the English Liturgy into Greek: he was also one of the translators of King James's Bible. He was master of this college.

William Howell, L. L. D. was author of a wellknown work, entitled, Medulla Hist. Anglicanæ.

Richard Cumberland, made Bishop of Chester at the Revolution, author of a confused, but learned work, de Legibus Naturæ, which has been methodized and translated into English by his chaplain a. It is directed against the principles of Mr. Hobbes. He likewise wrote Sanchoniathon, which is an attempt to reconcile the fragments of Phoenician history, ascribed to Sanchoniathon, with the Mosaic account. He was a retired, studious man, and when 80 years old, learned the Coptic language, in order to read Dr. Wilkins's Coptic New Testament, printed from the Bodleian MSS. at the Clarendon press, in 1716. He lived to be able to read a considerable part of it: so that Cato, of whom Cicero records that he learned Greek, when 60 years old, was nothing to Bishop Cumberland.

Among the ejected loyalists, were two persons of eminence in their day; one was Dr. Rainbow, master, who, though not ejected with the rest, was set aside in 1650, for not taking the engagement: he was, however, afterwards reinstated. He was considered a learned tutor, and was Dean of Peterborough: being afterwards made Bishop of Carlisle, he resigned his mastership. The other was Richard Ferenchief, fellow, A. M. afterwards D. D. He was ejected from his fellowship, and never returned to it; but obtained considerable preferment in the church, after the Restoration. He was

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author of a discourse, entitled, Toleration and Indulgence not justified, written against the presbyterians: he also edited the works of King Charles I. and wrote his life. He died in 1673".

There were also some persons of eminence, who suffered for non-conformity by the Bartholomew act; among whom was Francis Talents, A. M. who had been senior fellow of this college. He had travelled much, and on his return was made tutor, and ordained by the classical presbytery in 1648. He was a moderate man, and disposed to make advances at the Restoration; but disapproving the measures taken at that time, he resigned his living in 1662, and during his life always kept St. Bartholomew's day, as a day of humiliation. According to Dr. Calamy, though a puritan, he approved of occasional conformity, for Christian love, but not for self-interest. He died April 11, 1708, in the 89th year of his age.

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Mr. Talents was author of two or three treatises, relating to his favourite subject of Christian moderation : he was author also of a singularly curious and learned work of Chronological Tables, from Adam to the year 1680. It is finely engraven in 16 copper-plates, and was worked at his own house. It is more on the plan of Bellarmine's Chronologia Brevis, than Dr. Priestley's Chart, which follows the French. There is a portrait of Mr. Talents in the second volume of the Non-conformist's Memorial, and an account of him in vol. 3 of the

a There is no notice of Dr. Ferenchiefe in the Querela Cantabrigiensis; but an ample account of all the loyalists ejected from this College may be seen in Dr. Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy. ↳ Dr. Blair's are on this plan, with some improvements.

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same work a. Francis Talents had been first scholar of Peter House.

John Slater held the vicarage of Chatteris, in the Isle of Ely, which, on refusing to take the state oaths, he relinquished. He was author of the original Draught of the Primitive Church, against a book of the Lord Chancellor King's for the Presbyterian Government; which, according to Mr. Smyth, was generally said to have converted the lord chancellor to episcopacy.

Anthony Annesley, Earl of Anglesea, had been a fellow of this college. He published an edition of Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius, which was first begun by Mr. Bankes.

John Johnson, A. M. was editor of Puffendorff de Officio Hominis et Civis juxta Legem Naturalem, cum Notis; and was engaged in a former edition of Stephens's Thesaurus.

Dr. Daniel Waterland was first fellow, and afterwards master of this college, famous, in his day, as a theological controversialist on the Trinity. He wrote the learned Critical History of the Athanasian Creed: he was also admired as a preacher, and rose to considerable rank in the church. He died at Twickenham, in 1740, and was buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor. His life was written by the Rev. Jeremiah Seed.

Henry Coventry, Esq. a writer of a very different

* The title of these tables, as given by Mr. Talents, is as follows: "Veritati sacrum, quæ ut colentibus, magis intuitu, quantum fieri potest, clare innotescat, tabulis hisce Chronographicis præstare annixus est

Francis Talents,

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character, had been fellow of this college, and was author of the Epistle of Philemon to Hydaspes, and of Pompey the Little, or the Adventures of a Lap-Dog. He died in 1753.

Edward Waring was a distinguished mathematician, considered the greatest algebraist that Cambridge ever produced. His famous work, entitled Meditationes Algebraicæ, is said to exceed the grasp of very able mathematicians. He wrote, likewise, Miscellanea Analytica de Equationibus Algebraicis et Curvarum Proprietatibus; and a curious metaphysical work, which he circulated only among his friends a. He was born in 1735, took his A. M. degree in 1760, his M. D. in 1767. In 1759 he was made Lucasian professor, when but twenty-five years of age.

Dr. Peter Peckard was the author of the Life of Nicholas Ferrar, in which he was assisted by some unconnected papers, which were left among the unfinished writings of Mr. Peck, of whom more hereafter.

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Dr. Peckard also published some single sermons. was a zealous whig in his political principles, one of the petitioning clergy, and appears to have been a particular friend of Archdeacon Blackburne. One of Dr. Peck ard's tracts is on the Intermediate State, which gave great offence to Archbishop Secker. He appears to have taken no other degree at Cambridge, but that of S.T.P. which he had per literas regias. He was master of this college.

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The present state of this society is as follows: the founder provided for a master, and four fellows. The

a An Essay on the Principles of Human Knowledge.

b See Mr. Peckard's NARRATIVE, in the Appendix to the Life of Archdeacon Blackburne, prefixed to his works.

bye-fellowships are 13, which are all open, except two. The foundation fellows must all proceed B. D. in the due order of graduating. One of these is a travelling fellowship, worth more than 100l. a year. This may be held for nine years, but was appropriated by the founder, the Rev. Mr. Drury, to Norfolk men. To this fellowship the master appoints, who also possesses some other peculiar prerogatives. Two of the bye-fellowships may be given by him to gentlemen not in orders: to all the others is attached an obligation to take orders after three years, "si ita magistro placuit." He possesses, also, the patronage of the vicarage of Steeple Ashton, Wiltshire, but with a proviso, that he prefers to it one of the fellows.

The building retains no vestige of the ancient priory, though there is a spot, which still goes by the name of the Monks Corner; and the whole site reminds us of the old monasteries, which in England we find to have been more commonly on the side of rivers; and the adjacent terrace, meadows, walks, and gardens, are very pleasing, exhibiting a character of stillness and monastic seclusion.

Nor is the site uninteresting to the antiquary. We have already seen, that the old British town lay on this side of the river, and near this was a Roman station : here, too, was the principal residence of the Saxon inhabitants; and here, in its castle, William, the Norman, once lodged his army; and its elevation is, at least for aspect, more agreeable and commanding, for a large town: Cambridge now (on the south side of the Cam) is every where low. Antiquaries have amused themselves, and may still amuse themselves, with remains of Roman anti

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