of his College. Thereafter for some 

 fifteen years he continued to fill various 

 lectureships and other offices at Queens'. 

 He was Tutor of the College from 

 1751 to 1 763 ; Praelector in Arithmetic in 

 1751 ; Censor in Theology in 17524; 

 Praelector in Geometry in 1753 ; Prae- 

 lector in Greek in 1755 and 1759; Senior 

 Bursar in 1 7568 ; Praelector in Hebrew 

 in 1759 and 1762 ; Censor in Philosophy 

 and Examiner in 1760. He took his 

 degree of Master of Arts in 1752 and 

 Bachelor of Divinity in 1761. He was 

 nominated Rector of St Botolph's, Cam- 

 bridge, on 28th March 1760, and held 

 this living until June 1763, when he left 

 Cambridge on being collated to a rectory 

 in the country. 



The registers of Queens' College furnish 

 information as to the modest payments 

 made in the eighteenth century to the 

 officials by whom the work of the College 

 was performed. In Michell's case we 

 learn that the largest sum paid to him as 



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