240 SOME HEADS OF HOUSES. Dr. DRUMMOND PERCY CHASE, the present Principal of St. Mary Hall. Born at Château de Saulruit, near St. Omer, Sept. 14, 1820; entered Pembroke Feb. 15, 1838; scholar 1838; migrated to Oriel 1839; B.A. 1841 (1st class Lit. Hum.); fellow of Oriel 1842; M.A. 1844; tutor 1847-9, 1860-6; proctor 1853; B. and D.D. 1880; President of the Union Society 1842; Vice-Principal of St. Mary Hall 1848-57; Principal 1857; Select Preacher 1860; vicar of St. Mary's 1856-73 and 1876-8. Dr. EDWARD MOORE, now Principal of St. Edmund Hall. Born at Cardiff Feb. 28, 1835; entered Pembroke May 26, 1853, from Bromsgrove School; B.A. 1859; fellow of Queen's 1858–65; M.A. 1860; tutor of St. Edmund Hall 1862; fifty-second Principal 1864; B.D. 1867; proctor 1871; D.D. 1878; President of the Union Society 1860; Select Preacher 1887. Dr. Moore had a distinguished career in the Schools, and has filled a number of responsible posts in the administration of the University. The study of Dante in England owes much to his scholarly labours. CHAPTER XVIII. PURITANS AND OTHERS. THE change from young men of position studying law and the muses before entering upon life to a more plebeian and puritanical class of undergraduate coincides more or less with the conversion of the Hall into a College, but affected, it would seem, every part of the University 1. In the room of the dispossessed Charter fellows others were appointed, but by whom is not clear. Of one of these, GEORGE HUGHES, 'the bright star of the west,' Calamy gives a large account. He was born in Southwark in 16032. Having first been entered at Corpus Christi in 1619, and taken B.A. there, he had so general a Reputation then for his Proficiency in his Studies that Dr. Clayton being made Master of Pembroke-College, upon the first Erection of it, he procur'd Mr. Hughes to be one of the first Fellows of it. Several Persons of great Eminency afterwards were his Pupils here, as Henry Langley, D.D., second Master of Pembroke, Tobit Garbrand, M.D., Principal of Gloucester-Hall, and many others.' He was ordained about 1628, being known in the University as a Puritan. For some time he preached in and around Oxford, and afterwards was Lecturer of Allhallows, Breadstreet, proceeding B.D. (as obliged by statute) July 10, 1633. Silenced by Laud, he had thoughts of transferring himself to New England, but was dissuaded by 'old Mr. Dod,' Lord Brooke made him his chaplain, he married a Gentlewoman of Coventry, and Lady Maynard got the Earl of Bedford to present him to Tavistock, where, by his endeavours, 'a mighty Reformation was wrought.' Thenceforward he was, Wood says, 'the most noted Presbyterian (if not Independent), of his time in Devonshire.' Having to flee before the King's forces from Tavistock and from Exeter, 1 1 Lady Brilliana Harley writes in 1638 to her son at Magdalen Hall: 'I belieue that theare are but feawe nobellmen's sonne in Oxford; for now, for the most part, they send theaire sonnes into France when they are very yonge.' "His mother was then fifty-two years old, and he was her firstborn. She afterwards lived to a great age. R 242 A WEST-COUNTRY PURITAN. Hughes was appointed vicar of St. Andrew's, Plymouth, where he 'continued in great liking among the godly party. Calamy says', ''tis no Wonder this excellent Person should have a share with so much good Company in Tony Wood's ill-Nature and Slanders; that he should call in question his Degrees,' &c. He rebuts the charge of self-seeking and of fanaticism, and says that Hughes, though from 1654 an Assistant for ejecting 'scandalous' clergy and schoolmasters, did not act. He was accused, in a book called Foxes and Firebrands, of making one Newland, a Popish ecclesiastic, his pretended butler, and calling on him to pray and expound. Also of living in greater power and equipage than any archbishop. He certainly appears to have exercised a more than episcopal influence in the West-country, and Calamy relates how, after his ejection at the Bartholomew of 1662, Bishop Gauden's Visitation at Totnes was forsaken by the whole body of clergy, when they heard that Hughes was in the town, in order to accompany him on horseback towards his home. Wood writes: 'Exercising his function in private, that is in Conventicles, among the Brethren, contrary to the Act, he was with Tho. Martin conveyed into S. Nicholas Island near Plymouth, an. 1665, where they remained about 9 Months. In which time our author Hughes wrote an answer to Joh. Serjeants book entit. Sure-footing. At length his health being much impaired, as the Brethren reported, and his legs black and swoln, he was offer'd his liberty, upon condition of giving security of 1000l. [2000l. Calamy] not to live within 20 miles of Plymouth: Which being accordingly effected by the Brethren without his knowledge he retired to Kingsbridge in Devonsh., found entertainment in the house of one Daniel Elley, a Brother, and was much frequented to the last by the fanatical party.' 'He hardly cared,' says Calamy, for any other Discourse but what was serious and heavenly, and had such an affecting Sense of the Cloud that was upon GOD's Church by the Ejection of so many eminent Ministers, that he was scarce seen to indulge any Mirth after that day.' Preaching the Lord's Day before his death, he ended with the words, 'And now all my Work is done.' 'The Evening before he dy'd, he ordered his Watch to lie by him, and desir'd a Relation to observe when it was two a Clock, for (says he) that is my Hour. And accordingly just then he expir'd, An. 1667: in his 64th Year.' On the monument in Kingsbridge church 'to the fragrant ever-to-be-cherished memory of the much desired George Hughes,' he is described as 'Sacrae sensus paginae penitiores eruere, homines concione flectere, precibus Deum, mire edoctus. Qui Solis aemulum ab Oriente auspicatus cursum (ortum Londinâs), occidentale dehinc sidus diù claruit, lucem in vita spargens undique, moriens luctum : Vitaeq; (vere vitalis) curriculo in an. Ixiv perducto, optima perfunctus, perpessus mala, requiem tandem invenit, animo quidem in Caelis, corpore vero in subjacente tumulo. . . . Posuit honoris et amoris ergo Thomas Crispinus Exoniensis.' This Crispin founded the Kingsbridge Grammar School. The inscription is from the pen of Hughes' son-in ... 1 Athenae, ii. 280. DOOMSDAY SEDGWICKE. 243 law, Howe, Cromwell's chaplain. Calamy calls Hughes 'a Master in most Parts of Learning, especially a great Textuary and Divine.... An acute disputant, a judicious Casuist.' One of his sermons, preached before the Commons on a fast-day, May 28, 1647, is entitled Vae-eugaetuba, or 'The Wo-joy-trumpet? Another, Drie-Rod blossoming. His son Obadiah was imprisoned with him at Plymouth. A pupil of Hughes at Pembroke (entered 1624, aged 15), was WILLIAM SEDGWICKE. At College he 'profited more in Divinity than Philosophy,' being 'instructed in Presbyterian principles by his Tutor.' At first, as Rector of Farnham, he conformed, but in 1641 put in a curate there and attached himself as chaplain to the troops of Sir William Constable, afterwards a Regicide. After the ejection of the Loyalist clergy he became the chief preacher in the city of Ely, being commonly styled the Apostle of the Isle of Ely. Wood says: 'He was a conceited whimsical person, and one very unsetled in his opinions: sometimes he was a Presbyterian, sometimes an Independent, and at other times an Anabaptist. Sometimes he was a Prophet, and would pretend to foretel matters in the pulpit, to the great distraction of poor and ignorant people. At other times having received revelations, as he pretended, he would forewarn people of their sins in publick discourses, and upon a pretence of a vision that Doomesday was at hand, he retired to the house of Sir Franc. Russell in Cambridgeshire, and finding divers Gentlemen there at Bowles, called upon them to prepare themselves for their dissolution, telling them that he had lately received a revelation that Doomesday would be some day the next week '.' Butler has some lines on him in Hudibras (part ii. canto iii. 475-8). Sidrophel, seeing the paper lanthorn at the end of the boy's kite through his telescope, says :— 'When stars do fall 'tis plain enough To which an editor appends the note: "This Sedgwick had many persons (and some of quality) that believed in him and prepared to keep the day of judgment with him, but were disappointed; for which the false prophet was afterwards called by the name of Doomsday Sedgwick. He was Minister of Coggeshall and of Covent Garden. Having published The Leaves of the tree of Life for the healing of the Nations, the author 'went to Carisbrook Castle in the Isle of Wight, and desired the Governours leave to address himself to K. Ch. I. then a Prisoner there. Mr. Jam. Harrington one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber being acquainted with the occasion, told his Maj. that a Minister was purposely come from London to discourse with him about his spiritual concerns, and was also desirous to present his Maj. with a book he had lately written for his Majesties perusal; which, as he said, if his 1 Athenae, ii. 335. 244 A ROYALIST EXILE. Majesty would please to read, might, as he imagined, be of much advantage to him, and comfort in that his disconsolate condition. The King therefore came forth, and Sedgwick in decent manner gave his Maj. the book. After he had read some part thereof, he returned it to the author with this short admonition and judgment: By what I have read in this book, I believe the author stands in some need of sleep. These words being taken by the author in the best sense, he departed with seeming satisfaction.' 'His Heart' remarks Calamy 'was better than his Head.' He preached An Arke against a Deluge and other Fast and Thanksgiving Sermons before the House of Commons (Wood MS. D. 18). One of the earliest Fellows was DR. WILLIAM STAMPE, son of Timothy Stampe, of Brewern Abbey, of a good family.' Walker says, he entered April 20, 1627 (1626, Wood), aged 16. He was the first presented by the College to the Rectory of St. Aldate's (1637). In 1641 he became vicar of Stepney,- 'Where he was much resorted to by persons of orthodox principles for his edifying way of preaching. But when the restless Presbyterians had brought all things into confusion, he was violently thrust out, imprison'd, plunder'd, and at length forced to get away and fly for the safety of his life. At that time Oxford being the chief place of refuge for men of his condition, he made shift to get there about the beginning of 1643, and his case being made known to the King then there, this Order following was written by Lord Falkland his Secretary to the Vicechancellour: "The Kings Majesty taking into his Princely consideration the great Sufferings of Mr. Will. Stampe, who hath not only undergone a long and hard Imprisonment of 34 weeks, but also is now outed of a very good Living, and all this for preaching Loyalty and Obedience to a disaffected Congregation to the extream hazard of his life: His Majesty being willing to repair these his Sufferings, and to encourage his known Abilities (for which by special favour and grace he is sworn Chaplain to his dearest Son the Prince) hath commanded me to signifie to you, that you forthwith confer on him the degree of Doctor of Divinity, &c."" On the declining of the King's cause Stampe followed the Prince beyond the seas, and afterwards was made chaplain to the King's sister, the beautiful Queen of Bohemia, preaching to a congregation of English exiles at Charenton. He died of a fever at the Hague about 1653, in early middle life, and (Bishop Morley told Wood) was buried in the church of Loesdune. Others of this time were: FRANCIS GOLDSMITH, grandson of Sir Francis, of Crayford, Kent, entered Pembroke from the Merchant Taylors as a Gentleman Commoner in 1629. Here he laid the foundation of legal studies, migrating later to St. John's. He annotated Grotius. Died 1655. His daughter Catherine inarried Sir Henry Dacres, Knight. 1 Athenae, ii. 98. |