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R E G I ST E R

OF THE

PRE S I DEN TS, FE LLOW S, DEM I ES,

INSTRUCTORS IN GRAMMAR AND IN MUSIC ,

CHAPLA IN S , CLERKS , CHOR ISTERS ,

AND OTHER MEMBERS

SA INT MARY MAGDALEN COLLEGE

IN THE

UN IVERS ITY OF OXFORD,

FROM THE FOUNDATION O l“ THE COLLEGE TO THE PRESENT TIME.

JOHN ROUSE

FELLOW AND LIBRARIAN .

VOL. I .

THE CHOR I STERS .

OXFORD,

WILLIAM GRAHAM , HIGH STREET.

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THE CHOR I STERS OF ST. MARY MAGDALEN COLLEGE ,

OXFORD

THI S PORTION OF THE COLLEGE REG I STER

I S DED ICATED W ITH AFFECTIONATE REGARD

BY THEIR SI NCERE FR I END

J. R . B .

PREFA C E .

He set singers also before the altar, that by their voices they might make

sweetmelody, and daily sing praises in their songs . E cclus . xlvii. 9.

WHEN the pious Bishop of Winchester, Will iam of Wayu

flete, founded his College of St. Mary Magdalen, in the

University of Oxford, for the exaltation of‘

the Christian

Faith, the advancement of the Church, the increase of Divine

worship , and the liberal arts, sciences, and faculties,”he

ordained that there should be four Chaplains, eight Clerks,

andM en Choristers, in daily attendance in the College Chapel ,

in order that “ the Divine Ofices might, by God’

s grace, be

performed with the greatest devotion , honour, and perfection

and for the proper instruction of the latter he commanded

that, if any one of the Chaplains or Clerks were able to

teach them plain song, and other kinds of singing, the Pre

sident of his College should hire him for that pm'

pose ; but

should the Chaplains and Clerks all decline to take upon

themselves such instruction , that the President should make

an agreement with some other well-qualified person inrespect

to commons and stipend for teaching. He enacted also,

that the power of admitting or dismissing the Choristers

should belong to the President, and in his absence to the Vice

President ; and with regard to their lodging, that they shou ld

be distribu ted separately in the chambers of Fellows or

Probationers, who were under the obligation of superintending

their morals, behaviour, and scholastic progress, and, if

necessary, of making report of their misconduct. Lastly, he

nrdained, but only in case of the greatest distress and poverty

of the College, that the number of the Choristers might

be reduced to eight.

Such was the provision made for the Choristers in accord

ance with the customs of the latter part of the fifteenth cen

b

ii rnsrac s .

tury. The elementary portion of their educationwas intrusted

to the Instructor in music ; and we find that at the Visitation

of Bishop Fox in 1507 , the following complaint was laid

cos scientw ct maribas, red patina divertit cos ad alia negotia

and in 1 5 19, Robert Perrot, their Instructor in music, is styled

Scholemaster of the Choristers.

”

(Ledger, B . p . No

regulation appears to have been made for their attendance at

the grammar-lecture and it is probable that originally they

did not pass the limits of the song-school , unless they became

Clerks or Demies, or at least matriculated Members of the

University. The number of instances, however, in which in

early times Choristers were raised to the class not only of

Clerks , but of Demies, was perhaps owing to the special

interest taken by the Fellow under whose protection the

Boy was placed ; and for whose kind oflices he made a return,

by performing those little services, which, till very lately, the

younger boys in our public Schools rendered to the elder.

Compared with other foundations of the same character, it

m ight perhaps have been said then more truthfully than at

the present time,Oh! happier they, whose fairer forhm0 falls

By Waynflete’s tower, or Wykeham

’s sainted walls ;

There watchfiil eyes are o’er them , kind hearts tend,

And every Fellow is the Quit e-boy’s friend :

Till , train’d and tutor

’d thoughtfully, ere long

The Boy, now made by consecration strong,

In some high Minster lifts the priestly song.

”

Ecclea'

a Def. 8vc . (Longman,) London, 1848 , p. 23 .

Their place of recreation in 1 535 is briefly noticed in the

Va lor Ecclesiasticm (vol . ii. p . Term: vacate Demaynes

adjacent“ Collegio , viz. in prato ct ambulatorium mum tum ubi

solent puari luderc.

During the times of pestilence, which so frequently amictedOxford in the sixteenth century, the Choristers were careful ly

removed under proper superintendence to Brackley, Harwell ,

or, as in 1507 , to Witney, the Rectorial-house of which was

hired for their accommodation.

PREFACE. fii

In the year 1487, a school for the Choristers was built near

the Kitchen ; and from the pecul iar attractions of the latter

place we are not surprised to find, that some years later ( in

15 13 ) it was deemed advisable by the College, for reasons

which may easily be conceived , to build up a wall between

the Kitchen and the School . In after times the Boys were

taught singing in a curious watch-tower of three stories, called

the Vyse,”which was built by the Founder in the year 1479 ,

near the stream of the Cherwell running between the Grove

and the Water-walks. It may be observed in the . plan of

Oxford made by Aggas in the year 1578 , where it is styled

the Songe Schoole.

”It was also the Organist’s abode. It

was destroyed to make room for the N ew Buildings in

February 1788-4 Since that time the Choristers have re

ceived their musical instruction occasionally in the Ante

chapel , by no means a desirableplace for the purpose, and for

some years past in a room on the west side of the Towerb.

In 1481 , fourpence per week was paid for the allocation or

commons of each Chorister. In addition to which, as they

waited in hall at the tables of the Senior and Junior Fellows,they probably partook of the fragments left at dinner and

supper. The eight senior Choristers waited at the High

Table, and the eight junior at the Masters’

Table, till the

commencement of the present century. They still continue

this‘omce, as a matter of form, on the Candy-day in July.

Hearne’

s Diary, A .D. 1788-4 . Feb. 2 1. Thursday. Last week, the

Organist’s house, commonly called the musics chool -house, on the north

side ofMagdalen College, at a little distance from the College, just by the

water side, being on the west side of the water, was pulled down on account

of the new additional part, that is now erecting, of the College.

”

5 A good lofty music-school within the College, not far from the Chapel

and the Organist’s apartments, and fitted up with desks and shelves for

music-books, is still a desidcratum. It would also be an admirable im .

provement if the whole of the room , now used by the Chaplains, Clerks ,

and Choristers, for putting on their surplices, could be made available for

that purpose, instead of one dark narrow portion of it, the inconveniences

of which are daily manifest.

1' PREFACE.

In car]v time, their common garb. or Iiberata , as it was

called, consisted of a long gown of dark cloth , containing two

yards and a half, and which cost five shillings . (vide p.

This dress must have been very sim ilar to that of the blue

coat boys of Christ’

s Hospital in the present day . The vene

rable President still remembers the tima, when the Choristers

appeared bare-headed in College, like Undergraduates of

the sixteenth centuryc

. Their present gown is that of a

Bachelor of Arts , according to a regulation reported to have

been made or revived by that eminentmu sician , Aldrich, Dean

of Christ Church from 1689 to 17 1 1 . Bu t, if matriculated,

they wear the large-sleeved gowns of Scholars, follow ing the

ru le put forth by University au thority in Lent Term , 1770 ;

Choristers to wear Scho la rs’

gowns and square caps without tufts“

.

The vestments worn by the Choristers in Choir, so long as

The Use of Samm”

was retained, were A lbs, Surplices, and

Tunicles. This appears by an Inventory of the vestments ,

books , and ornaments of the College Chapel, drawn up in

1495 by the Sacristan, Thomas Gofi'

,which contains the fol

lowing pro pueris.

I tem duas tunicasmbeas cum orfieys dc damask at velveti glauco .

I tem unam tunicam rubeam cumWreys dc blodio velveti .

I tem aliam tunicam rubeam dc tartrow.

I tem tres tunicas albas unius sectw.

I tem tres tunicas blodias pro pueris cum stellia afiz is.

Item vexillum do Sancto N icholao.

And also from the annual expenses of the Chapel in the Libri

Computi, in which we frequently find such entries as these ;

Solutum profactura superpclliciomm pro Chomstis, l I“.

Solrutum pro by paretyng sea: albarum pro Chorustis .

L. C . 1520 .

c E tsi multis transactis anuis consuctudo fuerit prescripta S cho laribus, ut

non velato , ace in Collegio , ace in oppido, incederent capite, tamen diversis dc

causis nobis visum est ipeta concedere, at in oppido p ileumutipossint, hac lege, at

in Collegio veteri non sint liberi consuetudine. Reg. 0 0 11. Exon. l Mar. 1553 .

See Remarks on S trictures lately published upon the S tatute, Tit. xiv.

DE Vesrrru m HABITU Scnom s'

rl co. 8vc . Oxford, 1770.

PREFACE.

The Albs were made of linen , and reached down to the

heels ; they were confined by a girdle , and decorated with

apparels embroidered with ornaments or sacred imagery.

These apparels were either sewn entirely round the bottom

of the skirt, and lower part of the sleeve, or consisted of small

square pieces fastened to the same portions of the garment,

and which symbolized the bloody wounds of our blessed Lord.

The A lbs were worn by those boys of the Cho ir, whose tu rn

it was to serve as acolytes, thurifers, or torch-bearers at the

elevation at High Mass : and by all the Choristers in the

solemn Processions round the C loisters.

The Tunicles were worn by the acolytes, candle-bearers ,

and thurifers on High Festivals over their apparelled Albs .

The Surplices were very much like those worn at present,

except that they were closed in front, bu t with a circular

hole in the middle for the head to pass through ; which aperture

was curiou sly coloured or ornamented w ith elegantly-wrought

needlework, done sometimes in scarlet, bu t more frequently

in dark blue thread.

When the religious changes took place in the middle of

the sixteenth century, and the Ritual of St.‘ Osmund was

abolished for ever, away went Alb and Tunicle and Surplice.

Even this latter vesture was proscribed by a President “ , whose

puritanical scruples were ofi'

ended alike by Ecclesiastical

vestment or Academical costume ; and it was not till the year

1585,that, by the earnest persuasion of the Visitor, BishopCooper, he allowed the Surplice to reappear in the CollegeChapel .

Dr. Lawrence Humphrey, President from 1501 to 1590. He and

others were cited before Archbishop Parker, for refusing the Ecclesiasticalhabits , and received the following order ; to wear the cap appointed byinjunction, to wear no hats with their long gowns, to wear surp lices with hoods

in the Quires of their Colleges according to the ancientmanner there, and to

communicate kneeling in wafer-bread."Not complyingwith these regulations,

he was imprisoned , but by great interest soon set'

at liberty. In 1506 ,

Queen Elizabeth, on her visit to Oxford, seei ng him in his proper

Doctorial robes, said to him, Dr. Humphrey, methinks this gown and

habit become you very well , and I marvel that you are so straitlaced on

this point ; but I come not now to chidc .

"

vi rasracs .

In addition to these vestures. we find in the account books

from A D . down to the time of the changes above

alluded to, frequent charges for glam for the Boy-Bishop on

the Feast of St. Nicholas (Dec . by which it appears, that

this custom (, regulated by the Use of Saturn, was sanctioned

by our Founder in his lifetime. We have no record of the

actual ceremonial performed by the Choristers in College on

such occasions ; bu t we may suppose, that having elected their

Bishop from among themselves, he and his attendants sang

the first vespers of their Patron Saint, and afierwards partook

of a conaiaium prepared by the College, at which there seems

to have been a great consumption of apples , pears , and even

w ine. We may fancy also the Procession of the Boy-Bishop

and his you thfu l band, arrayed in capes , and bearing burning

tapers, moving solemnly round the Cloisters , while the

Centum Quadraginta quatuor is sweetly chanted, and then

passing with the Banner of St. Nicholas through the western

door of the Chapel to one of the six altars in the nave, per

chance that dedicated to the Holy Innocents, whenthe censing

commences ; and then, the antiphon and other functions

ended, the Bishop , standing on the steps of the altar, wear

ing cope and m itre, and holding his pastoral staff in his left

hand , gives his solemn benediction to al l present , and while

he makes the sign of the cross over the kneeling crowd ,sings aloud,

Crucis signo vos consigno : vestra sit tuitio ,

Qui nos emit et redemit suaacarnis pretia.

“ In priestly robes attired

They come in close array,

A nd hand in hand the children’s band,

W‘ith even pace and solemn grace,

Through the centre aisle of the minster’s pile,

From the western door their procession pour,

To where the wayIs barred to keep one spot from foot profane retired .

l A full account of this custom may be found in Gregorie’s Episcopus

Puerorum,

"Dr. Rock

’

s Church of our Fathers,”and Histori cal Notices

of the Office of Choristers,” mentioned in page 220 of this volume.

PREFACE . vii

Still on without controul

Like Priests they pass along ;

N o blame they fear, but with accents clear,

The prayers are sung by the children’s tongue ;

A fitting part for the pure in heart,

Their voice to raise in their Maker’

praise,

In solemn song ,

On theFeast ofthegood SaintN icholas,theSaintofthe childlike soul .

0 gaze we on the sight,

N orproudly turn aside !

We too have need with God to plead,

That England’s Priests may blessed be

With the childlike gifl: of purityThat they HisWill aright may read,

And faithful guide

In our dim tw ilight hour sick hearts that ask for light.”

Lyra Sanctorum, p. 258. (Masters, A .D.

Another ceremonial connected w ith the Choristers mu st

not be forgotten. On Maundy Thursday, it appears 3, the

President u sed to wash the feet of seven Choristers ; as in

after times Queen Elizabeth was accustomed on that day to

wash the feet of as many poor persons as she had cornpleted

years.

But these and similar usages, whether approved as edifying,or denounced as superstitious, have passed away. One

pleasing and popu lar relic of the past still remains, the origin

of which is involved in an obscurity which baffles all research.

Very early in the morning b of the first ofMay, the Festival of

St. Philip and St. James, the Choristers ascend the graceful

Tower, the bu ilding ofwhich an ancient tradition has assigned

a L. C. 153 1 . Sol . Dno Presidi in Cans Domini pro Chorustis lavando

eorum pedes. viid.

L. C. 1535 . 80 1. Septem Chorustis, quorum pedes lavabantur a Dno

Preside in cans Domini. vii‘.

‘l Pointer says, that a custom existed of singing betimes in the morningof Christmas day. Ozanicnsis A cademia, AD . 1749, p . 08.

PREFACE.

to Wolsey , and with other members of the Quire , all vested

in surplices and turning to the sun-rise , chant the well-known

hymn , TeDeum Patrem colimus , do. after which the Boys assist

in producing that confu sed jangling of the bells, which from

earliest times has announced the Commemoration-Days. A

plentiful dinner is prepared for the Choristers in Hall ; and

they evidently celebrate this as their own peculiar Festival ,

with as much enjoyment as their predecessors of old did the

Feast of St. Nicholas .

Wefind l ittlemention made of the Choristers inVisitatorial

Decrees, except that Bishop Fox orders in 1507 that negligent

Choristers shou ld be corrected by one of the Deans ; and in

May 1665 , B ishop Morley issued the follow ing excellent

mandate respecting their Confirmation . Cum etiam ea: ritu

Ecclesiw Anglicante constitutum sit, no qu is ad sacra-sanc tum com

munionem prius admittatur quam ab Episcopofuen'

t canfinnatus ;

prteclpimus Schalares, CHoms'rAs, Commensales, aliosque amnes in.

Collegium admissas. nandumque confirmatas, prius ab Iafarma

zaribas suis, out alias, (sicat decet,) eruditos, per Decanum Collegii,rel Informatorem, val comm Deputatum, ad Episcopum loco cl

tempare co ngruis adduci, ut secundum ritum Ecclesice per imposi

tianem manuum Ep iscopi canfirmatianem suscip itma

At what period Choristers not matriculated were first

allowed to enter the Grammar School , it is diflicult to

discover. They are now placed entirely under the care of the

Instructor in Grammar, who receives them in a house lately

purchased by the College for the purpose of their board and.

lodging, and gives them , in conjunction with the Usher, an

education sufficiently adapted for the groundwork of Uni

versity Tu ition . Singing they are taught by the Instructor

in that department, now also the Organist ; whose predecessors

(to say nothing of himself) have been for the most part famous

in the annals ofmusic .

The eight senior Choristers are allowed each for allocation ,

vest-money, &c. £33 33 . 4d. The eight junior, £24 13 . 4d .

They also derive additional advantage from the following

Bencfactions .

PREFA CE . ix

Dr. Christopher Greene‘, who died in 1658 , bequeathed to

his nephew Edward Browne of Almondsbury, co. Gloucester,

certain property, charged in perpetu ity with an annual pay

men of forty-five pounds to Magdalen College, under the

following conditions

1 . That the forty-five pounds per annum shall be,divided

equally between eight Choristers , and no smaller or greater

number, (or Clerks, if any Chorister chosen an Exhibitioner

happen to be advanced, ) who are to be paid their respective

proportions quarterly .

2 . That the Choristers so chosen to be Exhibitioners be

of the best deserts for music, learning, a nd manners, and of

the greatest poverty ofparents ; and, being such, shall continue

the same either till they leave the College, or take the

degree of Bachelor of Arts.

3 . That the said Edward Browne shall have the nomination

of the persons on whom the Exhibitions shall be conferred

from time to time during his life, provided he nominate such

persons as are du ly qualified as aforesaid in the judgment of

the President for the time being, or in his absence of the

Vice-President, within one month after notice given of any

such avoidance.

4 . That if at any time any of the Donor’

s, or of Catharine

hisWife’

s, or of the saidEdward Browne’

sExecu tors,Relations ,or poor Kindred , shall , by reason of poverty, seek for and

stand in need of the aforesaid places, and shall be du ly

i Christopher Greene, whom AnthonyWood calls a learned and godly

man,”

(Fasti was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford , where

he became B .A . 23 July, 1599 MA . 1 1 July,‘1603 and DD . 26 July, 1622 .

He was also Rector of Nuthurst, co. Sussex , 1613—1625 ; instituted to the

Rectory of Littlebury, co . Essex, 30 Oct. 1618 ; and appointed Prebendaryof the first stall in Bristol Cathedral , 4 Dec. 1616. He was buried in the

cemetery of that Cathedral, the following inscription being placed over

him ChfistoPherus Greene, D -D . hujus E cclesiw Prebenda t ius Collegu

Carp oris Christi, Oran. aiyia li annas S ocius cl discipulus. Obiit 8vo die

Al artit, 1658 , (static 79. F il l caro , sum anima cum spiritu , are here omnia .

Heraclitefleas miscro sec conventt cevo .

N il nisi tristc aides. N il nisi triste aides.

PREFACE.

qualified for the same as aforesaid, they shall be preferred

before all others by the President of the said College for the

time being, in whom the sole power of nominating and

electing, after the decease of the said Edward Browne, shall

5 . That those, who shall from time to time be chosen

Exhibitioners, shall nevertheless have and receive all other

profits and emoluments accruing to them in the said College,

as if they had no share in the fore-mentioned Benefaction .

Dr. Thomas Sheppard ) , Fellow of Magdalen College, who

died in 18 14 , among other benefactions to Magdalen College,thus expressed himself in his Will with respect to the

Choristers.

I also give sixty pounds per annum to the President and

Scholars of Magdalen College, Oxford , and their successors,

upon trust to dispose of the same in the education of sons of

Clergymen, who are Choristers of the said College, till they

are of standing for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, but not

more than thirty pounds for the benefit of any one ; and in

case there are no sons of Clergymen to be educated for the

University amongst the Choristers, then I desire the said

sixty pounds per annum to be applied in placing ou t any

Chorister, the son of a Clergyman, an apprentice at the age

of fourteen or fifteen years, at the discretion of the said

President and Scholars.

Dr. William Andrew Jenner", Fellow ofMagdalen College,by a Codicil dated 9 April , 18 14 , bequeathed two thousand

pounds in the Three per Cents.“ in trust, that the interest

thereof, and the accumu lated interest, should at the expiration

of every third year be given - to a Chorister, the son of a

Clergyman, who has had his education at Magdalen School

at least . four years, to place him an apprentice or articled

Clerk at least five years, giving security that he shall stay his

5 Thomas Sheppard. Prob. F . 1749— 1770 . Vicar of Basingstoke,

1768—1814 . He died 29 Jan. 18 14 , and was buried at Amport, R ants.

3 William Andrew Jenner. Prob. F. 1785— 1832 . He died 28 July, 1832 ,and was buried at Ifiley, near Oxford.

x ii PREFA CE.

risters be in this and all other cases determined by the date

of their admission into the Qu ite.

There are also two small Benefactions given annually to

the Choristers ; one by gift ofJohn Claymond"

, John Hygden

and Robert Morwent°, which it is customary for the Bursars

to distribute in Chapel on the first Monday in Lent, after

the second Lesson , during the singing of a paraphrase of the

Song of Zacharias, viz. unicuique sedecim Chon'

stamm duos

danarias the other, by special bequest of Simon PerrotP and

A lice his wife, which binds the College on the Monday

preceding the Feast of St. Mark , ad so lvendum Choristis

Collegii, vel comm locum tenentibus, qu inque solidos et quatuor

danarias, et prwcqatori comm semdecim danarias, singulis annis in

pmpetuum ; quia Robertas Parrot, pater dioti Simonis, fuit olim

Pre ceptor Choristamm in dicta Collegio.

In addition to these, there are other Exhibitions and

Prizes founded by the President and Fellows ; not for the

Choristers exclusively, but for the joint benefit of them and

of the boys who attend the Grammar School . An account

of these will be found amongst the following College Orders,issued from time to

’

time as circumstances required .

Ordered. A .D . 1594 . That every Chorister shall procure a

Fellow , or a Chaplain , thatmay be answerable for theirbattelsa,

0 John Claymond. President 1506— 15 16 . President ofCorpus Christi

College 15 16— 1 537. He died 19 Nov. 1 537, and was buried in CorpusChristi College Chapel .

0 John Hygden. President 1 5 16— 1525 . Dean of Cardinal College and

Christ Church 1525— 1532 . He died 13 Jan. 1532 -3 , and was buried inMagdalen College Chapel .

Robert Morwent. Fellow 15 10—15 17 . President of Corpus Christi

College 1537— 15 58 . He died 16 Aug. 15 58 , and was buried in CorpusChristi College Chapel .

9 Simon Perrot. Prob. F . 1533— 1550 . He died 24 Sept. 1584 , and was

buried in the north transept of St. Peter’s Church in the East, Oxford.

William Skinner also , Fellow in 1482 , by Deed dated 22 Aug. 1530,

granted for a limited period thirteen shillings and eight pence annual ly to

the Choristers, to helpe their commons in the time of Lent.”

a I t appears from the ancient Buttery-books, that all the Choristers

remained in College for the Chapel Service during the whole of the year,

PREFA CE. xhi

whose names shall be entered in the Bursar'

s Ledger. See

also page 79, line 1 1 .

A .D . 1789, Nov. 1. That two shillings a week he allowedto Middleton (chief cook ) , so long as the Choristers have a

fire in their room f.

A .D . 179 1. July 26. That the President and Bursars bring

forward some plan for the better regu lation of the Choristers.

A .D . 1797. March 20 . That an additional penny be added

to the daily commons of the Choristers .

A .D . 1799 . Nov. 7 . That an additional penny a day be

allowed to each Chorister who lives in College, during the

present high price of bread .

A . D . 1802 . Ju ly 27. That during Michaelmas Term a trial

shall be made whether the Hall cannot be waited upon by

College Servants , instead of the Choristers ; and that during

that trial , the seven Choristers who now wait shall be allowed

S ixpence a day each in the Kitchen .

A .D. 1803 . Feb . 1 . That the plan , made trial of in Mi

chaelmas Term , of employing the College Servants instead of

the Choristers to wait at table in the Hall , be continued ; and

that, as often as they shall actually dine in College, the eight

senior Choristers shall be al lowed Sixpence per diem each in

the Kitchen .

A .D . 18 Dec. 15 . That the Room in the Cloisters in

which the Choristers dine be repaired at the discretion of the

Bursars .

A .D . 18 13 . Feb. 27 . That the eight senior Choristers be

allowed Sixpence a day in lieu of the dinner provided for

them in College .

A .D 18 13 . May 14 . That the eight senior Choristers,

who have their dinner out of College , have paid to their

Dames as Super compt. £4 . 103 . each in Ju ly.

till President Jenner, who had in 1728 been appointed Margaret Professor

of Divinity and Prebendary of Worcester, resided a portion of the year

at that place.

f Their room was on the leftground floor ofNumber ix. in the Cloisters,

near the staircase leading up to the Hall .

xiv PREFACE.

A.D. 1840. Nov. 13 . That, subject to the approval of the

President, there be half-yearly examinations of the boys held

by the Vice-President and Deans for the time being. That

six guineas be allowed, to be expended in prizes to be given

to the boys who have distingu ished themselves‘

at such

examinations ; and that two guineas be given annually tovvards

the support of the School Library. That two guineas be

annually allowed to reward the most deserving Choristers at

the discretion of the Vice-President and the Dean ofDivinity

for the timebeing.

A .D . 1849. May 3 . That a House in the neighbourhood of

the College be either purchased, or taken on lease, for the

reception of the Head-Master, sixteen Choristers, and other

boarders. That the Head-Master receive for each Chorister

for his board the annual sum of thirty pounds, or a propor

tionate sum according to the length of his stay ; a nd that at

the end of each year the sum due to each Chorister in the

Digestion Book be paid over to the Head-Master, but that the

excess be given through the Master to the Chori ster. That

a Committee consisting of the President and Ofiicers, with

Dr. Ellerton, Dr. Daubeny, and Mr. Hansel] , be appointed to

consider the subject of Exhibitions for the School , and to

report upon it at the general meeting in Ju ly next.

A .D . 1849. Ju ly 26. That an Exhibition of the value of

seventy pounds per annum be given to a young person who

has received his education at the College School during six

years preceding, and whose parent or parents are not in

possession ofmore than £300 per annum, derivable from any

sources whatever, (on condition that he be a Member of some

College in Oxford, residing the u sual Academics] Terms and

that he be entitled to thisExhibition during four years ; at the

end ofwhich, another Exhibitioner shall be elected after an

examination of the Candidates by three Masters of Arts, or of

a superior degree, or by themajority of them . TheExaminers

to be appointed by the President on a vacancy of the Exhi

bitiou .

That an Exhibition of ten pounds be assigned to the

PREFA CE. XV

senior boy of the first class in the Upper School who has

retained his seniority for the space of one year preceding;and another of five pounds for the second boy of the first

class in the Upper School upon the same condition ; and of

five pounds to the first boy in the Lower School who has

preserved his seniority during the preceding six months.

That the above-mentioned Exhibition of seventy pounds,

and also the smaller Exhibitions which follow , shall be

called the Sheppard Exhibitions, and be assigned out of

that Fund .

A .D . 1850. July 25 . That Examiners, appointed by the

President, shall award the School Sheppard-Exhibitions of

ten pounds, and five pounds, respectively, to the first and

second of the most meritorious Scholars in the first class of

the Upper School ; and one Exhibition of five pounds to the

most meritorious Scholar in the first class of the Lower

School . That these Exhibitions be determined annually after

an examination to be holden on some day, to be fixed by the

President, before the Summer Vacation. That these Exhi

bitions be awarded to no boy, who has not been studying at

the School for at least ten months preceding the same

examination .

Prizes have also been given from time to time by individual

Members of the College, or of the University ; among which

I may mention, as more immediately connected with the

Quire, a Prize-Book given by Sir F. A . G . Ou seley, Bart.

for the boy in Magdalen School under fifteen years of age

who should display the greatest mu sical proficiency. This

(to the discredit of the Magdalen Choristers, it must be

allowed) was carried off in July, 1 853 , by a young friend ' of

mine, whosegoodhumoured readiness in supplying occasionally

the place of an absent Chorister may here be thankfully

acknowledged .

My materials for forming this Register have been, CollegeDocuments, which hereafter may be more particu larly speci

The Hon . Atholl MonsonForbes, sixth son of theLordForbes, premierBaron of Scotland .

xvi P REFA CE .

fled ; the University Matriculation Books, which the exceed

ing great kindness of Dr. Bliss, Keeper of the Archives , to

whom I cannot sufiiciently express my obligations , has thrown

open to my researches ; that rich mine of biographical lore,

the A thena Om iemes of Anthony Wood, and Dr. Bliss‘

s

valuable additions to the same ; the Manuscripts of Wood

and Ashmole in the Museum ; the Diaries of Hearne and

Bryne in the Bodleian Library ; topographical works of

every description, and the communications of friends far and

near, especially of some, who have themselves been Choristers.

In addition to these, I must particu larlymention the assistance

rendered to me by the Rev. George Booth, Vicar of Findon,

Sussex : and the Rev. Thomas Fred. Smith, Fellow of

Magdalen College, and Au thor of an excellent little work

entitled, TheDevou tChorister and above all , I am indebted

to the wonderful memory of the Venerable President of this

College, who has conversed with men who were Choristers as

far back as the reign ofG eorge the First ; and (it is worth

mentioning) whose last appointment of this nature has been

conferred on a boy the grandfather ofwhom he admitted as

Chorister no less than sixty years ago .

Let me pdd, in conclusion , the fervent how of one who ,

since he came into residence as a Fellow, sixteen years ago ,

has availed himself of every opportunity that circumstances

afi'

orded him of gradually advancing the efliciency of the

Quire, and the welfare of its members, that the changes or

improvements which shall be considered requisite for other

departments of the College, may not be effected at the

expense or . to the detriment of the Choristers ; but that,according to the pious intentions of our Founder,

“ the Divine

Ofices in the Chapel of our College may every day by God’

s grace

be fulfilled and performed with the greatest devotion, honour, and

perfection.

”

Amen .

J. R. B .

Feast of S t. N icholas ,A .D . 1853 .

RE G I S TE R

sr . MARY MAGDALENE COLLEGE ,OXFORD .

CHORISTERS.

Bedyll , William . Demy, a t. 16, 1490, co . Hants .

Cheney, John. Clerk 1486.

Morris, John. Demy 1486. B .A . 22 April , 1 507 .

Robyns

Mayew

Bakar, Thomas. Demy, eat. 17 , 1491 , London.

Edwards, Demy 1492 .

Chamberlayn

Wodeward

Crofts

Wilcocks, Thomas . Prob. 1 504 .

Dobyll , Demy 1490. B .A . 1493 .

Martyn , Edward. Demy 1486. Fellow 1496— 1504 .

Usher of the School , 1498.

Wehbe, William. Demy, set. 16, 1489, co. Berks. Prob.

1494 . Log. Lect. 1496, 7 , 8.

Lentall

Baxter

Hanxford, John. Demy, a t. 16, 1489, co. Warwick.

London,Demy 1487 .

WyngeDraper

2 CHOR ISTERS .

Grove, William . wt. 1 5 , 1489, co . Wilts .

Reynolds

Glassway

Lyrpym

Hunt

Humphrey, Demy 1503 .

Mydlam , John

BrehyPressy, Thomas. Demy int. 16, 1492 , Wilts.

Horseley

Pyckman

Taylor

Holdhope

Dowse, Chaplain 15 10 .

Toller

Demy 1492 .

Littleton

Dyconys

Hyckys, Demy 1494 .

Gough, Thomas. Clerk 1491 . Chaplain and Sacristan

1495 . There is an inventory extant of the Chapel

Plate and Vestments given into his custody by Pre

sident Mayew , l st July, 1495 .

Gibbys

1491 Staconner

Dawys

Potynger

Lewis, John

Raynold

Elmeden , Nicholas

1492 Burgess, John . Demy 1496. Prob . F. 1 501 . Northern

Proctor 1 5 10. B . Gramm . 8 April , 1 5 1 1 . Mor. Phil .

Lect. 1 5 12 . Elected President, but resigned, 1 527 .

Rector of Saltfleetby 1 53 1 . R D . 9 Apr. 1 532 . Prin

eipel ofMagd. Hall , 1 532— 35 .

CHOR ISTBRS .

College, and paid inter alia five shillings pro

liberate Style Chorista continenti 2 virgat. et dimid.

"

Prob. 1506.

Adrian

Roger, Demy 1502.

Field

Reeve, Robert

Halhead, Gabriel

Hether, John . Demy 1506.

Butler

Benyon

More

Avew , John. Demy 1 507 .

Fook, Thomas

Stancyall

Person,John, Demy 1 506. B .A . 4 Mar. 15 10-1 1 .

Hedgefield

Bayle

C reson

Mason, George. Demy 1 506. B .A.. 30 June, 15 1 1 .

N eyll , John. Demy 1 506.

Ford, John. Demy 1 506.

Wootton, Edward, son of Richard Wootton, (Demy

superior Beadle ofDivinity of thisUniversity of

Oxford, byMargaret his wife, was born within the city

of Oxford, particu larly, as I conceive, in the Parish of

St.Mary the Virgin , wherein his father lived, and had

houses in Cat-street. After he had been educated in

the Grammar school joining to Magdalen College, he

was firstmade Semi-commoner orDemy of thatHou se,1 506, and after he had taken the degree of Bachelor

of Arts, Feb. 9, 1 5 1 3 , he was made Fellow in 1 5 16,

Logical Lecturer 1 5 16, Natural Philosophy Lecturer1 52 1 . At length, upon the desire of John Claymond,

and Robert Morwent, who knew the singular virtues

and learning of the person, he left this College, and

CHORISTERS .5

by the favour of that most worthy person Bishop Fox,

Founder of that of Corpus Christi, was made Socius

Compar thereof, with leave to travel into Italy for

three years, an . 1520 . SO that after he had read the

Greek lecture there for some time , he journeyed into

Italy, studied physic, and took the degree of Doctor

in that facul ty at Padua. After his t etum , he was

settled Greek Reader ofhis College , was incorporated

in the same degree March 3 , 1525 -6, was made Physician to King Henry VIII . and not only became

famou s for his happy practice in that faculty in these

parts, and afterwards in London, (for he was one of

the College ofPhysicians there,) but also for his great

knowledge in Philosophy and things natural . He

hath transmitted to posterity,De difi'

erentiis Anima lium,

lib. 10. Par. 1552 . fol . (Bodleian , P. 2 . 1 1 . M ed .) bythe publishing of which he obtained a famou s name

among learned men , especial ly with Mich . Neander,who saith, that no au thor hath written of animals

more learned and elegant than Wottonu s . What

other things the said Wotton hath published, I know

not, nor any thing else of him , only (1)That he dying

Oct. 5 , 1 555 , in. the climacterical year of his age

was buried in St. Alban’

s Chu rch in Wood-street, in

the City of London . (2 ) That Katharine his widow

dying Dec . 4 , 1 558 , was buried by him , and both had

a stone, with an inscription thereon , laid over their

graves. Bu t part of it which remained an hundred

years after, was totally consumed in the grand confla

gration ofLondon, an . 1666. ( 3 ) That he is much

celebrated by the Antiquarian Poet, John Leland,under the name ofEdvardus Ododunus .

”Ath. vol. i.

fol . col . 94 .

Tyler, William . Demy 1 506 . B .A . 1 Ju ly, 1 5 10. Groom

of the Bedchamber to Henry VIII.

Woodward

Fooks, Thomas . Demy 1 506.

Rose

1506 Wyllard, Richard. Demy 1508.

Patys, Thomas

Carye , Richard

Gregorys, Richard

Borough, Thomas

Harrington, Richard. Demy 1 508 . March,

1 5 10-1 1 .

White , Hugh

Morton , John. B .A . 3 Ju ly, 1 5 13 .

Pollard, Will iam

Franklin , John

Slithurst, William

Oryell , Lawrence 1, W ”

Cannar, John . Demy 1 508 . Gm “ I

1 507 Streme

1 508 Clerke, John. B .A . 1 5 10 . Clerk 15 13 . M .A . 15 15 .

Vicar of Sela, 1 5 16. He is reported bya learned au thor, Paice to be descended from famou s

and noble lineage, and was educated in grammatical s,

logicals, and philosophicals among the Oxonians for a

time. Afterwards he travelled into several countries ,fell into the company and acquaintance of Richard

Paice, studied together in Italy, and contracted be

tween them su ch a faithful and constant friendship ,

that the like coul d not be read in any au thor. All

things were in a manner common between them , and

what was by either read or observed , was forthwith

communicated, to each other’

s great advantage. After

his return to his native country, he was highly

esteemed for his accomplishments, especially for his

exact knowledge in the Latin,French, and I talian

tongues : whereupon being taken into the service of

In libro , D efructu qm’

ex doctrimt percip itur, Bas . 1517. p . 24 .

CHOR ISTERS .

Thomas the great and mighty Duke ofNorfo lk, was

by him made his Secretary, (a place of credit and con

siderable profit )and introduced into the acquaintance

of most of the Nobility that frequented the Court.

He hath transmitted to posterity,

(viz. Lat. Angl. I tal. Gall .) -Lond . 1 545 , and 47 . MO.

Declaration of certain Articles, with a recital of the capital

arrow s against the same. Lond. 1546. 8vo .

Meditations on Death.

I talicaD8 {GallieaHe hath also translated from French into English,

A Treatise of N obil ity, with other things written and

translated, which I have not yet seen . At length being

clapped up prisoner within the Tower of London,

(whether for matters of religion, or any other thing, I

know not, ) did to avoid public shame (as’

tis thought)hang himself in his chamber w ith his girdle, on the

l oth OfMay, 1 552 ; leaving this character behind him

by a Calvinistical author (John Fox) , that he was an

open enemy to the Gospel and all godly preachers.

"

A thena , vol . i . fol . col . 85 .

Austen

Rye

Poynter, John

Newcomman, Nicholasa: s s a: s a:

Godryke

}declinations verbomm.

Sawkyns

Pearson

a: a: s s a: a:

Bowtham, William

Cooper, Thomas. B .A . 7 July, 1539. M.A . 6 June, 1543 .

B . Med . Oct. 15 56 . He was born within the city

CHOR ISTERS .

of Oxford, educated in Grammar learning in the

School of S . M. Magd. 0 0 11. being then a Chorister

of the House, where with very great industry making

proficiency beyond his years, he was elected Proba

tioner in 1 539, and in the year following Perpetual

Fellow . Afterwards proceeding in the Faculty of

Arts, he was Master of the School (wherein he had

been educated) from 1549 to 1 557 ; and again from

1 559 to 1568 . He resigned his Fellowship about

1 546, and applied himself to the studies ofHumanityand Medicine. In the reign ofQueen Mary, he, being

then inclined to the Protestant party, took a degree

in Physic, and practised that Facul ty in Oxford ; bu t

when she was dead , he reassumed his former Facul ty

ofDivinity, became a frequent Preacher, and took the

degrees of B .D . and DD . 18 March, 1 566-7, being

abou t that time made Dean of Ch. Oh . , and was

several years after Vice-Chancellor of the University.

In 1 569, he was made Dean of Gloucester, and in

1 570 , 24 Feb . he was consecrated Bishop ofLincoln .

In 1 584 , he was translated to Winchester, where, as

in most parts of the nation , he became much noted

for his learning and sanctity of life. Of this person

much may be said, and perhaps some wrong might

redound to his memory if I should say little, for he

was indeed a reverend man , very well learned, and

exceedingly indu striou s, as it appears by that great

Dictionary , which yet bears his name, and was the

cause of his preferment. The course of his life in

Oxford was very commendable, and in some sort

Saint-like. I f it be Saint-like to live unreproveable,

to bear a cross patiently , and to forgive great injuries

freely, this man’

s example was withou t pattern . He

hath written ,

The Epitome of Chronicks. Lond . 1 560 . (Magd. Libr.)Thesaurus Lingua Romano: at Britannica do. Lond . 1565 ,

fol . (Magd. Libr.)

cnomsrnns. 9

Dictionarium Historicum et Poeticum. Printed with the

former.

A briefEaposition of such Chapters of the Old Testament,

as usually are read in the Church at Common Prayer, on

the Sundays throughout the year. Lond. 1 573 . 4to.

Sermon at Lincoln, 1 575 , on Matt. xvi. 26, 27. 8vo . Lond .

[1575 , 16 19, 4to .]Twelve Sermons on Rom. i. 16. Matt. v n. 1 5 , 16. on 1 Cor .

x. 1 , 3 , 5 . Matt. xiii. 3 , 5 . and John viii. 46 . Land.

1 580 . 4to .

An Admonition to the People of England . Lond. 1 589.

(Magd. Libr. reprint

At length this Reverend and Holy Bishop, paying his

last debt to nature atWinchester, 29 April , 1594 , was

buried on the sou th side of the choir a little above

the Bishop’

s seat, belonging to the Cathedral there.

Over the grave was soon after laid a flat marble, with

the following inscription . Hic jacetThomas Cooper,olim Lincolniensis, nuper Wintoniensis Episcopus,munificentissimu s, doctissimu s, vigilantissimu s Pra

sul . qui religiosissime in Domino obiit April 29,A .D . 1 594 .

Thesauru s Chronicorum , Cooperi csetera Scripta

Dum remanent, celebris Cooperi fama manebit.

Oxoniensis erat, Glou cestrensisque Decanu s,

Continuus primaaVice-Cancellarius urbis

Tum Lincolnensis fit Pra su l et inde movetur

Wintoniam , denos ubi sedit Episcopu s annoe.

Summe doctu s erat, summeque benignu s egenis,

Et summo stu dio divina oracu la pandit.

Terra tegit corpu s, sed spiritu s est super astra.

l estesanimaa caelesti pace fru entur .

”

Ath . vol . i. fol . col . 265 .

He is also supposed to have written,

Nome N ovembris wternitati consecrata . Oxon. 1607 , 4to .

Homilies on the Seven Sacraments. 15 58.

10 CHOR ISTERS .

An Anuu r in Defence qf the Truth agm’

nst the Apolon f

private Mane. Lond. 1562 , 12mo.

ratiovmn suscipere et liquido p ssint et jure debeant. (Ms .

0 .C.C . Libr. Camb.)His father was a poor tailor, living in Cat Street.

Bu ss .

In 1 566, (the same year thatWilliam Camden became

his pupil at Magdalen School ,) he was sent to Kenil

worth by the University to invite Queen Elizabeth to

Oxford. His oration, Oxoniensis A cademia gratu latio

per Thomam Cooper-um, Magdalenemem, is printed in

Queen Elizabeth’

s Progresses, vol. i.

His Address to King Edward VI . on presenting him

with his Dictionary, may be found in Strype’

s Eccl .

Mem . vol . ii. fol . p . 433 .

Bickley, Thomas. Demy. B .A . and Prob. 1540. Greek

Lecturer 1546. Dean of Arts 1549 . Dean ofDivinity

15 5 1 . Vice-President 1 5 5 3 . He was born at Stow

in Bucks, educated in grammaticals in the Free

S chool joining to Magdalen Coll ege, while he con

tinned in the quality of a Chorister of this House

afterwards, upon examination of his proficiency, he

was elected one of the Demies or Semi-Commoners,

and in July, 1 540 , was admitted Probationer, and on

the 26th of the said month, in the year following, wasmade perpetual Fellow of the said House. In the

beginning ofKing Edward VI . he became the King’s

Chaplain or Preacher at Windsor, to which he was

elected , according to custom , by the Members of the

University of Oxon . and abou t that time shewing

himself a very forward person for reformation, and

therefore looked upon as an impudent and pragmatical

man by the Roman Catholic party, nay and by some

12 CHORISTERS .

septuagesimo octavo , &c . I find by his last Will and

Testament, that he gave to Magdalen College, his

good nurse, forty pounds, to be bestowed on the

Grammar School joining to the said College, for the

ceiling and paving it. To Merton College also he

gave a hundred pounds to buy land, that the revenue

thereof be bestowed in Exhibition on one of the Fel

lows thereof that professeth D ivinity, to preach one

public Sermon , &c . This Exhibition was afterwards

ordered to be given to that Fellow that should preach

a Sermon to the University on Mayday in the Chapel

or Church belonging to Merton College, which yet

continues.

"A thena , vol . i. fol col . 776. During the

dreadful plague that affected the city of Oxford in

15 77, he is said to have been the only Head of a

College that did not forsake his post, but remained

diligently attending and serving the sick night and

day. Merton 0 0 11. Reg.

In 1562 , He was collated by the Archbishop ofCanter

bury, to the Rectory ofBiddenden , Kent, and in 1 578.he became Rectorof Su ttonWalton, co .Dorcet.

"Bu ss.

as a: a: a: 1: a: a:

Hore

Crosse

Holding

Hayward, George . Demy 1 548. Fellow 1554 .

Woodwall

Bryan, C lerk 1568 .

Shrimpton

Hunnyat

Wakling

Birton , Demy 1 549.

Horsfall

Wright, John . Demy 1549.

Blacknoll

Adrian, Hawthorn . Demy 1547 , co . Oxford. B .A . and

Prob . 15 52 . Principal of Magdalen Hall , 15 59— 67.

cnomsraas. 13

B .D . 1565 . Chancellor of Wells, 1 568 . Obnt Feb.

1576 .

Wheeler

Shrimpton , jun.

1548 Okeley, resigned, 1549.

Wakelyn , res. 1554 .

Allen, William . Demy 155 1— 59, co . Berks.

Burton , jun . res. 1554 .

Breudnall , res. 1 549 .

Stopper, res. 1 554 .

Austen, res. 1 550 .

Cripps, res. 1 556 .

Winter, res . 1 550 .

Hulse, res. 1554 .

Clerk 1555 .

1 549 Botolph , res. 1 553 .

1 550 Vele, res . 155 1 .

Wise, res. 1 55 1 .

Broke, Demy 1558.

Turner, Thomas . Demy 1555 60 . 24 Jan.

1559— 60.

Ley, res. 1 554 .

1 55 1 Ragsdale, Owen. Demy, set. 1 5 , 1555— 60. B .A . 26

June, 1 561 ; born in co . Nottingham , probably at

Eastbridgeford, where many of his family were 0 0 1

lege tenants . In 1 582 , he endowed the free School

of Bothwell , co . Northampton, where he seems to

have resided, with a messuage in the parish of Ged

dington , and five messuages in the parish ofBothwell .

Carlisle’

s Schools. In the same parish he founded

an Hospital for twelve old men, with a Master or

Warden, each to receive annually abou t £6, and the

Warden £20 . The Warden hath a gallery, and he

and the old men have each a separate chamber : and

there are four common halls, to each hall three men .

The government of this Hospital is in five trustees ,and five assistants .

14 CHORISTERS .

On the north side of the chancel of. the Holy Trinity

Church, Rothwell , upon a brass tablet, on a stone

tomb about a yard high , is the following inscription :

Hic jacet il ls vir probus et pius Owinus Ragsdale, qui hospi

tium posuit Jesu . Illa accipiens benedictionem a Domino

eam retribuit pauperibus suis. Obiitprimo decembr. anno

1 591 Frange esurienti panem tuum, et egenos vagosque

indue in domum tuam. Cum videris nudum open: cum

et carnem tuum ne despeaceris. Tune crumpet quasi mane

lumen tuum et sanitas tua citius oriatur et anteieibitfaciem

tuam justitia tua . Tune invocabis et Dominus exaudiet

te. Clamabis, et dicot, ecce adsum. Es. 58.

On a brass tablet in the wall over the Tomb is, Domine,Ego inutilis serous tuus et omnia opera mea vilescunt

coram Te. Ideo in misericordia tud sola salus et apes mea .

Beneath is the figure of a man kneeling, and these

arms : A Pelican between three fleurs de lis, quar

tering, a cross quarterly between four boars’

heads

coupe, each holding an acorn in his mou th. Crest, a

dexter hand ou t of a wreath holding corn . Motto ,

Fecit mihi magna qu i potens est. Bridge’

s Hist. of

Northamptonshire, vol . ii. p . 63 .

Garbrand, Thomas. Probably son of B erks Garbrand,the Du tch bookseller of Oxford. B .A . 9 N ov. 1 5 53 .

Demy 1 553 , co . Oxon . Prob. 1 557. Greek Lecturer

1 560. Bursar 1 563 . Jun ior Dean of Arts and Senior

Proctor 1565 . Bursar 1 566. Senior Dean of Arts

1 567— 69. Bursar 1 570 , in which year he resigned

his Fellowship .

Turner, jun. res. 1553

Styleman , res. 1 55 3 .

Dobson , William . Demy, res . 1 556.

Waleston , John. Demy, aat. 1 5 , co.Middlesex, 1553 58 .

Fosse, res. 1 56 1 .

Tyrrell , Clerk 1 560.

res. 1 557 .

Wodewarde, res. 1558 .

cnomsrnas . 1 5

Edmonds, Thomas . Clerk 1559. Prob. 1564 .

Harte, res. 1 561 .

Saye, res. 1 558 .

Peterson, William. Demy 1 5 56— 59, from Norwich .

Leonard, res. 1 558 . Clerk 1570. Chaplain 15 73 .

Matt . as from Calais, p lebfil 1571 , set 25Detricke, res 1 5 58

Palmer, res. 1 558 .

Sackville, res. 1 558 .

Adysse, Clerk 1562— 64 .

res. 1 558 .

Smyth'

e, Luke. Demy 1 566. B .A . 29 March 1 572 .

Chaplain 1576— 80 .

Baul , Richard. res . 1 565 . Son of R . B . Organist of

the College Chapel .

Tucker, res. 1 558.

Sheppard, Al exander, res. 1567.

Punter, William . Clark 1 559— 68 .

Etheridge, res. 1559.

Brychendon, Thomas. Demy, co . Kent, 1560 . Prob .

1566. B .A . 12 Oct. 1568. Senior Dean of Arts ,1573 . Resigned his Fellowship 1576.

Gunnyll, Clerk 1 562 .

Ulpyam , res. 1 559.

Babham , res. 1 564 .

Green, res. 1 563 .

Webster, Roger. Clerk 1 564. B .A . 1570. Apr. 24 .

Usher 1572 . Schoolmaster ofBrackley 1 577 . Vicar

of Ashbury 1589. Obiit 1622 .

Fulwell , res. 1561 .

Gyles, Nathaniel , res. 1 561 . Clerk 1577. B . Mu s.

26 June, 1585 . D . Mus. 5 July, 1622 . In 1607, he

supplicated the Van . Congregation of Regents to be

admitted Doctor ; which desire of his was granted

conditionally, that he compose a Choral Hymn of

eight parts to be publicly sung in the Act wherein

he should proceed ; but for what reason he did not

perform that obligation, 1 cannot justly say. Sure

16 CHORISTERS .

I am, that in the Act wherein he proceeded, were

certain questions appointed to be discussed between

him and Dr. Heather, which being pro forma only,

and not customarily to be done, were omitted. The

questions were, (L)Whether discords may be allowed

in Music Afirm. Whether any artificial inatra

ment can so fully and truly express Music as the

natural voice Negat. Whether the practice be

the more useful part ofMusic or the theory Afirm .

This Dr. Giles, who was noted as well for his religiou s

life and conversation (a rarity in Musicians) as for the

excellency of his faculty, was born in , or near to, the

city ofWorcester, was (appointed in 1 594) one of the

Organists of St. George’

s Chapel at Windsor and

Master of the Boys there ; afterwards one of the

Organists of the Chapel Royal to King Charles I. and

Master of the Boys thereof ; was famous for his com

positions ofDivine Hymns and Anthems ; the words

of some of which are remitted into a book entitled,

Divine Services and Anthems sung in the Cathedrals and

Collegiate Choirs in the Church of England , published

by James Clifford , (sometime Chorister ofMagdalen

College,) an. 1663 , 8vc . He the said Dr. Giles died

abou t the year 1635 , and was buried in one of the

aisles joining to St. George’

s Chapel before men

tioned. Fasti, 1622.

In memory of that worthy Docter Nathaniel Giles,Doctor of Musique, who served Q . Elizabeth, K .

James, and K . Charles. He was Master of the Chil

dren of this free Chapell of St. George 49 y ears,

Master of the Children of his Majesty’

s Chaple Royall

38 years. He married Anne the eldest daughter of

John Stayner, of the county of Worcester, Esq. with

whom he lived 47 years, and had issue by her 4 sons

and 5 daughters, whereof 2 sons and 3 daughters are

now living, He died the 24th day of January, 1633 ,when he had lived 75 years.

cnoarsrans. 17

On another gravestone near theformer is this inscription.

Pattern of Patience, Gravitic , Devotion ,

Faithful to the end, now Heyre ofHeaven ’

s Promotion.

Pietatis ergo N at. Gyles, Filius natu maximus mmrens

posuit 2 Feb. 1634 . D ie cinerum versus est in cinerea.

Snappe, Edward. Matr. 1 564 . res. 1568 .

Weeden , Robert Matt . 1564 . res. 1567.

1 560 Clarke, Thomas . Matt . 1 564 . res. 1565 . B .A . 17 Jan .

1 566. Bras. Coll.?

Leye, res. 1563 .

1 561 Alcox, Thomas. Matr. 1 564 . Clerk 1573 .

Morrett, Ambrose . Matr. 1 564 . Clerk 1565— 69.

Borne, William . Matt . 1 564 . Clerk 1 568.

Hastings, William . Matr. 1 564 . Demy, wt. 15 , 1567 ,

co . Oxon.

Chafi'

ant, Thomas. Msfr . 1 564 . res. 1 568.

1 562 Smyth , John . Matt . 1564 . res. 1569. Demy, set. 17 ,

1570— 72 . co . Sufi'

olk.

1 563 Crosswell , Richard. Matt . 1564 . C lerk 1572— 85 .

Baston , John. Matt . 1 564 . res. 1567 .

Benfylde, Peter Metr. 1 564 . res . 1 569.

1564 Raw lings, Thomas. Matr. 1 564 . Demy, co . Oxon. 1566.

Prob . F. 1 572 79. B .A . 1 Apr. 1573 .

Ball , Robert. res . 1 572 . B .A . 10 June, 1 573 . M.A .

8 July, 1 577 , probably son of the Organist.

1 565 Rubert, Richard. Matr . 1 564 . Clerk 1 570— 72 .

Sheppard, Ambrose. Matt . 1 564 . res. 1 573 .

Hinton , Thomas. res. 15 71 .

1 566 Justice, John. C lerk 1 57 1— 78. born in London. Matr.

p leb. fil . 1 571 , a t. 20 . B .A . 2 1 May, 1573 . M .A .

8 July, 1 577 .

[Camden , William , is stated by Anthony Wood (Ath.

vol . i. fol . col . to have come to Magd. 0 0 11. in

this year, as a Chorister or Servitor, and to have perfected himself in grammar learning at the CollegeSchool ” under Thomas Cooper. Though his name

b There is an excellent portrait of Camden in the College School-room .

o

18 CHORISTBRS .

does not appear in the annual list of Choristers, he

might have been one for a few months

Walker, Leonard. res. 1578. Matt .M 4 11. co. Bedford .

Parsons, Philip . res. 15 75 . Matt. p leb.fit. co . Hants .

Hunnis, res. 1569.

Hancock, res. 1 571 .

Morebread , Anthony. Matr. pleb.fil .Devon. set. 17 , 1571 .

Demy 1573 , co. Kent. Prob. F. 1577. M.A. 8 July,

1 584 . Obiit 14 Aug. 1620. He left a legacy to the

College. He was buried in the Cemetery on the

sou th side of the western door of the ante-chapel , and

the following inscription was placed upon his tomb

stone, Hic situs est Antonius Morebred, S .T.B .

hujus Collegii Socius, qu i obiit die xlm Augusti.

an . uncxx . set. w .

”

Perrot, Robert, grandson of Robert Perrot, Organist,

and son of Simon Perrot, sometime Fellow . Demy

157 1— 77. He was born 1 1 Jan. 1 553 , at Middleton

Chendu it, co. Northampton. He died 24 June, 1609,

and was buried in Northleigh Church, where there is

a sepulchral efiigy of him on the north side of the

Chancel, bearing the following inscription : Here lyeth

whom he had four sons and four daughters, and as he

lived oirtumasly with credit, with assured faith in Christ

he departed the 24th of June, 1605 . To whose memory

his loving wife in testification of her love in doleful dutyerected this monument. He was Organist, 1590— 95 ,

and for many years a collector of rents for the

Wood,William. Matr. 1571 . Clerk 1578— 80 . Prob. F.

co. Northampton, 1 580 —89. B .A . 15 N ov. 1 582 .

Obiit 1 589.

Caponhurst, George. Matt . pleb.fil. Bucks. set. 17, 1571 .

res. 1575 .

Burnell , Mark. Matr. 1571 . res. 1 574 .

20 CHORISTERS .

Jessop, Bartholomew . res. 158 1 B .A . 20 March, 158 1 .

D .C .L. 23 June, 1 599. This person , who was

fourth son ofWalter Jcamp, of Chelcombe in Dorset

shire, Gent. was a learned Civilian , and Chancellor

to the Bishop of Salisbury. He died 2 1 July, 1620 ,and was buried in Ch. 0h . near Newgate, London.

Fasti, 1 599. In 1614 , he s ent a present of Books to

the College, who acknowledged the compliment by a

return of gloves.

Green, George. Matr. pleb. fit. Bucks. wt. 14 , 3 Mar.

1 573 . Prob. F. 1 580— 85 , co. Northampton . B .A .

15 N ov. 1 582 . Obiit 1 585 .

Catesbye, Humphrey. res. 1 582 , afterwards ofMagdalen

Hall .

Smith, Richard. res: 1 580. Matt . 24 Nov. 158 1 , pleb.fil .

wt. 15 . Clerk 1585— 89.

Parker, Robert. Demy 1 580 . B .A . 1 5 Nov. 1582 .

Prob . 1 585— 93 . M .A . 1 1 Ju ly, 1587. A D ivine

sometime of Wilton, co . Wilts, who , leaving the

nation for conscience sake, died at Densborough, in

Gelderland, in A th . vol . i. fol . col. 464 .

Ellis, Hilary. Matt . min . fll . 8 Dec. 1 577 , a t. 12 .

res. 1583 . B .A . 25 May, 1585 .

Campion, Henry. res. 1 580 .

M idwinter, John . Matr. pleb. fil . Wilts. 8 Dec. 1 577 ,

set. 12 . res. 1 583 .

Shortred, Richard . Matt . 8 Dec. 1577, aat. 12 , p leb.fit.

Bucks . res. 1 584 . B .A . 1 1 Feb . 1584— 5 . M .A .

8 Ju ly, 1588 .

Butler, Charles . B .A . 6 Feb . 1 583— 4 . res. 1 585 . M .A .

28 June, 1 587 . Hewas born at one of theWycombes,

(Great Wycombe, I suppose,) in Bucks, entered a

Student in Magdalen Hall in the year 1 579, (matr. at

Magd. C0 11. 24 N ov. 1 581 . p leb. fil . set. took a

degree in Arts, and being made one of the Choristers

ofMagdalene College, was translated thereunto . Soon

after, proceeding in that Faculty, he became Master

cnomsraas. 2 1

of the Free-School at Basingstoke, in Hampshire,

where continuing seven years, with the enjoyment

of a cure of a little Church called Skewres, was

promoted to the Vicarage of Lawrence-Wotton, three

miles distant thence, (a poor preferment for such a

worthy Scholar,) where, being settled , he wrote and

published these books following, which shew him to

have been an ingenious man, and well skilled invarious sorts of learning

The Feminine Monarchy or, a Treatise of Bees,

Ox. 1 600, 8vo . Lond. 1623 . Ox. 1684 , 4to . Will .

Turner. [Magd. Libr.]Rhetoricce libri duo, quorum prior de Trapis et Figuris,

posterior de voce et gestu prwcipit, dc. Oxon . 1618, the

4th Edition , and 29th , 4to .

'

Lond. 1635 , 8vo . It was

written by the Au thor at Basingstoke, 1600 .

De propinquitate matrimonium impediente regula gene

ralis. Oxon. 1625 , 4to .

Oratorio. libri duo. Ox. 1633 . 4to . Lond. 163 5 . 8vo .

English Grammar. Ox. 1634 , 4to. Will . Turner.

(Magd. Libr.)The Princip les of Music . Lond . 1636. 4to .

He took his last farewell of this world on the 29th of

March, in 1647 , and in that ofhis age 88 , or thereabou ts,

(after he had been Vicar ofWootton St. Lawrence be

forementioned 48 years,)and was buried in the chancelof the Church there.

”A thenas, vol . ii. fol . col . 102 .

Tomson , Francis. Matr. p leb. fil. Oxon . 24 N ov. 1 581 ,

a t. 14 . res. 1 587 .

Stephens, Henry. Matr. min.fil. co . Somerset. 24 Nov.

1581 , a t. 14 . res. 1 585 .

Sou th, res. 1582 .

Hill , Thomas. Matr.p leb.fil . Berks. 24Nov. 1 581 , wt. 14 .

res. 1586 .

Snow , res. 1585 .

Cox, Anthony. Matr.pleb.fil. Berks. 17 Nov. 1581 , set. 18 .

B .A . 7 Dec. 1587. res. 1586.

22 CHOR ISTEBS .

Fords , Henry. Metr. pleb.fit. co . Dorset, 17 Nov. 1 581 ,

wt. 15 . res. 1586.

Goods , Thomas. Metr. pleb. fil . Kent, 24 N ov.

1581 , wt. 14. Clerk 1 591— 1605 . B .A . 1 1 Feb .

1590— 9 1.

Whitbye, Thomas. Matr. pleb.fil . co . Warwick, 2 Ju ly,1584 , a t. 14. res . 1590 . B.A. 1 1 Feb. 1 590— 91 .

M .A . 14 Ju ly, 1 595 .

Watts, Nicholas . Matr. pleb. fil . co . Somerset, 2 July,1 584 , wt. 14 . res. 1 588 .

Brazier, William . Matr. pleb. fil . Kent, 2 3 Apr. 1584 ,

wt. 14 . res . 1589. B .A. 27 Feb . 1 589— 90.

Markham , Henry. Matt . p leb. fil . Oxon . 2 July, 1 584 ,

a t. 1 3 . res . 1589.

Haulton, Thomas. Matr. pleb. fil . co . Bedford, 2 July,

1 584 , wt. 1 5 . Clerk 1 589— 94 .

Boughton, Stephen. Matt . p leb.fil . Bu cks . 2 July, 1584 ,

wt. 1 3 . res. 1 591 . Clerk 1594 . B .A . 13 May, 1 594 .

Chaplain in St. George’

s Chapel, Windsor, 1604 .

Canon of Worcester Cathedral , 1 628. Sub-Dean of

the Chapel Royal . Vicar of Great Marcle, co. Here

ford. He died before the Restoration .

Millinge, John . Matr. pleb. fil . Bucks. 2 Ju ly, 1 584 ,a t. 1 5 . Prob . 1 590— 93 . B .A . 16 Dec. 1 590 .

Bradshaw , Thomas. Matr. p leb.fil . Oxon. 2 July, 1 584 ,wt. 1 5 . B .A . 1 1 Feb. 1590—91 . res. 1 590.

Boulton, William. Matt . pleb. fil. co Warwick, 2 July,

1 584 , a t. 12 . res. 1 589 .

Stevens, Thomas . Matt . Presb.fl l. co . Somerset, 2 July,

1 584 , wt. 12 . res. 1 591 .

Harding, Abraham . Matt . pleb.fil. Han ts . 2 July, 1 584 ,set. 1 3 . res. 1 591 . B .A . at Magd. Hall , 9 Feb.

1 592—93 . Prob. F. 1 594 —98 .

Love, William . Demy, co . Northampton , 1589— 94 .

B .A . Magd. Hall , I9 Oct. 1 594 . M .A . 1 1 July, 1 603 .

Stokes, Michael . Matr. p leb. fil. Wilts. 6 July, 1586.set. 14 . res . 1 589 .

0110 3 1811 1113 . 23

Hardferte, Richard . Matr. pleb.fil . Berks. 6 July, 15 86 ,set 15 . res. 1589. Clerk 1 595— 1 601 . B .A . 1 7May, 1595 .

1 587 Fookes, Anthony. co. Northampton. res. 1591 . Demy

1598 . B .A . 10 July, 1600 .

Lanforde, Nicholas. Matt . p leb.fit. Sussex, 10 Oct 1 588,a t. 16. res . 1591 .

1 588 Tomlinson, Francis. Matr. pleb.fil. Hants. 6 July, 1586,wt. 15. res. 1591 . B .A. Magd. Hall , 4 Dec. 1 592 .

M .A . 9 July, 1 599.

Al len, res. 1591 .

1 589 Emerson , Richard . Matr. pleb.fil . co. Lincoln, 10 Oct.

1588 . net. 16. res. 1591 .

Blacknold, res. 1 591 .

Manning, Philip. Matt . pleb. fil . Kent, 10 Oct. 1588 ,set. 16. res. 1591 .

Good, Osmund. Matt . min. fit. 10 Oct. 1588, wt. 1 5 .

res. 1597. B .A . 17 May, 1696 .

Lorne, res. 1 591 .

Ferribye, George. Matr.pleb.fil . co. Glouc. 10 Oct. 1 588 ,

a t. 16. res. 1 591 . B .A . 26 June, 1592 . M .A . 9 July,1595 . He was afterwards Minister of Bishop

’

s

Cannings in Wilts, one of the Chaplains to King

James I . and Au thor of Life’

s Farewell , a Sermon at

St. John’

s in the Devises in Wil ts, 30 Aug. 1614 , at the

funeral of John Drew, Gent. on 2 Sam. xiv. 14 . Lond .

1615 . 4to .

This person, who was a Glou cestershire man

born, and well skilled in Music, did instruct divers

young men of his parish in that facul ty, till they

could either play or sing their parts. In the year

1 613 , Queen Anne, the Royal Consort of King

James I . made her abode for some weeks within

the city of Bath, purposely for the use of the

waters there. In which time he composed a song

of four parts, and instructed his scholars to sing

it very perfectly, as also to play a lesson or

two (which he had composed) on their wind instru ~

24 CHORISTERS .

ments. On the eleventh of June the same year, the

Queen in her return from Bath did intend to pass

over the downs at Wensdyke, within the parish of

Bishop’

s Cannings : of which Ferribye having timely

notice, he dressed himself in the habit of an old

Bard, and caused his scholars (whom he had in

structed) to be clothed in shepherds’

weeds. The

Queen having received notice of these people, she

with her retinue made a stand atWensdyke ; where

upon these musicians drawing up to her, played a

most admirable lesson on their wind-instruments.

Which being done, they sung their lesson of four

parts with double voices, the beginn ing of which

was this.

Shine, 0 thou sacred shepherd’

s star,

On silly shepherd swaines, dc.

Which being well performed also , the Bard con

cluded with an Epilogue, to the great liking and

content of the Queen and her company. After

wards he was swom Chaplain to His Majesty, and

was ever after much valued for his ingenuity.

Fasti, 1 595 .

Barnes, Robert. Matr. 1 3 Mar. 1 589— 90 . p leb.fil . Oxon .

wt. 13 . Demy 1 591 . Prob . F . 1597— 1612 . B .A .

27 May, 1 597 , Praelector of Rhetoric 1 598 . M .A .

13 July, 160 1 . B .D . 6 July, 1610 . Author of Latin

verses on the death of Queen E lizabeth, published in the

Oxford Collection , 1603 . This person, who was

son of Joseph Barnes, Printer to the University of

Oxford, and Fellow of the said College of St. Mary

Magdalen , became afterwards M inister of Greys in

Oxfordshire, by the favour of William Viscount

Wall ingford, and published a Sermon preached at

Henley at the Visitation, 27 April , 1626, on Psalm

ix.

’

16. Oxon . 1626 , 4to . A lso a collection of verses

made on the death of William son of A rth. L. Grey

of Wilton . Fasti, 1610 .

cnoms'

raas . 25

Chybbald,William. Matr. p leb.fil. Surrey, 10 Oct. 1 588 .

res. 1 596. B .A . 16 Feb . 1 595 . M .A. 19 Feb . 1598-9.

Afterwards he entered into the sacred function,

became a preacher in London, and at length (wasinstitu ted 26 Apr. 1604) Rector of St. Nicholas Cole

Abbey in Old Fishstreet there, where continuing

many years, he was much frequented and admired

for his edifying way of preaching. He hath written

and published,A Cordial of Comfort to preserve the Heart from

fainting with Grief or Fear, for our Friends, or own

Visitation, by the P lague. Lond . 1625 . 8vo.

An humble Thanksgiving to A lmighty God for his

staying of theP lague in the City of London and Suburbs

thereof —Printed with the former.

Sum of all (namely)God’

sService, andMan’

sSalvation,

and Man’

s Duty to God concerning both, by way ofDialogue. Lond. 1630. 8vo .

Several Sermons, as, (1) The Trial of Edith by the

Touchstone of the Gospel, on 2 Cor. xiii. 5 . Lond. 1622 .

8vc . with others ofwhich I have not yet seen.

Apologyfor the Tria l of Faith. Lond. 8vo . When

printed I know not, for I have not yet seen it. He

deceased in Feb. (abou t the 25th day) in 1640, and

was buried in his Church of St. Nicholas before

mentioned.

”A thenae, vol . i. fol . col . 639.

Byrds , John. Matr. gen.fil. Berks. 10 Oct. 1588, set. 13 .

res. 1595 . B .A . 6 N ov. 1595 .

Hearne, Thomas. Matr. 29 Oct. 1591 . pleb. fit. Oxon.

set. 1 3 . res. 1595 .

Gleane, Thomas. Matt . pleb.fil. Lincoln, 27 June, 1589,

set. 14 . res. 1 592 .

Perrot, Richard. Matr . pleb. jil. 27 June, 1589, wt. 1 1 .

res. 1598. Second son of Leonard Perrot, who was

fourth son ofRobert the Organist. B .A . Magd . Hall ,

1 Feb . 1598-9 . He was living at Sutton Courtney

in 1623 .

26 CHORISTERS .

Crawlys , Thomas. Matr. p leb.fil. co. Bedford, 27 June ,

1589, wt. 10 . res. 1596.

Lewes, Thomas. Clerk 1597— 1609. B .A . l April , 1598 .

Jefiefies, Anthony. Matr. min.fil . 10 Oct. 1 588 , wt. 1 3 .

Clerk 1594—1609. B .A . 17May, 1595 . M .A . 14 July.

1600.

Boughton, Richard. Matr. pleb.fil . Bucks . 29 Oct. 1 591 ,

wt. 14 . res. 1594 . Clerk 1599—1609.

Ashwood, Bartholomew . Matr. pleb. fil . co. Warwick,

29 Oct. 1591 , wt. 13 . M .A . 13 Ju ly, 1601 .

res. 1597 .

Morebread, Robert. res. 1604. B .A . 7 July, 1604 .

Au thor of Latin verses on the death of Queen E lizabeth,

published in the Oxford Collection. 1603 .

Higgins, William. Matr. pleb. fil. Oxon. 29 Oct. 159 1,

wt. 15 . res. 1593 .

Ferebye, John . Born in co . Gloucester. Matt . pleb.fil .

a t. 16, 29 Oct. 159 1. Clerk 1602— 1605 . B .A . Magd.

Hall , 4 July, 160 1 . M .A . 14 Ju ly, 1606. He was

afterwards Rector of Woodchester, co. Gloucester,

and during the great Rebellion as he was one day at

the Font, a party of Colonel Massey’s soldiers came

in with drawn swords, pul led off his surplice, tore

the Common Prayer Book, stript'

him of all his

clothes except a pair of drawers, and drove him with

many others, bare-footed and bare-legged, through

thick and thin, in cold, wet, and dirty ways, and

weather, prisoners into Glou cester ; where they were

kept for many days in a damp low room under the

College School w ithou t fire. Three daughters of one

Mr. Portlock of Cirencester, hearing of his misery,made up a sum of money to ransom him , which they

sent by one Greenway, a Parliament-soldier, who had

the conscience to keep every farthing of it himself.

Mr. Ferebye was not however sequestered. Walker’

s

Sufi'

erings of the Clergy, Append. 4 16.

Webster, res. 1599.

28 CHORISTERS .

He hath composed ,

(1 Songs of three, four, five, and sia parts. Printed

atLondon, 4to . 1622 . Hawkins and Burney speak

of an edition w ithou t name .

”Bliss .

Musica Deo Sacra et Ecclesia Anglicana ; or,

Mu sic dedicated to the honour and service of God ,

and to the use of Cathedrals , and other Churches of

England, especially of the Chapel Royal of K. Ch. I .

in ten books , &c.

Divine Services and Anthems, the words of which

are published by James Clifford, (sometime Chor.

of Magd.) in his book entitled, Divine Services and

Anthems usually sung in the Cathedrals dc. Lond .

1663 , 8vo. Second edi tion, with large additions,”

Lond . 1664 , Svo . Bliss.

A set of Vocal ChurchMusic offour andfiveparts,MS . given to Magdalen College Library in Oxford,by James Clifford above mentioned, where they yet

remain in the Archives thereof, [they have long since

disappeared, and also compositions in the

Triumphs of Oriana , published by Thomas Morley,1 60 1

He was living after the grand Rebellion broke out ;but when he died, I cannot justly tell you .

” Fasti,1607.

Good, Thomas. Matr. gen.fil. co . Worcester, 17 June,1 597 , set. 14 . res. 1607 .

Ashwood, Henry. res. 1604 . B .A . 6 Feb . 1606-7 .

Savage, John . Metr. arm. fil . co . Worcester, 17 Oct.

1600. fat. 13 . res. 1603 . Clerk 1604-9. B .A . 12 Dec.

1604 . M .A . 13 Ju ly, 1607 .

Lake, Robert. Matr. p leb.fil . Kent, May, 1601 , set. 15 .

B .A . 23 Jan . 1605-6 . res. 1606. Au thor ofLatin verses

on the death of Q. E lizabeth, 1603 , printed in the

Oxford Collection.

Newton , Thomas. Matr. pleb. fil . Bucks. May, 160 1 ,

a t. 1 3 . res . 16 1 1 .

cnomsrans. 29

N icholson,William . Matt . pleb.fil . co. Sufl'

olk, 16 June,

1610 , set. 17 . Clerk 1610— 1 5 . B .A . 4 Nov . 161 1 .

Vicar of N ew Shoreham , Sussex, 1614 . Chaplain

1616— 18. M .A . 20 May, 1615 . Au thor of Latin

verses on the death of PrinceHenry, published in Lucius

Posthumus, 161 2 . (Magd. Libr.) Son of Christopher

N icolson, a rich clothier, was born at Stratford near to

Hadleigh in Suffolk, on the first day of N ov. 1 591 ,

educated in Grammar learning in the School joining

to Magd. College, being then Chorister of that house.

Afterwards, having made an entrance into the Logical

class, he was made one of the Clerks, took the

degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in

161 5 , at which time, I conceive, he was Chaplain to

Henry Earl of Northumberland, then a prisoner in

the Tower of London , and Tu tor to his son the Lord

Percy. But his chief delight being exercised in the

faculty of Grammar, and therefore noted by many

for it, he was made Master of the Free-School at

Croydon in Surrey ; to which office he was admitted

3 July, 1616. From that time to the beginning of

1629, he continued there, doing great benefit by his

instruction , and then being succeeded by one Joh.

Webb, Master of Arts of Magdalen Hall , our Au thor

retired into Wales, where having a little before oh

tained the Rectory of Llandilo-vaour or Llandellovar

in Carmarthenshire, was made soon after Resi

dentiary of S . David ’

s, and Archdeacon of Brecknock ,in the place of one Isaac Singleton , in the beginning,as it seems, of the Rebellion . In 1643 , he was

elected one of the Assembly of Divines, but never,

as I conceive, sate among them , and soon after

losing his spiritualities, he taught a private School

in Carmarthenshire, and by his writings defended

and maintained the Church of England (then ex

ceedingly clouded) against its adversaries. After the

King’

s Restoration, he was by the endeavours of

CHOR ISTERS .

Edward Earl of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor of

England, designed Bishop of Gloucester by his

Majesty, (by virtue of whose letters he was diplo

mated Doctor of Divinity in the beginning of

December, and on the sixth of Januaryfollowing he was consecrated thereunto in the Abbey

Church of 8 . Peter within‘

the city of Westminster,afler it had laid void several years, by the death of

Godfrey Goodman. Which Bishopric he kept, w ithout any translation to another See, to his dying day,

keeping in Commendam with it the Archdeaconry of

Brecknock, and the Rectory of Bishop’

s Cleve in

Gloucestershire. He was a right learned Divine,well seen and read in the Fathers and Schoolmen ,

but above all , most excellent he was in the critical

part of Grammar, in which faculty none in his time ,

or perhaps before, went beyond him . His writings,which shew him to be a person of great erudition ,

prudence, modesty, and of a moderate mind, are

these.

A p la in, but ful l , Eaposition of the Catechism of the

Church ofEngland , enjoined to be learned of every child ,

before he be brought to be Confirmed by the B ishop .

Lond. 1655 , 61 , 63 , (Magd. Libr.) 71 . 4to . are.

intended especia lly for the Church of England . Lond.

1669, 4to. (Magd . Libr.)E'

apositt'

on on the Apostles’

Creed , delivered in several

Sermons. Lond. 1661 , fol . (Magd. Libr.)An easy analysis of the whole book of Psalms. Lond.

1662 , folio . (Magd. Libr.) He died in the Bishop’

s

Palace at Gloucester on the fifth day of February in

sixteen hundred and seventy-one, and was buried .on

the eighth day of the same month, in a little aisle

joining, on the sou th side, to the Virgin Mary’s

Chapel , in the Cathedral there. Over his grave

was afterwards a blue stone laid , and on the wall

onomsrnns. 3 1

near it a table of black marble erected, with this in

scription following in golden letters, (composed byBishop Bull .) E ternitati S. In spe beate resurrec

tionis, hic reverendas eccuvias deposuit Theologus insignia,

Suf olciano natus , apudMagdalenenses educatus, obfidemregi, et ecclesie afl icta pre stitam, ad sedemGlacestrensem

merito promotus, an. 1660 . In concionibus frequens, in

Scrip tis nervosus, legenda scri bens , ct faciens scribenda .

Gravitas Ep iscopalis in fronte emicnit, pauperibus quo

tidiana Charitate beneficm , comitatc erga clerum et

literatos admirandus, glories ac dierum satur, in palatia

mo , at viwit, p ie decessit Feb. 5 . anno c tatis Lxxxn . Dom.

nnonxxr. E lizabetha conjua pra ivit, in hoc sacello

sepulta April xx, an. Dom. unonxm . Owenus Brigstock

de Lechdenny in Comitatu Caermarthen : A rmiger, pree

dictw E lizabethae nepos, hoc grati animi monumentum

mnonxxlx. The said Brigstock was grandson to the

said Elizabeth .

” Wood . Ath. vol . ii. folio , p . 494 .

Drope, John . Matr. May, 160 1 . gen.fil . co. N orthampt.

wt. 1 3 . Demy, 1602 . B .A . 25 Jan. 1608-9. M .A .

13 July, 1612 . Prob. F. 1608— 29. Junior Proctor

1618. Vice-President, 1626. Son ofThomas Drope,

Rector of Aynhoe, sometime Fellow . Author ofLatin

verses on the death of Prince Henry, published in

Lu ctus Posthumus, 1612 ; on the marriage ofFrederick, Prince Palatine, and E lizabeth, daughter of

James F irst; published in the Oxford Collection 1613 ;

and on the death of Sir Thomas B odley, published in

the Oxford Collection, 161 3 . One Drope ofMagd.

Coll . is called in question for a Sermon at Paul’

s

Cross , on Sunday was fortnight, wherein out of the

Proverbs, amongst other th ings, he would prove that

kings might steal as well as meaner men, both byborrowing and notpaying, and by laying unreasonable

and undue impositions upon their subjects .

”Letter

82 CHOR ISTEBS .

from J. Chamberlain , dated 19 Apr. 1617 . Court and

Times of James l st, vol . ii . p . 7 .

In Norbury Church, Derbyshire, there is an al tar

tomb to the memory of a John Drope, who died in

1629.

Strong, res. 1604 .

Eversaye, John. Matt . p lebfil. Bucks. 16 June, 1610 ,

wt. 19. res. 1609.

Drope, Thomas. Matt . 1 5 June, 1604 . min. fil. co .

Northampt. wt. 12 . Clerk 1609-10. B .A . 9 Ju ly, 1612 .

M.A . 10 July, 1615. Chaplain 1617— 30 . Vicar of

Cumner, Berks. Rector of Ardley, co . Oxford . Bro

ther of John, above mentioned. He was buried at

Cumner, 27 Feb . 1644 .

Fou lkes, Robert. Matr. 16 June, 1616, pleb.fil. Bucks.

mt. 18. Clerk 1612— 18 . B A . 1 1 Feb . 1612— 1 3

Drope, Robert. matr. 1 5 June, 1 604 , set. 10. res. 1607,

brother ofJohn D .

Brickenden, res . l615 .

Barlowe, R ichard. Clerk 1609— 12 . B .A . 27 May, 1610 .

Gregory, Alexander. Matr.p leb.fil . Berks. 16June, 1610 ,a t. 16. Clerk 1612— 17 . Au thor of Latin verses on the

death ofPrinceHenry, published inLuctusPosthumus,

1 61 2 . B .A . 15 Dec 1614 . M .A . 14 Ju ly, 1617.

Greenhill , res. 1613 .

Langford, res. 1609.

Prior, John . Matt . min. fil. co. Lincoln , 17 Jan . 1605 ,

wt. 14 . Clerk 1613— 17 . B .A . Magd. Hall , a Mayz)1617 .

Gyles, John . res. 1610 . son ofDr. N . Giles ofWindsor.

Dobbs, Thomas. Matt . min. fil. Wilts. 16 June, 16 10 ,eat. 18 . B .A . 1 1 Feb. 1 612 . Clerk 1613— 18 . Chaplain

1618— 29. Curate ofHorspath , 1619— 2 1 . Rector of

Horsington , co . Lincoln , 1619— 3 1 .

Prior, Timothy. Matr. min. fil. Oxon. 16 June, 16 10,set. 16. res. 16 11 . B .A . 1 5 Dec . 16 14 . M .A . 10 July,1620 .

cnonrsrsns. 38

Otes, George . Matr. p leb. fil . co . York. 16 June, 16 10 .

a t. 14 . B .A . 2 1 Feb . 161 1— 1 2 . res . 16 12 .

1609 Hales, A lexander. Matr. 16 June, 1610 . pleb.fil . Berks.

a t. 16 . res. 161 1 . B .A . 4 N ov . 16 1 1.

Harding, res. 16 18 .

Newling, res. 16 14.

Drope, Edward, brother of John D . Matr. 2% June,

1610, min. fil. co. Northampton , set. 1 1 . Born at

Croft, co . Lincoln , 1599. Demy 1 617 . B .A.. 1 5 Dec.

16 18 . M .A . 9 July, 1621 . DD . 17 June ,

Prob. F. 16 19 . Expelled by the Puritans, 1648 .

Restored, 1 660. Rector ofTubney, co . Berks, 1660 .

He died 13 Apr. 1683 , set. 84 , leaving to the College

a legacy of £30 , which appears in the Mutuum list,

and was buried in the ante-chapel near the western

door. Arms— Arg. Gu tte de Prix, on a Chief, Gu les,

a Lion passant guardant, Or.

16 10 Morebread , res . 16 17 .

16 1 1 Tompkins, Abraham . Clerk 16 18— 2 1 . Metr. min .fil .

co . Northampton, 2 8 May , 1619, wt. 19 . B .A .

1 1 Dec. 16 19.

Savage, Thomas. Metr. mil . fil. Oxon . 16 June, 1610 ,wt. 1 7 . res. 1613 . B .A . 9 Dec. 16 15 .

Nicholson , Christopher. Clerk 1618— 2 1 . B .A . 40

Ju ly,1620 .

Giles, Robert. res. 16 16 son ofDr. N . Giles ofWindsor.

16 12 Palmer, John . Clerk 1620—2 1 . Matr. p leb.fil . London ,

10 N ov. 162 1 , set. 20. B .A . 14 N ov. 1 622 .

A llibond , John . res. 1616. Matr. min.fil. Bucks, 7 June,1616, mt. 1 9. B .A . 3 Ju ly, 16 16. M .A . 1 2 Ju ly, 1619 .

Clerk 16 17— 25 . Master of the School [ 62 5— 32 .

He was son of the Rev. Peter A llibond, Rector of

Cheyneys, co . Buckingham , where he was born.

Rector of St. Mary-le-Crypt, Gloucester, 1634— 38 ,

and Perpetual Curate of St. Nicholas, Gloucester,

He was esteemed a good preacher, and therefore put upon preaching

before the King and Parliament at Oxford in the time of the Rebellion, andupon that account had the degree ofDr. conferred upon him . Fasti, 166 1.

D

1635—45 , and Rector of Bradwell, co . Gloucester,

nose- ts. B .D. 11 Oct. 1043 . Wood calls him .

The witty man of Magd. Coll. and says, This

worthy Doctor, who was a Buckinghamshire man

born, and lately the chiefMaster of the Free School

joyning to Magd. Coll. was a most excellent Latin

Poet and Philologist, and hath published Rustica

comitiis ibidem 1648 habitis ;'

tis a Latin Poem and was

twice printed in 1648, (and again in Fasti,1643 . The following stanzas relate to Magd .

Ad dentem me recipio tandem

Flens ipse Magdalenam :

Et gemens video eandem

Vacuitate plenam.

Que felix dudum ornabatur

Frequentibus alumnis ;

Que suaviter innitebatur

Doctissimis columnis.

Nunc lapsis fulcris, queis vigebat,Videres humi stratam

Et prole densa, qua gaudebat.

En misere orbatam.

Hm sedes, comptiores Muse ,

Quas habuere sibi ;Nunc deneia tenebris ofi

’

usas

Et Zim , et Ozim ibi.

Pro Pre side (cui quenquam parem

Vix mtas nostra dedit)En vobis stultum capularem ,

Ad clavum jam qui sedot.

Peter Heylin mentions John All ibond in his Diarythus : April 28, 1625 . My dear friend and fidusA chatesMr. Al libondemade Schoolmaster ofMagdalen

College in the place ofMr. Barnard.

"And again, Oct.

28, 1628 . I married my dearest mistress L. H. in

CHORISTER8 .

Polling, Philip . son of John Pslling, ( sometime Master

ofMagdalen School . ) Matr. min.fil. Wilts , 26 June ,

162 1 , set. 16. res. 1626.

Taggart, Richard. Matr. p leb. fil. Middlesex, 26 June,162 1, wt. 18. res. 1623 .

Poole, Anthony. B .A . 3 Feb. 1626— 7. res. 1627 .

Holder, Robert. Matt . min. fil. co . N ottingh. 26 Juns

162 1, set. 18 . Clerk 162 1— 29 . B .A . 18 Feb . 16221 - 23 .

M .A . 1 1 July, 162 5 .

Su tton , Reuben . Clerk 1628-3 1 . 163 2 . Ruben Su tton ,

(the son of Thomas Su tton,) who was B .A . in Magd.

Coll. Oxford, and afterwards was one of the Singing

Men of the Cath Ch. of Salisbury, was buried the

4th day of Deer. Burbage Register, co. Wilts.

Earle, Thomas. Matr. 3 1 Jan. 162 1— 2 . wt. 1 6, son of

Tho . Earls ofKemble, Kent, Sacerd. res. 1627 .

Heaths , res. 16 19.

Featlsy, Henry. Matr. pleb. fit. Oxon. 26 Juns , 162 1 ,

net. 13 . rss. 1626 . B .A . 9 March, 1626.

‘

fHe was

younger brother to Dr. John Featlsy, Rector of

Langsr, co . Nottingham , who after the Restoration

was Precentor of Lincoln Cathedral ; and nephew to

Dr. Daniel Featlsy, who was one of the A ssembly of

D ivines, till.he was imprisoned for sending intel

ligence to Oxford. He was an amiable person for

the m ildness , peaceablensss, moderation , and candour

of his temper, and remarkable for the holiness of his

life. He was generally beloved and well spoken of,

even by su ch as had no affection for Nonconformists .

”

Calamy’

s N onc. Mem . vol . iii. p. 1 06.

Henry Featlsy was the son of John Featlsy of

Oxford, and grandson of John Featlsy, sometime

cook to Dr. Lawrence Humphrey, President of

Magd . Coll . Being a Nonconformist, he was ejected

on St. Bartholomew’

s day , A .D . 1662 , from the Bene

fice of Thorpe, co . Nottingham .

Allen , William . Metr. 28 Feb . 1 622 —3, set. 14 ,

cnomsrnns . 37

son of Edward Al len of Ducklington . res. 1630 .

Clerk 163 1— 33 . B.A . 19 Feb . 1629—30 . M .A .

8 Ju ly, 1633 .

162 1 Langton , Robert. Clerk 1629—3 3 . B .A . 12 Feb.

1628— 9. M .A . 9 Ju ly, 163 2 .

Banning, John. Matr. 2 Ju ly, 1624 . Son of John

Banning of Berbidge, co . Glou c. p leb. set. 14 .

res. 163 1 . B .A . 1 1 Feb. 1630— 3 1 . M .A . 14 Ju ly,1634 .

Anderton, William , son of Christopher Anderton of

Oxford, pleb. Metr. 2 July, 1624 , a t. 13 . rss. 1632 .

Roberts, res . 1626 .

1622 Tirrill, Thomas, son of Roger Tirrill of Petsrsfisld,

Hants. p leb. Matr. 2 Ju ly, 1624 , set. 1 5 . Demy,Sou thampton , 1627— 3 1. B.A . 1 3 Dec. 1628 . M .A .

1 1 Ju ly, 163 1. Prob. F. 163 1— 40.

1623 Boughton , Stephen, son ofStephen Boughton (Chorister

1 584 ) of Much Marcle, co. Hereford, Sacerd. Metr.

2 July, 1624 , set. 12 . Clerk 163 1— 48 . B .A . 3 Ju ly,1633 . M.A . 1 1 July, 163 6. B . Med. 1 N ov. 1642 .

Expelled by the Puritans 1648. Restored 1660—6 1 .

Taylor, Christopher, son ofThomas Taylor ofRavenston

Dale, Westmorland. p leb. Matr. 22 Mar. 1633 , set. 18 .

B .A . 28 May, 1636. Clerk 1635—4 2 .

1 624 Qu inton , Theophilu s, son of Will iam Qu inton of

Berkeley, co . Gloucester. Saverd . Matr. 4 June, 1624 ,set. 10 . Demy 1 634— 37 . B .A . 24 July, 1634 . M .A .

10 Ju ly, 1637.

Chibbald , James. res. 163 1 ; son of William Chibbald

ofLondon . Seg erd. (Chorister in Matr. 4 June,1 624 , a t. 1 2 . B .A . 10 Dec. 1630. Afterwards a

Minister in London , and, if I mistake not, a sufl’

srsr

there for the Royal Cau se, when the Great Rebellion

broke ou t by the sedulou s industry of such as were

then called Presbyterians.

”Ath . vol . i. fol . col .

c He succeeded in the Rectory of St. N icholas-Cols-Abbsy, 6 March,

1640 , on the death of his very worthy father. I guess he did not survive

the Usurpation. Walker, pt. ii. p . 166.

38 cnomsrsns.

1626 Evans, Hamlett. res. 1633 ; son ofEvan Davis ofWar

rington, co . Lancaster, pleb. Matt . 10 Oct. 163 4 .

Jones, res. 1630.

Swaddling. Felix. res . 1634 ; son of Felix Swaddling.

pleb. Oxon . Matt . 28 Jan. 1632—8 . fist. 16.

162 7 Jennings, John. rss. 1640 ; son ofHenry Jennings of

Caleton, Wilts. Metr. 3 Nov . 1637 , a t. 15 . B .A .

10 Nov. 1640.

Owen, John . res. 1634 ; son of Morgan Owen of

Broughton,Hants. Sam-d.Matt . 2Mar. 163 1- 2 ,mt l 5 .

Flood, John , son ofWilliam Flood of Halstead, Kent.

pleb. Metr. 28 Jan. 1632— 8 . a t. 16. Demy 1633—37 .

Ptob. F. 1637—4 1 . Expelled by the Puritans, 1648 .

B .A . 17 Dec . 1633 . M.A . 1 1 Ju ly, 1636.

Langley, Henry. res. 1632—37 . son ofHenry Langley

Berks. pleb. Matt . 2 March , 163 1— 2 ,

Pembroke College, 1 March , 163 2— 3 .

M.A . 13 July, 1635 . B.D. 12 April, 1648 . Created

B.D . 18Dec. 1649. This person , who was original ly

Fellow of Pembroke Coll . was made Master thereof

by order ofParliament. 26Aug. 1647 , and established

therein by the Visitors on the 8th of Oct. following,

he being then one of the six Ministers appointed byParliament to preach at St. Mary

’

s and elsewhere in

Oxon. (especially in a conventicls in Thames street )to draw off the scholars from their orthodox prin

ciples. In the beginning of the year following he was

made Canon of Ch . Ch . in the place of Dr. G . Morley

ejected by theVisitors ; but being forced to leave his

two places after his Majesty’

s Restoration, he retired

to Tubney near Besill s-Lee and Abingdon in Berks,where he instructed the sons of dissenting brethren

in Academical learning, as’twas usually reported , and

oftentimes preached in conventicles at Abingdon, of

which place his father Thomas Langley had been a

shoemaker. He died abou t the l oth of Sept. 1679,and was buried in St. Helen

’

s Church in Abingdon.

”

Fasti, 1649.

CHORISTERS .

He was a judiciou s solid divine, not valued in

the University according to his worth. Mr. Jessey

gives an account of a Scholar of Pembroke College,

who said he went to Oxford on purpose to see

Dr. Langley ou ted , and declared that then he woul d

give a plate to the College : he was invited to dinner

by a Scholar, and never went out of the room more,

but died there.

”Calamy, Noncon . Mem . vol . i .

p. 254.

Hearns, William. res. 1635 ; son ofWill iam Hearne of

London, pleb. Metr. 28 Jan. 1632— 3 , a t. 15 .

Nappsr, res. 1633 .

Quarterman, Thomas. son of Francis Quarterman of

Chalgrove , Oxon. p leb. Matt . 28 June , 1633 , set. 16.

Clark 1638— 47. M.A . 1 1 July, 1642 .

Porter, John. res. 1637 ; son of Roger Porter, Rector of

Hartwell , Bucks. Sacerd.Matt . 28 June, 1633 , set. 17 .

B .A. 9 Dec . 163 6. M .A . 8 July, 1639.

Hosier, Will iam. res. 1637 . B .A . New College, 13 June,1638.

Friend , Thomas . rss. 1635 ; son of John Friend of

Shoeburys , Essex. pleb. Metr. 17 Oct. 1634 , 2st. 19.

Vernon, Thomas. res. 1635 . son ofWilliam Vernon of

Gravesend, Kent. pleb. Matt . 28 June, 1633 , set. 16.

B .A . 28 May, 1636.

Clifford , James. res. 1642 . He was born in the Parish

of St. Mary Magd. in the north suburb of Oxon.

edu cated in Magd . Coll. School , as Chorister of the

said Coll . but took no degree in this University. After

the Restoration of K. Ch. 11 . he became petty Canon

ofSt. Pau l’

s Cathedral in London, Reader in a Church

near Carter Lane , which is near the said Cathedral ,and afterwards Chaplain to the Honourable Society

of Sergeants Inn in Fleet-street, London . He hath

published,Divine Services and Anthems, usually sung in the

Cathedrals and Collegiate Choirs in the Church of England . Lond. 1663 . 8v0 .

40 CHORISTERS .

Religion. Lond. 1694 . 8vo .

Preparation Sermon before the receiving of the holy

Sacrament of the Lord'

s Sum , preached in Sergeants

Catechism. Ath. vol . 1 1. fol . col . 1019.

James, the son of Edward Clifi'

ord , a cook, was

baptized the 2d of May, Register of St. M .

Magd. Church, Oxford.

He died about the year 1700, leaving a w idow

who survived him some years ; she dwelt in Ward

robe Court in Great Carter Lane, London , and had a

daughter, who taught a school of little children .

”

Hawkins ’

Hist. ofMu sic , vol . iv. p . 350.

1633 Roberts, Cadwallader. res. 1638 ; son of Robert Jones

of Mou this , Merioneth. p leb. Matt . 28 June, 1633 ,

a t. 16 . B.A . 4 May, 1649.

Pierce, Thomas. Matr. 7 Dec . 1638 , a t. 16. He was

the son of John Pierce, and was born in a market

town in Wilts, called Devizes, of which . borough his

fatherhad several times been mayor, educated mostly

in grammar learning under William White in the

Free School joining to Magd. Coll. great gate, was

first one of the Choristers for several years, then

Demy of the Coll . an . 1639, aged 17 years. B .A . 4 Dec .

164 1 . And after he was Bach. of Arts he became

Fellow . Prob. F . 1643— 48 . In 1644 he proceeded

Master of that Facul ty, 2 1 Juns , being then esteemed

a good post, and well skilled in the theory and prac

tice of music, and in 1648 , 29 June, he was ejected

from his Fellowship by the Committee for the Re

formation of the University of Oxford, upon informa

tion and su spicion that he wrote a sharp libel against

the Parliamentary Visitors.

then sitting in the said

University 4 . Afterwards he became Rector of Bring

‘1 With respect to this expulsion he observes, “ My answer to the Visitorswas judged rational and modest by Dr. Reynolds, who therefore told me it

was impossible I should be banished only for that, but rather for being at

CHORISTERS .

ten in Northamptonshire, which he kept during thereigns ofOliverand Richard Cromwell , and was mu ch

followed and adm ired for his smooth and edifying

way of preaching A t length, after the Restorationof K. Ch . II. to whom he was Chaplain in Ordinary,he became Canon of Canterbury, was actually created

D .D . by virtue ofthe King’

sLetters, on the 7th ofAug.

1660 ; installed Prebendary of Langford Manor in the

Church of Lincoln on the 25th of Sept. following,and in the yearafter became President of Magd .

0 0 11. on the decease of Dr. John Oliver. But the

true government of that house being much inter

rupted and disturbed, while he sat at the stern there,

(he being more fit for the pulpit than to be a

governor,) he did, upon the prom ise of some other

preferment, resign that office, 1 1 Feb. 1671— 2 , and

upon the promotion ofDr. Ralph Bridecake to the See

ofChichester,hewas installedDean ofSalisbury the 4th

ofMay, 1675 , which dignity he kept to hi s dying day.

He was a person well read in au thors, whether

civil or profane, of a florid style, a zealous son of the

least suspected to have written some books, but what books they were, orwhy I was suspected the anther of them , he either would not or could not

tell me. N ow we, who were of the di spersion through the avarice and

revenge of the cruel visitors, did find those visitors in very great part at

once our judges, our juries, executioners, and our heirs . Had they dealt

sincem with us, and bid us plainly leave our Fellowships, because theyhad sons , and nephews, and other good friends to be cared for, (as the fox

was sincere when he bid the cock come down from the tree, alleging this

reason that he was hungry, ) I should not have u sed them as I do now,

though I use them better than they did me, but their pretending to

reformation and justice too did make their sin exceeding sinful .”Appendix

for Mr. Hickman, pp . 222 , 223 .

He was presented to Brington by Dorothy, Countess of Sunderland,

to whose only son Robert, Earl of Sunderland, Secretary of State to KingJames II . he had been tutor.

”Bu ss. He resigned this Rectory in 1676 .

In the chance] is the following remarkable epitaph on his son. Paulus

Piercius sub Festo Paul i nascentis natus, simul atque natus gestiens

renasci, xv°post natum denatus die, raptim et anhelas ad caelum rediit

vn . idus Februarias, nncnvn .

”

42 CHORISTERS .

Church of England, though originally a Calvinist,but above all a most excellent preacher, whether in the

English or the Latin tongue . The quickerpregnancy

of his parts, the ingenious keenness of his pen , and

the complete excellency of his learning, many of his

greatest adversaries did often confess and acknow

ledge, but oftener found experiment in those most

notorious overthrows and palpable foils which he

gave them . He was a resolu te maintainer of the

ancient establishment of the English Church, and a

stout assertor of her due rights, especially in such a

time, when it was accounted matter of the deepest

guilt to have so much courage, as either to own the

one, or publicly to appear in defence of the other.

He, Hammond, and Heylyn, (all ofMagd. Coll .) were

the chiefest champions among the old , regular, and

conformable clerg , who Victoriously engaged many

of the most specious and plausible pamphleteers,whose scurrilous and violent libels the rank liberty

of the boundless press midwived into the miserably

torn and distracted nation . He was a person very

well read and exercised in the Quinquarticular con

troversies : the warmer and too passionate debate of

which between some eminent divines, as not being

managed w ith a sufficient allay of charity, moderation,and temper, had now for abou t a century of years

beget, as well in England as in foreign countries ,unseasonable broils and unhappy contests of a very

dangerous consequence . A noted'au thor of his time

saith, that he (Pierce) is one, whom , for his polite

parts of wit and learning, I have, and do , respect.”

His Works are these.

A third and fourth part ofPegasus taught by B ankes

his Ghost to dance in the Doric mood, to the Tune ofLachrymce. In two Letters from Oxford, first of July,1 648 . Printed in one sheet in 4to .

f Dr. Edw. Reynolds in the Entrance of his Epistle placed beforeWill .Barlee

’

s Book called Correptory Correction, 8m.

44 CHORISTERS .

Self-condemnation m plified in Mr. Whitfield 5 ,

Mr . Barlee, and Mr.Hickman, with occasional Reflections

on Cal vin, Beza , Zu inglim , P iscator, Rivet, and Rollock,

Lond . 1658, 4to . (Magd. Libr.)An additional A dvertisement of Mr . Baxter

’

s Book

printed with Self-condemnation, &c . (Magd . Libr.)

Several Sermons, as ( 1 ) The Badge and Cognizance

of Christ'

s Disciples, preached at St. Paul’

s Church before

the Gentlemen of Wilts. on Lond. 1657— 58 .

4to . This I have not yet seen . 2 ) The grand Cha

racteristic , on Joh. xiii. 35 . Lond . 1658. 4to . (3 ) The

lifelessness of Life on the other side of Immorta lity (with

a timely Caveat against Procrastination) , &c. preached

at the Funeral of Edw . Peyto of Chesterton in War

w ickshire, Esq. on Job xiv. 1 . Lond . 1659— 60 . 4to ,

(Magd . Libr.) (4 ) England’

s Season for reformation

of Life, on Rom. xiii. 1 2 . Lond. 1660. 4to . (Magd. Libr.)

( 5) Scrm. at S. Margaret’

s in Westm. before the Honour

able theHcase of Commons the 29th of May, being the

Anniversary day of theKing’

s and Kingdom’

s Restoration,

on Dent. vi . 1 2 . Lond . 1661 . 4to . (Magd. Libr. )

( 6 ) Concio Synodica ad Clemm Anglicanum ea: provincia

Maias, 1661 . Lond. 1661 . 4to. (M agd. Libr.)(7 ) The primitive Ru le of Reformation, preached before

His Majesty at Whiteha ll , 1 Feb. 1662 , in Vindication ofour Church against theN ovelties ofRome, onMatih. xix . 8 .

Lond. 1663 . 4to . (Magd . Libr. ) In which year were

six editions of this Sermon published‘. It was trans

h The .Whitfield, Rector ofBugbrook near Northampton .

April 8 , 1663 . By water to White Hall Chapel ; where preached

Dr. Pierce , the famous man that preached the Sermon, so much cried up ,

before the King against the Papists . His matter was the Devil tempting

our Saviour, being carried into the wilderness by the Spirit, and he hath

as much of natural eloquence as most men that ever I heard in my life,

mixed with so much learning.

”Pepys

’

Diary.

CHORISTERS . 4 5

lated and printed in foreign languages, and answered

by Hugh Cressy, and Joseph Symonds a Jesu it.

(8) A seasonable Caveat against the danger of credulity,

in our trusting the Sp irits before we try them, preached

before the K. at Whitehall , on thefirst Sunday in Feb.

1678 , on 1 Joh. iv . 1 . Lond . 1679, and 1689, 4to. &.c .

(Magd. Libr.)The Christian

’

s Rescue from the grand error of the

He’

athen, touching thefatality of all events, infiveBoaks.

Lond. 1658 . 4to . (Magd . Libr.)The new Discoverer discovered : by way of Answer to

Mr. B da ter'

s pretended Discovery of the Grotian Religion,

with the several Subjects therein contained . Lond. 1659,

4to . (Magd. Libr.)An Appendix, containing a Rejoinder to divers things

in The Key for Catholics, and the Book of D isputations

abou tChurchGovernmentand Worship .— This is printed

with The new Discoverer, &c. (Magd. Libr.)A Letter to Dr. Heylyn concerning Mr. H . Hickman

and Mr. Ed. Bagshaw—printed also with The new Dis

coverer. That part in the said Letter concerning

Mr. Hickman is an Answer to , or Animadversions

on, his Book of The Justification of the Fathers and

Schoolmen, &c. And that part concerningMr. Bagshaw

is a vindication of hirhself, as being not the Au thor

of the Reflections on his Practical Discourse, &c.

(Magd. Libr.)An impartia l Enqu iry into theN ature of Sin, in which

is proved its positive Entity or Being, partly extorted by

Mr. Hickman’

s Challenge, &c. Lond . 1660 , 4to.

An Append . in Vindication of Dr. Hammond , with the

concurrence of Dr . R . Sanderson, the Oxford Visitors

imp leaded.-This is printed with An impartia l En

Postscript concerning some Dealings withMr. Baxter.

And this also .

A true A ccount of theProceedings (and of the Grounds

of the Proceedings) of the President and Oficers of

CHOR ISTERS.

Fellow of the sauna— Printed 1663 in 3 sheets in fol

The reader is to note , that after our au thorDr. Pierce

was taken from the pulpit to govern the said Coll . (ofwhich he was no way fit, as it afterwards appeared )he bred such a disturbance there by his domineering,

pu tting out of commons, expelling, &c. that few

members thereof were at rest. At length he execu t

ing his power on Dr. Henry Yerbury, a senior Fellow

thereof, and Dr. of Physic, by often pu tting him out

of Commons, and at length by expelling him, (for

which action most people cried shame,)he (Dr. Pierce)did therefore publish the said account, but was soon

after answered byDr.Yerbury by another, not printed,but in MS. The same year were published two lam

poons or libels ; the first entit. Dr. Pierce his Preach

ing confuted by his Practice, 850 . the other Dr. Pierce,

his Preaching exemplified in his Practice, &c. both

written in favour ofPierce. But in them being divers

reflections on Yerbury, he animadverted on them in

MS . and showed plainly, that John Dobson, (Chorister

in Fellow of the said Coll . (one ofPierce’

s crea

tures,) was suspected to be the au thor of them , as it

afterwards appeared, especially of the first; yet Pierce

was the approver, and had a hand in them .

A Specimen of Mr. Cressy’

s Misadventures against

his Sermon entitled, ThePrimitiveRule, &c.—This is in a

letter of approbation of, and before, Dr. John Sher

man’

s book entitled , The Infallibility of theHoly Scrip

The signa l Diagnostic, whereby we are to judge of our

own Afiections, and as well of our present asfutureEstate.

Lond. 1670 - 79, 4to . (Bodl . Libr.)

A Collection of Sermons upon several Occasions, &c .

Lond. 167 1 , 4to . In which are involved all the Ser

mons before mentioned , except The grand Character

istic, dc. and A seasonablc Caveat, dc. (Magd. Libr.)A Parameeis touching the Sermon entit. The Primitive

onomsrs as . 47

Rule, dc. and theDiscourse which follows of Rome’

s pre

tended Infallibility,— printed with A Collection of Ser

mons, &c .

A Decade of Caveats to the People of England , of

Lond . 1679, 4to . This book is a collection ofSermons

against Popery and the schismatical separation of our

Dissenters, mostly preached in the Cath . Ch . of Salis

bury. The first of them is entitled, A seasonable

Caveat against the Dangers of Credulity, &c. preached

before the King atWh itehal l , as I have before told

you . This came out a little before the said Decade,

and’

tis here made the first of the said Sermons .

(Magd. Libr. )

Pacificatorium Orthodoaa Theologia Corpusculum,

sive brevis Juniorum sacris Ordinibus initiendorum ad

summam doctrinam manuductio, do. Lond . 1683 , 8vo.

This came ou t again with the title al tered , 1684 .

(Magd . Libr.)The Law and Equ ity of the Gospel , or the goodness of

our Lord , as a Legislator : deliveredfirst from thepulpit

in two p lain Sermons, with others tending to the same end .

Lond. 1686, 4to .

The grand Enquiry to be made in these inquisitive

Times , togetherwith the Resolution ofPaul and Silas, &c.

Printed with The Law and Equity, &c.

A Preservative against Ambition, printed al so with

The Law and Equity, &c .

In the beginning of the year 1688 arose a contro

versy between the said Dr. Pierce, Dean of Salisbury,and Dr.Ward , Bishop thereof, concerning the bestow

ing and giving of the Dignities of the said Church of

Salisbury, whether by the King or Bishop. Dr. Pierce

wrote a N arrative in behalf of the King, by order and

command of the King’s Comm issioners appointed for

Ecclesiastical promotions , and Dr. Ward thereupon

did answer it in another Narrative, neither of which

48 CHORISTERS .

were printed ; whereupon Pierce came out w ith a

pamphlet, entitled ;

A Vindication of the King’

s Sovereign Right : together

with a Junification of his Royal Exercises thereof, in all

Causes and over all Persons Ecclesiastical , (as well as bycm equence,) over all Ecclesiastical B odies Corporate and

Cathedrals : more part icularly applied to the King’

s Free

Chapel and Church of Sarum, upon occasion of the Dean

of Sarum’

s N arrative and Collections made by the order

the King'

s Majestyfor Ecclesiastical Promotions. By way

of Reply to the Answer of the Lord B ish. of Sarum, pre

sented to the aforesaid Honourable Lords. Thefirst part,

&c. Lond . 1683 . fol . in 1 2 sheets , printed to save the

labour of transcribing copies . What other parts fol

lowed I know not ; sure I am , that this is written in

the Name of a third person, and that about the same

time be (Dr. Pierce) was supposed to have had a

hand in a libel or libels against E . P. (Pocock), one of

the Prebendaries of the Ch . of Sarum , who was pro

tected by Bishop Ward . He was also supposed (bu t

I think not true) to be author of (1) Evangelium

armatum. A Specimen or short Collection of several

Doctrines and P ositions destructive to our Government

both Civil and Ecclesiastical , preached and vented by the

knownLeaders and Abettors of the pretended Reformation ,

such as Edm. Calamy, Will. Jenkyn, Tho. Case,

Rich. Banter, Jas. Caryll, Staph. Marsha ll , and others.

Lond. 1663 . 4to . (2)Fratres in Male , or The matchless

Coup le, represented in the writings of Edward B agshaw

and Henry Hickman, in vindication of Dr. Heylyn and

Mr. Pierce. Lond. 1 660 . 4to. said in the title to be

written by M . O . Bach . of Arts. He also did correct,amend, and complete for press , a large folio , entitled ,A nna lee Mand i, dc. by Hugh Robinson and did

translate from English into Latin , His Majesty’

s

(K. Ch. I ) Reasons against the pretended jurisdiction

cnoms'

rsns. 49

of the High Court of Justice, which he intended to deliver

in writing on Monday, 22 January , 1648 . printed

1674 , 75 . 4to . At the end of which are of Dr. Pierce’

s

composition these things following : l . A Latin Epitaph

&c. 3 . The Epitaph of Jef rey Palmer, A ttorney-General to

K. Ch. I I . and of Margaret his Wife. 4 . The Epitaph of

Sir Philip Warwick, 1628 ; besides five other Epitaphs

on several persons, and An Elegy on the Murder of K .

Ch. I . which I have before mentioned . 5 . Several Hymns ;

which have vocal compositions of two or more parts set

to them by Nich. Laniere, Arthur Philips, Organist of

Magd. Coll . and Dr. Will . Child, Organist of Windsor.

That which hath a vocal composition set to by Laniere

is A FuneralHymn to the Royal Martyr, 30 Jan. 1648 .

A t length this noted and eminent Au thor dying on Saturday

the 28th of March, in 1691 , was buried in the chu rch

yard at North Tydworth near Ambersbury in Wiltshire,

(where several years before he had purchased an estate, )at which time was given'

into the hands of every person

invited to the funeral ( instead of gloves or rings) a

book with a black cover, composed formerly byDr. Pierce ,

entitled, Death considered as a door to a life ofgla y , penned

funerals of several friends particularly of one who died at

Easter and of the Author’

s own funeral in Antecessum.

This book, which is in 4to. was printed at London for

the Au thor’

s private use, bu t when , it appears not, either

in the title, or at the end. Afterwards was erected over

Dr. Pierce’

s grave a fabric, supported by four pillars of

free-stone representing a little banquetting house ; in

the m iddle ofwhich is a plain stone lying over his grave,with this inscription thereon , Depositum Thoma Pierce,

D .D. qui p lacide‘

obdormivit in Domino Jesu , 28 Mar. 1691

On a brass plate fastened to the roof within side is this

engraven, made by Dr. Pierce a little before his death .

CHOR ISTERS .

Here lies all that was mortal , the outside, dust and ashes, ofThos. Pierce, D.D . once the President of a College in Oxford ,at first the Rector of B rington cum membris, Canon ofLincoln, and at last Dean of Sarum : who fell asleep in the

Lord Jesus Mar. 28 , anno 169 1, but in hope of an awake

at the Resurrection. He knew himself, and taught others,that all the glorified Saints in Heaven cannot amount to one

Saviour, as all the Stars in thefirmament cannot make upone Sun. Therefore his only hope and trust was in the Lord

Jesus , who sha ll change, !he, Phil . iii. 2 1 . Disco, viator,

per-inde esse, ssu fragile frangi, seu mortals mori. A th . vol .

ii. fol . col. 868 .

Dr. Bliss adds to his works the following from Loveday.

1 . An effectual Prwscrip tion against the anguish of all diseases,

and against all other afiictions to which the nature of man

is subject, penn’

d, published, and approved from the Author'

s

erpewunce, (by Dr. Keane and Dr. Thomas Smith .) Oxford ,1691 , 4to . 3 sheets and half. Tanner.

2 . A Letter containing a further Junification of the Church ofEngland against the Dissenters by one of the Reverend Com

missioners for the Review of the Liturgy at the Savoy, 1661 .

Lond. 1682 , 8vo . Rawl inson.

3 . In the last volume of the London (Wal ton ’

s) Polyglot,

printed in 1657 , the 1 5th article is, Variantes Lectiones ea

Annotatis Hug. Grotii, in universa B iblia , cum ejusdem do

iis Indicio, collecta opera ac studio Thoma Piercii.

He was also the Author of Latin verses in Horti Carolini

Rosa altera . 4to . Oxon. 1640 : ofEnglish verses inMasaram

Oreoniensium irriBa-rfipca Serenissima Regina Maria ea:

Batavia feliciter reduci. 4to . Oxon. 1643 ; and of Latin

Regina Matris. fol . Oxon . e typogr. Sheldon . 1669.

A Portrait of Dr. Pierce , painted by Mrs. Beale, circa 1672 ,

was, and is probably still , remaining atMelburyHouse, co .

Dorset, the seat of the Earl of Ilchester. Vide Walpole’

s

Anecdotes of Painting, vol . iii. p . 129.

Bishop Warner, who died in 1666, bequeathed to him a

legacy of £200 .

CHOR ISTERS .

Rebellion in 1642 , adhered to the cause of his Majesty,and did him service. In 1646, he was actually created

B .C.L. and being afterwards a sufi'

erer as a royalist, was

after the Restoration of Charles II . received into the

service of Dr. Gilbert Sheldon, and by him , when he

became Archbishop of Canterbury, was made his Secre

tary.

He hathwritten and published, ThePsalms qfK. David,para

phrased into English Metre. Lond. 1668. 8vo. and per

haps other things which I have not yet seen . He died

on the 17th of February in 167 1 , and was buried at the

upper end of the Chancel of the Church at Lambeth in

Surrey, near to the sou th end of the Communion Table.

Over his grave was soon after a black marble stone laid,with a little inscription thereon, showing that he had

been Secretary to Archbishop Sheldon.

”A th . vol . ii.

fol . col . 495 .

The inscription, stil l remaining on a slab, within the altar

rails of St. Mary ’

s Church, Lambeth, is, Milo Smith,

Reverendissimi in Christa Patris, ac Dom. Gilberti A rchi

episcopi Cant . Secretarias hie jacet. Obiit 17mo die Febr.

A .D . 1771 . Arms, A chevron between two couped closes inter

three roses slipt. A llen’

s Lambeth. Lond. 1825 .

I give to Mr. M iles Sm ith all my Episcopal robes, with

my coach and harness. Bishop Warner’

s Will , dated

7 Febr. 1665 -6.

Fidge, res. 1636.

1635 Hitchcock, John. Son of Robert Hitchcock, B .D . Vicar

of Abbott’s Aston, co . Buckingham , and Preb. ofLincoln

Cath. Sacerd. Matt . 13 Dec. 1639. Demy 1639— 4 1 .

Cresswell, William . res. 1637. Son of Robert Cresswell , of

Harrow on the Hill , co . M iddlesex, Sacerd. Matr. 16

Oct. 1635 . a t. 16.

Capell , Christopher. res. 1637 . Son of Richard Capell ,

(Demy in of Pitchcombe, co . Gloucester, Sacerd.

Matr. 23 Oct. 1636, set. 16 .

Glazier, res. 1638 .

CHOR ISTERS .

Smith, Thomas . Son of Ralph Smith of Ditchfield , co .

Stafford,pleb. Metr. 1 5 Dec. 1637 , set. 17. Clerk l 639 -48 .

Expelled by the Puritans, 1648 ; restored Clerk 1660— 62 .

Chaplain wee—os. B .A . 20 June 1640. WIn Anthony Wood ’

s account of the Puritanical Visitation

in 1648 , the following passages occur :

April 7 . The bell rung ou t for Convocation ; which done,all the Visitors that were then in town entered into the

Convocation House, but finding none but the Rector of

Lincoln’

College; and abou t ten Masters, read several

Orders, &c. which being done, Mr. Thomas Smith, M .A .

and one of the Clerks ofMagdalen College, (at this time

crazed through the iniquity of the times,) stood up, and

asked them with a loud voice in the Latin tongue, Bywhat right they sat there and why none of the Univer

sity would protest against all that they did To which

they gave no answer, but whispered among themselves

that the man was distracted. ’

April 1 l . The Visitors went forth to meet the Chancellor

as far as Abingdon . At the same time Mr. Smith, of

Magd. Coll. before mentioned, woul d needs have bor

rowed an Ass to ride in next before the Chancellor, bu t

his companions dissuading him , saying, ‘ it was a mad

trick,’

he replied, he knew there would be many Asses

besides his.

”

April 1 3 . Thursday. In the morning abou t 9 o’

clock, the

Chancellor, Visitors, and a strong guard of musqueteers

went to M agdal en College, and entering into the Common

Hall in expectation of finding the members according tosummons, not one but Mr. Dale, junior, was found there.

N o sooner were they settled, than up comes Mr. Thomas

Smith before mentioned, and very boldly asked the Chan

cellor, by what au thority he sat there The Chancellorupon this seemed to be so much troubled, that he cou ld

notattend to the business in hand ; at lengthMr. Cheynell

perceiving it, told him ,

‘My Lord, be not troubled, for

54 cnoms'rzas.

that man’

(pointing to Smith)‘is.mad But Mr. Smith

overbearing said , Sir, I would have you to know that I

am not so mad as you , &c .

’

which being heard by the

freshmen and rabble, cau sed great laughter among them ,

because they well knew that Cheynell was a hot-headed

crazed person.

April 17 . Monday. Mr. Thomas Smith of Magd. Coll .

was committed to Bridewell for speaking boldly to and

u ttering rash words against the Visitors. Annals, vol . ii .

part ii. p. 5 59, &c.

In the Lent of 1658 , “ An thony Wood went as a stranger

with Thomas Smith , M .A . (ejected his Clerkship of

Magdalen by the Visitors, living now obscurely in

Oxford, on a certain morning to a private and lone

house in or near to Bagley Wood, between Oxford and

Abingdon , inhabited by the Lord of Sunningwell , cal led

Hannibal Baskervyle, Esq . The House, called Bayworth ,

is an old house, situated in a romancy place, and a man

that is given to devotion and learning cannot find ou t a

better place. In this hou se A .W. found a pretty oratory

or chapel up one pair of stairs, well furnished w ith velvet

cushions and carpets. There had been painted windows

in it, but defaced by Abingdon soldiers, rebels, in the

grand rebellion . He also found there an excellent organ

in the said oratory ; on which Mr. Smith performed the

part of a good mu sician , and sung to it. Mr. Baskervyle,

was well acquainted w ith him , and took delight to hear

him play and sing.

” Wood ’

s Diary, ed . Bliss, 1848 , p . 85 .

Liber Comp. 1659. Solutum Thoma Smith nuper Clerico

ex allocatione auditorum £6. 13s. 4d.

1636 East, res . 1638 .

1637 Stevens, Anthony. res. 1642 . Clerk 1643— 48, created

B .A . ex Regis gratis, 16 Jan. 1642-3 . appointed by the

Puritans Fellow , 1648— 52 . Rector of Great Hasely, co .

Oxford , from which he was ejected on St. Bartholomew‘

s

day .

Holland , Thomas. Clerk 164 1— 47 . Son ofEdwardHolland

cu omsrnns. 5 5

of Wilton , Wilts. Sacerd . Metr. 3 1 Jan . 1639-40 . a t. 16.

created B .A . ex Regis gratis, 10 Dec . 1642 .

Green , res. 164 1 .

1638 Reeves , me. 1643.

Batts, res. 1642 .

Emory, res . 1645 .

Piddington , Expelled by the Puritans, 1648 .

1639 Godfrey, Expelled by the Puritans, 1648 .

Durston, Will iam . Son of John Durston of Upton super

Severn, co. Worcester, p leb. Metr. 25 May 1639, wt.

1 5 . created B .A . 10 N ov . 1642 . Clerk 164 1— 48. Expelled

by the Puritans, 8 July 1648. He was created D . Med .

2 Aug. 1660 , by virtue of the letters of the Chancellor of

the University, which say that he appeared in Comitiis,and performed his exercises for the degree of D . of Physic

in the University ofDublin, and that from the beginning

of the late unhappy wars, and more particularly in the

City of Oxford when it was a garrison, he faithfully

served his Majesty, and afterwards for his loyalty was

ejected out of Magdalen College for not submitting to

the then Visitation .

” Fasti. 1660.

Bowring, Clerk 1646— 48. Expelled by the

Puritans, 1648 .

1640 Phill ipps, Edward . Expelled by the Puritans, 1648. Son

of Hugh Phillipps of Worcester, p leb. Matr. 10 N ov:

1645 , wt. 1 7 . created B .A . 2 N ov. 1647 . M.A . 10 July, 1654 .

Walker, Robert. Expelled by the Puritan s, 1648 . Son of

Thomas walker of Chilmarke, Wilts . Sacerd . Metr. at

Magdalen Hall , 1 2 June, 1640.

164 1 Hooper, Edward . res. 1643 . Son of Edward Hooper of

Chesworth , Hants, arm. M etr. at M agdalen Hall , 29

Oct. 164 1 , a t. 17 .

Morgan ,Expelled by the Puritans, 1648.

Pownall , res. 1645 .

Hom e, Thomas. Expelled by the Puritans, 29 June, 1648 .

Caldecott, res. 1643 .

Drope, Francis. res . 1643 . Demy, wt. 1 7. 1645— 48 .

CHORI STER8 .

expelled by the Puritans, 8 July, 1648. restored 1660 .

Prob. F. 166 1— 71 . B .A . 19 Jan. 1647-48 . created

M.A . 23 Aug. 1660 . B .D . 12 Dec. 1667 . He was the

au thor of certain Latin verses in Epicedia A cad . Oxon. in

obitwn Maria Prine. A rausionensis. 4to . Oxon. 1661 . Bur

sar, 1667. Dean of Div. 1668. Preb. of Lincoln Cath.

17 Feb. 1669. Obiit 26 Sept. 167 1. He was a younger

son of Thomas Drope, B .D . (Chorister in and

born in the Vicarage House at Cumnor, Berks. After his

expulsion from College in 1648 , he assisted Mr. William

Fuller in teaching a private School at Twickenham , co.

M iddlesex. He hath written on a subject which hemuch

delighted in, and wherein he had spent a considerable

part of his time ; but it was not printed till after his

death. The Title of it is,

A short and sure guide in the practice of raising and ordering

fruit-trees. Oxon. 1672 . 8vo . He was buried near to the

grave of his father in the chance] of Cumnor church.

Turner, Richard. res . 1643 . Son of Richard Turner, of

Fletching, co . Sussex. pleb. Matr. 27 N ov. 1639, set. 17.

1642 Bradwell , Expelled by the Puritans, 1648.

Clifl'

ord, Thomas . res. 1645 . Brother of James Clifford,

(Chorister in bapt. at St. Mary Magd. Ch. Oxford,1 7 Oct. 1633 .

1643 Webb, Ezekiel . res. 1654 . B .A. 23 May, 1650.

Prebendary ofEmly, Munster, Ireland, 22 Feb. 1665-66,

Preh. of Killaloe, 1667. Canon of Kildare, 4 Oct.

1670. Archdeacon of Kildare, 1675 . Chancellor of

Clogher, 1685 . Dean of Limerick, 9 March, 1690-91 .

Archdeacon of Aghadoe, 15 Aug. 1692 . Obiit 3 Sept.

1 704 .

Capell , Daniel. Clerk 1647— 54 . B .A. 16 March 1648-49.

M .A . 14 July, 165 1 . He was brother of Christopher

Capell , (Chorister in and son of Richard Capell ,

(Demy in born in the city of Gloucester, and at

first educated at the College School there, underWilliam

Russell . He became a Preacher circa 165 1 , and was

cnomsrnas. 5 7°

successively Minister of Morton, Alderley, and Shipton

M oigne, in his own county, which last resigning because,as I presume, he would not conform , he fell to the prac

tice of Physic in the town of Stroud in Gloucestershire,where he continued to the time of his death. He hath

written ,

Tentamen Medicam de Varzblis, and one or two little thingsbesides, which I have not seen. He died at Stroud in

1679 or thereabouts , and was buried in the church

there.

”Ath. vol. ii. fol . col . 650 .

Hurst, Henry. res. 1647. B .A . 1 1 June, 1649. M .A .

18 N ov. 1652 . A late noted preacher of the Nonconformist party, son of Henry Hurst sometime Vicar of

M ickleton in Gloucestershire, was born there, entered a

Batler ofMagd. Hall after the surrender of the garrisonof Oxon . to the Parliament forces ; and being puritani

cally educated from his childhood ‘, he submitted to the

power of the Visitors when they came to reform , or

rather deform , the University, in 1648. In the latter

end of the next year he was made by them Probationer

Fellow of M erton College, where, as in the public

Schools, he shewed himself a quick, dexterous, and smart

dispu tant. After he had taken the degree in Arts, hebecame a fi'

equent preacher in these parts, (withou t anyOrders from a Bishop ,) especially in the church of

St. Cross ofHolywell in the suburbs of Oxon, where he

was mu ch frequented by those of his persuasion, and

sometimes by others too , for his edifying way of preach

ing. M uch abou t the time of his Majesty’s Restoration

1 When ripened in school learning, wherein he excelled the generality,

he was placed under Dr. HenryWilkinson, who, finding him to make a

rapid progress in Philological and Philosophical studies, as well as in the

practice of real piety, was ready to assist in procuring him the Fellowship

in Merton Coll . where being elected, he was soon distinguished by his

public exercises, and especially by some Sermons before the University,against the Pelagian doctrine, which he was prevailed upon though with

great difidence to publish.

”Calamy

’

s Nouc. Mem. i. 164 .

5 8 CHORISTERS .

he left the College, and preached in London with the

good approbation of those of his party. So that upon

the vacancy of the Church of St. Matthew ",in Friday

street in London , he was , by the majority'

of the Parish

ioners’

votes, elected the Rector thereof, (and collated

1 1 March, 1660 . The other candidate was Ezekiel Hop

kins, Chorister of Magd. in 1648, afterwards Bishop of

Londonderry.) In 1662 , he was ejected at Bartholomew

tide for Nonconformity ; whereupon taking all opportu

nities, he preached in conventicles, for which he was

sometimes brought into trouble. In the latter end of

the year 1671 , when then an indu lgence of liberty was

granted to Nonconformists, he preached openly in Lon

don and sometimes at his native place, where those of

his party would u sually say that the Gospel was then

come among them but that indulgence being soon after

annul led upon the petition of the Parliament made to

his Majesty, he returned to his customary preaching in

private, and about 1675 , his preaching being much

admired by Elizabeth Countess of Anglesey, he was

taken into the service of her family, and made Chaplain

to her Lord, with whom he continued several years .

Upon the breaking out of the Popish plot in September

1678 , he shewed himself very active in aggravating the

concerns thereof, in his preachments and common dis

courses : and it was u sual with him to vent his mind in

m Here Mr. Adams renewed his acquaintance with him , and ever found

him a person of great humility, good temper and moderation , very inge

nions and judicious ; ready to communicate his thoughts, on due deliberation, when desired, upon difficult questions, in regard to which he often

afforded satisfaction to his brethren in the Ministry, as well as to private

questions He had several invitations from those that knew his worth ,

to preach publicly .in his native county, as well as at A shford in Kent,

when he visited his first wife's relations Besides his constant preach

ing in his own parish, he had a weekly lecture at Highgate, and he took

great pains in instructing the rising generation, which he did in a most

clear and profitable manner.

”Calamy, i. 164. He had a son among the

Dissenters at Nayland, in Suffolk.

60 caonrsraas.

xxvi. 28 . in the continuation of The Morning Exercise ,

1682 .

Christians,for the better managing our Prayers and Praises

for the Church of God on Acts xvii. 2 1.— Preached in Oct.

1689.

The revival Qf Grace, in the vigour and fragrancy of it, by a

due app lication of the blood of Christ, as a Sacrifice, a Testa

tor, and bearing a curse for us pmt icularly each for the

nicant. Lond. 1678. 8vc . Dedicated to his Patron,Arthur Earl ofAnglesea.

Annotations upon Ezekiel and the Twelve lesser Prophets.— In

continuation of Mr. Pool’

s Annotations of the Holy

Scripture.

At length this learned and religious Nonconformist, preach

ing in a conventicle or meeting-house in or near Covent

garden without the liberty of Westminster, on a Lord’

s

day, April 13 , was taken with an apoplectical fit : where

upon being conveyed to a goldsmith ’

s hou se adjo ining,

he expired the next day, ascending, as it were, from the

pulpit to the throne, in 1690 , aged 6 1 , or thereabou ts.

After his body was buried in the yard (near the sun-dial

within the rails) belonging to the church of S .

“

Paul

Within the said Covent-garden, (wherein be before had

buried three of his children , ) at which time Richard

Adams, sometime Fellow of Brasenose College, (a Non

conformist Divine, ) preached his Funeral Sermon,

”

(from which the accompanying notes have been taken.)Ath. vol . ii. fol . col . 84 1.

Ewen, or Owen , William . Expelled by the Puritans in 1648.

1644 Webb, William . Expelled by the Puritans in 1648. Son

of Thomas Webb of Malmsbury, Wilts . Metr. atMagd.

Hall , 20 Oct. 1646 , set. 16 .

1645 Phillipps, Expelled by the Puritans in 1648.

Edshaw , Expelled by the Puritans in 1648.

Wildgoose, Expelled by the Puritans in 1648.

cnonl srnxs . 6 1

1647 Hunt, William. Demy 1654— 60 . Matr. gen.fil . 22 Feb.

1650-5 1 . B .A . 1 1 June 165 8.

“ He was afterwards

member of a dissenting congregation at Little Baldon ,

near Maldon, co . Essex. Calamy’

s Nou c. M em . i. 3 17.

Drake, John . Expelled by the Puritans, 29 June, 1648 .

Wilkins, Expelled by the Puritans in 1648

Fulman, William . He was the son of a sufficient

carpenter, born at Penshurst in Kent, in N ov. 1632 , and

being a youth of pregnant parts while the most learned

Dr. Hammond was Parson of that place, he took him

into his protection, carried him with him to Oxford in

the time of the troubles, procured him a Chorister’

s p lace

in Magd. Coll . and caused him to be carefully educated

in Grammar learning in the School joining to that

house, under the tuition of Mr. Will iam White, the

vigilant Master thereof : and hsing there well grounded

in School learning, that worthy Doctor put him upon

standing for a Scholar’

s place in Corp. Ch . Coll . where

shewing himself an exact proficient in classical learning,was forthwith elected in 1647 ; and put under the

tuition of an excellent tu tor but zealous Puritan , named

Zach . Began. The next year he was ejected by the

Parliamentarian Visitors, to the great loss of his learning ;and though his patron Dr. Hammond was involved in

the same fate, yet he took him closer to him , and made

him his amanuensis, in which office he found him very

serviceable and useful . After he had arrived to the

state of man, he became, by that Doctor’

s endeavours,tu tor to the son and heir of the ancient and genteel

family of Peyto of Chesterton in Warwickshire where

he found a comfortable harbour during the time of the

Church of England ’

s disconsolate condition . A t length ,upon his Majesty

’

s return, he was restored to his Scho

L. Sol. SampsonWhitepro locandoWilkins quondam Chorista,£2 183 . 441.

Edward Peyto , eldest son of Sir E . P. of Chesterton, Knight, matri

culated at Magd. Coll . 14 Sept. 1638 , a t. 12 .

62 cuonrsrnns.

larship, was actually created Master ofArts, 23 Aug. 1660 ,

and made Fellow of his House ; where continu ing several

years a severe Student in various sorts of learning, was,upon the death ofMr . R. Samwais, presented by the Pre

eident and Fellows of his Coll . to the Rectory ofMeysey

Hampton near Fairford in Gloucestershire, where he

finished his course . He was a most zealous son of the

Church of England, and a grand enemy to Popery and

Fanaticism. He was a. most excellent Theologist, ad

mirably well versed in ecclesiastical and profane history

and chronology, and had a great insight in English

history and antiqu ities ; bu t being totally averse from

making himself known, and that choice worth treasured

up in him , his great learning did in amanner die with him .

Had his indulgent patron lived some years longer, or he

himself had taken those advantages as others did for

their promotion in the Church upon account of their

sufferings for the Royal cau se, he might withou t doubt

have been a Dean ; but such was the high value that he

set upon himself and his sufi'

erings, that he expected

preferment should court him and not he it. Besides

also he had not in him a complaisant humour, unless

soothed up, flattered , or admired, neither any application,

whether to advantage himself in learning experience, or

for his own commodity, and therefore not known, and

so consequently, as his merits deserved, not so much

admired, as otherwise he wou ld have been. He wrote

much, and was a. great collector, but published littl e : as

A cademia Oxoniensis Notitia . Oxon. 1665 , 4to . published

again in the same vol . at London, 1675 , (Magd. Libr. )w ith very many additions and corrections taken from

Historia et An tiqu itates Univ . Oxon . published the year

before ; the several sheets of which, as soon as they

were wrought off from the press, were by its au thor sent

to Mr. Fulman at Meysey-Hampton p.

p Many letters from Pulman to Anthony Wood are to be found in the

Ashmolean Museum.

cnomsrsns . 63

Append ix to the Life of Edm. Stanton, D .D . wherein some

passages are further cleared , which were not fu lly held forth

by the’

former authors, Lond . 1673 , in one sheet 8vo .

Written upon the publication of the partial life of that

Doctor by one Rich. Mayow , a Nonconformist divine.

Corrections of, and Observations on, thefirstpart of TheHistoryof the Refom ation of the Church of England . Which

Corrections and Observations are remitted into the

Appendix to the second vol . of the said History of the

Reformation , written by Gilb. Burnet, D .D . Lond. 168 1 ,

fol . p . 4 1 1 , &.c. But the reader may be pleased to

know , that some of the said Observations are omitted, and

others curtailed, to the great dislike of their au thor, who

had applied himself with very great care and diligence

for several years, on the like subject of The History of

Reformation , and so consequently was abler to judge

more critically of such a matter than other persons. He

also reviewed the whole copy of the second vol . of the

said History of the Reformation before it went to the

press, and with great judgment did correct such errors

that he found in it. He also with great pains sought

after, and found ou t, the Works of K. Ch. I . of ever—blessed

memory, and collected them into one large volume, with

intentions to write the life of that most religiou s Prince,and to set it before them ; bu t he being unexpectedlytaken with the small pox, the bookseller, R . Royston ,

employed Rich . Perinchief, D .D . to draw up a History

of it. Which being so done , not withou t the notes of

Fu lmen , it was printed before the said Collection , with

the name of Perinchief to it, in 1662 , folio , and so

consequently the whole work was looked upon and

esteemed as due to him , which otherwise was to have

been due to Fulman . Our author also did take a great

deal of pains in writing the Life of thefamous John Hales

of Eaton, and had obtained many materials towards it,but for want of application to persons for farther in

formation of the man, that work was left imperfect.

CHORISTERS .

Also , theLifeofhisFounder, Rich. Fore, Bishop ofWinchester,

with an account of the learned men, writers, B ishops, dc. of

C. C . Coll . but for want of application also , and eu

deavours to obtain records from several offices in London

and Westminster, to which I did often advise him , and

tell him where matter might be had, that work was also

left imperfect : and what he did as to the publication of

the Works of Dr. Hammond, I have already told you in

the life and character of that person‘l. At length this

our learned au thor, being overtaken w ith a malignant

fever, in a very unseasonable time, which he did not nor

would take care to prevent the danger that m ight ensue,

died of it at Meysey-Hampton early in the morning

on the 28th of June, in 1688 , leaving then behind him

a great heap of collections, neatly written with his own

hand, but nothing of them perfect. All which were

according to his desire placed in the archives of the

library of C . C . Coll . He was buried in the churchyard at

the east end of the chancel ofMeysey-Hampton, near to

the body of his late wife, Hester, daughter of Thomas,

son of Dr. Roger Manwaring, sometime Bishop of St.

David’s.

”Ath . vol . 11 . fol . col . 823 .

Fu lman also published the first volume of the Remm

Anglicarum Scriptorum veterum, fol . Oxon . 1684 . (Magd .

Libr. ) Loveday.

See an ill character as to temper ofMr. Fu lman by Bishop

Burnet, in his letter to the Bishop of Lichfield and

Coventry, on account ofH.Wharton ’

s specimen of errors

in Burnet’s History of the Reformation f. Cole.

Fulman’

s MS . collections are contained in 22 volumes, of

which 20 are in 4to . and the remaining two in 8vo .

Vol . 1 . contains Rerum Anglicarum Index Chronicus ab m m.

449 ad ann. 1688 .

a He published the Works of Hammond in four volumes, fol . London

1684 . (Magd. Libr. )Alluded to by Wood, supra p . 63 .

CHORISTERS .

Vol . 22 . (a) An English Calendar.

(0) On Prayer.

(c) S . Francisci Testamentum, dc.

(d) Memorials of the Family of the St. Clares.

(e) Memorials of learned Persons . Bmss.

Heam e observes in his MS . Diary, vol . xii. p . 1 14 ; that the

Preface to Anthony a Wood’

s Historia et Antiquitates Uni

versitatis Orson. was penned by Mr. Fulman of C . C . C .

1648 Maynard, John. res. 165 3 . Matr. pleb.fil . 22 Jan. 1648-9 .

B .A . 6 May 1652 .

M ilner, William . res. 1653 . Matt . p leb. fil . 22 Jan. 1648-9.

B .A . 26 Feb. 165 1-2 . M .A . 10 July 1654 .

Hopkins, Ezekiel . res. 1653 . Matr. serviens , 19 N ov .

He was the second son of John Hopkins, Curate of

Sandford, a Chapel of Ease to Crediton , co . Devon , and

Rector of Pinne in the same county, where he was

born, 3 Dec . 1634 . Part of his education he received at

Merchant Taylor’

s School London, which he left in

1647 . Abou t the time that he vacated his Choristership ,

he became B .A . 1 7 Oct. 1653 ; Usher of the College

School , 1655-56 ; M .A . 5 June 1656 ; Chaplain ,

and would have been elected Fellow , had his county

been eligible : in all which time he lived and was edu

cated under Presbyterian and Independent discipline,

(Theophilus Gale beinghis Tu tor.) About the time of the

Restoration he became assistant to Dr.William Spurstow ,

M inister of Hackney near London, w ith whom he con

tinned till the Act of Uniformity was published ; at which

I am indebted to the kind attention of the Rev . J. Griffiths, Subwarden of Wadham College, for the information ,

that Ezekiel Hopkins

had previously been entered at that College, 2 April 1650 , but that his

caution money was returned about four days afterwards.

The obliging assistance of the present able Headmaster of Merchant

Taylor’s , Dr. Hessey, has enabled me to give the following extract from

the School Register ; E zekiel Hopkins , filius secundus Joannis Hopkins,

Clerici, et Parwcia' de Pinne in agro D evoniensi R ectoris, natus in dicta

pera chic de P inne, Decembrie 8, 1634 , annum agens duodecimum, admissus

est M url ii 18 , 1645 , solvitgue pro ingressu l a. (Dugard’s Register, p

68 cu onrsrsns.

All which were reprinted at London, 1685 , 8vo . (Magd .

Libr.)A n Eaposition on the Ten Commandments. London, 1692 .

w ith two Sermons on John vn. 1 9. and on Gal. iii. 10 .

(Magd . Libr.)An Exposition on the Lord

'

s Prayer, with a catechistical empli

cation thereof by way of question and answer, for the in

structing of youth to which are added some Sermons on

Providence, and the excellent advantages of read ing and study

ing the Holy Scriptures. London 1 692 , 4to . (Magd. Libr.)Discourses or Sermons on several Scriptures. London , 1691 ,

8vo . (Magd. Libr. )Death disarmed . 8vo . London, 17 12 .

The Doctrine of the Covenants. 8vo . London, 17 12 . (Magd.

Libr.)The Doctrine of the Sacraments. 8vo . London , 1713 . (Msgd .

Libr.)Bishop Hopkins died 19 or 22 June, 1690 , and was buried ,

June 24 , in the Church of St. Mary, Aldermanbury, on

which occasion Bishop Tenison preached his funeral

Sermon, and mentioned amongst other good points in

his character, that he was at a very great expense in

beau tifying and adorning his Cathedral , and in furnishing

it with organs, andmessy plate . That he was exceedingly

generou s and charitable, and gave great sums every

year amongst the poor, besides the tenth of his revenues,

which he constantly laid by for such u ses ; that he

allowed yearly pensions to University Students, to Min

isters’

widows, and other distressed persons ; that he

pu t children to trades, and largely contribu ted to the

building and repairing of Churches ; and that he de

signed great things, if God had spared him to return .

”

Cotton mentions that he was also accounted no inconsi

derable Poet.

The present S ir Francis Hopkins, Bart. of A thboy, co .

Meath , is lineally descended from the Bishop . Ath .

vol . ii. fol . col . 85 1 . Chalmers’

s Biogr. D ict. Wilford ’

s

cu omsrsns. 69

Memorial s . Burke ’

s Peerage . Cotton’

s Fasti Eccles .

B ibern .

Hooke, John . M atr. pleb.fil. 22 Jan. 1648-9. B .A . 24 Feb .

165 1 -2 . Clerk , 165 1 -56. M .A . 10 Ju ly 1654 . Usher of

the College School , 165 1 -5 5 . Prob. F. 1655-64 . Junior

Dean of Arts, 1 659 . Rector of Blechingdon, co . Oxford.

Obiit 20 Feb. 1673 . Vide Fasti, 1659.

In 1662 , he was elected Junior Proctorby the College,

bu t a dispu te arising, he was not admitted, for it was

decided by the au thorities that Magdalen had not the

choice that year. Vide Fasti.

Jan . 23 , 1662-3 . M r. Hook propter verba contumeliosa

publicitu s in camera sociorum prolata, a.Dno Praesidente,

eique assistente, Mro Brice, Decano Artium Seniore, de

iisdem per du os idoneos testes certioribu s factis, per unam

integram septimanam privatus est communis juxta statu

tum . Quad non sint consp iratores dc. V. P. R .

A lmond, Charles. res. 1652 . Matr. p leb. fil . 22 Jan. 1648-9 .

B .A . St. John ’

s, 2 5 Feb. 1650-5 1 . Presented to the

Vicarage of Kingsey, co . Buckingham ,2 5 Oct. 1665 , by

James Herbert, Esq . and Jane his wife. Intruded Rector

of Thornton in the same county, 1666, bu t regularly pre

sented to it after the death of R. Rudd , the legitimate

Rector, by Sir Toby Tyrrell , Bart. Obiit 1709.

Parslow , Henry. res. 1654 . Metr. p leb. fil. 22 Jan. 1648-9.

M .A . July, 1657.

Cowdrey, John . M atr.paup fil. 1 5 N ov. 1649. Demy, 1650-54 .

B .A . 24 Mar. 1652-3 . M . A . 9 Ju ly, 165 5 . Prob . F. 1 654-60 .

Rector of Bramber cum Botolph’

s, co . Su ssex, 4 Sept.

1658. Buried at St. Botolph’

s, 9 July, 1 697. On a. slab in

St.Botolph’

s Church is the following inscription ; Johannes

Cowdrey, A .M . Coll. IlIagd. olim Socius, hujus Ecclesic

P astor, Obiit A .D . 1697 .

Trigg, res. 653 .

Holman, Thomas. res. 1653 . M etr. p leb.fil. 22 Jan . 1 648-9 .

Treble, or Trebell , Joseph. res. 165 1. Matr.p leb.fil . 22 Jan.

1648-9. B .A . 29 Apr. 165 1 . In 1677, he had a son,

70 CHORISTERS .

William , matr. at Magd. Hall, being at that time, as I

conceive, Vicar of Bishop'

s Tachbrook, co . Warwick.

Mr. Joseph Treble conformed at Church Lench, co.

Worcester, (through the importunity of his wife,) and

removed to Warwickshire , He was an able and serious

preacher, and much followed before his conformity, bu t

was heard to complain that his labours afterwards met

with little success. He lived many years after, and never

lifted up his hand against his brethren, but continued

pious, moderate, and permeable to his death. Calamy,

vol . iii. p . 4 18.

Curteyue, John . res. 1650 . Metr. at Lincoln College, 16

N ov. 1650. pleb. fil. probably a son of Henry Curteyu e, a

Bookseller in Oxford at this time.

Garland, John . res. 1650 . Metr. atWadham College, 2 July,

1658 . arm.fil.

Kent, res. 1653 .

Drake, Henry. res. 1656. Matr. min.fil. 22 Feb. 1650-5 1 .

165 0 Stone, John. res . 1657 .

Berry, Benjam in. res. 1654 . Metr. serv.fil . at Magd. Hall ,

19 Nov. 1650. BA . 18 June, 1652 . As a nonconformist

he was ejected on St. Bartholomew’

s day, 1662 . from

Mary Tavy or Huxham , co. Devon, and was afterwards

atTopsham . He was also cast ou t ofTrull , co . Somerset ;

but from what place he was last ejected does not appear.

Mr. George Trosse preached his funeral Sermon.

”

Calamy, ii. 5 1 .

Stevens , John. res. 1658 . Matr. gen.fil. 16 March , 1648-49.

probably the nephew of Anthony Stevens, then Fellow of

Magd. Coll .

165 1 Tombes, John. res. 1655 . Metr. min.fil. 27 Nov. 1652 .

probably the son of John Tombes, B .D . ofMagd. Hall ,

the nonconformist Vicar of Leominster.

Bolt or Bold, Arthur. res . 1655 . Matt . gen.jil . 1 April, 1656.

1652 Whorwood, Robert. res. 1657 . son ofRobertWhorwood

of St. Ebbe’

s, Oxon . Gent. an Attorney employed by the

College abou t this time .

cnomsrens. 7 1

Hopkins,William. res. 1653 . Metr. pleb.fit. 22 Jan. 1648-9 .

B .A . 6 May, 1652 . Born at Yeovilton , co . Somerset,1 5 July, 1629. Brought up under Mr. Warren, first at

Puddimore, and afterwards at Sarum . In 1647 , he went

to Oxford , where he continued six years . He preached

frequently at a neighbouring village before he left the

University. In 165 3 , he went from thence to Fifehead

in Dorsetshire, where he taught school two years. He

afterwards spent a year in assisting Mr. Allein atD icheat,

from whence he was invited to Milhorn-Port, (from the

Vicarage of which he was ejected in 1662 as a noncon

formist) . He was ordained atWrington, 12 N ov. 1656.

He was very serious and diligent in his whole ministerial

service. His zeal induced him , among other things, to

oppose ringing the bells on the Lord ’

s day ; upon which

a man vowed he would be the.death of him , bu t killed

another in his stead, for which he was hanged. It much

affected Mr. Hopkins, that his own life shoul d pro

videntially be preserved by another man ’

s losing his.

After the Restoration , one Mr. Napper pretended a title

to this living, viz. Milbom -Port, from the Bishop of

Wells, and commenced a su it against Mr. Hopkins, but

was cast at the Assize at Chard, in March, 1661. In

October, be (Mr. Napper) was inducted into this Church

by Mr. Fox, Vicar of Poyntington . But Mr. Hopkins

still kept his place, till he was ejected by the Act in

August, 1662 . He afterwards frequently went to hear ,

where he used to officiate, and preached al so at his own

house, and other places as he had opportlm ity. His wife

was niece to Bishop M ews ; from whom , if he could have

conformed, he had a fair prospect of preferment. Con

siderable offers were made him , but they were no tempt

ation to him to do violence to his conscience. He set

up a school , which mighthave flourished, bu t that he was

cited into the Bishop’

s court, and excommunicated ; when

his Lordship , notwithstanding his relation to him , wou ld

shew him no favour, but left him to the mercy of the

72 cnonrsrans.

court. He remained excommunicated till K. James I I .’

s

proclamation of pardon . After the liberty, he preached

at Wincaunton and o ther places, where he was much

beloved. He was a humble, cheerful , courteou s man,

who delighted in doing good . In controversial matters

he was much of Mr. Baxter’s judgment, bu t had a great

respect for all good men . He was contented with his

condition, and mortified to the world, so as to be the

same in all changes : a man of the primitive stamp ; of

a plain, honest, sincereheart, and an unblameable l ife. He

died in March 1700 , in his 7oth year.

”

Calamy, iii. 202 .

1653 Herring, Daniel , Matr. min.fil. 27 N ov . 1652 . Clerk

165 5-6 1 . B .A . 5 June, 1656. Au thor of Latin verses

published in the Musarum Owoniensium 4to.

Oxon . 1654 .

Horseman , Nicholas..

res . 1654 . Matr. min. fil . 1 5 Mar.

1653-4. B .A . Corp . C . C . 2 1 Jan . 165 5-6 . M .A . 1 7 Mar.

1658-9. B .D . 2 1 Oct. 1 667 . Au thor of Latin verses

printed in Epicedia in mortem Henr. Maria Ducess.

Aurelian. Oxon. 1670. A Devonian born, and a

M inister’

s son , he was admitted Scholar of Corpus

Christi College from that of Magdalen on the 28th of

July, 165 4 , being then pu t under the tu ition of Joseph

Al leine. Afterwards he became Fellow , M aster of Arts,a Preacher, and in 1667 Bach . ofDivinity ; but two years

after, going the College-progress, became crazed by an

unseasonable journey (late at night) , through certain

marshes in Kent, and so continu ed to his dying day,

with an allowance from the College in consideration of

his Fellowship . Mr. Horsman hath written ,

The Spiritual B ee or, a M iscellany of Spiritual, Histori cal ,

N atural Observations and occasional Occurrences, app lied in

divine Meditations. Omen. 1 662

Both these editions, as well asmany other works ofMagdalen Authors ,

not to be found in our own l i brary catalogue, or even in that of the Bodleian,are treasured up in the choice and curious collection ofOxford writers apper

taining to the valuable Library of Dr. Bliss, whose generous kindness in

0 3 0 1118 11 5113 . 73

M antissa de Histo'ricis Gentium particu lamm qua, reta

stimibus, qua recentioribus, pu t into Deg. Whear’s book,entit. Refiectiones Hyemales, printed at Oxon . 1662 . 8vo .

page 1 5 1 , &.c. which book our Au thor Horsman did

then correct and review . He was kept distracted for some

time within two miles of Bath— removed to Plymou th ,

where he was living, 1689. Ath . vol . ii. fol . col . 1032 .

Hill , John . res. 1658 . Matr. serv. l l Dec . 165 1 . B .A . 18

July, 1657.

Baker, William , res . 1654 . Matr. p leb. Oct. 1 655 .

Thomas, Edmund . res. 165 1 . Matt . arm.fil . 9 Dec . 165 0 .

1664 Dobson , John . Matr. serv. 9 Dec. 1653 . Demy 1656-61 .

B .A . 1 3 Oct. 1656 . M .A, 2 June, 1669. Prob. F.

co . Warwick, 1661-7 1 . B .D . 12 Dec . 1 667. At the

visitation of the College by Bishop Morley, 20 Ju ly, 1664 .

eleganti oratione per M rum Dobson excq itus est in Anld

Magnet. V. P. R . He was inst. Rector of Easton N es

ton , co. Northampton , 20 M ay, 1668. Rector of Cors

comb , co . Dorset, 1670 . Rector of Cold Higham , co .

Northampton , 13 Ju ly, 1674 . He was a Minister’

s son ,

born in Warwickshire, became Demy of Magdalen Col

lege abou t 1656, perpetual Fellow in 1662 , being then

Master of Arts and a most celebrated Preacher ; and in

the year after he did repeat memoriter, in Dominica in

Albis, the four Easter Sermons to the wonder of the

auditory, in the University Church of St. Mary ’s. In

the month of September the same year he was

expell ed the University, for being Author of a Libel in

Vindication of Doctor Thomas Pierce, against Docto r

Henry Yerbury ; so that all the credit that he before had

gained by his preaching, was lost among some : but

being soon after restored, he continu ed in his College,took the Degree of Bachelor ofD ivinity, and afterwards

imparting academical and bibliographical information, without which mylabours would be comparatively fruitless, I am eager to take this oppor

tunity of gratefully acknowledging . J . R .B .

CHOBIBTERS.

became Rector of Cold Higham near to Towcester in

Northamptonshire, and of Corscomb in Dorsetshire, bythe favour of Sir Will iam Farmor‘

, of Easton Neston,

sometime his pupil ( if I mistake not) in Magdalen Col

lege. He hath written,

Queries upon Queries : or Enquiries into Certain Queries upon

Dr. Pierce’

s Sermon at Whitehall , February thefirst, Lond .

1663 , in two sheets , 4to.

Dr. fierce his Preaching confuted by his Practice. Sent in a

Letter by N . G. to a Friend in Lond on—This was printed

in half a sheet 4to . and was first published in Oxford the

28th of August, 1663 . I t was written in prose and

verse : the beginning of the first is, Dear George, I send

Jae. and the beginning of the other, which is the Lam

poon, runs thus.

Near to the ford, o’

er which an ass

Or an ox at least did pass

And where the once bless d Magdalen

A Sinner is possess’

d again ,

The man that sets up Innovation

And preach’

d down Poperie too in hope

To be in tim e himself a Pope,

Makes new Religious modes to grow ,

Whichfrom the beginning were nothing so .

Demyes and Fell ows too, they say,Are in the Chappel brought to pray,As often as the organs blow :

Butfrom the beginning it was not so’.

u Farmor, Bart. of Easton N eston, co. Northampton,Matr . at

Magd. 0 0 11. 20 June, 1664 , set. 15 .

x In Dr. Pierce’s Sermon, entitled, The Primitive Rule of R eformation,vide supra, p. 44 .

1 Dr. Pierce's text, from Matt. xix. 8 .

76 CHOR IST’

EB.

Sent prisoners to the Tower, as though

From the beginning it had been so.

The Grammar School hath also cau se

To say new Lords do make new laws ;

Though Bu sby’

s' followers needs mu st know ,

Thatfrom the beginning it was not so.

Amongst the other modern fashions,

A ll men are brought to disputations,

Both great and small , from top to toe

Butfrom the beginning it was not so .

If a good Fellow be Maudlin drunk,

Speak verba brigosa or

He straight must ou t of commons goe

Butfrom the beginning it was not so .

I f thereupon he make appeals

For having fasted all those meals,

He never mu st have commons moe

Butfrom the beginning it was not so.

Abou t eight or ten days alter, was published in

another Libel, entitled, Doctor P ierce his Preaching exem

p lified in his Practice. Or, an Antidote to the Poison of a

scurrilous Pamphlet sent by N . G. to a Friend in London, do.

Which Libel , though written by Doctor Pierce, yet Dob

son took it upon him self, upon a close Inqu isition after

the author, to save the Doctor : whereupon the Vice

Chancellor by his Bannimus dated the tenth day of

September 1663 , stuck up in public places in the Uni

versity, did expel the said Dobson, and discommune for

ever the Bookseller called Edmund Thom e, living near

the east gate of Oxon . for selling the said Libel orLibels.

Our Au thor Dobson hath also published,

James Carkasse, M .A . StudentofCh . Ch.Master, and Thomas Brattle,

B .A . of Ch. Ch. Usher, of Magdalen School, were educated under Dr.

Busby.

cnomsrnns . 77

Sem on at the Funera l of the Lady Mary Farmer, Relict ofSir William Farmor, B aronet, who died at London the

eighteenth of Ju ly, 1670 , and was buried thefifth of August

following at Easton N eston in N orthamp tonshire, on 1 Thess.

iv. 13 . London , 1670 . (Magd . Libr.) He died 9 June,168 1 , set. xliii. but where he was buried , unless at Cors

comb , I know not.”Ath. vol . ii. fol . col . 68 1 .

Jemmat, Samuel . res. 1658 . He was the son of John and

grandson ofWilliam Jemmat, (who was of Magd. Coll .

in bothVicars ofSt. Giles’s, Reading. Matt . atMagd .

Hall, min.fil . 2Apri1, 1652 . B .A . Univ . Coll . 6 July, 165 8 .

M .A, 30 April , 1661 . At this time he was Fellow of the

last-mentioned College, and soon after takingHolyOrders,become a florid preacher in these parts. In 1665 , he was

the Repeater or Repetitioner in St. Mary ’

s Church on Low

Sunday, of the four Easter Sermons, which being ad

mirably well performed, all to a word memoriter w ithou t

any hesitation , he obtained a great esteem among the

Academicians and in the same year became Rector of

Somerton in the Diocese of Oxford , and not long after,Vicar ofSt.N icholas

’

sChurch in the Borough ofWarwick.

He published, A Sermon preached at the A ssizes held in

Warwick, 19 M arch 1682-8, on 2 Cor. x. 6. Oxon. 1683 .

4 to.

” Fasti, 1661 .

The following memorial of him still remains in St.

Nicholas’Church,Warwick HisjacetSamuelJemmat, A .M .

Rector de Somerton in Comitatu Owen. per annos xlvi.

hujus Ecclesie Vicarius , et Hospiti t Roberti Comitis Leicest.

magister per annos xli. Qui obiit 3° die Maii, A D . 1 7 13 , a t.

sue lxxvi.

Harris, Robert. res. 1658 .

Cooke, Joshua. Metr. min.fil . l April , 1656. Demy 1656-63 .

B.A . 1 1 June, 1658 . M .A . 17 M ay, 1661 .

Langley, Timothy. res. 1656 . Matr. at Corpu s C . C . 16Dec .

1652 . em .

1655‘

Locman , Moses. res . 1657. Matr. at Merton Coll .

20 March 165 3-4. serv. B .A . 13 Oct. 1657. Clerk, 165 9-60 .

M .A . 2 1 June 1660 .

78 CHORISTERS .

Peard, Oliver. Matt . at Magd. Hall , 10 Nov. 1654 . Clerk ,1668-69. B .A . 23 Feb. 1657-8. He was a gentleman of

a good and repu table family in Barnstaple, where he was

born in 1636, and brought up in school-learning under

Mr. Humes. After he had spent several years in the

University, he returned into the country, and first ezer

cised his ministry at A shford, near Barnstaple, and

afterwards at Barnstaple. He was privately ordained

(as a nonconformist) at Bideford by his father-in-law ,

Mr. William Bartlet, and others . Having taken the

charge of his little flock, he fed it as he then could, per

forming the several ofiices of a faithful Shepherd. The

neighbouring towns and villages also had a share in his

labours. But he had his troubles for nonconformity

with others of his brethren . He often ran great hazards

in the service of his Master, and had frequent meetings

at midnight, both in town and country ; in which he

preached and administered the Sacrament, and yet it so

happened that their assemblies were at no time disturbed

when he preached. Once he was apprehended and carried

to Torrington,where he remained some time in cu stody.

At length he was released, though not withou t difficul ty.

His confinement occasioned him an illness , which brought

him to the very point of death ; and though he recovered,his constitu tion was broken.

When the Oxford Act took place, he retired for a while

to Ilfracombe ; bu t being obliged by the circumstances

of his family to return home, he lived retired in his own

hou se, and upon su spicion of his being there, search was

several times made for him , but he escaped. However,

he survived the trouble of those days, and after liberty

was granted, became M inister of a numerou s congre

gation in the place where he had been before u sed

to preach only to a few . Mr. Peard had a good estate,and made a good u se of it. Thoughhe had several children

to provide for, he was very generou s to others, whose

circumstances were strait, and contribu ted largely to

the support of his distressed brethren . He was of a

CHORISTERS .

He was of Lewes in Sussex. He never was Pastor to

any (nonconformist) congregation , but sometimes

preached occasionally in the country, and sometimes

resided at London . Calamy, vol . iii. p . 33 7 .

1658 Maurice, William. res . 1659 . Matr. em . 3 ] Ju ly, 1658 .

Walker, Thomas. res. 1659. Matt . at Wadham Coll . min .

fil. Easter, 1657. Clerk, 1661-62 . B .A . 3 Dec. 1661 .

Usher of the College School , 1662-63 .

Forward, res. 1662 .

Nicholson, George. res. 1661 . M att . em . 1657 . Humphrey

Gunter was his Cransier. He was educated under

Mr. Theophilu s Gale. He went down into Cumberland a

littlebefore theBartholomew Acttookplace. M r.Hopkins,who had gathered a Church atMelmesby, resigned it into

his hands ; and by the connivance of Mr. West, who

succeeded Mr. Broadley at Glassenby, he preached for

abou t a year both at Glassenby and Kirkoswold : for Mr.

West, who was a Prebendary, hoped to have drawn him

into conformity by mildness, and fair .promises of doing

great things for him . While he was here, a certain

Curate , being instigated by other persons, as he was

praying before his sermon , began to read the Common

prayer, bu t upon perceiving a general disgust, desisted .

After the A ct took place, which kept him out of the public

Churches, he preached in private houses as Opportunity

offered . Sir Philip Mu sgrave once surprised a meeting

where he was the preacher ; and thereupon the goods of

the master of the hou se were seized, and some also of

his ; and they were forced to pay down the money which

the law requ ired. After this he had a dispu te with a

certain Curate in Sir Philip’

s presence, which occasioned

that gentleman to be more moderate in his carriage to

him afterwards . When K . Charles II . granted his In

du lgence, he took a licence under the denomination of a

congregational minister. Upon King James’

s“ Liberty,

he had a meeting-place bu ilt for him at Huddleskew , at

which he preached till his death, whi ch was serene and

CHORISTERS.

peaceable, 20 Aug. 1697 , aged about 60 . He admin

istered the Lord ’

s Supper the Lord’

s day before, when

he quoted that text, Luke xxii. 18 , which was fulfilled in

himself. He appeared more than ordinarily affected in

the administration , and a flood of tears almost stopped

his voice. He had good skill in the Hebrew language,

was a popular preacher, and was instrumental in doing

good to many. There is a Sermon of his extant in a book

cel led the Virgin Sain t, containing the life ofMr.Wilson’s

daughter. Calamy, N onc . Mem. v. i. p . 3 89

J emmatt, John . res. 1660 . Matt . min. fil. Easter, 1657 .

B .A . 13 July 1660 . Samuel Blower was his Cransier.

He was the son of Samuel Jemmatt, (Rector ofEastl ing

in Kent,) and grandson of William above mentioned.

Bapt. at St. Giles’

s Church , Reading, 5 N ov. 1648.

Sampson, James. res. 1659. Matr. serv. 3 1 July, 1658 .

Harris, Ezra. res. 1662 . Matt . at Magd. Hall , gen.fil .18 March , 1657-8 .

S tone, Francis. res. 166 1. Matr. serv. 26 March, 1659.

Coles, Elisha. res. 1661 . Metr. p leb. 26 March, 1659. He

was born , as it seems, in Northamptonshire, entered

into Magdalen College in the latter end of 1658, left it

withou t the taking of a Degree, retired to London,

taught Latin there to youths and English to foreigners

abou t 1663 . Afterwards he continued that employment

with good success in Russell-street near Covent-Garden,

and at length became one of the Ushers y of Merchant

Taylors’ School ; bu t upon some default, not now to be

named, he left all, and went into Ireland , where he

ended his course. He was a curiou s and critical per

son in the English and Latin tongues, did much good

in his calling, and wrote several u seful and necessary

books for the instruction of beginners, and therefore it

was pitied by many that he was unhappily taken off

from his prosperous proceedings . His works are these :

He was appointed second Under-Master of Merchant Taylors’ School,

3 Aug. 1677 , and resigned the omco 14 Dec. 1

G

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Anecd . vi. 186.

CHORISTEBS .

Hunt, on Prov. xiv. 32 . In it it is stated , that he was

blessed w ith a native modesty and mildness of temper,

which were improved by care, and heightened by rel igion .

His fancy was clear and lively, and continued with him

to an age when usually it takes its flight ; and it was so

well conducted by him, that it was not suffered to ou trun

correctness of thought and exactness of judgment. His

memory was so strong, that the abatement of it could

not well be discerned by others any considerable time

before his removal . He was a very plain , serious, and

judicious preacher ; in doctrinal sentiments , a professed

Calvinist ; and though he never used a pompou s style, or

fervent delivery, yet his preaching was generally ac

c eptable, and admired by many seriou s and judicious

Christians ofdifi’

erent persuasions.

”History ofDissenting

Churches, vol . i. p . 528 . Calamy, vol . i. p . 246.

Jones remarks, that there is no trace of his burial in

Bunhill fields, though Wilson, Palmer, and Ivimey all

state the fact. He mentions also , that Mr. Maisters

continued at Theobalds about twenty-five years, and

then accepted an invitation to become the pastor of a

Baptist Church. assembl ing in Joiners’

Hall , London. As

he was not willing to desert his little flock at Theobalds,it was agreed on his removal that they shou ld join the

Church at Joiners’ Hall , and he went down once a

month to admin ister the Lord ’

s Supper to them in the

country. In this connection he continued to his death,which happened May 17 17 , in the 77th year of his age.

Among the members composing the Baptist Church at

Joiners ’

Hall were some distingu ished persons, viz. Sir

Gregory Page, Bart. and his Lady, Dame Mary Page, &c.

Jones’

s Bunhill Memorials, p . 162 .

Flavell , Phineas. res. 1660 . Metr.min.fil . 2 1 March , 1658-9.

He was one of the sons of Richard Flavell , noncon

form ist M inister of Bromsgrove, co . Worcester. He

became chaplain in the fam ily of Edward Lord Russell .

Calamy says, April 6.

CHOR ISTERS .

I t does not appear that he had any settled congregation .

Hepreached occasional ly abou tLondon , and died inWest

minster. He printed , The deceitful Heart tried and castb

Cal amy, vol . ii. p . 2 56.

1 660 Major, John . res. 166 1 . Matr. em . 25 Oct. 1659.

Griffith , res. 1661 .

Featley, Daniel . res. 1 661 . Metr. at Magd. Hall , 3 May,

1659, min. fil . C lerk, 166 1— 1 665 . B .A . 28 June, 1662 .

M .A . 8 April , 1665 . Chaplain , 1 665— 1669.

Cooke, John . res . 167 1 . Metr. serv. 2 Ju ly, 1658 .

Heath, Emanuel . res . 1 662 . Son of Emanuel Heath , the

College Groom . Matr. p leb fil. 16 Oct. 1668 , set. 16.

Clerk, 1662 -1668 . B .A . 27 Oct. 1666 . Expelled, 4 N ov. 1668 .

“Emanuel Heath, e clericis capella' inservientibus, A .B . de

verbis p lurimis ac pessimis, brigosis, opprobriosis, scandalasis.

virulentice et gratuita: malitia p lenis, in Superiores pariter et

inferiores suos projectis convictus, abroxaréxpcros, et per testes

idoneas, et ea: propria confessions, ac suopto judicio con

demnatus, ea: hoc Collegio eap ulsus est, et parvo post tempore,

sive in resip iscentice suce indicium, sive utpublicam bannitionem

impendentem pra ceniret, A cademia limitibus et privilegiis

u ltro se abdicavit. V . P. Reg. Nevertheless, he took the

Degree ofM .A. at Glou cester Hall, 4 Ju ly, 1671 .

Philips, William . res. 1666 . Matr. 10March, 1664 -5 , set. 18 .

Son of John Philips of Monmou th, p leb. paup .

Ch . Ch . 9 N ov. 16693Holland , Brian . res. 1668 . Matt . 2 1 June, 1 667, wt. 17.

Son of Brian Holland of Long Wittenham , Berks, min.

Clerk, 1668— 1671 . B .A . 6 May, 167 1 .

166 1 Jenkinson,Thomas. res. 1668 . Matt . 2 1 June, 1667 ,

wt. 1 7 . Son of Thomas Jenkinson of Oxford, pleb. Clerk,lees— 1672 . B .A . 6 May, 167 1 . M .A. 20 Jan. 1672 -3 .

Chaplain , 1672— 1682 . Minor Canon ofWindsor. Inst.

Vicar of Datchet, near Windsor, 2 Jan. 1686-7 . Buried

at Datchet, 12 May, 1742 .

b The Grand Evil revealed, or the deceitful heart tried and cast. 8vo .

London, 1676 .

86 cnomsrsns.

Extracts from Wood'

s D iary.

Aug. 80 , 1677 . Oxford Feast . Thomas Jenkinson of

Magdalen College, a saddler’

s son in St. Peter’

s parish,

preached.

Sept. 6 , 1678 . Oxford Feast. This month Thomas Jen

kinson , the saddler’

s son , preached.

There is a tombstone standing near the sou th door of

Datchet Church, bearing the following inscription .

Here lieth the body of the Rev. Mr. Thomas Jenkinson . He

was Minister of this Parish 60 years, and died March 8,

1 742 , aged 93 years.

Tu tt, John . res. 1663 . Metr. at Magdalen Hall , 15 July,1664 , eat. 17. Son of Edward Tu tt of Nunton , co . Wilt.

min. B .A . Magd . Hall , 24 Feb . 1666-7 .

166 1 Sambourne, James. res. 1665 . Metr. 12 Dec . 1661 . set.

16 . Son of Thomas Samborne, of Clatford , Hants . min.

B .A . 12 Apr. 1665 . Usher of the College School , 1665-68.

Hil l, res. 1662 .

Clerk, Samuel . res. 1666. Metr. 1 Dec . 1665 . set. 1 7. Son of

George Clerk of Brackley, co . Northampton . p leb. Demy

1666-1670 . Usher of the College School , 1670-77 . There

are verses composed by him in E’

p icedia in obitum Georgii

Ducis A lbemarlia . 1670 .

Dooley, Samuel . res. 167 1 . Matr. 2 1 June, 1667 . set. 17 . Son

of William Deeley, of Launton , Oxon. paup . B .A . 1 Feb.

1669-70 .

Stratford, Samuel . res. 1662 . Demy 1664-67 . Matr. 6 May,

1664 , wt. 16 . Son of Nicholas Stratford , of Hampstead ,Herts. p leb.

1662 Carter, res . 1663 .

James, John . res . 1663 . Matr. 26 July, 1 664 . art. 1 5 . Son of

John James, of Great Marlow , Bucks . p leb. BA . 16 Apr.

1668. M .A . 1 1 Mar. 1672 .

Westcoate, Gervase. res. 1670. Probably son of Gervase

Westcoate, alias Littleton, Cantor of St. John’

s College,Oxford "

Vide Dr. Bliss'

s last Edition ofWood’

s Diary , pp . 66, 67 , 93 .

as m omen tas.

Feb. 7 , 17 13-14 .“ This morning preached at St. Marie

’

s

before the University, Mr.Thomas Collins ofMagd . Coll .

upon 1 Cor. i. 20 . Where is the wise dc. It was a most

admirable discourse, and is the second Sermon I ever

heard this old , ingenious man preach, the first being the

first year I came to Oxford, being the Resurrection

Sermon at St. Peter’

s, which I think was the best I ever

heard upon the subject, and the best delivered.

”

Oct. 9, 17 16 .

“ This being the day before the Term , the

Latin Sermon was preached at St. Marie’

s by the ingenious

Mr. Collins, Mas ter ofMagdalen College School

Oct. 3 0 , 17 16.

“ Mr. Collins of Magd. Coll . tells me, that he

hath got Sandes’

s‘l Speculum Europaa in MS . written by

the Au thor’

s own hand, bu t that he lent the book some

years since to one Reeves of that College, (whom he

succeeded as Schoo lmaster,) and that the preface was lost

before it was restored to him .

”

April 2 1, 17 19.

“ Called upon M r. Collins of Magd. Coll .

tod ay between two and three. He was reading Pope’

s

Homer, which he mightily admires. Mr. Collins u seth a

little hour glass, which he says he brought w ith him

when he first came to Oxford. Mr. C oll ins was Dean or

V. P. of Glouc. Hall in 1668 and in

Sept. 1 , 17 19 .

“ To-dayMr. Collins, Master ofMagd. Coll.

School , toldme, thatDr.Goodwyn who died lately oftheir

College, was 59 years of age, and that he was an excellent

man, and a very good Scholar, and that he was his

Scholar at Magdalen School . Mr. Collins is employed

by the Doctor’

s brother to write his Epitaph, which Mr.

Collins hath done, and he read it to me. I t is long, and

very particular.

”

Jan. 1 1 , 17 19-20 .

“ I mu st remember to call upon Mr.

Collins ofMagd. Coll . and look into his Speed’

s Chronicle.

3 Sir Edwin Sandys. vide p. 91 .

Dr. Thomas Goodwyn died 19 June, 1719, and was buried atLaunton,

ofwhich he was Rector.

cnomsrans . 89

He tells me, that it is that in which there is an interpo

lation from Stephens’

s Apologyf for Herodotus .

Feb . 2 5 , 17 19-20 .

“ This evening at ten o’

clock Dr. Fayrer

was buried in Magd. Coll . Chapel . The speech was spoke

by his great crony, M r. Thomas C ollins .

March 10 , (Thursday, ) 17 19-20 . On M onday last, as

Mr. Collins told me, they unanimou sly agreed atMagdalen

College to pu ll down and rebuild the east side of that

College .

Aug. 7 , 1720 . M r. Collins told me, that Mr. John Aubrey

was buried in Magdalen parish church , Oxford .

”

Mr. Collins told me, that he was one of the bearers of

Mr. An thony aWood to his grave.

”

Mr. Collins tells me, that M r. Joseph Addison of

their College, who was afterwards Secretary of State,used to please himself m ightily with this prologue to a

puppet-show : A certain king said to a beggar, What hast

to eat .l B eans, quoth the beggar. B eans .

2guoth the king.

Yea , beans, I say and soforthwithwe straight begin thep lay.

Strike up , player.

Mr. Collins told me of this verse, abou t drinking thrice

before smoking Ter bibito ,primum post, osfac essecaminum.

”

May 15 , 172 1. Ou t of a letter I received last night from

M r. Anstis : Pray, was not the famous Sir John Fastolfa Benefactor to your University in general, or at least to

Magdalen College If you know any thing thereof , prayimpart the same.

’

This day I went to M r. Collins of

Magdalen, and mentioned the said Querio to him ; he

told me, he had heard that Sir John gave £ 15 00 per

annum in Norfolk and Suffolk to the College. This he

said is certain , that he gave to the seven senior Dem ies

a penny a week for augmentation of their Vests, which

being now-a-days bu t a small pittance, they that have it

f Henry Stephana’s French satire on the Romish legends, not his Latin

Apologia pro Herodoto , both published in the same year, 1 566 . Vide

Hofimann, Lexicon Bibliographicum . Lips . 1833 . vol. ii. pp . 376— 383 .

90 cnonisrxas.

are called by such as have it not, Fastolfs Buckram5 "

May 2 3 , 172 1. Mr. Collins of Magd . Coll . told me yester

day, that Isaac Vossius was presented to the Degree of

Civil Law by Dr. Sergeant, who said no more ou t of the

common form than P resento vobis clarissimum hune virum

filium; and that Isaac, at themention ofhis father, stopped

him , and turned, and made him a very low bow ; presently

after which, the Dr. went on again.

”

May 24 , 172 1. Mr. Coll ins of Magd. Coll . told me last

night. that he was the au thor of Mr. Edward Joyner'

s

Epitaph in Magdalen Parish Church ,

Aug. 8 , 172 1 .“ Dr.West ofMagd. Coll . put out Theocritu s

Mr. Collins tells me the Dedication was very mean, till

some things were altered by his direction. Mr. Anthony

AWood used often to go to Mr. Collins, and had a design

of leaving him his Papers, only he said that Mr. Collins

was too old.

”

Aug. 9, 172 1 . Mr. Collins told me yesterday, (and I have

heard the same too from others ,) thatMr. Ralph Trumbull ,

late Rector ofVVitney, when young was a very bright man,

though when he became old he grew dull and stingy.

Mr. Collins observed, that in Oliver’

s days the discipline

Vide Chandler'

s Life of Bishop Waynfiete, p . 207.

e As a specimen ofMr. Collins’

s taste in compositions of this nature, the

epitaph is subjoined : “ E dvardus Joyner, alias Lyde, natus Cuddesdon in

Agra Oxon. ea honesta familia et locup lete institutas S chola Coventria

admissus in Collegio Wadham dein Landini et I nteriore Temp lo munici

pa libus A nglia legibus operam dedit aspera legum mollibus p oeticas numeris

ct modis Horatii mollivit ; nativo fretus ardore animi non minus gladio quam

calamo valuit. F lagrante rebellions, togammutavit sago , et R egu s sel

partibus

adjungens voluntarius militavit eques, sine stipendio , non sine gloria . Fractis

Caroli et ecclesia rebut , prosper-um scelus dolenter tulit, segue recepit in villain

suam, ubi vitam egitnec turp em, nec cithara carentem, hospites benigne eacep it ,

pra sertim A cademicos, literaria: consuetudinis et cup idus et sciens. Fato cessit,

a t. 83 , 1702 .

b Theocriti qua extant cum Graecis Scholiis, indicibus, et Scaligerio

Casauboni, etHeinsii annotationibus . Oxon. 8vc . 1699. (Magd. Libr.

92 caomsrsns.

He to ld me. Mr. Collins had left me a MS . of Edwyn

Sandy'

s, which I shou ld have. This Mr. Collins told

me of in his l ife-time, as he did also of another MS . he

designed me , which Mr. Lydal said nothing of.

Extract from Rawlinson’

s MSS . Bodleian. Feb. 10 ,

1722 -3 . D ied Mr. Thomas Co llins, Headmaster of

Magdalen C ollege School , an excellent classical Scholar,

and a very facetious gentleman .

”

Oxoniana, vol . iv. p . 237 .

On the north wall of the antechapel , Magdalen College, is

the following inscription on a monument : M . S . Thoma

Collins, S . T. B . Scholc Magdalenensis per quinguaginta fere

annos archididascali ubi Literar um adeofeliciter Rudimenta

tradidit, incrementa emcoluit. ut sparsosubiqueper Academiam

flo re ntissimos in omnibus discip linis alumnae jactaret suos

Qu ippe qui ad cfl'

ormandos tyronum animas moresque apprime

peritus, atticas lepores et elegantias Romana gravitate etsimp lici

dictionis puritate, sahueta non sinejud icio , temperare nésset

in Rostris tam theologicis, quam philosophicis, ita nervosus et

acutus , ut dubium sit, u trum consummatissimus concionandi

atque disputandi artifea: rerum ponders et doctrina , an elo

guentia' sublimitate et illecebris , sibique peculiari quddam

styli venustate, mentes aud itorum faciline conciliaverit Qui

politissimi licet ingenii acuminepre stane, utpote innocuos usque

sales sermonibus miscens Socraticis, critici tamsu severitatern

aquioris mansuetud ine Judicis leniit et castigavit, alienia

erroribuspotius indu lgens, quam suis undefactum, u tp lurima

a se conscripta , luce dignissima , nimia st in posteras injuriosa

modestia flammis devoverit, bonis erud itisgue omnibus adeo

charus, ut prapropero fato (octogenarius licet) abripi vi

deretur 10° die Februarii, anno 1 722-3 .

Sepulchralehoc ElogiumHenricas Sacheverell, S . T. P . scripsit,

et Ipsefermemoribundas, necpostea quidquam scrip turus istos

nimirum honoree dulcissimo amico persolutos volait, qu ibus in

supremis tabul is interdixit sibi.

This latter portion of the Epitaph was written by Dr. Thomas Jenner,

afterwards President, one of Mr. Collins’

s Executors, and who had beenSacheverell

’s Curate at St. Anne

’

s Church, Holborn. M . J . R.

CHORISTERS .

1662 Wooddeson , Samu el . res . 1665 . Matr. at N ew Inn

Hall , 12 Feb . 1668-9, aat. 1 8 . Son of John Wooddeson k

of Windsor, co . Berks, p leb. B .A . St. John’

s College,29 Feb. 1670-7 1 .

Wooddeson , Richard. res . 1672 . Matt . 18 Feb. 1669-70 .

Son of J. W. ofWindsor. Demy, wt. 1 7 , 1672-77 . B .A .

15 Oct. 1 673 . M .A . 8 June, 1 672 . Vicar of Findon ,

29 March, 1677 . Buried at Findon , 6 March , 1725-26.

Davis, John . res. 1670 . Son of Thomas Davis, Vicar of

Lechlade, co . Glou cester. Matr. 1 Feb. 1666-7 , set. 17 .

‘Clerk, 1674-78. B .A . 10 Dec. 1 670. M .A . 7 July, 1673 .

He afterwards went abroad , and became a convert to the

Church of Rome. Wood ’

s A shm . MSS . D . 1 .

1663 Barksdale, Charlton . res. 1672 . Matr. 13 Dec. 1667 , set.

15 . Son ofClement Barksdale ofNaunton, co . Gloucester,

Sacerd . (videAth . vol . ii. fol . col . B .A . 30 June, 167 1 .

In 1694 , He was M inister ofHawling, co . Glou cester.

Bannister, John . res. 167 1. M etr. 2 1 June, 1 667, wt. 17 .

Son of John Bannister of Tw igworth , co . Gloucester,

pleb. B .A . 30 Oct. 1671 . C lerk, 1674-76 . M .A . 7 July,1674 . Chaplain , 1676-78 .

Qu inton , Theophilu s. res. 1668 . M atr. 2 1 June, 1667, set.

17 . Son of Theophilu s Qu inton, (Chorister 1624 .) Rector

ofTockenham , Wilts.

Mompesson, res. 1668 .

Dawoll , John. res. 1666 . Metr. at Magd. Hall , 20 Feb.

1667-68 , eat. 16 . Son of Timothy Dewell , D .D . Rector of

Lydiard Tregoz, Wilts. B .A . 30 Oct. 167 1 . M .A . 9 Ju ly,1674 .

1665 Ball , John . res. 1669. Metr. 28 May, l 6i6 , ast. 17 . Son

of John Ball of Banbury, co . Oxford , p leb. B .A . 22 April ,

1670 .

1 666 A sh, John. res. 1672 . Matr 17 April , 1668 , a t. 17 .

Son of Richard Ash of Bristol , pleb. B .A . 22 Feb . 1670-7 1 .

Rogers , John . res. 1674 . Matr. 17 June, 1670, a t. 16.

Son of Benjamin Rogers, Mus. D . Organist of Magd.

Vide Ashmole’

s Berkshire, vol . iii. p. 69.

94 cuoarsrnns.

College. Clerk , 1674-8 1 . B .A . 29 Oct. 1674 . M .A . 28

June , 1677.

1667 Falkner, Jonathan . res . 167 1. Matr. 10 Mar. 1669-70 .

Clerk, 1671-74 . B .A . 1 5 Oct. 1673 . Chaplain , 1674-82 .

M .A . 8 June, 1676. Prebendary of Cloyne,Ireland , 22

May, 1684.— 17 1 1 . Treasurer of Cork, 1688— 17 1 1 .

Obiit 1 7 1 1 .

1668 Evans, William . res. 1669. Matr. 1 1 Dec. 1668, wt. 18 .

Son of Evan Evans of Llandebie, co . Caermarthen , gen.

Clerk, 1669-74 . B .A . 1 3 Oct. 167 1 . M .A . 7 July, 1674 .

Vaughan , Griffith. res. 1676 . Matt . 3 May, 1672 , set. 16.

Son of Edmund Vaughan of Pitsford, co. Northampton,

p leb. B .A . 8 June, 1676 .

Russell , Richard. res. 1669. Matr. 28 July, 1668 , set. 14 .

He was the third son of William Russell , Master of the

College School , Gloucester. Demy, 1669-74 . Prob . F .

1674-8 1. B .A . 20 April , 1672 . M .A . 6 Feb. 1673 -4 .

Oct. 2 1 , 168 1 . Obiit Mr. Richardus Russell , trium Fra

trum, qu i vita et morte sodsl itium hoc cohonestfirunt,

u ltimu s.”

V. P. Reg.

He was buried near his two brothers, Samuel andWilliam,

both Fellows of the College, in the sou th side of the

ante-chapel . The following epitaph on a black marble

gravestone of a diamond figure was placed over him

M . S . Richardi Russell, A ..M. et hujus Collegii Socii. Quin

hunc supremum, juxta et amabilem pietate, doctrina, ac

modestia, cui corpus impar crebris vigiliis, in mente eacelsd

sitie immoderata sciendi ad veri fontem post fratres brevi

misit, non parcius queritur par sororum, natal ie aut Gloces

tria , aut alma Oz onia lugens, abrep tum decus. Concordes

animas dum Visio perficit Triuna , a terna servet nomina

Wainfleti Domus. Germanos cinereejuncta sepulchra tegant.

Obiit Oct. 2 1 , anno So latie 1681 , a tatis 28.

1668 Longworth, Peter. res. 1669. M att . at Hart Hall,14 April, 1671 , set. 16. Son ofJohn Longworth, Vicar of

Selborne, Hants. C lerk, 1672— 1679. B .C .L. 4 July,1 677 .

96 cnoms'

rnns.

Master of Rugby School , 1687-173 1 . Under the direction

ofMr.Holyoake, Rugby began to flourish, and became in

very high repu te. The School Register during his time

contains the names of many of the oldest and noblest

families in England. He seems however to have unfor

tunately misunderstood the character of one of his most

distingu ished pupils, Edward Cave °, the celebrated

Projector of the Gentleman ’

s Magazine, whom he treated

with undeserved severity, and eventually drove him from

the Schoo l. Mr. Holyoake died 10 M arch, 1730-3 1 , and

was buried in St. Mary’s Church, Warwick. The follow

ing inscription, written by himself, is engraved on a plain

marble slab attached to the west wall of the north

transept of that edifice ; Junta jacent steriles jam et

elanguid i sacrc guercus radix, surculus, ramusculi, viz

Juditha Francisci, A nna Thoma: uror ; quorum Thoma

Annaque ramusculi, numero duodecim, in vital hand penitas

obecuri quorum unus, Scholar apud Rugby, com. Vanrici, per

xliii annos Moderator, hanc tabulam annalium loco erezi t.

Qu i et ipse contabuit xm° die Martii Anno Dom. MDccxxx.

c tat. Lxxn .

Anno 1700. Henricus Holyoalc. A .M . et hajue Coll . nuper

Capellanus in usum B ibliotheca d . d. viginti libras. Book of

Benefactors.

Powell , Samuel . res . 1677 . Metr. 1 Ju ly 1672 , wt. 19. Son

ofWalter Powell of Alvescott, co . Oxford, min.

Griffiths, Daniel. res. 1676. Metr. 2 1 May 1672 , wt. 16.

Son of Thomas Griffiths of Caer Mard, Langillar,B .A . 5 Feb. 1674

Tey, Robert. res. 1685 . Metr. at Magd. Hall , 6 April , 1677.

Son of John Tey of Clifton , co . Oxford, gen . B .A . 12 Nov.

1680.

1673 Wooddeson, res. 1676.

0 Vide Nicholle’s Literary Anecdotes, vol . v. p. 2 .

P Vide Ath. vol . ii. fol . col . 167. 544 . Arms on the monument : Vert,

a stag’

s head caboshed, or.

[ l a t t e—QL

CM

CHORISTERS.

1674 Wam eford, Henry. res. 1679 . Metr. at Trinity College.

18 Feb . 1678-9, set. 19 . Son of John Wam eford of Mis

erden , co . Gloucester, paup . B .A . 18 N ov. 1682 . Rector

of Freshford, co . Somerset, 17 10 . Minor Canon of St.

George ’

s Chapel , Windsor.

Boyse, John . res . 1679. Matt . 1 1 Dec. 1674 , wt. 17 . Son

of James Boyse ofBromley, co . Kent, p leb.

Cripps, Samuel . res. 1679. Metr. at N ew College, 17 March ,

1675 -6, wt: 1 5 . Son of M ichael Cripps of Oxford , pleb.

Demy, wt. 17 , 1679— 89. B .A . 12 N ov. 1680 . M .A . 22

June, 1683 . Prob . F. 1689— 17 12 . Junior Dean of Arts,

1694 . Senior Dean of Arts , 1695 . B .D .

'

25 June, 1695 .

Bursar, 1696. Curate ofHorspath, 1697. D .D . 1 Ju ly,1708 . Rector of Appleton , 3 1 Jan. 17 10-11 . Buried

8 Feb . 1 730 , at Appleton.

A .D . 1 7 10 . Samuel Cripps, S .T.P . Rector de App leton, et

hujus Collegii nuper Socius , dono dedit decem libras. Book

of Benefactors.

Extracts from Hearne’

s Diary.

22 Sept. 17 17 . Thismorning Iwalked over to Appleton

in Berks, a mile beyond Cumnor. I was at church there .

Dr. Samuel Cripps, Rector of the place, preached. He is a

very indifl'

erent Preacher. He was Fellow of Magdalen

College, to which the Parsonage belongs. The Parsonage

is worth abou t two hundred pounds per annum . TheDr.

was first Curate of the place. He su cceeded Dr. Fayrer,

Fellow of Magd. Coll . and Professor of Natural Philo

sophy in Oxford. Dr. Fayrer left it at the year’

s end,

because he had rather lead a Collegiate life, i. e. because

he had rather live at his ease, and do ju st nothing at all

but eat the Founder’

s bread . The said Dr. S . Cripps

hath been twice married. His second w ife is now living.

His first wife, Susanna, died 4 Jan. 17 14 , not long after

shehad beenmarried to theDoctor, withou t children . She

is buried in the sou th chancel of the Church ; I say in the

south chancel , because there is another chancel on the

north side, whichwas formerly calledBesselsleigh chancel

CHORISTERS.

for before Besselsleigh was made parochial , and had no

Chapel erected. the people of that place came to Ap

pleton, as the Parochial Church, and the north chancel

particularly belonged to them . The south chancel is

commonly called the M inister’s chancel . The above

mentioned Dr. Fayrer succeeded in this Rectory Mr.

Robert Almont, S. T. B . and Fellow of Magd. Coll . who

died on the 14th Nov. 1709, and is buried in the sou th

chancel. This Mr. Almont succeeded Mr. John Brice,B .D . and Fellow also ofMagd . Coll . who died on the 5th

Dec. 1696, in the 76th year of his age, and is likewise

buried in the sou th chancel . The north aisle of this

church was coiled in the year 1600 at the charges of

Richard Haseley. The Church was adom od with the

Creed, Commandments, and Scripture sentences, anno

1661 , having been torn off before, I suppose, by the

Sectaries. There is a pretty good congregation comes

to the Church now , yet there are several sectaries in the

parish . In one of the windows of the church I saw the

arms of the Golafres, a family of very great note in

these parts , which is observed in Leland’

s Itinerary, vol .

iv. p 2 . Sou thby is the chieffamily atAppleton now . He

lives in the Manor House. Appleton was so called from

the apples, of which there was formerly vast plenty

here.

Aug. 8 , 172 1 . Dr. Cripps, Rector of Appleton, near

Abingdon, was scholar to M r. Collins. This Dr. Cripps

is a du ll Preacher, which made Dr. Ironside, when Vice

Chancollor, as he was going from church, and asking who

itwas thatpreached, and answer beingmade M r. Cripps,’

say of him , A p lague crip him. Dr Grebe u sed to say,

this Cripps was the best Preacher in Oxford,for, says he,he brings proof of what he saysfrom Scripture.

”

It is probable that Dr. Cripps’

s practice was better

than Hearne’

s opinion of his preaching, if we may judge

from the benevolent bequests contained in his Will.

100 cnos l s'

rsns.

to be nominated mud appointed by the Vice-President of the

said Collegefor the time being. And I do hereby further

direct and appo int my said loving Wife to pay into the

hands of my Trustees, hereinafter named , the yearly

sum of four pounds during her natural life,'

one

moiety thereof to be laid ou t by my Tru stees, as far

as the same will extend, in clothing so many of

the poor labouring men or women of St. M ichael’

s

parish in the said city of Oxon, as

O

shall constantly

keep to the Church, and are not dissenters from

the Establishment, and shall not receive '

alm s and

the other moiety thereof to be laid ou t for the like

purpose, and for such like poor men or women of the

parish of Appleton aforesaid, su ch clothing to be given

to them once in two years, and the sleeves of the coats

of such clothing to be faced with black, and not to be

given to the same person or persons twice, unless , for

the scarcity of such fitting objects as aforesaid, it return

afresh . And my will and pleasure is, that from and

after the decease of my said Wife Elizabeth Cripps,

I give , devise, and bequeath all and singular the said

lands and tenements unto Ferrer Cripps, son of my

cou sin John Cripps of London , and his heirs for ever,

upon condition that he the said Ferrer Cripps, his

heirs or assigns, do yearly pay or cau se to be paid the

like yearly sum of six pounds for ever, by even and equal

half yearly payments , to such Divine so to be appointed

for the same intent and purpose as aforesaid . And do

also pay or cau se to be paid to the Trustees of this myWill , or to such other new Trustees as shall be at any

time or times hereafter elected and chosen , the further

yearly sum of twelve pounds by like half yearly payments , (that is to say) the sum of six pounds, being one

0 Bocardo , a chamber over the north gate of the city of Oxford, and thecommon prison , was pulled down in 177 1 Peshall

’

s City of Oxford, p. 198 .

Skelton'

s Oxonia Antique , p . 76 .

CHOR ISTERS .

moiety, or half part thereof, is to be by them expended

and laid ou t in clothing such like poor objects of

charity as shall be found in the said parish of St.

Michael ’s in Oxon, and the other moiety thereof is to beby them expended and laid out in clothing such o ther

like objects of charity in the said parish of Appleton ;and do also pay unto my said Trustees the further sum

of forty shillings, to be by them detained for ever to

expend on themselves by even and equal portions, (that

is to say) the sum of ten shillings at every quarterly

meeting, as they shall meet at together to consult,

abou t the management of the Trust hereby in themreposed . And I do hereby charge my said freehold

lands to be for ever chargeable with the said several

and respective sums of six pounds, four pounds, twelve

pounds, and forty shillings . But now my full intent

and meaning of this my Will is, (notwithstanding mydevise to the said Ferrer Cripps and his heirs as

aforesaid, ) that in case the said Ferrer Cripps, or what

other person or persons which shall claim any right to

the said premises after my said Wife’

s decease, shall at

that time or at any time then after go to any separate

Meeting for divine worship from the Established Church

of England, then and in such case I give and bequeath

the same freehold lands and premises, and all the

rents, issues, and profits thereof that shall be arising

therefrom , over and above the said several and respective

charges thereon chargeable as aforesaid, unto myTrustees

hereinafter named, their heirs or assigns for ever, upon

trust to be paid and employed by them for and towards

the support and maintenance of four Clergymen’

s

widows, as my Trustees shall think and adjudge to be

proper objects of this my charity. And whereas I am

concerned in the Welch m ines, and if at any time or

times hereafter any profits or advantages shall arise

therefrom , that then the same shall be expended and

employed by my Trustees in placing out poor boys to be

CHOB ISTB8 8 .

not elsewhere. And I do hereby nominate and appoint

my loving friends, Mr. Robert Spindler, of the city of

Oxon, mercer, Mr. William Rogers, of Ducklington, in

the county of Oxon. and Mr. Peter Whitehead , of the

said city of Oxon, Attorney at law, Trustees of this myWill. and do give to each of them a funeral ring of

twenty shillings value each. And if any or either ofmy

said Trustees shall happen to die, then I do hereby

immwer the survivor or survivors of him or them so

dying, to elect and choose some other fit person or

persons to join and act with him or them in the manage

ment of the said Trust, provided one of the said

Trus tees be for ever an Attorney at law. I tem, I give

to my said cousin , John Cripps, of London, one shilling.

I tem, I give to my cousin, William Spindler, one

hundred pounds. Item, I give to my kinsman, George

Walker, watchmaker, in All Saints parish in Oxon, ten

pounds . I tem , I give to another kinsman of the same

surname, a tinman, living near the Hay-Market in the

city of Westm inster, ten pounds. Item , I give to mykinswoman, Mary Powell , one hundred pounds, and two

silver spoons marked under the round gilded knobs

with these letters, W. E . M . together with the cabinet in

my best room . All which said legacies I desire may be

paid and delivered within six months next after mydecease. I tem , I give to my wife

’

s sister, Jane Rogers,

and her niece, Jane Collier, a fimeral ring of twenty

shillings value each. Item , I give to the poor of St.

M ichael’

s Oxon , and to the poor in Appleton , Berks,five pounds each, to be paid to them in one week ’

s time

next after my decease. Item, All the rest of my goods,chattels , real and personal estate whatsoever, and not

herein before disposed of, I give and bequeath to my said

loving wife, Elizabeth Cripps, whom I do also make and

appoint full whole and sole execu trix of this my Will ,being wrote on two sheets of paper, to the first sheet

104 cuomsrsns.

pretty tolerable discourse, though some ofthe expressions

were bombast”

July 18, 1717 . The Assize Sermon was preached at

Oxford last Thursday morning by Dr. Daniel Stacey.

Fellow of Magd. Coll . which was a strange one, and

not to the purpose. This Dr. S . sometimes preaches

sermons without any Divinity in them. His father was

a tanner in Oxford. Before I came to Oxford, he was

repeater of the Easter Sermons, and came off well .”

Nov. 18, 1720 . Sunday. This day in the afternoon

preached at St. Marie’

s Dr.Daniel Stacey. His discourse

was such as made, as I am told, all the congregation

laugh : filled with strange odd stuff, and containing

nothing of Divinity, which is his usual way of preaching.

April 2 1 . 1 72 1 . Friday.“ Yesterday in the evening,

about 7 o’

clock, the great bell at Magd. Coll . rung for

Dr. Daniel Stacey , Fellow of that College. He was struck

w ith a dead palsy on Monday last at Enstone, where he

was Minister. I remember when I came first to Oxford

he had the character of a good preacher among some

people, particularly I u sed to hear one Hammond of

Edmund Hall , who was looked upon as a good Scholar,say, that he was

‘

the best preacher in Oxford, bu t after

wards he grew du ll and heavy. When M .A . be repeated

at St. Marie’

s, as I have heard, and did it admirably well ,though some wished he might have been ou t, becau se

he came up withou t any notes, leaving them behind him .

Dr. Stacey was buried at Church Enstone, 22d April ,

J anina-as Vicar of Enstone, in 1 70'.fSmyth, John. res. 1682 . Matr. 12 Dec. 1 679, act. 1 7 . Son

of John Smyth of Barton , co . Gloucester, paup . Clerk,1682— 1689. B .A . 22 June, 1688 . M .A . 1 5 June, 1686.

Usher of the College School, 1689— 17 17.

He hath published ; Win her and take her : or, Old

Fools will be meddling : a Comedy. London 1 691 . 4to .

cnoms'rsns. 105

Dedicated by the au thor to Peregrine, Earl of Danby,under the name of Cave Underhill , an actor of Plays.

It hath been several times ac ted in the Theatre Royal , byhis Majesty ’s servants. (Magd . Libr.)Seafronid es or, Virgil Travesty, a mock Poem on the

second Book of Virgil ’s E neid in English Burlesque.

London, 1691 . 8vo.

Odes paraphrased and imitated , in Miscellany Poems and

translations, by OxfordHands. London, 1685 , 8vo. These

reach from p. 64 , to p. 92 . and the l st Paraphrase is, The

13 th chapter of I saiah Paraphrased : a Pindaric Ode in

fifteen stanzas.”A th. vol . 11 . fol . col . 1022 .

2d. p . 75 . Ode 16th of the l st B . of Casimire imitated .

8d . p . 80 . Fragment out of Tertullus imitated .

4th. p. 8 1 . Ode 28d of the 4th B . of Casimire.

6th . p. 82 . Epigram 88d of 8d B . of Martial .

6th. p. 88. Epigram 54th of 8d B . of Martial.

8th. p . 86. A Fragment out of Petronius.

9th. p. 88. Ditto.

l oth . p . 89. Ditto .

1 1th. p . 90 . Ditto .

1718. May 7.

“ Just published, Poems upon several

occasions by Mr. Smith. London , 1 718, 8vo .? The said

Mr. Smith is Usher ofMagdalen School . He was always

looked upon as a very ingenious man, but I am afi'

aid

he hath not acted advisedly in printing these Poems.

Hearne’

s Diary.

17 17 . Julii 16. Mr. Smith Ostiarius obiit. V. P. Reg.

171 7 . July 17 .

“ Yesterday died Mr. John Sm ith , M .A .

and Clerk ofMagdal en College, and second Schoolmaster

of that College School . He died of a fever. He was a

very ingenious, goodnatured man. He was au thor of a

1» Of this volume of Poems I have been unable to discover a single

copy. The M iscellany Poems and Translations by Oxford Hands, is in

the valuable collection of Dr. Bliss.

106 cnonrsrnns.

noted Ballad 1 about the Lord Lovelace’

s expedition to

Oxford, which Ballad was printed first by itself, and

1 This Ballad, ” the Lord Lovelace’s m u oq m Gloucester

Goal, is December, 1688, is to be found in the 2d part of MiscellanyPoems, published by Dryden. 4th ed. London. 1716. p. 198 . I t is written

in nineteen stanzas , a few of which will sufice to shew the humorous

character of the Poem.

In rank and in file there rodemany a man,

Some march’

d in the rear, and some in the van,

And for want of their hats they had head-pieces on,

IVWhich nobody can deny.

Tho’arms were not plenty, yet armed they come,

With stout oaken plants and crabtree sticks some,

To cudgel the Pope and the bald pates of Rome,

X.

In this cavalcade, for the grace of thematter,

l ord Lovelace rode first, and the next followed after,

They gallop’t up Town first, and then down to water,

XI .

The Mayor and his brethren in courteous fashion,

Bid him welcome to Town in a fine penn’d oration,

And thank’

d him for taking such care of the nation,

Wednesday, 6 Dec . 1688 . The Lord Lovelace entered the town by

Wadham College, and striln'

ng down Holywell, and so in the road by

Magdalen College Grove wall , past in at the east gate between three and

four o’clock in the afternoon, where he was expected by the Mayor,

Aldermen, and Council , with the Recorder, who welcomed him with a

speech, expressing their joy for his coming to them in this time of danger.

He replied, sitting on his horse, that he was amember of their corporation,and was come to defend the Protestant religion and them . Upon which

there were great huzzas a'

nd acclamations. There were about 800 horsewith him , the gentlemen well mounted and armed, among them were the

townsmen who went to meet him , and several pitiful rascally fellows

with no other arms but bills and staves. They rode up the length of the

High street to Carfax, and then dispersed themselves into several inns.

That night to prevent a surprise the city train bands kept watch, and cartsand waggons were thrown across Magdalen bridge, the guard being placedat Magd. Coll

:kitchen back gate, and so at all the other avenues of the

town . State Trials , P roceedings against M agd. Coll. vol. xii. col. 8 1 .

108 cuomsrsns .

of Abel Clarke of Jersey, paup . Clerk 1688—87 . B .A .

4 Feb. 1682-8. M .A. 26 Oct. 1686.

Edes, William . res. 1684 . Matt . 28 Apr. 1680 , wt. 16 . Son

of John Edes of Warwick, paup . B .A . 4 Feb. 1682-3 .

M .A . 11 Nov. 1686 . Vicar of St. Mary,Warwick, 19 May,

1687— 1706.

res. 168 1 .

1677 Broadhurst, Samuel . res. 1690. ejected in 1687 , and“

restored by the Visitor in 1688 . Metr. 16 July, 1687 ,art. 17. Son of John Broadhurst of Cheriton, co . Wilts,

paup . B .A . 28 May, 1691 .

1678 Clerk, res. 1 684 .

Yalden, Thomas. res. 1689, ejected in 1687 , and restored

by the Visitor in 1 688. Matr. 20 May, 1685 , wt. 16. Son

ofJohn Yalden ofOxford, pleb. Demy, co .Oxford, 1690-98.

Prob . F. 1698— 17 18 . B .A . 25 June, 1691 . M .A . 12 May,

1694 . B .D . 80 Apr. 1 706. D .D . 1 July, 1708 . Vicar of

Willoughby, co . Warwick, 2 5 Sept. 1700— 1 709. Bursar

1707 . Preacher of the Sermon on St. John Bapt. Day,1708. Dean of D ivinity, 1709 .

A .D . 17 18. Jun . Dr. Yalden at Dr. Sacheverell, Bene

ficia adepti ecclesiastica recessére. V. P. Reg.

Dr. Yalden had the repu tation in his lifetime of con

siderable poetical powers", and retains the distinction of

having been biographically celebrated by the pen of

Dr. Samuel Johnson , whose memoir I deem it honour

able to our Chorister to subjoin entire, with su ch

additions and corrections as I have been able to

procure.

“ Thomas Yalden , the sixth son ofMr. John Yalden, of

Sussex, was born in the city ofEaster in Having

Apollo smiles on Magdalen’

s peaceful bowers,Perfumes the air, and paints the grot with flowers ;

Where Yalden learn ’d to gain the myrtle crown,

And every muse was fond of Addison.

”Tickell

’s Oxford.

.Wood is more correct in his statement of both date and place of the

Poet’s birth. ThomasYoulding, a younger son of JohnYoulding, sometime

cnomsrsns . 109

been educated in the grammar school belonging to

Magdalen College in Oxford , he was in 1690 , at the age

of nineteen , admitted Commoner of Magdalen Hall ,

under the tu ition of Josiah Pullen , a man whose name

is still remembered in the University. He became next

year one of the Scholars of Magdalen College, where he

was distinguished by a lucky accident. It was his turn,

one day, to pronounce a declamation ; and Dr. Hough ,

the Presidcnt, happening to attend, thought the com

position too good to be the speaker’

s. Sometime after,

the Dr. finding him a little irregularly busy in the

library, set him an exercise for punishment ; and, that

he might not be deceived by any artifice, locked the

door. Yelden, as it happened , had been lately reading

on the subject given, and produced wi th little difficu lty a

composition , which so pleased the President, that he

told him his former su spiciou s, and promised to favour

him .

Among his contemporaries in the College were

Addison and Sacheverell ‘, men who were in those times

fi'iends, and who both adopted Yalden to their intimacy .

Yalden continu ed throughou t his life to think as probably

a Page of the Presence, and Groom of the Chamber to Prince Charles,afterwards a sufi

‘

erer for his cause, and an exciseman in Oxford after the

restoration of King Charles I I . , was born in the parish of St. John Baptist

in Oxford on the 2d day of January, 1669-70 ; educated in Magdal en

College School , while he was a Chori ster of that house, was elected Demy

1690,and in the year 1698 Probationer Fellow .

”Ath. vol . ii . fol. col .

1022 .

The Merton College Register of Baptisms confirms this account.

Jan. 16 , 1669-70 , Thomas, son of John Yalding, an exciseman, was bap tized.

B orne 2d Jan .

”

Both Addison and Sacheverell were elected Demies in 1689 the year

before Yalden , in what was called the Golden E lection, so many individuals

of fruitful promise having been admitted at that time. Amongst them

were Boulter, afterwards Archbishop ofArmagh, and Smalbrook, afterwards

B ishop of Rochester.

CHORISTB 8 8 .

he thought at first, yet did not lose the frim dship of

made anOde . There was never any reign more celebrated

by the Poets than that of William, who had very little

regard for song himself, but happened to employ

ministers who pleased themselves with the praise of

patronage. Of this Ode mention is made of in a

humorous poem of that time, called The Oagford Laureat

in which, afier many claims had been made and rejected,

Yalden is represented as demanding the laurel , and as

being called to his trial , instead of receiving a reward

His crime was for being a felon in verse

And presenting his thefi; to the King ;The first was a trick not uncommon or scarce,

But the last was an impudent thing

Yet what he had stolen was so little worth steal ing,They forgave him the damage and cost ;

Had he ta’

en the whole Ode, as he took it piece-mealing,They had fined him bu t ten-

pence at most.

The Poet whom he was charged with robbing was

Congreve.

”

He wrote another poem on the death of the Duke of

Gloucester.

”

In 17 10 “ he became Fellow of the College, and next

year entering into Orders was presented by the Society

with a Living in Warwickshire consistent with his

Fellowship, and chosen Lecturer of Moral Philosophy, 9.

very honourable ofiice

in 1699.

8

r A .D. 1705 , Aug. 24 . Obiit Car. Penyston, Philosophie M arch'

s Pra

lector, in ruins locum ab iis, quorum intererat, electus et admissus est M r.

of electing Dr. Samuel Johnson himself to this very ofice, which would

have entitled him, being at that time a widower, to the first vacant

Fellowship . Vide Statute De Lectoribus.

1 12 CHORISTERS .

and being familiarly conversant w ith Kellyhis Secretary,

fell under suspicion, and was taken into custody. Upon

his examination he was charged with a dangerous cor

respondence with Kelly. The correspondence be ac

knowledged, but maintained that it had no treasonable

tendency. His papers were seized ; but nothing was

found that could fix a crime upon him , except two

words in his pocket-book, thorough-paced doctrine. This

expression the examination of his examiners had impreg

nated with treason , and theDoctorwas enjoined to explain

them . Thu s pressed, he told them , that the words had

laid unheeded in his pocket-book from the time of Queen

Anne, and that he was ashamed to give an account of

them ; but the truth was , that he had gratified his

curiosity one day by hearing Dan iel Burgess in the

pulpit ; and those words were a memorial hint of a

remarkable sentence, by which he warned his congrega

tion to beware of thorough-

paced doctrine, that doctrine,which, coming in at one ear, paces through the head , and

goes out at the other. Nothing worse than this appearing

in his papers, and no evidence arising against him , he

was set at liberty

I t w ill not be supposed that a man of this character

attained high dignities in the Church, but he stillretained the friendship , and enjoyed the conversation, of

a very numerou s and splendid body of acquaintance.

He died 16 Ju ly, 1 786, in the 66th year ofhis age.

Of his poems, many are of that irregular kind, which

when he formed his poetical character, was supposed to

be Pindarick. Having fixed his attention on Cowley

as a model , he has attempted in some sort to rival him ,

and has written a Hymn to Darkness, evidently as a

counter-t to Cowley’

s Hymn to Light.” This Hymnseems to be his best performance, and is for the most

part imagined with great vigour, and expressed with

great propriety. I will not transcribe it. The seven

A .D . 1728 . vide State Trials , vol . xvi . col . 485 .

cnomsrsns. 1 18

first stanzas are good ; bu t the third, fourth, and seventh,

are the best : the tenth is exqu isitely beau tiful ; the

thirteenth, fourteenth, and seventeenth, are partly mytho

logical , and partly religiou s , and therefore not su itable

to each other : he might better have made the whole

merely philosophical . There are two stanzas in this .

poem where Yelden may be su spected, though hardly

convicted, of having consulted the Hymnus ad Umbram

of Woweriu s, in the 6th stanza, which answers in some

sort to these lines :

I lla suo prmest nocturnis numine sacris

Perque vias errare novis dat spectra figuris,

Manesqu e excitos medios ululare per agros

Sub noctem , et questu notos complere penates .

And again at the conclu sion :

Illa. suo senium secludit corpore toto ,

Hand numerans jugi fugientia secu la lapsu

Ergo , ubi, postremum mundi compage solu ta,Hanc rerum molem suprema absumpserit hora ;

Ipsa leves cineree nube amplectetur opaca,

Et prisco imperio rursu s dominabitur UMBRA.

His Hymn to Light is not equal to the other. He

seems to think that there is an east absolu te and

positive, where the morning rises. In the last stanza,having mentioned the sudden eruption of new-created

Light, he says, Awhile the Almighty wondering stood .

’

He ought’

to have remembered, that Infinite Knowledge

can never wonder. All wonder is the effect of novelty

upon ignorance. Of his other poems it is sufficient to

say that they deserve perusal , though they are not always

eiactly polished, and the rhym es are sometimes very ill

sorted, and though his faults seem rather the omissions

of idl eness than the negligences of enthu siasm . Lives

of the British Poets, vol . i. p . 485 . ed. 1 779.

Thomas Yalden was the au thor of divers Poems : as,

1 . Against immoderate grief. To a lady weeping.

’

Tis

an Ode in imitation of Casimere .

1 14 cnonxsrsas.

2 . Hymn to the Morning, in p raise of Light. An Ode .

8 . Hymn to Darkness.

4 . Human Life, supposed to be spoken by an epicure .

In im itation of the 2d chapter of theWisdom of Solomon .

'

Tis a Pindaric Ode , and inscribed to the Lord Hunsdon .

5 . Against Enjoyment.

6 . The Curse of Babylon, paraphrased from the 18th,chap .

of Isaiah . A Pindaric Ode.

7. To Mr. Congress. An Epistolary Ode , occasioned byhis late Play called , The Old Bachelor.

8 . The Insect against Bu lk.

9. To his friend Cap tain Chamberla in, in love w ith a

lady he had taken in an Algerine Prize at sea. In allu

sion to the 4th Ode ofHorace, B . ii.

All these Poems are rem itted into a Book , entitled ,

Examen Posticum , being the third part of Miscellany

Poems, &c. London , 1698 , 8vo . published by John

Dryden , Esq .

In the Annual M iscellany for the year 1694 , being

the fou rth part of Miscellany Poems , the. London, 1694 ,

8vo . He hath the following Poems

1 . To Mr . Watson, on his Ephemeris of the Celestia l

Motions . presented to Her Majesty .

2 . The Rape of Mentilla , imitated from the Latin of

Famian Strada.

3 . An Ode for St. Cecilia’

s Day, 1693 composed, or

mu sic set to it, by Mr. Daniel Purcell °.

4 . The Force of Jealousy. To a Lady, asking if her sex

was as sensible of that passion as men ; an allusion to

O quam cruentu s faaminas stimulat dolor. Seneca’

s

Hercules (Etaeu s.

5 . In imitation of Horace, Ode 22 . Integer vitae , &c .

6 . To his perjured Mistress, from Horace. N ox erat et

ceelo fu lgebat luna sereno , &c.

7 . P atroclus’

s Request to A chillesfor his arms, imitated

0 Daniel Purcell , brother ofHenry, and more famous for his puns than

his music. He was Organist ofMagdalen College, 1689— 1696 .

1 16 CHORISTERS.

of the Tatler. This however has been attribu ted , on the

authority of Dr. Warton , who received it from Young, to

William Harrison, Secretary to the Congress at Utrecht.

Hearne also mentions in his D iary, A .D . 1 7 16. Squire

B ickerstafl'

detected , or the A strological Impostor convicted , by

John Partridge, Student in Physick and A strology. Pt. l st.

8vc . in 8 pages. Printed in Queen Anne’

s time.

’

Tis

a merry, witty, facetious, and innocent paper against that

rascal Partridge, and the au thor, I am well informed,

was Dr. Yalding ofMagdalen College.

To these publications of our au thor may be added ;

The Education of poor children, the most excellent kind of

Cha rity. A Sermon preached in the Parish Church of

St Sepulchre, June 18th, 1 728 , at the Anniversary Meeting

of the children educated in the Charity Schools in and about

the Cities ofLondon and Westminster, byThomasYalden,D.D.

Rector of Chalton, and Rector of Clanfield in Hampshire,

Preacher of B ridewell Hospital , and Prebendary of Chulm

leigh in Devon. London , 4to . 1 728 .

A Sermon on Dan. iv. 27 . preached before the Governors

of Bridewell and BethlehemHospita ls. London, 4 to . 1 72 1 .

A .D . 1 73 5 . Thomas Yolden, S .T.P . nuper Socius pro

novis adificiis erigendis dono dedit centum libras. Book of

Benefactors to Magdalen College.

In the second volume ofNicholls'

s Select Collection of

Poems, p . 2 18 , is an address by CharlesHopkins, son of the

Bishop, toMr. Yalden in OafordfromLondonderry , August 3 ,

1699, from which the following passage may be quoted ;N ow your blest fields their summer livery wear,Their fru its your loaded trees in season

“

bear

Bu t learning flourishes throughout the year :

From your full spring o’

er Britain ’

s isle it streams,And spreads like Isis when she meets the Thames .

Bear’d on her banks, the Mu ses

’

laurel grows,Adorn

’

d by yours, adorning others’

brows .

Sweet are her streams, sweet the surrounding air,Bu t sweeter are the songs she echoes there.

cnonisrsns . 1 17

Chang’

d in the rest, let this my love commend ,

Yalden ! believe I never chang'd my friend .

In 1710 , Thomas Yalden was presented to the Rectoryof Sopworth , Wilts, by Henry, Duke of Beaufort. He

resigned this Rectory in the following year. Inst. Cler.

in co . Wilton. Phillipps.

Dr. Yalden’

s election to the Chaplaincy of Bridewell

Hospital , took place on the 26th of June, 17 13 . He was

interred in the Chapel, or Burial-ground, of that Hospital

on the 2d of August, 1 736 . There is no monument to

his memory, and the exact spot where his remains were

deposited is unknown . MS . Poynder.

1679 Welchman , Edward, res. 1682 . Matr. at Magd. Hal l ,

7 July, 1679, set. 14 . Son ofJohnWelchman ofBanbury,co . Oxford , gen. B .A . Magd. Hall , 24 April , 1683 . M A .

Merton College , 19 June, 1688 . He became a Com

moner of M agdalen Hall in 1679, admitted Prob . F. of

Merton College, 1684 . Entered into holy Orders, and

by the Society of Merton College was presented to the

Rectory of Lapworth, co. Warwick, on the death of

Mr. William Cole 5 .

He hath wrote, A Defence of the Church of England

from the charge of Schism and Heresy; as la id against it by

thevindicator of the deprived B ishops . (Mr.HenryDodwell , )London , 1692 , 4to .

The Husbandman’

s Manua l : directing him how to improve

the several actions of his calling, and the most usual occur

rences of his life, to the glory of God and benefit of his sou l .

London , 1695 , 8vo . It was written for the u se of his

parishioners of Lapworth in Warwickshire, and was

published the beginning of October, 1694 . Ath . vol . ii.

fol . col . 948 .

He became Archdeacon ofCardigan in 1 728 , and Rector

of Solihu ll in 1736. He died 19 May, 1739.

Mr.Welchman succeeded John Edwards, Rector in 1 688 , whose pre

decessor was Thomas, notWilliam, Cole. Mr. William Darly succeeded

Mr.Welchman in 1 739. Notices of the Warwickshire Churches. War

wick, 1847 .

OHORISTERS .

His chief publication was his I llustration of the thirtynine A rticles, written originally in Latin, entitled A rticuli39 Ecclesia A nglicana textibus e S . Scriptura depromptisconfirmati, brevibusque notis illustrati cum Amendice dc

doctrina Patrum. 8vo . Oxon . e Theatro Sheldon . 1713 .

17 18. 1724 . 1730. 1793 . Bu t afterwards translated fromthe sixth edition , under the title of The Thirty

-nine

A rticles of the Church of England, illustrated with notes.

"

Of this there have been many editions.

He published also ,

A Practical D iscourse on theParable ofDives and Lazarus.

8vo . 1704 .

A Sermon on the Doctrine of Bap tism,fromMatth. xxviii .

19. 20. 4to . 1 706.

A Sermon preached at Banbury in Oxfordshire, May 6,

1 707 , on the Duty and Reward of Charity, from Gal. vi.

9, 10 . London, 1707 . 8vo . (Magd. Libr.)Dr. Clarke

’

s Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity examined

to which are added some remarks on his sentiments, and a briefexp lanation of his doctrine, by way of question and answer.

Oxford, 1 7 14 . 8vo .

A Conference with an A ria-n, occasioned by Mr. Whiston'

s

reply to the Earl of N ottingham. Oxford, 172 1 . 8vo .

N ovatiani Presb. Rom. Opera , qua eatant, edita notisque

illustrata . 1724 . Oxonii. 8vo .

Hearne’

s D iary, AD . 1 723 , Oct. 1 2 . One Mr. Edward

Welchman , formerly Fellow of Merton , now Rector of a

Church, hath just written and published a little thing byWay of Dialogue abou t the oaths, printed by Litchfield at

Oxford, but withou tWelchman’

s name. It is one of the

most foolish , silly things that ever was penned, and suf

ficiently shows what this Welchman is, to whom Dr. Fel~

ton , Principal of Edm und Hall, was sometime Curate.

”

A .D . 1724. July 1 5 . Mr. Edward Welchman , who writ

the silly thing abou t taking the oaths, hath just published

in 8vo . N ovatian with notes, printed at the Theatre.

”

He was bu ried in the Chancel at Solihull , and over his

grave was placed a brass w ith the following inscription

120 cnoms'

rr.as .

Owen Price of Oxford, Cler. Clerk, 1693-1697 . Chaplain ,

1697-1700. B .A . 16 March, 1 792 . M .A. 25 June, 1695 .

Ordained Deacon by the Bishop of London, 8 March,

1795-6 . Au thor ofLatin Lines published in Univers. Oman.

Hazlewood , res. 1686.

Shuttleworth, John . res . 1690 . ejected in 1687, and

restored in 1688 . Matr. 1 7 Dec. 1685 , a t. 15 . Son of

John Shu ttleworth ofWimbledon , Surrey, paup . Clerk,

1690 -1694 . B A . 17 N ov. 1690 . Rector of Fifield

Bavant, Wilts, (by presentation of Thomas , Viscount

Weymouth, ) 17 1 1-1 750 . M inister of Preston, Wilts,

172 1-1750 . Incorporated at Cambridge, 1 714 . Vicar

of Obom e, Dorset. Rector of Pillington, Dorset. Obiit

1750. He was au thor of,A Sermon on Ephes. v. 19. 4to . 1700 .

all parties, and in order to a comprehension, which may be

for the honour of the Church, and the glory of God . London,

Eve . 17 16. (Magd. Libr. )

A Sermon on Romans xv. 6 . 8vo . 17 18 .

1682 Bowyer, John . res. 1690. ejected in 1687 , and restored

in 1688 . Matr. atWadham , 25 March, 1686, pleb. B .A .

N ew College, 1693 . M .A . 18 Jan . 16956 .

On a pavement-stone at the west end of the south

Cloister of New College is the following epitaph : Hic

sacrc quiescunt reliquia JahanaisB owyer, CapellaniWichamo

Patroni, honores debitos jubent persolvi. Anne a tatis 37 ,

1683 Turner, Thomas. res. 1688. ejected in 1687 , and restoredin 1688. Metr. at Queen ’

s, 3 April, l 688 , wt. 17 . Son

of John Turner of Somerford-Keynes, Wilts. Cler. B .A .

Magd. 1 7 Dec. 1691 .

Clerk, Edward. res. 1692 .

1684 Prince, res. 1690.

Innis, William . res. 1691 . ejected in 1687, and restored in

cnomsrnas. 12 1

1688 . Matr. 17 Dec. 1685 , wt. 16 . Son ofWilliam Innis

of Oxford, paup . B .A . 1 7 Dec . 1691 .

1685 Wordsworth, Robert. res. 1 700 . Matr. 17 Dec. 1694 ,

set. 18 . Son of Robert Wordsworth of Oxford, paup .

Clerk, 18 Oct. 1700-1 706 . B .A . 1 1 Feb . 1 700 . M .A .

1 1 N ov. 1 703 .

LS tanton , Miles. res. 1796. ejected in 1687, and restored in

1 688 . Matr. 28 May, 1689, wt. 15 . Son ofM iles Stan

ton of Oxford, p leb. Clerk, 1696-1698 . B .A . 4 Feb .

1695-6. Incorporated at Cambridge, 1705 . M inor Canon

of St. George ’

s Chapel , Windsor.

James, res. 1692 . ejected in 1687, and restored

in 1688 .

1686 Stubbs, John . res. 1693 . Matr. 8 April , 1693 . Son of

Thomas S tubbs, (Coll . M agd. Obsonat. ) paup .

Wood, Richard. res. 1 692 . Matr. 30 June, 1692 , aet. 15 .

Son ofThomasWood ofOxford, p leb. B .A . Univ. 23 May,

1696. M .A . 23 April , 1700.

1687 Kilby

Brooke".

Harding

Harding “.

Hilliard k

Ranalds “

Earles

Coombes

Godwin

Wakek

1689 Kiblewhite, Stephen, admitted 1 1 April . res. 1694 .

Reeves, John, admitted 1 1 April. res. 1698.

1! These ten boys appear to have superseded the Choristers ejected by

the intruded Presidents, Parker and Gifi‘

ard, and probably assisted

acolytes at the celebration of Mass, according to the Roman Ritual ,

at the time when, as the venerable Editor of the.

Oxford Bum st (Hist. of

the Reign of James I I . ed. 1852 , note, p . observes, that form of

worship was set up in the College Chapel.”

(See also State Trials , vol . xii.

col . These boys were in their turn removed by Bishop Mews at the

Visitation of the College, 25 Oct. 1688.

122 cnomsrsns.

1690 Almont, Bartholomew . res . 1707 . Matr. 8 March , 1699

1 700 , act. 16 . Son of Bartholomew Almont of Oxford ,

p leb. B .A. 6 M ar. 1706.

Stone, William . Matr. 20 Feb. 1689-90. wt. 1 5 . Son of

William Stone of Henbury, co . Gloucester, cler. C lerk,1693— 1 704 . B .A . 9 N ov . 1693 . M .A . 4 July, 1696.

Betts , John . res. 1697 . M att . 10 June, 1 690 , wt. 1 5 . Son

ofJohn Betts of Oxford , pleb. B .A . 14 Apr. 1697.

Barksdal e, C lement. res . 1698 . Matr. 19 May 1694 , art. 1 5 .

Son of Charlton Barksdale, of Hawling, co . Gloucester,

Cler. (Chorister in and grandson of C lement

Barksdale. (de qua vide Ath . ii. fol . col . Wood

gives the following account of meeting w ith this boy in

his D iary. M ay 2 1, 1695 . A t the hither end of Magd.

bridge, came ou t of the hole behind it, and the new herb

house, one Barksdale, and told me I had abu sed his

grandfather, and followed muttering till I came to

Magd . College corner : I was feign to hold up my cudgel

at him .

169 ] Collis , Thomas . res . 1698 . Matt . 19 Oct. 1695 , wt. 1 6 .

Son of Richard 0 0 1113 of Oxford, paup . Demy, 1698-1 707 .

Prob. F. 1 707-173 1 . B .A . 1 1 July, 170 1 . M .A . 2 3 May,

1704 . B.D . 29 Jan . 17 13 . D .D . 1 1 Ju ly, 1 729. Junior

Dean of Arts, 17 12 . Bursar, 17 13 . 17 16 . Vicar of East

worldham , 1 Feb. 17 16-1 7. Dean ofDivinity, 17 18 . V. P.

1 722 . Vicar of Ashbury, 14 N ov. 1720. Rector of

Beaconsfield , 3 1 Ju ly , 1 730- 1745 . inducted to the same,

16 Oct. 1 730 . He was au thor of some Latin verses

published in Exequia desideratissimo Principi Gulielmo

Glacestria'Duci ab Oxon. A cademia . 1 700 . He was buried

at Beaconsfield , 8 April , 1 74 5 , bu t there is no memorial

of him in the church or churchyard.

1692 Stephens, Henry. res. 1696. Matr. 13 Oct. 1702 , wt. 1 7 .

Son of Richard Stephens of Preston , co . Gloucester, Gen.

Demy 1 702— 17 1 1 . B .A . 27 M ay, 1706 . M .A . 13 May,

1 709. Prob. F. 1 71 1— 1 7 17 . Appointed Ludimagister.

15 Feb . 1 72 2-8 . Obiit 1 8 Jan . 1 744-5 .

CHOR ISTER8 .

1705 . M .A . 7 May, 1708 . B .D . 2 3 July, 1717 . Junior D .

of Arts, 17 16. Bursar, 17 17. Rector of Newick, co .

Sussex, 17 15 . Rector of Bramber-cum-Botolph , co .

Sussex, 8 March, 17 19-20— 1734 . He died at Newick,2 5 Sept. 1734 , art. 56.

Parker, George. res. 1694 . Matt . 1 1 March, 1691 -2 . set. 18 .

Son of Edmund Parker of Fembam, Surrey, Cler.

Clerk, 1694-97. B .A . 16 March, 1696-7 , ordained Deacon

by the Bishop ofLondon, 4 Dec . 1699.

1694 Hyne or Hind, res. 1705 .

Kibblewhite, res. 1698 .

1696 Beasley, Edward. admitted 23 Apr. res. 1707.

M erchant, Robert. adm . 13 June. res. 1700 . Matr. 2 1 Dec.

1 699, set. 15 . Son of William Merchant of Bampton ,

co . Oxford, p leb. Demy, 170 1-9. Prob . F. 1 709— 1 732 . B .A .

16 June, 1 705. M .A . 7 May, 1708 . B .D . 15 May, 1 716.

Parrot Orator, 1709. Vicar of Willoughby, 17 Mar.

17 15 , 16— 173 1 . JuniorDean ofArts, 17 15 . Bursar, 1716.

Dean ofDivinity, 1 720 . and Preacher on St. John Baptist

day, 1 720 . Vice-President, 1723 . Bursar, 1724 , 1 73 1 .

Rector of Fittleton , 27 May, and inducted 5 Aug. 173 1 .

res. his Fellowship 17 July, 1732 . Buried in the chancel

of Fittleton, 12 Apr. 1773 . A flat stone in the chancel at

Fittleton is thus inscribed ; Rev. Robert Merchant, B .D .

Rector of Fittletonforty years, died 7 April , 1 773 , a t. 91 .

1697 Sleamaker, Daniel. adm . 22 May. res. 1 704 . Matt . in

Trinity Term , 1704 , set. 16 . Son of Daniel Sleamaker, of

Witney, co. Oxford , p leb. adm . Clerk, 3 Ju ly, 1 704 . B.A .

22 June, 1708. Chaplain, 17 12-1725 . OrdainedDeacon bythe Bishop of London at Fulham , 4 June, 17 10. Curate

of Horspath, 17 17 . Rector of Candlesby, 1 5 Sept. 1718 .

On a stone in the College ante-Chapel is the following

inscription, Dan. Sleamaker, Capellanus, obiit 16 die Aug .

1725 .

A .D . 172 5 . Aug. 17. Tuesday. This mqm ing at 10

o’

clock, Magdalen College great bell went for one Slay

maker, B .A . and Clerk (Chaplain) of that College, who fell

cnonl s'rsas . 12 5

down stairs last night at abou t 1 1 o ’

clock, as’

twas thought,

and broke his sku ll , as he was going up to his room . He

was a very great sot, and some say he was now drunk ;

others, that he had once before an apoplexy. He had

been B .A . many years, and was a pretty fat man, and

always wore a pudding-sleeve gown . He was born at

Witney. Besides his Clerkship, I hear he had a Living

in Lincolnshire, which his predecessor lived very hand

somely upon withou t any thing else, whereas this man

by his extravagances cou ld not maintain himself with

both, but died miserably in debt. He had also some

other income upon several accounts in the College, and

was Minister some time atWheatley ; till such time as

he was turned ou t for negligence. He was buried on

Wednesday night, Aug. 18 , in the College Chapel .”

Hearne’

s Diary.

Lib. Comp. A .D . 1725 . Sol. pro eapensisfuneb. Diii Sleu

maker, £8 103 . 0d.

White, Charles. adm . 1 Mar. 1697-8. res. 1700 .

1698 Johnson , Robert. adm . 80 Mar. res. 1702 .

Cox, Peter. adm . 30 Ju ly. res. 1706. Demy, wt. 16. 1706

17 16. e civ. Oxon. B .A . 29 Oct. 1709. M .A . 9 Ju ly, 17 12 .

Prob. F. 17 16-17. Obiit 1 7 July, 1717. Au thor of

Latin verses in Exequia celsissimo Principi Georgia

Principi Dania ab Oxon. A cad . solute , 1708.

A .D . 17 1 7 . July 17 .

“ This morning died of a fever,

Mr. Peter Cox, M .A . and Fellow of M agdalen College.

He was eldest son of Mr. Peter Cox, the late Superior

Bedel of Arts of the University of Oxford. He was a

good natured man , and a good Scholar.

”

July 19. Last night Mr. Peter Cox was buried in

Holywell Church by his father abou t 10 o’

clock .

”

Hearne’

s diary.

Fiddes, Thomas Machen. adm . 10 Nov. res. 1700 . Matr.

at Queen’

s Coll . 30 April , 1706, wt. 16 . Son of Thomas

M . Fiddes of Brightwell , co . Oxford, Cler. B .A . Queen ’

s ,

8 Feb. 1709. M .A . 2 Dec . 17 12 .

126 cnomsrsns .

1699 Ayray,William . adm. 30 Sept. res. 1708. Clerk !“ 1708

1720 . Matr. 1 1 Dec. 1 7 13 . a t. 22 . Son of Christopher

Ayray of Barton , Westmoreland. Obiit 29 Sept. 1720.

A .D . 1720 . Oct. 1 . On Thursday night last (Sept.

the great bell at Magd. Coll . (as also did St. Peter’

s in

the East) rang ou t for Mr. Airay, C lerk of that C ollege,who married Stonhill ’s daughter some years since.

Oct. 2 . Sunday. The beforesaid M r. Airey, was

buried last night at 7 o’

clock at St. Peter’

s Church in

the East, Oxon . being brought in a herse from Burford ,

where he died , his father l iving there. He was a great

drinker, and a boon companion , and an excellent singer.

There was fine singing as he was carried into the Church ,

and afterwards.

”Hearne

’

s Diary.

1700 Foster, Nathaniel . adm . 8 1 Ju ly. res. 1 7 10 . Matt .

2 1 Oct. 1 703 . eat. 17 . Son ofRobert Foster ofDurrington ,

Wilts. Cler. B.A. Magd . Hall , 14 June, 1707 . M .A. 8 July,

17 1 1 . M inor Canon of Winchester, 28 June , 171 3 , to

23 June, 1715 .

Spateman , Walter. adm . 23 Sept. res. 1706. Matr. 28 Mar.

1 705 , set. 17. Son of John Spateman of Yoxall , co .

S tafi'

ord , Cler. B .A . All Soul s, 17 Dec. 1708 . M .A . Magd.

Hall , 3 Ju ly,Fiddes, Robert. adm . 1 8 Oct. res. 1704 .

Fortrie, Cotes . adm . 18 Oct. res. 1706 .

Thompson , Edward. adm . 23 Dec. res. 17 1 3 . Metr. 22 Mar .

1707-8 . set. 16 . Son of Edward Thompson of Beadle,co . York, paup .

1 70 1 Shaw , Francis. adm . 30 Ju ly. res. 1706.

1702 D ingley, Charles . adm . 9 N ov . res . 17 10. Matr. 5 Dec.

1709, set. 17 . Son of Henry Dingley, (Demy in

m One Richard Groom was executed on the 19th Aug. 171 5 , for stealing

silver tankards from Magdal en College. Before his death be accused

William Ayray and Thomas Gardiner, ( Chorister in then Clerks of

the College, of having delivered the tankards to him from the windows of

their chambers near the Tower. I t does not appear that this charge was

supported by any proof.

128 CHORISTERS .

Extracts from Hearne’

s Diary.

A .D . 1718 . Apr. 16 . This afternoon at two o’

clock

was a Convocation for electing a Yeoman Beadle in room

of Mr. William Sherwin. Mr. Powell of Magdalen Col

lege carried it by a very great majority against Mr Pottle

the Virger. Powell had 147, and Pottle 74 votes.

A .D . 1729. July 12 . Abou t three weeks since,

Mr.Walter Powell , one of the Yeoman Beadles ofOxford ,wasmarried to a relation of his. This Mr.Walter Powell

is a personable man, an excellent singer, and very good

natured.

”

A .D . 173 1-2 . Jan. 26. This morning at 9 o’

clock

was a Convocation, in which Mr.Walter Powell , Inferior

Beadle of D ivinity, was chosen Superior Beadle of that

Facul ty, in room of Mr. C olings deceased. Mr. Beaver

of Corpus made some struggle at first, but he was

despised, being able to make nothing of it, though a

senior Master of Arts , and Mr. Powell of no Degree at

all . Mr. Powell is a good natured man, and a good

singer, being Clerk of Magdalen College, and Singing

Man of St. Jo’

s.

”

A .D . 1 73 3 . July 13 , Friday. Last night Handel and

his company performed again in the Theatre, being the

fifth time of his performing there, at five Shill ings a

ticket : Mr. Wal ter Powell , the Superior Beadle of

Divinity, singing, as he hath done all along with them .

”

Daniel Lysons mentions, in his Annals of the Music

Meetings, p . 164 . that the famou s Mr. Powell did the

Meeting in 1733 ) the honour of singing in the Cathedral !

(of Gloucester) on both days. Though the memory of

Mr. Powell does not appear to,be recorded in any

musical publication, or to be known to the professional

men of the present day ; I find upon enqu iry, that it is not

yet forgotten in the University of Oxford, where some of

the senior members recollect their seniors were u sed to

talk of the extraordinary vocal powers of Walter Powell ,and to relate variou s anecdotes concerning him . He

ononis'

rsns . 129

was amember of the choirs of Christ Church , and other

Colleges : was first one of the Yeomen , and afterwards

one of the Esqu ire Beadles , and was the principal male

oratorio singer when Handel presided at the Act, and

the celebrated Strada sung there, in the month of July,1 733 . On this occasion his singing was so mu ch

admired, that he was immediately afterwards appointed

one of the Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal . The general

idea is, that his vo ice was a fine counter-tenor.

In the obituary of the Gentleman ’

s M agazine, (vol . xiv.

p. it is said , that he was esteemed to have the best

voice in England ; and that the following lines were

written by a Gentleman of the University on hearing of

his death

I s Powell dead Then all the earth

Prepare to meet its fate

To sing the everlasting birth,The choir ofHeaven ’

s complete.

A tradition is still ( 18 12) extant in the University, that

on his death-bed , a short time before his decease, he sang

an anthem w ith the fu ll powers of his fine voice, and

with the most animated enthusiasm .

Walter Powell was buried at St. Peter’

s in the East,

10 N ov. 1744 .

1 705 Heyward, Giles. res. 1709 . Buried in St. Peter’

s

church , 17 Ju ly, 1709 .

1 706 Painter, William res. 17 18. Matr. 29 Apr. 17 14 , set. 18.

Son of Richard Painter of Oxford, p leb. B .A . 10 Dec .

1718 .

Colmer, Davys. res. 17 17 . Metr. 17 Dec. 1714 , set. 18.

Son of John Colmer of Babcary, co . Somerset, cler. Clerk,

17 17-1728. B .A. 19 Ju ly, 17 18. M .A . 22 Apr. 1 72 1 .

Perpetual Curate ofWinca nton , Somerset, circa 1745 .

Hearne’

s Diary. 28 Dec. 1 722 . Last night was

delivered of a son a daughter ofMr. Plastin of St. Peter’s,who is married to one Colmer, M .A . and Clerk at

Magdalen College. She is some thing handsome, bu t

Colmer is ugly.

13 0 crio li te as .

Hart, res . 17 10 .

Holloway, John. res 1 7 12 . Matr. 6 Apr. 1709 , set. 1 5 .

Son of Andrew Holloway of Witney co . Oxford, cler .

Demy, 17 12 -172 1 . Prob. F. 1 72 1-1732 . B .A. 24 Oct.

1 7 13 . M .A . 23 June, 17 16. B .D . 1 5 Dec. 1726. D .D .

4 June, 1 730. Prselector of M oral Philosophy, 1726 .

Bursar, 1728. Dean of Divinity, 1732 . Vicar of

Willoughby , 10 Dec. 173 1. Au thor ofLatin verses pub

lished in Ezequia Joanni Radclifi'

e, 17 15 .

A . D . 1733 . June 7 , Thursday. On M onday last,June 4 , died at Witney, at his father

’

s house, John

Holloway, D .D . and Fellow ofMagdalen College, Oxford .

He was married abou t four months since to a woman of

£4000 fortune, he being looked upon as rich himself.

His father is a Clergyman , and very wealthy. Dr. Hol

loway’

s w idow is said to be with child. He was a

strong, lusty man , and very blunt in his affairs, but

looked upon as very honest. I have heard nothing

against him than that he loved money. He catched

cold some time since, which be neglected too much ,

which threw him into a fever that proved mortal .

”

Hearne’

s D iary.

John Holloway was baptized at Witney, 8 Sept. 1693 ,as the son of Mr. Henry Holloway, (brother of John

Holloway, Founder of the Blue-coat School atWitney, )and was buried 8 June, 1733 , in the sou th transept of

Witney Church. On a Tablet of white marble placed

against the east wall of the sou th transept is the fol

low ing inscription : Sacred to the memory of John Hol

m ay, D .D . who died June 4 , 1733 , aged 38 .

Coignand, res. 1714 .

1707 Wyatt, res. 17 13 .

Drake, Thomas. res. 17 1 1 . Matt . 22 Oct. 1 709, wt. 16 . Son

of Nathan Drake of Lessingham , co . Lincoln , cler.

Demy, 1 7 1 1-172 1 . B .A . 8 July , 1 7 13 . M .A.. 28’

June,17 16. Au thor of Latin verses published in P ietas Oxon.

in Obitum A nna Regina , 1 7 14 . and in Ezequiel! Joanni

Radclifl'

e, 17 15 .

132 CHOR ISTERS .

Keepership shal l be in my Widow during her life, and

after her decease, in the foresaid Visitors , or the major

part of them .

’

I t must be noted, that the Dean of Christ

Church and the Begins Professor of Physic were absent,

being out of town at the time of electing. Neither was

Dr. Shippen (who is Principal of Brasenose ) at it,

though he'

had notice. Neither if they had al l three

been present, either by themselves or depu ties , wou ld

it have been of moment to have turned the Election ,

becau se the Vice-Chancellor wou ld have insisted upon a

casting vote. I t was expected at London , and by the

most understanding men of the University, and mu ch

w ished too , that Mr. Bradley, Savilian Professor of

Astronomy, should have had this post ; he being a

person every way qualified w ith respect to his skill in

Mathematics , though he be no Antiquary and being

a man that performs courses of experiments at the

Museum in the great lower Room , be having purchased

Mr. Whiteside’

s Instruments. Bu t the Vice-Chancellor

was altogether against him , as was Mr. Andrews ; and

though Mr. Robinson was for him , yet the other three

Electors being, as was said and believed, for Mr. George

Huddesford of Trinity College, Robinson, when he saw

he could do no good for Bradley, came over to Andrews,

and so he was declared by the Vice-Chancellor elected ,and he was put in possession of the place by the Vice

Chancellor yesterday in the forenoon . The said Andrews

is a personable, handsome man , and very goodnatured,but, alas ! is no Scholar, and understands nothing in the

least of Natural History, Mathematics, and Antiquities.

Indeed as to skill he is altogether unqualified, so that

the Vice-Chancellor has brought upon himself great

odium and disgrace in being for such a man , when he

might have brought in a man of skill , viz. Mr. Bradley,or at least one of his own Hou se, either Mr. Jam es

Pynes, orMr. PeterZinran , who are both Mathematicians

and indeed the former desired it, but it seems he is not

cno al s'

rsas . 13 8

one of the Vice-Chancellor’

s party in the College. Indeed

one thing ought to be here noted , and that is, that the

Founder w ithou t doubt designed the Keeper should be

a layman , and not a man in Holy Orders. Accordingly

he put in a layman, viz. Dr. Plot ; and Dr. Plot’

s two

immediate successors, Mr. Lluyd , and Mr. Parry, were

laymen. Then comes Mr. Whiteside, who was a Clergyman, which was the only objection I ever thought should

be made against him , he being undoubtedly otherwise

very well qualified . I u sed to say, that shewing knick

nacks and trinkets was beneath the dignity of a Clergy

man , and I was afraid that Mr. Whiteside being elected

would be a precedent afterwards for other Clergymen to

be chosen , and would be of ill consequence ; and so

indeed it hath proved. Another thing ought likewise to

be noted, and that is, that in my opinion Mr. Ashmole

never intended that the Visitors shou ld vote for them

selves, bu t that another person different from them

ought to be chosen , otherwise the Vice-Chancellor

him self m ight probably get to be Keeper ; which, con

sidering the business consists so much in showing

knicknacks, wou ld diminish the credit of the office of a

Vice-Chancellor. However, after al l, the University in

general seem glad that Andrews is in, for one reason, viz.

not on account of his skill , bu t becau se Dr. Shippen ,

(whom most call Ferguson, from his ambidexter way of

acting, like one Ferguson , a famou s Scotchman, that

had always a double view ,) is hereby bafl ed ; who had a

design that the election should be deferred till next

Term , and then, there being a Proctor of his own House,he intended to have got either him, or some one of his

own (Shippen’

s) kidney, Keeper.

”

173 1 . May 2 , Sunday. On Thursday last, Mr.

An drews of Magdalen College, and Mr. Robinson of

M erton College, the two late Proctors, proceeded

Bachelors ofDivinity.

173 12 . Feb. 22 . Though Mr. John (Joseph)

13 4 CHOR ISTERS.

Andrews, Fellow of Magdal en , who is now B .D . was

elected Keeper ofthe Ashmolean Mu seum on Wednesday,

April 14 last, and put in possession of his place by the

Vice-Chancellor on the Saturday following, being April

1 7 yetMr. George Huddesford, now President ofTrinity

College, having got three of the hands of Electors ,

(there being six in all ,) Dr. Shippen , Principal of Brase

nose, who was one of those three, (the Bishop of Bristol ,

Dr. Bradshaw , and the Professor ofPhysic,Dr.Woodford ,

being the other two ,) was all along so restless, that he

did all that possibly he cou ld to get Andrews ou t ; and

accordingly be by a most rogu ish trick prevailed w ith

M r. Battely of Christ Church , and w ith Mr. Foxley, the

two Proctors at present, to pu t theirhands to Huddesford’

s

paper, who by this means had now five votes , though

certainly in equ ity the present Proctors’

votes in this case

ought not to be disregarded in opposition to those of the

former Proctors when the election was made . This

matter so frightened Andrews , (and indeed the,Vice

Chancellor himself did not stick by him , being withou t

doubt of Dr. Shippen’

s m ind , whatever outside is pu t

upon it, ) that on Monday the 14th of this present

February he went to the President of Trinity College

with Dr. Shippen , then Pro -Vice-Chancellor, (the Vice

Chancellor himself being absent at London , though

w ithou t dispute he had as a bl ind left this to Shippen’

s

management,) and surrendered the keys to him ; and on

Saturday last, being the 19th inst. the President paid

Andrews £50 on that account ; a plain argument that

he allowed Andrews to be the rightful Keeper, though the

invalidity of his election had been questioned, as having

bu t three votes ; it being pretended that the Vice-Chan

collor hath no power of calling a meeting, or of doingmore on the occasion than either of the other Electors .

This is an astonishing affair, which the University rings

of, and it is supposed w ill be of very perniciou s conse

quenco for though Andrew s be not qualified with respect

186 cm msrnas .

the Theatre in 8vc. a Discom e of the late Mr Thomas

Collins Master of Magdalen College School , though

w ithout Mr. Collins’

s name to it, entitled, The Jewish

Philosophers encountered and eonfuted , in a Sermon preached

at St. Marie’

s in the University of Oaford , by a late Member

of that University. I t is upon 1 Cor. i. 20. I well re

member that I heard this Sermon preached at St. Marie’

s,

and’twas much applau ded ; but what alterations Mr.

Delavall hath made, I cannot say, though I cannot doubt

but he hath made several for the worse ; since he lately

made a very poor rambling Sermon at St. Marie’

s, as

I am informed , which is supposed to . have been taken byhim from some notes of Mr. Collins, though strangely

murdered by him . It seems this Delavall was a Scholar

of Mr. Collins, and afterwards used to read to him , which

occasioned Mr. Collins to leave him his books and it

seems he go t too several of his MS. papers , but how ,

I know not ; since I have been frequently told that

Mr. Collins gave express orders that all his own. MS .

papers should be burnt, and I have as often heard that

they were all so destroyed by his execu tors, Mr. Lydall

and Mr. Jennings . I heard yesterday that these ex

ecutors , as they ought, are very angry with Delavall for

acting thus ; since he could not but know ,that as

Mr. Collins in his lifetime was always averse to the

publication of any thing, so he was as much against anything being printed after his death ; bu t this Delavall is

a silly, weak, fantastical fellow , and’

tis much wondered

at that Mr. Coll ins should, therefore, have such an afi'

ec

tion for him .

"Hearne

’

s Diary.

Wooddeson, Richard. res. 1 722 . Bapt. at Findon,, co .

Sussex, 2 1 Jan . 1703-4 . Son of Richard Wooddeson ,

(Chorister in Vicar of Findon , and Dorothy

his wife. Metr. 20 March , 1 718—19, wt. 15 . adm . Clerk ,2 1 Ju ly, 1722 1725 . Chaplain , 1725 B .A .

. 1 6 Oct.

172 2 . M .A . 6 July, 1 725 .

Chorister in 1662 .

cnoms'

rsns. 187

Extract from Memoirs of the Life of Gilbert Wakefield,written by himself.

”vol . i. p. 4 1 .

I was happily removed, at the age of thirteen years,into a more genial climate, being transferred to the

tu ition of the Rev . Richard Wooddeson , who lived in

my father’

s parish of Kingston-upon-Thames . On this

Gentleman I never reflect but w ith sensations ofpleasure,

and sentiments of respect. He was indeed generally

beloved by all his scholars. Such particulars of his life

and fortunes as have come to my knowledge will not be

un interesting to the reader, who delights in virtue and

honours genius ; while this memorial of gratitude mu st

be deemed bu t the su itable oblation of a scholar’

s du ty

to the memory of his preceptor.

“ His saltem accumulem donis , et fungar inani

Munere.

”E n. vi . 886 .

He was born some time abou t the year 1 703 , or 1704 ,

and was edu cated at Magdalen College, Oxford. Soon

after his removal -from the University, he was, I believe,a school assistant at Reading, in Berkshire °

; how long,I know not ; and between 1 732 and 1 738 was chosen

Master of the Free-school at Kingston-upon-Thames.

He continued here till the year 1772 , with signal success,and w ith equal repu tation . A considerable portion of

the nobility and gentry in that neighbourhood, who had

been educated within the period here specified, were

0 A .D . March 2 , Monday. The Judges for Lent Assize,

Mr. Justice Danton and Mr. Justice Reynolds , came to Oxford on

Saturday last : yesterday they were in the morning in St. Marie's

Church , and in the afternoon at St. Peter’s in the East : M r. Woodson,

a young Gentleman of Magdalen College, who is Usher to M r. Huey, the

S choolmaster of R ead ing, was appointed to preach the Assize Sermon,

which wu to have been as this day in the morning at St. Marie's, but

the Judges desired of the Vice-Chancellor, that the same Sermon might

be preached yesterday morning, being Sunday, at St. Marie’

s, pretending

business that would hinder them this morning : accordingly Mr. Woodson

preached at St. Marie's yesterday morning before the Judges. I t was

a very short one . Hearne’s Diary.

138 cuoursrsns.

trained under him . Besides many scholars of con

siderable character, who never distinguished themselves

as au thors, and others probably, who have been con

spicuous in the literary world, bu t unknown to me, the

follow ing well-known writers were indebted to his tu ition.

Plants of his hand, and children ofhis care.

" Pope .

MB. Lovmoxn, a writer in TheWorld, (who died in

1775 , and a small volume of whose PoemsP was published

P These Poems contain a Dedication to the Rev . M r. Wooddeson, com

mencing with ;

O thou who sitt‘

st in academic schools,

Less teaching than inspiring ancient art,

Thy own example nobler than your rules,Thy blameless his best lesson for the heart, ac .

Also, Verses written qfler passing through Findon, S ussex, 1768 , addressed to

the Rev. M r. Wooddeson, from which I select the following stanzas ;

Wooddeson ! these eyes have seen thy natal earth ,

Thy Findon, sIOping from the southern downs ;

Have blest the roof ennobled by thy birth,And tufted valley, where no ocean frowns.

Thou wert not born to plow the neighbouring main,

Or plant thy greatness near ambition’

s throne,

Or count unnumber’

d fleeces on thy plain

The Muses loy’

d and nurs’

d thee for their own !

And twin’

d thy temples here with wreaths of worth,

And feue’d thy childhood from the blights ofmorn,And taught enchanting song, and sent thee forth

To stretch the blessing to an age unborn.

I t is added in a note, The author of these Poems had been educawd

under this Gentleman, for whom he ever retained the most affectionate

regard . Mr. Wooddeson was-in truth one of those amiable beings,

whom none could know without loving. To the abilities of an excellent

Scholar was united a mind so candid, so patient, so replete with universal

benevolence, that it glowed in every action . His life was an honour to

himself, to religion, to human nature. He preserved to his death such

a simplicity of manners , as is rarely to be met with. He judged of the

world by the standard of his own virtuous heart ; and few men, who had

seen such length of days, ever left it so l ittle acquainted with it.”

140 cnoai srsns .

living, either in Kent or Essex, was obtained by him for

Mr. Wooddeson, if I rightly remember, from his uncle,

Lord Camden, at that time Chancellor ; and this was all

the obligation which the Church ever fastened on the

good old Gentleman. In the latter part ofhis l ife indeed,he u sed to preach once on a Sunday, in Mr. Fordyce’

s

Chapel, at Roehampton ; bu t this engagement answered

no purpose of emolument, and furnished merely a little

exercise for his body, and recreation for his m ind ; as

the chaise-hire absorbed all the salary. On one of these

occasions, when the family was from home, a favourite

cat, which had made her way into Lady Margaret’s pew ,

and fell asleep there, gave rise to the following verses

from the facetious Preacher ;The gentlefolk all gone from home, fine doings sure in such a case !

Puss then at liberty may roam . unaw’

d from place to place

May sport the china jars among, on damask bed, or toilette ,

And fears much less, than Betty’s tongue, her playful paw may spoil it.

Such was the time, she knew not why, Puss to the chapel stray’d,

And , in the closet mounted high , the folk below survey’d.

With pleasure she the place beheld, and , all things to her mind,The cushion , that so charming swell

’

d, she liked, and so reclin’d.

And now demure she seems, methinks, like any judge in fine ;

And now mysteriously winks, or stately sits, and pure.

She rising gapes, and yawns, and stretches ; or to compose her pain,

Regardless what the Parson preaches, she yawns, and sleeps again.

Yet, gentle Puss ! one moment wake, one transient look bestow,

And see how too your batters take, like you , their nap below.

Infirmities crowding thick upon old age, of itself a

disease, Mr. Wooddeson relinquished his school in the

year 1772 , removed to Chelsea, and died in 1774 , or the

latter end of 1773 , I am not sure which His son and

and only surviving child was Vinerian Professor in the

University of Oxford an office which he has since

resigned after the publication of his Lectures. He is a

The Gentleman’

s Magazine mentions, that he died near Westminster

A bbey, 1 5 Feb. 1774 .

RichardWooddeson, Demy, 1 769-1772 . Prob . F . [ 772—1822 . Vinerian

Professor of Common Law, 1777-1793 .

cnoars'rnas. 14 1

Gentleman of very respectable abilities , who exemplifies

the well-known maxim of the Poet

Fortes creantur fortibus et bonis ;E st in juvencis , est in equis, patrum

Virtue ; nec imbellem feroces

Progenerant aquilze columbam.

Hor. Carm . iv. 4 . 29.

When I was present, a few years ago , at the sale of

the great Dr. Bentley’

s Library, on the death of his

nephew of the same name, in Leicestershire, Dr. Jack

son, a venerable Clergyman of that county , and formerly

of Magdalen College, Oxford (who died in October,1 796, aged was there at the same time . On hearing

him mention his College, it instantly occurred to me,

that he must be a contemporary with my old Master at

the University, and I accordingly asked him if he

remembered Mr. Wooddeson at College. Remember

him !"said this am iable person, w ith eager accents, and

eyes sparkling w ith benevolence : remember him l we

were nearly of the same age and standing. I had a great

respect forhim indeed : and often visited him atKingston.

Bu t you shall judge of my friendship and affection for

his memory, from a single circumstance. When his son

was candidate for the Vinerian Professorship , and the

contest was likely to be severe , I came over at once from

Germany, where I then was, to Oxford, merely to give

my vote, and returned to the continent immediately at

the close of the Election.

”A specimen of regard which

very sensibly affected my feelings, and was highly

honourable to both parties !

I never heard that Mr. Wooddeson gave any work to

the public himself, beside a Metrical Prosody in Latin,

for the u se of the School ; and a Sermonx

preached by

Richard Jackson, Demy, 1723-1733. Prob. F. 1733-1744 . Vicar of

EastWorldham, Hants .

Two Sermons were published by him ; one from St.Matth. v. 4 . On the

142 cnomsrsns .

him at the funeral of his friend Mr. Clarke, of Thames

D itton. I have also been informed that two or three of

the Sermons in Bellamy’

s Family Preacher were written

by him .

He had the liberal ideas of a Scholar, and the amiable

manners of a Gentleman. In the treatment of his pupils ,

and his distribu tions to the poor, he was generou s, even

to indiscretion ; so that after a most flourishing school

for nearly forty years, he retired with loss from his

employment ; and his widow , I believe, had the mournfu l

consolation of experiencing the kind attentions of an

afl'

ectionate and grateful son . As a Scholar, he was to a

certain compass exact and elegant ; acquainted with but

few au thors , but they were the best ; and these he had

read again and again w ith discernment and taste, both in

private study, and in the ro tation of scholastic discipline.

The bent of his genius incl ined him to the Ode and

Epigram, compositions su ited to a mind not very much

enlarged ; yet what he knew , he knew as a man of

elegance and sensibil ity, but was neither critical nor

profound. He had a relish for neat and correct writing,bu t did not rise to the magnificent and sublime, either

in his taste or conceptions : Prior was his great and

only favourite among the English Poets. He was very

rigid in requ iring elegant English from his scholars in

constru ing Greek and Latin au thors, almost to a degree

of fastidiou s afi'

ectation . Bu t hismethod of writing Latin

was particu larly injudiciou s and improper ; and to this

day I feel the efl'

ects of my Master’

s instructions in this

respect, composing w ith hesitation and diflicu lty in that

language, from the vices of early habit. His choice of

books was, however, on the whole highly proper ; his

distribu tion of the time between prose and poetry well

adju sted ; and his exaction of attendance in the school ,

Funeral of the Rev. Joseph Clarke, M .A . 4to. The other from Job

xvi. 1 1 . On the Funeral of the R ev . Joseph Clerke, D .D . 4to. 1 758 .

144 ononts'

rs as .

Towne, John . res . 1720 . Matr. 17 Dec. 1720 , mt. 17. Son

of John Towne of Nottingham , gen . Clerk, 1720-1 728 .

B .A . 10 June, 1724 . M .A . 10 July, 1727 . adm . Chaplain,

19 Jan . l 733 ,4— l 738 .

17 17 Davenport, res. 1723 .

Delaval, res. 1722 .

17 18 Brazier, Thomas . res. 1723 .

Extracts from Hearne’

s Diary.

A .D . 1 723 . Sept. 18 . Young Miss Weekes (a very

pretty young girl of fourteen years of age, the only child

ofMr. AbrahamWeekes ofMagdalen College)was buried

on Sunday night, Sept. 1, in St. Ebbe’

s Church, Oxford.

She was related to Brazier, a Glover in St. Peter’

s in

the East, Oxford ; and she hath left £500, part of which

is said to come to the said Brazier, or else to his son ,

a Querister of Magdalen College, a poor, silly, empty

boy, a little older than M iss Weekes, who however

was designed to have been married , had she lived, in

a little while to this boy.

”

A .D. 1727 . April 6 . Last Monday, being Easter

Monday, Mr. Thomas Brazier, son of Mr. (Joseph) B .

a Glover in St. Peter’

s parish , was married in Magdalen

College Chapel to Mrs. Leaver, a pretty girl , who hath

lived with Mr. Leaver, the Apothecary of that parish,

though they are no t related , for abou t a year ; and as

soon as they came ou t of Chapel , they rid to her friends,substantial , creditable people, that keep a farm at M ack

ney, nearWallingford, in Berks . This Thomas Brazier,

who is abou t 22‘years of age, and she is about the same

age, was for the space of four years a Querister of

M agdalen College ; bu t so dull and aukward, that his

father took him home to his trade, in which he also

proves bu t poor.

”

A .D . 1 72 78 . Jan . 23 . The beginning of last week,young Mr. Brazier, son of the Glover, and his wife, and

Mr. Leaver, the Apothecary, having been at cards at oneA carly

'

s , that keeps a public-house in St. Peter’

s parish,

cnonts'rnns. 145

as they returned home at one o’

clock inthe morning,two young gentlemen of Magdalen College, being in

High Street on the other side of the way, presentlywent over ; and just as they were got almost to old

Brazier’

s house, at which young Brazier and his w ife

lodge , Leaver desired them to be civil, not

withstanding which the gentlemen knocked him down ;

and when they still persisted to be rude, young

Brazier, having got a penknife, or some su ch instrument,stabbed one of the gentlemen , viz. Mr. Pescod a Demy

of Magdalen College, into the belly ; who bled mu ch,

and was carried to the Greyhound, where he is now , the

wound being considerable.

Thomas Brazier was buried at St. Peter’s in the East,2 Nov. 1744 . Parish Reg.

Sheppard, Henry. res . 1725 . Matt . 4 March , 1723-4 ,

wt. 18. Son of Richard Sheppard of Wolverton, co .

Somerset, cler. Clerk, 1725 -1728 . B .A . 1 Dec . 1 727 .

M .A . 12 June, 1730 .

A .D . 1 727-8 . Feb. 6. Dnas Sheppard Ostiarius admissus

est loco Mri. Grifl'iths. V. P. Reg. Obiit 1 739.

1 7 19 Chantrell , Thomas. res. 1728 . Matr. 2 1 May, 1726,

set. 18. Son of Thomas Chantrell of Great Chadwell ,Essex, cler. adm . Clerk, 6 Feb. 1728-9- 1730. B .A .

26 Jan . 1729.

1 720 West, Thomas . res. 1727 . Matt . 16 March, 1 726-7,

set. 1 5 . Son of Richard West of Weare, co . Somerset,cler. Demy, 1 727-1 732 . Prob . Fellow , 1 732-1 78 1 . B .A .

7 N ov. 1 730 . M .A . 2 1 June, 1733 . B .D . 19 March,

1739-40 . D .D. 4 July, 1745 . Pro-Proctor, 1739. Junior

Dean of Arts, 1 74 1 . Bursar, 1742 . Vicar of Evenl ey,

co. Northampton, 1 3 N ov. 1745 . Librarian , 1746. Dean

of Divinity, 1747. Vice-President, 1748. Bursar, 1752 ,

1760 . Rector of Horsington , co . Lincoln, 6 May, 1760 .

Bursar, 1777. He died at Ifiley, 23 Feb . and was buried

in St. Peter’

s Church, Oxford, 27 Feb. 1 781 .

r Robert Pescod , Demy, 17215-1730 . expelled 18 June, 1730 .

L

146 cnoarsrnns.

A .D . 1 78 1 . Feb. 23 . Obiit Thomas West, S .T.P . Socius,

qui pradium in comitatu de Dorset, quad possidebat, Collegio

iegavit in modunt esquentem ; I give, devise, and bequ eath

all and singular my messuages, lands, tenements , here

ditaments , and estate, w ith the appurtenances, situate at

Shillingstone, alias Shilling-Ockford , in the county of

Dorset, unto the President and Scholars of St. Mary

Magdalen College in Oxford, and their successors, upon

the trusts hereinafter mentioned ; viz. to pay the clear

rents and profits thereof yearly equally unto such of the

Deans of Arts w ithin the said College, as shall reside

the whole of the Terms in which they act as Deans ;

provided the same shall not exceed the yearly sum of

ten pounds unto each Dean : and in case the rents and

profits of the said estate shall happen in any year to

exceed the said payments, then in trust to pay the

surplus of the said rents and profits, as also the shares

of such of the said Deans, as shall not be entitled

thereto by reason of non-residence, to the u se of the

Library within the said College.

" Will dated 3 Feb.

1779 . V. P. Reg.

Extracts from Personal and LiteraryMemorials, p . 294 .

(Lond. 1829, by Henry Best, M .A. Magd. Coll .)One of the monks, as Gibbon calls them , of St.Mary

Magdalen College in Oxford, was Thomas West, D .D .

With affectionate gratitude , and reverence to the memory

of the pious Founder, he declared that he had eaten the

bread of William Patten for three quarters of a century.

He died a short time before I became a member of the

College : nno amdso , non deficit alter.

’ He was spoken

of as a good-natured, harmless man. His simplicity

and ignorance of common affairs were almost beyond

credibility. In the course of his collegiate, —decursu

honorwn, as C icero phrases it, he became Bursar or

Treasurer of the College. The grass of the meadow

surrounded by the walks grew to be very long, and itwas suggested to him that he ought to get some cattle

148 cnonisrnns .

Dr. West was after all a man of good sense and of

leam ing suficient at least to teach our writers of novels

the accurate sense of the word dilemma . When Pro

Proctor, he saw a young Undergraduate in conversation

with a young woman in the street, after nightfall , but

who turned out to be a person of good character. I t

was the du ty of his ofice to reprove the young man

of this du ty he acqu itted himselfmost logically. Either

the girl , with whom you were conversing, was a. modest

woman, or she was not : if she was , what an injury have

you done to her ! if she was not, what a disgrace have

you brought on yourself and the University 1’ On his

auditors asking, ‘Well , Doctor ! and so— what did the

young man say ?’

Say !’

he replied, egad, what could

he say ? I had him here, and I had him there : he was

in a dilemma : on one horn or the other I was sure of

him.

’

Dr. West on the College Gaudy-Day in July u sed

to send down from the High-Table to the Bachelor

Demies to say that he drank their health , as being of the

Blood Royal ; because Prince Henry, when his name was

inscribed in the College-Books, and rooms were assigned

to him , called the Demies in an affectionate speech ad

dressed to them Fratres Fraterrimi. ’ He also gave the

Portrait of Prince Henry to the College Hall , where it is

su spended over the Bachelor-Demies’

Table.

Dr West’

s execu tors , in conformity to his intentions,

paid the sum of £800 to the College, which was expended

on the present Bu ilding, placed where the D ivinity

Lecturer’

s Lodgings and the Junior Demies’

Common

Room formerly stood.

He is said to have been related to the family of the

Wests , Lord Delawarr : and his Arms, A rgent, a Face

dancetté, Sable, are cu t in stone at the east end of the

Building ju st alluded to .

Sparrow , John. res. 1727 . Matr. 27 March , 1726-27 , set. 18 .

Son of John Sparrow ofKencott, co. Oxford, gen.

CHORISTERS . 149

Merchant, William. ( te-admitted 2 1 Dec . res. 1727 .

Matr. 27 March, ”262 7, set. 17 . Son of William

Merchant of Bampton , co Oxford , gen .

“ A .D . 1784 , June 30, Sunday. On Tuesday last,June 25 , at five o

’

clock in the afternoon, one Merchant,a Commoner of Edmund Hall , rode in a chair with

Mr. Johnston , Manciple of that Hall , to Bampton , ten

miles from Oxford , where they arrived at eleven o’

clock

that night. On Thursday, June 27 , the said Merchant

died there at his father’

s ; being extremely ill when he

went from Oxford. He had been of Exeter College,whence he was expelled afterwards . He was of Mag

dalen College, but was turned ou t from thence also .

Then he was entered of Edmund Hall . He died of a

dropsy. He was a loose young man, and it was feared

that had he lived , he would never have been good for

any thing. He was buried last night at Bampton . He

d ied in the 23d year of his age. Hearne’

s D iary.

Llewellyn , Richard . Metr. 6 March, 1726-27 . Son ofRichard

Llewellyn ofHighWycombe, co . Buckingham , gen. adm .

C lerk, 2 Jan. 1728-29. Demy, 8 1 Ju ly, 1729-1732 . Prob.

F . 1782-1752 . B.A . 7 N ov. 1 730. M .A . 2 1 June , 1 73 3 .

B .D . 3 Feb. 1740-4 1 . Curate ofHorspath, 1742 . JuniorDean of Arts, 1742 . Bursar, 1743 . Dean of D ivinity

,

1748 . Vice-President, 1 749. Rector of Saunderton ,

Bucks, 175 1-1770. He died 25 Dec. 1770, and was

buried at High Wycombe.

By Will dated 80 July, 1770 , and proved 1 1 Feb.

by Janet Llewellyn , his widow and execu trix, he

gives and bequeaths unto the President and Fellows of

Magdalen College, for the time being, the sum of five

hundred pounds, to be disposed of by them in such

manner as they shall see proper ; though he thinks they

cou ld not do better than lay it out in purchasing whatis called theWoodfields, being abou t four or five fields,containing abou t seventy acres, which adjoin SaundertonParsonage, and would be a great improvement of that

0 3 0 3 187 3 3 8 .

poor Living, if they should judge it advisable to annex

them thereto .

A marble pavement-slab in the Chancel of High

Wycombe is thu s inscribed, In m any of Richard

Llewellyn, late Fellow of Magdalen Collage, Oazfo-rd , and

Rector of Saunderton, Dial of December, 1770 ,

aged 02 .

Browne, Richard. res. 1727 . M atr. at Hart Hall, 2 7 M ay,

1727, a t. 16. Son of Robert Browne, of St. Peter’

s,

Oxford, pleb. B .A. Univers ity College, 10 July, 1 73 1 .

M .A . 4 July, 1734 .

172 2 Bird, Samuel . res. 172 7 . Matr. 20 Oct. 1727, mt. 18 .

Son ofWalter Bird of Stow , Litchfield, pleb. adm . C lerk,20 Jan. 1727-8. res . 1 73 1. B .A. 2 5 June, 173 1.

Lock, John. res. 1 728 . Matt . 1 5 July, 1727 , wt. 17 .

Son of George Lock of Frame, co. Somerset, pleb. adm .

C lerk, 5 April , 1728-9 .

Winchester, Thomas. res. 1 729 . Matr. 5 July, 1729, set. 16.

Son of William Winchester of Faringdon, Berks. gm .

adm. Clerk loco Llewellyn, 3 1 July, 1729. Demy,1 730-1747. Prob . F. 1747-1761. B .A. 9 April , 1 733 .

M .A . 14 Jan. 1735 . B .D . 10 Dec. 1747. D .D . 4 July,1749. Vice-President, 1754 . Presented to the Rectoryof Horsington , co . Lincoln , 12 May, 1749, and to the

Rectory of Appleton , Berks, 17 April , 1 760 . Obiit,17 May, 1 780. Of whom the following account is given

by Archdeacon Churton, see p . 154 , note t.

He was born at Faringdon, in the county of Berks,his father being a repu table surgeon of that place.

He had an elder brother, John, who was an em inent

surgeon in Norfolk street, London, but on the accession

of a considerable estate in Kent, bequeathed to him for

life, he declined business ; and died, aged 72 , at

Nethersole House, near Canterbury, in July 178 1 . The

younger brother, Thomas, was educated at Magdalen

College, Oxford, as a Chorister and Demy. In July

1747, he was elected Fellow, having been for some

162 0 8 0 8 181 1 88 .

not be disregarded by one so steadily attached to that

Church as Dr. Winchester ; and his remarks on those

productions, though he did not publish any thing on

the occasion in his own name, were serviceable to his

friends, and to the cause of truth. In Dr. Nowell’

s

answer to Pietas Oxoniensis, second edition , 1769,

Dr. Winchester is the very judicious friend” men

tioned in the note, p. 106, as well acquainted with

the several editions of the Bible and the occasions of

them and he there shews that the questions and

answers concerning predestination ,

”which are inserted

in some editions of the Geneva Bible‘, and were said

by the Au thor ofPietas Oxoniensis to have been always

printed at the end of the Old Testament, and bound upwith this authorized translation of the B ible (meaning

the Bishops’

Bible ) , till abou t the year were

probably never bound up with that Bible ; nor indeed

could they with any consistency appear there : for

Archbishop Parker, the great promoter of this transla

tion, in his preface asserts the direct opposite to the

third question and answer,”namely, universal redemp

tion. Search the Scriptures, &c. (John v. N o

man, woman, or chylde, is excluded from this salvation ;and therefore to every of them is this spoken .

”

Dr. Winchester’

s Address to the Au thor of the Con

fessional may be seen in the Gentleman’

s Magazine,1 767, p . 581-584 ; his remarks on the last edition of

the Confessional in Gent. Mag. for 1770 , p. 5 14 , 5 15 ;

f By a paper of Dr.Winchester's, now in my hands , on this subject,he appears to have examined fourteen editions of the Geneva Bible, from1 560 to 1616 ; ofwhich not more than three or four (one of them beingimperfect) had these questions and answers ; and four editions of the

Bishops’

Bible, none of which had them : and he observes in N owell ( loo.

citat.) that Lewis (Hist. of Transl. of Bible, p. 285 mentions eight

editions of the Bishops’

Bible, and takes no notice of these questions beingprinted with them ; though he is very particular in giving the contents of

( hem , and takes particular notice when they were inserted ( 1583 ) in the

Geneva Bible.

”

cnomsrnas. 153

and in that for 1775 , p. 161 ; his Strictures on the Arch

deacon of Cleveland’

s Four Discourses delivered to the

Clerg of his Archdeaconry ; and in p . 2 17, 269, 47 1 ,

his defence ofArchbishop Seeker, Dr. Gloucester Ridley,and Dr. Maclaine. In which useful repository more of

the Doctor’s papers may perhaps be found.”

Other remarks, connected with these controversies,having been communicated to his fri end John Loveday l

of Caversham , Esqu ire, and by him to ArchbishopSeeker, his Grace, on being informed who was the

Au thor of them , commenced a correspondence with

him. Some of the papers, thus transmitted to Lambeth,were those concerning the Au thor of the Declaration

before the XXXIXArticles ; on which the Archbishop,in a letter to Dr. Winchester now before me, says,nothing can he wished more complete and convincing,

and satisfactory. I shall presume on your leave to send

them to Dr. Ridley, theAu thor of the Letters , &c.

”This

was accordingly done ; and when Dr. Ridley had finished

his Work, he requested Dr. Winchester’

s acceptance

of a copy of it, in acknowledgment of many favours

received from him in the course ofhis late engagement

with the Author of the Confessional , communicated to

him by his Grace of Canterbury.”

While he was examining the points thus brought

into discussion, if not before, it occurred to him , that it

might be more fully evinced ,’ than had then been

done, from the Works of our Reformers, that our

Articles were not drawn up in a Calvinistical sense,

which the Au thor of the Confessional , as well as the

Arians before him , so strenuously contended And

he had’

at that time marked down ’

some of the prin

cipal passages, which he afterwards made use of in his

3 John Loveday, matriculated Gent. Comm . ofMagdalen College, 8 Feb.

1727-8 . Obiit, 16 May, 1789 cat. 78 . Vide N ichols’

s l i terary Anecdotes,

Letter to Archbishop Seeker, 14 March, 1768, penes J. Loveday.

154

Dissertation It was published, but without his name,

in April, 1773 .

It was , I think, about the year 1776 that the cele

brated Dean of Glou cester printed a specimen of his in

tended Treatise concerning C ivil Government, with a

view to consult the learned and judicious on the nature

of the undertaking, and to entreat the benefit of their

corrections and amendments k.” One of the copies of

this specimen coming into Dr Winchester’

s hands, was

returned with certain strictures , with which the learned

Dean was so highly pleased, that he waited on Dr. Win

chester, with whom he was not previously acquainted, to

make his personal acknowledgments for the favour ; and

it was chiefly owing to the suggestions from Appleton,

that the judicious Hooker, one of the best reasoners in

the world,’

appears in his true character in the Work on

Civil Government, and not, as the au thor had at first too

hastily taken for granted ’

he was, favourable to the

notions espoused by Mr. Locke.

Dr. Winchester was a warm , steady, and most

valuable friend ; and enjoyed the friendship of many

that did him honour ; the late Lord Bagot, and his father,Bishop Bagot, Sir Will iam Blackstone, and others. His

talents, if not splendid, were sound and good ; his a ttain

ments various and u seful ; and he was a true son of the

Church of England. He resided constantly on his

Living ; where by his preaching and example he brought

The Dissertation was reprinted by Archdeacon Churton, in the first

volume of the Churchman's Remembrancer, with the following Title ; A

D issertation on the XVI I th A rticle of the Church ofE ngland : wherein the

sentiments of the compilers, and other contemporary Reformers, on the subject

of the Divine Decrees, are fully deduced from their own writings. To which

is subjoined a short Tract ascertaining theReign and Time in which the Royal

D eclaration before the XXXIX A rticles wasfirst published . By the R ev .

T. Winchester,D .D . late Rector of Appleton. A new edition with emendations

from the A uthor’s corrected copy, and the addition of a B iographical Preface,

( from which this Memoir is taken.) London, Soc. 1803. (Magd. Libr.)Tucker on Civil Government, 178 1, p. 367, 402 .

156 cnomsrnns.

173 1 , set. 18 . Son of Thomas Parker of St. Glles’

s,

Oxford, gen. B .A . Magd . Hall , 22 Oct. 1 734 .

1725 Mu ssendine, Pudsey. res. 173 5 . Matr. 22 July, 1732 .

Son ofWilliam Mussendine (Demy, ofHolywell ,Oxford, gen.

Williams, Joseph . res. 1 73 1. Matr. 17 Dec . 1 73 1 , wt. 17.

Son of Robert Williams of Brecon, co . Brecon , pleb.

adm . Clerk, 5 July, 1 73 1 -1737. adm . Chaplain , 15 Dec .

1738-1753 . B A . 13 June, 1735 . M .A . 5 July, 1 739.

Obiit 4 Feb. 175 2-3 .

1726 Nicholls, George. res. 1734. Matr. 8 M ay, 1733 , wt. 16.

Son of John Nicholls of Cumnor, Berks, p leb.

Extracts from Hearne’

s D iary.

A .D . 1 73 3 . Dec . 2 . Sunday. Yesterday one Nicholls

was expelled Magdalen College . He was Chorister, and

abou t seventeen years of age ; but being a vil e wretch,

though he hath been often severely punished bo th at

Magdalen College School and elsewhere, (which School ,

had he behaved himself well , he was to leave in order

to be entered of the College under a Tu tor in a very

short time, I have heard w ithin a week, ) yet he cou ld

not be reclaimed, al though he hath been pardoned time

upon time for his wickedness. He is son of Mr. John

Nicholl s, Glazier and Victualler, of Blind Pinnocks , in

Cumnor Parish , in the midway between Oxford and

Bablake Hithe.

N .B . Dr. Bu tler restored him , after he had expelled

him , on Monday, Dec . 3 . immediately following.

A .D . 1 733-4 . Feb 14 . Thursday. Young Nicholls is

now turned qu ite out ofMagdalen College. This I hear

was done abou t a fortnight since.

”

1 727 Pennington ,William . adm . 2 N ov. res. 1 733 . Matt .

1 April , 1732 , set. 17 . Son of William Pennington of

Yattendon , Berks, cler. adm . Clerk, 30 July, 1 73 3-1739 .

B A . 1 1 N ov. 1735 . M .A . 7 Ju ly, 1 788.

A .D . 1 727 . Sept. 5 . Yesterday died the w ife of Mr.

Penn of Oxford, Apothecary. She was before the w ife

crroru s'rnns. 157

of Mr. William Pennington , formerly Fellow of Queen’

s

College, and she was first servant to Mr. Pennington,when he was Curate to Dr. Pearson at Sulhamstead

Abbots , Berks ; and when Mr. Pennington got a Living

of his own , he married her, and by her management he

saved m oney, though he was in debt before. She had

one child, now Querister of Magdalen College, Oxford ;but the child is now destitute, for though she had seven

hundred pounds when Mr. Penn married her, yet Penn

got every farthing from her ; and though he promised to

do great matters for the child, yet he performed nothing,and it is thought for certain now that he will do nothing.

”

Hearne’

s Diary.

Fletcher, Theodore . adm . 29 Ju ly. res. 1735 . Metr. 6 April ,

1734 , set. 17 . Son of George Fletcher of Stoke-Lyne,co. Oxford, cler. B A . Magd . Hall , 7 Nov. 1737.

Hanley, Nathaniel . adm . 29 July. res. 1728.

Sambourne, William . adm . 3 Aug. res. 1740 . Matr. as

Henry Sambourne, 4 N ov. 1 73 6, set. 17 . Son ofWilliam

Sambourne of Mou lsford, co . Berks, pleb. adm . Clerk,4 Jan . 1 739-40— 1743 . B .A . 3 Feb . 1739-40 .

Wood, Richardson . adm . 3 Dec . res. 1734 . Matr. 14 Ju ly,1733 , set. 16. Son of Thomas Wood of Holywell , Oxon .

pleb. adm . C lerk, 19 Oct. 1 734-1740. appointed Usher of

the College School , 4 Jan. 1739-40 . Mr. Wood Ostiarius,

Scholar Grammaticalis apud N orthamp ton Dudimagister,

renunciatus sponte recessit, 5 Jan. 1748 V . P. Reg.

B .A . 26 Apr. 1737 . M .A . 18 Jan . I738-9.

1 728 Taggart, James. adm . 4 Jan . 1727-8 . res. 1737. Metr.

14 July, 1733 , a t. 18. Son ofWilliam Taggart of Ciren

oester, co . Gloucester, p leb. adm . Clerk, 30 July, 1 737

1738 . B .A . 7 N ov. 1 737. adm . M inor Canon of Winchester, 17 Jan . 1737 . res. 1754 .

Jefi‘

ries, Thomas . adm . 26 Feb. res. 1738 . Matr. 17 Apr.

1 73 6, set. 19 . Son of William Jeffries of Ripple, co.

Worcester, cler.

Perrot, William . res. 1729. adm. Clerk, 9 Mar. 1729-30.

158 cnonrsrras .

res. 1730 . He was seventh son of Charles Perrot of

Northleigh, co . Oxford, Esq ; and by the death of al l his

brothers, and one nephew , became heir to the fam ily

estates. He died by an accidental fall from his horse,

22 July, 1765 . By his demise the male line of the

Gentlemen' Perrota of Northleigh became extinct. He

was the last ofthe descendants of Robert Perrot, Organist

of the College Chapel in 15 1 1 from which time down

to 1730 there was almost a continued su ccession of

members of this family educated in Magdalen College.

Etty, Andrew . res . 1735 . Matr. 17 Feb. 1734-5 , eat. 16.

Son of Marmaduke Etty of Oxford, pleb. Demy, 1736

1 75 1 . Prob. F. 175 1 -1759. B .A . 8 Dec. 1738 . M .A .

30 May, 174 1 . B .D . l July, 1752 . Bursar, 1754 . Vicar

of Selbom e, 26 Oct. 1758 . Obiit, 1 784 .

WhilstVicar of Selbom e, among many u sefu l repairs,he new ro

‘

ofed the body of the Vicarage House ; and

wainscotted up to the bottom of the windows the whole

of the Chancel ; to the neatness and decency of which he

always paid the most exact attention.

” White’

s Anti

quitica of Selbom e, p . 472 .

On the north wall of the Chancel is fixed a small

square table monument of white marble, inscribed in

the following manner : Sacred to the memory of the Rev.

Andrew Etty, B .D . 23 years Vicar of this Parish. In whose

character the conjugal, theparental, and the sacerdotal virtues

were so happily combined , as to deserve the imitation of man

kind ; and if in any particu lar he followed more invariablythe steps of his blessed Master, it was in his humility. His

as

any traces of his memory shall remain, must lament his

death. To perpetuate such an examp le, this stone is erected

as while living he was a preacher of righteousness, so by it he,

being dead , yet speaketh. He died April 8 , 1 784 , aged 66

Parker, William . adm . 30 Apr. res. 173 1 . Matt . at Trinity

VideWood’s Fasti, A .D . 15 15 .

160 cnomsrsas .

co . Gloucester, cler. B.A . New 0 011. 23 Feb. ”40-4 1 .

M .A.. 18 Nov. 1744 .

Dixie, Richard. adm. 1 Aug. res. 1739. Matr. 18 Dec . 1738 ,

a t. 17. Son ofWolston Dixie of Market Bosworth, p leb.

adm. Clerk, 1 Feb. 1738-9— 1744 . B .A. 22 June, 1742 .

1 734 Hopley, Hugh. adm. 5 Feb. l 733-4 . res . 1736 .

Moore, Henry. adm . 22 Feb. 1733-4 . res . 1739.

Bufin , adm . 19 Oct. res . 1734 .

Hyde,William. adm. 2 Dec. res. 1 744 . Matt . 10May, 1744 ,

a t. 17. Son of Joshua Hyde of Wantage, Berks, pteb.

adm . Clerk, 12 May, 1 744-1 749. B .A . 19 Oct. 1 748.

1 735 Ponting, Edward. adm. 19 May. res. 1736.

Wheeler, Will iam . adm . 19 May. res . 1 739.

1736 Blacknell, John. adm . 7 Feb. 1 735 -6. res. 1743 . Matr.

3 1 Mar. 1742 , set. 18 . Son of Johll Blacknell of the City

of London , pleb. adm . Clerk, 29 Jan. 1 742-3— 1744 .

Al len, Charles. adm. 2 8 July. res. 1747 . Matt . 1 5 May,

1746, wt. 16 . Son of Timothy Allen (Clerk, of

Dorking, Surrey, cler. Clerk, 1747-1750. B .A . 1 1 Feb.

1 766. M .A . 14 July, 1 766.

Bloxidge, Benjamin. adm . 28 July. res. 1 744 . Matr. 10 Mar.

1 7423 , a t. 18 . Son of Benjamin Bloxidge ofNottingham,

gen.

Briggs , Hobart. adm. 3 Oct. res. 1738 .

1 737 Serjeant, adm . 30 July. res. 1742 .

Fisher, adm. 1 3 Jan. 1737-8 . res. 1748.

1 738 Drake, Christopher. adm . 18 Jan. 1 737-8. res. 1742 .

Matr. 3 1 March , 1742 , set. 18 . Son of Christopher Drake

of Cherrington, co . Warwick, cler. adm . Clerk, 22 June,1 742-1745 . B .A . Magd . Hall , 25 Feb . 1745 -6.

Alleyne, John . adm . 3 1 Jan. 1737-8. res. 1 749. M att . at

University College, 15 March, 1748-9, a t. 17 . Son ofJohn

Alleyne of Loughborough, co . Leicester, gen. Scholar and

Fellow of University College. B .A . 20 N ov . 1 752 . M .A .

6 June, 1 755 . B .D . 29 April , 1777 . Clerk of the Market,1 776. Rector of North Cem ey, co. Gloucester, 1780

1792 .

cnomsrsns. 16 1~

A .D . 1763 . Sept. Joannes A lleyne, A .M . admissus est

per Pre sidentem (Jenner) Clericus Compu ti, et cedem tw pore

de ejus provisions inter Pre sidentem et unum Bursarium, qui

tune in Collegio solus aderat, concordatum est. V. P. Reg.

A .D . 1785 . Martii Joannes A lleyne, S . T. B . Sene

scalias, ofiicium mum sponte resignam’

t. V . P. Reg.

Between the years 1 77 1 and 1774 , he had the honour

of entertaining at dinner, in his room s near the gateway

ofMagdalen College , the celebrated Dr. Samuel Johnson .

The party consisted ofDr. BenjaminWheeler ‘1, Mr. Scott,

afterwards Lord Stowell , Mr. afterwards Sir Robert

Chambers, and Mr. David H. Unquhart, a Gentleman

Commoner ofMagdalen College, who gave my informant,

then a Demy, the following account .of the dinner. When

the guests entered, they found Dr. Johnson intently cc

cupied upon a Greek book ; and no one v’entured to disturb

him . During the repast, and afterwards, Dr.Wheeler was

the only person who entered into free conversation w ith

him. All the rest seemed afraid of a rough retort, ifthey

shou ld make an observation .

Mr. Alleyne, the son of an attorney atLoughborough,

was born there in 1 73 1 . He died after one day ’

s illness

(at North Cerney, set. 1 N ov. 1 792 ; and his Library

was purchased by Mr. Adams ofLoughborough, who dis

persed it in 1793 by a

‘

priced catalogue. Nicho ls’

s

Literary Anecdotes, i. 616.

Briggs, Peter. adm . 2 June. res. 1 744.

1739 Symonds, Edward. adm . 2 Feb. 1738-9. res. 1740.

Matr. at Corpu s Christi College, 1 1 Dec. 1 747. Son of

Thomas Symonds of Caddington, co . Bedford, p leb. B .A .

7 June, 175 1 . M .A . 7 Feb . 175 3 .

Derby, Edward . adm . 16 June . res. 174 I.

a At that time .a Fellow of the College, and afterwards Begins Professor

of Divinity ; and of whom Dr. Johnson had a high opinion , as appears by a

Letter written to his friend Boswell , in which he thus expresses himself ;

Why should 1 go to Oxford, as my learned friend Dr. Wheeler is dead,and my convivial friend Dr. Edwards is no more

162 cnonrs‘

rs as .

Hopkins, Thomas. adm . 18 Oct. res . 1744 .

1 740 Fullforth, Thomas . adm . 8 Jan. 17394 0 . res . 1746.

Matt . at Brasenose College, 27 Feb . 1745-6, a t. 15 .

Son of James Fullforth of Shirburn , co . Oxford , pleb.

Gage, Freeman. adm . 2 Aug. res. 1 75 1. Matt . 2 1 March,

1 750-1, wt. 18 . Son ofThomas Gage of Little Marlow ,

co . Buckingham , cler.

Shenton, Richard. adm . 27 Dec. res. 1745 . Matr. 15 May,

1746 , wt 16. Son of Samuel Shenton of Hagboum .

Berks, cler. adm . Clerk, 2 5 June, 174 5-1752 . B .A. N ew

College, 3 March, 1748-9. M .A . 23 Oct. 1 752 .

174 1 Descrambes , John . adm . 28 March 1 740-1 . res. 1 750 .

Metr. 7 Dec 1748, a t. 19 . Son of John Descrambes of

Shillingford, Berks . adm C lerk, 3 Feb. 1 749-50 . Demy,D.A . 4 June, 1752 . M .A . 93 April , 1755 .

Biggs, Matthew . adm . 10 April . res. 1 748. Matt . at Mag

dalen Hal l , 7 Dec. 1748 . pleb.fil.

Cooper, Thomas . adm . 6 May, res 1747 .

1 742 Warren, Vincent. adm . 5 July. res. 1749. Matr. 10 Dec.

1748 . Son of Vincent Warren of Marcham , Berks.

adm. Clerk, 2 7 June, 17 49-1750 .

Williams, Thomas. adm . 1 1 Nov. res. 1748 . Matrf at

Edmund Hall , 18 May, 1 748 , set. 17'

Son of Thomas

Williams of Bourton-superaaquam , co ;

B .A . Jesus C ollege, 10 Oct. 175 2 . M .A. 3 1

2 2 March, I76S.

1 743 Barnett , Wi lliam.

”

adm. 28 July. res. 1749.

1744 Vincent, Richard. adm . 3 1 March 1743 . res. 175 5.

Metr. 15 May, 1 75 3 , wt 18 . Son of Richard Vincent of

Chobham. co Surrey, cler. B .A . Magdalen Hall , 20 April ,

175 7.

Wood , Zaccheus . adm . 17 May . res . 1 750 . Metr. 18 Dec.

1749, set. 17 . Son ofThomas Wood ofHolywell , Oxford,

pleb. adm . C lerk, 13 July, 1750-1757 . adm . Chaplain

2 5 June, 1757-1787 . Curate, by election, of Piddington

co . Oxford, 3 1 Jan. 1759- 1770 . Afterwards Curate of

Bicester. B .A . 2 0 June, 1753 . M .A . 28 April, 175 6.

164 caomsrsns .

Hayes, William . adm. 2 7 June. res. 175 1 . Matt . at Mag

dalen Hall , 16 July, 1757, set. 15 . Son ofWill iam Hayes,

Mus. D . B .A . 7 April , 176 1 . adm. Clerk, 6 July, 1 764 .

res. 1765 . M .A . N ew College, 1 5 Jan. 1 764 .

1 750 Rigby, George. adm . 9 Feb . 1749-50. res. 1757 .

Lord , John . adm . 19 Ju ly. res 1756.

175 1 Hennington , John . adm . 9 Ju ly. res . 1757 .

Gage, Stephen . adm . 16 Ju ly . res . 1758 . Matt . at Trinity

College, 14 March , 175 8 , a t. 17 . Son of Thomas Gage

ofLittleMarlow , co. Buckingham , cler. B.A . 30 Oct. 176 1 .

M .A . 4 Ju ly, 1764.

Taylor, R ichard . adm . 20 Dec. res. 1765 . Matr. 4 March,

176 1, a t. 16 . Son of Richard Taylor of Oxford, p leb.

adm . Clerk , 12 Feb . 1765 . res. 1765 . B .A . 16 Feb . 1765 .

M .A . 1 1 July, 1767 . I recommended Mr. Richard

Taylor, a scholar of m ine, to be Fellow of Dulwich

College, and he succeeded .

”Bryne

’

s Diary', 1765 .

Drought, Henry. adm . 14 Sept. res. 175 5 .

1752 Lichfield, Coventry Townsend Powys. ad‘

m. 24 Jan.

res. 1759. born at Goring, 60 . Oxford . Matt . 18 March,

1758 , wt. 17. Son of Coventry Lichfield , (Clerk in

of Southstoke, co . Oxford , cler. Demy, 1 759-1762 . B .A .

1 3 Oct. 1 761 . Prob . F. 1 762-1 783 . M .A . 27 June, 1 764.

B .D . 7 May, 1774 . Senior Dean of Arts , 1 774 . Bursar,

1 775 . D .D . 14 July, 1778 . Vice-President, 1 779. Dean of

D ivinity, 1780 . Presented to the Rectory of Boyton ,

Wilts, 10 April , 1782-18 10 . He died at Whitchurch,where he usually resided , on thefirst ofMay, 1 8 10.

C lark, William : adm . 2 5 June. res . 1756. Matr. 2 Dec .

1756, set. 18 . Son of Edward Clarke of Nuneham

Courtney, co . Oxford , p leb. Clerk, 27 March , 1 756-1763 .

B A . 4 June, 1760.

He was born at Nuneham in 1738 . He shewed an

early propensity formu sic, and made theworks ofHandel,

MS . Diary of Robert Bryne, Master of Magdalen College School ,

1752—1776 , preserved in the Gough Collection, Bodleian.Library.

cnomsrsns . 165

of which he was enthusiastically fond, his particu lar

study ; and for this he was pecul iarly qualified , having a

fine taste and most persuasive voice . He acqu ired such

a proficiency in the science , that he attracted the notice

of the Earl of Harcourt, who became his Patron , and

introduced him to his Majesty’

s private concerts, where

he was honoured by the particu lar notice of the King,

(George III. ) who entertained, it is well known, a great

partiality for Handel ’s mu sic. In 1 765 he was appointed

a Gentleman-in-ordinary of his Majesty’

s Chapels Royal ,and soon had many tempting offers to sing in public.

Being however of a retiring disposition, he never could

be prevailed upon , bu t turned his thoughts to the Church.

He was ordained ' at the age of 29 ; and having been

remarkably successfu l in obtaining preferment, he ac

qu ired a handsome competence. In 177 1 he was

appointed Priest-in-ordinary of his Majesty’s Chapels

Royal , and in December 1797 became Senior Cardinal ,M inor Canon , and second Minor Prebendary of St Paul

’

s

Cathedral . He was al so a Minor Canon of Windsor,where he resided in the house attached to that prefer

ment in qu iet retirement. In 1795 , he was presented to

the Vicarage of Willesden, co . Middlesex, by the Dean

and Chapter of St. Paul’

s. In 1803 , he was presented

to the Vicarage of Wyrardisbury. co . Buckingham , by

the Dean and Canons ofWindsor ; and he also held the

sinecure Rectory of Orpington , co . Kent, by the unso

licited patronage ofKing George I II .

Mr. C larke was a man of amiable disposition and

unassuming manner, and bore a painful illness w ithgreat fortitude and Christian resignation. He died at

Windsor, 3 Dec. 1820 , a t. 82 . ( leaving a widow who did

Sept. 20 , 1767 . Went with Mr. Clarke to Fulham . We received Ordi

nation at the hands of the Bishop of London. Mr. Clarke is an assistant

in the Chapel Royal , with no appointment, view, or apparent dealre, other

than the performance of that, which is his immediate object, a Readershipthere.

” Diary ofWeeden Butler, in Nichole’

s I llustrations ofLiterature,

vol . v. p . 850 .

166 cnonrsrsas .

not long survive him.) and was buried by his own parti

cu lar request in the vaul ts beneath St. Pau l’

s . The

following lines written by himself were by his own

direch'

on engraved upon his tombstone :

Beloved friend, farewell ! Go , join the Heavenly throng,

And in their harmony unite thy tunefu l song :

6 0 .— and with choirs of angels in that blest abode,

Sing endless Hallelujahs at the throne of God .

N ichols’

s I llustrations Of Literature, vol . v. p . 85 1

Haynes. Daniel Sympson. adm . 21 July. res. 1 759. M atr.

at Queen ’

s College, 1 5 Dec. 1 758 , set. 18. Son of John

Haynes, of St. Clement’s, Oxford, p leb. B .A . 18 June,

1762 .

1753 Stanton, Will iam. adm . 8 March . res. 1761 . Matt . at

Lincoln College, 27 Feb. 1761 , wt. 17 . Son ofWilliam

Stanton ofM oulton , co . Northampton, cler. B .A . 12 Oct.

1764 . M .A. 19 June, 1767 . Vicar of M ou lton in 1 780.

I recommended William Stanton , a scholar of mine,

to be Scholar of Lincoln College, and he su cceeded.

”

Bryne’

s Diary, 1761 .

Bennett, Daniel . adm. 5 July. res. 1 761 .

1755 M odd, John . adm . 30 April . res. 1763 . Matt . at Corpus

Christi College, 17 Dec 1762 , wt. 17 . Son of George

Modd of Marlborough , Wilts, gen. B .A . 14 Jan. 1767 .

M .A. 1 1 May, 1769.

Tawney, Bradnpm . adm . 1 3 May. res. 1763 . Metr. 23 N ov.

1762 , wt. 17. Son of Robert Tawney of Oxford, p leb.

adm . Clerk, 1 Jan . 1763-1 770. B .A . 19 Ju ly, 1 766 . M .A .

5 April , 1 769. B .D . 2 June, 1788 . adm . Minor Canon of

Winchester Cathedral , 23 June 1770— 16 Jan. 1800.

Chaplain of Winchester College. Vicar of Preston Can

dever, Hants .

Webb , John . adm . 1 5 Oct. res. 1 765 . M att . at Wadham

College, 23 May, 1765 , set. 19. Son of John Webb of

Oxford, pleb. B .A . 30 June, 1770 .

Weston , Richard. adm . 18 Oct. res. 1763 . Matr. 26 March,

168 cnonl s'rsss .

married. A brother of Dr. Burton, who is one of the

Judges of the Court of King’

s Bench, in Ireland, and a

sister residing in Oxford, still survive him . His urbane,

kind, and hospitable disposition rendered him beloved

and respected by a large'circle of friends. His faculties

were unimpaired to the last ; and he was remarkable for

a most retentive memory, which enabled him to enter

tain his friends w ith ancedotes of the wits and eccentric

characters of years long past ; and the anecdotist is

indebted to the Doctor for many tales of Oxford men,

which, but for him , would long since have been buried

in oblivion . His remains were deposited on the 7th of

July in the family vaul t at Fetcham , near Leatherhead,Surrey. Gentleman

’

s Magazine of July, 1825 , p. 9 1.

1 756 Smith, Richard. adm . 3 Feb. res. 1760.

Wood , Richardson. adm . 8 April . res. 1767 . Metr. 1 7 Dec.

1 764 , set. 17. Son of Richardson Wood , (Chorister in

cler. adm . Clerk, 7 Feb. l 767 —1 770 . B .A . 17 Dec.

1768 . adm. Chaplain , 18 Oct. 1770— 1 802 . M .A . 30 May,

177 1 . Proctor in the Chancellor’

s Court, 1773 . Vicar of

Beckley. Obiit, 17 Sep t. 1802 .

175 7 Cooke, William . adm. 2 5 June. res. 1765 . Matr. at

N ew College, 7 Feb. 1765 , set. 19. Son of Wil liam

Cooke ofEnford,Wilts, cler.

Swinburne, James. adm . 4 August. res. 1 762 .

1758 Denyer, Richard. adm . 26 Jan. res. 1 761.

Blagrove, Benjamin. adm . 18 March. res. 1764 . Metr. at

St. Mary Hall , 15 Oct. 1764 , ac t. 18. Son of John

Blagrove of Oxiord, pleb.

3 The Hon. Charles Burton , of Mount Anville, co. Dublin, and of Eyre

Court Castle, co . Galway. The family belongs to a junior branch of the

Burtous ofHigham and Lindley, in the county ofLeicester, who descended

from Inganulfe de Burton, one of the companions ofWilliam the N orman.

The father ofDr.Burtonmarried Anne, youngest daughter of James Singer,

of Ram E lms, in the county of Surrey, by whom he had three sons ; of

these, James was the eldest. A rms. Azure, a fesse between three talbots’

heads , erased, or. Crest. A beacon, urgent, burning, proper, standing upon

amount. vert. Matte. Lux vitae. BURKE.

cnonrsrsns . 169

1 759 Fletcher,William . adm . 3 Jan . res; 1768 .

Langford, John . adm . 30 Ju ly. res. 1 767

1 760 Weller, Richard. adm . 2 M ay . res. 1767 .

1761 Goldesborough, Richard Nicholas . adm . 20 Sept. res.

1 767. Matr. 28 Ju ly, 1767 , act. 16. Son of John Goldes

borough of Bru ton , co . Somerset, cler. at which place he

was born . Demy, 1767— 178 1 . B .A . 30 May, 177 1 .

M .A . 20 April , 1 774 . Prob. F . 1 78 1— 1 794 . Junior Dean

of Arts, 1783 . B .D . 4 Feb. 1783 . Bursar, 1 784 . Dean of

D ivinity, 1793 . D .D . 13 June, 1 793 . Presented to the

Rectory of Sanderton , 14 June, 1793— 18 19.

“ A .D . 177 1 . My friend and Scholar, R. N . Goldes

borough, madeUsher to Mr.Hockley’

s School in Parson’

s

Green , near Fu lham . Bryne’

s Diary.

Millard, Charles. adm . 29 March . res. 1767. Matr. 16 Dec.

1 766, wt. 18 . Son of Nathaniel M illard of Gloucester,

gen. adm . Clerk, 1 7 Oct. 1 767— 1772 . B .A . 15 June, 1770 .

Appointed Minor Canon of Norwich Cathedral , 24 Dec .

1771 . M .A . 1 July, 1 773 . M arried to Elizabeth , daughter

ofDr. Samuel Sal ter, Master of the Charterhou se, 1773 .

Appointed Chancellor of Norwich, 13 May, 1809. Rector

of Taverham, by the presentation of B ishop Sutton.

Vicar of Trowse, with Lakenham , co . Norfolk. Perpetual

Curate ofHemblington , 00 . Norfolk.

Dr. Horne, President of Magdalen College, when

elected to the See of Norwich , in January 1790, ap

pointed Mr. Millard his examining Chaplain in con

junction with Jones of Nayland Y. He became also his

domestic Chaplain , and in that capacity attended the

Bishop at Bath during his last illness, and performed

the funeral service over him , when he was buried at

Eltham ,in Kent. The resu lt of these mournful exertions

was a low fever and great depression of'

spirits, from which

7 Myworthy friend and pleasant companion, the Rev. Charles Mil lard ,

his Chaplain , was with him at Bath, and was witness to many afl'

ecting

passages ,which happened towards his latter end.

” Jones’s Life of Bishop

Horne, p . 174 .

170 cnonisrnas .

he slowly recovered. His own death occurred on N ov . 6 ,

18 14 , at Bracondale, and his remains were deposited in

the old churchyard at Lakenham, where a flat monu

mental stone records simply his name and age. Short

biographical notices of him appeared in some of the

periodicals of the day ; one of which was attribu ted to

Edward Taylor, Gresham Professor ofMu sic, principally,

perhaps, becausethe writer dwelt more upon his mu sical

than his clerical qual ifications , which Mr. Taylor, being

a Dissenter, was very likely to do . I t was said, however,with regard to his preaching, that his sermons were plain ,

practical , and easy, which was a very just description of

them . The Rev. C . .J . Smyth , one of the M inor Canons

of Norwich, used to mention, as a feather in young

Millard’s Chorister’

s cap , that upon some public occasion

he was selected to sing a duett with Frasi, the Italian

Prima Donna of the day. This occurred probably at

the Glouéester Music Meeting in 1763 ; when , as we

learn from Lysons 1 , Frasi was at the head of the vocal

performers, and Mr. Clarke (Chorister in 175 2 ) and

Master M illard were added to the vocal band .

Well do I remember, says an ear-witness, the delight

with which I u sed to listen to the Service in Norwich

Cathedral , when the M inor Canons, eight in number,

filed 03 to their stalls, Precentor Millard at their head ,

whose admirable style and correct taste as a singer

I have never heard surpassed ; Browne’

s majestic tenor ;Whittingham '

e sweet alto ; and Hansell’

s b sonorou s

bass ; while Walker’

s silver tone, and admirable reci

tation, found their way to every corner of the huge

building.

”The English Cathedral Service, its Glory,

its Decline, p . 30 . (8vo . London ,

Walker, John. adm . 9 Ju ly. res. 1772 . Matr. 13 Dec . 1 772,

Lyson’s Annals of the Music Meetings, p . 193 .

Paul Whittingham, Chaplain ofMagdalen College, 1777— 1779.

5 Peter Hansel] , Chorister ofMagdalenCollege, 1777.

John Walker, Chorister ofMagdalen College, 1761 .

172 0 170 RI STERS .

Christi College , 4 N ov. 1 768 , set. 15 . Son of J oseph

Chapman of Daglingworth , co . Gloucester, cler . B .A .

Trinity College, 2 3 June, 1772 .

1 765 Ford, James. adm . 12 Feb . res. 1770 . Matr. 10 Oct.

1770 , act. 18 . Son of James Ford ofUley, co . Gloucester,

p leb. adm . Clerk, 18 Oct. 1770— 1775 . B .A . 14 Oct. 1774 .

adm . Chaplain , 24 March , 1775— 1776. Chaplain of N ew

College. M inor Canon of Canterbury.

Cooke, JohnWinchester. adm . 20 April. res . 1768 .

Homer, Arthur. adm . 2 1 Aug. res. 1772 . Born 8 Ju ly, 1758 .

Entered at Rugby School under M r. Stanley Burrough

in 1 772 . M atr. at University Coll ege, 30 March , 1 775 .

Fourth Son of Henry Homer (Demy in 1737 , Vicar of

Willoughby,) of Birbury, co . Warwick. cler. Demy, 1 775

1 782 . B .A . 10 Oct. 1778 . M .A . 13 June, 178 1 . Under

Master of Rugby School , 1782 - 1787. Prob. F . 1 782

1802 . Junior Dean of Arts, 1 790 . B .D . 5 Ju ly, 1 790 .

Bursar, 179 1 , 1792 . D .D . 26 Jan . 1797 . Dean 61‘

D ivinity, 180 1 . Presented to the Rectbry of Stanlake,

4 June, 1802 . He died at Stanlake, after a short bu t

severe illness, the 2d of Ju ly, 1806 . A monumental

tablet on the sou th wall of the Chan cel at Stanlake

contains the follow ing inscription°z A rthum s Homer ,

Collegi i Magdalenensis olim Socins, hujusce E cclesie Pastor,

literie humanioribus non mediocriter ornatus, maribas con

stans, integer, honestas,fide vere Christianus. N atus octave

Julii, 1758 ; obiit Julii secundo , 1806.

In Dr. Homer circu lated a folio sheet of Pro

po sals for printing by subscription a new work, entitled

B ibliotheca Universalis Americana or, an Universal

American Library : containing a general catalogue of

publications, relating to America and the West Indies,from the first discovery thereof by Columbu s in 1 492 , to

the end of the 18th century. An ample Prospectus of

the publication was subjoined to the Proposals, with the

conditions of the Subscription . The work was to consist

Probably written by the celebrated Dr. Parr.

Vide Gentleman’s Magazine, vol . 76 , p . 1208 .

onoaisrsns. 173

of two quarto volumes in boards : the price to Subscribers

two g uineas, to be paid when the whole was completed ;

and to be dedicated to General Washington. Several

improved impressions of the Proposal s and Prospectu s

were circu lated in 1799, to which was annexed a numerou s

and respectable list of Subscribers. Upon the death of

Washington, a necessary change in the intended Dedica

tion took place ; and in 1800 a new impression of the

Proposals &c. was published, in which was the following

paragraph : The Dedication will be addressed, by par

ticular permission , to the Right Rev. Dr.Watson, B ishop

ofLandafi'

, the learned and pious Au thor of the Apology

for the Bible, as a sincere token of thc Editor’s esteem

for his Lordship’

s defence of every thing most dear and

valuable to man, in answer to the impiou s and heretical

opinions of a person, whose works he shall necessarily

have occasion to record. From this new impression it

appears that the liberal and indefatigable Au thor, who

had in contemplation a scheme of personally visiting the

continent ofAmerica, for the sake of obtaining more full

and effectual information on the subject, had become a

corresponding member of the Massachusetts Histori cal

Society. In 180 1 another impression of the Proposals

&c. was published, in which the Compiler pledged

himself to give up all the emoluments to the benefit of

two distinct Funds in this country and the United

States of North America ; the Subscriptions in this

country to be applied to the use of the Incorporated

Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign

parts ; those in the United States to the purchase of

books for the benefit of a Public Library in the new

federal City or University intended to be established

within the limits of the district of Columbia, if such an

University should receive the sanction of the Legislature ;if not, for the use of any other Public Library, which the

Subscribers themselves shall please to nominate. To

this alteration in the terms of the original Proposals , so

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agreeable to the principles of common equ ity, it was

presumed that no objection cou ld reasonably be made ,

especially as it had already received the sanction of that

Society, to which the Editor had before intentionally

dedicated the exclusive profits . A Postscript intimated,

that, as the number of Subscriptions already received to

the Work was more than suficient to pay the expenses

of the press, it afforded the Editor the greatest satisfac

tion to observe, that every additional Subscription w ou ld

be a considerable benefit to the Institutions which it

was meant to serve. The Subscriptions already received

were‘then particularised, and were closed by the follow

ing Advertisement to the Reader : The Editor of this

Work, having hitherto been prevented by very important,though private, reasons from pu tting into execution his

intended excursion to theContinent ofAm erica, begs leave

to inform his Subscribers , that he has by no means aban

doued that scheme altogether, but has only postponed it

to a more favourable opportunity, when those reasons

shall no longer exist. In the interim , he trusts that they

w ill readily excuse the necessary delay, which this w ill

occasion in the publication of his undertaking, from the

hepes, which he entertains, of rendering it more perfect

by a personal visit to that country, especially with respect

to its provincial productions, and consequently more

worthy of the generou s patronage which it has received .

”

In 1803 , however, he addressed a printed letter to his

Subscribers, dated Magd . Coll . Oxford , Feb . 5 , announc

ing his having entirely given up , or at least suspended

for a considerable time,”the further prosecution of the

Work. In the same letter he considers his Subscribers

as fully released from the terms of their subscription,

and with many thanks for their intended support of the

undertaking, concludes thu s : the materials, however,which have been collected at much expense to myself,and infinite pains for several years past, shall not be

wholly lost, but when revised and du ly arranged, pub

176 cm nxsrsns.

pointed Usher of Magdalen College School , 30 M ay,

1772— 1789 . B .A . 1 1 Oct 1 775 . M .A . 2 5 June , 1 778 .

Chaplain of Christ Church. 30 Maii, 1772 . vacante loco

Ostiarii ea: recessione Mri. Douglass, Socii, in enndem locum

admissus est A ndreas Price. Chorista , et jaramenta (prout

Statu tum eaegit) obstrictus a Dno Presidents inprasentid Vice

Presidentis.

”V. P . Reg.

On the 5th Feb . 1788 , he was appointed Chaplain of

Bishop Warner’

s College at Bromley, which office he

resigned on the 25 th April , 1800 , when the Trustees,

taking into consideration the good condu ct of Mr. Price

during the time he has filled the office of Chaplain to

Bromley College , unanimou sly agreed to grant him , as

a gratu ity for his past services, the sum of one hundred

pounds, and the Treasurer was desired to pay the same

accordingly. ” Register of Bromley College, dated 26

April , 1800 .

Mr. Price was of American descent, and was born at

Lee in Kent on the 23d of July, 1754 . His parents died

while he was an infant He was ordained Deacon by

John, Bishop of Salisbury, 22 Sept. 1776, and Priest, byJohn , Bishop of Oxford, 20 Dec . 1 778 . He married

Margaretta, daughter of the Rev. James Stopes, Rector

of Britwell Salome. She died in 1834 . Gent. Mag.

Aug. 185 1 , p . 2 14 .

He was institu ted to the Rectory of Brightwell Salome,co . Gloucester, in 1782 , and to the Rectory of Down

Ampney in the same county, in 1788 .

He died at Brightwell Salome, 7 June, 185 1 , at the

advanced age of 97 , highly respected . A few years before

his death he paid a visit to Magdalen College, and , at an

interview with the venerable President, presented the

College with a painting of St. Mary M agdalen , now

su spended on the staircase of the President’s lodgings .

Smith , John . adm . 7 Aug. res. 1769. M att . at Lincoln

College , 19 June , 1770 , set. 17 . Son of John Smith, of

Lilbourne, co . Northampton , cler.

cnonl srs as . 177

Sherwin , George . adm . 28 Oct. res . 1773 .

Brookes, Thomas . adm . 29 Dec . res . 1774 . Matr. at Queen’

s

College, 13 July, 1776, a t. 17 . Son of Thomas Brookes

ofWescote, co . Gloucester, cler. Demy, 1778— 1783 . B .A .

25 May, 1780 .

1768. Wallend, George. adm . 13 April. res. 1778 . Son of

Will iam Wallond of Oxford, p leb.

Fletcher, James. adm . 19 June . res . 1775 . Matr. 17 Dec.

1 774 , set. 1 7. Son ofWilliam Fletcher of Croughton , co .

Northampton, cler. C lerk of St. John ’

s College. B A .

St. John ’

s, 17 June, 1 778 . M .A . 29 April, 1790.

Hulse, John . adm . 26 Oct. res. 1774 . Matt . atWadham ,

17 Dec . 1774 , wt. 15 . Son of Nicholas Halse ofHoliwell ,

Oxford, pleb. B .A .Wadham , 25 June, 1 778. M .A . 17 Ju ly,1784 .

Woodcock. John. adm. 3 Dec. res. 1771 .

1769 Jackson, James . adm . 2 1 Jan . res . 1773 .

Turner, Francis. adm. 15 April . res. 1775 .

Cox, Hugh . adm. 22 June. res. 1779. Matr. 1 5 Oct. 1779,

set. 17 . Son of Hugh Cox, of Westminster, gen. adm .

C lerk, 1 5 Oct. 1779. Expelled by the President, 3 Feb.

1784 .

1770 Gerard, Phipps. adm . 24 April . res. 1775 .

Moore, John. adm . 1 Nov. res . 1775 . Matr. 17 Dec . 1774 ,

set. 1 7. Son of Richard Moore of St. Nicholas , Glou

oester, p leb. adm. C lerk, 12 N ov. 1774— 1780 . Chaplain

of N ew College, 1776. B A . N ew Coll . 17 June, 1778 .

M .A . 7 Ju ly, 178 1 . adm . Chaplain , 15 Oct. 1779 -80.

Browne, Richarda adm . 26 March. res. 1778. Matr.

4 April , 1778 , set. 17. Son of Michael Browne of Wor

oester, p leb. Clerk, 1778-1779 . Lay C lerk of Norwich

Cathedral . Obiit 17 August, 184 3 , wt. 83 . He was

buried in the cemetery of the Cathedral within the

Clo isters .

Todd, Henry John . adm. 20 July, set. 9. res. 1779. Bapt.

3 Feb. 1763 , at Burtford , alias Britford, near Salisbury,

N

178 cnonl srnns.

Wilts. Son ofHenry Todd 8 , (Curate of Britford, 1758

and Mary his w ife. Metr. 1 5 Oct. 1 779. adm.

Clerk, 1 5 Oct. 1779— 1 784 . B .A . 20 Feb. 1 784 . M .A .

Hertford College, 4 May, 1786.

Henry John Todd h was educated atMagdal en College,

and was so young when he took his Bachelor’s degree,that he was known by the name of the Boy

-Bachelor,

and afterwards at a very early age he was elected Fellow

of Hertford College. At this time be exhibited great

talents and unremitting labour, which he never ceased

to exert even to the latest period of his very long life.

In 1785 he was ordained Deacon by the Bishop of

Oxford, and entered into Priest’s Orders in 1787 . Soon

after he was ordained, he became a M inor Canon of

Canterbury Cathedral .

In 1 787 , he was presented by his two aunts, the Misses

Todd, to their family-living ofSt. John’

s and St. Bridget’

s,

Beckermet, co . Cumberland, which he vacated in 1803 .

In 179 1 , he was presented by the Dean and Chapter

of Canterbury to the Sinecure Rectory of Orgarswick,

co. Kent, and by the same Patrons in 1792 to-theVicarage

of M ilton , near Canterbury. The former he resigned in

1 792 ; the latter, in 1801 .

On the 25th of April , 1792 , he was appointed Chaplain

to Robert, 1 1 th Viscount Kilmorey.

On the 19th ofMay, 1 792 , he was appointed Chaplain

to James 2d Earl ofFife, which office he resigned in 1803 ,

having previously obtained it for his w ife’

s brother, the

Rev. T. Dixon.

In Ju ly, 180 1 , he was presented by the Dean and

Chapter of Canterbury to the Rectory of Allhallows,

I His father, Henry Todd, was matriculated at Queen’

s College, Oxford,

6 March , 1750 -5 1 , set. 16 . Son ofHenry Todd of St.Bees, co . Cumberland,gen.

5 Vide Gentleman's Magazine forMarch, 1845 , p . 322 . Also the l i terary

Gazette for January, 1845 , p . 88 .

180 cnomsrzas.

enclosed to me for this purpose, withou t the smallest

expectation or even idea of such a thing on my part, a

bank-post-bill of £ 100, with the desire of my acceptance

of it. I knew not how to refuse an offer made with so

much benignity, at the instant ; but recollecting his

Lordship’

s w ish to au gment a Library in his D iocese ,

to which he had already been a great Benefactor, andknowing at the same time that I had no claim whatever

to any attention from his Lordship, and w ishing not to

divert his bounty from those who were deserving of it ;

I resolved with all the delicacy, respect, and gratitude,due from me to his Lordship, not to reject the u se of

the money ofl'

ered , but to apply it to the purpose recom

mended, and to replace it in his Lordship’

s possession

by the purchase of books, which I thought m ight beconformable to his Lordship

'

s object ; and which in last

year and in the present I have procured

to his Lordship'

s satisfaction, I trust, and certainly to

my own.

”

Mr. Todd received the following curious letter from

America, dated Philadelphia, Feb. 4 , 1820. Sir, I take

the liberty of soliciting the favour of your painted

portrait“ , which I shou ld be proud and happy to receive,

and which highlymerits a place in my gallery ofportraits.

My institution is extensive and brilliant, and is the only

one of the kind in America. If I should be so fortunate

as to be favoured with your portrait, it shall be num

In a letter from Miss Margaret Todd, to whom I am greatly lndebted

for many letters and papers relating to her venerable Parent, she observes,I send you a miniature of my Father, taken, not from sittings, but as it

were by stealth, by a lady, for we never could prevail upon him to sit. The

Earl of Bridgwater wished him very much to sit to Lawrence, as hewanted

his likeness for himself, but in vain . I send also a sketch, when he was

about 22 .which may perhaps serve as an adjuvant to the Artist to improve

the miniature.

”From the sketch a creditable painting has been made by

Mr. Joseph Smith, an artist well known about Oxford as an excellent

copyist. I t is suspended in the noble School-room of the College, lately

erected.

cnoars'rs as. 18 1

bered in the printed catalogue of the gallery, and a copy

sent to you . Perm it me, S ir, to enclose for your kind

acceptance an engraved l ikeness of one of our distin

guished men n With every sentiment of respect for

your distingu ished talents and character, I have the

honour to be, &c. JOSEPH DELAPLAINE .

P. S . Your edition of Johnson ’

s D ictionary has been

elegantly republished here, and I am happy to give you

this information .

”

A request of a. similar nature had been previou sly

made in 1809, for the Eu ropean Magazine, by Mr.

Asperne.

In November, 1820, he was presented by his old friend

and patron , the Earl of Bridgwater, to the Rectory of

Settrington in Yorkshire, where he resided until his

death .

On the 5th of January, 1880 , the Archbishop of York

(Edward Venables Vernon , shortly afterwards Harcourt )appointed him to the Prebend of Husthwaite in York

Cathedral ; and in 1832 , to the Archdeaconry of Cleve

land , (vacant by the resignation of Archdeacon Vernon,)w ith every expression of confidence and esteem

The two letters of the Archbishop, on conferring these appointments,

have been preserved .

Jan. 5 , Rev . Sir, I am happy, at length, to have it in my power

to offer you a Stall in the Church of York . I feel at the same time, that

what I offer is, in itself, of very little intrinsic value. To a Yorkshire

Clergyman, however, a Prebend in the Metropolitan Church of York, given

as a marl: of the regard and good Op inion of his D iocesan, may not be unde

sirable, and it is in this point of view that I would beg to propose to your

acceptance the Prebend of Husthwaite, now vacant by the death of

Dr. Drummond. Believe me, Rev . Sir, very faithful ly yours, E . Enon.

B ishopthome, Oct. 7 , ( 1832 ) Dear Sir, You will , I am sure, be sorry to

hear, that my son Leveson has been obliged, by the state of his health, (forwhich he has been advised to discontinue his professional duties, and to go

into the south for a couple of years ,) to resign the Archdeaconry of Cleve

land. In no way could I supply his loss so well , as by committing the

same trust to yourself. The value of the appointment, I am sorry to say,

182 caomsrnns.

On the 9th of June, 183 1 , he was elected at a Meeting

of Clergy one of the Proctors of the Archdeaconry of the

last Riding for the ensu ing Convocation.

Besides these preferments, Mr. Todd was elected on

the 2d of Feb. 1824 , an Honorary Associate of the

Royal Society of Literature ; and on the 1 1th of March

following, an Associate of the First Class on the

Royal Foundation. The emoluments offered (after

the death of George I V.) to the ten Royal Associates

he respectful ly declined, in the following letter to

Lord M elbourne.

Settrington, Melton, July 2 1 , 1836 .

My Lord,

I have to acknowledge the honour of your Lordship’

s

letter of the 18th . The great kindness with which your

Lordship speaks in regard to a pension in lieu of the

late King’s gift, and to his present Majesty’

s graciou sly

acceding to your generous suggestion, I shall ever highly

value ; and I beg your Lordship to accept my sincere

thanks. On the benevolence which your Lordship has

been pleased to shew , I am persuaded too that I may

rely, when I state, that, since the death of his late

Majesty, I have been advanced, undeser v

edly indeed, bythe Archbishop of York , to an omoe in the Church of

that distinction, which, though it is not of pecuniary

value to me, would , as I venture to think, render it not

becoming in me to be advantaged by the bounty in

question. Thus humbly intreating to decline the pension ,

may I be perm itted to requ est that your Lordship at the

same time will have the goodness to declare for me to

his Majesty the deep sense of gratitude with which I am

impressed upon the present occasion, as du tiful and

is very trifling, notmore, I believe, than £80 or £37, but perhaps you may

have the kindness to accept it at my request, and as a mark ofmy sincere

respect for your public and private character. Believe me, dear Sir, truly

yours.E . Econ.

184 CBORISTERS .

In 1798, he edited Camus, a Masque, by John Milton.

with N otes and I llustrations ; to which is added, a Copy ofthe Masque, from a Manuscript belonging to his Grace the

Duke of B ridgwater. 8vo . Canterbury. (Magd . Libr. )

This Edition gave Mr. Todd an introduction to the

family of the Duke of Bridgwater, which had subse

quently the most important efl'

ect upon his fortunes .

He acquired the patronage Of the Duke Of Bridgwater,

and the Marquess Of Stafford ; and subsequently that Of

John Earl OfBridgwater.

He proceeded to publish , The Poetical Works of John

Milton, with N otes of various au thors, dc . in 6 volumes 8vo .

180 1 . A second edition in 18 10, a third in 1826, and a

fourth (Magd. Libr.) in 1843 . His paym ent from the

booksellers for the first edition was £200 .

A Cata logue of the Books, both manuscript and printed, in

the Library of Christ Church, Canterbury . 8vo . 1802 .

A Sermon preached in the Parish Church of St. Chad ,

Shrewsbmy , for the Salop Infirmmy . 1803 .

PThe Works of Edmund Spenser, in eight volumes , with

the principa l illustrations of various Commentators to which

are added N etes, some A ccount of the Life of Spenser, and a

r Hayley, in a letter to the Editor, dated Felpham , near Chichester,

25 Sept. 1805 , says, Your Spenser is a delightful acquisition to every

lover Of English literature, and to me particularly delightful,

memorial Of your kind regard. Forgive me for an imperfect endeavour

to express to you in rhyme how much I think one of our most amiablePoets is indebted to your judicious labours in his service.

”

Sonnet to the Rev . Henry John Todd .

B lest be the patient zeal and pensive care,

That, fondly watching o'

er a Poet’

s shrine,

Give to neglected worth again to shine

In renovated lustre, richly fair !

SO his high laurels ( that cold damps impair,

Shed from Oblivion’

s shadowy wing malign , )Shoot higher ; and, as wak

’d by breath divine,Exult in glory

’

s animating air.

onoms'rs s s . 185

Glossaria l and other Indexes. 8vc . London . 1805 . (Magd .

Libr.)In 1807 , he wrote the Preface to the B ibliotheca

Reediana , the Sale Catalogue of the celebrated I saac Reed,whom he had frequently met at the hospitable board of

Mr. Charles Dilly, and who had left him a legacy. From

Mr. D illy also, who died on the 4th of May in the same

year, Mr. Todd received a legacy of £500 .

He printed al so , Public Spirit illustrated in theLife of the

Rev. Dr. Bray. (Dr. Thomas Bray, the Founder of Paro

chial Libraries. ) 1808 .

Some account of the Life and Writings of John Milton,

2d ed . with additions, and with a verbal index to the whole ofhis poetry. 8vo. London , 1809 .

Chaucer : collectedfrom authentic documents. 8vo . London ,

18 10 . (Magd. Libr. )

A Catalogue‘1 of the Archiepiscopal Manuscripts in the

Library of Lambeth Palace, with an account of the Archi

episcopal Registers and other records there preserved . Fol.

London , 18 12 . (Magd. Libr.)In 18 14 , he undertook the Revision of Dr. Johnson

’

s

Dictionary of the English Language, and the Edition was

published in parts, in 4to , forming two volumes. In a

letter to the late Mr. Nichols, dated Aug. 2 1 , 18 14 , he

says, A t length the first part of my Edition of Johnson

is ready. Remember, I profess to contribu te only a

portion towards completing what has avowedly been left

imperfect : the truly candid and learned will therefore

To thee, kind eulogist of Spenser’s song !

Skill’

d o’

er his lyre and life new light to dart,

Joy-prompted praise and cordial thanks belongFrom all who feel his genius , sweetly strong,

Presiding o’

er those worthies of his art,

Who, while they charm the fancy, win the heart.

W. HAYLEY.

this Catalogue only one hundred copies have been printed .

not be severe upon me.

”

He re-edited this work in the

year 18 18 , in five volumes 4 to. (Magd. Libr.

-r) And

again , in 1827.

His further publications were the following,

Original Sin, Free-Will, Grace, Regeneration, Justificatio n,

Faith, Good Works, and Universal Redemption, as maintained

in certaindecla rations of our Reformers, which are the ground

work of the Articles qf our Established Church upon these

Articles in 1004 , and an historical and critical introduction

to the whole . 8vc . London, 18 18 . (Magd. Libr. )

lators of the Bible ; and of preceding English versions authori

sioned by certain objections made byMr . John B ellamy in his

late Transla tion of the B ook of Genesis, and by Sir James

of the Holy Scriptures. 8vo . London , 18 19. (Magd. Libr.)Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Right Rev. Brian

Walton, D .D . Lord B ishop of Chester, Editor of the

London Polyglo t B ible, etc. 2 vols. 8vc . London, 1 82 1 .

(Magd. Libr.)A Visitation Sermon on Romans xi. 1 1 . 8vo . York, 182 1 .

Observations upon the Metrical Version of the Psalms

made by Sternho ld , Hopkins, and others, dc. 8vo . London ,

1822 . (Magd. Libr. )

The History of the College of B onhommes at A shridge in

the County of Buckingham, founded in the year 1 276 ; with

a description of the present Mansion. Fol . London , 1828 .

An A ccount of Greek MSS , chiefly Biblical , which had

been in the possession of the late Professor Carlyle, the

greater part of which are now deposited in the A rchi

episcopal Library of Lambeth Palace. Privately printed ,8vo London , 1823 .

This copy has inscribed in the venerable President’

s handwriting,

The gift of the worthy Editor, who was formerly a Member of this

CoHege.

’

188 0 110 111e as .

been recently made by the Rev. Dr. Lingard, the Rev. Dr .

Milner, and Charles B utler, Esq. 2d ed. l 2mo . London ,

1826. (Magd . Libr. )Some A ccount of the Life and Wri tings of John M ilton,

derived principally from Documents in his Majesty'

s State

Paper Ofiiee, now first published. 8vc . London , 1826.

(Magd. Libr.)A Reply to Dr. Lingard

’

s Vindication of his History ofEngland , as far as respects A rchbishop Cranmer. 8vc .

London, 1827 . (Magd. Libr.)Of Confession and Absolution, and the Secrecy of Confes

sion, as maintained by the Church of England , and as opposed

to the statements of modern Romanists and their advocates.

8vc . London , 1828 .

B ishop Gauden the author of Elxewsw ans, further show

in answer to the recent remarks of the Rev. Dr. Wordsworth.

8vo. London, 1829.

Faith and Justification two Discourses by Dr . Sharp,

formerly A rchbishop of York, and the late Owen Man

ning, B .D . with a Preface, noticing objections made by the

present A rchdeacon of E ly (Rev. J . H . B rowne, M .A .) to a

public declaration of these doctrines at the beginning of the

Reformation in England , and with anAppendia of no tes, dc.

8vo. London , 1829.

The Life of A rchbishop Cranmer. 2 vols. 8vo. London,

1 83 1 . (Magd . Libr.)A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the A rchdeaconry of

Cleveland. 8vo . London , 1835 .

Repertorium Theologicum ; a Synop tical Table of thepious

and learned writings of Dr. Thomas Jackson, interspe e

with biographical and other notices. 8vo . London, 1838.

(Magd . Libr.)A Memoir of the Life and Writings of George Sandys ;

prefixed to selections from the metrical paraphrases on the

Psalms, dc. 8vc . London , 1839.

The Archdeacon was a sound and excellent scholar

his retentive memory, and his extensive research into

cnomsrsns . 189

almost every book and on every matter connected with

his profession, made him an invaluable l iving reference

to the Clery of his Archdeaconry, to whom he was

always ready to render his counsel and assistance. He

was a kind friend to all beginners in literary under

takings, readily assisting by his pen and purse every

one who appeared to him to be worthy of approbation .

His works of charity were extensive and munificent, and

gained for him in his Archdeaconry the title of the good

Archdeacon . A s a Divine there was a degree of sober

judgment and depth in him , which make his writings

appear far more sterling than the current divinity of the

day ; and he will be long remembered as one of the

great pillars and true sons of the Church, which all his

theological works tended to support and to defend. A

learned friend of the late Archdeacon thu s affectionately

speaks of him : I had known Mr. Todd for nearly

forty years , and, although distance had prevented much

of intercourse between u s, yet I never failed to cherish

the greatest veneration and regard for this venerable

man . His simplicity of character, his kindness ofheart,his innate nobleness of mind, and his genu ine bene

volence ; above all , too , his true Christian piety, sincere

and zealou s, yet free altogether from austerity or affect

ation ; were no less worthy of praise than deserving

of our imitation ; and I grieve to think that he is no

longer among us. as our ornament and example. The

only consolation to be derived is a humble confidence

that he is in rest and happiness ; having left upon earth

a good name, of which his latest posterity may be ju stly

proud.

”Literary Gazette.

He died on Christmas Eve, 1845 . A monument of

plain white marble in the chancel , where he was buried,at Settrington , is inscribed w ith the following epitaph

Sacred to thememory of the VenerableHenryJohnTodd ,M .A .

A rchdeacon of Cleveland, and twentyfive years Rector of this

Parish, who died on the 24th day of December, 1845 ,

190 cuoms'rsas.

aged 89 years, in the hope of a joyful resurrection through

the merits of his Redeemer. He was pious , benevolent, sincere,

and humble an accomp lished Scholar, a sound Divine, and

an able supporter of the Church of England , which he

defended by his pen, and illustrated by his examp le. A lso to

Anne Todd , wife to the above Reverend Henry John Todd ,

who died on the 14th day of April, 1844 , aged 78 years.

N or was this the only memorial of respect paid to this

worthy ecclesiastic. In a Yorkshire Gazette, of February

1846, appears the following : many of our readers w ill

be aware, that it is upwards of six months since it was

first proposed amongst the C lergy of the Archdeaconry

of Cleveland to present a testimonial of their esteem ,

respect, and attachment to their Venerable Archdeacon,

the Rev. H. J. Todd. In compliance with the general

wish of the Clergy of the Archdeaconry, the testimonial

selected was a painted window for the parish church,

the du ties of which , for a quarter of a century, he had so

faithfully and efiiciently discharged. It was the desire

of the Clergy of the Archdeaconry, that this mark of

their attachment might be completed during his life

time ; bu t, alas ! they have now to lament ° in his death

the loss of one, whom each felt to be the kindest of

friends, and most able of advisers.

The window is now finished, and it was last week

placed in its appropriate situation in the Tower at the

west end of the church of Settrington , and it is in all

respects worthy of the object fer which it was designed.

The three principal lights are filled w ith three figures

standing under Gothic canopies, representing Melchi

sedec, Moses, and St. John the Baptist. The four smaller

compartments above are occupied by small figures of the

four Evangelists. Of those at the side, the principal

contain the Arms of the See and those of the late Arch

deacon . The inscription at the foot is as follows

Henrico Johanni Todd, A ; M . Archidiacono suo Clem

Clevelandensis D .D . 184 5 . The design and execution of

192 cnomsrnns .

Browne, William. adm. 1 5 June. res. 1 780. Matt . at Mag

dalenHall, 14 Dec. 1 779, net. 18 . Son ofWilliam Browne

of Ifiley. B.A . 18 June, 1 783 . M .A. 26 April , 1 786 .

adm. Chaplain, 14 N ov. 1786 . res. 183 1 . Clerk of the

s

t

: Market. Chaplain ofN ew College,! Proctor in the Vice

Chancellor’s Court. Chaplain to the County Gaol . Lec

turer at Carfax. Chaplain of the Radclifi'

e Infirmary,

1797-1834 . On a high-tomb on the east side of Holy

well churchyard is inscribed ; Here lieth the Rev. William

B rowne, who died N ov. 9 , 1834 , aged 72 years.

Spencer, Thomas. adm . 19 Oct. res. 1777. Matt . 1 7 Dec.

1770, wt. 17. Son of Daniel Spencer of St. Mary ’

s,

Gloucester, pleb. C lerk, 1 777— 1779.

1773 Wi therell , William . adm . 23 Jan. res. 1776. M att .

17 Dec. 1776, wt. 16. Son of John Witherell of Bridge

water, Somerset, pleb. adm . Clerk, 1776— 1780 . B .A .

2 5 May , 1780. Morte subitanea abreptus est l lmo Aug.

1780. V. P. Reg.

Keep. George. adm. 23 July. res. 1780 .

1774 Brooks, William . adm . 14 April. res. 20 June.

Blenkinsopp, Henry. adm. 20 June. res. 1782 . Matt . at

Hertford College, 14 May, 1 782 , set. 16. Son of Richard

Blenkinsopp ofOxford, pleb. B .A. Lincoln College, 23 Feb.

1 786. M .A . 14 Ju ly, 1789.

He became one of the two Conducts or Readers of

Eton College Chapel. Minor Canon ofWindsor, 1797 .

Vicar of Christchurch , M onmou thshire, 1807 . Rector of

Fulmer, co. Buckingham , 1809-1823 . On a slab in the

Chancel atFulmer is the following inscription : In memoryof the Reverend He nry B lenkinsopp , Rector of this Parish,

who died suddenly of an apop lecticfit, August 14th, 1823 ,deeply regretted by his wife andfamily, aged 59 years

Middleton,Bartholomew . adm . 14 N ov. res. 1779. Appointed

Clerk, 1 5 Oct. 1 779— 1786. Metr. 1 5 Oct. 1779 , wt. 17 .

Son of Thomas M iddleton of Bampton, co . Oxford, cler .

B .A . 18 June, 1783 . M.A . 10 May, 1787. M inor Canon

Lipscomb’

s Hist. of the County of Buckingham . Vol . iv. pp . 498 . 500 .

caomsrsas. 198

and Sub-Dean of Chichester Cathedral , 1786. Vicar of

St. Peter the Great, Chichester. Rector of Singleton ,

co . Surrey. Vicar of West Dean, co . Sussex, 2 N ov.

1786. He died at Bognor, 1 1 June, 183 1 .

Lister, Edward Jackson . adm . 6 Dec . res. 1782 Son of

James Lister of Oxford , Printer , and nephew of the

first editor of Jackson ’

s Oxford Journal . He is said on

good au thority to have been a boy of superior talents and

manners, which obtained for him the friendship of some

of the Seniors of the College, whose notice was a dis

tinction. The well-known translator of the Lu siad of

Camoens, William Juliu s M ickle, also frequently made

him a companion in his walks, and, as they rambled toge

ther, invented tales forhis amusement. Lister died young,and was buried in the church-yard of St. M ichael

’

s,

Oxford, 0 June, 1782 . He has been commemorated byno common pen in the following passage extracted from

the Preface to an edition of the Eu thydemus and Gorgias

of Plato , printed at the Clarendon Press in 1784 .

“ Hae

in re vero (in correcting the press) mihi pracipuam operam

navabat Edvardus Lister, juvenis lectissimus ; quem jam

quidem ad sedes pioram transtulit Deus 0 .M . eujus autem

memoria er hoe pectore nulla vi ternporis adimetur. Culti

et elegantis ingenii specimen, ineunte vel prima adolescentia ,

luci edidit B ionis Epitaphium Adonidis carmine Anglieo

eap reesum ; viadum autem decimum seatum annum supe

raverat, cum terris atemum vale diarit by yap duke?rd Grier

M yriam uc'

as. A monumental tablet, erected by the

The following elegant verses on Lister’s translation of Bion, con

sidered by the celebrated Mr. Crowe to be the best translation of it

then in English, were composed by Lister’s friend

’s Tutor, a talented

Scholar, George Murthwaite, Fellow of Queen’

s College

Tandem digna tuo , Cytberea ! videmus amore

Carmina Listeri, primitias Veneri.

Ipsa licet venias prmsens dolitura, dolores

Ills tamen varia leniet arte tuos ;

Quippe valet nimias animi componere cures ,

Ingenio, vultu, cal-mine, voce, 1yra.

O

19 1 cnoms'

rsns .

now venerable Writer of the above, in the chancel of S t.

Michael’

s , during the present year is an interesting

proof, that a period of seventy years has not obliterated

the memory of this intelligent young person. I t is thu s

inscribed : Props in cameterio sepultas est, inscriptions jam

earens, EdvardusLister,EpitaphiiAdonidisAnglicus Interpres.

Vis it ann. xvr. Decessit anno u nccnxxxu . cujus eximiam

ingenium, magna spondens , sed cito eatinctu m, ab amico sep

1 775 Parker, Edward. adm . 16 Jan. res . 1780. Matr. 1 7

March, 1 780 , net. 17 . Son of Thomas Parker of Glon

cester, pleb. adm . C lerk , 13 Oct. 1 780— 1 786 . B .A . 1 0

Oct. 1783 . M .A . 28 M ay, 1 789. Rector of St. Mary-le

Bow , Durham , 19 July, 1788 . Obiit 27 April , 1809.

Gerard, John . adm . 1 3 Ju ly. res. 1780 .

Cox, George. adm. 13 July. res. 1 782 . Matr. at New

College, 20 Feb. 1782 , set. 1 7 . Son of Charles Cox of

Ho]ywell , Oxford , Yeoman Bedell of the University. adm .

Clerk, 3 Nov. 1784— 1787. adm . Chaplain, 19 July, 1787- 1799. Clerk, and afterwards Chaplain of N ew Col

lege. B .A . N ew Col] . 19 Oct. 1786 . M .A . 4 Apr. 1789.

Rector of St. Martin ’

s, alias Carfax, Oxford. Obiit 1799 .

1776 Hart, res. 1 782.

1777 Hansell , Peter. res . 1 783 . Matr. 1 1 June, 178 1 . a t.

17 . Son of Peter Hansell of Reading, Berks , gen. adm .

Clerk, 29 Dec. 1783 . res. 1787 . B .A. 14 April , 1785 . adm.

Minor Canon y of N orwich Cathedral , 27 N ov. 1786. In

Sept. 1794 , hemarried Miss Garland ofNorwich, and after

her decease, Mary, daughter of Robert Partridge, Esq.

This appointment was obtained apparently through the influence of

Mr. Robert Parr, Rector of St. Laurence, N orwich, and formerly Fellow

ofMagdalen College. I n the situationhe p laced me, I have heard nothing

but encomiums on his goodness of heart, and lamentations for his loss .

Johnstone's Memoirs of Dr. Parr, vol. viii. p . 654 : a passage in one of

three letters from Mr. Hansell to Dr. Samuel Parr, one of which is

couched in terms strongly indicative of the former’s characteristic inde

pendones ofmind .

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was popu lar.—when half the learning and w it of the

world were enlist ed in its service , and when many a

well-disposed mind was shaken , if not carried away and

spo ilt through philosophy and vain deceit.” At such a

period , when even bel ievers were sometimes ashamed

of witnessing a good confession , and so far yielded to

the torrent of fashion as. in some degree, to lower their

profession to the views which prevailed,— he was led to

see clearly the fatal m istake of any accommodation to

such errors , and to feel strongly the enormou s evils ,

which are their sure result. By the study of those

incomparable publications, which then exposed these

evils, and by an examination of those standard works ,which a better age had produced, he learnt the grounds

of a Christian’

s faith ; he ascertained for himself that a

bel iever does not follow cunningly devised fables, as the

popular writers of his day vainly tried to establish ; he

proved all things for himself, and then held fast for

ever that which he saw was good ; and then was he

rooted, and bu ilt up, and established in the faith.

”

Having thu s noticed the foundation and the steadiness

of his faith, which we may justly conclude to have been

the mainspring and regulator of his course through life,

we may proceed to notice some of those fruits which

were the evidence of its sincerity. And here I may

mention an uniform and exact attention for more than

fifty years to the duties of that profession to which he

belonged, in the parishes of which he was Minister.

Providence certainly blessed him with an unusual mea.

sure of health and strength ; and well-formed habits led

him to find the greatest pleasure in the du ties which

home presented. Few perhaps for so long '

a period have

pursued those du ties w ith so little intermission or relax

ation . His absence from amongst us was so rare an

occurrence, that the instances m ight almost be enu

merated . In addition to the regular and strictly official

du ties of his station , very seldom did a day go by in

cnoms'

rans. 197

which he was not”

to be found visiting amongst his flock.

He had thoroughly learned to consider this life ,—and

thu s he frequently spoke of it,— as a scene of labour to

be done at the command of the great Hou seholder and

Lord of the vineyard, for the sake ofHis people . For a

long period it is well known that he held an office which

requ ired a pecul iar attention to the services of this

Cathedral . On his entrance upon that office, he gave

a voluntary pledge as to the degree of personal atten

tion to be bestowed upon it. From that pledge, after

the deceas e of him to whom he gave it, he did not con

sider himself released , nor did he desire it : and it was

more than fulfilled . Interested from early years, and

well-informed in the solemn devotional music of our

country, it was his desire and study , both in and ou t of

the Cathedral , to cherish an attachment to it amongst

the members of our Choir, and to unite them in the

endeavour to render our Service more effective in sing

ing the praises of Him to whom it is addressed . From

this brief no tice of his professional l ife, let u s pass to

some of those qualities, which marked the general cha

racter of our departed friend. And here we may first

mention a quality to which all who knew him w ill bear

w itness,— an invariable uprightness and integrity,

which has left to his surviving friends the memory of a

long life without reproach . Closely connected w ith

this exemplary quality was another, which, it is to be

feared , is more rarely found , -I mean, a sacred regard

and reverence for tru th. Connected w ith this was ever

to be observed a remarkable frankness and sincerity in

general conversation . To say what we think, and think

what we say, appears to have been a maxim habitual to

him : yet with this was blended a courtesy ofmanner,

an old fashioned courtesy I fear we must term it, to the

discredit of ou r times,— which the Gospel enjoins ; that

courtesy which desires to please his neighbour for his

good, and which has been well defined by an uninspired

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write r, as benevolence in trifies. I t can hardly be neces

sary to say, that I do not mean that spuriou s courtesy

which abounds in conventional phrases and unmeaning

compl iments , while there is little, if any, true Christian

love at the heart. Blended with the above we observed

also , as their genuine fru it, an abstinence from censuring

and judging others , however differing in opinion from

himself ; and few appear to have more successfully

resolved to speak evil of no man. The simplicity of

his daily life and his habitual temperance are well

known ; and to these, under God, we believe may be

attribu ted, in a great degree, that vigorou s constitu tion

and activity, both of mind and body, which enabled him

for so long a period to pursue withou t intermission the

path of active du ty. To these we may add great mode

ration as to worldly amusements, even in those allow

able and consistent with his calling ; and a mode of life

clear of all display, and plainer than many would con

clude his circumstances m ight warrant. These notices

may appear trifling, bu t in their resul ts such habits were

important ; and contribu ting, as they did, to the perform

ance of a fundamental Christian du ty, they are a valu

able example to u s all . It was by this self-denying

moderation ; this orderly and unostentatiou s regulation

of his family ; this decided abstinence from all display

and unnecessary luxury and indulgence, that he was

enabled to give more largely to him that needeth. To

these qualities I w ill only add the recollection of a well

stored mind, which was habitually increasing its stores

by a fixed aversion to idleness, and by sound and useful

reading ; and, in the last place, of his steadiness as a

friend, which was returned by a corresponding feeling

from some whose fi'iendship was an honour to any one.

He enjoyed in past years the intimate affection of one,

whose Christian deeds still remain to bless the unfor

tunate : I mean, the mun ificent Founder' of our. Insti

Mr. Tewell .