322 two with the early days of the "new library 1591), and Vice-master, who left in 1637 his books and 100l. to the college; Dame Anna Sadler, daughter of Sir Edward Coke, who gave a valuable collection of books and coins; Dr. James Duport (Dean of Peterborough, 1664-79), who left two thousand volumes of books to the College; and Dr. John Pearson (Master, 1662-73), afterwards Bishop of Chester, to whom we owe the wellknown Exposition of the Creed. Besides these, good Bishop John Hacket (elected Fellow, 1614; Bishop of Lichfield, 1661-70) must not be lost sight of. This worthy prelate not only presented The history of Bentley's troublous college life is a number of books to the library, in each of which is pasted his portrait with the wholesome motto, well known from his memoir by Bishop Monk "Serve God and be chearful," but also rebuilt and the correspondence published by Bishop for the college Garret's Hostel (now Bishop's Wordsworth. In spite of his prodigious learning, Hostel in memory of his liberality), the rents of it is to be most devoutly hoped that the college the new building being devoted to library pur-will never see such a master again. A great mass poses for ever. The original library of Trinity College, begun in the reign of Queen Mary and finished in that of Queen Elizabeth, was in what has long been known as the Old Court, between the chapel and the master's lodge. When the present library was built, the old library was broken up into sets of rooms; these will long be associated with the honoured name of Adam Sedgwick, who lived in them for many years, and died there in 1873. During the mastership of Dr. Barrow, the successor of Dr. Pearson, the need seems to have been greatly felt of more room for the rapidly increasing library, and large funds were raised from present and former members of the college to erect a new building of large size. Among the subscriptions may be noticed that of Dr. Isaac Barrow for 1001, and of Mr. Isaac Newton (Fellow of the College) for 401. The work was entrusted to Sir Christopher Wren, and the building seems to have It is, perhaps, been actually begun in 1677. worth noting that Wren's original plan was to have made a circular library, placing it on what was then an island and now forms the lawn between the library and the river; this was to have been connected with the college by a covered bridge. This plan, however, was not approved of, and accordingly one channel of the river was stopped up, and thereon the present stately building was erected. The original drawings of Wren, including one of the rejected circular design, are now preserved in the library of All Souls' College, Oxford. An interesting account of them, with Wren's explanation at full length, is given in the Builder for Aug. 11, 1860. The library evidently became one of the "lions" of Cambridge, and different royal visitors were taken to inspect it Charles II. and his Queen in 1681, while the building was yet in progress; William III. in 1689, when the work was nearly completed; Queen Anne in 1705; and George I. in 1717. It is pleasant to think that we may connect of papers, printed and MS., bearing on Bentley's The same steady increase which we have seen characterizing the seventeenth century is carried on in the eighteenth, during which a large number of gifts of considerable value were made to the library. It will be most convenient to go through the chief of these, as before, in chronological order. John Laughton, an intimate friend of Sir Isaac Newton, librarian of Trinity College. (1669–73), and afterwards librarian of the university, and Canon of Lichfield and Worcester, left at his death, in 1712, a very large collection of books to the library. In 1727 came a large bequest from His Diary, mostly written Edward Rud, formerly Fellow and rector of North Runton, in Norfolk. during the time that he was a resident Fellow, was published a few years ago from the MS. in the library by Dr. Luard for the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, and will well repay perusal for the light it throws on university life at that time. In 1742 the library was enriched with the bequest of Dr. John Paris, Senior Fellow, and in 1744 came the very important collection of Gale MSS., still forming a separate class in the library. These had been amassed by Dr. Thomas Gale, Dean of York, after whose death, in 1702, they passed to his son Roger, and £nally to the college. Of the contents of this very varied collection I shall not speak at present, beyond mentioning the MS. of the Lexicon of Photius, from a transcript of which by Porson an edition was published in 1822. A list of the Gale MSS. will be found in Bernard's Catalogus MSS. Angl. et Hib. Other donors to the library in this period were Beaupré Bell, of Beaupré Hall, in Norfolk, who was evidently animated by a very warm feeling to his college, to which, in 1745, he left a large number of books and a sum of money; John Colbatch, Bentley's keen adversary (ob. 1749); and Robert Smith (Master, 1742-68), founder of the prizes which bear his name. In 1779 a rare piece of good fortune befell the library, in the gift on the part of Mr. Edward Capell, the Shak-collection the Phalaris, &c. (1498), and Esop spearian critic, of his valuable collection of books, consisting mainly of early editions of Shakspeare, precious folios and still more precious quartos, and of Elizabethan and other early English literature. In compliance with Mr. Capell's express desire, it was ruled by the master and seniors (June 26, 1779) that none of these books should ever be allowed to leave the library, and this wise rule, strictly adhered to, has ensured the integrity of the collection. Besides the accessions of books above mentioned, an event of a different kind in the history of the library in the eighteenth century must not be overlooked-the robbery of books by Henry Justice. This unhappy man was a Fellow-Commoner of the college, and had removed a large number of the library books to his rooms in the Temple, where, on a search-warrant being obtained, they were found. The main line of his defence at his trial (March, 1736) was a curious one, that being a Fellow-Commoner, he was a member of the foundation, and therefore could not be said to steal when he himself was in a certain sense part owner. Such a view was, of course, entirely untenable, and Justice was transported (see Proceedings at Session of Peace and Oyer and Terminer for the City of London and County of Middlesex, March, 1736). Among the books thus stolen were a copy of the Complutensian Polyglot, and of the Aldine Bible of 1518, besides a large number of classical and archæological works. Some remarks as to the family of Henry Justice will be found in Davies's Memoir of the York Press, p. 193. During the present century the library has gone on steadily increasing, both by gifts and purchases. In the year 1825 came three large accessions in the books bequeathed by Prof. Dobree, the successor of Porson and Monk, and by the Rev. Robert Hole, late senior Fellow, and those given by the Ven. R. W. Evans, late Archdeacon of Westmoreland. In 1831, however, came a bequest of exceptional value in the books that had been collected by Dr. Matthew Raine (B.A. 1782), formerly Fellow of the college and Master of the Charterhouse, which were first left to his brother Jonathan Raine (B.A. 1787), also formerly Fellow, and which came on the death of the latter into the possession of the college. This exceedingly precious collection contains a large number of early printed Greek books, Aldine and otherwise. Thus, of Greek Aldines-confining ourselves, for the sake of brevity, to those printed in the fifteenth century we have, e.g., the grammars of Theodorus Gaza, &c. (1495), Theocritus, Hesiod, &c. (1495), a very fine copy of Aristotle (1495-98), the Thesaurus, &c. (1496), the Greek grammar of Urbanus Bolzanius (1497), the Greek Psalter (1497 or 1498) Aristophanes (1498), Epistolæ Græca (1499). Of Greek books, other than Aldines, printed at Venice in the fifteenth century, there are in the Raine (1498) printed by Barth. Justinopolitanus and his partners, and the Etymologicum Magnum (1499), Simplicius (1499), and Ammonius (1500), printed by Calliergus. Of Greek books printed at Florence in the above-mentioned period is the Homer of 1488, and most of the Greek books printed by Laur. Francisci de Alopa, as the Anthologia (1494), Apollonius Rhodius (1496), Callimachus (c. 1496), Euripides (c. 1496), Gnome (c. 1496), also the Lucian (1496), printed apparently with the same types as those of the scholia to the Callimachus mentioned above. To the above list may also be added Isocrates, Milan, 1493. I may note that the copy of Callimachus is that which was sold at the Duke of Roxburghe's sale in 1813, where it fetched 60l. (see Didbin, Bibl. Spenc. i. 291). To go on enumerating the chief books of so rich a bequest would occupy too much space, and I will content myself with noting a beautiful copy of the Complutensian Polyglot, finer and taller than the one which excited Justice's cupidity, a copy of the Aldine Greek Bible of 1518, and among books not Greek a copy of Cicero De Officiis, printed at Mentz in 1466 by Fust and Schoeffer, the oldest printed book in the library. Passing along in chronological order, we have in 1834 the bequest of the Rev. Daniel Pettiward, a very loyal son of Trinity, who, in addition to the large collection of books, left also (besides two plain ones of lava) the beautiful table of varied Italian marbles that forms so pleasing an ornament to the upper end of the library. In 1842 Archdeacon Wrangham left the college 1,000 volumes of pamphlets, of the most varied description imaginable. For an interesting account of this distinguished man and of his dispute with Trinity Hall see Gunning's Reminiscences, vol. ii. pp. 12 sqq., 2nd ed. In 1855 Mrs. Hare, widow of Archdeacon Julius Hare, late Fellow of the college, presented to the library, in pursuance of her late husband's wishes, 2,000 volumes, a very large number being of German theology and philosophy. One hardly knows whether to be amused or angry at the way in which (so at least it is currently reported) the college missed the chance of receiving an exceedingly fine collection, one part of which would have given us for French what the Hare books did for German. It is said that the possessor of this collection, a distinguished Fellow of the college, now deceased, communicated to a brother Fellow, who has also passed away, his intention of bequeathing the books to the college. This laudable purpose was baulked by the answer, "Nonsense! there are far more books in the library already than any one can read." The result was that on the owner's death the collection was sold and dispersed. In 1863 came one of those great gifts which may fall to some libraries once or twice in the course of their history, to most never. In that year died the Rev. W. Grylls (B.A. 1808), a former scholar of the college, who had, through a long life, industriously collected rare and choice works. Being a bachelor he chose the college as the heir to his books, attaching to his bequest the condition that the volumes should be kept together as a distinct collection. In order to fulfil this requirement, the central floor of the library, heretofore left intact, was edged on each side with dwarf oak cases, which now contain the 9,600 volumes taken of Mr. Grylls's library, as well as the Hare books and some others. The Grylls collection, besides a large number of valuable works of reference of the choicer kind, is especially strong in early printed and rare books. Of fifteenth century books, for instance, there are rather more than three hundred, not one of which, however, is English printed. By way of illustration, and for the sake of brevity, I will note the books in the Grylls collection due to two famous printers, Arn. Pannartz (with or without Conr. Sweynheym) at Rome, and Vindel. de Spira at Venice. Of the former there are Roderici Sanctii Speculum Vite Humanæ, 1468; Cypriani Epist. et Opusc., 1471; Suetonius, De XII. Cæsaribus, 1472; Statii Sylva, &c., 1475; Thom. de Aquino De Veritate Cath. Fidei., 1475; Josephi Historiarum Libri VII., 1475. Of the latter there are Tacitus, 1469-70; Sallust, 1470; Quintus Curtius, 1470-71; Cicero, De Natura Deorum, &c., 1471; Valerius Maximus, 1471; Martial (c. 1471); Boccaccio, Genealogice Deorum Gentilium, 1472; Strabo, 1472. Since the year 1863 a steady stream of donations has poured into the library, of which I shall only mention the 1,000 volumes from the collection of Dr. Whewell, the late Master, whose name will long be indissolubly connected with the college of which he was for many years so distinguished and so munificent a head. I hope to be able, on a future occasion, to add a few further remarks on some of the more noteworthy MSS. and early printed books in the library. R. SINKER. Trinity College, Cambridge. (To be continued.) THE ANSTEY FAMILY. In the Guardian of Sept. 14, 1881, p. 1084, is an interesting "In Memoriam " to Charles Alleyne Anstey, long assistant-master in Rugby School. Many will read with pleasure the fine hexameters of " Evander" (Canon T. S. Evans). In a later number of the Guardian, Dean Goulburn's letter, containing a few additional particulars, was printed. Charles Alleyne Anstey was son of John Anstey, and grandson of Christopher Anstey, author of the Bath Guide. Of Cambridge I find John Anstey or Anstea, who left Eton for King's in 1629, B.A. 1633/4, M.A. 1637, D.D. 1664. Ejected from his fellowship by the Earl of Manchester; after the restoration rector of Sampford Courtenay, co. Devon (Harwood, Alumni Eton., p. 229). Stephen Anstey (or Anstie) left Eton for King's, 1636, B.A. 1640/1, "brother of John, died in London Nov. 1650" (Harwood, 237, who calls him M.A., but he seems not to have taken that degree here). Christopher Ansty, son of William Ansty, born at Blooberry, Berks, educated at Merchant Taylors' under Mr. Shorting, was admitted at St. John's sizar for Dr. Smith, June 25, 1696, æt. 18. Tutor, Mr. Orchard. He proceeded B.A. 16991700 (not, as the Graduati says, 1669), M.A. (as Anstey) 1703, B.D. 1710, D.D. 1715. See of him MS. Cole, vii. 50, xxx. 123, 124. Admitted foundation fellow, April 9, 1710, for some time a tutor ("pupil-monger") at St. John's, rector of Brinkley, Cambridgeshire, 1730-3. A few years before his death he retired to Trumpington, where he had an estate, and died Jan. 19, 1751. The house is still called Anstey Hall (see Nichols' Lit. Anecd., i. 221). His fellowship was filled up on April 9, 1717, three months after the tyrannical expulsion of Thomas Baker and other Johnian martyrs (see Index to Baker's History of St. John's). When rector of Brinkley he subscribed to vols. i. and iii. of Strype's Annals, and to his Parker. Died Jan. 19, 1751, at Trumpington (Gent. Mag., p. 42), Rector of Lawford, Essex (ibid. 188). He gave to St. John's library a set of Acta Eruditorum. His daughter Anne died June 28, 1719, at. four months (MS. Cole xix. 93a), see index to Nichols' Lit. Anecd. Christopher Ansty, son of (? James) Ansty, gent., born near Wantage, Berks, educated at Sedberg school under Mr. Saunders, entered pensioner of St. John's, March 26, 1728, t. past 17, tutor, Dr. Williams. B.A. (Anstey), 1731/2 (add the asterisk to his name in the Graduati), M. A. 1735, B.D. 1743. Admitted foundation Fellow, March 25, 1735; his fellowship filled up April 2, 1754. Elected rector of Holme on Spalding Moor, June 20, 1753; lease of that rectory re newed for twenty years, May 30, 1775; appointed Dec. 19, 1827, at. 72 (Gent. Mag., 1827, ii. 645, to the prebend of Asgarby in Lincoln Cathedral, | 646). 1772; died 1784 (Hardy's Le Neve, ii. 104). Thomas Ansty, son of James Ansty, gent., co. Berks, educated for many years at Sedberg school under Mr. Saunders, admitted at St. John's, sizar for Dr. Baker, March 30, 1730, æt. 18, tutor, Dr. Williams. B.A. (Anstey), 1733/4, buried Aug. 17, 1734 (Register of All Saints', Cambridge, in MS. Cole, iii. 141a). James Anstey went from Eton to King's in 1731, B.A. 1735/6, M.A. 1739. Author of Latin verses in the congratulations of the university on the marriage of Anne, daughter of George II., with William of Austria, Col. Cambr., 1733. Was tutor to the eldest son of Earl Cholmondeley, chaplain to the first Earl of Orford, and under confinement for insanity at Chelsea, where he died in July, 1742 (Harwood, 322). John Anstey left Eton for King's, 1776, B.A. 1781, M.A. 1784; of Lincoln's Inn; specially appointed to investigate the claims of the loyalists in the U.S. (Cambr. Chron., Dec. 9, 1785); son and biographer of Chr. Anstey, of King's; author of The Pleader's Guide: a Didactic Poem, 1796, 1803 [1804, Cat. Lond. Lib.], 1808, sixth edition, 1810; married, in 1794, the youngest daughter of the late Francis Pierson, Esq., of Mowthorpe Grange, Yorkshire. At the time of his death, Nov. 25, 1819, he was one of the commissioners for auditing public accounts. See Biographical Dictionary of Living Authors, 1816; Public Characters (1823), i. 51. Robert Anstey, son of Christopher Anstey, Esq., of Trumpington, born there; entered as pensioner of St. John's, July 7, 1779; tutor, Mr. Carr. Died April 12, 1818 ("N. & Q.," 3rd S. i. 474). Charles Chr. Anstey, of Caius College, B.A. 1850; M.A. 1853; Curate of Evesham, 1850-3; of Calthorpe, 1853-4; of Hillmorton, near Rugby, 1854-9; appointed to the chaplaincy of Fyzabad, Oude (Cambr. Indep. Press, Jan. 7, 1859); Rector of St. Levan, Penzance; resided at Burnewall House, St. Buryan, Penzance; died Oct. 13, 1877, cet. 51 (Times, Oct. 17, 1877). Cambridge. JOHN E. B. MAYOR. Christopher Anstey went from Eton to King's, 1742. Son of Dr. Christopher Anstey of St. John's, B.A. 1746/7, author of the New Bath Guide. Died at Bath, Aug. 3, 1805. See Poetical Works of the late Christopher Anstey, Esq, with some Account of his Life and Writings (by his son John), 1810, 4to.; T. S. Whalley's Journals, i. 235, 311, 312 (his son, of Norton, near Stocktonon-Tees, 322; Arthur Anstey, Esq., of Bath, ibid., ii. 384, 388, 410); Literary Memoirs of Any further notices of the family will be of Living Authors, 1798; Cooper's Annals of Cam-service to local and academic historians. bridge, iv. 261; The Priest Dissected [afterwards suppressed, Bohn's Lowndes], Bath, 1774, 4to.; Gent. Mag., 1756, p. 426 (married, Jan. 20, 1756, Ann, sister to John Calvert, Esq., M.P. for Wendover), ib. 1805, p. 780; Nichols's Lit. Anecd., i. 221, ix. 187, 724; verses to D. Garrick, Esq., on meeting him at a friend's house (Cambr. Chron., May 18, 1771). Marriage of his eldest son, vicar of Stockton-on-Tees, to Miss Grey of Stockton (ibid., June 21, 1783). Of Bath and of Trumpington, died on Saturday, Aug. 3, 1805, at Henry Bosanquet's, Esq., at Harnish (?) House, near Chippenham, Wilts, et. 81_(ibid., Aug. 10, 1805). Death of his relict on Friday, Jan. 31, 1812, at Lyde House, Sion Hill, Bath, at. 80 (ibid. Feb. 14, 1812); "N. & Q.," 1st S. v. 129; 2nd S. i. 336; viii. 167, 195; xii. 106; Watt, Bodl. Catal.; Brit. Mus. Catal.; Burke's Landed Gentry, 119, 142, 177, 1535; Lipscombe's Bucks, i. 185; Annual Register, xlvii. 491; Geo. Dyer's Life of Robinson, 124, 126. One Rev. Dr. Anstey, of Chewton, Somerset Death of his wife, Nov. 29, 1790 (Gent. Mag., p. 1148). He died 1792 (ibid., 1792, p. 675). Death of his daughter, Miss Anstey, at Chilcompton (ibid., 1815, ii. p. 283b). Christopher Anstey, of Trinity College, B.A. 1779; M.A. 1782. Ad Edvardum Jenner, M.D, Carmen Alcaicum, 1803, 4to. (? by his father). Vicar of Norton, co. Durham, 1786; died there SIR RICHARD WHITTINGTON.-Mr. Besant, in the "New Plutarch," following Dr. Lysons, declares his hero to have been the youngest son of Sir William Whittington, of Pauntley, by his marriage in 1352 or 1353 with the widow of Sir Thomas de Berkeley, of Coverley, a sister of Philip Mansel, of Lippicott, who had as her jointure the estate of Stoke-Orchard. The There are several errors in this account. lady in question was not a Mansel, but the daughter and eventual heiress of Geoffrey le Archer, who held the manor of Stoke-Archer (not Orchard) by serjeantcy; and on his death, in 1350, Sir Thomas de Berkeley and his wife Joan did homage for these lands (Rot. Fin., 24 Edw. III.). The year of Sir Thomas's death is not easily determined, as he was succeeded by a son of the same name, but it can scarcely have been so early as the date assigned for the re-marriage of his widow. In 1352 Thomas Berkeley de Cubberle was one of the arrayers of archers in Gloucestershire (Rymer, vol. iii. p. 243); and in 1359 he was again ordered to perform the same service (ibid., p. 449). Similarly, in 1352, Thomas of Cubberle is one of the justices (Rolls of Parliament, 26 Edw. III.), whilst in 1355 he appears as one of the three justices for the county. It is possible, of course, that in these and other cases the later notices relate to the second Sir Thomas, the son; but, if so, he must have been a man of mature age to hold such offices, in all probability over thirty. Now it is beyond doubt that Joan le Archer was his mother, for he inherited Stoke-Archer after her decease (Inq. p. mortem, 7 Hen. IV.), and it is out of the question, therefore, that she should have borne children after her second marriage. Is it not the only fair inference from these facts that Sir William Whittington on the death of his first wife, who was unquestionably a Mansel, gave his children a stepmother in the person of the elderly and wealthy widow of Sir Thomas Berkeley? Sir William died before his children grew up, as Joan was his widow at her death in 46 Edw. III., 1372 (Atkyns's Gloucestershire, sub "Cleeve"). EQUES. ANNE BOLEYN'S HEART.-The following letter and communication were sent to me for insertion in a "Suffolk Notes and Queries," published for a time in the Ipswich Journal. The publication ceased before I received Mr. Wood's letter with its contents. But the tradition and its apparent verification may well find a place in the far greater parent "N. & Q.": "It will not be wholly without interest to recall the These corrections may, perhaps, help to re- devices of the past. Before the civil wars there were habilitate the good old tradition that Dick Whit-five companies and six playhouses. The Blackfriars, tington ran away to London a poor and friendless Cockpit, and Salisbury Court theatres were small, and lad, and that he was not known to be of gentle built exactly alike. Here they had pits for the gentry, birth until rescued from domestic drudgery by the Bull were large houses, and partly open to the weather. and acted by candle-light. The Globe, Fortune, and fair Mistress Alice FitzWarine. There the performances took place by daylight. The circular lights over the stage existed till Garrick removed them in December, 1765, and substituted candles and oil-lamps, thus originating the very definition of introduced into the theatres of Covent Garden, Drury 'the floats." It was not till 1817 that gas was first Lane, the English Opera House, and Astley's Amphitheatre. Coal gas was originally used, but in 1821 the proprietors of Covent Garden adopted oil gas, which they manufactured on the premises, and which led to the disastrous explosion in November, 1828, when waxcandles were again adopted for some years to illumine the front of the house. No reader of the Rejected Addresses,' by James and Horace Smith, will need to be reminded of the picture of Drury Lane Theatre, drawn in 1813, when from half-past five till six, our long waxcandles with short-cotton wicks, Touched by the lamplighter's Promethean art, start into light, and make the lighter start.' In 1822 the total number of gas-lights in theatres was estimated at 3,894, forming about a twentieth of the present gas-jets required in the city of Westminster alone. Sixty years ago, and for some time afterwards, the supply to the theatres was exclusively derived from the gas-works in Great Peter Street, Westminster. At several of our smaller theatres candles were in vogue down to a comparatively recent period, and it was not till April, 1843, when the Haymarket Theatre was opened for a summer season, that gas chandeliers illumined the interior for the first time." "Erwarton Rectory, near Ipswich, July 18, 1878. "Dear Mr. Archdeacon,-I send with much pleasure the account of the finding of the casket in this church as I had it from the mouth of our late parish clerk, who was an eyewitness of the incident. The tradition has always exerted a great interest in my mind, and I am very thankful to be able to impart as much as I know of it to you. "Extract from an inscription on a tablet in Erwarton Church, in the County of Suffolk:- Sir Philip ParkerLong, Bt., who died on 20 Jan., 1741, was the direct lineal heir male of Sir Henry Parker, Knight of the Bath, eldest son of Henry Parker, Lord Morley, by his second lady, Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir Philip Calthrop, of Norfolk, by Amata Bolleyn, sister to Thomas Bolleyn, Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond, and Aunt to Queen Anna Bolleyn,' &c. "There existed a very old oral tradition in Erwarton parish that Anna Bolleyn had spent some of her earliest years with her aunt in Erwarton, and that the heart of the unhappy queen was by her own special request buried in the parish church. "The undersigned heard the following curious account of the partial corroboration of this old tradition from the lips of the late parish clerk James Amner, who died in October, 1875, aged seventy-three years. The said James Amner asserted that he had often heard his grandfather (who was also parish clerk, and a very old man) speak of the strong belief in the parish that the heart of Queen Anne was somewhere in the church.' In 1837 the church was under complete restoration, and in T. F. F. STARVATION : FLIRTATION. The following passage from the late Mr. Mortimer Collins's Thoughts in My Garden should find a corner in "N. & Q.":— "It was Dundas, I think, afterwards Lord Melville, who invented the hideously-hybrid word starvation, now so common that the best educated young ladies, fresh from boarding-schools, would be amazed to hear it was not English. But English it is not, and never will be. Teutonic words cannot take Latin endings; if they could, ending might become endation. Now flirtation, a |