2n<» S. VIII. Ocr. 8. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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With such sweet force he does our tli oughts invade, 

 That where he cannot teach, he does perswade. 

 And we that read liis writings wish them true, 

 If we do not believe them to be so. 

 If he be in the wrong, we hold it still, 

 Kecause the right appears not half so well. 

 Who so would mend his faults must make a blot, 

 Maj' be more truth, but most will like it not. 

 Tor though fair vertue Plato wisht to see. 

 Yet vice as fair will please no less than she. 

 Why are temptations names for what is ill ? 

 But that her charms are most prevailing still. 

 Or vice call'd Pleasures? But to shew alone, 

 That Vice and Pleasure in effect are one. 

 Hence came our wit to think there was no Devil ; 

 Or if he tempter was, he was not evil : 

 And finding him drest in a different fashion, 

 According to the humour of each nation, 

 And that the Indians were in this so civil. 

 To whiten him we black'ned for the devil. 

 He thought that he was black or M-hite, and Saint or 

 Devil, according as it pleased the painter. 

 And vice and vertue both were our opinion, 

 And vari'd with the laws of each dominion. 

 To which who did conform was understood. 

 As their modes differ'd, to be bad or good." 



" EPITAPH. 



" Is Atheist-Hobbes then dead ! forbear to cry ; 

 For, whilst he liv'd, he thought he could not dy. 

 Or was at least most filthy loath to try. 



" Leviathan the great is fain ! But see 

 The small Behemoths of his Progenie 

 Survive to duel all Divinitie. 



" Whither he's gone, becomes not us to say, 

 The Narrow upper, or the Broad low way : 

 For who own'd neither well, may hap to stray. 



" Most think old Tom, with a recanting verse, 

 Must his odde notions dolefully rehearse 

 To new disciples in the Devil's Ar . 



" In fine, after a thousand shams and fobbs, 

 Ninet}- years eating, and immortal Jobbs, 

 Here Mattek lies, — and there's an end of Hobbes." 



" Aliud, 

 • Here lies Tom Hobbes, the Bug-bear of the Nation, 

 Whose Death hath frighted Atheism out of Fashion." 



" Finis. 

 « Printed in the year 1679." 



ORIGINAL LETTER OF KEILE, BISHOP OF DURHAM, 

 I BECOMMEKDING BUCKINGHAM AS CANDIDATE FOR 

 THE CHANCELLORSHIP OF CAMBRIDGE UNIVER- 

 SITY, 1626. 



The part played by the King and Commons in 

 tlie contest between the Duke of Buckingham and 

 the Earl of Berkshire makes it a matter of na- 

 tional, as well as of local, interest. Your readers 

 may therefore be pleased to see a letter from 

 Bishop Neile, proving the exertions made by 

 Charles in behalf of the impeached favourite. Mr. 

 Cooper (Annals of Cambridge, iii. 185.) has printed 

 a letter from Neile to tlie Vice-chancellor, in 

 which he refers to this, but I believe that it has 



never before appeared in print. The original, 

 with the bishop's seal, is preserved in the Treasury 

 of St. John's College, together with a large mass 

 of correspondence of the same date. Dr. Gwyn, 

 I may notice by the way, appears to have been 

 very careful in preserving all documents which 

 might throw light upon the history of the Univer- 

 sity or College. The letter is addressed " To j^ 

 R' Wor" my very loving good friend Mr. Doctor 

 Gwyn, M"" of St. John's CoUedge in Cambridge." 

 " Good Master of S' John's, 



" In my love to our Mother y^ Universitie, 

 yo*^ selfe, & our Colledge, I cannot conceale from 

 you a passage w"^*" I had yesternight with his 

 Ma"'-' touching our Chancello''ship by occasion of 

 my Lord of Suffolk's death. Wherin his Ma"" 

 signified his wishing y' y'' universitie would 

 choose my L'' Duke of Buckingham, & that it 

 would well please Him to have it presently ef- 

 fected ; by w'^'' overture of his Ma*''''' Inclination 

 herein I doe conceive y' in y^ doing therof we 

 shall not only gaine an honorable Chaucello"' of 

 y^ Duke of Buckingham, but in a sort purchase 

 his Ma""' himself, our Royall Patron & Chancel- 

 lour, in that we fixe our Election upon Him whom 

 Himself desireth. This I held it my duty to im- 

 part unto you, hoping that you will by all good 

 meanes further it, & you may make y"^ substance of 

 this my letter knowne to such of o' friends as you 

 think fitt to soUicite in it. So w*** my very harty 

 Comendacous to yo"" self, & all o"" friends, nos Deo, 

 " & I rest 



"jo"^ very loving friend, 



"K. DUSELM. 



" Durham house, 

 "May29, 1G26." 



J. E. B. Mayor. 

 St. John's College, Cambridge. 



OLIVER CROMWELL. 



There appear to have been three or four Oli- 

 ver Cromwells living about the same period, — 



Sir Oliver Cromwell of Hinchinbrooke, who 

 died 1655, a3t. 93. 



Oliver Cromwell, son of the preceding. 



Oliver Cromwell, son of the Earl of Ardglass. 



Oliver Cromwell, son of Sir Oliver, brother of 

 Sir Philip, living 1646, and died in Ireland. 



Oliver Cromwell the Protector. 



Oliver Cromwell, his son. 



The subjoined letter, copy of which is in my 

 possession, must be one of the above. Am I cor- 

 rect in ascribing it to the Protector Oliver ? 



" Sir, My Lord Cromwell upon the putting in 

 of his particuler into Gouldsmiths Hall, knowing 

 what the whole value of his estate amounted unto 

 yearely, gave it in att 470" in generall, which was 

 the true value of the whole lying in severall 



