served a long apprenticeship at the school, having been near seven years and a half there, and above six of them in the head form, he laid down all his hopes of going to the same University and College of which his father had been, and of which he had heard so much, (and once had viewed from an adjacent hill,) with an evenness of mind becoming the title here given him; and retired to his father's in the country, where he patiently and industriously assisted him in his business, till the Bartholomew vacation afforded them leisure for a journey to Cambridge; where he was admitted into St. John's College, Aug. 25; and had another mortification in seeing several that had been below him at school, superior to him in the University. But this and some others he scarce regarded, being on many accounts so well pleased with his condition. It pleased God to raise him up many friends, and among them one especially, over whom his chamber was, who was all along like a father to him in care and kindness, and whose favours were so many, that there was scarce any letter of the many that he wrote home, but mentioned some of them. He had an agreeable chamber-fellow, a very

good scholar, a sober and innocent yet cheerful companion. But the greatest happiness of all, and what he valued above the honours and profits he lost with his election to the other St. John's, was the frequent returns of the holy Sacrament, which he would have missed of there, and could not, I think, have enjoyed at any other house in either of the Universities, except Christ-Church in Oxford, which being a Cathedral as well as a College, is under a double obligation of conforming itself to the fourth rubric after the Communion service. Accordingly the second Sunday after his admission, as soon as he was tolerably settled, he addressed himself again to this holy duty, having had no opportunity of communicating since he left London; and it is certain from that time he missed but four Sacraments all the while he was there, two of which happened on state-festivals, and the other two when he was confined to his chamber for the sake of his health.

Just before he left Headley, he had, by his dear mother's direction, transcribed into one of the spare leaves in his Officium Eucharisticum, a short prayer for a student, out of Dr. Patrick's book of devotions for families, &c. And as soon as his books were arrived, he

betook himself heartily to his studies, and pursued them in spite of Sturbridge fair, which made most of the other students idle, and by that means deprived him (for want of auditors) of those lectures and instructions of his tutor, which would have been more grateful to him than any of the diversions of that season. And from that time he followed his studies so close, that in the space of eleven months, he had read over all Dionysius's Periegesis, the Oxford edition; Virgil to the ninth book of the Æneis; all Ælian's Varia Historia, as it is printed for the use of Eton School; all Terence, fifty Hebrew psalms, a great part of Seneca the philosopher, all Burgersdicius's Logic, all the Fasciculus præceptorum Logicorum, Oxon. and half another logic book; all Bussiere's Flosculi Historici, all Pindar's Olympic Odes, and the four first of the Pythian, the lives of the first three emperors in Suetonius, five books of Pliny's Epistles, the Dialogue De Oratoribus, by some ascribed to Quintilian, by others to Tacitus; the first book of Ascham's Epistles, the first volume of Plutarch's Lives, the first volume of my Lord Clarendon's History, and some other books; and this not hastily or perfunctorily,

but he made his observations as he read them, and transcribed Excerpta out of several of them into his Adversaria. Besides these, on holy-days he read books of piety, and on Sundays no other, having in the forementioned space of eleven months read all Thomas à Kempis de Imitatione Christi, the Whole Duty of Man, some pieces of Kettlewell, Brome of Fasting, almost all Nelson's Festivals and Fasts, a book that he had a great value for, and which he quickly purchased after his arrival at St. John's; besides several chapters in the Greek Testament, and other parts of the holy Bible. He had moreover in this time translated into English a Latin sermon of Doctor Henry Byam's, preached before the clergy at Exeter, at the triennial visitation of Doctor Joseph Hall, Bishop of Exon; and Erpenius's Epistle to the Reader before his edition of Ringelbergius, and Erasmus de Ratione Studii; had made four and twenty Greek or Latin themes, eighteen copies of Latin verses, with some Greek, three Latin epistles, and three epitomes, one of which was of the first part of Eustachius's Ethics, and transcribed into a paper book among his other exercises, but the other two

do not appear. Besides all this, his practice was, for his improvement in the Greek tongue, to take the Latin translation of an author, either prose or verse, and turn it himself into Greek, either prose or verse; and dividing his paper book into two columns, in one of them he writ his own version, and in the other the author, that so he might see wherein he fell short of the original. And thus had he in the aforesaid space of eleven months imitated a hundred verses of Theognis, four epigrams of Theocritus, and eleven dialogues of Mr. Leedes's Lucian, from the beginning in order, omitting only the eighth and the tenth, (which he had done before he came to the University,) and concluding with the thirteenth. And all this, notwithstanding his constant attendance on all the exercises of the house, and his tutor's private lectures. But he was an excellent husband of his time, rising often at four o'clock, and sometimes earlier, very rarely exceeding six, and that only when the College prayers were later than ordinary; and never, if he was well, going to bed till near ten. Quickly after his settlement at St. John's, he fixed to himself a weekly course of study, as appears