Plumptre, 1778, the Fellows of Christ Church appealed to him against the Master, for not declaring the Fellowship of Dr. Shepherd void, having so great emoluments; but as Dr. Thomas was then very ill, it was desired by him to be laid aside for a time: and the present Vice Chancellor, calling upon me at Milton this morning, Nov. 16, 1778, told me, that just before he came out, the Fellows had lodged their appeal with him. Dr. Plumptre had sent to the College of Windsor, to know the value of one of their Canonries. They thought that by their statutes they were forbid revealing it.

"In 1780, after the clection of Mr. Barker to the Mastership, he cut his name out of the list of Fellows: but he appealing to the Visitors, the Vice Chancellor, Dr. Yates of Catherine Hall, and two Doctors, viz. Dr. Smith, Master of Caius, and Dr. Hay of Sidney, they reinstated him in Oct. 1780. In Nov. 1782, presented by George Finch Hatton, Esq. late of Christ College, to the Rectory of Eastling in Kent.-Barker, the Master of Christ's College, though repeatedly disappointed, was preparing again to apply to the Visitor, Dr. Beadon, Vice Chancellor, to turn him out of his Fellowship. I suppose this living will vacate it."

20. John Cowper, Fellow of Bene't College, 1770.

"On Tuesday last (March 20, 1770) died in the thirty-third year of his age, the Rev. John Cowper, A. M. and Fellow of Bene't College and Minister of Faxton. He was an excellent scholar and a worthy man; and as such his death is deservedly regretted by his own society, and the University in general.

"Mr. Cowper was the son of Dr. Cowper of Berkhampsted in Hartfordshire, of the Earl of Shaftesbury [Cowper's] family, an ingenious man, and a good poet and orator. I heard the Master, Dr. Bernardiston, say, that he had employed him to write the congratulatory letter to Mr. Charles Yorke, on his being appointed Lord Chancellor, and which his sudden death prevented being presented. Mr. Cowper had been for above a twelvemonth in a decaying way; and for these last three months so bad as to give no

hopes of his recovery. His complaint was in his liver: he was a short, thick, well-set man, and seemed to be of a robust constitution."

21. John Lord Cutts.

"He was a native of Cambridgeshire, and entered early into the service of the Duke of Monmouth. He was Aid-de-camp to the Duke of Lorrain in Hungary, and signalized himself in a very extraordinary manner at the taking of Buda by the Imperialists in 1686, which important place had been for near a century and a half in the hands of the Turks. Mr. Addison, in a Latin Poem worthy of the Augustan age, (Musæ Anglicanæ, vol. ii. p. 2.) plainly hints at Mr. Cutts's distinguished bravery at that siege. Returning to England at the Revolution, he had a regiment of foot; was created Baron of Gouran, in Ireland, Dec. 6, 1690; appointed governor of the Isle of Wight, April 14, 1693; was made a Major-General; and, when the assassination project was discovered, 1695-6, was Captain of the King's Guards. He was Colonel of the Coldstream, or 2d regiment of Guards, in 1701, when Mr. Steele, who was indebted to his interest for a military commission, inscribed to him his first work, The Christian Hero. On the accession of Queen Anne he was made Lieutenant-General of the forces in Holland, Commander in Chief of the forces in Ireland under the Duke of Orinond, March 23, 1704-5, and afterwards one of the Lords Justices of that kingdom, to keep him out of the way of action, a circumstance which broke his heart. He died at Dublin, Jan. 26, 1706-7. An original letter of his, dated From the royal camp at Goulden Bridge, Aug. 4, 1690,' is among Bp. Gibson's MS. papers, in Lambeth library, vol. iv.

P. 42."

* He was younger brother to William Cowper, author of The Task.

22. John Cleveland, Fellow of St John's, first of Christ's

College.

"Poems by J. C. with additions. No place. 8vo. 1654.

"The Works of Mr. John Cleveland, containing his Poems, Orations, Epistles. With the Life of the Author. Lo. 8vo. 1687. Print in canonical habit. Ded. by J. L. and S. D. to Francis Turner, D. D. Master of St. John's Coll. Cambridge.

"In Sir John Hynde Cotton's elegant library at Madingley near Cambridge, Nov. 1, 1769, is a most curious and valuable collection in near one hundred 4to. vols. of old pamphlets and newspapers, during the great Rebellion between 1639 and 1660, sorted by Mr. Carte for the late Sir John Cotton, and bound up in thick quarto volumes. In one of them, containing a weekly journal, called The Kingdome's Weekly Intelligencer, No. 101, p. 811, for Tuesday, May 27, 1645, is this article.

'But to speak some thing of our friend Cleveland, that grand malignant of Cambridge, we hear that now he is at Newark, where he hath the title of Advocate put upon him. His office and employment is, to gather all College rents within the power of the King's forces in those parts, which he distributes to such as are turned out of their Fellowships at Cambridge for their malignancy. If the royal party be thus careful to supply their friends, sure it is necessary to take some course to relieve those who are turned out of their houses and livings for adhering to the Parliament.'

"Mr. Granger, vol. i. p. 488, says he never was in holy orders, and therefore supposes his print fictitious, because he is there represented in a clerical habit, viz. a gown, falling band and band strings, but not in a cassock, having a black coat buttoned: he is a well looking man, in his own hair. But from the circumstance of his being in a clerical dress, and having a common place on a passage in St. Paul, for his College Chapel, I should rather suppose that Mr. Granger was mistaken, and that he really was in

orders; though I know it is not unusual for laymen sometimes to perform these scholastic exercises: for as to his acting as advocate in a lay capacity in the garrison at Newark, we all very well know that in these times of rebellion and confusion many Clergymen were forced to lay aside their gown, and get their bread in other professions as they could.

"See Mr. Nichols's Select Collection of Poems, vol. vii. p. 10, 11, 12, 13, where is a long account of him, with his print by Basire, from Fuller's painting in the possession of Dean Percy, who was his relation as well as Mr. Nichols: he is dressed as a layman, with a loose robe flung over his coat, in a falling band and long hair, very unlike his portrait before his works, and is called John Cleveland, Esq. son of the Rev. Tho. Cleveland, M. A. Vicar of Hinckley and Rector of Stoke in Leicestershire, who, with many of his children, was a sufferer for the cause of King Charles I. His eldest son John was born at Loughborough, and there baptized, June 20, 1613: educated at Hinckley under Ric. Vines, Master of Magdalen afterwards, and admitted of Christ's Coll. Sept. 4, 1627, and A.B. 1631; Elected Fellow of St. John's March 27, 1634, and M. A. 1635. He continued for many years the delight and ornament of that house, where he was one of the tutors; and being excused from going into holy orders, became their Rhetorick Reader, and was usually employed to draw up all epistles and addresses for that society, being much admired for the purity and terseness of his Latin style, &c. Appointed Judge Advocate under Sir Rich. Willis, Governor of Newark Castle. After the surrender of that garrison in 1646, he lived concealed for some years, till in Nov. 1655, he was seized at Norwich, and removed to Yarmouth, where he lay many months in prison; and at length removing to Gray's Inn, he was there seized with an epidemical intermitting fever, of which he died on Thursday morning, April 29, 1658, in his chamber in Gray's Inn, whence his body was brought to Hunsdon House, and on Saturday, May 1, was interred in the Church of Michael, College Hill, London, and attended by many persons eminent for their loyalty and learning, and his funeral sermon preached by his intimate friend, Bp. Pearson of Chester.

"In a letter, Feb. 20, 1782, from Mr. Nichols, is this' I thank you, Sir, for your information about Cleveland, which leads me to be still further troublesome. The Dean of Carlisle has sent me this MS. note from Oldys.

[Upon Cleveland's Poem, called The Mitred Assembly, see Wm. Lilly's Merlin for 1654, in which he sets it flying most extensively abroad. Whereupon Tho. Gataker, one of the Assembly of Divines, in his Discourse Apologetical, 1654, has made some animadversions both on Lilly and Cleveland, the author of the satire.'] So the MS. note.

"Qu. Is Lilly's Merlin, 1654, or Gataker's Discourse Apologetical, in Mr. Cole's collection? If so, an extract from either or both would be a favour to Dean Percy or me."

23. Wm. Colman, Master of C. C. C. C,

"Vice Chancellor 1778.

"It is an ancient name, though it has the appearance of a modern one. V. Liber Niger Scaccarii, p. 319, where mention of Herevicus Coleman holding a Knight's fee under William de Vesci in Yorkshire, temp. Hen. II. I write this, 1779, March 10, when I am a little dissatisfied with him, as to-morrow it will be exactly a month since he called upon me; and Feb. 20 I sent him a note with Mr. Walpole's book about Chatterton, but have never heard from him since. Certainly I have no right to expect him, or any one else to call here, as I call upon no one, hardly ever stirring out since the gout has so crippled me: but what makes it singular is, that he regularly used to call upon me two or three times in a week, in his ridings out, being obliged to take them on account of his asthma; and I know he has hardly ever missed going out since he was here, it being necessary to him, and we have had the finest weather that ever was remembered all the winter; more like spring than winter. I am rather afraid that he may have taken something amiss: God knows I am ignorant of it: but perhaps I may have said idly something which may have

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