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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'>'» S. YIl. April 2. '59. 



he was indebted for kindness to John Howe 

 (Calamy's Account, p. 237.) ; he lived on the most 

 friendly footing with Samuel Tapper, his fre- 

 quent guest (id. Continuation, pp. 218, 219.) ; he 

 ordered arrears of tithes to be paid to Jonathan 

 Hanmer (ibid. p. 303.) ; and discharged his col- 

 lege friend, Richard Herring (ibid. p. 315.). 



Calamy has preserved an anecdote of his visita- 

 tion at Totness, 1663 (Account, p. 227., corrected 

 in Continuation, p. 254.) ; another (Dec. 30, 1679) 

 may be seen in Patrick's Autobiography, p. 203. 

 He appears among the company of " new philoso- 

 phers" celebrated by Wallis (Hearne's Langtoft, 

 p. cxliv.). He invited Sir Christopher Wren, 

 known to him through their common relation to 

 Oughtred, to his palace at Salisbury (Britton's 

 Memoirs of Aubrey, p. 97.). 



Dr. Samuel Woodford's verses addressed to 

 him are in John Nichols's Collection of Poems, 

 vol. iv. p. 346. One of his sermons is honoured 

 with a place in Wesley's Christian Library (edit. 

 1827), vol. xiv. p. 321. The story told by Dr. 

 Pope, of his curing diarrhoea by riding, is com- 

 mented on by Sydenham (European Mag., Nov. 

 1792, p. 341.). 



On his foundation at Buntingford, see Carlisle's 

 Grammar Schools, vol. i, p. 543. His presence at 

 various consecrations is recorded by Le Neve 

 (Protestant Bishops, vol. i. part i. pp. 201. 203, 

 204.), and in Mr. Stubbs's valuable Registrum 

 Sacrum Anglicanum (pp. 101 — 105.). 



See farther, Kennett's Register and Chronicle 

 (Index) ; Gilbert Clerk's De Plenitudine Mundi 

 ndversus Fr. Bacon, Tho. Uobbes el S. Ward, 

 Lond. 1660, Svo. ; a letter from Ward (Sarum, 

 Apr. 20, 1681) to the archbishop in the Tanner 

 MS. 36. p. 17. ; Correspondence of Scientific Men 

 of the \7th Century (Oxford, 1841), vol. i. p. 75.). 



It may seem superfluous to caution the reader 

 against confounding our bishop with Dr. Samuel 

 Ward of the Synod of Dort, the correspondent of 

 Ussher and Bedell ; but the mistake is sanctioned 

 by no less authority than " the Congregational 

 Union of England and Wales." (See Index to 

 Mr. B. Hanbury's Historical Memorials relating 

 to the Independents, 3 vols. 8vo., Lond. 1839; it 

 must, however, be added that this is not a fair 

 specimen of the book, which contains many cu- 

 rious extracts from rare tracts, and has a complete 

 Index.) 



The following notes are from the copy of Pope's 

 Life of Ward bequeathed to St. John's College 

 library by the learned Thomas B.aker, " Coll. Jo. 

 Socius ejectus" : — 



" An. 1G45. Gualt. Poiie Oxonien. admissus in Coll. 

 Trin. Cant. 



" Of Gualt. Pope, his Character, Books, &c. See Athen. 

 Oxon., edit. 2<i, at Wadham Coll. Vol. 2<i, col. 1094-5. 



" Mr. Wood is even with the Author, tho' his Character 

 must have been wrote before this Book was publish'd. 

 But he gives a vile character of Dr. Pope." 



[Baker next quotes from Chauncy's Herts, pp. 126, 127. 

 132. the inscription at Aspeden to John Ward, the father 

 ofSeth.] 



" See Bp. Ward's Character in Bp. Burnet's Hist, of 

 his own Time, vol. i. p. 192. 



" See Mr. 'EcharA's Histort/ of EngIand,vo\. 3<>,pag. 942. 



" Jun. . . . 1643. Mr. Ward chosen Math. Lect, against 

 Jones of St. John's Coll., carried it but by two votes. 

 The one had 50, and the other 52. — Dr. Dillingh. Diary. 



" Sept. 7, 1643. Dr. Ward* of Sidn. Coll. died, &c. — 

 Ibid. 



" Sept. 13, 1643. ]Mr. Thorndike of Trin. Coll. chosen 

 Master of Sidney. — Ibid. [After dasht.] 



" Seth Ward filius Joannis Ward Attornati, Bunting- 

 fordiae in Com. Hert. natus, ibique Uteris Grain, per 

 Septennium, opera M'' Tho. Acres, M":' Harlej', M" Hotcb- 

 inson, M'' Jo. Meriton institntus, 16. ferme setatis annum 

 agens, admissus est sub Eevl Collegii Prfefecto Doctore 

 Ward, Dec. 1. [1632] et postea traditus est in tutelam 

 Mr» Carolo Pendreth. — Eegr. Coll. Syd. 



" Art. Mr. an. 1640. — Regr. Acad, 

 [nee satis convenit cum hoc Auctore.] " 



On p. 6., 1. 8. from the bottom, " he was bom ... in 

 the year of our Lord 1618," Baker remarks : — 



" He was born Apr. 15, 1617. See Sir H. Chauncy's 

 Antiq. Hertf., p. 126. Quaere." 



On p. 7. 1. 9. from foot, " at the age of fourteen years," 

 is the note : — 



" Annum agens aetatis 16." 



On p. 11. : " Jul. 27 (forte 7), 1640, Cone, ut Seth 

 Ward Coll. Syd. Socius, Creationem suam accipiat in hac 

 Congregatione. — Regr. Acad." 



On p. 14. ch. 4. : " See the College Account of this 

 election: MS. Collect., vol. 10. p. 422." [Printed from 

 Baker in the Cambridge Portfolio, pp. 388, 389. ; see also 

 Mr. Haddan's elaborate Life of Thorndike, p. 188. seq."] 



On p. 34. ch. 4., « see chap. 23." 



On p. 37. 1. 3., " my friend," Baker says " Edward Bag- 

 shaw," and adds on p. 39., "student of Christ Church. 

 See Dr. Calamy's Account, §-c., pp. 542, 543." 



In p. 45., line 12. from the bottom, *' Proctor " is changed 

 into " Protector " ; and in p. 85., 1. 13. from the bottom, 

 " Bishop Jewell " into " Bp. Abbot." 



On p. 86., 1. 15. from the bottom : " This is a mistake ; 

 the Earle of Sandwich never was of Cambridge (as I am 

 inform'd by his son Dr. Mountagu), but sometime of 

 Glocester Hall in Oxford." 



In p. 165. Pope had stated: "When the Patent for the 

 Mastership [of Trinity] was brought him [Isaac Bar- 

 row], wherein there was a clause permitting him to 

 Marry, as it had been made before for some of his Prede- 

 cessors, he causd the Grant to be alterd, judging it not 

 agreeable to the Statutes, from which he neither desird, 

 nor would accept any Dispensation : Naj', he chose rather 

 to be at expence of double Fees, and procure a new Pa- 

 tent, without the Marrijing Clause, than perpetually to 

 stand upon his Guard against the Sieges, Batteries, and 

 Importunities, which he foresaw that honourable antl pro- 

 fitable Preferment would expose him to." 



Baker, with inexorable accuracy, spoils the 

 point of this good story : — 



" That Patent was once mine (now Lord Oxford's), 

 where the Marrying Clause is eras'd, without the trouble 

 or expence of taking a new one." 



J. E. B. Mayor. 



St. John's College, Cambridge. 



* [/. e. Dr. Samuel Ward.] 



