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named, though he was a writer, and at his death an 

 Irish bishop. We may conclude, however, that few 

 of the Rectors of Bath made much impression on the 

 age, or left any permanent memorial of themselves. 

 Glanvile, who came in on a lapse in the latter half of 

 the seventeenth century, is an exception, and with 

 the name of Glanvile we must connect those of Crosse 

 and Stubbes, as they waged fierce war together on 

 the value of the Aristotelian philosophy, and other 

 things connected with the great changes which were 

 then going on in the minds of the philosophers of the 

 time. 



[22] There is, I believe, a volume of Latin verses, 

 spun by the boys of former days in this school, 

 entitled Primitice Bathonienses^ but I do not recollect 

 to have ever seen it. 



[23] " Ever-memorable " had been applied before 

 to one of his predecessors as provost of Eton — Sir 

 Henry Wotton. Hales is not likely to be forgotten 

 as long as any curiosity shall exist concerning the 

 progress of moral and theological science; so that 

 Dr. Farmer might have spared his sarcastic remark 

 on this Bath worthy, as one forgotten, though by his 

 contemporaries called the Ever-memorable. It is 

 only one of many things in that specious but most 



