SOME HEADS OF HOUSES. 239 the Royal Society was started amid much suspicion by a band of Oxford philosophers, Pett became an original Fellow. At the Restoration Charles II made him Advocate General for Ireland; in which capacity he received knighthood from Ormonde. He sate in the Irish Parliament for Askerton 1661-6. His duties in Ireland seem to have engrossed his time, for on Nov. 18, 1675, he was expelled the Royal Society for 'not performing his obligation to the Society.' Pett occupied himself with much literary work, chiefly polemical, on theology and trade. In 1693 the Memoirs of Arthur Earl of Anglesey and the Genuine Remains of Bishop Barlow were edited by him. He died April 1, 1679. He was 'Heir and Executor' to Archbishop Williams. Pett is frequently mentioned in the Diaries of Evelyn and Pepys. The picture of Dr. Harmer in the Bodleian was presented by him in 1695. Another Fellow of the Royal Society was Dr. WILLIAM QUARTERMAN (M.D. from Pembroke 1657), physician to King Charles II. He was attached to the Navy, and engaged on the royal side. Fellow of the College of Physicians 1661; M.P. for New Shoreham 1662. Buried in St. Martin's in the Fields, June 11, 1667. NOTE. HEADS of Houses who have been members of Broadgates or Pembroke (besides Storey, Wheare, Clayton, Wyntle, Blackstone, and Durell, mentioned elsewhere) are: Dr. FRANCIS BEVANS. Entered Broadgates (from Caermarthenshire) 1572; fellow of All Souls 1573; B.C.L. 1579; incorporated at Cambridge 1581; D.C.L. 1583; Principal of New Inn Hall 1585-6; chancellor of Hereford Diocese 1587; an advocate of Doctors' Commons 1590; Member for Bishop's Castle 1593. He was Principal of Jesus College from 1586 till his death in 1602. He is buried in Hereford Cathedral. Dr. RICHARD CLAYTON. B.A. from Broadgates 1622; fellow of University 1639; Master 1665-76; canon of Sarum 1661. Dr. JOHN MORLEY, Rector of Lincoln 1719-1731. Having matriculated at Trinity Feb. 26, 1688, aged sixteen, he migrated to Pembroke; B.A. 1689; fellow of Lincoln 1689-1712; M.A. 1692; B.D. 1703; D.D. 1711. He held the rectory of Sutton from 1711. He died June 12, 1731. Dr. JOHN CLARK, Provost of Oriel 1768-1781. Matriculated at Pembroke (from Colvel, Cambs., clerici fil.) March 18, 1748, aged sixteen; B.A. 1752; fellow of Oriel 1755-68; M.A. 1756; B. and D.D. 1768; vicar of St. Mary's 1765-8; canon of Rochester and rector of Purleigh 1768. Died Nov. 21, 1781. 240 SOME HEADS OF HOUSES. Dr. DRUMMOND PERCY CHASE, the present Principal of St. Mary Hall. Born at Château de Saulruit, near St. Omer, Sept. 14, 1820; entered Pembroke Feb. 15, 1838; scholar 1838; migrated to Oriel 1839; B.A. 1841 (1st class Lit. Hum.); fellow of Oriel 1842; M.A. 1844; tutor 1847-9, 1860-6; proctor 1853; B. and D.D. 1880; President of the Union Society 1842; Vice-Principal of St. Mary Hall 1848-57; Principal 1857; Select Preacher 1860; vicar of St. Mary's 1856-73 and 1876-8. Dr. EDWARD MOORE, now Principal of St. Edmund Hall. Born at Cardiff Feb. 28, 1835; entered Pembroke May 26, 1853, from Bromsgrove School; B.A. 1859; fellow of Queen's 1858-65; M.A. 1860; tutor of St. Edmund Hall 1862; fifty-second Principal 1864; B.D. 1867; proctor 1871; D.D. 1878; President of the Union Society 1860; Select Preacher 1887. Dr. Moore had a distinguished career in the Schools, and has filled a number of responsible posts in the administration of the University. The study of Dante in England owes much to his scholarly labours. CHAPTER XVIII. PURITANS AND OTHERS. THE change from young men of position studying law and the muses before entering upon life to a more plebeian and puritanical class of undergraduate coincides more or less with the conversion of the Hall into a College, but affected, it would seem, every part of the University1. In the room of the dispossessed Charter fellows others were appointed, but by whom is not clear. Of one of these, GEORGE HUGHES, 'the bright star of the west,' Calamy gives a large account. He was born in Southwark in 16032. Having first been entered at Corpus Christi in 1619, and taken B.A. there, he had so general a Reputation then for his Proficiency in his Studies that Dr. Clayton being made Master of Pembroke-College, upon the first Erection of it, he procur'd Mr. Hughes to be one of the first Fellows of it. Several Persons of great Eminency afterwards were his Pupils here, as Henry Langley, D.D., second Master of Pembroke, Tobit Garbrand, M.D., Principal of Gloucester-Hall, and many others.' He was ordained about 1628, being known in the University as a Puritan. For some time he preached in and around Oxford, and afterwards was Lecturer of Allhallows, Breadstreet, proceeding B.D. (as obliged by statute) July 10, 1633. Silenced by Laud, he had thoughts of transferring himself to New England, but was dissuaded by 'old Mr. Dod,' Lord Brooke made him his chaplain, he married a Gentlewoman of Coventry, and Lady Maynard got the Earl of Bedford to present him to Tavistock, where, by his endeavours, a mighty Reformation was wrought.' Thenceforward he was, Wood says, 'the most noted Presbyterian (if not Independent), of his time in Devonshire.' Having to flee before the King's forces from Tavistock and from Exeter, 1 Lady Brilliana Harley writes in 1638 to her son at Magdalen Hall: 'I belieue that theare are but feawe nobellmen's sonne in Oxford; for now, for the most part, they send theaire sonnes into France when they are very yonge.' His mother was then fifty-two years old, and he was her firstborn. She afterwards lived to a great age. R 242 A WEST-COUNTRY PURITAN. Hughes was appointed vicar of St. Andrew's, Plymouth, where he 'continued in great liking among the godly party.' Calamy says1, ''tis no Wonder this excellent Person should have a share with so much good Company in Tony Wood's ill-Nature and Slanders; that he should call in question his Degrees,' &c. He rebuts the charge of self-seeking and of fanaticism, and says that Hughes, though from 1654 an Assistant for ejecting 'scandalous' clergy and schoolmasters, did not act. He was accused, in a book called Foxes and Firebrands, of making one Newland, a Popish ecclesiastic, his pretended butler, and calling on him to pray and expound. Also of living in greater power and equipage than any archbishop. He certainly appears to have exercised a more than episcopal influence in the West-country, and Calamy relates how, after his ejection at the Bartholomew of 1662, Bishop Gauden's Visitation at Totnes was forsaken by the whole body of clergy, when they heard that Hughes was in the town, in order to accompany him on horseback towards his home. Wood writes: 'Exercising his function in private, that is in Conventicles, among the Brethren, contrary to the Act, he was with Tho. Martin conveyed into S. Nicholas Island near Plymouth, an. 1665, where they remained about 9 Months. In which time our author Hughes wrote an answer to Joh. Serjeants book entit. Sure-footing. At length his health being much impaired, as the Brethren reported, and his legs black and swoln, he was offer'd his liberty, upon condition of giving security of 1000l. [2000l. Calamy] not to live within 20 miles of Plymouth: Which being accordingly effected by the Brethren without his knowledge he retired to Kingsbridge in Devonsh., found entertainment in the house of one Daniel Elley, a Brother, and was much frequented to the last by the fanatical party.' 'He hardly cared,' says Calamy, 'for any other Discourse but what was serious and heavenly, and had such an affecting Sense of the Cloud that was upon GOD'S Church by the Ejection of so many eminent Ministers, that he was scarce seen to indulge any Mirth after that day.' Preaching the Lord's Day before his death, he ended with the words, 'And now all my Work is done.' 'The Evening before he dy'd, he ordered his Watch to lie by him, and desir'd a Relation to observe when it was two a Clock, for (says he) that is my Hour. And accordingly just then he expir'd, An. 1667: in his 64th Year.' On the monument in Kingsbridge church to the fragrant ever-to-be-cherished memory of the much desired George Hughes,' he is described as 'Sacrae sensus paginae penitiores eruere, homines concione flectere, precibus Deum, mire edoctus. Qui Solis aemulum ab Oriente auspicatus cursum (ortum Londinâs), occidentale dehinc sidus diù claruit, lucem in vita spargens undique, moriens luctum : Vitaeq; (vere vitalis) curriculo in an. lxiv perducto, optima perfunctus, perpessus mala, requiem tandem invenit, animo quidem in Caelis, corpore vero in subjacente tumulo. . . . Posuit honoris et amoris ergo Thomas Crispinus Exoniensis.' This Crispin founded the Kingsbridge Grammar School. The inscription is from the pen of Hughes' son-in 'Athenae, ii. 280. DOOMSDAY SEDGWICKE. 243 law, Howe, Cromwell's chaplain. Calamy calls Hughes 'a Master in most Parts of Learning, especially a great Textuary, and Divine.... An acute disputant, a judicious Casuist.' One of his sermons, preached before the Commons on a fast-day, May 28, 1647, is entitled Vae-eugaetuba, or 'The Wo-joy-trumpet? Another, Drie-Rod blossoming. His son Obadiah was imprisoned with him at Plymouth. A pupil of Hughes at Pembroke (entered 1624, aged 15), was WILLIAM SEDGWICKE. At College he 'profited more in Divinity than Philosophy,' being 'instructed in Presbyterian principles by his Tutor.' At first, as Rector of Farnham, he conformed, but in 1641 put in a curate there and attached himself as chaplain to the troops of Sir William Constable, afterwards a Regicide. After the ejection of the Loyalist clergy he became the chief preacher in the city of Ely, being commonly styled the Apostle of the Isle of Ely. Wood says: 'He was a conceited whimsical person, and one very unsetled in his opinions: sometimes he was a Presbyterian, sometimes an Independent, and at other times an Anabaptist. Sometimes he was a Prophet, and would pretend to foretel matters in the pulpit, to the great distraction of poor and ignorant people. At other times having received revelations, as he pretended, he would forewarn people of their sins in publick discourses, and upon a pretence of a vision that Doomesday was at hand, he retired to the house of Sir Franc. Russell in Cambridgeshire, and finding divers Gentlemen there at Bowles, called upon them to prepare themselves for their dissolution, telling them that he had lately received a revelation that Doomesday would be some day the next week'.' Butler has some lines on him in Hudibras (part ii. canto iii. 475-8). Sidrophel, seeing the paper lanthorn at the end of the boy's kite through his telescope, says : 'When stars do fall 'tis plain enough To which an editor appends the note: 'This Sedgwick had many persons (and some of quality) that believed in him and prepared to keep the day of judgment with him, but were disappointed; for which the false prophet was afterwards called by the name of Doomsday Sedgwick. He was Minister of Coggeshall and of Covent Garden. Having published The Leaves of the tree of Life for the healing of the Nations, the author 'went to Carisbrook Castle in the Isle of Wight, and desired the Governours leave to address himself to K. Ch. I. then a Prisoner there. Mr. Jam. Harrington one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber being acquainted with the occasion, told his Maj. that a Minister was purposely come from London to discourse with him about his spiritual concerns, and was also desirous to present his Maj. with a book he had lately written for his Majesties perusal; which, as he said, if his Athenae, ii. 335. 1 |