cess of expedience. What other inducements might be lodged in his breast,—whether respect for literature, a feeling of public spirit, or the scintillations of secret ambition, this we do not know, and, perhaps, no one can tell; and therefore, in conclusion, though we protestants do not say masses for the souls of founders and benefactors, nor place them in the calendars of our saints, nor even hang a solitary prayer round their portraits—

Diua par sa grace ait mercy de SON AME.

AMEN.

knowing," that as the tree falls, so it lies,"-still the University, no doubt, will pay Sir George Downing the due honour of a founder, his College find pleasure in recording their obligations, and his own provisions, in the regular course of events, prevent his name from being soon forgotten.

a After the orthography of the MS.-The text alludes (according to the usual prayer for the soul) to the line under the beautiful original portrait of Henry V. in the famous illuminated MS. in Bene't College Library. See Mr. Tyson's account of it.

APPENDIX.

To attempt what it is impossible to execute, is a madness; and to profess that, wherein both our conscience and our reader's must have borne their testimony against the falsehood, would have been something worse. In the preceding History, then, there was no aim at a complete account of all our learned men; and to acknowledge it defective, where it does not profess to be perfect, will be no derogation to it.

To speak the truth, many wilful omissions have been made. These pages, both for time and for limits, were put under restraint. Much has been sacrificed to brevity; something to an after-attempt; and not a little in obedience to a voice, to which many a greater literary undertaking has been obliged to yield a.

Two or three names, however, that stole away through unguardedness, from my memory, shall be supplied,-being intended for insertion.

John Godwin, A. M. barely mentioned under Queen's, claims a more particular notice. He was a politician and divine of his own school. He wrote on the Imprudence of fighting against God, and in Vindication of the Execution of Cha. I. He was a puritan, but propagated the Arminian doctrines, with great zeal, among the Calvinists.

• Plura Meditanti aurem vellit Operarum festinatio; quæ etiam fortasse non pauca reliquerit Lectoribus excusanda: quibus si hæc quali acunq. arridere viderimus; et alia post hæc hujusmodi, si non potiora, majori saltem cura, in lucem producenda, speramus. Rerum Angl. Script. Tom. i. Lectori.

Though a republican, he was ejected from his living by the Parliament; and though strict for communion, he was strenuous against the Baptists. To say the least, he was the most determined controversialist, if not the most voluminous writer, of his age. The principal of his works are, Redemption redeemed, folio; a treatise on Justification, 4to. Cata-baptism, a treatise, on Infant Baptism, 4to. with 4tos. 8vos. and pamphlets in abundance. He died in 1665, aged 72.

T. Doolittle, fellow, A. M. of Pembroke Hall, did a great deal: he was an active tutor, and a ready writer, a zealous, practical preacher, and great catechist. He was a Calvinist, and author of various theological tracts; of which the most considerable are, one, on the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper; another, on the Sufferings of Christ. He was ejected, after the Restoration, from the living of St. Alphage, in London.

Arthur Jackson, A. M. of Trinity, was author of 4 volumes of Annotations on the Bible. Samuel Ogden, A. B. of Christ's, was an eminent scholar, and wrote on the separate Existence of the Soul, and on Justification. Samuel Shaw, A. M. of St. John's, an eminent schoolmaster of the Free-school in Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, wrote Sermons, Meditations, and two Comedies, that used to be acted by his scholars. He died 1695. Samuel Clark, A. M. fellow of Pembroke Hall, wrote Annotations on the Bible, with various other works on the Bible. All these were puritans, ejected from their several livings, after the Restoration. "

John Milner, B. D. by royal mandate; fellow of St. John's, a learned nonjuring clergyman, wrote a Col

A very particular account of him may be seen in Wilson's History of Dissenting Churches.

lection of the Church History of Palestine, from Christ to the Time of Dioclesian, and a Defence of Archbishop Usher. He held the vicarage of Leeds, in Yorkshire, but refusing to take the oath to King William, he was obliged to resign it. Mr. Manning, of Queen's, was distinguished as a Saxon scholar, and published an edition of Lye's Saxon Dictionary. As a divine, though respectable, he was not very orthodox, and was one of the petitioners for relief, in the case of Subscription to the 39 Articles.

Dr. Erasmus Darwin, (M. B. St. John's, 1755) was an eminent physician, and an admired, though rather too fine, a poet. He wrote The Botanic Garden, a Poem, in two parts, containing, in polished rhimed verse, (Part 1), The Economy of Vegetation, (Part 2), The Loves of the Plants, with Philosophical Notes, according to the Sexual System of Linnæus; and the Shrine of Nature, a Philosophical Poem. He also wrote a philosophical work, in prose, entitled Zoonomia, and a Plan for a Lady's Boarding School. A Critique was published on the Zoonomia, by Dr. Brown, professor of moral philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, and his Life has been written by Miss Seward.

G. Atwood, F. R. S. A. M. 1772, of Trinity, a distinguished mathematician, wrote a Treatise on Rectilinear Motion and Rotation of Bodies, with a Dissertation on the Structure of Arches: and in Mr. Lunn's Catalogue for 1809 were advertised 3 folio and 5 quarto volumes in MS. of his Extracts and Original Remarks on the different Branches of the Mathematics.

Joseph Milner, A. M. 1773, of Catharine Hall, was an eminent schoolmaster and divine, of Hull, in Yorkshire, author of several volumes of Sermons, and Theo

logical Tracts, and also of an Ecclesiastical History, more particularly in reference to what are called by some divines the Doctrines of Grace. It is grounded on the principles of Mr. John Newton's Ecclesiastical History of the Three first Centuries; and has been continued since Mr. Joseph Milner's death, by his brother, Dr. Isaac Milner, the Dean of Carlisle.

John Venn, A. M. Sidney Coll. 1786, rector of Clapham, Surry, was an admired preacher of the same principles, son of Mr. Henry Venn, already mentioned as author of, the Complete Duty of Man. Mr. V. jun. died in 1713, at which time was announced the intention of publishing 2 volumes of his Sermons. He wrote a va riety of theological Essays, in a periodical work called, The Christian Observer.

Amos Simon Cottle, A. B. 1799, of Magdalen, translated Icelandic Poetry, or the Edda of Sæmund, into English Verse, 1797. Sæmund was born in 1056. His singular Odes, called the Edda, relate to the Traditionary Mythology of the Northern Nations. Whether these Odes were written originally in the Icelandic language, and translated afterwards into Latin, (there being different opinions on the subject) the great antiquity of the opinions, and of the Odes themselves, is undisputed. Mr. Cottle's is a translation from the Latin, but the only one we have in English verse, and it is flowing and easy. Prefixed to the work is a Dissertation on the Northern Mythology, and some affectionate lines addressed to the Translator by his friend, the present Poet-Laureat.

a Verstegan (Restitution of decayed Intelligence, 1634) maintains, that the Grecian and Northern Mythology have no relation to each other; Mr. Cottle the contrary opinion, that there is a striking similarity between them.