XVI. KING, CHANCELLOR, AND PRIMATE XVII. MASTERSHIPS OF CLAYTON AND LANGLEY NOTE. SOME MEMBERS OF BROADGATES OR PEMBROKE WHO BECAME HEADS OF HOUSES 193 201 203 206 213 239 241 255 272 282 291 XXIX. TWO ARCHBISHOPS, SOME LAWYERS AND SCHOLARS XXX. MEN OF SCIENCE-MASTERSHIP OF DR. ADAMS XXXI. JOHN HENDERSON 'A FORGOTTEN GENIUS' ROMANTIC AND TRACTARIAN MOVEMENTS BICENTARY-MODERN BUILDING AND Rebuild- 397 APPENDIX A. UNIVERSITY DISTINCTIONS; PRELATES . D. A FORM OF PRAYER TO BE USED AT EVENSONG at end ADDENDA. P. 39. Dr. William Tooker.-For a fuller account of him see Wood, Ath. Ox. i. 385, 386. He calls him an excellent Grecian and Latinist, an able divine, a person of great gravity and piety, and well read in curious and critical authors.' P. 40. Minote Hall.-For certain gifts by Robert le Mignot to St. John's Hospital, see Wood MS. D. 11, p. 26. The references passim to Wood MS. D. 2 should mention pages, not folios. P. 108, n. I. Sir Lewis Stukeley.-It was he who seized and subsequently betrayed Ralegh. See Wood's Ath. Ox. i. 371. P. 129. James Martin.-The Eidyllia in Obitvm følgentissimi Henrici Walliae Principis duodecimi, Romaeque ruentis terroris maximi (Oxford, 1612, small quarto, with woodcuts), was edited undoubtedly by James Martin under the name of 'Jacobus Aretius' ("Apŋs, Mars), and almost all of the thirty and more poems -besides the three Idylls in hexameter verse, called 'Amyntas,' 'Tityrus,' and 'Daphnis,' which are presumably by Martin himself-were written by Broadgates Hall men. Mr. Falconer Madan, who kindly draws my attention to this volume, possesses the Editor's copy with his list of authors' names. The Editor and writers, he remarks (Early Oxford Press, O. H. S., p. 80), are more disguised than usual. One of the poems is in Chaldee (Hebrew type), one in Syriac, one in Arabic, one in Turkish (these three in Roman type), and a few in Greek. The volume testifies to the learning, and I presume to the Puritan sympathies, of the Lateportenses at the close of the Hall's career. It was in 1612 very full (see page 146). P. 141. John Milton.-This person is doubtless the same as one John Melton who gave 225. in the year 1620 towards the enlargement of the dining hall, and who is described in Dr. Clayton's book of contributors as 'generosus, Aulae Lateportensis olim Comensalis.' P. 238. Sir Peter Pett.-Another accomplished Bachelor of Arts from Cambridge (matr. Sidney Sussex College, 1629) was CHARLES GATACRE (Gataker, Catagree, Categorye, &c.), son of Thomas Gatacre, 'the learned presbyterian.' He took M.A. from Pembroke June 30, 1636. When Lucius Lord Viscount Falkland made his retirement at Great Tew a rural Academe, to which Sheldon, Morley, Hammond, Earle, Chillingworth, and the choicest philosophers and wits of Oxford resorted, Charles Gatacre was one of those in whose converse he took delight. Wood (Athenae, i. 501) thinks he was afterwards his chaplain. He became rector of Hoggeston, Bucks, in 1647, and died there November 20, 1680, aged 67. Lord Falkland's second son, Sir Henry Cary, 'so exceeding wild and extravagant that he sold his Father's incomparable Library for a Horse and a Mare,' married Rachel, daughter of the Sir Anthony Hungerford who entered Broadgates Hall in 1623. See page 233. P. 249, line 25. Rosewell.-This is the date given in Foster. But see page 230. One HENRY ROSEWELL, who entered Broadgates in 1607, was knighted. P. 271. Bishop Hall.-Mr. Falconer Madan has drawn my attention to two Latin poems in the Poematum Miscellaneorum Liber Primus (Lond. 1707, 4o) of Joseph Perkins, headed 'Ad Socios Coll. Pembro. Oxon. qui versus meos flammis mandaverunt.' Perkins, who entered Oriel in 1675, was a navy chaplain, and with difficulty supported a large family by writing flattering elegies and other verses, but was cashiered in 1697 for falsely accusing a naval officer of theft. He styled himself the 'Latin Laureate,' or, by way of exhibiting his Jacobite sympathies, the 'White Poet.' He wrote 'A Poem, in English and Latin, on the death of Thomas Kenn' (Bristol, 4o, 1711), and was a hanger-on of the nonjurors. As such he would bear no love to the Whig Bishop of Bristol, in which town moreover he tried in vain to obtain preferment. The Bursar, however, and Mr. Joseph E. Barton, Scholar of the College, who have obligingly examined for me Perkins' poems in the Bodleian, have failed to discover the reason for the burning of his verses by the Fellows of Pembroke. The clue might have been looked for in the following portion of one of the two expostulatory epigrams :— 'Pieris ausa fuit vastum tentare profundum: Et mersa est tumidis syllaba nulla fretis. Sed cum Pembrokiae temeraria irrupit in aedes, Ast elegus diro jam perit igne tuus. Franciscum rapuit Pontus, quem jam rapit ignis: The elegy, however, 'in obitum nobiliss. consultiss. fortissimique satrapae Gulielmi comitis de Craven' (1697, 4°) and that on Sir Francis Wheeler (1697) are to all appearance harmless. Perkins ends with threatening literary vengeance on the College, much as College authorities are now threatened with the Times :'Fulmine disjecit scelerati tecta Tyranni Jupiter et vires Musa Parentis habet.' P. 280, n. I. Bec Herluin tythes.-The Abbey of Bec in Normandy took its rise from Herlouin, a knight of Brionne, who had retired to this secluded vale. Attracted by his reputation for piety, Lanfranc took the cowl there, and became prior. The Abbey came to possess the Wallingford tythes, which finally were owned by Pembroke College. See page 162. P. 288. D'Auvergne.-See Histoire de la Maison D'Auvergne, by Baluze, fol., 2 vols. (1708). Pp. 304, 305. Dr. John Smyth, Master.-On his monument in the south aisle of Gloucester Cathedral it is stated that he died (aged 66) at Exeter, and is buried in the cathedral there. There are ascribed to him doctrina, morum comitas, religio,' and he is said to have been 'Collegio ob munificentiam carissimus.' Pp. 341-345. I have seriously understated the number of Johnson's visits to Oxford. Dr. Birkbeck Hill points out to me that he was there in the following years:-1754, 1755, 1759, 1762, 1763, 1764, 1766, 1767, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1773, 1774, 1775 (twice), 1776, 1777, 1781, 1782, 1784 (twice). The incident described on page 343, as recalled by the father of the late Bishop of Chichester, occasions some difficulty, for Dr. Hill shows that Boswell, who left for Scotland on July 1, 1784, and did not return till after Johnson's death, cannot have been at Pembroke in November. Durnford, however, matriculated in October. He may, of course, have been staying with the Master in the preceding June, and it is more likely that he should have met Johnson thus than as an invited freshman. P. 349. Tom Tyers.-Chalmers (Biog. Dict.) says that Johnson was supposed to intend Tyers by the character of Tom Restless in the Idler, No. 48. Tyers died Feb. 1, 1787. P. 383. Newcome.-There is a portrait of the Archbishop in the Master's Lodgings. Pp. 384, n. 2, 440. I regret to record the death, since these lines were printed, of Canon Scott-Robertson and of the Rev. Henry Robinson Wadmore. P. 396, n. I. Dr. Adams.—A profile portrait of him is carved on his monument in the south aisle of Gloucester Cathedral. Next to it is the monument of the Rev. THOMAS PARKER, Fellow of Pembroke, Rector of Saintbury St. Nicholas and Vicar of Churcham St. Andrew, who died December 22, 1800, aet. 47. P. 477, line 3, add, WILLIAM FRANCIS HIGGINS, matr. Jan. 27, 1864, of Turvey House, Beds, High Sheriff of that county in 1872, who was cousin of Charles Longuet Higgins, esquire, one of Dean Burgon's 'Twelve Good Men.'ALFRED BEAVEN BEAVEN, matr. 1864, Scholar 1865, Head Master of Preston Grammar School, 1874. P. 504, at the bottom add Lecturer in Mechanics. 1887. FREDERICK JOHN SMITH, M.A., F.R.S., Millard Lecturer in Trinity College. P. 505, under Radcliffe's Travelling Fellow, add 1715. ROBERT WYNTLE, M.D., Warden of Merton. ERRATA. P. 6, line 14, pro 'C. Natte's' lege C. J. Nattes'.' P. 159, n. I, pro 'Rev. A. C. Bartholomew' lege 'Rev. C. W. M. Bartholomew.' P. 184, lines 20, 21, pro 'Tesdales-Thomas' lege 'Tesdales-Thomas. P. 193, n. 1, after 'in the hands of' inserta member of the firm of.' P. 233, last line but one, pro 1625' lege' 1623.' P. 235, line 31, pro 'Geat' lege' Great.' P. 265, line 3 from bottom, pro 'Ms.' lege ' Mr.' P. 290, lines 9, 10, pro 'Sir Linton Symons' lege' Sir John Lintorn Simmons.' P. 302, n. I. This note refers to the last line of p. 301. |