'After the Restoration, great complaints were made of the neglect of the Royalists who had suffered in the King's, and his father's cause but if those who were neglected were in general such as this honest man has represented himself, there was not so much ground of complaint. This Mr. Wenlock seems to have been a hot-headed, injudicious, prating fellow, who owed his sufferings chiefly to a very intemperate tongue and zeal, which were of little or no use to the cause he espoused, and a very great detriment to himself. Here are some curious particulars to be learnt relating to those times. M. L.'

"How Mr. Wenlock has represented himself I know not, having as yet not read the book: but why it should be surmised that in general the royalists were hot-headed, injudicious, prating fellows, of intemperate tongues and zeal, I cannot conceive. We know the other party distinguished themselves sufficiently, by their marks and characters.

"By his account of himself it appears that he married very early a daughter of the famous Michael Dalton, Esq. of Cambridgeshire, by whom he had several children; and being bred up to the law, practised his profession in Lincoln's Inn, and afterwards in the country; living sometime in Colchester, and afterwards at Langham in Essex, near the confines of Suffolk, a part of the kingdom much infested with puritanism, and its consequent rebellious and republican principles, which being quite the reverse to those of our author, he led a most uncomfortable life amongst them; and in the rebellion, for his open, frank, and too unwary speeches to and of those hypocrites, he and his family were reduced to beggary and spinning, he forced to abscond, often summoned to appear before their rascally committees, and his estate sequestered. His marriage with Mr. Dalton's daughter, and other particulars relating to that family and himself, I have entered into my vol. ii. p. 17. Among his friends who relieved or harboured him during his persecution and distress are these named: Sir Robert Crane, Knt. of the Bath, seemed to countenance him, p. 24; Tho. Dalton, Rector of Dalham in Suffolk, afterwards D.D. his kinsman, with the lord of that manor; [Qu

if not the family of Stuteville?] the Lady Jermy and her daugh ter; the Lady Waldegrave, both widows; Henry Whitcroft, gent. his kinsman, Alderman of Eye in Suffolk; Lord Cornwallis and his Lady, very kind to him, though unacquainted with him; Robert Bogas, gent. his kinsman, of Little Thorp Hall in Suffolk; the widow of George Gawdie, Esq. also one Mr. Cartwright, a divine, near Thorp Hall; Mrs. Bing of Hitcham in Suffolk, wife of Henry Bing, Esq. then a captain in his Majesty's service, grandchilde to Sir Edward Coke, Lord Chief Justice; Mrs. Breton, wife of Mr. Lawrence Breton, B. D. a learned, orthodox divine, of Hitcham also; Sir William Denny of Norfolk, Bart. Thomas Jermy of Mettfield in Sussex, Esq. son and heir to Thos. Jermy, Knt. of the Bath; John Risby of Thorp, Esq. Dr. Pierse of Wangford; Mr. Thomas Greek, Rector of Carlton, grandson, as I take it, to a Baron of the Exchequer; Mr. Lendall, Rector of Brinkley; Mr. Underwood, Rector of Chevington; my loving kinsman, Mr. James Floid, then of Weston in Cambridgeshire; and Mr. Thomas Ward of Abington. He absolutely refused the covenant, but took the engagement with a salvo, to save his estate and himself harmless: but all would not do. His father died while he was in his infancy; and seems to have been a true son of the Church of England, free from popery and puritanism. His stile is redundant, and like Wm. Prynne's, and he seems to be a true opposite to him. His petition to the King for a reward for his constant loyalty and suffering seems rather too bare-faced; and he appears to me to have been much such a character of a barrister as Jacob Butler of Barnwell near Cambridge, who was a noisy, busy, troublesome lawyer, of no practice in his profession, but a great party man, and half-crazed: and somewhere in the book Mr. Wenlock gives us to understand that some people thought him so. His poetry is such as one would expect from an halfstarved Muse, jaded and hobbling in her gait."

35. Nathaniel Vincent, Fellow of Clare Hall.

"The right notion of Honour, as was delivered in a Sermon before

the King at Newmarket, Oct. 4, 1674, with Annotations by N. V. D. D. Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty, and Fellow of Clare Hall. [In the annotations are some useful things about his College.] On Ps. viii. 5. Lond. 1685." 4to.

"He was admitted Fellow of the Royal Society, 1683; and while he continued of that Society was a very active and useful member of it; but resigned his place there in 1686-7.

"I heard Mr. Commissary Greaves at Fulburne in January, 1773, give a very ridiculous account of him, and such as no one could believe; particularly relating to his covetousness and spunging upon Fellow Commoners and young men of his College, whom he would invite to spend the evening at his room, where he caused them all to club for wine, which when it was come, he would halloo out of his window, and pretend they were going to murder him on which the company would fly, and leave him in possession of several bottles of wine. But this is so improbable a tale as well may be ranked among those that this gentleman has been always famous for.

"Senior Proctor 1676.

"I have an excellent print of him in his large bushy wig, band, surplice, hood, and scarf. Effigies Nathanaelis Vincent, S. T. P. A. Cl. Pr. S. R. S. æt. A. 58. A. D. 1694. Well-looking man. Neatly ornamented oval frame, which rests on a pediment, upon which are two death's heads, and between them his arms-Azure 3, 4 foils A. crest, a bear's head muzzled, from a ducal coronet. Under the arms on a scroll-Disce quibus constent bona mens et corpore vires. Quarto, and singular print, as unusual in a surplice.

"I have another print in my collection of English heads, among the dissenting teachers, of a person whose features resemble the former, in his own hair, large band, cloak, and jerkin, or coat, with the true cffigies of Mr. Nathaniel Vincent, Minister of the Gospel, 1681, in an oval carved frame. Probably father or uncle to the former."

36. Richard Vaughan, Bishop of London, Fellow of Trinity College.

"Dr. Robert Hill, in his dedication of his Path-way to Prayer, to the Lord Chancellor Ellesmere, says, that Bishop Vaughan was a great encourager of his, Dr. Hill's, studies; and that he, the Bishop, was an honour to our College, St. John's in Cambridge, in which he once lived a painful student; and an ornament to our Church, of which he was a preaching Bishop. For his admirable learning he was at our University created D.D. long since; and for his ability to rule, afterwards consecrated Bishop of Bangor, immediately translated to Chester, and after a while to London. In these advancements of his how much he was beholden to your honour I had rather be silent, than say little: but surely he was worthy you should do for him.

"Qu. if he was not the young scholar that went as sort of under secretary to Roger Ascham, who attended Sir Rich. Morrison as embassador to the Emperor in 1551, of whom frequent mention is made by Ascham in his letters to Mr. Edward Raven, Fellow of St. John's College, which are printed at the end of Ascham's English works, published by one James Bennet, schoolmaster of an academy at Hoddesdon in Hartfordshire, without any date, but I believe about 1766, in 4to. at London. At p. 374 he thus speaks of him: Vaughan hath a better life than either my Lord or I: he lacks nothing; he fares well; he lives well; he may do what he lists; study what thing he list; go to the Emperor's court, or elsewhere, when he list. If he do not come home well furnished with much knowledge, he little considers what God doth call him to by this journey. If I were any man's man, as Vaughan is mine, I would wish no better felicity abroad. Those that stopped S. Wright from this occasion shall never be able to make him amends: for in lacking nothing, he should have studied, and seen what he had list. There can be no greater commodity to an Englishman abroad. If Wright had ten fellowships at St. John's, it would not counter-weigh with the loss of this occasion: for besides Dutch, French, and Italian, which he should have learned, in a manner, whether he would or no, he might have

learned as much Greek and Latin, and perhaps more than in St. John's. I am almost an Italian myself, and never look on it.' In another place he writes thus, p. 378, 'If Vahan were an honest fellow, he might write at large of any thing; for he hath good leisure.' And again, at p. 382, I have called Vahan L. K. [perhaps lewd knave!] many times, that having so much leisure, he never writes.' Thus again, at p. 384,Tell Henry Stiland [Qu. if not Ailand?] that I am well acquainted with Andreas Vesabius, that noble physician, and, as Vahan saith, the best physician in the world, because he gives him pitcher meat enough.'

"Before his translation from Chester, the Puritans, with Mr. Bruen at their head, had meetings and prayers to exercise one Tho. Harrison, a boy of about 11 or 12 years of age, who was supposed to be possessed by the devil; and so busy and earnest were those bigots in this affair, that they prevailed with the Bishop to grant a licence for a private fast in the boy's father's house, where many of these puritan preachers, with Mr. Bruen and twenty or thirty more of the same stamp attended. The Bishop's licence seems to be granted that too many of these gentry might not assemble together on this farce: so it is more than probable that the temper of the times and place obliged the Bishop to com ply with a piece of buffoonery which he could not avoid."

37. Thomas Patrick Young, D. D. Prebendary of Westminster, Caius College.

man.

"He died beginning of September, 1778, in the Cloisters, Westminster, having been ill for some time. A very worthy Went with his friend and patron, Lord Viscount Townshend, into Ireland; but preferred English preferment to title. Norfolk man; nephew I think to Mr. and Mrs. Blomefield. Mr. Blomefield told me that Mr. Young by his instructions was, when a scholar at Caius College, preparing a new edition of Hey. lyn's Introduction to History, &c. He died a bachelor, and was Rector of Berkhamsted."