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days Scholar of this Houfe) to fay as much, calling thefe Bees, Vi- 

 ves his Bees. 



21. In the year 1630. the leads over Vivcs bit iludy being 

 pluckt up, [it then being theftndy of Mr. Gabriel Bridges) their 

 Stall was taken, and with it an incredible mafs of bony : but the Bees* 

 as prefaging their intended and imminent defiruftion (whereas they 

 were never known to have /warmed beforej did that Spring (to pre- 

 Jerve their famous kindj fend down afairfwarm into the Prefidents 

 garden, which in the year 1633. yielded two /warms; one whereof 

 pitched in the garden for the Prefident ; the other they fent up as a 

 new Colony topreferve the memory of this mellifluous Doftor, as the 

 Univerfity {filed him in a Letter to the Cardinal. Thus far Mr* 

 Butler. 



22. And there they continued, as I am informed by feveral 

 ancient Members of that Society that knew them, till by the Par- 

 liament Vifitation, in Anno 1648. for their Loyalty to the King, 

 they were all, but two y turned out of their places, at what time 

 with the reft of the inhabitants of the College, they removed 

 themfelves, but no further than the Ea/l end of the fame Cloy- 

 Jier, where as if the feminine fympathized with the mafculineWio- 

 narchy, they inftantly declined, and came fhortly to nothing. 

 After the expiration of which ancient Race, there came, 'tis true, 

 another Colony to the Eaft corner of the Cloy/ier, where they con- 

 tinued till after the return of his moft Sacred Majefiy that now is : 

 but it not being certain that they were any of the remains of the 

 ancient Stock, (though 'tis faid they removed thence to the firft 

 place) nor any of them continuing long there, I have chofe ra- 

 ther to fix their period in the year 1648. than to give too much 

 credit to uncertainties. 



23. And thus unhappily, after above fix fcore years conti- 

 nuance, ended the famous ftock of Vives his Bees, where 'tis 

 pitty they had not remained, as Virgil calls them, an Immortale 

 Genit4 y . However, fmce they are now irrecoverably loft, it 

 would not I think be amifs, if the College provided them ano- 

 ther Colony ; not that I think that Learned Society wants any fuch 

 monitor of lnduftry, but that itfeems but congruous, they Chould 

 always have by them the Thing, whereof their whole Houfe is but 

 the metaphor, the Founder calling it Ahearium, and the Students, 



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