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neosoient paas al dicte esglise approcher pour pavour des 

 dit3 rhalefeisours ne unqore noisent pour divine service y 

 faire ein3 sent en point le dit college tout outrement 

 guerper et de icelle departir sils ne soient per vous en 

 ceste caas graceousement supportee3 Que please a vostre 

 hautesse de vostre benigne grace considerant les pre- 

 taisses dordeigner par autorite de ceste present parlement 

 que le Chaunceller Dengleterre pour le temps esteant eit 

 poiar de faire venir devant lui par tiell processe come lui 

 semble affaire les dit3 malefeisours et autres de lour assent 

 fet covyn en lour propres persones al poursuit le dit Gar- 

 dein par bille ent affaire en due forme et de oier et ter- 

 miner la dicte matier et tout3 lea circumstances de icele 

 fiolonc ga sage discrecion et les juggement ent arendre de 

 executer solonc sa discrecion et ce pour dieu et en oevre 

 de charite." 



The petition, however, has no answer recorded 

 to it. C.A.C. 



COLLEGE LIFE AT OXFORD, ONE HUNDRED 

 AND THIRTY YEARS AGO. 



The following extracts from a Diary kept bj 

 Mr., afterwards Sir Erasmus Philipps, during his 

 residence at Oxford, may prove interesting to the 

 readers of " N. & Q.," as giving some insight into 

 the habits of young gentlemen of quality nearly a 

 century and a half ago. Mr. Erasmus Philipps 

 was the son and heir of Sir John Philipps, the 

 fourth baronet of Picton Castle, whose niece, Ka- 

 therine Shorter, was the unhappy first wife of Sir 

 Robert Walpole. This relationship brought the 

 young student into contact with the best society 

 of the day ; and the influence and example of his 

 eminent and pious father prevented this social 

 intercourse from doing him any great harm. On 

 the death of Sir John Philipps, in 1736, Sir Eras- 

 mus succeeded to the baronetcy, and was unfor- 

 tunately drowned at Bath in 1743. He was never 

 married. 



« 1720, Aug'' 1. Went from London w* my Father 

 and Bro. John in Hayne's Grand Alrighman Coach for 

 Oxford, where my brother and self were, the next day, 

 Aug. 2, admitted Fellow Commoners of Pembroke College 

 by Mathew Panting, D.D., the Master of It, and took an 

 oath to obey the Master, and observe the statutes of the 

 College, &c. Paid M' Hopkins, the College Butler, 

 1/. 2s. Gd. Entrance money. Din'd the same day w'^ the 

 Rev* M'' Sam. Home (Master of Arts, one of the Fellows, 

 and Junior Dean of the College), whose Pupil I was. 

 Next day din'd w* the Master and his Lady at the 

 Lodgings. 



" Aug" 4. I was Matriculated before D' John Cobb, 

 Warden of New College, one of the four Pro- Vice Chan- 

 cellours under D' Shippen, the Vice Chanceler, who is 

 Principal of Brazennose College. N.B. I subscribed the 

 thirty-nine Articles, took the Oaths of Supremacy, and 

 an Oath to observe the Statutes of the University. Paid 

 Benj. Cooling, Esq. (who is a Fellow of New College), 

 the Esquire Beadle of Divinity, who attended on. this 

 occasion, 2/. 



" Copy of the Certificate given me by 



D"^ Cobb on my Matriculation, 

 " ' Oxonise, Aug. 4*0 anno Dom. 1720. 

 " ' Quo die Comparuit coram me Erasmus Philipps de 

 Coll. Pemb. Btti fil. subscripsit Articulis Fidel et Reli- 



gionis ; et Juramentum Suscepit de agnoscenda Suprenaa 

 Regise Majestatis Potestate; et de observandis Statutis, 

 Privilegiis, et Consuetudinibus Hujus Universitatis. 



" ' Jotnes Cobb, Vice Can.' 



" Paid the Rev* M' W'" Jordan (one of the Fellows of 

 Pembroke, and one of the Bursars and Chaplain to ditto) 

 and the Rev^ M' W"" Blandy (another Fellow and the 

 other Bursar), 10/- for my Caution to remain in their 

 Hands till I leave College ; paid 'em also 10s. for a Key 

 of the College Gardeni 



" Copy of the Bursar's Receit. 



« ' Aug. 4, 1720. 

 " « Reed then of Eras. Philipps, Esq^ Gent. Com- 

 moner of Pembroke College, the sum of ten pounds for 

 his Caution, which is to remain in the Bursars hands for 

 the time being, untill the said M"^ Philipps shall depart 

 the said College, leaving the same fully discharged, by us 



"'w^w'^Tl Bursars.' 

 W"" Blandy J 



" Aug. 4. My Mother and Sisters came from London 

 to Oxford, with my Father, Bro. Buckley, and M^ Beme- 

 witz.* Set out the 6»'> following for Picton Castle, where 

 they arrived the 12t'> Ins'. 



" Sep' 20. Rode to Portmead (a mile from Oxford) 

 Where M>- Stapletoa's horse run against M' Jerningham'8, 

 and won-the 40/. plate. 



" 21". The Galloway Plate, value 15/., was run for by 

 one horse ; after which several Horses run for a Hanger, 

 w'l' show'd good Diversion. At night, went to the as- 

 sembly at the Angel, where the affair was a Flat Crown. 



" 22. Walked to Portmead, where M' Freeman's Horse 

 run against M' Jerningham's, and M'' Garret's Mare, and 

 won the 20/. Plate. After this was a Foot race between 

 several Taylors for Geese, &c. At night went to the Ball 

 at the Angel. A Guinea Touch. 



" 23. Several Horses run for a Leash of does given by 

 Montague Venables Bertie, Earl of Abingdon. 



« N.B. The Chief of the Company at these Races, Ball, 

 and Assembly, were the Earl of Abingdon, Sir J"" Walter 

 and Sir Jonathan Cope, Barts. ; Tho. Rowney, Esq., and 

 his son Tom (the Sir Clement Cotterell on this occasionf) ; 

 the Honbi^ M'' Lee (Bro. to George Henry Lee, Earl of 

 Litchfield) ; Henry Farmer, Esq., M' Brown, M-" Rose, M-' 

 Warren, M' Throgmorton, &c. (The Marquess of Car- 

 narvon, Eldest son to James Bridges, D. of Chandois, M' 

 Banks, M' Malone, M' Sneyd, &c., out of Oxford.) .... 

 Countess of Litchfield, Lady Barbara Lee (sister to Lord 

 Litchfield), Lady Charlotte Powis, Lady Walter, Lady 

 Tyrrell and her three daughters, M" Berty, three Miss 

 Stonehouse's (daughters to S'' J"" Stonehouse, Bart.), all 

 fine women. Miss Gljmnes, Miss Harries's (Whinchester 

 Ladies), Miss Tufton's, M" Warren, M" Sutton, M" 

 Rowney, M" Briganden and her daughters, &c. 



" Sep' 24. I was made free of the Bodleian Library, and 

 took the usual Oath not to Embezzle the Books, &c., be- 

 fore the Revd M' Evan Lloyd, Fellow of Jesus College, 

 and one of the Pro-Proctors, paying on this occasion ten 

 shillings. Fees. N.B. I subscribed my name (in a book 

 kept for this purpose) before the Rev^ M' Francis Wise, 

 Fellow of Trinity College, and Sub-Librarian. 



" 25. Made a present to the Bodleian Library of a 

 Grammatica Damulica (a Malabar Grammar), a very 

 great Curiosity, and received the Thanks of M' Joseph 

 Bowles, M.A., Fellow of Oriel College, who is keeper of 

 this Library ; and M' Wise, on this occasion, entered me 

 among the Benefactors. 



« Ditto. Presented Pembroke College Library w'i> M' 



* Mr. Bernewitz was the family tutor, 

 t What does this expression mean ? 



