533 ExtraSlsfrom thf Port-folio of a Man of Letters. [Jan. I, 



tutes, and would bring fcandal on the 

 Un'vcifity. He therefore refulcd the ap- 

 plicaiion. 



PLAGUE AT CAMBRIDGE. 



In 1630 the King gianted letters ps- 

 tent to colleft money for :he relief of 

 thofe who were ^fHifted with the plague 

 and peftilence then lately prevailing. Near 

 4.000 perfons in CanibriHge were infeSed 

 with It, and it coft the Univerfity 200I. a 

 week to relieve them. After the poor 

 had been provided for, a furplus remain. 

 ed in ihe hands of the Vice Chancellor 

 »nd Mayor, upon which they preftnted a 

 petition to the King, ftating their hope 

 that this furplus, together wi;h what 

 might be colltfted for future relief, and 

 the le-eftablifliment of their ftock, which 

 before the vifitation of the plague had 

 be'ntxhaufted by the eredlion of a work- 

 hoiife, at an exper.ce of 500!. and a hotife 

 of rorrcftion, to (et them again to work, 

 anri th;y iheitfore prayed for leave to in- 

 clofe Jefus Green and other wafte lands, 

 and that the overplus of the collection 

 might be expended in fetting the poor to 

 wcik ard the eref^ion of a houfe of cor- 

 rtf^ion, which was ordered acccrrdirgly. 



JOHANNES SCOT us ERIGENA. 



He was a native of Ireland, and a pu- 

 pil of Bede, ur'der whom he (luriied st 

 Cambritlge. He was diftin£;uiflicd as a 

 linguift, a divine, and a traveller. At a 

 late prrio.l of life he became a fchool- 

 malltr at Main. {bury, where it is fdid that 

 his fctiolars di'patchtd him with their 

 penknives, on account ot the morofenefs 

 of his tem|.er; but the ccndemnation of 

 his b.^ok De Eucharifla, and his public 

 reprobation of the dodlrine of the real pre- 

 fecnce, ma^'e it fufpeiE^td that the pen- 

 knives were not guided by fchool-boys. 

 DISPUTE bettveeii the UMViiRsirv and 



the DOMINICAN ;ind Franciscan 



FRIARS. 



In the year 150-5 a difpute arofe be- 

 tween the Univeriity men ar.d the Domi- 

 nican and Frarcilcan Friars, ar,d the af- 

 trfif growing lericu*, Strphen the Chan- 

 cellr thundered his excommnrjication 

 againft the friars, evpelling two of the 

 moft aflive from the Univeriity. On this 

 the friais appealtd to the Pope, and each 

 par.y appointed Proflors to manage the 

 caulejbu, at laft, cinridcving the ex- 

 pence likely to be incurred, aiid the length 

 and d.fficulty of the journey, then pro- 

 ceeded no farther thin Bourdeaux, wnere 

 they laid the maitcr btJcre Cardinal St. 



Sabine, who decreed, thai the Chancel- 

 lor ftiould retraft his excommunication j 

 that no aft of the Regent Houl'e (hould 

 derogate from the right* of the friars j 

 tiiat the friars might preach at the la'ttie 

 time in their own convents that the public 

 preaching was held in the Univerfity, and 

 that the excommunicated iliculd relume 

 their places in the Univerfity. 



DR. SAMUEL WARD. 



This learned divine left to Sidney Col- 

 lege, of which he was mafter, the valua- 

 ble gold medal which was pr«(ented ts) 

 him by the States of the Low Countries 

 when he came from the Synod of Dort, 

 fifty pounds in cadi, eighty old filver 

 coins of the Roman Emperors, one gold 

 medal of the Emperor Conl'ans, fecond 

 fon of Conftantine the Great, and the 

 whfleof his valuable MSS. 



JURISDICTION OF THE BISHOPS OF 

 ELY. 



All the Chancellors of the Univerfity of 

 CaiiiDridge were confirmed by the BiOiops 

 of Ely before they entered upon their 

 office, until the vear 1400, when the Pope 

 exempted the Univerfity from this part of 

 the Biftiop's jurildiftion. 



EARLY EXCELLENCE. 



To the number of remarkable children 

 lately enumerated, may be added Chrif- 

 tian Her.ry Heineken, of Lubeck. His 

 biography has been pi'bliflied by his 

 teacher, C. Von Schoenlch, under the ti- 

 tle " Leben, That en, ReifenundTod eiues 

 fehr artigcn und fehr hlugen 'vierjdkrigea 

 Kindes,^' C. H, Heineken aus Lubeck, 

 1779. Life, Deeds, Travels, and Death 

 ol a very pretty and very clever child of 

 four years old. C. H. Heineker, of Lu- 

 beck. The account went through two 

 ediiions, ar.d was publifiied at Gottingen 

 as well as Lubeck. 



jCGVPTIAN BREWERIES. 



Michaelis tranflates the tenth verfe of 

 the nineteenth chapter of Iiaiah in this 

 manner: "The weavers' ftools fliall be 

 overturned ; and the brewers of beer fhall 

 break." He defends, in a learned note, 

 this departure from the points, and qb- 

 ferves, that the brewing of beer, or z_)'- 

 thos, was in very early times a feparate 

 trade in iEgypt, and that the diferent 

 forts of beer were called after the cities in 

 which they were brewed ; as we have our 

 Biirion ale and our London porter. L is 

 not unlikely that Ofins let up the fiift pub- 

 lic brewery, and therefore paffcd tor tiie 

 inventor of the ait. 



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