the only expense
entailed.

W&ITE AT ONCB,

Signor Pa,

7, Feel St.,

S.J.C.

WANTED !

GOOD GRAZING.
Apply T.M.S.

SITUATION WANTED

A STOUT LAD seeks work

in a High -Class, Sweet-Scented
Breweiy as Malt Shoveller. In>
experienced but willing. Sweating
not objected to.

Qualifications : — ^Public School
and University edncatton ; can nig,
and steer a boat.

Apply— H.J.W.V.

HEARD AT THE P. & E.
(during a coarse by the third boat)
'The Campbells are coming.'

PROVERBS FOR ROWING
MEN.

A stroke in time saves nine.

A rolling boat gathers no bumps.

More haste, less speed.

It's a short stroke that has no be-
ginning.

A soft stroke tumeth on wrath.

He who fights and keeps away,
lives to bump another day.

The longest way round is NOT th®
shortest way home.

Athlbtic Club.

PresidiHi—^, R. Hill. Hon, Sec. — C. F. A. Keeble. Committee- L. J.
P. Jolly, A. S. M. Van Hees, F. Johnston, T. M. Sibly, P. J. Lewis (Capt.
L.M.B.C.), and A. L. Goriinge.

The Sports were held on Fenners, after sundry postpone-
ments, on Wednesday, February 7, and Saturday, February 17.

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The events alid winners were as follows : —

lOO Yards— L. J. P. Jolly, i ; A. Thome Waite, 2. Won by a foot.
Time II sees.

1 20 Yards Hdndicap^F. Johnston, 5 yds., i ; F. R. Parnell, 5 yds., and
C. S. B. Allolt, 7 yds., dead heat. Won by a foot. Time 12 3-511* sees.

Quarter-MiU Open-^h, L. Gorringe, i ; D. W. Reunie, 2. Time
56 1.5th sees.

Quarter-Mile Handicap^¥. R. Parnell, 1$ yds., I ; D. W. Rennie,
1 2 yds., 2. Won by a yard Sn 54 2-5th sees.

Half-Mile Open— A, L. Gorringe, i ; R. H. Vcrcoc, 2. Won by 4 yds.
Hme 2 mins. 12 3-5th sees.

120 Yards Hurdles— F. Johnston, I ; A. Thome Waite, s. Won by
12 yards in 18 I -5th sees.

Long Jump— Y. Johnston, i, 17 ft. 5J in. ; C. B. S. Allott, 17 ft. t\ in.

High Jump— Y. R. Parnell, 4 ft. iii in., i; A. Thorne Waite, 4 ft.
loj in., 2.

Putting the Weight— L,. J. P. Jolly, 30 ft. 5| in., i ; A. S. M. Van Heti,
27 ft. I J ill., 2.

One Afile—D, W. Ward, I ; J. R. Moore, 2. Time 5 min. 9 3-5th sees.

Three Miles— F. A. R. Higgins, 500 yds., I ; J. R. Marrack, 450 yds., 2.
Time 16 mins. 23 sees.

Servants* Race {200 yds.)— K. Levtte, 32 yds., i ; W. Barron, 25 yds., 2.
Twenty started. Won by a foot in 21 2-5 ih sees.

Ffeshmen*s Race— A. Thorne Waite, i; F. R. Parnell, 2. Time
22 4-5th sees.

Team Race (2 laps)^
A.F.C.— F. Johnston, A. L. Gorringe, R. E. Newbery, H. S. Crole Rces, i ;

L.M.B.C, 2.

Strangers Event^-'High Jump,

R. N. Postleth waite, Clare (penalised \ in.), 5 ft. 3 in., i ;
* rnott. Trinity Hall (penalised i in.), 5 '
, Cohen, Emmanuel (penalised I in.) \

J. Arnott, Trinity Hall (penalised i in.), 5 ft. 2 in., a;
. C. Cohen, Emmanuel (penalised I in.) > ^ . •_
J. Van Schalwyk, Cains (penalised 2 in.) / 5"- ""•

The meeting with Jesus College, Oxford, is fixed for Tues-
day, March 13. Particulars will have to be held over to next
term's issue of The Eagle.

Lacrosse Club.

President— Vr D. MacAlister. Captain— C. A. F. Keeble. Hon.
Secretary — H. C. Honeybourne.

The season opened with prospects which could hardly be
called bright ; but great keenness has been shown, and many
new players have taken up the game, with the result that the
season has been very successful. Of last year's colours five
remained, and colours have been given this season to H. S.
Crole Rees, L. R. Ferguson, C. E. Averil, M. W. Paterson,
G. M. M. Robinson, and A. S. M. Van Hees. So many new
players have taken up the game this year that it has been possible
to raise two teams, and there should be plenty of good material
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for next season. The event of the year was the match against
Balliol College, Oxford. This was the first lacrosse fixture
between an Oxford and a Cambridge College which ha.s ever
been arranged, and we are glad to report that the team came
back, after a very jolly game, victors by i6 goals to 5. Up to
the time of writing the team has played 8 matches, lost 4, won 4 ;
the inter-collegiate cup matches remain to be played. A
colour blazer has been started this year, and is plain while with
crest on pocket.

Matches.

Feb. ia.,..v. MrF. P. Scolt'iXn Lost.... 5—8

„ 15.... V. King's Won.... 7-^

„ 32....V. Clnre .••• Lost.... i — 12

„ 23 ... .V. Christ's Lost .... 5—9

„ 26, . . .V. Balliol, Oxford Won 16—5

„ 25 .... V. Leys III. C'A" team) Lost .... 9—8

Mar. 6 ... .V. Emmanuel (Cap Match) . . Won .... 32— S

„ 7....V. Mr. F. P. Scott's XII Won.... 5—3

Characters of XII. :

C. F,A. KeebUt Captmin (Clm/rr) --Has captained the team with judgment
and ability; u a good^ attack, steady, shoots well, and plays best in
a losing game.

H, C. Homvhoume (Cffoer-point) — Has prored himself an able Secretary.
Invaluable on defence, in spile of the disadvantage of lightness. Is quick,
feteady, and keeps well inside his man.

J?. E. T. Bell {if^ mim)^Ra(her slow ; apt to rush at his man too much, but
manages to keep his manlwell iu cbccK. .

R, G, Gill {\st home)— Has vacated goal in favour of Averill and is a success*
ful attack, but should learn to handle his crosse better and shoot quicker'

H, R. Hassi {Attac wing) — Disappointing for an old colour, except in the
Balliol match. Takes passses well, but should be quicker in passing and
attacking.

M» W, Patersoti {^rd home) — A most useful recruit. Very neat with his
crosse and works hard, but should not sacrifice usefulness to show quite
so much.

£. R, Fergusson {Point) — Best of this year's recruits on defence. His
** soccer " tactics have been very useful to him, and with a little more
quickness will prove a valuable defence.

ff» S, CroU'Rees {attatk win^ — ^A fast and hard- woi king wing ; should learn
to shoot more steadily.

C. E, Averil {goal) — A confident and resourceful player; uses his body well,
bui should clear the ball away from goal quicker. Will improve greatly
with practice,

G. M. Robinson {2nd home) — Has learnt to use his crosse well and works
hard ; needs to be quicker in shooting and passing.

4. S, M. Van Hees {Defence wm/)— Helped much by his speed. Works
h»rd, but should leain to use his crosse better.

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Rugby Football Club.
Characters of the team :

C. B. Miiidleton (Capt.) — Has captained the team with great success as the
sea.son's results testify. His dashing and energetic play has been of in-
valuable seivice to his side. He has led the forwards splendidly through-
out and, thruu^ih being kept well together, they have proved themselves a
really good pack.

A, E. Evans (Hon. Sec.) — Has unfortunately not been able to turn out
regulaily owing to the requisition of his services by the 'Varsity. On the
occasions on which he has been able to play, hi^ speed and dash have
been of the greatest assistance. He is a thoroui^hly good all round
forward, works haid in the scrum and follows up and tackles splendidly,
Mid is of gieat help to thiee-quarters in attack and defence. As last
season his place kicking has been most useful.

C, N, Coad (Foiwaid) — A good heavy forward and has improved considerably
since last season — woiks hard in the scrum and is especially good out of
touch.

W. E. Thompson (Forward) — A heavy forward who makes full use of his
weight. A strong dashing player invaluable in the scrum and line out,
where he secuies tl>e ball on eveiy available occasion. Perhaps the most
useful forward to his side.

C, M» B. Skene — A sound forward, but rather clumsy in the loose. He plays
a vigoious game, making full use of his weight in the scrum and tackles
well.

i?« V. /. 5. Hogan — A light hard-wotking forward, especially good in tlic
loose, and uses his feet well. Plays a hard game and is a good tackier,

C, M. B. Skene — A sound forward, making full use of his weight in the
scrum. Tackles well, but raiher clumsy in the loose. He plays a vigor-
ous game.

R, M. Moore— "KsWitx light, but always plays a hard game and tackles
soundly. Has improved greatly &ince last year, but is still rather slow
vdih his feet.

J. E, Sears^K heavy forward ; veiy good out of touch and follows up hnrd.
Should leatn to control the ball better iu diibbling and not to kick too
haid.

J. G. Scou/ar^Has been playing regulaily all through the season fnr llie
'Varsiiy, and lias consequently nol been able to play for the college.
Has proved a biilliant success at full back, and we heaitily congratulate
him on obtaining his Blue and ou being chosen to represent Scotland in
all three international matches.

JC, L, B. Hamilton — A really usefu half, both in attack and defence ; makes
good openings and, though rather slow, runs strongly. Has played
consistently well throughout the season.

C. D. D, Hogan (Half-back) — Has played well throughout the season, and
shown himself Ktiong in defence, where his plucky saving has been
paiticularly useful.

A» S, M. Van Hees (Three-quartei)— Runs strongly and hands off well, and
his great pace has been extremely useful in enabling him to take advan-
tige of any openings. He has improved cou^ideiably as a dcfen^ivo
pliiyei, but his kicking is still rather weak.

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A. I'horftiwaiU (Three-qnarter)— Is somewhat erratic in taking and giTiog
passes, but knows bow to make a good opening for bis wing. He is a
fast and strong runner and tackles very hard.

/. R. Hill (Tliree-quarter) — A sound player with plenty of pace. He is good
at breaking through and doilges well. Hit defence is strong, bui be is
rather handicapped by bis inability to kick with his tight foot.

S, W. Oretn—TWys up well, but should get oat of (he habit of standing stiB
when taking a pass. He has occasionally made good we of bis openings^
but hebitates too much. A good kick.

S. Brayshay — Has filled the position of full-back with great success, gathers
extremely well, keeps cool and shows excellent judgment in his kicks.
Tackles and saves pluckily.

Association Football Club.

We have already dealt with last term's matches in the
December Eagie.

l*he team has not been so successful this term largely owing
to the absence of the captain, I. J. Best, which greatly affects
the forward line. With the exception of A. L. Gorringe the
forwards are inclined to be our weak spot. In fact, it has been
considered imposbible to fill up the other three places in the XI.
VVc hope that we shall prove more successful next )'ear, and
acquire a still higher position in the League. We offer our
heartiest congratulations to G. M. C. Taylor on representing
Cambridge against Oxford this year.

Matches played this term :

Gi^ls

Opponent. Result, For. Agii,

Caius ••••• Lost o .... 5

King's Drawn 3 3

Clare Lost o .... 5

Tiiniiy Resl Diawn..., o .•.. o

Characters of the team :

G, J/. C 7ay/<>/' f Goal-keeper) — A splendid ^oal-keeper, cool and reliable;
has hhown consistent good form throughout the season.

F, Juhnsion, Hon. Sec. (Righl Back) — A clever tackier; feeds his foi wards
well ; is fast, clever, judicious, and resourceful.

jy, /. Robinson (Loft Back) — A strong tackier and good kick; is inclined to
get too far forward, and is blow in getting back.

/. H, Darwin (RiKht Hidf-back)— Tackles well, but is rather slow. Should
be nioie careful about his passing ; has improved gieatly.

R, Brice-Smtth (Cent re- Half-back) — Has slesdily improvt'd since the begin-
ning of the season ; a good tackier, parses well and works hard.

R, E. Ntwhery (Left Half-back)— Has played well the whole season ; maiks
his man well, and ^uccesafully feeds his lorwdids.

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A, L, G9rringe (Outside Left) —Was moat useful last term ; an excellent vbot
and passes well; playing inside left this teim has kept tlie forwards well
together, thout^h handicapped by the absence of Bcbt.

I, J, Bestt Captain (Centre-forward) - Has been invaluable to the forward line
during the Michaelmas term, and was greatly missed this teim; was
responMble for most of our goals ; a splendid shot and combines well ;
has captained the side with great success.

/?. G, Gill (Inside Right)^Has not been so successful this year as last. Is
very plucky, a good shot, and sometimes combines well.

Hockey Club.

The past season has been a fairly successful one for the team,
although we have not been able to retrieve our lost position in
the First League.

There has been much greater keenness shown by everyone,
and as the term has gone on the side has improved. The
defence is really excellent, and although the forwards are by no
means together, they somewhat atone for this by generally
playing a keen and vigorous game. Our annual match v.
Hertford College, Oxford, resulted in a win for us by 6 — i.
We also had a very enjoyable game with fiunstanton, at
Hunstanton. The following are the characters of the team :

J. L^ P, Cart — Has played goal all the season, has done good work in most
matches. Stopped some hard and difficult shots, but is inclined to give
penalty corners.

P, /ohnston^A, good and sound back. Energetic and keen tackier.

H, A. Bertsford (Hon. Sec.) — The mainMay of the defence; tackles and
clears well ; has shown consistent good form throughout the season.

y. R, Hill — Left half. Has proved very useful this year. Is pacey and
sticks to his man, but might get on to his man quicker.

S. Brayskay — Centre half. Has played very well the whole season. Very
hard worker, and a great strength to the defence.

R, E. Newbery—'^xghK half. Quite a sound half with a good knowledge of
the game, but occasionally has an off day.

P, Jenkins — Left outside. Has not a great knowledge of the game, but
always plays up well. Must leain to keep up well and be ready to taka
a pass from his inside man*

A' L, Gorringe^>X,tii inside. Quite a good forward, very neat with his stick.
Has scored some good goals.

ir. L, B. Hamilton — Centre forward. Feeds his inside forwards well. Plays
up keenly, but is a poor shot in front of goal.

M, B, Checkland—HM come on tremendonsly »ince last year. D^esliisduty
in scoring goals, but no doubt feels handicapped by only being able to
use one side of his stick.

E. W, Green (Caplain)— A keen and energetic Captain ; centres well. Hag
scored some good goals.

3o8 Our Chronicle.

Lawn Tennis Club.

At a meeting of the Club held on March 6 the following
officers were elected for the coming season :

Prisident—Wx R. F. Scott. Han, Treamrer—^t L. H. K. Bushe-Fox.
Captittn^H, S. Ciole-Rees Secrettxry-^K. £. Evans. CommitUe^iL.
Chappie, R. T. Dawson, G. J. Willans.

The Debating Society.

PresiJent^ C . F . Ho*l ges. Vice- Presidenl^V. N. F. Youn g. Secretary^
H. A. L. LaiiJlaw. Commitet — ^R. Meldnim, J. H. W. Tium|>er, aud D.

Macau lay.

The Society has, on the whole, had a very satisfactory Lent
Term The speeches have generally been quite up to the
average, and in some few instances considerably above. The
attendance has also been distinctly encouraging, the average for
the term, so far, being 4.4. — an increase of 13 on last Lent
Term's average. The political motion which o3cupied the
attention of the House at the first two meetmgs produced an
exceptionally large and excited gathering, many of whom how-
ever have ceased to attend our deliberations, now that the
atmosphere has been purged of the highly inflammable gases of
the General Election, and have neglected to contribute their
quota to the Society's funds.

The term has been marked by a new and very successful
departure in the shape of a joint Debate with Queens* College
Debating Society. The Vice-President is to be congratulated
on the organisation of what proved an extremely interesting and
enjoyable meeting. We hope to see more of these Joint
Meetings.

We welcome the appearance of one or two fresh speakers
among us, as well as the continued support of others.

The following debates have been held this term :

January 20M and t-^ik — ^The Vice-President, P. N. F. Young,
moved '*Tlmt this House views with dismay the result of the
General Election.*' H. A. L. Laidlaw (Hon. Sec.) opposed the
motion. There also spoke : for (he motion^ Z. N. Brooke
(Ex-Presideni), G. H. Castle. J. M. Swift, E. F. Tozer. W.
Byron-Scott, A. D. Allen, P. J. Lewis. Against the motion^ R,
Meldrum, C. R. Reddy, A. G. Coombs (Ex-President), A. L.
Gorringe. J. Fraser, J. C. Squire, D. W. Ward. Neutral, L. R.
I ergu&son. The motion was carried by 8 votes.

February ^rd — J. C. Squire moved '*That in the opinion of
this House the human race is objectionable." D. Macaulay
opposed. There also spoke : for the motion^ R. P. Dodd, M,

Our Chronicle. 309

Henderson (Hon. Auditor), C. R. Reddy. Against the motion^
A. L. Gorringe, A. T. Campbell. J. E. Walker, H. A. L.
Laidlaw (Hon. Sec), Z. N. Brooke (Ex-Prtsid( nt), P. N. F.
Young (Vice-Presidcni), D. D. Nandvati. The motion was
lost by lo votes.

February lo/h — H. L. Pass, M.A. (Ex-Preside*nt) moved
**That in the opinion of this House the present age has mistaken
Comfort for Civilization." Z. N. Brooke (Ex-President)
opposed. There also spoke : /or the motion^ A. G. Coombs
(Ex-President), P. N. F. Young (Vice-President), G. H. Castle.
Against the motion, J. H. W. Trumper, W. J. Clissold. J. K.
Deane, R. P. Dodd. R. Meldrum, E. W. Prcvile-Orton. The
motion was carried by i vote.

February I'jth — W. J. Clissold moved "That in the opinion of
this House, the average Englishman is culpably apathetic and
disloyal to his nation's traditions." A. D. Allen opposeii.
There also spoke : for the motion, J. K. Deane, P. N. F. Young
(Vice-President), R. P. Dodd. Against the motion, J. M. Swift,.
E. F. Tozer, Z. N. Brooke (Ex-President). The motion was
lost by 9 votes.

Februaty 24/^— R. H. E. H. Somerset (Queens' College)
moved ••That this House deplores the growth of Militarism."
E. A. Benians opposed. There also spoke : fur the motion, J. C.
Squire, E. Band (Queens' College), h, B. Johnstone, J. F.
Smith, R. Meldrum ; against the motion, I. G. Kelly (Queens'
College). Z. N. Brooke (Ex-President). A. G. Coombs (Ex-
President). P. St G. Kahn (Queens' College) ; neutral, D. W.
Ward« The motion was lost by 4 votes.

T •

March ^rd-^An Impromptu Debate. H. A. L. Laidlaw
(Hon. Sec.) moved "That this House regrets the degrading
influence of the modern Drama." D. W. Rennie opposed.
Lost by 2 votes.

J. R. Marrack proposed "That Bridge is a better game than
Whist." R. P. Dodd opposed. L. R. Furgusson also spoke
against the motion. Carried by 8 votes.

J. C. Squire moved "That Women's Suffrage is a desirable
thing." D. D. Nanavati opposed. Carried by 6 votes.

W. W. Veevers proposed ** That Homocea touches the spot."
G. H. Castle opposed. Lost by 10 votes.

31 o Our Chronicle.

P. N. F. Young (Vice-President) moved *• That in the optnioa
of this House, Why are we?" J. K. Deane opposed. Lost
by 5 votes.

L. R. Fergusson moved "That Laughter is better than
Tears.*' W. Byron Scott opposed. Z. N. Brooke (£x- President)
spoke in support of the motion. Carried by 1 1 votes.

Natural Scirncb Club.

Prtsident—I, A. Crowther. Hph, Treasurtr—jyt Mair. Stcr eUry -^
H. C. Honeybonme.

Up to the time of writing three well attended meetings have
been held.

The first of the term, and the 43rd of the Club, was held on
January 29th, when W. H. Foster read a paper on " Hydades;"
on February 29th P, C. V. Jones read a paper on " Death and
its Phenomena ; *' and on February 26th J. C. Mottrann read a
paper on <* Immunity and its theories.*'

The Theological Society.

Preiident—'^, C. Dewick. Secretary—I, Cooper. Treasurer— J. H. W
Trumper. CommitUe^V, N. F. Young, J. H. Bentley.

The following papers have been read this term :

Feb. 8—" Pesonality in Art," by A. C. Benson Esq.

Feb. 16— «* Conscience," by Vcn Archdeacon Hodges.

Feb. 23—" Continuity of Worship," by Rev J. W. E. Conybeare.

Mar. 8— '< Devotional Study of the Bible," by Rev J. R. Daibyshire.

Owing to the illness of the Dean of Ely, the paper which
was to h&ve been read by him on February 2nd was postponed
until the Easter term. The prize offered by the Society last
term for the best essay on a theological subject was obtained by
E. C. Dewick.

College Ball.

If sufficient support is evident by the beginning of the Nfa/
Term, a Ball will be held in the College Hall on Tuesday,
June 12th, by kind permission of the Master and Fellows.

For further particulars apply to J. Eraser.

Our Chronicle.

311

New Subscribers to EagU Magazine^ commencing with No, 138.

Alexander, P. G.
Alexander, R. C.
Allen, A. D.
AUen, G. A.
Allott, C. B. S.
Anderson, L. R. D.
Averill, C. E.
Barnes, G. G.
Bell, T. O.
Boddinglon, V. C.
Bolderslon, W. N.
Brice-Smith, R.
Campbell, C. G. H.
Churchward, A. C.
Comey, L. G.
Cmickshank, G. M.
Dawson, A. M.
Deane, J. K.
Dodd. R. P.
Dollman, J. G.
Dunkley, H. F.

Hawcridge, R. S.
Hicks, F. W.
Hobbs, V. W.J.
Hogan, C. D. D.
Hutchinson, F. D.
Iremonger, E. V.
Jackson, J. E. N.
Tames, F. A.
Jones, R. M.
Kraus, M.
Leonard, P. J.
McCowan, H. W.
Marrack, J. R.
Moore, J. R.
Montgomerie, W. S.
Mottram, J. C. (Ad.St.)
Muncey, E. H. P.
Nanavati, D. D.
Paterson, M. W.
Previt^-Orton, C. W.

Ran, B. S.
Rose, H. A.
Sathe, J. L.
Smith, J. F.
Stokes, J. W. G.
Stuart, H. E.
Sukthankar, V. S.
Swift, J. M.
Thome Waite, A.
Thurs&eld, G. A. R.
Torry, A. J. D.
Townend, M. V.
Tozer, E. F.
Troubridge, J. L.
Veevcrs, W.
Walker, J. E.
Whiddington, R.
Willetl, E. W.
Wood, T. E.
Yorke, A. R.

Thb Collkoe Mission.

President— T\it Master. Vice-Presidents— Tht President, Mr Gravfs,
Mr Mason, Dr Sandys, Mr Cox. Committee — Mr Dyson, Mr Hart {Senior
Secretary)^ Mr Rootham, Dr Shore, Dr Tanner, Mr Ward {Senior Treasurer),
G. H. Castle, W. Clissold, R. T. Cole, H. S. Crole Rees, {Junior Secretary)^
W. W. S. Fleet, J. Eraser, F. A. R. Higgins, H. C. Honeyboume, G. M. C.
Taylor, J. H. W. Trumper, P. N. F. Young {junior Treasurer).

Of the great bereavement which has befallen the Mission in
the sudden death of Canon Watson it is difficult even now to
speak. The work must go on ; but all concerned feel the blank.
Canon Watson was the father of the Mission and tbe never-
failing counsellor of its workers. He has left us all a standard
of devotion to the calls of this part of our College life, which
we can only attain by hearty cooperation. His example will
and must stimulate our now unaided efiforts to carry on the work
which he loved and served so well.

At a general meeting Mr Ward was elected Senior Treasurer
and Mr Gregory to the place on the Committee vacant by the
VOL. XXVIL TT

ill Our ChranicU.

resignation of Dr Shore. Arrangements were made for a public
meeting to further interest in the Mission, which was held on
Sunday^ March i ith, in Lecture-room V.

The plan of the meeting was somewhat unconventional.
Smoking was permitted, and gentlemen were requested to bring
their own chairs. But thanks to the presence of the Master in
the chair all possibility of the suggestion that the proceedings
were unworthy of the Mission traditions were excluded. Between
fifty and sixty Johnians came, including Mr Ward, Mr Bushe-
Fox, Mr Gregory, the first and other captains of the L.M.B.C.,
and— a promising sign — a good number of freshmen. The
Master referred briefly to the losses lately sustained, and intro-
duced the speakers.]

Dr Tanner dealt chiefly with the possibility of cooperation
of members of all sects in aid of the Mission, and defended it
against the superficial verdict that it is just an ordinary parish-
Mr Ingram introduced himself and the Mission, and advocated
the establishment of an endowed curacy as the best and most
fitting memorial of Dr Watson. The Junior Treasurer delivered
a speech, which the Vice-President of the Debating Society
alone could have equalled, describing the difficulties of those
who collect subscriptions, and appealing for more and warmer
esprit de corps in the College. A vote of thanks to the Master
for having consented to preside was proposed and carried ; and
the Master replied, proposing also a vote of thanks to the
speakers.

The Committee hope that such meetings may be held every
year if not every term, provided that an increasingly adequate
response, in the shape of larger audiences, be forthcoming. The
gathering afforded an impressive proof of the unity of all classes
of Johnians, which must be consolidated and extended if our
College Misssion is to prosper. Questions were raised publicly,
such as are often agitated secretly and so sap the sympathy
which every Johnian should feel towards a Johnian institution.
In some cases the solution may not be obvious or immediately
attainable ; for instance, the question of making the Hostel
more habitable for the casual undergraduate. But once the
questions are fairly raised, it will be evident that "the

Our Chronicli 313

authorities" are anxious to deal with them whether they be
fellow-sufferers or mere dons»

As regards the memorial of Canon Watson it is enough to
say that at least /^i 000 will be required if Mr Ingram's scheme
is to be carried out. Promises of help will be very welcome at
this juncture in order that the Committee may be encouraged to
adopt it.

THE LIBRARY.

* 7h^ asterisk denotes p<ut or present Members of the College.

Donations and Additions to the Library during
Quarter ending Christmas 1905.

Donalions.

DONO&S.

'.I

*Wilkins (A. S.}- Roman Education. 8to.
Camb, 1905. 7-3»-55

The Union between Sweden and Norway. '\ b<
Address presented to the King bv ibe
Swedish Parliament. 8vo. Stockholm,

1905

Nordlund (K.). The Swedish-Norwegian

Union Crisis. 8vo. Upsala, 1905 ......

£d6n (Nils). Sweden for Peace. 8vo. Upsala,

1905

Calendar of Letter- Books preserved among tbe'

Archives of the Corporation of the City of

London at the Guildhall. Letter-Book G.

A.D. 1352-1374. Edited by R. R. Sharpe.

8to. Lond. 1905. 5.40

*Marr (J. £.). An Introduction to Geology.!
8vo. Camb. 1905. 3.27.63 J

Wilson (J. C). On the Traversing of Geo-
metrical Figures. 8vo. Oxford, 1905.. ..

Schnabel (Dr. C). Handbook of Metallurgy.
Trans, by Henry Louis. 2nd Edition.
Vol. L 8vo. Lond. 1905. 3.25.51 ....

Bailey (G. H.). Elements of Quantitative
Analysis. 8vo. Lond. 1905. 3.47.8.....

John Howes* MS., 1582, being <'a brief Note\
of the Order and Manner of the Proceed-
ings in the first Erection of" the Three
Royal Hospitals of Christ, Bridewell, and
St. Thomas the Apostle. Reproduced and
printed at the Charges of S. V. Morgan.
With Introduction and Notes by Wm. \
Lempriere. Privately printed, 4to. Lond. /
1904. 15.42.1

Reade (Compton). Vera Effigies and other
Stories in Verse. 8vo. Lond. 1903. 4.9.21

Foster (Joseph). Some Feudal Coats of Arms.
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Anonymous.

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of the
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" Dr. D. MacAlister.

Mr. Scott.

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Paris, 1865. 7.28.61. (Larg€ pmper"
edition,)

Adolphus (Rev. O.). Compendium Theolo-
gicum. 3rd Edition. 8vo. Camb. 1865.
9-22-36

Modem Scepticism. A Course of Lectures
delivered at the Request of the Christian
Evidence Society. With an explanatory
Paper by C. J. Ellicott.* 8vo. Lond.
1871. 9.22.37

MuJler (F. Max). Introduction to the Science
of Religion. 8vo. Lond. 1873. 9.16.47.

Lobeck (C. A.). Palhologiae Giaeci Sermonis
Elementa. Pans Prior. 8vo. Reg,
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Hoole (C. H.). The Shepherd of Hennas.
Translated into English, with an Introduc-
tion and Notes. i2mo. Loud. 1870.

9-".S9

Bibliotheca Novi Testaraenti Graeci. Collegit

E. Reuss. 8vo. Brunsvigae, 1872. 9.9.26
Publius Virgilius Maro Vaiietate Lectiunis et

perpetua Adnotatione illustratus a C. G.

Heyne. Editio 4ta. Curavit G. P. E.

Wagner. 5 vol. 8vo. Lipsiae, 1830-41..
Reinach (S.). Manuel de Fhilulogie classique.

2ina Edit. 2 Tom. 8vo. Paris, 1883-4.

7.29.60,61
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Clapham (J. H.). The Caascs of the War of
1 792. (Prince Consort Dissertation, 1 898).
8vo. Camb. 1899. 1.8.20

Kihnast (Dr. L.). Die Hauptpmikte der
Livianischen Syntax. 8vo. Berlin, 1872.

7.29-59

*Allen (G. C). Roman Problems from and

after Plutarch's Roman Questions. 8vo.

Lond. 1904. 7.3157

The Didache, or the Teaching of the

Twelve Apostles. Translated with Notes.

Sm. 4to. Lond. 1903. q.5.73

Shnckard (W. £.). British Bees. 8vo. Lond.

1866. 3.47.45

Phillips (John). Vesuvius. 8vo. Oxford,/

1869. 3.47.46

Chinese. Historia Cultus Sinensium. 8vo.'
Coloniae, 1700. Qq.12.31

Canton (W.). A History of the British and
Foreign Bible Society. 2 vols. 8vo.
Lond. 1904. 9.20.53,54

Valdesso Qohn). Divine Considerations. The
English Translation of Nicholas Ferrar,
with George Herbert's Prefatory Epistle.
8vo. Lond. 1905. 1 1. 19.60. Dtdicated
to Professor Mayor) ^

Macdonald (George). Catalogue of Greek
Coins in the Hunterian Collection, Univer-
sity of Glasgow. Vol. III. 4to. Glasgow,
1905. io.i 1.40 ,

Dr. Sandys.

V Professor Mayor.

The Trustees

of the Hunterian Coin

Catalogue Fund.

3i6

The Library.

^1

Royal A$lronomical Society. Memoirs. Vol.^
LVU. Parts I. and II. 410. Lond.V
1905. 3.13 f

Sptngam (J. E.). A History of Literary^
Criticism in the Renaissance. 8vo. New >•
York. 1899. 4-3937 i

Botssier (G.). Nourelles Promenades Arch€o-^
logiques : Horace et Viruile. 3me. Edition.
8vo. Paris, 1895. 7-3I-56

Die Griechischen Christlichen Scbriftsteller der
Ersten Drei Tahrhunderte. Kopiisch-
Gnostische Schiiften. Band I. 8vo.
Leipiig, 1905

White (Rev. N. J. D.J. A short Catalogue of\
English Books m Archbi»hop Marsh's
Library, Dublin, printed before 1641. Also
a short Catalogue of Books in the lame
Library, printed before A.D. 1 501.
(Bibliographical Society). 4to. Oxford,
1905

Tames (M. R.). A descriptive Catalogue of
Ike MSS. in the Library of Pembroke
College, Cambridge. With a Hand List
of the printed Books to the year 1500, by
E. H. Minns. 8vo. Camb. 1905. 14.4-30^
♦Prior (M.). Poems on several Occasions.
Edited by A. R. Waller. 8vo. Camb.

1905- 4-3»"

A Description of the •Wordsworth and Cole-
ridge MSS. in the Po'^scssion of Mr. T.
Norton Longman. Edited with Notes by
W. Hale White. 410. Lond. 1897.
1 5 . 40. 20

♦Fleming (J. A.). A Handbook for ihe^
Electrical Laboratory and Testing Room. I
2 vols. 8vo. Lond. 1901. 3.50.17,18..

- The Alternate Current Transformer in

Theory and Practice. New Edition. 2 vols.
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Waves and Ripples m Water, Air, and

Aether. 8vo. Lond. 1902. 3.51. i ....

- Magnets and Electric Currents. 2nd
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Electric Lamps and Electric Lighting.

2nd Edition. 8vo. Lond. 1899. 3. 50.19..

The Centenary of the Electric Current

1 799. 1899. 8vo. Lond. 1899. 3.50.20

Goddcn (Thos.)]. A just Discharge to ♦Dr.
Slillingfleet's unjust Charge of Idolatry
against the Chuich of Rome. 8vo. Paris,
1677. Qqi3-7

La Bhagavad Gttft o Poema Divino. Traduzione]
di C. Jinarijadlsa^ e M. L. Kirby. 12010. L
Roma, 1905. "■33»7 J

♦Adkins (F. J.). Tekel. A Study of Educa-^
tional Problems of the Day. 8vo. Lond. |>
1905- 542-38 /

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Mr. Hart.
The Compiler.

The Master and

Fellows of
Pembroke College.

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University Press.

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The Author.

I

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*Rapson (E. J.). On the Alphabet of the^
Kharostht Documents. (Eztrait du Tome
I. des Actes du XlVe Congrds Interna-
tional des Oiientalistes). 8vo. Paris, 1905.

*Leathem (J. G.)> Volume and Surface
Integrals used in Physics. (Cambridge
Tracts in Mathematics and iMathematical
Physics. No. I.). 8vo. Camb. 1905 ..

Ofidos divinos y Administracion de los Sacra- 1
mentos y otros Ritos en la Iglesia'
Espanola Reforroada. 12 mo. Madrid,
1889. 1 1. 19.61

Two Treatises on the Church. The First by
Thomas Jackson, the Second by Robert
Sanderson. To which is added a Letter of
Bishop Cosin. 8vo. Lond. 1901.

11.33-99

The New Testament. Translated into the
Burmese from the original Greek by Rev.
A. Judson, D.D. 8vo. Boston, 1891.
9.1 1.86 J

The Author.

The Author.

Rev. A. W. Greenup, M.A.

Additions.

Bacchylides. Edited with Introduction, Notes, and Prose Translation by Sir

R. C. Jebb. 8vo. Camb. 1905. 7.15.62.
Beyan (E. R.). The House of Seleucus. 2 vols. 8vo. LonJ. 1902

1.5.48, 49.
Bradley (F. H.). Appearance and Reality. 2nd ^Edition. 8vo. Lond.

1902. 1.25.36.
*Bumside (F.). Village Sermons. 8vo. Lond. 1904. ii.i7-55'
Cambridge University Examination Papers. Michaelmas Term, 1904, to

Easter Term, 1905. Vol. XXXIV. 4to. Camb. 1905. 6.4.34.
Ebbinghaus (H.). Grundzcige der Psychologie. Band I. 2te. Auflage.

8vo. Leipzig, 1905. 1.25.37.
Gomperz (T.). Greek Thinkers. Translated by L. Magnus. Authorized

Edition. 3 vols. 8vo. Lond. 1901-5. 7.27.46-48.
Green (T. H.). Prolegomena to Ethics. Edited by A. C. Bradley. 4th

'Edition. 8vq. Oxford, 1899. 1.49. i.
Hamack (A.). Lehrbuch der Dogmengeschichte. 3 Bde. 3te.* Auflage.

roy. 8vo. Freiburg, 1894-7. 9.16.32-34.
Henr^ Bradshaw Society. Vol. XXIX. The Martyrology of Oengus the

Culdee. Critically edited with a Preface, Translation, Notes, and

Indices by Whilley Stokes. 8vo. Lond. 1905. ii. 16.66.
Vol. XXX. The Mozarabic Psalter. Edited by J. P. Gilson. 8vo.

Lond. 1905. 11.16.67.
*Hill (Rowland). Journal of a Tour through the North of England and

Parts of Scotland. 8vo. Lond. 1799. 8.32.40.
Jamieson (J.). Remarks on the Rev. Rowland Hills' Journal, etc. 2nd

Edition. 8vo. Edin. 1799. 8.32.40.
Historical MSS. Commission. Report on the MSS. of the Earl of Egmont.

Vol. I. Parts i. and ii. 8vo. Lond. 1905. 6.8.
The MSS. of the House of Lords, 1697-1699. New Series. Vol. HI.

8vo. Lond. 1905. 6.8.
Hobhouse (L. T.), The Theory of Knowledge. 8vo. Lond. 1905. 1.25.39.
Jewish Encyclopedia, The. Vol. XI. (Samson-Talmid Hakam). 4to.

New York, 1905. 12. 2. 51.
Kant's Critique of Practical Reason. Translated by T. K. Abbott. 5th

Edition. 8vo. Lond. 1898. 1.25.33.

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•Nashe (T.) Works. Edited from the Original TeiU by R. B. McKemnr.

Vols. I.-III. 8vo. Lend. 1904-5. 4.30.x -3.
Oxford Historical Society. Collectanta. 4th Series. Edited by tbe Com-

miltee of the Society. 8vo. Oxford, 1905. 5.26.96.
Political Hif»tory of England. Edited by \Vm. Hunt and R. L. Poole.

Vols. II., III., and X. 8vo. Lond. 1905. 5.34.
Roberts (E. S.) and Gardner (£. A.). An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy.

Part II. The Inscriptions of Attica. 8vo. Camb. 1905. 7.29.19.
Rolls Series. Year Books of the Reign of King Edward III. Years

XVIII and XIX. Edited and translated by L. O. Pike, ^yo, Lond.

1905. 16.5.
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NOTES FROM THE COLLEGE RECORDS.

{Continuidfromp. 208.)

I HE first group of letters here printed refers to
some lads of the name of Bunnington (the
name also appears as Bonnington and
Bonington), sons of Ralph Bunnington, of
Barrowcote in Derbyshire. George Bunnington was
admitted a Foundress Scholar of the College 6 Novem-
ber 1608, he took the degrees of B.A. 161 1, and M.A.
1 6 15. He was admitted a Fellow of the College 3 April
161 2. It would appear that he had influential patrons :
his claims being urged by the Countess of Shrewsbury,
George Villiers, then Earl of Buckingham, subsequently
Chancellor of the University, and others. John Panton
who writes on Bunnington's behalf is probably the John
Panton, of co. Denbigh, admitted to Lincoln's Inn
29 June 1:94, at the request of Sir Thomas Egerton,
Master of the Rolls. Panton it will be observed
describes himself as cousin to Owen Gwynn, the Master,
and also to John Williams, afterwards Lord Keeper.
Ralph Bunnington refers to his cousin Mrs Carey,
probably the wife of Valentine Carey, at this time Dean
of St Paul's, afterwards Bishop of Exeter.

VOL. xxvii. u u

320 Notes from th€ College Records.

George Bunnington appears to have got into debt
soon after obtaining his fellowship and died young. His
expression of a praeter amongst the fellows and fellow
commoners seems to point to some kind of collection on
his behalf. On his death pressure was brought to bear
on the College to elect a younger brother into the vacant
fellowship. Ralph Bunnington claims to have had five
sons at the University. The College and University
records only yield two besides George. Henry Bun-
nington, who matriculated 15 December 161 2, had been
admitted a scholar of St John's 6 November i6i2»he
does not appear to have graduated. Ralph Bunnington
of St John's took the degrees of B.A. 1617 and M.A.
1 62 1 (when he signs his name Bonnington). It seems
probable that this latter was the person on whose behalf
influence was brought to bear on the College, as he is
described as Sir Bunnington, the usual term at that time
for a Bachelor of Arts. He was not a Scholar of the
College, nor did he obtain the fellowship. A very
sketchy pedigree of the Bonington family of Barrowcote
was recorded by Dugdale in his Visitation of Derby-
shire in 1663 (printed in The Genealogist^xii^ 121). A
John Bunnington of Barcotte, co. Derby, who was
admitted to Gray's Inn 30 June 1609, was probably
another member of the family.

Sir, I vnderstand by my cosin Williams, as well ofyour ownc
good affcccion towards George Bunnington my wieves nephew
and of your readines to pleasure him in a sute which he hath for
a ffcllowship within your CoUcdge, as also of the like towardes
him of Mr Nelson, Mr Lane and others of the Colledge there.
For the which, as I hould myself much behouldinge both to you
and them, acknowledginge the same in some part to proceede
from you for my sake. So I do hereby (not having better
meanes for the present to show my thankfulness) send vnto you
these few lynes of my kynde and hearty thankes, desiringe by
you to be commended to Mr Nelson and Mr Lane, and to make
knowen vnto them my kynde acceptacion of this favour, and that
I hope both you and they shall f) nde (if occasion be offered)

Notes from the College Records. 3 2 1

that it is not conferred vppon an vngratefull person. Soe com-
mitting you to the protection of God, I rest

17 Martij, 161 1 your very assured cosen

Jo: Panton,

Addressed: To the worshipful my very good cosen Mr Owen
Gwynne, President of St John's Colledge in Cambridge, these.

Good Mr doctor Guin I haue ener beene beholding to your
worshipp since I came to the Collidge. For at my first coming
it pleased your worshipp to take me vnder your name. Since
you haue beene a meanes to make me both schoUer and fellowe,
and manie other kindnesses I haue receaued from you, for the
which I most humbly thank your worshipp. And nowe I am
fbarced to make my mone vnto your worshipp and, vnlesse it
please you to stand my freinde, I am vtterly vndone. My case
is this and I besetche your.worshipp^to take pittie of me. I am
treatcherously arrested here in London by a Chambridge man '
and am prisoner under the^Kinges Martiall. My freindes are
not able to relceue me. My father and my freindes are willing
that I should leaue my fellowshipp, and I will sende downe my
resignation by the next carier, or when it shall please your
worshipp to commaunde it. I am arrested for fourteene or
fifteene powndes, but my charges and all will amounte to aboue
twentie. I am verie desirouse to paye euerie man his owne and
fortie powndes will cleare me from all the world for matters of
debt. I doe humbly intreate your worshipp to grant me leaue
to haue a preter amongst the fellowes and fellow commoners^
I hope the moste of them will be kinde vnto me, if not all^ and
I would intreate your worshipp that that which my praeter shall
want of fortie powndes may be made vp by vale or by what
meanes it shall please your worshipp and the reuerent senjores.
I besetch you consider the estate of a miserable man. I shall
be bownde to praye you whitest I Hue, and if it shall please God
to inable me I will make satisfaction, and thus trusting vpon
your worshipes fauor I reste

youres in all loue and dutie

GeORGB BUNNINOTON.

Addressed: To the right worshipfuU Mr doctor Guin, Master
of Saint Johnes Collidge in Chambridge deliver these.

32 2 Notes from ihi College Records.

Right worshipful! Sir, Our great and good God hath not
given to my sonne, George Bunnington, soe many dayes for bis
fellowshippe as your cnrteous and reverend selfe and Society
were contented to doe. But by his rodd of correction (sharpe
as sicknesse and death, yet coumfortable as his stafie) hath
I hope by the space of some weekes and moneths prepared him
for mercy, and nowe I hope received him to glory. His
penitent confessions, conversions, his desires to pray and to be
prayed for, and neerer his end, his ioye in the holy ghost,
shewed by his chearefull lookes, pleasant tunes, and coumfor-
table speeches, unto his end and in his end, doe give vs good
coumforte and asssurance hereof. Indeede heretofore his
faultes and errours have beene eminent and his vertues were not
soe, howbeit I hope they were in some better measure then he
made show of. Wherefore we doe resolve not to sorrowe over-
much as though we were without hope, but to coumforte oar-
selves with God's most holy pleasure, and with his etemall
happiness in and by Christ (for such were his own sayings).

And nowe give me leave I pray you soe earnestly to entreate
your charitable and favorable assistance for the succession of his
place to his poore brother, as shall best beseemeyour owne
relligious curtesy and bounty, and as the misery of my nyne
children all yet vaprovided for, and my much cumbered and
distressed estate doth require. You shall make a father and a
mother and tenne children bounde to pray for you. And if you
doe it not I protest in the worde of truth I knowe not in the
world what course to take with him and two or three more of his
younger brethren. The which consideration I commende to
your former generous and curteous dealing with him that gone
is, and with his three other brethren (for I have fonnde you all
have ever loved them all, and wished them well). Whereof
although they have not made soe good use as they might, and
should have done, yet shall I ever with dewe acknowledgment
thereof commende your worthy selves, and all your affaires to
God's blessed direction and protection, and so rest

At Barrowcoate your worshipps poore freind

neere Derby this already behouldinge for

loth of March 1617. them, and ever to be commanded

Ralph Bunnington.

Addrnsid: To the right worshipfull and reverend Doctour
Gwin, Maister of St John's Colledge in Cambridge These.

• Notes from the College Records. 323

A letter from the Countess of Shrewsbury.

After my hearty commendations. It is not many yeares past
synce I commended vnto you the sonne of one Mr Bonnington,
a darbyshyre gentleman, for a ffellowshipp in your CoIIedge,
which itt pleased you to graunt me. Now I am gyven to under-
stand that that Bonnington is dead, and that he hath a younger
brother with you, of good towardnes and forwardnes in learning*
who is capable of a ffellowship by the Statutes of your house.
I shall therefore earnestly make the lyke request to you for the
younger brother as I did for the elder, the rather for that I know
his father is charged with many other children and not able to
provyde for them. Assuring you that what favour you shall
shew him att this my intreaty, I shall take in very kynde parte»
and so remaine

From Broadstreete your assured ffrend

in London Ma. Shrewsbury.

this 17th of March 1617

A Letter from the Lord of Buckingham.

After my hearty commendacions. Although it is not my
custome, to make a request to any into whose affection I have
not first by some act of myne made entrance, yet the lamenta-
tion of a ffather, afflicted with thelosse of his sonne, hath forced
my compassion beyond my custome, to recommende vnto [you]
the suyte of this poore gentleman, who having lost one of his
sonnes, who was ffellow of your house, and being overburdened
with the charge of many other children, desyreth that another
of his sonnes now student in your house, may be admitted and
chosen into the place of his deceased brother. Wherevnto
though I doubt not but your owne charitable inclination will
sufficiently induce you, especially fynding the younge manne for
his learning and good carriage worthy of the place, yet what
favour you shall shew vnto him att this my request, I will not
fayle readily to acknowledge, and will so rest
Att Hampton Courte your verry loving frend

the 18 day of March, G. Buckingham,

1617

3*4 Notes from the College Raords.

A Letter to the Earle of Buckingham in answer to the former.

Right Honourable, Whereas your Lordshipp compassionating
the iu8t greif of a ffather afflicted with the loss of his sonne
departed, and overburthened with the pressure of many other
children, was pleased to recommend unto vs in his behalf
a younger brother to succeed the former in his ffellowshipp.
Wee could not but commiserate the gentleman's case and
inclyne to favour his suyte, both for his own sake (being a man
well esteemed) and much more for your Lordshipps honourable
recommendacion, who may command anything within our com-
pass. But another Countrey having precedency in the propriety
before his, and suytors to urge it, we might nott passe them by.
without violence to the ffbundacion and manifest breach of the
composition. So as not being within our power to perform your
lordshipps request effectually in kynd, we conceyve good hope
that out of your honourable disposition you wilbe pleased to
excuse our proceedings. And in that hope we rest

St John's in your Lordshipp's moust bounden

Cambridge The Master and Seniors.

Memorandum, that because Sir Bonnington could not
be pleasured with this ffellowshipp, yet the Master and
Seniors to shew their respect of his Lordshipp's letters,
presently graunted vnto him the somme of lo/i. out of
the fyne money to continue him here at his studyes for
a tyme.

Reverend Gentlemen, assisted with the Lord Marquesse
Buckingham, the Earle of Arundell and other myne honorable
good ffrends theire letters and with my worshippfull and loving
cosin Mris Carey her faire intreaties and indeavours, I was this
last yeare an humble and an -erneste suitour unto you that my
fifth now distressed sone might succeede his deceased brother
in your charitable and lawfull favour. The which yet at that
tyme it pleased you to deny mee. Whereupon hopeing of your
future favour and occasioned with the thronge of my manifould
other businesses and occasions wherein I then laboured and
still do, I ceased myne attendance at that tyme not knowing of
any present benofitt you then intended him which since I am
informed of, but as yet do not knowe of any thinge, or in what

Notes from tht College Records. 325

sort or manner, it will please you to do anythinge for him. Now
for so much as I do heare you are informed I should stay longer
in Towne then indeed I did and are offended at it, I beseech
you give mee leave in playnesse and uprightnesse to mention
thus much for myne apologie. I humbly beseech God to
blesse mee and myne from undutifulnesse towards our superiours,
and from unthankfullnesse towards our benefactors, and no lesse
do I pray agaynst insinuatinge basenesse and flatterie, and shall
be verry sorry if I shall fall into any of these errours towardes
yourselves or any others. If therefore it shall please you to
consider to do anythinge for my poore childe let it be a small
thinge : myne or his obsequente towards you, if I do not also
procure my worthie good freinds to give you answerable thankes.
And if on the other side you shall thinke it may not stande with
your good equitie and charitie to do somethinge for him, myne
opinion must be subordinate to yours and I must rest

at Barrocoate your perplexed poore frend

this 19th of Aprill, Ralphe Bunnington.

1619.
Addressed: To the right worshipfull the Maister and Seniors
of St John's Colledge, Cambridge, these.

Right worshippfull Maister and reverend Seniors, about
fourteen monethes after your election for my deceased sonne
his ffellowshippe I was certifyed that you have given his poore
brother (youre late competitour) tenne powndes ; for the which
I do verie respectivelie thanke you, as for a benefitte which you
might have kept from me, and as for a benefitte which I shall
never be able to requyte, and which hath done me so much pleasure
as so much moneyes could do. Howbeit for that it pleased some of
my honorable good ffrendes nowe of late to enquyre what successe
I had therein and I acquainted them not onelie with your
present bountie but also with your future hopes wherewith it
pleased you to comfort and encourage him. I do therefore
most earnestlie intreat you to some such further worthie
consideration as thereby their honorable request may be
somewhat further satisfyed, and my distresse, and his, somewhat
more relieved. I having brought up fyve sonnes at your
Universitie and now onelie he doth continue in his studies,
thother disposing themselves to other courses lesse to my

3^6 Notes from the College Records.

comfort. And as alreadye for these your former* charitable
favoures so shall I more and more remayne and ever be

at Barrocote your much bounden poore ffrend

this vih of March Ralphs Bumnington.

1 619.

Addnssed: To the right worshippfull and lyke reverend
Maister and Seniors of St John's Colledge, Cambridge, These.

The following letter from Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury,
and his Countess Mary, the builder of our Second Court,
refers to the sons of Sir Randle Crewe, sometime
Speaker of the House of Commons. The two sons
were Clippesby Crewe, the eldest son and heir, who was
admitted to Lincoln's Inn 29 May 1619, and John Crewe,
the second son, who was admitted to Lincoln's Inn
28 October 161 8 and was nominated barrister ji June
1625. Neither of them graduated at Cambridge (see
also The Eagle xix, 529-531). The letter gives us a
clue to the set of rooms occupied by two distinguished
members of the College. It will be observed that the
Earl and Countess ask that the young Crewes should
have Dr Walkington's * Tower Chamber.' Thomas
Walkington was admitted a fellow of the College
26 March 1602. He published The Oj>tick Glass of
Humors^ an odd book, considered by some to be a fore
runner of Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy. Dr Farmer
in his Essay on the learning of Shakespeare refers to this
book as the probable source from which some of the
incidents were drawn for Shylock's speech in justifi-
cation of his cruelty f Merchant of Venice iv, ij. Now
in 1608 Walkington printed at the University Press a
Sermon (preached before the King) which he dedicated
to the Right Honourable Lord Thomas Howard, Earl
of Suffolk, from my chamber in St JohtCs College^ ottce
graced with your honour's residence.

Thomas Howard, second son of Thomas, fourth
Duke of Norfolk, was born 24 August 1561, he became

Nott% from the College Records. 327

Captain of a Man of War in 1584. The only set of
rooms in College which at that time could be described
as a Tower Chamber is the set over the Front Gate.
Thomas Howard was a well known man; he fought
against the Armada and commanded the expedition to
the Azores in 1591. The latter event is for ever famous
in naval history on account of the fight of Sir Richard
Grenville in the Revenge. Readers of Tennyson will
also remember A Ballad ef the Fleet. Howard became
first Earl of Suffolk and first Baron Howard de
Walden. He was successively High Steward and
Chancellor of the University. Letters from him to the
College have appeared in previous instalments of these
Notes. Two letters are printed here. John Dyke, the
lad, on whose behalf he writes, was admitted a Scholar
of the College 6 November 1622 and took the B.A.
degree in 1626. The Earl's second letter may give us
a clue to the name of the craftsman who executed the
woodwork in the College Library.

Good Mr Doctor I have been inforaied that Mr Doctor
Walkington who had the toure chambers in your Colledge is
shortly to leave them and I have beene moved by my good
frend Sir Randolph Crewe to intreat you that his sonnes who
are shortly to come to that Colledge might be placed in the
same chambers. Sir Randolph is one whom my wife and I
much esteeme and affect and therefore what kindnes you shall
shew vnto him or vnto his children eyther in this, or in any
other care of them there, wee shall take the same as done the
rather att this our earnest request and requite it by any meanes
that may lye in our power. And so with our right hartye
welwishing wee commiit you to the protection of the Almightie :
from Broadstreete this last of ffebruary 1615

your assured lovyng frendes
GiLB. Shrewsbury,
Ma. Shrewsbury.

Addressed: To my verie lovinge frend Mr Doctor Gwyn
Master of St John's Colledge and Vicechanccllor of the
Vniuersitie of Cambridge deliver.

VOL. XXVII. X X

328 Notes from the College Records.

Good Mr doctor Gwinn, I am earnestly pressed by dioersc
of my good ifrends to intreate your favour and kindenes towards
John Dyke of Steeple Bumsted for a schoUership of St. John's.
The boy is presentlie to come to your house. And because he
hath bene ever bred with Sir Thomas Brundish^s oldest sonne,
whoo likewise cometh presently to St John's to be a fellow-
commoner there, which is the principall motive of my requeste
vnto you being sollicited by somme ffreindes whome I canne
not deny, is the true cause of my importuninge you in this
busines. And so now will I leave it to your kinde consideracion,
and shall ever remaine

Audlyend, this your lovinge ffrcnd

6 of September 1622 T. Suffolke.

Addnssed: To my lovinge good ffreind Mr doctor Gwyn
Maister of St John's Colledge in Cambridge.

Mr Doctor Gwin, I am glad to heare of the good providing*
of your newe buildinge for your librarye, in that your woorkmen
for the maine fframe thereof haue performed their partes well
and well satisfied your expectations. For the inward woorke
(I mean Joyners woorke) of deskes and shelves for the disposinge
and placinge of your books (yf you be not already provided of
such a one) I would willinglye commend a workman to yon. It
is one Mathewes that hath wrought all my wainscot wooike at
Audleyend, and is indeed my servant. To whom though I wish
well yet in this busines I shall rather aime at your good then
his. For I know his sufficiencye to be such that he is able in
that kinde to give you as good contente as anie other woorkman
that you have imploied. I have allwaies reputed him (besides
his sufficiency for skill) a man honest. And so desiringe your
favor toward him (yf my desire be not vntimely in coming too
late) I leave it to your good consideration, and with my harty
commendacions I bid you fiarewell and shall resle

Audleyend your lovinge ffreind

the last of June T. Suffolke.

1624

Addressed: To my lovinge good ffreind Mr Doctor Gwyn,
Maister of St John's Colledge in Cambridge.

Notes from the College Records. 329

The letters which follow refer to the education of a
son of Sir Thomas Fairfax of Walton and Gilling in
Yorkshire, afterwards first Viscount Fairfax of Eraley,
CO Tipperary. He had two sons : Thomas the elder
who was admitted to Lincoln's Inn 7 November 1616
probably after leaving College ; his second son Henry
died 4 April 1650 aged 49, thus appearing to have been
too young to enter the College in 16 14.

Good Sir, vnderstaiiding bj my sonne'jour kindness vnto him
not only dueringe the tyme of his last sickness, but since,
allso your takinge him abrode into betler ayre for his remedye ;
Which as it ingaigeth me more vnto you, so his giueinge me
notice thereof (being for the present all he can affbrde) putts
me in hope he will not geiue you, or anyone hereafter, to
repent you the faviours you have afforded him. Allsoe lett me
intreat thusfarre that you will sometyme make tryall of his
increase in his study es which may be cause of his greater
diligence, beinge the onlye thing I ame at. In the meanetyme
what he haith receiued from you shall ever be found in me, when
you shall have occatyon to use me of which with my loue you
maye take assurance. Soe res tinge

Gilling, this your verye louinge ffreind

loth of October. Tho : Fairfai;

Addressed: To the right worshipful and his much respected
good frind Mr doctor Gwinne, Master of St John's College ia
Cambridge be this delivered.

Right worshipfull, having many causes of discontinuance
from our Colledge and other private occasions, I cannot regard
your Sonne in suche sort as either your bountye, or his
disposition requires. For he deserues such a Tutor as will
bestowe the moste of his time for his instruction onelye, which
thoughe I much desire, yet I cannot doe, by reason I intend not
to be resident long in Cambridge, and I am lothe either to
defraud him or deceiue you. Therefore I would advise you to
write to Dr Gwinne our Master to provide for him a convenient
Tutor that will make him a schoUer. Who out of his geneiall
care to all gentlemen of worthe, and out of some private respect

330 Notes from the College Records.

to him, will provide sufficiently for him. You need not donbl
bat that we have choise enoughe for learning, your discretion
must be in findeing a man of gravity and spirit, for your sonne
rather wants a rayne then a spurr. Nowe in case that my
willingness to haue my puple removed may hinder some men
from entertaininge of him, may it please you to accept this
letter as a full testimonye of my resignment, by cause seeing
I cannot performe so much ^to him as my place requires. I will
never deceiue you, whose kindenes I must ever remember.
With desire of all happines to yourself, your vertuous Lady, and
all yours

38 Maij, 1614 your loving frend

Stephen Haxbtb.

Addressed: To the right worshipfull Sir Thomas ffairfax,
knight, at Gilling Castle giue this.

Good Sir, The kindnes I found with you at the placeinge my
Sonne in your howse and hitherto made good vnto him, hath not
onelye ingaged me in gratitude but also hath tied me in a far
stronger bond of amitye, when fitt occasion shall offer itself,
wherein I maye do yow anye the like good office. My greatest
care hitherto hath ibeene, and still is, to breed my sonne a
scholer, and his Tutor haueinge been with me I perceiued his
occasions will not suffer him to followe him, in such sorte as he
standeth need of, and my desire is in respecte he intendeth to
be no residente much this Sommer, and not doubteing to finde
as fitt bye your good meanes, I have thought it best to commend
him to yourself, not intending hearin further to burthen yow,
then that it would please yow to acknowledge him for your
puple, or otherwise countenance him, whom he shall make
choyse of for Tutor, being approued bye yow fitt for that
purpose. This being as I hope of noe greate trouble to yow,
shall be to me a verye great contente, for which I shall moro
then beholden rest alwayes

from Gillinge your very assured freind

the 23 day of Maye Tho: Fairfax.

Addressed: To the right worshipfull his much esteemed good
freind Mr doctor Gwinne, Maister of St John's College in
Cambridge, d.d.

Notes from the College Records. 33 1

Sir, it being far from an honest man's nature to be vnthanke-
full for anye or the least Courtises receiued, how much mor& am
I indebted vnto yow for that great loue and care yow showed
my Sonne, the time he stayed vnder your gouernmente, in the
counselling him to follow his studyes and embrace virtuous
discipline, which, his yeares being vncapable of, neglected.
Yelt one day I hope he will acknowledge his error, which
proceeds from the heate of youths and then reverence yow for
your religious and graue admonition. Of which allreadye to me
he hath confessed himselfe a hearer, but no diligent follower,
and that but for the feare of yow it had been worse with him.
Therefore in whatsoeuer my poore meanes may afford yow anye
contente I shall euer be as readye to performe as befittes a freind
so obliged. And soe with my hartye good will remembred,
I reste allwayes

Gilling your very loueinge freind

April 17 Tho: Fairfax.

Addressed: To the right worshipfull his verye loueieg freind
Mr doctor Guinn, Master of St John's College in Cambridge.

The following curious letter from Richard Tray seems
to shew that elections to scholarships were sometimes
the subject of private intrigue. Richard Tray was
admitted a Billingsley Scholar of the College 6 Novem-
ber 1598, he took the degrees of B.A. 1600, M.A. 1604.
The son referred to was probably the John Tray of
St John's who matriculated 7 July 1625 and was B.A.
1628, M.A. 1632. On Richard Tray, the father, see J'he
Eagle xxiv, 346-7. The Rector of *Purley' (really
Purleigh in Essex) was Thomas Horsemanden, admitted
a fellow of the College 18 March 1596-7; he was
instituted Vicar of Goudhurst, Kent, 12 November 16 13,
ceding this on being instituted Rector of Purleigh
3 June 1624, holding this latter living until his death in
1632. His brother *Mr Daniell' was Daniel Horse-
manden, admitted a fellow of the College 22 March
1604-5. He was for a short time Rector of Whipsnade,
Beds., then Vicar of Goudhurst, and finally was insti-

33^ J^otei from the College Records.

tuted Rector of Ulcombe, Kent, 5 November 1627, he
died in 1654. Doctor *Sinnewes' was no doubt Dr
Peter Senhouse, successively Dean of Gloucester and
Bishop of Carlisle.

Right Woorshipfull Mr Doctor Gwin (craueinge pardon for
my bouldnes) I haue thought it not impertinent to write a fewe
lynes in confirmation of my former letters, or at least of some
parte thereof, directed to your Woorshippe. On Wensday, the
19th of this instant October there came vnto mee (altogether
vnexpected) the Rector of Purley. The day followinge wee
went both together to Maidstone, where wee met with his
brother Mr Daniell, vppon which accidental meetinge (hauinge
a fitt occasion to feele their pulses) wee had some discourse
about the ensuinge election. Both the Doctor and his brother
tould mee that I must rest satisfied, for that they intended to
bring in Lam this election, for a by-founders place, and that
there was no Kentish man could receiue preferment in St John's
vnles hee were his puple, and came in by his favour. To whome
I replied, that Henman who was not his puple got a Kentish
place by the means of Mr Doctor Sinnewes, who answered that
Doctor Sinnewes was faine to make him a freind, or else be
could not haue preferred Henman. But this I take to be a
meere vaunt, being assured that Doctor Sinnewe's credttt was
greater in St John's than his euer was or wilbee. If Mr Horse-
manden should come to knowe of what I write, be would
perhapps mallice me and crosse my sonne (which I hope shall
not neede), but by the faith of a true harted St John's man this
is the truth of our discourse. Sir I doubt not but I haue many
good freindes of my ould acquaintance within the compas of our
walls, but as I said in my last Utter my trust for my sonnes
aduauncement restes only vppon your fauour and goodnes. If
your woorshipp shalbee pleased to admit of my sonne before
Lame I shall take it for the greatest curtesey and grace that euer
I receiued from any liuinge man. I was a schoUer of the house^
whereas Lam's father neuer was, I am a minister, so is not hee^
I pray publiquly and priuatly for the prospirity of my Colledg^
so doth not hee. I ventured both life and limes for the honour
of my house, which he neuer did, neither was able to do. I haue
fiue sonnes to prouide for, hee as I take it hath only one, and
to maintaine himselfe and that one, he hath well neere 200 //.

Notes from ths College Records. 333

landes per annum. These thinges beeinge well weighed (as I
urged to the Doctor and his brother) I see no reason, but that
my Sonne may very well be excepted before the other. Good
Mr Doctor iett me entreate you to declare your respect to my
honourable freind the Bishoppe of Gloucester, and your fauor to
mee, in the aduancement of my sonne, for the which his Lord-
shippe (I am assured) will not be vnthankfull, nor myselfe
vngratefuU. And so with my humble dutye and seruice remem-
bred to your woorshipp and all the venerable society in St John's,
I leaue you and them to the blessed protection of the Almightie»
alwaies restinge

Bredherst your woorships poore suppliant

this 25th at all times to bee commaunded

of October 1625 Richard Tray.

Adressed: To the right woorshipfull Master Doctor Gwin,
Master of St John's CoUedge in Cambridge, these bee deliuered
with speede.

Robert Goffe, the writer of the following letter, was
probably the person of that name who took his B.A.
from St John's in 1588. A John Goffe matriculated
from St John's 13 December 1617 and was B.A. 1620,.
M.A. 1624, but from the dates this can hardly be the
person whose degree was objected to by the Proctor.

Right worshipfull my humble duty remembered eic. Your
readiness in glueing my sonne his grace in the Colledge (as a
testimony of loue) did much reioyce me, but hearing this last
28th of February how the case slandeth with my sonne and how
still your loue aboundeth towardes him in this his extremity by
sparing no paynes for the procuring his grace in the towne,
maketh me so farr endebted vnto you, that I cannott in a fewe
lynes expresse how much I take my selfe bounden vnto you. I
am much greeved that occasion should be offered of stirres (as
I heare there is) about his degree. I neuer suspected my sonne
his caring to be such, as that itt should deserue so violent pro-
ceedioge of the Proctor against him. It is true he hath often
bene blamed for misgouerning his purse when it found a supply,
but neuer saw occasion for misgouerning his person. Neither
euer heard I the least matter of any discommendacion in the

334 Notes from the College Records.

Conntiy, bat liued in as good creditt and reputacion as any
young man about the place where I dwelt. If his cariage hath
bene so outragious in Cambridge as that it shall iustly deseme
(to my perpetuall greefe and his vtter vndoing) this final
disgrace, I shall curse the time that euer he came thither. Bat
if they be but iuumilia delicla or (as I rather gesse) suggested by
informacion of some envious person, I may curse the man, the
meanes of so greate molestacion. I heard by a fealow of
Pembroke Hall, being in our partes, the 28th of February, that
spies haue bene sent out and snares laid to entrap him. Your
worship knows how easy a matter it is to finde a staffe to beate
a dogg, especially of such as will seeke a knott in a rush, but
I hope by your worships good meanes (though hitherto he hath
endured disgrace) it shall goe better with him. I do protest the
losse of more then i oo/f*. would not goe so neere me as the losse
of his degree, vpon the obteyning whereof I was and am
resolued to kepe him and employ him in such a course as that
your worship, with others that haue bene his friendes shall
reioice that euer they haue bene the occasion of his good.
Impute it not I pray you to arrogancy thus to presume vpon
your loue, it is my true and euer most hearty affection towardes
you that enforceth me, yet craueing pardon for my presumption
I committ your worship to the protection of th' Almighty.
Blachingdon, March: 2, 1617.

Your worships to be commanded

ROBRRT GOFFB.

Addressed*, To the right worshipfull Doctor Guin, Master of
St Jolins*8 Colledge in Cambridge geue these.

George Gipps, the writer of the following letter,
matriculated from St John's 13 December 1606, taking
his degrees, B.A. 16 10, M.A. 1614. He was collated to
the Prebend of Wellington in Lichfield Cathedral
9 December 1623, ceding this for the Prebend of
Freeford in the same cathedral, to which he was
collated 3 December 1624. He compounded for First
Fruits as Rector of St Andrew in Hertford 27 May 1624,
ceding this on being appointed Rector of Ayleston in

Notes from the College Records. 335

Leicestershire, for which he compounded 3 June 1633.
He appears to have been deprived of his Rectory and
Prebend during the Commonwealth. The son and heir
of Sir George Manners was John Manners, who in 1641
became eighth Earl of Rutland.

Right worshipfull may it please you to understande that
since my disconiinuance from our Colledge I haue continued to
teach the sonns of Sir George Manners, whose father Sir John
Manners (noe lease admired then beloved in his countrye of
Derbiesheire, being sonn to the first Earl of Rutland) was in his
youth student in our Colledge. His Ladye likewise is neece
to the widdowe Countesse of Shrosberrye whoe founded our
newe Court. Whoe beinge resolued to send theire sonn and
heyre to the vniversit}Pe, are by my motion (as duty binds mee)
desirous to haue him of our College, as was his grandfather, Sir
John, though Sir George himselfe was of Trynilye. Wherefore
if you shall daigne to beare his name and procure him a con-
venient lodginge (with what furniture may be) for any reasonable
yeerlye rent; myselfe comming with him, shall vndergoe the
charge of tutoringe him. And Sir George (as this his letter, I
praesume, doth signifye) will count himselfe behouldinge to
you, and bee reddye vpon any occasion to requite this kindness.
And however the Ladye Manners is not willinge to trouble her
Aunte the Countesse of Shrosberrye in this small matter, yet I
praesume that shee hearinge of his well placinge in this our
Colledge will accepte of it soe well from you as I leaue it to
your worship better to conceaue then I can expresse. Pardon
(Right worshipfull) my seeminge presumption, however much
courtesye is professed them from other CoUedges, yet our
Colledge, beinge my Foster Mother I am bould to hope som
dependance on you the woithye Head and Master thereof. And
so our comminge waytinge your pleasures answer I humblye
take my leaue. May: 28, a® 1617.

Yours to command in most

humble submission

GEORoa GiPPs.

Addressed \ To the Right Worshipfull Mr Doctor Gwinn
Master of St John's Colledge in Cambridge, giue these.

VOL. XXVII. Y Y

336 Nofes from the College Records.

The two letters which follow refer to two lads of the
name of Marshall. The first, who did not get a fellowship,
appears to be William Marshall, B.A. 1610, M.A. 16 14,
B.D. 1622. The younger, Robert Marshall, was B,A.
1622, M.A. 1626, B.D. 1^34, he was admitted a fellow of
the College 19 March 1623-4.

John Frecheville, son of Sir Peter Frechville, appears
to have come to Cambridge from Magdalen Hall,
Oxford, where he matriculated 22 June 1621. He was
twice M P. for Derby, and was created Baron Frescheville
of Staveley 16 March 1664.

Sir about Januarye last I was boulde to move yon in the
behalf of one Marshal] for a felowship in your Colledge, at the
request of Sir Peter Fretchwcll, Knight, a deare frend to your
Colledg, and myself: and I receyed your awnswer to my letter
for which 1 hartelye thank you. I confess it to be true that
it doth discourage your studentes, to see strawngers preferred
before them, and yet I know that vpon speciall occasioncs and
sutes it hath benne often donne, and very recommendablye. I
canne assure you that my Lord is carefullye earnest herein, as
will more playnly appeare when he vnderstandes of a felowshipp
voyde, fytting for him and to make him the more fytt for such
a place, he is to be presentlye of your howse, and therein my
Lord and his oth^r frendes are very desyrons that you either
take him, or place him, to your best contentment. Sir Peter
deserves any kyndenes that your Colledg may do him : my Lord
will take it very thankfullye of you. and myself will deserve iti
yf by any meanes I may. The good breeding of a
Sonne is a very great matter to a carefull parent, which moves
Sir Peter to be most earnest with his best frendes herin : and
though he may fynde other many good Tutors for his sonne,
yet this Sir Marshall hath beene and is maynteyned by him and
so well contentes him in every respect as it will much trouble
him to have any other. I wryte playnely as I think. And so
with my hartyest commeiidaciones and thankes, for your manye
favvours I take my leave at Worsopp, this xxvij**» Sept. 1614.

Your most assured frend
Rob. Bouth.

Notes from tlu College Records, 337

This Marshall forbare i<^ take his degree last yeare, that he
might this yeare, take it in your Colledge,

Addressed: To the right worshipfull Mr Dr Gwyn Mr of St
Johnes Col]edg in Cambridge deliver.

Reuerend Sir

Giae me leaue I beseetch you to put you in mynde of an
ancient suyte wherein a worthy frend of yours and myne aud an
euer willdeseruinge member of St John's (by name Mr Robert
Booth deceased) did for my sake right earnestly and effeclually
9ollicite you in the behalfe of one Mr Marshall late student in
your CoUcdge, and by the sayd Mr Boothe's meanes placed
pupill under the now worthy President Mr Lane. By the con-
currence of whose favourable intention with yours towards the
sayd Mr Marshall I receaued more then probable hopes to haue
prevailed ere this tyme, if death had not cutt him off before any
fellowshipp fell vacant wherof he might be capable in respect of
his Country the County of Derby. Now whereas I vnderstand
that by the late death of one Mr Smelt of St Johns there is a
fellowes place fallen voyde, vnto which some derbishire man of
your society is properly eligible I am occasioned to renue my
former discontinued suite for another sabiecte, namely Sir
Marshall of the same house and brother to the furesayd
Mr Marshall. That you would be pleased to conferre the same
favour vpon this Bachelor which you intended to his brother
bad he liued to the like opportunity, ffor the meritt of his
learning I leaue it to be censured by better iudgments then
myne owne, only I hope that vpon tryall he will not be found in
the best partes of humanity farr inferior to any of his contem-
poraries. As touching his conversation I dare engage my
creditt that it hath beene and ys without exception because
I haue knowne him from his childhood, and brought him vpp
in a manner wholy at myne owne charges as being the sonne of
an honest pore Tenant of myne here at Staueley Woodthorp :
and for his meritt towardes my selfe in particular he hath
deserucd soe well by the fidelity of his carefuU attendance vpon
my Sonne John ffrechuile, in both Vniversilies for these 4 yeares
Last past, as whatsoeuer good furtherance for his preferment he
shall oblaine at my entreaty I shall esteeme it done to myselfe^

338 Notes from the College Records.

and labor by all possible meanes to requite it in what I maj: as
the pore scholler for his part, and all his other frtndes shall rest
perpetually obliged for soe great a benefitt. Thus leauing him
with his humble suyte to your favourable regard I acknowledge
myselfe your thankfull debtor in my sonnes behalfe for his good
chamber in your Colledge, and with my best respectes saluting
you I take leaue and will remaine

At your command in all fr^ndly offices
Pbtr. Frecrsvillb,
ffrom my house Staueley in
Derb: this 6th of October 1623.

Sir, I must desire you to accept of two Redd-deare Pyes at
the best Venayson that our Country will afford, which you shall
receaue with this lettre.

Addressed: To the Right worshipful! his Reverend and much
respected frend Mr Doctor Gwynn Master of St John's Colledge
in Cambridge.

Neither the College, nor the University records seem
to contain anything as to John Cage or his brother.
Nor does the name of Cage appear as a member of
Merton College in Foster's Alumni Oxonienses.

Good Mr Doctor Gwin, I haue a brother whoe nowe these
twoo ycares well nighe hath been a student in the Vniuersity of
Oxford, in Myrton ChoUedge, and at this instant I am very
desirous (for causes known vnto my selfe) that he should be of
your Vniversity of Cambridge, and of your CoUedge, and the
rather because I my selfe was of the same Colledge, and of your
acquainlence there, and therefore hearin doe presume of your
favour and loue to my brother. Sir I would haue him in
ffellowes commons, and my desire is that that tyme which he
hath spent in Oxford might not be lost, but that the same sti][
might be continued for retayninge of the Seniority in Cambridge,
as also that he might haue a good and convenient chamber, and
that you would be pleased to make choyce of a tutor for him,
there haih on Mr Beeston been commended vnto me, but I am
a stranger vnto him, and therefore wholely and solclye I leaue
the choyce of his tutor vnto yourself. Sir the favour you shall
Shewe vnto my brother I shall accept as done vnto my owne

Notes from the College Records. 339

Sonne and answerably thcrevnto will acknowledge my selfe
beholdinge vnto you, and likewise wilbe ready to make rcquitall
for this yonr loue and favoure, in anythinge that shalbe in my
power, and thus beinge very kindly commended vnto you I cease
and rest your very lovinge freinde

Stowe the 24th John Cage.

of January 16 12.

Addressed: To the Right Worshipfull Mr doctor Gwin,
Master of St John's College in Cambridge bee these letters
delivered.

We conclude with three documents of a later date and
different kind.

The first is a letter from Thomas Chalenor who had
been appointed Headmaster of Shrewsbury School by the
College. He was ejected during Commonwealth times,
but lost no time after the Restoration in claiming his
place again. He was duly reinstated.

The second has no a.Idress or endorsement, but
appears to refer to proceedings under the Conventicle
Act, under which all meetings of more than five persons
for any religious worship, but that of the Common
Prayer, were punishable by fine, imprisonment, or
transportation. Toft the * town ' mentioned is no doubt
the village of that name near Cambridge.

The last appears to be some undergradnate exercise
which seems to owe its preservation to the fact that
some Bursar used the blank leaf to draw out a rough
draft of an account for the year 1703-4. The loyalty
of the poem is unimpeachable, but its survival to the
present day is an accident.

Right worshipfull and much honoured Gentlemen

I humbly crave your leave to answer the informacions given
in to you by the Maior of Shrewsbury, and some Aldermen
siding with him, against my claime to the Head Schoolmaster's
place in Salop. I doe not wonder to see a Chauncery Bill
stuffed with untrue suggestions, which neverthelesse will not

340 Notts from the College Records^

sway righteous Judges to passe sentence before the defendant
speaks for himself. The men wliich ejected me had no
authoiitie or right to displace a Schoolmaster, or meddle with
the Schoole, neither was the breach of any schoole ordinance
layd to my charge, it was only my eminent Loialtie for the King
(which his enemies called delinquency) which caused me to be
thrown out of my house, plundered, sequestered, imprisoned^
and troubled with a vexatious suite in Chauncery for 6 yeares
space. I confesse the 6th Ordinance doth prohibite a School-
master to take vpon him the charge and care of the ministry*
whereby his service in the Schoole should be hindered.
I acknowledge I preached some tymes, which was never
interpreted or obiected as taking the charge of the ministry
many of the Schoolmasters, since the foundeing the Schoole
have bin preachers. What I did was so far from hindring the
Schoole that I am able to prove it was in better condicion
whilst I taught, not only then under Mr Piggot, but then in any
time before. I have the bookes of yearly admissions since the
year 1562, by which this truth will appear. If I had forfeited
my place by preaching it is vpon incorrigiblenes after three
Admonicions, which I never had, not one, as you may please t»
read in the 14th ordinance. Where as they further suggest my
obligacion to continue at Newport, I confesse the dutie and
respect owing to my worthy patron may prevaile far with me,
yet I never made promise to him, but with reservacions and
excepcions about m^ endeavour to repossesse myself of my place
in Shrewsbury, confer'd vpon me by your worthy society at the
earnest entreaty of the Townsmen. The reason why the Maior
and these Aldermen soUicite against me, I may surmise to be
a spice of their former hatred to the King and his true frendes.
I can prove that they have exceedingly wronged the foundacion
by sending one another the publique moneys, and disposing
thereof as they pleased contrary to the Schoole statutes, enlarg-
ing the salary of Mr Piggot, who was none of your electing, but
a creature of Mackworth*s, the King's mortal enemy, who also
as Captain bore armes against his majesty, when he went to
Worcester, who hath dilapidated the creditt of the Schoole.
I humbly pray you, worthy and reverend Sirs, do not go against
the grant of your worthy predecessors nor interpose in a Case,
which by a Mandamus out of the King's Bench is to be heard
in Court the first day of the next Terme, but vouchsafe to owne

Notes from the College Records. 341

me as the creature of your College, who shall ever be ambitious
to approve myself

Newport your most humble and

July 25 — 60 thankful! servant

Tug: Chaloner.

Addressed: These for the right worshipfull and Reverend
Doctor Tuckney, Master of St John's CoUedge, and the worthy
Seniors in that Society, in Cambridge.

These are to certifie that I, Stephen Perry, received a
warrant for Toft graunted to me the 25th of June 1670 by Sir
Thomas Slater. On the day following I went to Toft, and
hearing that there was a meeting in John Waites his house
there, Simon Priest being with me, takeing the cunstable with
us we went thither, and found onely fower persons there, by and
by while we were there, came in John Waites and the speaker,
but perceiving that we were there, they went to William
Eversden's house in the same towne. After that we had parted
with the cunstable (haveiug charg'd him to search the suspected
places, which he did not) we went aside, and after that return'd
again towards night. Hearing that there was a meeting in
William Eversden's house, we sought for the cunstable and
church wardens but could not find any one of them. We came
to the house of the said William Eversden and knock't severall
times, none answering ; after that we had continued a long time
knocking, he came to the door himselfe, whome we requiring
to open his door (having seen through a casement a companie
riseing up) he refused, saying that we were a couple of rogues
come to rob his house, and then returned into his house,
in the mean while we saw the number of 15 persons conveyed
out of a back-doore, afterward he came and opened his
door and bid us come in, then we show'd him our authority,
which while he read we charged assistance of 3 neighbours,
but they refused (their names we being strangers to the
towne did not know). The day following I alone went to
Sir Thomas Slater who (I makeing my complaint to him,
relating to him all the passage at Toft) tooke the warrant of me,
and I requiring a conviction of the persons, telling him that
Simon Priest, who lives within 2 or 3 doors from his house
would be ready. Then Sir Thomas Slater said he was not at

342 Notes from the College Records.

leisure. The next day I went to him, then alsoe he made
answer that he was busie, then the next, being the 29th, I went
to him again, takeing Edward Walls and Richard Billops along
with me to witnesse, and then he bid us come in to the roome
next to his office, and when he understood what we came
about, he said he was not at leisure. Afterward I alone went
to his house about 6 or 7 times, and his servants told me that
he was gone to looke after his harvest. Afterward I and Simon
Priest went together, and he bid us goe to Dr Ead's house and
said he would come to us, as he did, and swore us there in Dr
Ead's hall. When he had swore us, he bid us come to his
house and he would give us a warrant of distresse for the
conviction. Afterward I alone went to his house the next daj
and he (as his servants said) was not within, but left word with
his servant to bid (if we should enquire for him) that we should
come to him on Munday after the Friday that I was there.
U hen I went on Munday and spoke with him desiring a warrant
of distresse and he said it was too late, the three months were
expired. After this seeing the conviction did not proceed, the
aforesaid William Eversden went to Mr Bryan Kitchinman.
being an altourney (whose daughter Dorothy Kitchinman hath
been taken in a meeting, always a neglectcr of Divine Service)
he himself an encourager of the ffanaticks to trouble us. Who
graunted him a writ to arrest us. Hence Simon Priest and I
were arrested and soe forc'd to stand tryall. Hence alsoe we
are like to be undone by it unlesse we shall be back'd out from
above. (Daniel Low, Edward Bullein, Thomas Brand, Edward
Richardson)

Whom and whose I serve
to the utmost of my endeavours
Cambridge. Stbphbn Pbrkt.

Upon iht Happy Restaur at ion of
King Charles iht Second,

(0

Tis done at lasti the mighty work is done;

The noble race is run.
The wish't for Hero bravely comes,

See how the gen'rous Troops advance,

Their horses, mind 'em how they prance
Hark, the Trumpets sprightly sound, the Thunder of the Drumi.

Notes from the College Records. 343

(»)
With what a Grace they march along,

Amid the wondring Throng I
O welcome, happy, blest surprize I

A Triumph without ere a fight
The crowd, how eagerly they drink th' amazing sight.
And scarce can satisfy, or scarce believe their eyes.

(3)

None, sure, can grudge the Honor of this day :

Alassl 'twas purchased very dear:
For, be the sun now ne*re so clear
Many a black storm did usher in this May.

Be thou my witness, rugged Main.
Thy swelling Billows loudly spoke their pain.

They spoke their great Concern and Care,
For that sacred troubled Breast,
Which came 'mongst them to seek for Rest,

Yet could not find it there.

(4)

Speak for me Boscobel, auspicious shade.

Speak, for thou knew'st all his fears,

Conscious thou wast of all his cares,
When thy thick Boughs his Royal Court he made.

Blest be that Tree, and blest the Hand,

Which planted there a blessing to the Land.

For 'tis to that dark shade we owe

Whate're has shone so brightly since;
A Civic Crown did there prepare his Brow
To wear a Diadem more worthy such a Prince.

Wright, Senior.

R. F. S.

(7b ht conHnutd),

VOL. XXVtt. Tt

THE COMMEMORATION SERMON.

BY

The Rev J. M. Wilson, D.D.

Canon of WoRCitSTER.
KcCLKSlASlIC us xliv. 9. Somi thtrt he which h^tve no mgmoriaL

|UR service to-day is the "Commemoration
of Benefactors " : and a sermon on such an
occasion may take many different forms.
Usually, I suppose, and rightly, it is historical.
The preacher calls up before you some forgotten
benefactor to the College of the long past centuries,
and makes him live before you: and such historical
sketches are of much more than mere antiquarian
interest. They help, along with our ancient building-s,
our dress, and such fragments as survive of the gracious
and dignified customs of the past, to place our lives in
due perspective, as links in the long chain, stages in
the ceaseless evolution, as we might more truly call
them, of that greater unity in which we merge ourselves,
our college. They reveal to us our roots in the distant
past: they remind us of what we owe to the past.
They may serve to kindle our aspirations to repay that
debt, in the only way we can.

But I possess no such special historical knowledg-e,
living and working as all my life I have done, not in
the learned leisure of a University, but in the work of
great schools and great cities : and therefore I intend
this morning to think with you, and speak to you, of
our own little selves ; and not of any of the great
nimes of the past which we can call our own.

The Commemoration Sermon. 345

We will think of the drops that compose this stream
of college life which goes on century after century,
preserving its identity, though every drop in the stream
changes.

I believe it was a saying of Thackeray that "history
ought to be familiar rather than heroic " : and I suppose
the saying means that since history is studied in order
that, by knowing how we have become what we are, we
may also know how to become what we wish to be, we
should specially study those homely regions of history
in which the actors and actions afifect us most, and in
which we shall have our best opportunities of affecting
others. In those regions most of the figures are
individually obscure; they are familiar, not heroic;
but in the aggregate they affect us profoundly. Most
of us must be destined to be individually obscure ; but
our lives are not therefore historically unimportant.
Perhaps we do not sufficiently recognise the obligations
that lie upon the small and the unknown — upon the
men of one talent, of whom our Lord spoke.

Let me give an illustration. We look up at stars on
a clear moonless night, and could perhaps count some
2000 or 3000 stars at the most, and they send us light.
Any one who has lived in the country knows the
difference between the Egyptian darkness of a night
clouded and moonless, and that of a night bright with
stars.

But astronomers know that the light does not come
in any large proportion from the few stars we see, but
from the countless myriads we do not see; from the
myriads and millions too faint to be seen individually
by our eyes, revealed only by the light-gathering
telescope and the patient camera.

So it is in the history of this College. Only the stars
of the first few magnitudes in history are individualised
and recorded in its star catalogues, as we may call
them, our Dictionaries of National Biography or
College Annals; but it is from the aggregate of the

346 The Cammemoratum Sermon.

countless obscure and nameless multitudes that most of
the light comes.

It is just over 50 years since I came up as an
undergraduate to this College, and sat in the ranks of
freshmen in the old chapel. A generation before that
time my father was Fellow of this College, and his
friends went back another generation. Together my
father's memories and mine covered the nineteenth
century. All, or nearly all, of whom I heard from him
as a boy have passed into oblivion : possibly the names
of Wood and Hymers still survive: nearly all whom I
knew as an undergraduate and Fellow are as unknown
to you as I am ; but none the less they have left some-
thing of themselves and their personality in this College.
The College is the same, but it has incorporated their
spiritual presence. The drops have all changed, the
stream is the same. Lahiiur ei labeiur in omne voluUUs
csvum. There is a continuity of life, a mystic in-
dividuality, in such a College as this, that incorporates
the cloud of witnesses, the spirit of the past, that draws
the old to the young, and to some extent draws the
young, I hope, to the old. It makes us all feel on such
an occasion as this, that we belong to something greater
than ourselves, to which our loyalty and our love are
due; a College whose honour we will hold dear; one
whose best teaching and tone and influence we will do
what we can to understand, to seize, to enrich, and to
perpetuate.

Now this is in a special degree the work of the rank
and file of our body, of the obscure, of men like the
generations I have spoken of, men who a century or
half a century hence will be individually forgotten. To
preserve the best traditions of this College is the
common work of us all. Of those traditions as they
were delivered to me as a boy 60 years ago, before I
came up — as they were delivered to my father in the
same way 90 years ago, and have not, I trust, wholly
died out, the piost prominent in my memory are (i)

The CommemoraUon Sermon. 347

the watchful care and considerate help, the true elder-
brotherliness shown by Fellows and bachelors to
undergraduates. This was a great power for good in
the College in my father's time and mine. I will not
refrain from mentioning the great personal kindness
and stimulus, going infinitely beyond College obli-
gations, that I and many others received from such
men as Atlay and Rigg, from John and Joseph Mayor,
from Roby and Gorst, who were all my seniors in the
College, most of whom happily still are in full and
active life. Such men were '^ benefactors " to the
College. Let us this day thank God for them all, and
emulate them. (2) The College feeling which lasted
long after men had gone down, and inspired men to
welcome and befriend a Johnian anywhere and every-
where, and to see in him a brother. Certainly I have
witnessed many proofs, and I hope my generation has
given some, that this tradition was strong in my time.
And (3) the tradition of respect for industrious poverty.
No man should be at a social disadvantage because he
is poor, and has not been at a public school. It is
manners, not money, that make men ; and where there
were modesty and good manners, industry and ability,
plain living and high thinking, such men used to be
welcome in the best society of the College. May they
always be so !

And there was another tradition ; not quite so easy
to define. The sight of our Chapel at the early service
to-day assures me that it has not grown weaker by time.
I mean the tradition of reverence, of religious faith. We
talked of course of everything in heaven and earth, as I
hope you do to-day. We read our Coleridge and Mill,
our Herbert Spencer and Comte, our Maurice and Carlyle,
our Shelley and Tennyson, as you read the current and
most stimulating thought of to-day. Everything was
intellectually an open question ; but somewhere at the
back of our minds was the conviction that the truth, the
permanent expression of reality, must be sought on the

348 The Commemoration Sermon,

old evangelical lines of faith and piety, and not in the
neglect or negation of them. I recall the hours of talk,
and still look back on them as the most formative and
fruitful hours in the three golden undergraduate years ;
I have forgotten all my mathematics, and much of my
scholarship, but I have not forgotten the real education
of College life, the talk, the endless talk with contem-
poraries. It seems to me as I look back, that we felt
instinctively that in the long historical process ot
growth and development of the human mind and con-
science, which we were beginning to realise, the
continuous preference of a religious interpretation of the
world, and the continuous rejection of thoughts
inconsistent with that interpretation, had resulted in the
formation of a body of substantial truth which had a
justification far deeper than can be expressed by any
one thinker of any one age. Securus judicat orbts. The
attacks, however seemingly unanswerable, were not in
pari maUrid : they were only syllogisms of the intellect,
attempting to deal with the slowly acquired results of
the conscience and experience of ages. They were
clever, but not convincing, not final.

I am sure that one of the noblest traditions of this
College fifty years ago was its atmosphere of reverence.
An article in an early number of TAe Eagle on our
College Chapel, written by one of my friends and fellow
editors, the outcome of talk, illustrates the general tone.
Of course then, as now, upholders of faith were by some
regarded as prejudiced. Prejudice, it was said, I remem*
bar, coloured our medium of vision, and obscured the
truth. It is a remark that has often been made since.
Illustrations are often misleading as arguments. It may
be that prejudice is only another name for the faculty by
which the continuity of growth of the race is preserved,
the means by which the inheritance of each age is trans-
mitted purified to the next ; the faculty by which the
intuitions of individual genius are incorporated into the
pre-existing mass of human knowledge and feeling ; the

The Commemoration Sermon. 349

sturdy stem of the tree which embodies the product of
every leaf that has grown on its branches.

I have unconsciously glided into a defence of preju-
dice. Readers of Burke will remember his words: —
'^ Many of our men of speculation instead of exploding
general principles are employing their sagacity to
discover the latent wisdom which prevails in them."

I think this sentiment of Burke was, and I hope it
still is, the traditional bias of mind in our College. If
prejudice is the name of the attitude of mind by which
continuity is preserved, prejudice has a high value in the
spiritual life of a college or nation. There is, as Renan
said, a moral sap in the ancient faith, a s^e morale
dans la vteille croyance.

Your generation owes a debt to both the great and
the small — if in the eyes of God there be great or small
— of the past. And the only way to repay it is to repay
it to the present and to the future ; to pass it on is the
way to shew gratitude for a benefit. The voice of a
"Commemoration of Benefactors" should be to stimu-
late every one of us to be benefactors, and that not to
this College only, but to our Church and country. Both
cry aloud for help. Help forward everywhere those
ends for which this College was founded, and for which
our Lady Margaret is on her knees in our College Hall.

For good or ill this College will, during this and
coming centuries, contribute its quota of power, light,
and life to the Church and the Commonwealth; and our
commemoration bids us see to it that here, up in
College, our life is generous and pure, and self-restrained
and thoughtful, lived in reverence and in faith, in the
fear of God and in brotherly love, that so our contribu-
tion to the life of the nation may be worthy of that for
which this afternoon I shall invite your prayers in the
University pulpit : — " the ancient and religious founda-
tion of St. John's College." We have reaped, and are
reaping, how abundantly ! of the harvest of the past.
Let us also sow, and sow good seed, and sow abundantly,

350 The Cammemoraiian Sertnon.

that others may reap. I have reminded you of the
obscure and unknown benefactors whom, we com-
memorate this day; and I call on you also to be
benefactors in your turn, even if you also should be
obscure and unknown to the generations that shall come.
Lift up your eyes and look on the fields, and enter on
the work God sets before you, here and in the great
world : do not let the seed sown by others be unharvested,
or any fields lie fallow and unsown. Be content to be
obscure if only you are not mean ; unknown if not
ignoble. Then you too will be benefactors, faithful in
your generation to the traditions and aim of this ancient
foundation, and faithful to our Master in heaven.

MAXEN'S DREAM.
A Legend of the Conquesi of Britain.

It fell that Maxen Caesar on a day

Rode to the hunt, and round about him sped

A gallant company in fair array:
And many a helm'd and many a crowned head

Glittered among the thick-leaved boughs of May:
Their flaunting banners to the breeze were spread,

Their cries and joyful echo fill'd the vale

And to the seas and mountains told the tale.

Now when the sun had reach*d the middle sky
A languor came on Maxen and he slept,

Where a broad river roll'd its billows by,
And bees a slumbrous murmur round him kept,

Where ancient oaks held their great branches high
And all the bolder light did intercept:

But bees and river, oaks and light did fade

From Maxen as he slumber'd in the glade.

Near him stood many a page and many a guard.
Withholding from strange eyes the purple vest

And those embroidered eagles which declared
Unto his world the Lord of East and West:

Some hung their shields upon the boughs and scared
The bright-eyed squirrel from its ivied nest,

Some doflTd the plum6d helmet from their brows.

But spoke no word lest Caesar should arouse.

VOL. XX VII. AAA

35^ Maxell s Drtam.

4
Then in his sleep* a yision on him earner

He dream'd that on a winged steed he rode
By a river, and the river was that same

By which he slept, and far before him glowM
The mountains bathed in the morning flame.

But all was dark below and nothing show'd
Save those great rosy peaks in heaven, and he
Let loose the rein towards them eagerly.

5

Onward he went; the eool and stagnant air
Gave way before him; valley, hill and stream^

Hamlet and town and city, all that there
He met, dissolved behind him, yet did seem

To own a shadowy presence; for they were
The fragments and the phantoms of a dream^

When time stands still, or rather that we see

In dreams through time into eternity.

He came upon the mountains and he pass'd.
For now their crests in richer sunlight shon'er

The magic lay to westward : o^'er a vast

And wealthy land the steed was pressing on ;

And as he rode a dreaming gaze he cast
On tilth and field and rivers many a one»

Till at the last the Ocean near him lay

And a great city in the morning grey.

7
A castle there was builded on the shore

With many-colour'd towers and flashing stone;
A harbour stretched beneath whose water bore

A fleet unnumber'd ; yet one ship alone
All her white-straining canvas round her wore.

And from her deck a bridge was lightly thrown
Unto the quay, and so with sails unfurFd
She seem'd the ferry to another world*

AIaxen*s Dream. jjj

Down by the towers and to the waterside
He came and up on to the ship he rode :

The bridge was parted, forward now they glidey
Sway the huge seas in undulations broad,

And 'fore the prow the spraying waves divide.
And many a light eddy mark'd their road,

Until another land before them rose,

Wrapt in white mist and lit by dawning-glows.

9

O^er this new land did Maxen pass — a land
Of valleys throng'd by downward-rushing rills.

Wild cliff and echoing plain "and haunted strand
Where mermaids twine their necklet of jsea-shells

And sing sweet murmurs on the sea-worn sand,
Of lakes that sleep for ever mid the hills.

And dark oak- forests carpeted with leaves

Where every autumn a new texture weaves.

lO

So Maxen came o'er many a rugged steep
And many a desolate mountain clothed in mist,

And saw before him a new water leap

And break in foam, and on that shore he wist

An ancient castle that long watch did keep
Over a bourg whose walls the wavelets kiss'd;

And barring the horizon lay an isle

Where allars flamed and^ voices spoke the while.

II

He enterM in the town, the keep, the hall :
All there was quiet and now it seem'd midday;

Shield, sword and banner hung upon the wall.
There at the chessboard two strong youths did play

And near them sat an ancient man and tall,
And from a golden rod he filed away

Shaping new chessmen, and beside him there

A maiden watch'd him from an ivory chair.

354 MaxetCs Dream.

Her beautj cliarm'd the hall, her eyes were bright
With softest lustre and her fairest face

Had put oft* mortal blemish : turning light
She glanced, she met the £mperor*s tranced gaze,

And rose she blush'd at first and then the white
Retum'd and did the ebbing red erase ;

And as she blash'd and as she paled, surprise

And love with all his wonder fiird her eyes.

And Mazen's eyes npon her eyes were chained :

She look'd, she rose, and though no word was said,

Yet all seem*d known ; again her cheeks were stain'd.
His arms about her neck he threw and led

Her to the double throne — fur so 'twas feign*d
Now in the dream ; but ere 'twas perfected.

Sword, shield and banner clashing rang around

And the sweet vision vanish'd with the sound.

»4
A sad man was the Emperor as he woke,

Untouch'd, unloved, beneath the ilex shade,
And saw the clanging shields whose jarring broke

The web of sleep so gloriously made.
As sudden-changing music at one stroke

Hides the eternal passion it betrayed.
He mounted, turnM his horse's head for home,
And with his wondering vassals pass'd to Rome.

»5
And all men marvell'd, governors and kings,

To see the bitter sorrow of their lord.
That like a fever'd sickness cut the strings

Of life and could but life-in-death afford;
For him the Hours moved not their heavy wings.

For him made Day and Night the same award ;
Only in straying dreams he joy'd to live.
To taste again that vision fugitive.

Mdxen*s Dream. 355

Then to him spake a youth who served him well,
Page of his chamber, but a king in Rome :

^'O Lord of mine, what wizard cast a spell
'^ Upon you in the hunt and made you come

"Disconsolate, rapt in dreams, and miserable
"Into this City and imperial Dome?

" Tell but your need : a thousand waiting stand

"With life and limb to work your least command.'*

«7
To whom the Emperor : " Little profits me

"To be the first of earthly princes now,
" For Love and Pain who kindred spirits be

" Spare not the diadem-encircled brow.
"But hear — O that it were reality! —

" My visionary tale—" Then follow'd how
He journey'd, look'd upon the maiden's eyts^
And woke beneath the bare Italian skies.

18

Then answer'd him the youth: "Lord, oft in dreams
"A truth appears to waking eyes unseen,

" Though cloy'd with vagrant rumours, idle themes :
" What will be mingles there with what has been ;

"We join the greater world and wider streams
" Of life enfold us and a light serene.

''O let us seek the vision waking, find,

" If that we may, those wonders of the mind.

" But take my counsel : from the ilex-dell

"Let some start forth and me among them go,
"And follow in your track o'er alp and fell

"And that broad wealthy land that lay below,
"And reach the shore and cross the ocean-swell.—

"Who knows what profit, what success may grow
" From our emprise ? " The Emperor heard and smiled,

And from the palace soon the envoys filed.

3s6 Maxefts Dream.

to

They BparrM apace, they reached the ilex-wood.
They passed beneath the Alps' eternal snows»

Over Provence and Aquitane they rode.
And to Bordeaux they came: the castle rose

With many-colour'd towers; and soon they stood
Watching the curved land its grasp unclose.

So they before the wind saiPd speedily

While round about them moved the restless sea.

21

In Dyved did they land and once again
Followed their Master's dream-adventured quest:

Upon their brows the herald-sleeves were plain,
In many a chieftain's hall they took their rest.

Until they saw the towers of Abersain
Jewel the plain of Arvon to the West

And then the narrow seas and then the shore

Of Mona where the smoke rose evermore.

tt

Then each one tnrn'd to other and he said,
"Lo, here the land our Master saw, the town

*• Where that dream-maiden dwells so fancy-wed I "
Into the bourg they rid and vaulted down.

Then hasten'd to the hall, and there they read
The vision, for to greet the guests unknown

The chessplayers rose, the ancient sire was there,

The maiden watch'd him from her ivory chair.

And he their leader raised his hand and cried,
"Hail, Empress of the Romans, hail, beloved

''Best of all maidens in the world so wide!
"We bring the Emperor's greeting, we have roved

*' O'er many a land and o'er the sea's broad tide
"To find that wondrous beauty, which so moved

" The heart of Caesar that no joy is known

"To him;^unles$ thou deign'st to share his throne."

Maxeris Dream. 357

24
But Helen from her seat spoke haughtily:

'* Ha, sirs, what message is it that ye bring ?
" Nay, he that wooes me, let him come to me I

'' Unsought I wed nor emperor nor king,
" No, not a god. But let him cross the sea \

'' He is no lover with so faint a wing.
•* And if my dream be true — ^" Quick silence came.
But brow and cheek and bosom were aflame.

*5
Her answer'd the glad envoy bowing low:

« O lady, swift the foot and strong the steed
" Of those who on so dear an errand go.

"Tonight we linger here, tomorrow speed
''Till Maxen Caesar may your answer know.

'* His words we gave you, but himself in deed
" O'er land and water, hill and dale will come
"To lead so fair a conquest back to Rome.

26

He ended; and they welcome had that night.
And on the morn retraced hotfoot their way.

Wishing the wings of swallows for their flight.
Stinting each halt and sick at each delay.

They sail'd, they galoppM on in weary plight.
And as their horses fail'd new mounts took they

And faster rode, until before them shine

Hills temple- crown'd and Caesar's Palatine.

*7
Their tale was heard, and soon the summons went

From every gate, and soon the march was made
On the great roads that spann'd a continent:

The Emperor s self the eager files array'd,
And ever in the van he pitch'd his tent.

And rode untired from dawn to even-shade.
Thus over Gaul he came, and on the coast
Of Britain landed with a mighty host.

353 Maxefis Dream.

28

Long task it were to sing of all his toils.

Of marches, battles, sieges, charge and rout.
Of stealth that fear'd the moonlight, sadden foil^

And forest ambush, fierce assault and shout,
Of camps and cities sack'd and victor-spoils.

Of all the tides of Fortune in and out.
When the grim legions stood at bay and when
They foUow'd in the chase o*er heath and fen*

19

So like a flood they raged from sea to sea.
Till all the isle of Britain own*d him lord

And king and chieftain held of him in fee
Or bit the dust beneath his conquering sword

Or some who bent no tributary knee
Into the western isles in exile pour*d :

Then o'er the wild waste hills his way was ta*e»

To Arvon and the hold of Abersain.

30
From Snowdon he beheld them, and he spurr'd

Unto the castle with his wondering train:
To him 'twas half familiar, as a bird

Returning in the springtime finds again
Familiar woods by wonted breezes slirr'd

As if in no new lands her path had lain.
His followers stay'd without, and he alone
Trod tense with hope tlie ringing threshold -stone.

^^
And those young warriors stood and that old shre^

Eudav, arose and near him rose the maid,
And as in dreann he saw his dream'd desire,

And as the Moon o'er brimming seas display'd
Hides in the trembling waves her silver fire,

Yielding she sank into his arms and laid
Her light hand on his breast; and thus was dooe^
His wooing, thus was Helen Lluythoc won«

EPITOME OF A CAMBRIDGE BREAKFAST.

Ordered at 8

It comes in at S.io,
And the guests of the fl^te '

Are awakening then.

By a quarter past 8

It is colder and drier.
While the guests of the ffite

Put on their attire.

By 8.30 the toast

Is as hard as a bone.
But no sign of the host.

And the guests are but one.

By 9 the whole number

At length have arrived.
And mine host of sweet slumber

Is quickly deprived.

At 9.10 the party

All sit down to brekker,
And keep at 9.30

A nine o'clock lekker.

A. Y. C.

VOL. XXVII. 39,BB

CHRONICON DE LANERCOST.

IHRONICON DE LANERCOST is the title
given by tradition to a manuscript in the Cot--
tonian Collection, which was printed for the
Bannatyne Club in 1 839. It contains what we
may call an olla podrida of English and Scottish history
from A.D. 1201 to 1346, prominence being given in
either case to the Border districts; and the whole is
iaroaredy so to speak, with incidental anecdotes^
episodes from contemporary continentat history, and
occasional pieces of monkish Latin verse, — ^those
rhyming hexameters which sound so strange and
quaint to those of us who have been taught to climb
Parnassus by a severer route. The book has a (>eculiar
charm of its own, and apart from its historical value it
throws much light upoii medieval ways of life and modes
of thought: sometimes we can almost imagine that we
are listening to the shrewd, credulous, enthusiastic^ and
intensely patriotic scribe who compiled the work ; we
can almost hear the modulations of his voice as he
relates some miraculous occurrence, which must be true
because it redounds to the credit of his favourite saint»
or stirs our pulses by describing a battle in the most
sonorous language at his command.

Probably, however, we are listening to several
voices: the work is evidently a compilation, but here
and there the compiler has forgotten to remove a
personal reference left by one of his predecessors, of
whom the earliest must have been living about A.D. 1 200,
while another appears to have flourished duringf
the latter half of the thirteenth century; a diflFerent

Chronicon de Lanercost. 361

hand IS traceable during^ Edward the Second's reign,
and the writer of the closing pages differs from the rest
both in style and spirit. But whatever be the number
of writers, none has left so much as his name, and even
the true title of the Chronicle is uncertain. Lanercost
is a place in north-east Cumberland, where a priory of
Augustinian Canons was founded in 11 69: the church
and some of the conventual buildings still remain, and
form one of the faii^st medieval relics that the North of
England possesses, — a fabric of warm red sandstone,
set by a little river in a green and smiling dale ; but the
connection of the Chronicle with Lanercost is only
traditional, and we cannot say definitely that either the
compiler, or any of the writers from wfaom^he borrowed,
was a Canon of the House. Much, if not all, of the work
must have been produced by a friar of the Minorite
order : a particular enthusiasm for St Francis pervades
the first part of the Chronicle, and there is some refer-
ence to the order in the second part, which seems to
have been largely written by one who was more of an
historian and less of a gossip than his predecessors.
The Minorite friars had a house at Berwick and several
establishments in Scotland, but in all probability the
place where the bulk of the Chronicle was compiled was
their friary at Carlisle : that city was the capital of th«
West Marches and politically the most important town
in the northern counties ; and the guest- houses of its
monasteries must have been among the busiest news
agencies in the kingdom.

However, let us glance through the volume which
contains this notable work. It is written in medieval
Latin and (at any rate in the earlier part) excites our
envy by occasional lapses in grammar : we too in the
days of our youth have sometimes put an accusative
after a preposition which has a traditional right to be
followed by the ablative case, but our early manuscripts
are not among the treasures of the British Museum.
Medieval Latin is a curious and in some respects a

itk Chronicon de LcmercosL

fascinating study, and on the whole it was a very handy
language, capable of indefinite expansion by the simple
process of latinizing English terms : it may lack the
finer lights and shades which the classical scholzu- loves,
but it served our ancestors well ; it conveyed their lands
and made their wills and contracts, conferred upon them
titles of honour or charters of privilege, and even
admitted them to sanctuary when they had slain their
private foes. It was even a capable instrument in the
hands of the medieval humorist : at least one of our
anthers seems to have been fond of verbal antitheses
and epigrammatic expressions, and even to have felt no
shame in making a downright pun. In describing a
naval victory won by the English in 1217, he records
the losses of the vanquished, and adds that their funeral
rites were.performed by the fishes [quorum obsequia pisces
prostcuH sunf). Elsewhere he describes a French knight
as " Faukes re et nomine^' — ^Fox by nature and Fox by
name ; and in speaking of the defeat of the Norwegians
at Largs in 1266, he says contemptuously that they were
better fishers than fighters {plus ar its hahentes piscandi
quam pugnandt).

The record begins with * impius Johannes * and the
murder of Arthur, concerning which the Chronicler tells
a curious story.

*' Just as Saul plotted against David and tried to pin
him to the wall with a spear, so John, while he was at
supper, bade the lad stand beside him in a narrow space
between the table and the hearth, hoping to stab him
secretly with a pen-knife and throw his body into the
fire ; but the spirit of innocence that was in the boy gave
him a premonition of the plot, and he escaped with a
scorching."

However, John was only temporarily defeated. One
evening he set out for a walk, taking Arthur as his
esquire, and with them went William de Vepount, Lord
of Westmoreland, and a certain miller : the party took
a boat and put out to sea, and as soon as they were out

Chronicon de LanercosL 363

of sight of land, the young prince was thrown over-
board.

The earlier part of the Chronicle is replete with
marvels, and especially with accounts of miracles which
resulted in the conversion or destruction of a sinner!
Perhaps the quaintest of all is the story of the Butter-
fly Bishop, which occurs under the year 1216,

" Peter de Roches, Bishop of Winchester, was a vain
and worldly prelate, as has too often been the case with
our Bishops. One day, according to his usual custom,
he summoned his huntsmen and entered the forest
belonging to his see to hunt, when he ought to have got
his enjoyment by comforting the souls committed to his
charge. However, as they beat the forest for game, the
party became separated : presently the Bishop entered
an open glade, and saw before him a new and handsome
building where no building had existed before. Peter
was struck with its elegance, wondered who could have
built such a place, and rode forward to inspect it ; and as
he drew near, attendants dressed in splendid liveries
came out to meet him, and urgently invited him to come
to dinner with the King, who was expecting him. Peter
hesitated, and tried to excuse himself on the ground that
he was not dressed in a proper episcopal dining-costume
[se habitum pro episcopali discitbitu aptum non hdbere\
but the attendants produced suitable apparel: Peter
was arrayed in it and conducted, bowing courteously,
into the presence of the unknown King in the great
hall : there he was seated at his host's right hand and a
magnificent feast was served.

" However, his wits were not so dulled as to prevent
him asking the King who he was and whence he had
come, and the King answered that he was Arthur, once
lord of the whole realm of Britain. Peter was delighted,
and proceeded to ask the King whether he was saved :
and on receiving a favourable answer he was ready with
another question.

" Who, sire," he said, " will believe me, if I say that
today I have se^n and spoken with King Arthur ?"

364 Chronicon de LanercosL

"Shut your right hand," said the King, and the
Bishop obeyed. " Now open it," Arthur continued, and
as he did so, a butterfly flew from his palm.

"All through your life," said the King, "you shall
have this memorial of me. At whatever season of the
year you wish to see an insect of this kind, do as you did
just now and you shall have one."

" This proof of the story became a matter of such
notoriety that people would often ask for a butterfly by
way of a blessing, and Peter got the name of the
Butterfly Bishop. What lesson the soul of Arthur
wished to inculcate by the marvel, let him consider who
is better able to guess than I am {perpmdai qui melius
conjicere potesL)'*

The following story occurs under the year 1244, and
points a less obscure moral.

" In Norfolk there lived a simple countryman who
had several sons, and amongst them was a boy named
William, to whom, as a mark of special afiiection, his
father gave a pig, in order that he might go out into the
world and seek his fortune. The lad left his native land
and travelled to France, with the proceeds of the sale of
the pig in his purse, and there he prospered well,
married a widow of good family, and rose to a position
of wealth and honoxu:. But lest prosperity should
corrupt him, he constructed a private chamber, which
even his wife was not allowed to enter ; to this he woiild
occasionally retire, and he always returned from it with
tears in his eyes. Naturally the practice excited the
curiosity of his friends, who pestered him till he con-
sented to show them this secret reminder of his former
poverty. The chamber contained a picture of a pig,
with a boy holding it by a string ; and above the pair
were these words in English : —
"WilleGris, WilleGris,
Thinche twat you was, and qwat you es! "

Under the year 1289 mention is made of the capture
of Tripoli in Syria by the Saracens, and the writer adds

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the story of the pious fraud by which the nun Luceta
ftaved herself from an infidel's harem ; she pretended
that she knew a charm {verba carminis virhiosi) which
conferred invulnerability, persuaded her captor to prove
it on her own neck, and so died with the Ave Maria oti
her lips. A few pages later we get an account of Bovo
de Clare, solemnis nomine sed nan conversaHone^
who held the living of Simondburn, then worth seventy
marks, and would not even keep the church clean, but
squandered his money on a magnificent carriage which
he presented to the Queen Dowager of France : this
vehicle, which was of ivory, with fittings of silver to the
smallest nail, and harness of gold and silk, cost three
pounds sterling — sed scandalo mille milium.

It is only natural that a large part of the Chronicle
should treat of the relations between England and
Scotland during the stormy period which followed
Edward the First's claim to feudal supremacy over the
northern kingdom, and whether the writer was an
Augustinian of Lanercost or a Minorite of Carlisle, he
must have seen and suffered many of the evils that he
records; for the former place was more than once
plundered, and the latter more than once besieged. The
first part of the Chronicle closes with a lament for the
death of *^ that renowned and excellent King, brave and
warlike throughout his life and in all things strenuous
and distinguished, the lord Edward, son of King Henry,
who for wisdom and daring leaves not his like among
Christian princes"; and the second part opens
ominously with an apt allusion to the story of Rehoboam.
The pitifiil history of the second Edward's reign is
chronicled at considerable length, possibly by the pen
of a single writer, who expressly states that he got his
account of Bannockbum from a trustworthy informant
who saw the battle. In tone he differs both from the
scribe who wrote the account of Wallace's incursions
and from the writer who heaps so much abuse on David
in 1346: nowhere does he indulge in violent language

366 Chronican de LaHereosL

against Robert Bruce or the Scottish invaders of his
time, and the fact that he appends to his account of
Bannockbum verses of a strongly anti-English character
is enough to convict him of being a pro-Scot. Perhaps
the true explanation is that he was merely cautious : he
lived in difficult times, and to have been captured by the
Scots with a violently anti-Scottish chronicle in his
possession might have led to unpleasant results.

However, this second part, whoever wrote it, contains
many interesting and exciting stories* The two great
fortress-towns of the English Marches were Carlisle and
Berwick, and during this period each sustained a siege
not unworthy of mention. In December 131a the Scots
attempted to surprise Berwick by a night attack : they
had prepared rope ladders (our chronicler appears never
to have seen such things before, and he describes them*
minutely) fitted with iron hooks, which they hoisted on
very long spears and tried to attach to the parapet of the
wall ; but when no more than two ladders were in place,
a dog began to bark and roused the garrison, thus
saving Berwick as the Capitol was saved by the famous
geese. The town was betrayed to the Scots in 1318.

In July 13 15 Carlisle sustained a ten days' siege, of
which our chronicler gives so detailed an account as to
make it probable that he was then in the city. Robert
Bruce directed the siege in person, and the attack was
pressed with extraordinary vigour, but the defenders
were no less energetic and sent forth such a shower of
missiles that the Scots were forced to ask one another
whether they bred stones in Carlisle. On the fifth day
the enemy erected a balista and battered the Caldew
Gate, but only succeeded in killing one man: the
garrison had seven or eight similar machines, besides
others called Springalds, which shot long javelins, and
they seem to have used them with good effect. The
Scots next constructed a 'berefrai', or moveable wooden
tower, high enough to overlook the wall, but the
carpenters of Carlisle raised a wooden superstructure at

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the menaced point, and eventually the ' berefrai ' stuck
fast in the mud. Escalade was tried and failed, and an
attempt to undermine the wall fared no better : on the
ninth day of the siege a general assault was delivered
and repulsed; on the tenth, while the main body
attacked on the east, James Douglas, with a small
number of picked men, attempted to scale the walls on
the west side, where the fortifications were higher and
less strongly guarded, but he was driven off with some
loss, and on the following day the siege was raised.

We read much in these pages of the unpopularity of
Edward II, and we find one curious and pathetic
instance of its effect on a disordered brain. About
Midsummer 1318a certain mean and obscure man came
to Oxford, entered the King's manor there, and laid
claim to the throne of England, saying that he was the
true son and heir of the late King, and that the then
reigning Edward was not of the blood royal ; and this
he offered to prove by single combat. The event caused
a gpreat stir in the University, and some foolish persons
supported the pretender, mainly because the King was
so far inferior in character to his father : from his youth
up he had, according to popular report, privately
devoted himself to rowing and driving, to digging pits
and roofing houses, to blacksmith's work, and to other
frivolous pursuits, unworthy of a king's son.

The King, who was at Northampton, sent for the
man, and in mockery addressed him as his brother, but
the pretender indignantly denied the] relationship and
repeated his challenge ; whereupon he was committed
to prison, and a few days later he was brought to trial
before the King's Seneschal. He confessed that his
name was John of Pouderham, and after receiving
sentence of drawing, hanging, and burning, he proved
his insanity by telling an extraordinary story of a spirit
which had appeared to him, first in dreams and after-
wards visibly, and had promised in return for his
homage to make him King of England ; he was to go

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368 Chronicon de Lanercost.

to Oxford with a dog, a cock, and a cat, and the spirit
had undertaken to win him the favour of the people
because the King was so unpopular. " So the evil spirit
deceived me," is the last wail of the poor lunatic, " and
lo ! I die a shameful death."

Not less pathetic is the story of Andrew de Harcla,
with whom our chronicler must have been persox>ally
acquainted. Harcla was Sheriff of Carlisle and a knight
of energy and reputation : at a time when the King was
in grave peril, he had raised the forces of Cumberland
and Westmoreland, marched to Boroughbridge, near
Ripon, and there defeated and captured the Earl of
Lancaster, the leader of the King's enemies ; and for
this service he had been created Earl of Carlisle.

But the promotion was an empty honour so long as
the Scottish incursions continued, and the King could
neither rule nor defend his kingdom : ^' he was cowardly
and unfortunate in war," says our chroncler, *^ and as
he had fled in Scotland, so he was the first to fly in
England." Worse still, — the root of the whole matter
was the claim to feudal supremacy over Scotland, and
the King was passively allowing half his kingdom to
be ruined for the sake of a shadowy and unprofitable
right. In his despair Harcla paid a private visit to
Bruce, and arranged terms of peace on bis own
responsibility, in spite of the fact that the Scottish king
and nation were under an Interdict ; it was agreed that
the parties should support one another against all
who refused to accept the treaty, that Scotland should
be recognised as an independent Kingdom, and that
if Edward assented within a year, Bruce was to found
a monastery in Scotland for the spiritual benefit of
those who had fallen in the war, pay Edward 40,000
silver marks in the next ten years, and marry his heir
male to an English princess.

Harcla returned to Carlisle, summoned an informal
parliament of Cumberland, and persuaded or compelled
its members to accept the treaty. The report of these

Chronicon de Lanercost 369

proceedings was received with joy by the lower classes
of the North of England, but the King, of course, was
furious ; Harcla was declared a traitor, and Anthony de
Lucy was commissioned to eflfect his arrest by stratagem,
De Lucy travelled to Carlisle with three knights, four
esquires, and a few servants, the whole party being
secretly armed, and entered the castle at a time when
most of Harcla's supporters were absent : they found the
Earl quietly dictating letters in the great hall, drew
forth their weapons, and bade their victim yield or
defend himself. Harcla was unarmed, and he could
only choose the former alternative : a shout of "Treason !"
was raised by his attendants, and the porter attempted
to shut the inner gate and trap the arresters, but they
cut him down, and the bewildered garrison surrendered
without further resistance.

Harcla was shrived by four different confessors, —
possibly our chronicler was one of them, — and all
acquitted him of intentional treason, but the law took no
heed of their opinion. Six days after his arrest he was
tried, or rather sentenced without trial, "first to be
deprived of his earldom by the taking away of the sword
which the king had given him, and degraded from
knighthood by the striking off of his gilt spurs, then to be
drawn through the city to the gallows at Harraby and
there hanged, and afterwards to be beheaded, dis-
embowelled, and quartered."

"And so," says the Chronicle, " with an unmoved
countenance and a fearless mind he went his way to
suffer all these passions. As he was being drawn
through the city, he kept his hands clasped in prayer
and his eyes fixed on the heavens ; beneath the gallows
he bore himself calmly and bravely, and made an earnest
speech in explanation of the motives which induced him
to make the treaty with the Scots ; and so he underwent
the judgments passed upon him."

Poor man ! In less than six years the King who
degraded and slew him was himself deposed and slain,^

370 Chrouicon de Lanercosf.

and the third Edward had made peace with Scotland on
terms Jess favourable than Harcla had arranged : the
feudal claims were abandoned, and David Bruce, aged
four, married Edward's sister, Joan of the Tower, aged
seven ; but no mention is made of the 40,000 marks.

However, before that event happened, we catch a
glimpse of the boy king (he was then fifteen) making his
first campaign against a Scottish force under James
Douglas, which had ensconced itself in Stanhope Park,
the Bishop of Durham's great hunting preserve. With
much labour Edward contrived to place a part of his
army between the Scots and Scotland, but during the
night before his intended attack they slipped out of the
trap, and the young King shed tears of vexation.

This episode marks the close of the long period of
disaster and suffering which had all but ruined the
North of England. Robert Bruce died in 1329, and was
succeeded by his son David ; but presently Edward
Baliol appeared on the scene, and his offer to hold the
kingdom of Edward as his feudal lord brought on
another protracted war, concerning which the Chronicle
has more to say than we can recount. David passed
through many vicissitudes, and when the war between
England and France enabled him to expel his rival, he
recovered his kingdom only to lose his liberty. Early
in October, 1346, he invaded England by one of his
father's favourite routes, despoiled Lanercost and
Hexham, and presently encamped in the Prior oi
Durham's park of Beaurepair, now Bearpark, whence his
followers harried the surrounding country. It is here
that we discover that the pen has changed hands, and
we cannot but admire the chronicler's intimate know-
of the Old Testament and the Apocrypha : he likens the
Scottish King to Ahab, Antiochus, Nebuchadnezzar,
Ahitophel, and Jabin ; of the English leaders, the Arch-
bishop of York is Mattathias and Sir Henry Percy
Judas Maccahaeus.

However, the English army was gathering at

Chronicon de LanercosL 371

Auckland under Sir Henry Percy, Sir Ralph Neville,
and the Archbishop of York, and on the 17 th of Ox^tober
David was defeated and taken prisoner on the Red
Hills beside Durham, in the battle which usually bears
the name of Neville's Cross. Nor was the Archbishop
the only ecclesiastic who took his place in the fighting
line.

"There was another bishop," says our chronicler,
•*of the Minorite order, who by way of benediction
exhorted the English to fight manfully and not to spare
the Scots; and when he encountered the enemy, he
imposed penance and gave them absolution with a
club."

We are tempted to imagine that this nameless bishop
was no other than the chronicler himself, and certainly
his description of the battle tallies with the confused
impression of uproar and carnage which must have been
produced on an inexperienced warrior by a medieval
action.

"Then trumpets sounded, shields clashed, arrows
flew, spears pierced, stricken men shrieked, squadrons
shouted, heads were shattered, many alas! were throwft
to earth, and so about the hour of vespers the conflict
ceased, the Scots fled, our men slew them, and (praise
and honour to the Most High I) the English had the
victory."

R. H. F.

IRISH WISDOM:

ue. Wisdom from the Eyrie

Augur : One who bored the Ancients with

Prophecy.
Alcohol : A liquid good for preserving almost

anything but secrets.

Backbiter: A Mosquito.

Champagne : The stuff that makes the world go
round.

Corset: From Fr. Corpsa=shape, and sec=

rough— Rough on Shape.

Dachshund ; A low-down dog.

Eagle : The crest of a Christian College,

presumably chosen onj account of
its being a bird of pray...(what!
what! Ed.)

Feint : A pugilist's bluff.

Faint : A woman's bluff.

Gallon: From Fr. Galonner: to make tight.

(Note : One is sufficient.)

Hug : A roundabout way of showing affec-

tion.

KisS: An indescribable something that is
of ,no value to anyone, but is much
prized by the right two (interrup-
tion caused by death of one of the
Eaglets)
1 ! ! ! 1 1 1

Irish Wisdom*

373

Laundry:
Menagerie :

Nonconductor J
OaR:
Policeman :

Quorum :

Religion :

Sinner :
Tongue :

Union :
Virtue:

Woman:
Year:

Zealot:

A place where clothes are mangled.
From Fr. Melange^a mixture: And

Ger. riechensto smell — Hence a

mixture of smells.
The driver of the "Yellow Peril."
A popular device for catching crabs.
A never present help in time of

trouble.
A clumsy individual all Ayes and

Noes seldom at hand when needed.
A cloak used by some people in this

world who will be warm enough

without one in the next.
A stupid person who gets found out.
An unruly member frequently put

outy yet an artist who is a hard

worker at the palate and is a great

wag among women.
A house divided against itself.
A quality often associated with in^*

telligence but rarely with beauty

(Chorus of "Shame" from the

Eaglets).
An aspiring creature whose political

sphere is often flattened at the polls.
A period originally including 365 days,

now 325 as the other 40 are Lent

(Another Eaglet expires).
One who loves morality so well that

he will commit crime to maintain

it.

[Thaf s all. Edd.]

ROWING NOTES.

Little Miss Muffet
Developed a "bucket"
Canoedling along in the Cam,
There came alongside her
A light-blue oared slider
And little Miss Muffet said :— " Hullo,
here's the 'Varsity boat ! "

Amputation is vexation

Excision is as bad
Anatomy did puzzle me

Now practice drives me mad

21? a Certain Coxswain

Little Boy Blue, come curse at your crew.
They're slumming like blazes so make a to-do;
Where's the Little Boy Blue that coxes the eight }
He's lost in his blazer! ... a terrible fate!

There was a young man of weak mind
Who never was done getting "blind,"

When it rained he would shiver and think

of the river
And stand in the Courts and yell "Grind."

TENACITV OP ANCIENT SUPERSTITION.

|VERY generation inherits from the one pre-*
ceding it the standard known as orthodoxy,
according to which a belief is judged to be
legitimate or irregular. Since, however,
truth is revealed to us through knowledge, our fore*
fathers were mystified by something that is to us no
more than a bare fact ; but as long as there are things
about which there is no certain knowledge, so long will
there hang round these things many superstitions : for
a superstition is something inconsistent— a result
without a relevant process^

It is characteristic of man to invent an origin for
anything he cannot otherwise explain. By this means
primitive men account for the mysteries of the universe.
Similar stories regarding their origin are found in
national mythologies between which no connection is
possible.

Modem science has left no room for varied ex-*
planations of the heavenly bodies, but it is not a long
time since the exactness of science has prevented the
popular mind from further speculation.

There are many stories told about the sun and moon
and their apparent wanderings through space. Nearly
all primitive people at some stage in their advance
think the sun and moon to be people, or at any rate
animals, for they see them possessed of attributes which
they cannot detach from the animals they know to
possess those attributes.

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376 Tenacity of A ncicnt Super sittion.

Among New Zealanders and North American Indians
the sun is a great beast, which the hunters trapped and
thrashed with cudgels. His blood is used in some New
Zealand incantations, and, according to an Egyptian
myth, was kneaded into clay at the making of man.

It is interesting to meet here in this primitive form,
the modern fact that the sun is indispensable to life, and
is accountable for man's physical existence*

The moon is supposed to be inhabited by a man who
was banished there for gathering sticks on the Sabbath.
The fable is founded on some verses in the book of
Numbers xv. 32-36, but there is no mention of the
moon. In Germany, however, the story is more com-
plete. A man carrying sticks on Sunday is met by a
stranger who questions him on his impious deed. He
replies : «* Sunday on earth or Monday in heaven, it is
all the same to me." ''Then bear your burden for
ever," retorted the stranger, " As you value not Sunday
on earth, yours shall be a perpetual Moon-day in heaven,
and there you shall stand for eternity a warning to all
Sabbath breakers I " The tale is old, for the full moon
is known by Germans as a "faggot."

Scandinavian mythology has it that Mani, the moon,
stole two children, Hjuki and Bil, who were carrying
water in a bucket suspended on a pole between them ;
in this position they were placed in the moon where
they could be seen from earth. It is easy to see in these
two names the Jack and Jill of the nursery rhyme, with
this further significance that as the moon waned Jack
disappeared and was later followed by Jill.

Such beliefs in the origin of the sun and moon as we
have observed are not yet altogether things of the past ;
and even to this day children are told that thunder is
literally the voice of God.

If instead of inventing an origin it is possible to
adopt a story the process of which would not make an
unbecoming solution of the problem, man has no
hesitation in adopting it. Again, uneducated people

Tenacily of A ftcienl SupersiiUon, 377

find it hard to hold an idea apart from some particular
reality that they are acquainted with ; they must attach
it to something that it may be intelligible to them.
If this were not the case we should have in a man's
mind two things incompatible with primitive human
characteristics: a problem without a solution, and an
idea unattached to a reality.

A story of some cruel or arrogant deed, probably of
pure invention, comes to be exclusively connected with
the name of some well known man who would be likely
to do such a thing or be of such a kind.

To many people it is an historical fact that in 1307
the Swiss tyrant Gessler hung his hat on a pole for all
to bow to; that because he disobeyed this command,
William Tell had to put his skill to the most cruel test«
We read that if the boy had suffered instead of the
apple. Tell would have taken the tyrant's life with a
second shot to atone for the death of his son«

The root of this story appears in almost all my-
thologies, and the stories are so alike as to make it
unnecessary to repeat any of them here ; we have our
English version in the ballad of William of Cloudsley.
To find it in so many different places is sufficient to
prove that the story is a myth adapted to a likely person
a4id generally believed to have actually happened at
the date mentioned.

The story of Antichrist, which finds its origin in
scripture as the personification of impiety and wicked-
ness, is fulfilled at different stages in history ; in rulers
and other prominent men, of which Nero and Diocletian
are only examples ; whose wild savagery people could
account for in no other way. There are a sufficient
number of instances to prove^that, following on the
advice of scripture, men were on the look out for the
Antichrist which should surely come, and were ready to
believe that it was even then already in the world.
They would narrow down to their own age the trutl\3^^
of ^11 ages.

378 Ttnacity of Ancient Superstition.

Few of the stories of events which we believe to
have happened can claim any originality in that respect.
Some people have a gpreater admiration for Shakespeare
because they think that he invented the plots of those
plays of his which were not historical ; whereas it is
known that he drew many of them from Boccaccio and
Straparola. But even the Italians did not invent them.
King Lear did not originate with Geoffrey of Monmouth,
but comes from an early Indian fable.

We are told as a fact that William the Conqueror on
landing in Britain slipped, and kissed the earth, saying
he had come to greet and claim his own. The same
story is told of Napoleon in Egypt and of lunius Brutus
on returning from the oracle, which shows that rather
than being an amazing coincidence it is just embellish-
ment of the historian or biographer to indicate an idea
which would otherwise be difficult to convey.

The fatality of numbers has already played a g^eat
part in human conception of the superhuman. To any-
one but a mathematician, some of the results are so
surprising that it is no wonder superstitions hang round
them.

Seven is a sacred number : there are seven days in
the week, the earth sleeps through seven months, and
this latter alone is accountable for a whole crowd of
superstitions, amongst which the seven sleepers of
Ephesus is well known, and others give fanciful versions
of the same idea.

Each number appears to have a characteristic virtue
as in the system of Pythagoras.

Ever since the time when the supper attended by
Christ and his disciples was followed by such disastrous
events, people of reputable sanity attribute to the
number thirteen the power of inflicting the last penalty
on one or more of such a fated number sitting down to
.eat together. Two or three instances are enough to
prove the validity of this to anyone whose mind is
bent on the question whether through fear or expec-^

Tenacity of Ancient Superstition^ 379

tation. It is an undisputed fact that if we imagine a
thing a few times we quickly believe it : more quickly^
if we feel strongly about it. As in the case of walking
under a ladder or looking at the new moon through
glass, the times that disaster follows the party of
thirteen are more noticed that the times that it does
not.

In Scotland alone these customs could be multiplied
a hundredfold. So long as the course of nature is
regular, nothing disastrous may be expected, but bad
luck is called into being by anything that interrupts
the even tenor of its way. Anything "uncanny" is
looked upon with misgivings as the precursor of troubles.
Many a Highlander would as soon allow a crowing hen
to live after committing such an offence, as wish ill
luck to a newly married couple at the head of a
procession which he meets, by refusing to avail him-
self of the opportunity they are expected to give him
of drinking their health.

All nations at some stage in their existence have
held a superstitious belief in dreams, which in most
cases are supposed to prophesy some impending event.
If they are nothing more than coincident with the events
they are said to have prophesied, as such they are
extremely remarkable, but definite conclusions with
regard to them are almost impossible, partly on account
of the complex nature of the dream and partly because
of the difficulty in foretelling the nature of the trouble
ahead. We may venture to say however that no one in
our time has been saved from disaster because he
previously dreamed of its approach.

The foregoing superstitions have been handed down
to us as things to be believed, but since our knowledge
of some of them is greater than the knowledge of those
who believed them, we can analyse their character and
discover on what weakness of the human mind they
depended. Instances maybe collected to support either
^ide of the question ; and at the present time men who

^So Tenaciiy of Ancient Suptrstittan.

profess to have the peculiar gift of interpretation easily
capture the uneducated popular mind by a few lucky
guesses, a little vagueness, and the indispensable
assistance given them by the remarkable credulity of
people in anything mysterious.

We inherit from preceding ages both superstition
and belief, more belief than superstition ; for what they
surely believed, exists now in a large measure only in
fable; and what they held in a vague superstitious
manner has very often proved to be the unchangeable
truth, veiled by ignorant interpretation, progressing in
revelation according to the additional knowledge
brought to bear on it by each successive age. An
element of truth underlies every superstition, and it is
difficult always to discover how much of their ow^n
mythology the ancients really believed, but the fact of
their stories being handed down to us as their beliefs is
enough at any rate to prove that they saw an element of
truth which they could preserve in no other way.

Considerable belief was placed, in different forms, in
the inter-relation between men and stars, and particular
constellations are definitely accounted for. According
to the Greek myth the seven stars of the Pleiad were
once seven maidens, daughters of the Giant Atlas. Six
of them had Gods for lovers, but the seventh had only
an earthly wooer. When they were all changed into
stars, the seventh hid her light for shame.

Since it appears from comparative mythology that
the framework of many stories among different primitive
people is the same, and as in some cases the actual
story appears in two nations quite distinct from one
another, so we may expect to find among the primitive
men of modern times the roots of many of our own
beliefs which have come down to us from our own
primitive state. The aborigines of Australia account
for the lost Pleiad also by a fanciful tale.

The Red Indian and Australian will account for
nearly every bird or beast in existence by some myth

Tenacity of A ncient Superstition. 3 R 1

"which tells that the animal was once a man or woman,
and was changed by divine interference. The heavenly
bodies are traced to just the same sort of origin ; and
from this fact we get the explanation of their extra-
ordinary names.

Astrology, which still maintains a degree of
popularity, is based on the opinion that the star under
which a man is born determines his character and fate ;
and the character of the star is mainly deducted from
the nature of the animal it originally was. In this
connection it is interesting to remember that on two
occasions Wordsworth uses the figure of a star to refer
to a man's life. In his Ode on the Intimations of
Immortality :

*The Soul that rises with us our life's star ;

again, in the Ode to Milton,

* Thy Soul was like a star and dwelt apart ; '

The whole idea of the Ode on Immortality is a
survival of one of the earliest beliefs, although it
probably never attained the clearness of thought with
which Wordsworth declares it.

Perhaps the strangest story of stars having been men
and women is in the "Pax" of Aristophanes, where
Trygaens, who has just returned from a journey to
heaven, points out the star into which a man who had
lately died had been transformed. This idea is found
among Eskimos and Persians ; nor must we overlook
the belief of modern German folklore which says * when
a child dies, God makes a new star.'

It may be a long way from the rude notions of
savages to our present knowledge, but the fact that the
heavenly bodies are intelligences, and are capable of
following the commands of their creator, is not so
antiquated as to be without the support of modern
times.

Numerous psalms contain verses calling on the sun,
moon, and stars to praise their maker and to show forth

38i Tenatity of Ancient Superstition^

his brightness ; and if we do not subscribe to this belief
literally, at any rate we realise the idea embodied
in it, and whether it is truth or not it is a survival
of primitive speculation.

In the modem theory of hypnotism or fascination
there are many points which seem to be the direct
outcome of early belief in the supernatural powers.
There is somewhere truth in the idea that the facidties
of some people are capable of being endowed by the
power of the greater personality of another. We believe
that the divine element in us is capable of being
attracted by the whole divinity of a soul which is to
us almighty, and we claim to have communication
with this by our minds being attuned to the whole
mind, without any interrupting discord.

It is not intended here to dispute the truth in this
belief, but it undoubtedly exists as the idea of many
a myth, from which however it has become detached.

Of these stories perhaps the most familiar is the
Piper of Hamelin. A stranger leads away by his piping
all the rats that infest the town of Hamelin ; but enraged
at the ingratitude of the inhabitants who refuse to
reward him, he lures away all their children by the
same strange power in his pipes. It is almost startling
to find in some mythologies, that notably of Crermany,
the human soul is supposed to bear some analogy to a
mouse and the soul could leave the body in this form*
It is said that the soul of a man who went to sleep thirsty,
came out of his mouth like a small red mouse. While
the mouse went off to look for water the man's friends
tried in vain to wake him and finally carried him to
another place. When the mouse returned and could not
find its place it became excited and vanished, and the
same moment the man died.

The saying that * Rats desert a falling house ' pro-
bably refers to the soul leaving the crumbling ruin of
the body.

In the Hart2 Mountains once passed a strange

Tenacity of A nctent Superstition. 383

musician with a bagpipe. Each time that he played,
a girl died ; and when he had in this manner caused the
death of fifty girls he vanished with their souls.

In Goethe's poem of the Erlking the same idea
prevails ; the little child sleeping in his father's arms as
he rides late at night, hears the Erlking chanting, and
offering the glories of Eltland if he will but follow.
The father soothes the child, telling him it is only the
wind in the trees, but the song has lured the little soul
away, and when the father unfolds his coat the little
child is dead.

The fable of the sirens singing so that all who hear
must rush to their arms and perish is only another
form, but perhaps nearer to the root of the primitive
belief. The ancients believed that the wind held the
souls of the dead, which cried as they followed Odin in
his wanderings, till the last day. In Greek the words :
wind, spirit, soul, are all very much alike. It is as a
survival of this myth that we open the windows that a
dying man may breathe his last.

Among many of the English peasantry the belief
exists that the souls of those about to die are called
away by the piping of angels, in whose music they hear

of a land —

Where flowers put forth a fairer hoe
And everything is strange and new

as the lame lad did in the Piper of Hamelin.

A hymn of Dr Faber sung by many people now shows

*' the music of the gospel that leads us home" —

Angels of Light

Singing to welcome the pilgrims of the night.

Someone else in a hymn says —
Angels say,
•• Sister spirit, come away 1 "

Mystery hangs round death more than round any
other fact in our lives, just because we have so little
certain knowledge of the soul and what comes of it.
Some construct theories for others to destroy ; but no

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384 T€nacify of A ncient Superstition^

one has the whole truth as a standard for determining
the proportion of truth in each of these theories* That
the soul is part of the mysterious force called life is clear
from the fact that the body lives only so long as the
soul resides in it. The soul appeared to be summoned,
too, by some force which it cannot resist.

So much the ancients saw, but if they could get no
further than the wind that carries the soul of men away
in its flighty modem belief carries on the old idea, till
angels accompany uncorrupted souls to their eternal
resting place in heaven.

There are some practices in vogue now which are
survivals of ancient pagan belief, and are still continued
but with an entirely different significance. Indeed many
are unaware of their heathen origin. Some of the cele*
brations of Christian rites, though retaining little or
nothing of their original character, none the less owe
their existence to a corresponding ancient and pagan
custom. Our Christmas is the survival of a regular
heathen festival, yet many would believe it only to have
begun when Christ was born.

One of the most extraordinary coincidences iu
customs, if coincidence it be, is the fact that the cro^
by which we are immediately reminded of the death of
Christ, was used as a sanctifying power at death long
before the Christian era*

Gaulish coins have been found like small wheels with
four spokes in the form of a cross ; that this is a cross
is proved beyond doubt by its being designed in the
mosaics of houses, and, later, on coins. Some are
shaped with the arms rounded. Among the Druids
the cross was symbolic, in its long stalk of the
way of life, and in the three short ones of Heaven
Purgatory, and Hell.

The shamrock of Ireland derives its sacredness
from its affecting the form of a cross.

In Scandinavia, the symbol of Thor, their god of
thundery was a hammeri and this hammer was a cross.

Tefiaciiy of Aifuient Superstition. 385

Kven if there is nothing else in it, it is worth noticing
that it was with this hammer that Thor crushed the
head of the great Mitgard Serpent, restored dead
animals to life, and consecrated the funeral pyre of
Baldur.

In the plains of northern Italy there are traces at
jg^reat depth of a civilisation existing over a thousand
years previous to Christian times. Extensive tombs
have been unearthed containing many cinerary urns,
the ends of which are elaborately engraved with crosses.

The nature of the symbol of the cross differs accord-
ing* to the different tribes that used it; but everywhere
it is the symbol of the good that combats evil, and
almost in every case is the symbol of the god of rain
and health and regeneration through water, and is
called the Tree of Life.

The effect of conscience on man has often resulted
in his doing himself some harm. His wrong-doing
haunts hihi so that he dies. Among uneducated
people the idea takes the form of the spirit of a wronged
man haunting the man who wronged him, or the place
in which the injustice was done. In any case the idea
of punishment for sin leading to death is familiar
enough.

In the year 970 a district of Germany suffered from
famine, and Bishop Hatto promised to quiet all the
poor famished people if they would assemble in his
barn on a certain day. When the place was full he set
fire to it : remarking as he heard the cries of the people
" Hear how the rats squeak ! " Next day an army of
irats was seen approaching his house, and in spite of all
his efforts to defend himself he fell a prey to their
insatiable hunger and perished.

In some stories it is another bishop, and he was
devoured by mice. The classic furies pursued a man
who had done wrong, and he could not shake them off.

When we remember that in German folklore the
souls of men are mice, we see in the Hatto legend that

386 Tenacity of Ancitnt Superstition.

the souls of those whom ho had so cruelly wronged
pursued him like a relentless fate, and were satisfied
with nothing short of his complete undoing.

The modern belief among educated people is that
a man's sin reacts on himself, and that if he has
transgressed the laws of nature he will suffer the
inevitable consequences; and the idea is prevalent*
especially among uneducated people, that a man's sin
will *'find him oat" till he repents and makes repara-
tion, or if he does not repent will bring about his
downfall.

In the words " Paradise," " Isles of the Blest," and
other titles, there is revealed the idea that there was
some place on earth which fulfilled this expectation.
The nature of the Paradise that was prepared for the
reception of souls differs according to individual belief,
but that there is a time and a sphere where their
highest ideals will be realised is believed by most
people. Before it was understood that the kingdom
of God was not in material existence, speculation
was active in assigning to particular places on the
earth this significance; and it is interesting to notice
here that the fairest lands are always those about
which least is known ; mystery has a power of fascina-
tion, and people are not sure that they want to be
disillusioned.

Britain was once thought to be the Fortunate Isles to
which the souls of the dead were brought across the
water, and whence none returned. In Ireland the
belief held that there was a Soul Island across the sea
beneath the setting sun.

The idea that troubled waters had to be crossed was
very widespread, and although we use it now for the
most part in figure, yet it was once a real belief.

In Christianity the figure is the Valley of the Shadow*
yet such lines as : —

Shall we meet and cast the anchor
]B/ the fair celestial shore?

Tenacity of A nctent Superstition. 387

show that the old Druidic tenet still exists in form if not
in actual reality.

A verse from a poem on the " Last Voyage " indi-
cates the same survival : —

On 1 on I through the storm and the billow.
By life's chequered troubles oppressed,

The rude deck my home and my pillow,
I sail to the land of the Blest!

Another relic of early belief seems to be the investing
of souls with a body fitted for its new conditions. That
the primitive Kelts did not believe in the resurrection
of the body is proved by the belief that when a man
died his soul was transported at once across the water,
while his body was known to lie where he had been
buried ; and yet it is not long since that money was
put in a man's cof&n with him for the ferryman, "just
in case there might be something in it."

On examining ancient superstitions, we feel at any
rate that our belief is not all of our own making. Truth
remains the same, though what is true to one age seems
false to the next. It is because each age, in proportion
to the knowledge it calls into play, puts on the truth a
different interpretation from the preceding age.

To put a truth into dogma is to bury it ; so that the
next generation can unearth it only by beginning all
over again, and the ideas in mythology are veiled over
by this parochial view of truth.

There are some people who refuse the truth that is
laid bare by modern knowledge of a few plain facts,
even though these be unimpressed by theory; so that
we are driven to the conclusion that it is not really the
truth that they seek, but a so-called religion, not the
religion of " studying human a£fairs in the light of their
ultimate issues," but one in which they foster that delight
in the mysterious, one of the oldest characteristics of the
human race.

J. F.

IJ^LIRTATIOI^.

A girl is but a cockle shell

On the water,
A boy is but the wanton wind

Come to sport her; —
Lightly fans her with his breeze,

Love surrounds her:
Then he puffs an eastern gfust

And (oh ! for shame) he drowns hef.

Or, should th' affection longer prove^

The boy not thwart her;
Still on his bosom bear her well

As does the water.
And steer her safely in and out

Each threatening danger.
Some day he '11 leave her high and dry

To woo (alas!) a stranger.

W. K. H.

Walter Frank Raphael Wsldon, M.A.

The morning paper of Monday, April i6th, contained the
startling announcement that W. F. R. Weldon, Linacre Pro-
fessor at the University of Oxford, had died on the preceding
Friday of acute pneumonia.

Very few of his friends can have been aware that he was not
in his usual health, and we learn that it was only on Tuesday of
the same week that he had left the house of Professor Karl
Pearson, where he was staying with his wife, to keep an
appointment in London. He felt unwell at the time, and in
London the illness gained rapidly upon him, with the lament-
able result above indicated.

Weldon was born in i860. His father, Mr Walter Weldon,
F.R.S., followed the profession of Journalism, and also made
important discoveries in Chemistry. Before he entered at St
John's College, in 1878, Weldon had studied at King's College,
London, where he attended the lectures of A, H. Garrod, Fellow
of St John's, the distinguished Prosector of the Zoological
Society. As an undergraduate he is remembered for the eager
interest which he took in all sorts of topics, and for his highly
unconventional outlook in them all.

At that time the newer developments of Zoology were making
rapid strides, and the Cambridge School, under the leadership
of F. M. Balfour, occupied a foremost place in the advance*
1880 and 1 88 1 were the dates of publication of the two volumes
of Balfour's Comparalive Embryology^ a book which first gathered
into a whole the results of the modern work on that subject, to
which he had him self contributed a large share. In 1882, the
year of his untimely death, Balfour was made Professor of Animal
Morphology. Besides the men working for their degree Balfour's
class included students from America, Australia and Japan, who
bad been attracted to Cambridge by his teaching.

390 Obituary.

These were the stimulating conditions among which Weldon's
undergraduate life was cast, and he devoted himself with all indus-
try to laying hold of the new learning. After taking his degree,
in 1 88s, Weldon stayed up and worked at a number of morpho-
logical problems, and was one of the most brilliant of the men
who carried on the work of the school when it had been deprived
of Balfour's inspiring guidance. He was the first to hold of the
University Lectureship in the Advanced Morphology of Inver-
tebrates. An eloquent and enthusiastic teacher, with great
skill as a draughtsman, and, wholly wrapped up for the time
being in his subject, he compelled the attention and interest of
his audience.

In 1884 he was elected to a Fellowship of his College, and
in 1890 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. In the
following year he went to London, being appointed to the
Jodrel Professorship at University College; and in 1899 he
succeeded Professor Ray Lankester as Linacre Professor in the
University of Oxford.

His attention had already been directed to the statistical
investigation of variation and heredity. With the view of
testing the action of natural selection Weldon had set himself,
with characteristic energy, to the laborious task of determining
by exact measurement the frequency with which departures from
the mean occur in selected species, in samples from different
localities, in the young and adult state and in parents and
offspring. Some idea of the labour involved may be gathered
from the fact that one series of these observations embodies
the result of two exact measurements of the carapace of each
of 8069 crabs. In all this he had the skilled and devoted
assistance of his wife.

In 1901, in association with Professor Karl Pearson and in
consultation with Mr Francis Galton, Weldon issued the first
number of Biometrika 'a journal for the statistical study of
Biological Problems,' in which his principal interests were
henceforth to centre.

He was, however, far from being engrossed in these studies
to the exclusion of other duties. He took an active part in
the remodelling of the University of London, on Committees
of the Royal Society, on the Council of the Marine Biological
Association, and in the annual meetings of the British
Association. He was president of the Zoological Section of
the latter at the meeting held at Bristol in 1898.

Ohttuary. 391

He was genuinely interested in literature and art, and took
a keen interest in foreign travel. He and Mrs Weldon
delighted to get away in summer vacations to remote corners
of Italy, where the picturesque life of the people as well as
the beauty of their surroundings were sources of unfailing
pleasure.

This is not the occasion, even if time were ripe, to enter
into any account of the controversies to which his ardent
advocacy of his views on biological problems gave rise.
What must possess the minds of those who knew him, in the
presence of their loss, is admiration for the life so strenuously
lived, and sorrow for the genial and gifted friend so suddenly
•natched away.

J. J. L.

VOL. XXVn. FFF

OUR CHRONICLE.
May Term 1906*

The Right Honourable Lord Justice Sir John FletcFiet
MouUon (B.A. 186SX ^^ \»i^\\ elected aa Honocaiy Fellow of
the Colkge.

Sir Thomas Gibscm Carmichael (B.A. 1881) has been
appointed a Trustee of the National Portrait GiaUerj in succes-
sion to the late Dr. Richard Gariiett, C.B.

The King has been pleased to approve the appointntent of
Captain H. E. S. Cordeaux (B.A. 1892) C.B., C.M.G., Indian
Army, to be His Majesty's Commissioner and Commander-in-
Chief of the Somaliland Protectorate.

Mr £. J. Soares M.P. (fi.A, 1884} has been appointed
assistant private secretary to the Home Secretary.

Mr W. Carless (B.A. 1874) has been appointed Clerk of the
Peace for the borough of Hastings.

On April 26 Mr Edward James Rapson (B.A. 1884), formerly
Fellow of the College, Professor of Sanscrit in University
College, London, was elected Professor of Sanscrit in the
University in the place of the late Professor Bendall.

The new Professor was born on May 12, 1861, and is the son
of the Rev E. Rapson, Vicar of West Bradley, Somerset. He
was educated at Hereford Cathedial School. He proceeded to
St John's, and was elected a classical foundation scholar in 1883.
He obtained a first class i n the Classical Tripo^ Part H (Section E)
in 1883, and in the Indian Languages Tripos (Sanscrit and
Comparative Philology) in 1885. He was elected a Fellow of
St John's in 1887. His Sanscrit studies began in i88r under
the late Professor Bendall and the late Professor Cowell. In
1884 he was awarded the Brotherton Sanscrit Prize, and in 1886
gained the Le Bas Prize for an essay on "The Struggle between
England and France for Supremacy in India." In 1887 ^^ ^^^
for eight months in charge of the library of the Indian Institute,
Oxford, as assistant to the late Boden Professor of Sanscrit,
Sir Monier Monier-Williams. He was subsequently appointed
curator in Charge of the collection of Oriental coins in the
British Museum, a post he now holds. He is Hon. Secretary
of the Royal Numismatic Society and an editor of the Numismaft'c
Chronicle. He is on the council of the Royal Asiatic Society.
He published a monograph on Indian coins, also numerous

Our Chronicle. ^9j

contributions on Indian phiiology» Oriental history, and archao-
ology* He is one of the examiners this year for the Ociental
Lianguages Tripos at Cambridge.

The College has recently been presented with a portrait of
Dr Zachary Brooke (B.A. 1737), formerly Fellow of the College
and Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity in the University.
The portrait was painted about 1754. by Thomas Hudson, the
chief English portrait painter of his day (born 1701, died 1779)*
whose popularity was put an end to by his own pupil Sir Joshua
Reynolds. The donor of the picture is Mr Z. Brooke, a
descendant of the professor. It has been placed in the Library

Mr W, Bateson rR.S. (B.A, i88j\ Fellow of the College,
fias been appointed Deputy for the Professor of Zoology and
Comparative Anatomy for the ensuing academical year.

The Cambridge Philosophical Society have awarded the
Hopkins Prize for the period 1897-1900 to Mr. S. S. Hough
<BA. 189a), F.R.S,, formerly Fellow of the College, for his
papers on ihe Dynamical Theory of the Tides, published in the
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

The President of the Board of Trade has appointed Major
P. A. MacMahon F.R.S. (Sc D. 1904) to be Deputy Warden of
the Standards, to succeed the late Superintendent of Weights
and Measures, Mr H. J. Chaney LS.O , deceased.

The King, on the recommendation of the Home Secretary,
fias been pleased to appoint a Royai Commission to inquire
into and report on certain questions relating to the health and
safety of miners and the administration of the Mines Acts. Mr
H. H. Cunynghame (B.A. 1874) C.B., of the Home Office, is a
member of the Commission.

The McGill University, Montreal, has resolved to confer the
Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws on Dr Donald MacAlister^
Fellow and Linacre Lecturer of the College,

Dr D. MacAtister, Linacre Lecturer of the College and
President of the General Medical Council, has been appointed
to represent the College at the Second International Congress
on School Hygiene to be held in London in August 1907, Df
MacAlister is to be one of the Vice-Presidents of the Congress.
Dr James Kerr (B.A. 1884) is Honorary Secretary.

On April 8th last the magnificent clinical institute which,
during the last eleven years has been in course of erection
outside th« Porto Pia of Rome, was formally opened. The
occasion was taken to pay special honour to Professor Guido
Baccelli. Delegates from all the Italian Universities and from
most European countries were present in the Capitol to join in
conveying to him the congratulations of the scientific world.
The King of Italy received the foreign delegates, and in the name
of the nation ofifered them a Roman welcome. To Professor

394 Our Chronicle.

Baccelli many gifts were made. Speeches were made setting
forth his services as Minister of Education, as Conservator of
Roman Antiquities, as Professor of Pathology and of Clinical
Medicine ; and, lastly, as the founder and finisher of the great
Policlinico. After Professor Bouchard had spoken for France,
and announced that the President of the French Republic had
conferred on the hero of the day the insignia of Grand Officer
of the Legion of Honour, Dr Donald MacAlister, as President of
the General Medical Council and Deputy Vice-Chancellor
of the University of Cambridge, was cadled on to speak for
Great Britain. He delivered an oration in Italian and Latin,
which was loudly applauded. He recalled the fact that Italy
alone of European countries had entered into relations of
complete medical reciprocity with the United Kingdom. Re-
ferring to the fact that Thomas Linacre and many others of the
early founders and promoters of medical education in England
had owed their medical degrees to Italian Universities, he
added that the honour done by Italy to Lister, whose statue
occupies the central position above the fa^de of the new
Policlinico, seemed to shew that the ancient debt incurred by
England was in process of being repaid. The reference to
Lister was received with the greatest enthusiasm, and His
Majesty at the close of the speech shook hands with the orator
and thanked him for his contribution to the proceedings.

Dr T. G. Bonney (B.A. 1856) and Prof W.J. Sollas (B.A.
1874) have been appointed examiners in the Honours School
of Geology in the University of Oxford.

Mr W. E. Mullins (B.A. 1859), Alderman of the London
County Council, has been elected a Life Governor of University
College, London.

The University of London has conferred the degree of D.Lit^
on the Rev Professor Alfred Caldecott (B.A. 1880), formerly
Fellow of the College, for a thesis entitled " The Being of God
in the light of Philosophy/' and other papers.

Dr W. Jethro Brown (B.A. 1890), Professor of Law at Uni-
versity College, Aberystwyth, has been appointed Professor of
X^w in the University of Adelaide.

Mr J. W. H. Atkins (B.A. 1901), Fellow of the College, has
been appointed Professor of English Language and Literature
at the University College of Wales, Aberystwith.

Mr J. Jacobs (B.A. 1877) has been appointed Professor of
English Literature and Rhetoric in the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America. He has also received the honorary
degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Pennsylvania,

Mr A. W. Levy (B.A. 1897) has been appointed Headmaster
of Manning's School, Savanna-la-mar, Jamaica.

Our Chrontcle. 393

Mr K. C. Browning (B.A. 1897) ^^^ ^^^^ appointed Professor
of Chemistry and Physics at the Medical and Technical College,
Colombo, Ceylon.

Mr J. L. Coe (B.A. 1898), Assistant Master at Cranbrook
Grammar School, has been appointed an Assistant Master at
Highgate School.

Ds P. C. Sands (B.A. 1 904) has been appointed to a Mastership
at the City of London School.

Mr G. S. West (B A. 1898) has been appointed Assistant
Lecturer and Demonstrator in Botany; and Mr T. T. Groom
(B.A. 1889} Senior Lecturer in Geology and Geography in tho
University of Birmingham.

The Adam Smith (University) Prize for 1906 has been
awarded to Mr £. A. Benians (B.A. 1902) for his essay entitled :
*'The progress of settlement in Canada in the nineteenth
Century."

Mr£. Gold (B.A. 1903) has been selected for appointment in
the instruments branch of the Meteorological Office.

Ds Z. N. Brooke (6 A. 1905) has been awarded one of the
Winchester Reading Prizes for 1906.

The Rev J. H. C. How (B.A. 1903), Junior Missioner at the
Wellington College Mission at Walworth, has been appointed to
lecture in Hebrew in succession to the late Dr Watson.

The following were elected Choral Students of the College
on April 20th :

H. C. H. Love (Dean Close School, Cheltenham), Tenor.

A. F. Hall (Dulwich College), Bass.

F. Nor thorp, (St Martin's School, Scarborough), Bass.

R. S. Cripps, Exhibitioner of the College, has been awarded
an open Stewart of Rannoch Scholarship in Hebrew.

The Examiners for the Bell (University) Scholarships, 1906,
report that Mr R. P. Dodd, Foundation Scholar of the College,
distinguished himself in the examination.

Second Lieutenant G. H. Teall (matriculated 1900), Royal
Garrison Regiment, is granted the local rank of Lieutenant
whilst employed with the West African Regiment.

Mr G. R. S. Mead (B.A. 1884) delivered a course of four
lectures during the month of May on "The Dream of R^van
a Mystery." The course was given in the Lecture Room of the
Theosophical Society in Albemarle Street, London.

Sir Thomas Gibson-Carmichael (B.A. 1881) has been acting
as Purse-Bearer to the Household of Lord Colebrook, Lord
High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of
Scotland.

39^ Our ChrouicU.

The following members of the College were called to the Bar
on May q: A. S. M. van Hees at the Inner Temple, and
J. Nissim (B.A. 1904) at the Middle Temple.

In March last the Council of King's College, London*
appointed Dr John Phillips (B.A. 1877} to be Professor of
Obstetric Medicine and Diseases of Women.

Mr P. W. G. Sargent (B.A. 1894) has been appointed
Assistant Surgeon to the National Hospital, Queen's Square,
London.

Mr Otto May (B.A. 1900) has been awarded one of the
Liston gold medals in Surgery in the University of London.

Mr V. C. Honeybourne (B.A. 1902) has obtained a Commis-
sion in the Royal Army Medical Corps.

At the ordinary quarterly Comitia of the Royal College of
Physicians of London, held on Thursday, April 26th, Dr F. W.
Burton-Fanning (M.B. 1891) was elected to the Fellowship of
the College ; and on the same day Mr F. S. Jones (matriculated
1897), of Liverpool, had a licence to practice physic granted to
him. Mr F. S. Jones also received the diploma of membership
of the Royal College of Surgeons of England on May loth.

Mr £. A. English (matriculated 1890), Deputy Commissioner^
Burma, has been posted to the charge of the Toungoo district.

Mr P. B. Haigh I.C.S. (B.A. 1900) has been appointed

Assistant Collector, Sirsi division, Kanara, Madras.

Mr T. F. R. MacDonnell (B.A. 1898) was on April 14th
appointed to officiate as Assistant Government Advocate, Burma.

Mr R, B. Patel (B.A. 1902), barrister-at-law, has been
appointed to act as Second Deputy Registrar and Commis*
sioner for taking affidavits in the High Court of Judicature,
Bombay.

Ds H, D. Wakcly (B.A. 1904), who was successful in the
Home Civil Service Examination 1905 (twenty-second in the
list), has been placed in the Secretary's Office of the General
Post Office.

The name of Ds G. Leathem, formerly Scholar (B.A. 1906),
should be added to the list of those who passed the Final
Examination for the Indian Civil Service.

The following appointments have been made to benefices in
the gift of the College :

To the Rectory of Marston Morteyne, Bedfordshire, vacant
by the death of the Rev A. F. Torry, the College has presented
the Rev H. J. Sharpe (B.A. j86i), Vicar of Marham in Norfolk.

Our chronicle. 397

To the Rectory of Prating with Thorington, in Essex, vacant
by the resignation of the Rev Alfred Caldecott D.D., the College
has presented the Rev C. W. Bourne (B.A. 1868), Headmaster
of King's College School, London.

To the Vicarage of Marham, vacant by the removal of
Mr Sharpc to Marston Morteyne, the College has presented the
Rev D. Lamplugh (B.A. 1875), Rector of Rokeby, near Barnard
Castle.

The Rev L. B. Radford (B.A. 1890), Rector of Holt. Norfolk,
has been appointed a Surrogate in the diocese of Norwich.

The following ecclesiastical appointments are announced :

Name, Degree, From To he

Ainger, W. H. (1888) V. Phirfhoe-on-Tyne V. All Saints', Gosfortli

BuUcr, H. T. W. (1897) C. St Thomas, V. Grcasborough,

Dougbs, I. of Man Rotherham

Dewar, D. (1884) V. South Wigslon, V. St Luke's, Leicester

Leicester

GiveD-Wilson, F. G. (1892) C. St John's, Redhill V. Dedham, Colchester

Clemiuson, A. G. (1888) R. Akeley, Bucking. V. St PauFs, Hallwell,

ham Bolton-le-Moon

Lester, J. H. (1868) R. Lexden, Colchei* V. of Odiham and

ter N. Waiuboiough

At the Lent Ordination, on the iith March last, Mr J. Lister
(B.A. 1Q04) was ordained Deacon by the Bishop of Durham and
licensed to St Iohn*s, Gateshead Fell.

The following books by members of the College are
announced : The Eye for spiritual things ^ and other Sermons, by
the Rev Prof H. M. Gwatkin (T. and T. Clark) ; Time and Clocks,
by H. H. Cunnynghame CB. (Constable) ; A Geometrical Political
Economy, by H. H. Cunnynghame C.B. (Clarendon Press); Neo-
Austinian Jurisprudence, being an edition of Lectures /, V and VI
of Austin* s Jurisprudence^ and of the Essay on the Uses of the Study
offurisprudence, by Dr W. Jethro Brown, Professor of Compara-
tive Law in the University College of Wales (Murray) ; Protective
Duties and what the foreigner would pay, a universal law of incidence
exemplified in wheat, by Edward Soanies Saxton, sometime scholar
of St John's College, Cambridge (University Press) ; Christian
Thought on present-day questions, by the late William Allen
Whit worth, with a preface by the Bishop of London (Macmillan) ;
Origin of the Anglo-Saxon Race, A Study of the settlement of
England and the tribal origin of the old English People, by the
late Thomas William Shore, edited by L. E. Shore M.D. and
another (Elliot Stock); Euripides* Alcestis, translated by H.
Kynaaton D.D., Canon Residentiary of Durham, Professor of
Greek and. Classical Literature in Durham University (Claren-
don Press) ; The principles of electric wave telegraphy, by J. A.
Fleming F.R.S., Professor of Electrical Engineering in Univer-
sity College of the University of London (Longmans) ; The Rise

398 Our Chronicle.

and Fall of Reading Ahbey, by Jameson B. Hurry M.D. (Ellidt
Stock) : Practical Mathematics, by J. E. Boyt (Dent) ; Side-lights
0n the Bills from the Mound of Geur^ by R. A. S. Macalister
(Hoddcr andStoughton) ; Technical Electricity, by H. T. Davidge
and another (Clivc) ; Elementary Science, by I. T. Sattcrly (Clive) ;
Old Testament History, Part i, by T. Nicklin (Black).

The following University appointments of members of the
College have been made since the issue of our last number:
Mr W. A. Cox to be an examiner for the Special Examinations
in Theology ; Professor Langley, Mr J. J. Lister, and Mr F. F.
Blackman. to be members of the Board of Managers of the
Frederick James Quick fund ; Mr A. C. Seward to be a member
of the Museums and Lecture Rooms Syndicate.

Sermons have been preached in the College Chapel this
Term by: Dr J. M. Wilson, Canon of Worcester, May 6,
Commemoration, and Mr St J. B. Wynne- Willson, Headmaster
of Haileybury, May 20.

The list of Select Preachers before the University to the end
of the Easter Term 1907 contains the name of only one member
of the College, the Rev George Body (B.A. 1863), Canon of
Durham, who is to preach on November 1 itb.

The Annual Dinner to members of the College who have
taken the M.A. Degree and have retained their names on the
College Boards is to be held this year on Thursday, June 21.

Members of the College who graduated in the following
groups of years are invited on the present occasion

1855 and earlier: 1873-75; 1888-1891; 1899-1904.

It may be convenient for candidates for Fellowships at the
election for 1906 to know that the following dates have been
fixed : Candidates to inform the Master of the subjects of their
dissertations not later than May 23rd ; dissertations to be sent to
the Master not later than August 23rd ; the examination will be
held in the Combination Room on Monday, October 20th. The
election will take place on Monday, November 5th.

Adams* Memorial Prize.

For the present year the essay is to be on one of the follow*
ing subjects :

1. The application of Lagrange's methods to the vibrations
of continuous systems about a position of equilibrium.

2. Thermodynamics of a perfect gas.

3. The theory of the circle at infinity, with applications ; and
its relation to ordinary Euclidian geometry*

Our Chronicle. 399

4.. Applications of the theory of partial differential equations
of the first order, geometrical and other.

The following authorities may be consulted on the essay
subjects :

1. Rayleigh, Sounds vol. i ; Green's Papers, p. 145, etc.

2. Clausius, Heal^ translated by W. R. Browne; Planck,
Thermodynamics.

3. Salmon, Geomeiry of Thrtt Dimensions (1882), Chapters
VJi. to IX., etc-

4. Salmon, Gcomthy of Thret Dimensions (1882), Chapter
Ziii; early chapters of treatises on Hydrotlynamics.

The Essays, marked ''Adams Memorial Prize,^ should Ue
sent to the Scuior Bursar befor«e th<2 end of September.

CoLLRGB English Essay Prizes.

The following are the subjects for the College Ess&y Prizes:

For Students now in their Subject,

Fit St Year BoswelPs Life of Johnson.

Second Year Clarissa Harlowe.

Thitd Year The Present Discontents.

The Essays are to be sent in to the Master on or befoce
Saturday, October ijth,

JOHNIANA.

There ai^ prohably few places where so many volumes of * Minutes'* are
Icept »» in Camlrndge and its Col]ej>es. The fate of these records is very
obscute, as few of ihe Clubs now in existence seem to possess a complete set.
The Lady Margaret Boat Club has a long series of volumes; the Minut«
Books of the Lady Somerset Boat Club were a few years ago handed over to
Ihc College by Professor W. H. H. Hudson.

The following fragments of the Minutes of the Choral Society have
ceceutly come to light.

St John's Choral Society.

Michaelmas Term i86i.

Fiiday, October 19th. The weekly practice commenced under the direction
of Mr Garrett ; the music practised was Mendelssohn's Part Songs, op, 5a
It was arranged that in future there should be an elementary class meeting
«very Fiiday evening at 6 50 and an advanced class meeting on the same
evenings at 7.30.

The members selected for the advanced dass were:

Mr C. J. £. Smith Mr Smallpeice

Mr Rounthwaile Mr Scholefield

Mr Kennedy Mr Rees

Mr M. M. Barnes Mr Richardson

Mr Burrows Mr Austen
Mr J. C. Brown

Filday, October 25th. Elementary Class practised at 6.30 p.m. Advanced
Class at 7.30. Music practised .* Mendelssohn's Pait Songs, Op. 50; Luther's
Chorale * Oh let us praise the Loid' and Chants.

VOL. XX VII. CGG

400 Our Chronicle.

AtlenJance tmall in both cases.

Friday, November ist. Elementftry Class practised at 6.30 p.m. Advanced
Clau at 7.30. Music practised Mendelssohn's Part Son|>s, Op. 50.

Atteodance in both classes very satisfactory.

Friday, November 8lh. ElemcnUry class practised at 6.30 p.m. ; attend*
ance small.

Saturday, November 9th. Advanced Class practised at 7 p.m. The
Secretary altered the time of practice for this class from Fritlay at 7.30 to
Saturday at 7.0, as the previous time had been found inconvenient t>eitig so
late The music practised was Mendelssohn*s Part Soogs, Op. 50, and one
or two short anthems.

It was subsequently found to be more convenient to make Friday at
6.30 p.m. the time for the Advanced Class and Saturday at 7 for the
elementary.

Friday, November 15th. Advanced Class; there was no practice this
evening in consequence of many of the members being absent.

Saturday, November 16th. Elementary Class, practised at 7.0. p.m.—
the practice consisted of chanting.

Friday, November 23nd, Advanced Class— practice consisted principally
of chanting.

Saturday, November 23rd. Elementary Class— attendance small.

Friday, November a9th. Advanced Class. There was no practice this
evening in consequence of many of the members not arriving until late.

Saturday, November 30tht Elementary Class at 7 p.m. pracused chanting.

Wednesday, December 4th. A General Meeting of the members was held
in the Secretary's rooms, Mr Richardson in the chair.

The Secretary made a statement of the financial position of the Society,
from which it appeared that, after all expenses were paid, a balance of about
two pounds woulld be left.

Mr Kennedy then resigned the office of Secretary. It was proposed by
Mr Barnes, seconded by Mr Yeld, and carried rum. C0n. that Mr Kennedy be
re-elected Secretary for the ensuing Term.

A discussion then took place as to whether it would be advisable to draw
np a few rules for the guidance of the society, but nothing definite was decided.
A suggestion was also made that the society should ^ive a musical perform-
ance at the end of each Term. It was decided that it would be desirable to
strengthen the Chapel Choir by two altoi, two tenon, and two basses, selected
from this Society, who should practise with the Choir and sit in seats reserved
for them in Chapel; and that the Secretary should communicate with Mr
Garrett on the subject. The meeting then dusolved.

Confirmed, April 4th 1863,

A. T. Kennedy,

Friday, March I4lh. Advanced Class. Music practised :

Love and Wine MmJslss^hn

Turkish drinking Song • • . . Mendelsiohn

Ave Verum Mozart

In thee Oh Lord, Anthem . • . . IVtldon

I will arise. Anthem Creighicn

Softly fall the shades /. Z. HatUn

The Shepherd's farewell , , , , Henry Smart

Saturday, March X5th. Elementary Class. There was no practice this
evening in consequence of the small attendance of members.
Friday, March aist. Advanced Class. Music practised:

On the water — part song , , , . Mendelssohn

Goodnight — pail song .. ., Schumann

I will arise — anthem Dr Creighton

Magnificat and Nunc Pimitlis . , Rogers in D

Our Chronicle, 401

Satuiday, March 22nd. In consequence of the small attendance at the

last two or three practices of the Elementary Class, the Secretary thought it

advisable to discontinue the Elementary Class for the remainder of the present

Term. Mr Baynes and Mr Sellwood were promoted to the Advanced Class.

Friday, March 28ih. Advanced Class. Music practised :

Summer Song . . Memiihsohn

Good-night — part song . . . . Schumann

God is gone up — Anthem ,, , , Dr Croft

In thee Oh Lord— Anthem . . . . fVeldon

Ave Veiiim Afotart

Chants

Attendance scarcely so good as usual. This was the last practice this
Term. Three of the choristers have attended at each practice of the Advanced
Class.

Friday, April 4th, 1862. A General Meeting of the members was held
in the Secretary's rooms. The Secretary in tlie Chair. The minutes of the
last General Meeting were read and confirmed.

The Secretary submitted a statement of the finances of the Society, from
which it appeared that, after all expenses paid, there would be a balance of
about two shillings.

Mr Kennedy then resigned the office of Secretary. Mr Burrows was
proposed by Mr Kennedy, seconded by Mr Baynes and unanimously elected
Secretary for the Easter Term.

Mr Kennedy moved the following resolution, which was seconded by
Mr Baynes and carried nem, con. : " That members wishing to withdraw from
the Society do give notice of their intention to the Secretary, before the
division of the Term."

The Secretary explained that on communicating with Mr Garrett on the
subject of assisting the Chapel Choir, as proposed at the last meeting it had
been found impracticable to do so for the present. Also that the funds of the
Society were not sufficient to admit of a musical performace being given this
Term.

On the motion of Mr Baynes a vote of thanks was passed to Mr Kennedy
for having fulfilled the duties of Secretary. The meeting was then dissolved,

Easter Trkm 1862.

Owing to the unusual brevity of this Term, and also because it was found
that most of the members of the Society would be prevented attending the
practices by the existence of other engagements — ^it was thought expedient,
both by Mr Garrett and the Secretary, to discontinue the practices till the next
Michaelmas Term. The practices were accordingly discontinued protemp.
The Subscription, also, by general agreement, was not collected duri g this
Term.

C. H. B.

Michaelmas Term 1862.
Friday, October 17th. The practices of the Society were to-day resumed
from the Lent Term. The attendance was large; five new members were
present.

Splendente te Deus : Mottett in C • • Mozart

was sung on this occasion.

C. H. B.

Friday, 24th of October. The attendance was again large. One new
member was present. The music practised was :

When flow'ry meadows . , . . PalesUina (1590)
Spendente te Deus •• ., Mozart

c. H. B,

407 Onr Chronicle.

Fiidav, October 3isL The attendance wns not qm'fe so larce a« at the
two previous nieeliii|;ft. ami owing lo a Conceit in ibe Town HaH, wl»kh was
to be held the same evening, the practice was of somewhat shorter diuatioii
Ihan usual. Music piactised was :

5H))eDdente te Deus Jif.s-irt

When flowNy me;idow8 PnU\trina

Amidst the uiyi tied JSatUihul

\ C. H. B.

Friday, November 7th. TTiete wsis no practice this evening, c. H. B.
Friday, November I4lh. The attendance was pretty fair. 2[fu»ic practised
Whs:

The 61st spying day \

IhePiimiose > .. SfendHssohnt Op. \9

Celebration of Spring )

Mid the three pieces practised at the last meeting, c R. B.

Friday, November 22nd. The atleudance wa& good. The music practised
was the same as last time

CHE.

The following lines appeared in 7%4 Jpymich Journal {ox 14 Aagust 179^*
Elegy to the memofy of the Rerd Mr Brome,

Where sedgy Cam slow winds his classic stream

In laurei'd bowers, was trained his early youth :
Twas there his tutor'd eye first caught the t>can>-

Of useful scieiKe and of sacred truth.
By science furnished for life's cuUuied field

Of sacred truth his hands the ensign bore \. —
But science to the stroke of death must yields

And sacrel truth her herald hears no more.
Alas my brother I little once I deem'd

That mine should be the tasic to deck thy urn :
The lamp of life within myself scarce gleamed

And now with grief and gratitude I burn.
Yet not for thee, I feel thy blissful soul

Smiles at our grief, and hails its own release r
Above those orbs, which o'er poor mortals roll.

Thy sptiK soars— and all whh thee is peace.
Not so wnth those, who wretclied here l>elow

Ineparable loss incessant weep.
Connubial, 54ial, fiiei»<Uy sorrows flew

And stalling angui>h breaks beloved sleep.
Nature thus tries nor reason less approves

Religions selt not blames the grief they feel
For « Jesus wept *— yet whom Religion loves

Their wountis, with balm divine, she joys to healv
' Yee mourners weep no more **: the charmer cries

*Tis death's the power of blessing to enlarge
'^The sweet regards of life ascend the skies:

* The parent angel still attends his charge.*^
Tis vours, whom yet kind Heav'n permits to live^

The steps of social excellence to trace.
His virtues made your own, ere long shall give

Reunion in these realms where giief can have no place.

Richard Brome was of St John's B.A. 1758. He was Rector of Newton
Floiman, Norfolk; and of Knetiishall, Suffolk. He died 31 July 1790,
aged 62.

Our Chronicle. 403

The Parish Regrster of Methley, Yorkshire, has recently been piinled by
the Thoresby Society.

It contains some entries wilb regard to n>embers of the College.

Amonj; the Buiials for the year 1695-6 is the following :

Febr. ye 5th, Joshua Hobson, clerk, late Fellow of St John's Coll. in
Camb:

Joshua Hobson, of Dodworth, Yorkshire, son of John Hobson currier, wa»
admitted to St John's 11 March 1674-5 from Wakefield School. He was
admitted a Fellow of the College 22 March 1680- 1 and his Fellowship was
filled up again 16 March 169 1-2. He was licensed to the curacy of St ClenAenl'»
in Cambridge i October 1687.

William Smiihson born at * Meltley,* Yorkshire, son of Richard Smithson,
deceased, was admitted to St John's 16 April 1687 from Sedbergh School.
The Register of Meihley has the following:

1666. William, the sunn of Richard Smiihson, generosus, baptized
24 October.

TfiE Boat House.

We have the pleasure to announce that the debt on the Lady
Margaret Boat House has been paid off. The final instalment
came early in March when a few old rowing men in London
united in sending a cheque for the sum then required, stipulating
that their contribution should be the last on the list ai>d entered
as coming from 'The Coping Stone Syndicate.'

We append the final list of subscriptions ;

£ J. ^t
Amount acknowIed{:ed in December number of The EagU,

Vol. XXVI f, p. 161 ^.. 38317 o

S. B. DhaTle 10 o

T. E. Forster lO o a

J. H. Towle ..,, , , , 2 2 o

U'he 1 reasurer 17 3

The Coping Stone Syndicate , « 30 o o

j g427 6 3

For purposes of record it may be of interest to set down the
steps by which this result has been arrived at.

A meeting was held in College on 15 February 1898 at which
the following resolution was passed :

That an appeal be made to Members of the Collejfe to
raise a Fund for the purpose of acquiring a site and building
a Boat House thereon.

The scheme was mentioned at the Johnian Dinner held in
London on 20 April 1898, and the first subscriptions were
received on April 22. A preliminary appeal was made during
the summer of 1898, and subscriptions and promises to the
amount of over /'800 were received. A first list of subscribers
was sent out early in the Michaelmas Term to all members on
the Boards and to such others as could be traced {Eagle, Vol. xx,
P-47')-

404

Our Chronicle,

The site was generously provided by the Master. By the
spring of 1900 matters looked sufficiently promising to justify
the commencement of building. The architect selected was
Mr Thomas Dinham Atkinson, and the builders were Messrs
Rattee and Kett. The Club entered into its new home in the
Easter Term of 1901.

As is not unusual when building operations are put in hand
the ultimate cost exceeded the estimate. The original estimated
cost of the Boat House was /^i993, but when building opera-
tions were commenced, it was found that the surface of the site,
which appeared hard and gravelly, covered a layer of peaty or
boggy soil. In consequence of this considerable extra expense
had to be incurred in sinking pillars down to a more solid
foundation, the intermediate spaces being arched over. In the
end the total cost of building amounted to £216%, Con-
sequently there was a deficit which had to be cleared off, aD
operation which has taken five years.

The site was originally conveyed to three tnistees for the
Club (Mr J. Collin, Mr L. H. K. Bushe-Fox, and Mr R. F. Scott).
To avoid the necessity of appointing new trustees in future the
legal estate in the Boat House and site has been conveyed to
the College ; in accepting the conveyance the Council of the
College has agreed to hold the property for the use and benefit
of its undergraduate members.

We append a summary of the total receipts and expenditure.

Receipts,

£ 1 d.
Subscriptions and Sun-

diies 2509 o 7

Concerts (6ve) 148 iS O

Interest on deposits and

investments . 57 14 7

Sale of Stock (Lowe
Double SculU) 244 16 8

;f296o 9 10

Expenditure,

£ ' d.

PurchMt of Site 500 o o

Vendor's law costs .... 14 14 o

Messrs Ratlee and Kett 2268 16 i

Architect's commission no o o

Printing and postages.. 21 10 o

Interest on overdrafis • • 45 9 9

/'2960 9 10

It should also be added that the College Land Agents,
Messrs Carter Jonas and Sons, made no charge for negotiating
the purchase of the site ; and the College Solicitors, Messrs
Francis, Francis and Collin, carried through the legal part of
the negotiations without charge.

The acquisition of the Boat House has not only proved
a great benefit to rowing members of the College, but it has also
considerably diminished the annual charges for the Boat Club
on the funds of the Amalgamated Athletic Club.

Our Chronicle, 405

Crickei Club.

Captain — ^A. L. Gorringe. Hon, Stcretary — P. N. F. Young.

Hon, Stcrttary 2nd XL — L. R. Ferguson.

Result of the Season:— Played, 22. Won, 3. Lost, 5. Drawn, 14.

This season has been remarkable for a comparitively large
number of finished games : due chiefly to the number of wet
ivickets. We have had a strong batting side, but have suffered
from not having a bowler who could take full advantage of
a bowler's wicket.

We congratulate Gorringe and Johnston on playing in the
Seniors' Match, but hoped that the former would have gone
farther.

Batting Averages.

Times Highest

Batsmen. Innings, not out. Runs. Score. Aver.

P. C.Sands 13 .. 6 .. 357 .. 63» .. 51

A. L. Goiringe • 20 ,. 4 .. 723 ..122 .. 45*1

F. Johnston •• II .. O ., 493 .. 127 .. 44*6

£.£. Thompson ,. 17 .. 3 .. 529 .. 97 .. 35-2

T.M.Swift 20 .. 5 •. 507 .. 75* .. 338

K. W. McCowan i... 11 .. 3 .. 207 .. 44* .. 258

J. G. Scoular 4 , . o . . 96 • . 49 . . 24

G. M.C.Taylor 19 .. I ., 335 .. 54 ». 17

V.W.J.Hobbs 18 .. 2 .. 256 .. 49* .. 16

R. Brice-Smith 14 .. 4 .. 152 .. 33* ., 152

S.Brayshaw 8 .. o .. 88 .. 25 .. 11

P. N. F. Young 15 .• 2 .. 135 .. 33 ., 10*3

* Signifies not out.

Bowling Averages,

Bowlers. Overs. Runs. Maidens. Wickets* Arer.

E. E. Thompson 34 . . 120 . . 5 . . 6 . . 20

R. Bi ice-Smith 100 .. 418 .. 10 .. 20 ., 20*9

S. Brayshay • 85 .. 345 .. 12 .. 15 ., 23

F. C. Sands 171 .. 559 .. 30 .» 24 .. 23-3

J.M.Swift 272 .. 930 ., 49 ,. 37 .. 25-1

A. L. Gorringe • 124 .. 601 .. 4 .. 23 ., 26*1

J G. Scoular 54 •• 212 .. 6 .. 5 ., 42*4

Matches.

V, St Catharine*s. Won. St John's 261 for 7 (J. M. Swift 75 not out,
F. Johnston $0, V. W. J. Hobbs 41). St Calhaiine's 149 (Bricc-Smith
3 wickets for 9, and Brayshay 3 for 27). Swift batted well for his 75.

V. Sidney, Won by 4 wickels. Sidney 167. St John's 185 for 6
(Gortinge a brilliant 89). Sands bowled very well with 5 for 39.

V. Peterhouse, Lost. Peterhouse loi. St John's 97. A most exciting
match as we only wanted 5 to win. G. M. C. Taylor took a brilliant
catch at point, and H. A. Beresford secured 5 wickets for 21. We were
without Gorringe and Johnston.

p. Queens', Drawn. St John's 252 for 6 (P. C. Sands not out 63, and J. M.
Swift not out 51). Queens' 65 for 6. Rain robbed us of a possible
victory.

4o6 Our Chronicle.

\, Caius. Drawn. Caios 296. St John's 186 for 5 (Johnston 74).
C. E. BiUIey (154) baited brilltanlly fur Caius.

r. Christ's, Drawn. Christ*s 21 1. St John*s 165 for 6. Had it not been
for mi&takes in the field we should probably have won.

V. Trinity HaU, Lost. Hall 143. St John's 108 (Hobbs 31). We made
nins too slowly at first, and then in trying to knock them off quickly lost
witketK, and a bad light completed our misfortunes. Sands bowled
splendidly, but with no fortune.

V. Emmanuel, Drawn. Emmanuel 303 for 5. St John's 136 for 4 (£. £.
Thompson not out 60).

V. Kinf^s, Drawn. King's 323 for 6. St John's 338 (Johnston 127.
Sands 61). A two days* match which there was no chance of finisbiDg.

V, Jesus, Drawn. Jesus 209 and 215 for 8. St John's 267 (Swift 73,
Hobbs 49 not out) and 86 for I. Mistakes in the field again lost us rnudi
ground.

V, Trinity. Lost. Trinity 290 for 7. St John's 133. We had to bat in a
bad light, but were completely beaten.

V. Sidney. Drawn. Sidney 186. St John's 94 for 3. We might haTe won
but for rain.

V. Caius, Drawn. St John's 247 (Goiringe 122). Caius 194 ford. We
had rather the worst of the game. Goriinge baited magnificently.

V, Chrisfs, Drawn. Chiist's 249 for 7. St John's 132 for 4 (Swift not oat
42, McCowan not out 40). Bad catching once moie let us down.

V. West Wratting, Lost. A time match. St John's 122 (Gorringe 43).

West Wratting 150.
v. Queens*, Drawn. St John's 216 (Tliompson 97). Queens' 198 for 9-

A mo5it exciting finish. With 10 moie minutes' play we should have

won or lost.
V, Trinity Hall, Drawn. St John's 200 for 8. Hall 130 for 6.
V, Selwyn, Drawn. St John's 202 for 7. Selwyn 127 for 3.

V, King's, Diawn. St John's 244 for 5 (Gorringe 71, Sands 52). King's

161 for 6. We had rather the better of (he game.
V, Emmanuel, Won by 6 wickets. Emmanuel 218. Gorringe bowled vilh

great success, his 7 wickets only cost 29 runs. Fielding good.

St John's 219 for 4 (Johnston 102).

V. Pembroke. Drawn. Pembroke 220 for 8, Swift bowled well, but had no

foilune. St John's 176 for 6 (Taylor 54).
V, Trinity, Lost. St John's 130 for 7. Trinity 133 for 2. Very wet

wicket, and as it turned out we declared a few minutes too soon.

Lyttelton's hitting was splendid (78 not out), though he ought to have

been caught twice. There was only 4 minutes to spare at the end.
V. Selwyn, Drawn. St John's 233 for 9 (Thompson 89). Selwyn 139 for4-

Characters of the XI:

A. L. Gorringe (Capt.) — An excellent Captain ; keen and cheeiing under
the most adverse circumstances : has managed the bowling with great judg-
ment. An excellent and stylish bat with good strokes (especially an off drive
and a hook) all round the wicket, but rather inclined to put them up towards
third man, and has much contempt for long on. His lobs have been very
serviceable : if failing to dislodge tne batsmen they never fail to annoy him
and amuse the field. Rather piides himself on his catching.

P. C, Sands— Has very kindly assisted the XI. in this his fifth season.
An original bat with clever strokes behind the wicket : makes a lot of runs

Our Chronicle. 407

and ha« been caught in the long 6eld. Bowls with considerable effect for a
hhoTi time; swings a little, might vaiy his pace nioie — has great confidence iu
point. An extremely smart field.

F.JohnsUm — A grand specimen of work first— play after. A fine free
batsman and a really fine player: diives splendidly. Has had a little luck.
A brilliant field. Bowled once%

/. G, Scouiar— -Hits hard and has made two useful scores. Bowls fast ;
fields biilliautly. Very keen !— on Golf.

P' N, F, Young (Hon. Sec.) — A stylish bat with a good forward stroke,
hooks well but too loosely, has several times made a welcome resistance to
the attack though has never really got going. He has kept wicket splendidly
in every match except one and effected some btilliant stumps. His ambition
is to bowl \

E, E» Thompson — Has vastly improved this season : makes his runs well
with a vaixety of strokes ! caught a lot of catches and a useful bowler I'lt
€xtremes»

S. jffrqyjA/iy— Mechanical stinks man. Fancies his hitting, but has had
few innings and less fortune. Not so consistent with the ball as last year, but
has got some wickets with his head. A veiy good slip.

<r, M. C, Taylor— A, forcing bat : has had very little fortune and with
more defence will be really good. A sound field anywhere ; niore particularly
at point : has caught some grand catches — sometimes with both hands.

R. Brict'Smith — A pretty player with nice off diive and useful leg
stroke, was unfortunate during early part of the season. A better bowler
than he appears to be. Does his ground fielding neatly, but must try and be
a little quicker.

V, W, /. Hobbs—K slasher. Chief strokes :— racquet shot on off, blind
pull on onside and mishits. Has made two or three good scores quickly
when badly needed — would find it safer on the whole to keep his eyes open.
An extraordinary keen field, has caught some good catches.

H. W, M. Cowan — A very sound fast wicket batsman with several
strokes. Not tried till late in the season. Should make some big scores
next year. A safe catch, but must try and smarten up in the field.

/. M. Swift^-Pk. steady bat, drives well but lacks resource. Has bowled
a great deal and ke£ps a good length, but should experiment sometimes and
mix them up more. Is a safe field and trys hard. ** His zeal sometimes
outruns his discretion." Oh, yaas.

znd XL CharacUrs : —

Z. R, Fergusson (Captain and Secretary)— Energetic in both his official
capacities and stem and relentless in the former. Apparently a good bats*
man but must play with the face of his bat to balls on the leg stump. A
greatly improved wicket keeper and is clever with his pads, but would be
more successful with his hands. Bowls himself and changes the bowling to
his own satisfaction. Has kept for the First XI.

R, B* Newbery-^K distinctly original bat. Has good strokes on the leg
tide. Siiould sometimes play an off ball to the off side. A bad bowler with
exceptions. Fields well. lias missed some catches.

/. Z. P. 0>r/— Essentially a bowler. Bowls a lot of good balls, but must
keep a better length. Has a good stroke to leg, but is unfortunate in his
partners. A steady field.

C, F, A, JCfebU—Hsa a good eye, made some good scores ; should take up
Racquets. A brilliant field, but should not Uke too much for granted. Is a
vocalist, but has not bowled. Would have been at liis best in the Photo, but
was not there.

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4o8

Our Chronicle.

ff^ A, Btrtsfird^Uta played cbieffjr for tbe Ist XI. A naefiil bowler.
A good bat wlien set, would be a really good field with more energy. Has
been unfortunately incapacitated dating tbe latter half of tbe season. Has
kept wicket.

R, G, Gill — A successful bat. Ha« made runs when needed. A very
damaging bowler. Has position, but no magnitude.

C. X. D/mce—llsi% played scveial times Tor tbe ist XI. Has good strokes
on the off side. Fielding greatly improved since tbe beginning of ihe season.

G. AT, JfobtHson^Hil% hard and often. Needs fortune. Unlucky as a
bowler, should not try to bowl too fast. A smait slip.

X>. Af, Sttwari—HM won a match. Calm and collected in all departments
of the game.

A. D. Allen^Pi sound bat» but not pretty. A successful bowler with too
nany bad balls. Rather slow in the field.

F. IV, fficks-^An unfortunate bat. Looks like a bowler from the
boundary. Has taken several wickets and done some good things in the
field, but aot only good things.

A. Thorn fVaite—KMM played several times for the 1st XI. A dashing
field. There are no balls like good balls^ and vice vena. Qh Chuckit I

Cricket Club.
Balance Sbext fo& the Year, Ocxobiul 1904-5.

GfNgral Account,

Reteipts,

£
110

Grant from G. A.C

Kent of Ground to Foot-
ball Clubs 17 o o

Rent of Ground to £ai;les
L.T.C. (on account) . . 800

Grant fiom GJW.C. fur
Long Vacation ...... 16 o o

Balance against fund ...» 19 7 8

;fi70 7 8

Exptndilurt,

£ *• ^-

Balance against fund .... 611 7

Ground nun : Wages . . 40 00

„ Expenses.. 64 o 3

PollTax S I ^

Various accounts 24 o z

Rolling & cutting ground 13 10 o

Teas 6 15 o

Balls and Bats xo 5 9

;fi70 7 •

Long Vacation Account.
(The items which appear here are also included in the above accoont.)

£jtpcftditur€.

Receipts,

Grant from G.A.C x6 o o

Deficit,...' 13 I 9

£^9 I 9

Ground man ; Wages . .
„ „ Expenses..

Teas

Match Balls

Eaden Lilley (Sponges,
etc.)

£ ^'
10 o
15 II

III

o

9
o

4
068

£*9 I 9

R. P. GRBaORT, Son, SiC.
Audited and found correct, N. E. Shore.
May 10, 1906.

Our Chronicle. 409

Lady Margaret Boat Club.

Pristdirtt^yir L. H. K. Bushe-Fox. Tnasurtr-^llLx R. F. Sco(t.
\st Captain — P. J. Lewis, znd Captain^Y. A. R. Higgins. Hon. Sec,^
T. M. Sibly. /unior J>gasur£r-^K, Meldnim. 1st Lent Captain— lH,
Henderson, tnd Ltnt Captain — J, B. Ronaldson. yd Lint Captain-^
N. Lincoln, Additional Captain— H. A. Laidlaw.

First and foremost we beg to offer our heartiest congrata-
lations and good wishes to our President and Mrs Bushe-Fox,
whose wedding took place at Christ Church, Lancaster Gate,
on Saturday, March 17th. Among the guests representatives of
L.M.B.C. were well in evidence, and if rice and good wishes go
for anything, they took a most important part in the proceedings.
It was thought that this would be a suitable occasion for
cnembei^ of the Club to show their appreciation of Mr Bushe*
Fox's long connection with the Club, and of the keen and
unsparing way in which he has given his services to promoting
its welfare. It was therefore resolved to make him a presen-
tation in the name of the Club. Many old members welcomed
the opportunity of uniting in this, and as a result the presen-
tation was made to Mr Bushe-Fox at a General Meeting ou
Tuesday, June 12th, taking the form of a silver tea and coffee
service of four pieces, engraved with the College arms.

The 'Varsity Boat Race was rowed this year on April 7th,
resulting in a magnificent victory for Cambridge, who won as
they liked. The Club was represented by A. G. L. Hunt, who
was sent for to cox the boat while the crew were at Bourne End.
We beg to offer him our heartiest congratulations on obtaining
his Blue, and only wish we could have seen his familiar figure
in the stern of the May boat this term.

The Magdalene Pairs and the Lowe Double Sculls, which
were rowed this term, both resulted in the victory of R. V.
Powell and E. W. Powell. The former event was won from
H. M. Goldsmith and J. H. F. Benham after a magnificent race
by five yards, a very strong head wind blowing all over the
course.

In the latter event the losers were B. C. Johnstone and
D. C. R. Stuart, who failed largely through bad steering. They
went very wide at Grassy, and in the Plough Reach the Powells
held a good lead. Johnstone and Stuart spurted hard, however,
up the Long Reach, and only lost by twenty yards. Time,
7 min. 27 sees.

The record of the May term's rowing is, we regret to say, by
no means a pleasing one. The first boat is now lower than it
has been for many years, while the second boat has descended
one place. The reasons for this are not hard to find, but we
believe that the causes were largely beyond the power of the
Club to remedy. In the first place, owing to Mr Bushe-Fox's
unfortunate indisposition, the first boat suffered much from lack of
regular coaching, having no less than nine coaches at different

4IO Our ChratiicU.

times ; secondly, there was a certain amoant of illness in the
crew, and no less than five were taking Trips. ; thirdly, the
crew was very light as asnal, and was completely ontclassed by
the foar heavy crews below them, owing to the fact that with
the great rise in the standard of rowing the heavy men have
Jeamed to use their legs and their weight. How high the
standard of rowing is this year is evident from the fact that in
practice both our first and second boats were better than last
year*s, although then both ascended one place. At the same
time it must be admitted that the first boat did not row as well
In the races as in practice, and a light crew should not have
been rushed so easily at the start.

The weather on the whole has been favourable, though there
has been an unusual amount of wind. For the first fortnight
Lewis coached the first boat, Lincoln stroking, with Higgins at
six, Henderson four, and Laidlaw two. When Mr Bushe-Fox
took on the crew Lewis went in at stroke, but a few days after
moved to two, Lincoln again filling the stroke thwart. Till now
the Brocas boat had been used, and the crew gave considerable
promise. A change was now made to the lighter ship, but this
turned out to be quite unfit to row in, having become very soft.
The ten days' practice in this boat appeared to spoil the crew
completely ; it was therefore decided to purchase an old 'Varsity
boat. This was done at a small cost. The boat is a good one
and very comfortable, but she was much too large for our light
crew. However, this was the best that could be done in the
emergency.

Just about this time Fraser was very unwell for a day or
two, and then Lewis had to retire owing to a severe attack of
rheumatism, which kept him out of the boat for a week. After
his return the order was finally constituted as follows : —

St, as,

Bern T. B. Ronaldson • lo 74

% r.J.Lewit lo 5{

3 T.M.Silby n a

4 F. A. R. Higgins ii 6

5 R. Meldnim 13 o

6 M. Henderson 11 7

7 T. Fraser 1 1 5

Strolu N. LtDCola . s 10 to

Cox L. G. Craufoid 8 %\

Coach'-'L. H. K. Bushc Fox. Capiain^l?. J. Lewis.

About a fortnight before the races Mr Bushe-Fox had the
misfortune to strain himself while riding, and was unable to
coach for some time. During this time we had several different
coaches, and finally M. Donaldson was good enough to take us
for nearly a week : we are much indebted to him for the great
pains he took with the crew.

To Mr Bushe-Fox the Club is very deeply indebted, for he has
devoted to the crew practically all the spare time he now has.

Our Chronicle, ^\i

The second boat underwent comparatively few changes during
practice, except such as were of a temporary nature. In the
earlier stages it was stroked at different times by Dawson. Jones,
and Lincoln ; and, finally, Dawson returned to the place. When
the first boat was finally made up Laidlaw came in at six. and
shortly afterwards Boddinglon was moved from three to seven,
changing places with Alexander. A noteworthy feature is that
seven of the crew were freshmen, who had never rowed on
slides before: they were an exceptionally light combination,
but showed great keenness, and turned out a crew above the
average of the last few years. J. Fraser coached for the greater

?art of the term, Lewis taking them on for the last ten days.
*he order was as follows : —

St, lbs.

^(rar L. R. D. Anderson lo i

t R.M. Tones lo 2}

3 P. G. Alexander xo 4I

4 J. E. C. Ross 10 13

5 G. A. R. Thtirsfield 11 12

6 H. A. Laidlaw 1 1 O

7 V. C. Boddington 1 1 o

Stroke K,l/L,l>zyt%ovi 10 10

Cbx N. Worrall 8 8

Captain — F. A. R. Higgins.

There were great hopes last term of putting on a third boat
in the Mays, but these were soon dashed to the ground this
term owing to the number of men who signed off for work and
various reasons. It is a great pity that we cannot raise enough
men in the May term to fill three boats, but it is to be hoped
that this will be accomplished next year, as all the members of
this year's crews will be up.

The Races.
First Nighi.

The First Boat were caught by Jesus just round Grassy
Comer.

The Second Boat gained a little on Selwyn, but went to
pieces, and were bumped by Hall XL in the Gut. This is easily
to be accounted for by the fact that Seven was suffering from a
bad attack of Asthma, and Five's nose was bleeding throughout
the race.

Second Nigjii.

First Trinity rushed up on the first boat, and made their
bump at Post Corner.

The Second Boat rowed much better, and left Sidney several
lengths behind. They failed, however, to make any impression
on Selwyn.

Third Night.

Christ's gained rapidly on the first boat, but steered badly
on Post Corner and Grassy. They made tlieir bump at the
Red Grind.

412 Our Chronicle.

The Second Boat did not row quite so well as the previous
flight. However, they gained on Corpus at the sUrt, and
though pressed in the Long Reach finished clear by half a
length.

Fmirth Night.

First Trinity II. bnmped the first boat in the Gut-
Corpus rowed in their tub ship, in which they were more at
home. At Grassy they were within three-quarters of a length
of the second boat, and just round Ditton made rather a wild
shot. They were just overlapping all up the Long Reach, bat
Worrall skilfully induced their cox to follow him all over the
river. Meanwhile our men kept their heads, and rowing very
pluckily, succeeded ia drawing away at the Railway firidge.

Second B^at CharacUrt.

Bom. Ii fairly neat and a consistentiv hard worker. Has not yet learnt to
control his slide ; washes out and hurries the finish rather badly through
not driving the body back with the slide. Is inclined to overreach on
the fiont stop and be late.

Tw9, Uses his le|^ well and with effect, but shonid cover np his blade
at once. Has not much control of himself coming forward ; consequently
is often heavy with the hands and late.

Thm, Tries very hard, but somewhat nnscientifically. Would do better if
he used his legs moie and his arms less; strength of arms nuy be
effective on fixed seats, but fails on slides. Will find it easier to get hold
of the water with his legs if he combines his swing and slide forward.

Fmr. A consistently hard woiker, though lacking in style. Uses bis legs
well, but spoils the effiect by leaving his body forward and finishing his
slide half-way thiough the stroke. Must try hard to keep htis back
straight, as this is the only way to get rid of stiffiiess.

Five. Was very variable, but improved towards the races. Is slow in all his
movements, and cannot control himself coming forward. Hence his
inability to get hold of the water with any certainty. Must try to swing
more.

Six, Improved considerably during the latter half of the term. A. neat oar»
doing plenty of work when he got used to slides, but should try and get
a firmer finish. Is very inclined to overreach and be slow over the
stretcher : must try and steady his sliding a little more.

Sevitt, Improved a good deal and gets a much firmer hold of the water with
his legs than last term. Still finishes his slide much too soon: this
makes his finish short and weak. Must try and get an easier swing.

Stroke. A good racing stroke with plenty of dash. Keeps his crew going
well, but should study them a little more. Hardly gives them time to
finish the stroke : his shortness in the water is due partly to not getting
in where he reaches to, and partly to the two faults common to
practically the whole crew — lack of swing, and failure to make fuU use
of the slide and finish the stroke with the legs.

Cox. Steered much better in the races than last year, and did a brilliant
piece of work on the last night in keeping away from Corpus. Is
very erratic in the straight. Should try and take his duties a little more
seriously.

Our Chronicle. 413

Ths Lawn Tennis Club.

PresitUni—Mr R. F. Scott. Hon, TV/aj.— Mr L. H. K. Bushe-Foz«
Ca/zoiM— H. S. Crole-Rees. Jlon. Sec,— A, K, Evani.

The season has been very disappointing. The results of all
the matches are not yet to hand for publication, so far as can
be seen, however, they are far from satisfactory.

This unhappy position of the Club is to a large extent due to
the inevitable reaction from the successes of the Tennis six for
the past 8 years, and in some degree to bad luck, for in several
matches we just lost by the odd game.

At the commencement of the season only one old colour
remained in residence, but fortunately both R. P. Gregory and
A. Chappie were kind enough to assist us whenever they were
free. Colours were therefore awarded to the following 5 men :
A. £. Evans, who carried out the duties of Hon, Sec. with every
success, G. J. Williams, R. T. Dawson, S. M. Van Hees, and

A. G. P. Fayerman. For the Fresher's Tournament there was
an exceedingly good entry, but the play was not of a particularly
high standard. In the Final V. W. J. Hobbs beat F. A. James
by two sets to love. The Past v. Present Match, which it is
hoped will be continued in future years, was a very successful
innovation. The Past was represented by Rev A. R. Ingram,
Rev W. L. Benthall, G. C. Green, H. Oakley, W. Edwards, and
D. Kingdon.

For the Newberry Cup eight men entered, and several hard
matches were played, but in the Finals G. J. Williams won
fairly easily from A. G. Fayerman by 2 sets to i.

The second VI. were more successful in their matches, and
on some occasions beat their opponents decisively, winning in
the end 6 out of 10 matches. For the second the following
turned out: — A. C. Belgrave, H. Hakim, C. Benians, K. L. B.
Hamilton, G. B. Reece, G. C. Sharp, F. A. James, C. Castle,
J. Darwin, R. S. Khong.

Several improvements have been made in the arrangement of
the ground, and it is hoped that the three match courts will be
relaid this winter, and some new fenders obtained.

We congratulate H. S. Crole-Rees upon playing in the
'Varsity trials for the second time, and upon being elected to
serve on the 'Varsity Committee.

Our thanks are due to the Amalgamation for its support
during the season, and also to Mr Bushe-Fox for so kindly
undertaking the duties of Honorary Treasurer to the Club.

Characters.

B, S. CroU'Rees (Captain). A pretty player with a clever service. Has not

played up to his reputation this season. Sacrifices effectiveneu for
effect.

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A, B, Evans (Hon. Sec.). Has improTcd, and is fairly safe from the back of

the conrt. Has an effective service, but is afraid of the net| and very

weak overhead.
G, J, Williams, A sound singles player with a good senre and nsefol cot*

In doobles should combiaa more with his partner, and play at the net*

Must learn to smash.
i?. 7*. Dawson, A pretty overhead player with a safe fore-arm drive. Must

try to take the ball on the top of the bounce and place more. Has not

come up to the promise of last year.
S, M, Van Hees, A keen player, but with little knowledge ot the doubles

game, and very uncertam. Is fairly safe at the net, bnt should leaxn

to kill.
A, G, P. Faytrman, Has come on a gcK>d deal this term, and has a nseiul

second serve, but is very poor at the net whenever he manages to get

there.

Eaoibs Lawn Tbnnis Club.

At a meetiiiff of the Club held on May 1 1 the following were
elected members: S. Brayshay, G. M. C. Taylor, and J. R. Hill.

The following were elected members on June 4 : A. £. Evans,
R. Brice-Smith, N. Lincoln, and A. S. M. van Ilees.

Chess Club.

PrestcUnt^Vix W. H. Gunston. Viet^Prtsidtnt-^A. Geake. Hon,
S*c.^T>. M. Stewart. Hon, 7>mr.— E. H. P. Jolly. CommiiUi^J, R.
Airey, £. £. Thompson {ix-oJUio), W. K. Hay, £. C. Lucas.

Since the last report the Rules of the Club have undergone
revision, and the result has been issued in book form.

The Club entered for the University Board, but was unfor-
tnnately defeated in the first round by Pembroke.

The weekly meetings have been discontinued during the
present term, on account of Triposes and other necessary evils.

At a general meeting held on June 5 th the following were
elected officers for the ensuing term: — Vice-President — D. M.
Stewart ; Secretary — W. K. Kay ; Committee — C. G. Sharp and
£. C. Lucas.

It is earnestly hoped that new members may be forthcoming
to fill up the places of the old, as a large proportion of the Club
will not be in residence next year.

Theological Society.

President^]. H. Bentley. Stergtary-^T, Cooper. TVeasuror-^J. H. W.
Ttumper. Committti^Q, H. Castle, G. A. R. Thnrsfield.

The following papers have been read this term :

May II— "Scientific Charity," by The Very Rev C. W. Slubbs D.D.,
Dean of Ely.

May 18— >'« Myatkal Exegesis and Modem Criticism," by Mr H. L. Pass

May 3 1— "The Ascension,'* by the Rev S. A. Donaldion, Master of

Magdalene.

Our ChronicU. 415

Cricket and Football Ground.

At a meeting of the Committee of the General Athletic Club
held on May 14th last, it was unanimously decided that an effort
should be made to level and drain the Cricket Ground in order
that room might be made for one Hockey and two Football
pitches, and so save the annual expense of the Hockey and
Lacrosse Clubs in hiring the University Grounds.

It is estimated that the cost of this improvement will not
exceed jf 300, Subscriptions are invited from past and present
members of the College, and may be paid to the Treasurer of
the Amalgamation* Mr R. P. Gregory.

(Signed) P. J. Lkwis, Captain L.M.B.C.

A. L. GoKRiNOB, Captain of Cricket.

J. J. Best, Captain of Association FootbalL

C. B. MiDDLBTON, Ex-Captain of Rugby Associationi

H. S. Crolk-Rkbs, Captain of Tennis;

E. W. Green, Captain of Hockey.
C. F. Keeble, Captain of Lacrosse.

J. R. Hill, President of Athletic Club.

P. N. F. YOUMG, Hon. Sec. of Cricket Club.

F. Johnson, Hon. Sec. of Association Football Club.
A. Thorne Waitb, Hon. Sec. of Rugby Football C^
A. E. Evans, Hon. Sec. of Tennis Club.

H. A. BeRbsford, Honi Sec. of Hockey Club.
H. C. HoztSTBOURKE, Hon. Sec. Lacrosse Club.

C. U. R. v., G Co.

Cdp^iH—K, D< Brownson. Cb/.-5^r^/.— C. F. A* Keeble. Sirgt,-^
tl. I. Robinson.

This term is been d somewhat uneventful one for the Corps :
the usual morning drills have been held and have been attended
in the usual few numbers.

The Cotps will go into Camp on Salisbury Plain from
Monday, June i8lh, till Tuesday, June 26th.

On Monday, June nth, the Annual Gymkhana will be held
on the range.

With regard to the Class Firing the individual Shooting has
been fair, one member of the Company putting on one of the
highe.st scores of the year.

Several members have not completed sufficient drills to
make themselves efficient.

Natural Science Club.

President "H. d Honeyboume. Hon* Treas, — ^Dr. Marr. ffon» Sec.-^
1". O. Bosworih.

The following papers have been read this term : — May 7th,
"Pesert Deposits in the Trias of Charnwood/* by T, O.
Bosworth; May 21st, "The visit of the British Association to
Africa," by Mr Gregory; May 28th, "Notes on the West
Indies," by Mr Brindley. These papers were illustrated by
lantern slides. The meetings were all well attended.

VOL. XXVII. Ill

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416 Our ChronwU,

A very representative group assembled for the Club photo-
graph, which was especially successful on account of the
presence of most of the honorary members.

At the last meeting F. R. Parnell was elected a member of
the Club, and for the coming term P. C. V. Jones was elected
Hon. Secretary, T. O. Bosworih was elected President.

Organ Recital.

An Organ Recital was given in the College Chapel ort
Sunday, June loth, at 8.45 p.m., by Mr. C. 6. Rootham, the
College Organist. The following is the programn>e :

da) Toccata in F major ]

\ii\ r^»^«> >* !>..». «*»^.» i An wasser ftussen Babylon \ /. 5. Back
\{b) Chokal Pkbicdes I ^^,^^ ^.ji i^^ ^., g^j^^ J •/

, r Andante in F S. WesUy

"' \ Canon in B minor Sihumrnntt

3. Sonata (No. 4) in D Minor GuilmaM

Allegro assai. Andante. Menuetto. Finale.

4. Peeludb to " Paesifal •• Wagner

5. Fantasia on the name Bach Lisz

The Musical Socibtt.

PrtsidiHt^J^x J. E. Sandys. T. easurer^Kvr A. J. SleTens. M.A.
Librarian -C. B'. Rootham, M.A. Committer — ^A. Chapphe, J. Fr^iaer,
R. Turner. A. Y. Campbell, G. S. Hardy, C. F. A. Keeble, V. C. Boddinf;'
Ion, J. K. Dcane, E. H. Muncev. Hen, Sec, — A. G. P. Fayemian.
Conductor— C, B. Roolham, M.A., Mus. Bac.

Thk Chorus.— 7Vr5/fj— The Cliapel Choristers. Aiios—'Messn. Doaft
and Thompson. Tenors — F. Adams, V. C. Buddington, J. K Deane,
M. Henderson. C. D. D. Hogan, R. V. J. S. Hogan, R. F. Jones,
R. M. Jones, C. F. A. Keeble, E. H. Muncey, C. C. Plowright. Basses--
G. G. Barnes, Z. N. Brooke, A. Y. Campbell, D. W. Goales, J. L. P. Cort,
J. H. E. Cree^. R. T. Dawson, L. R. Feiguson G. S. Haidy, V. W. J.
Hobbs, H. C. Hone\ bourne, G. M. M. Robinson, H. I. Robinson, G. M. C.
Taylor, A. Thome Waite, R. Tuiner, J. E. Walker, G. V. Yongc, A. R.
Yoike.

The full programme of the Concert was as follows ;

PART I.

1 . Pi ANOFOKTE DuET . . Festzug from Hochzeitsmusik , , . , ,/ensem

G. S. Hardy and A. C. Chukcuwa&d.

2. Song "Devotion" Schumann

R. TU&NER.

X. Violin Solo "Sonatine" Dvorak

A. G. P. Fayerman.

4. Mad&IOALS .... (a) "I follow, lo \ the footing." Aforley

{b) ** Like two proud armies.^' Weelkes

{c) ** Who shall win my lady fair ? "... , Pearsail

Xujt Chorus.

Our Chroiticle. 417

5* FiANOfORTfi Solos. ,(«) " Altegro moderato'^ GrUg

\b) " Andante moUo " •

(c) "Minuet"

G. C. Ckaoos.

6. Vocal Quartbt. ..." The Splendovr Falli " C. S. Rooifiam

E, H. MuKCEY, C. F. A. Kekble, G. S, Hamjy, R. Turmk*.

Interval of 20 minutes,

PART n.

7. Two Songs (a) "Hesper" ffamisk MacCunn

{b) "Wishes"

V. C. BODDINGTON.

8. Pianoforte Solo. . . . Rhapsody in B minor Bfuhms

G. C. Cragos.

9. Part Songs,,.. (a) "Vineta*' Brahms

(b) ** If I bad but two Kllle wings'' Parry

(c) "Corydon, aiise!" C. V, Stanfot^d

The Chorus.

10. Violin Solo "Souvenir" DrdU

A. G. P. Faterman.

11. Vocal Quartet.." When that I was and a tiny little boy" ..Wareing

£. H. MUNCEY, C. F. A. Keebls, G. S. Hardy, R. Turner.

13. Chorus " Lady Margaret Boat Song " Garrett

Soloists : First May Boat.
Chorum.

Thb College Mission.

President— '1\\t Msster. Vice-Presidents — The President, Mr Mason, Mr
Graves, Dr Sandys, Mr Cox. Committee — Mr Dyson, Mr Giegory, Mr Hart
{Senior Secretary), Mr Rootham, Dr Tanner, Mr Ward (Senior Treasurer)^
G. H. Castle, W. Clissold, R. T. Cole, H. S. Crole Rees (Junior Secretary),
W. W. S. Fleet, T. Fraser, F. A. R. Higgins, H. C. Honeybourne, G. M.
C. Taylor, J. H. W. Trumper, P. N. F. Young {Junior Treasuter),

These are few events for the Chronicler to record in the
history of the Mission at this end during the Easter Term of
1906. Mr Elsee and Mr Clarke have both visited us and the
Vicar is expected. But the General Meeting of June 6 showed
that a good deal of history is being made.

In the first place a letter from the Vicar was read, from which
the following extract is taken : — •* Mr Elsee will be leaving here
next September after over four years* work. I need scarcely say
that I am grateful to him for having stayed on with me and
put me into the run of things and that his work has been
appreciated." An official letter does not give such opportunity
for the expression of the writer's sentiments. All who are
interested in the Mission appreciate Mr Elsee's services, his
devotion to the work and his enthusiasm for Walworth. He
has been the link between Mr Robertson and Mr Ingram ; and
it should not be forgotten that for some months he was without
a colleague at the Hostel. What he did for the days of Wal-
worth only those who have been with him in the Clubs and la

41 8 Our Chronicle.

Camp can realize. In this direction and in the work of Relief —
an unhappily necessary addition to the ordinary duties of the
clergy — he has been conspicnoasly useful. The General Meeting
expressed formally their appreciation of these and all his
services in a vote of thanks and regret at his departure.

Mr Ingram's letter goes on to say *' There comes then the
question of filling his place — and it seems to me, that for some
months past one has been pointed out as his probable successor
^-I refer to Mr H. S. Crole-Rees and I should be glad to offer
him a title here." Of this recommendation the General
Meeting approved warmly. With every confidence they wel-
come the coming and speed the parting fast knowing well that
wherever either may be they will be still staunch helpers of the
Mission."

Next the question of the memorial to Dr Watson came up
for consideration. It is proposed to raise a fund for the
endowment of a curate to be known as the Watson curate
or Missioner. So necessary money would be set free for
other purposes. A strong Committee is being formed who
will issue an appeal in the course of the summer. A sum of
£\oo and another of £%o have already been promised, thanks
to the activity of the Vicar and the generosity of the Johnians,
The General Meeting endorsed the proposal unanimously with
the sole proviso that if funds permitted some visible memorial
also should be set up in the Church of the Lady Margaret iu
order that Dr Watson's memory might be kept before the
parishioners in a striking way. Stained glass might rob the
place of some of its already scant supply of light, but it was
felt that perhaps a reredos might be compassed.

The following were elected to fill the vacant places on the
College Mission Committee : —

E. R. D. Anderson, R. Brice-Smitb, F. W. Hicks {Junior Secretary), V
W. J. Hobbi {Junior Tnasunr), F. A. Jainei, J. W. G. Stokes.

An invitation was sent formally to the Vicar for the Mission^
Party on August Bank Holiday.

In conclusion the Secretaries have much pleasure in announ?
cing that one of the ideals of the founders of the Mission is to
be realized. Mr R. T. Cole is to live at the Hostel for a few
months as a resident layworker. And the Ladies' Committer
lives again.

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HomanuB Est Amare ..... 43

Ballad ....... 44

Si Je Puis 45

A Rmmhle on HelveUyn , . 48

The Moraing on the Water .... 56

SovTcnt Me Sonvient ... . • S7

An Old Johnian's Chxistmas Day in Ceykm 61

Fnsco Carolns ...... 68

Obttnaiy:

Angnstiis Samael Wilkins Litt.D. ... 69

Chailes John EUicott ..... 84

RcT Canon F. C. Woodhoose M. A. ... 106

Rev Canon Heniy Francis Bather MJL. . . '09

Francis Alfred White .113

The Johnian Dinner . i^S

Our Chronicle . . . .117

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Chronicon de Lanercost ..... 3^

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