power of it to move the affections, the style utterly unknown to the Ancients, who could not conceive what true kingly eloquence was, in respect of which these noted Demagogi were but hirelings and triobulary rhetoricians." Now, however, he was generally with the Court, either at London or elsewhere, and only visited Cambridge when his duties as Public Orator called him thither specially. More permanent residents at Cambridge were Mr. Thomas Thornton, Fellow of St. John's, who had been appointed the first Lecturer in Logic on the recent foundation of a Lectureship in that science by Lord Maynard (1620);’ and the still more distinguished Mr. Abraham Whelock, Fellow of Clare Hall, Keeper of the public library. and one of the preachers of the town already known as a Saxon scholar, and a profound Orientalist, in which latter capacity he was selected, some eight years later, as the first holder of a Professorship of Arabic then instituted. Whelock was a Shropshire man. He afterwards assisted Walton in his Polyglott.

Passing to those who, without holding University offices, were yet publicly known in 1624–5 as distinguished fellows of their several Colleges, we might have a pretty numerous list. Peterhouse, of which Mawe was master, does not furnish at the moment any under this class deserving of note; for Brian Walton, who had been a student of this College, had just left it without having held a fellowship. In Clare Hall under Paske, the most eminent fellows, besides Whelock, were, Dr. Richard Love, afterwards Dean of Ely and Master of Corpus Christi College; Dr. Augustine Lindsell, especially learned in Jewish antiquities, afterwards successively Dean of Lichfield, Bishop of Peterborough, and Bishop of Hereford; and Mr. (afterwards Dr.) Humphrey Henchman, who after the Restoration was successively Bishop of Salisbury and Bishop of London. In Pembroke Hall, under the mastership of Beale, Fellows of eminence were Dr. Matthew Wren, afterwards Master of Peterhouse and Bishop of Hereford and of Ely; Mr. (subsequently Dr.) Benjamin Laney, who, succeeding Beale as Master, was ejected in 1644, restored at the Restoration, and promoted successively to the sees of Peterborough, Lincoln, and Ely; and Mr. (subsequently Dr.) Ralph Brownrigg, afterwards Master of Catharine Hall, and finally Bishop of Exeter. In Caius, under the prefecture of Gostlin, no Fellow can be mentioned as of particular note at this epoch; the College resting, for the time, on the fame of pupils it had recently sent forth into the world, including the anatomist Harvey and the physician Glisson. Trinity Hall, under Dr. Corbet, was in a similar

predicament. In Corpus Christi, under Walsall, the most distinguished men were Dr. IIenry Butts, Walsall's successor two years afterwards, in the mastership; and Mr. (subsequently Dr.) Richard Sterne, afterwards Ilead of Jesus College, Bishop of Carlisle, and ultimately Archbishop of York. King's, under the provostship of Collins, no longer had among its Fellows, its ornament, the mathematician Oughtred, who was then living as a clergyman in Surrey; but it had Dr. Thomas Goade, the son of one of its former Provosts; Mr. (subsequently Dr.) William Gouge, afterwards a famous Puritan minister and member of the Westminster Assembly, and Ralph Winterton, an able Bachelor of Physic, subsequently Doctor and Regius Professor of Medicine in the University. A name of some consequence among the seniors of Queen's, now that its magnate Preston had left it, was that of Dr. John Towers, afterwards Bishop of Peterborough. In Catharine Hall, under Dr. Hills, the most eminent men seem to have been John Arrowsmith and William Spurstow, both afterwards distinguished as Puritan divines. In Jesus College, under Dr. Roger Andrews, besides William Boswell, one of the Proctors of the year, and afterwards Sir William Boswell, there were Mr. (afterwards Dr.) William Beale, who succeeded Dr. Gwynne as Master of St. John's, and Thomas Westfield, afterwards Bishop of Bristol. In the great College of St. John's, over which Dr. Gwynne presided, the Fellows of greatest note, besides Metcalfe, the Professor of Hebrew, were Dr. Richard Sibbes, who succeeded Hills as Master of Catharine Hall; Daniel Horsmanden, and Daniel Ambrose, both tutors of the College; and Richard Holdsworth, a man unusually respected as a tutor, and who became afterwards Master of Emanuel and Dean of Worcester, Magdalen College presents at the time no man of note. In Trinity College, then the rival of St. John's in the University, we find Robert Creighton, a Scotchman of high reputation for learning, afterwards the successor of IIerbert as Public Orator, and of Downes as the Professor of Greek; James Duport, also subsequently Professor of Greek, and Master of Magdalen; Dr. Thomas Comber, afterwards Master of Trinity; and Charles Chauncy, afterwards eminent as a Puritan Preacher. Of Emanuel College the Fellow and Tutor most in repute seems to have been a Mr. Thomas Horton; and of Sidney Sussex (where Oliver Cromwell had been a student for a short time about eight years before, and where Cromwell's tutor, Mr. Richard Howlett still resided) a certain learned Mr. Paul Micklethwaite,

Such were some of the most conspicuous Dons of their several Colleges at the time when Milton's acquaintance with Cambridge commenced. In each College, however, under these, there was, of course, its own particular crowd of younger men, already more or less advanced in their University course before Milton began his. Three aristocratic scholars of whom we hear as pursuing their studies at this time, were James Stewart, Duke of Lennox, of the blood-royal, now a popular Alumnus of Trinity College; young Lord Wriothesly of St. John's, son of Shakspeare's Earl of Southampton; and young Sir Dudley North, also of St. John's, son of Lord North of Kirtling. Among men similarly in advance of Milton in their respective Colleges, and who were to be afterwards distinguished as scholars or divines, the following may be named — Henry Ferne, then a student in Trinity College, in the fifth year of his course, afterwards Master of the same College and Bishop of Chester; Edmund Castell, then a student of Emanuel, in the fourth year of his course, afterwards Whelock's successor as Professor of Arabic in the University, Prebendary of Canterbury, an assistant of Walton in his Polyglott, and one of the most laborious Orientalists of his age; Robert Mapletoft, then a student of Queen's, in his third or fourth year, afterwards a distinguished Fellow and Tutor of that College, and Master of Pembroke Hall; and, best known 'of all, Thomas Fuller, the Church-Historian and wit, then also a student of Queen's, and in the fifth year of his course. To these may be added Edward Rainbow, who entered Magdalen College as a student in the very year in which Milton entered Christ's, and who was afterwards Master of his College, and Bishop of Carlisle. Lastly, not to multiply names, there were then at the University two youths, both only a little older than Milton, who were, like him, to take their places as poets in English literature -- Edmund Waller, then a student of King's, and Thomas Randolph, who had been admitted to Trinity College on an exhibition from Westminster School in the year 1623.

In the preceding account next to nothing has been said of the particular College in the University with which Milton was immediately connected. The following details will supply the defect.

The Head, or Master, of Christ's College, at the time when Milton joined it, was, as has been already stated, a certain Dr. Thomas Bainbrigge, who had held that office since 1620. The

Illustrious Cantabs (Harl. 7176), Wood's Lives of Nicholas Ferrar and Matthew RobinAthena and Fasti, Fuller's Worthies, and the son, recently edited with notes by Mr. Mayor.

chief fact in this person's life seems to have been that he was Master of Christ's; for very little else is to be ascertained concerning him. According to Cole, he "was descended out of the north" of a family which gave several others of the same name to the English Church. According to the same authority, he had not "any other preferment before he became Master of Christ's;" and his election to that post was owing rather to the circumstance of his having been Vice-master under the previous head, Dr. Valentine Cary, than to any special merit. On other evidence Cole is inclined to add that, if he did not obtain farther preferment, it was not from any lack of "sufficient obsequiousness." Within his jurisdiction, however, Bainbrigge had the reputation of being "a severe governor." He survived till September, 1646.

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If Christ's College was not very eminent in its Master, it was tolerably fortunate in its Fellows. The names of its thirteen Fellows at this time, as nearly as possible in the order of their seniority, were, William Power, William Siddall, William Chappell, Joseph Meade, John Knowsley, Michael Honeywood, Francis Cooke, Nathaniel Tovey, Arthur Scott, Robert Gell, John Alsop, Simpson, and Andrew Sandelands. All of these were either Bachelors of Divinity or Masters of Arts. Several of them were or became men of some mark in the Church. Honeywood, for example, who was of a distinguished and very numerous family, died, Dean of Lincoln, as late as 1681, leaving an unusually fine library and some fame as a scholar. Gell, whose popularity as a tutor appears from his getting for his pupils three of the fourteen students admitted in the same half-year with Milton, became afterwards Rector of the Parish of St. Mary Aldermary, London; which living he held through the Protectorate with the reputation of being a learned man, but of somewhat mystical notions, and too fond of "turning Scripture into allegories." He died in 1665, leaving some foolish sermons on astrological and apocalyptic topics, and a mass of commentaries on Scripture, which were published in 1676, in two large folios, as "Gell's Remaines." The

most interesting for us, however, of all the thirteen Fellows are Meade, Chappell, and Tovey.

Apart from his casual relation to Milton as one of the senior Fellows of Christ's College, Joseph Meade (otherwise Mede or Mead) was a remarkable man. Born in 1586, in Essex, he had been sent to Christ's College in the year 1602. After passing through the regular course with much distinction, he commenced M. A. in 1610, and was at the same time elected a Fellow of his College. In 1618 he graduated B.D. During his College course he had been much troubled by skeptical doubts — in particular, as to whether tò trâv, or the universal frame of things, was not a mere phantasy of the mind. These doubts, however, had vanished; and by the time he was a Fellow, he was known in the University as “an acute Logician, an accurate Philosopher, a skilful Mathematician, an excellent Anatomist (being usually sent for when they had any anatomy in Caius College,) a great Philologer, a master of many languages, and a good proficient in the studies of History and Chronology.” To these accomplishments, enumerated by one biographer, Fuller adds that he was “an exact text-man, happy in making Scripture expound itself by parallel places.” He was also a man of singularly meek disposition conspicuously charitable in his judgments, yet communicative and even facetious among his friends.“ His body was of a comely proportion, rather of a tall than low stature. In his younger years (as he would say) he was but slender and spare of body; but afterwards, when he was full-grown, he became more fat and portly, yet not to any excess. His eye was full, quick, and sparkling. His complexion was a little swarthy, as if somewhat overtinctured with melancholy.” With all these advantages, Meade had one unfortunate defect - an imperfection in his speech. The letter R, says Fuller," was Shibboleth to him, which he could not easily pronounce; so that a set speech cost him double the pains to another man, being to fit words as well to his mouth as his matter. Yet by his industry and observation he so conquered his imperfection, that, though in private discourse he sometimes smiled out his stammering into silence, yet, choosing his words, he made many an excellent sermon without any considerable hesitation.” The consciousness of this defect, combined with his natural love of quiet, led him to refuse all offers of preferment - including that of the Provostship of Trinity College, Dublin, made to him through Archbishop Usher in 1626, and again in 1630 -- and to bound his wishes for life within the limits of his Fellowship and his College. Nominally, indeed, at a later period,