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He was author of a poem, entitled, Psyche, which has been sometimes given to Beaumont, the dramatic writer he also wrote Annotations on St. Paul's Epistles, and Observations on the Apology of Dr. Henry More, of Christ College. He died Nov. 23, 1699. It is singular enough that there should be two monuments erected to his memory, one a gravestone, the other a mural monument, about the College chapel: on one, there is a most extraordinarily eulogistic inscription: among other things, he was Hæreticorum malleus.

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The last ejected loyalist I shall mention is John Bargrave. He was cast out by the Duke of Manchester, under a warrant dated 13th of Feb. 1644. He then passed a few years in Italy. On his return, after the Restoration, he commenced B. D. at Oxford, and was made Canon of Canterbury, where he died. He was the author of a work, entitled, Itinerario d'Italia, or at least, engaged with others in it.

* When I was at Canterbury Cathedral, I there perused a very curious account of Antiquities, Rarities, and Coins, in that library, left by Dr. Bargrave, entitled, Rara, et Antiqua, et Numismata Bargraviana, Roma, et aliis Italiæ locis, diversis, nempe quatuor, Italiæ Itineribus, collecta. In this narrative is an account of obelisks, pieces of loadstone, with their qualities, the Pæstic Antiche, Romane Incognite, and the Caves, ten miles under ground, round Rome, where the Catacombs are, mountain crystals, and pumice stones. His account of the Camelion exactly accords with what I witnessed of it myself, for I once saw a live Camelion (a rara avis) in the Physic Garden at Chelsea, that was brought there by Banks and Solander.

There were also a few MSS. belonging to Dr. Bargrave's Collection, that are curious. In this Library too, are the Numismata Bargraviana, some medallions, but copies, in brass and lead: some originals, in lead. There are between 4 and 500 of his ancient coins, among which is mentioned an Отно: but I have heard it doubted whether any Othos were ever struck.

After the Restoration, some of these ejected loyalists were handsomely provided for in the church, or restored to college. The names of the Puritan or Parliament party then put out, are not found in the place where I should have expected to find them, Dr. Calamy's Abridgment of the Life and Times of Mr. Baxter : they are mentioned, and that is all, by Mr. Walker. I am not, indeed, aware that they wrote any thing, except Dr. Lazarus Seaman, the ejected Master, but of him even Anthony Wood speaks as a learned divine. He wrote a Vindication of the Judgment of the Reformed Churches, concerning Ordination, and laying on of Hands; and a few sermons, preached before the Long Parliament, being then one of the assembly of divines. He was Vice-chancellor at the time the University addressed to Oliver Cromwell the Oliva Pacis, and wrote the Introductory Poem, and Peroration. Dr. Seaman held the living of All-Hallows, Bread Street, London, whence he was ejected by the Act of Uniformity, and died 1675.

Mr. Daniel Cawdry, though not a Fellow, had been of this House, and also one of the assembly of divines he wrote what Dr. Calamy calls an excellent book, entitled, Sabbatum Redivivum, or the Christian Sabbath Vindicated, in two volumes; the first edition printed in 1645, the second in 1652. He also published a Duplex Diatribe, concerning Superstition, Will-Worship, and the Christmas Festival; to which Dr. Ham

a Dr. Calamy's Abridgment of Mr. Baxter's History of his Life and Times, vol. ii. p. 17, first edit.

b Latin Poems, addressed to Cromwell, and printed at Cantab 1654.

Dr. Calamy's Abridgment, &c. vol. ii. 489.

mond wrote an answer; and to the answer Mr. Cawdry replied. He also published some other pieces. He was a Presbyterian, and ejected by the Act of Uniformity, 1662, from the living of Great Billing, Northamptonshire.

Mr. Francis Talents, ejected also from his living by the same act, had been first of Peter House, a person of considerable learning, and author of a very curious work; but of which under Magdalen College.

One Puritan, I cannot help noticing, educated at Peter House, who was greatly distinguished in the history of those times; and, if no author himself, the occasion of making one; Colonel Hutchinson's Memoirs, written by his lady, lately published, have been much admired: from the Memoirs it appears, that Colonel Hutchinson was admitted of this college: he used to say, the college, at that time, was Popish and Arminian-and, expressions indicating his party dislikes, he himself, as well as Mrs. H. being a Calvinist.

Following on from these tumultuous times, we find a due succession of literary men, who were educated in this ancient foundation.

William Sherlock, master of the Temple, and Dean of St. Paul's, obtained reputation as a divine, being known by his Practical Discourses on Death and Judgment. He had been a student of this college; and took his A.M. degree in 1660; his S. T. P. in 1680. Dr. Sherlock continued for some time a nonjuror, but at length took the oath to King William. This occasioned various animadversions on his conduct, which caused him to write a

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> He was entered at Peter House, 1631, and distinguished himself as a scholar. He was governor of Nottingham Castle, and represented the town, during the Civil Wars See Mrs. Hutchinson's Life of Colonel Hutchinson, p. 35.

Treatise on the Nature of Allegiance to the Supreme Magistrate, as a vindication. He also wrote a Vindication of the Trinity, in which he was charged, by Trinitarians, with carrying the doctrine up to tritheism. This book was burnt at Oxford.

Sir Samuel Garth, M. D. was author of a satirical poem, called, The Dispensary. It relates to a dispute between the College of Physicians, and Apothecaries of London, about establishing a dispensary. He was the friend of Pope. As to the poem, it would have been a good one, had the progress of it equalled the beginning :

Not far from that most celebrated place,
Where awful justice shews her angry face,
Where little villains must submit to fate,

That great ones may enjoy the world in state.

Dr. Garth, also, assisted in a translation of Ovid's works: he died in 1713. Garth took his degree of A. M. in 1684; his M. D. degree in 1691.

Another physician, a little subsequent to Dr. Garth, should be here mentioned, Dr. Samuel Jebb, editor of various works, a student of this house, and a nonjuror

See a Short History of Valentinus Gentilis, the TRITHEIST, tried, condemned, and put to death, (burnt alive!) 1567, by the Protestant Reformed Church of Berne, in Switzerland, for asserting the three Divine Persons of the Trinity to be [three distinct Eternal Spirits, &c.] wrote in Latin, by Benedictus Aretius, a divine of the church, and now translated for the use of Dr. Sherlock. The translator was supposed to have been Dr. South. Printed 1694.

b Studiorum Primitiæ, dedicated to Peter House, viz.: Justini Martyris cum Tryphone Dialogus; Caii Opuscula; Bibliotheca Literaria; an edition of Aristides, with notes, two volumes quarto, and an edition of Friar Bacon's Opus Majus, folio. See Biographical and Literary Anecdotes of Mr. Bowyer, p. 32. 80, first edition. Samuel Jebb took his degree of A. B. in 1712, but took no other degree at Cambridge.

of considerable learning.

He died in Derbyshire, March

9, 1772, whither he retired, after practising near London. Dr. John Jebb was related to him, though not descended from him. Sir Richard Jebb was a younger son of Dr. Samuel.

To Jeremiah Markland, the critic, some allusion has been already made; but I cannot forbear saying a word or two more. He was born October 29, 1693, and educated in Christ's Hospital: this observation is made, because those who go to college from this school are designed for the church; but Mr. Markland, notwithstanding, and though he took the degree of M. A. and was a tutor, and senior fellow of Peter House, could never be prevailed on to take orders. He was not rich; indeed, always poor: but too proud to be querulous; too frugal to be necessitous; or if necessitous, only through being too benevolent. Preferment was offered him in the church, if he would take orders a; and he twice refused the Greek professorship, when offered him.

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a Bishop Hare, says one of Mr. Markland's learned friends, Mr. E. Clarke, would have preferred him, if he would have taken orders: but non Saxa nudis surdiora navitis." Mr. Clarke's letter to Mr. John Nichols, Nov. 10, 1777, in Biographical and Literary Anecdotes of Mr. Bowyer, p. 19, 20, &c. first edit. whence the epitaph is copied.

1 σε Αλλ εμον υποτε θυμον ενι ςηθεσσιν έπεισαν, to speak the language of a Greek professor, (I am quoting from a letter of Markland's,) and instead of going a hundred miles to take it, I would go two hundred the other way to avoid it."

The following inscription on his monument is 30 complete a history of what Mr. Markland was, no less than of what he did, that contrary to my usual practice, I will lay it before the reader:

Memoriæ sacrum

JEREMIE MARKLANDI;

Qui, quanquam splendidiores eum

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