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wright of some note in his day ; and Theodore Goulston 

 of Merton College, one of our great benefactors, and 

 for 267 years past and gone purveyor-in-chief of reputa- 

 tion to the younger Fellows of the College. Mayerne 

 would be there, not yet a Fellow, but happy in his escape 

 from the Paris Faculty; still dusty with conflict, he 

 would scent the battle afar in the revolutionary state- 

 ments which he heard. Meverell, fresh from incorpora- 

 tion at Cambridge, also not yet a Fellow ; Moundeford, 

 often President, whose little book Vir Bonus sets forth 

 his life. Paddy, a noteworthy benefactor, a keen stu- 

 dent, still gratefully remembered at Oxford, would have 

 strolled in with his old friend Gwinne ; Baldwin Hamey 

 the elder, also a benefactor, would be there, and perhaps 

 he had brought his more interesting son, then preparing 

 to enter Leyden, whose memory should be ever green 

 among us. Let us hope Thomas Winston, probably an 

 old fellow-student at Padua, and later appointed Pro- 

 fessor of Physic at Gresham College, was absent, as we 

 can then be more charitable towards the sins of omission 

 in his work on Anatomy, published after his death, 

 which, so far as I can read, contrary to the statement of 

 Munk (Roll of the College), contains no word of the new 

 doctrine. As an old Paduan, and fresh from its ana- 

 tomical school, the younger Craige would not be absent. 

 Fludd, the Rosicrucian, of course, was present; attracted, 

 perhaps, by rumours of anti-Galenical doctrines which 

 had served to keep him out of the College ; nor would 

 he be likely to be absent at the festival of one whom he 

 calls his ' physicall and theosophicall patron '. And 

 certainly on such an occasion that able Aberdonian, 

 Alexander Reid, would be there, whose 2o>/iaroypa<ia 

 had just appeared, 1 with an extraordinary full account 

 1 Copy in Bodleian Library. 



