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he was iioniiiiated a Fellow and appointed one of iJie four Censors, but he 

 did not attend till the fourth meeting of the College, on February 1, 1692/3, 

 to take the oath. On St. Luke's Day, 1693, though absent from the College 

 meeting, he was continued as a Censor, and on July 6, 1694, he was asked to 

 draft a by-law " punishing such as shall come late to the meetings, and that 

 none be obliged to stay after five of the clock." This by-law he introduced 

 on July 17, when it was read for the first time. At the next meeting, on 

 September 1, 1694, the by-law was read a second time, but its framer was 

 then dead. Before concluding the business of the meeting the President and 

 Fellows "ordered that as a mark of our respect to our honoured colleague 

 Dr. Willoughby every one of the Fellows in town doe appear att his funeral 

 tomorrow in a gown under the penalty of a crown for the use of the College." 

 At the next meeting, on September 26, 1694, Willoughby 's by-law was 

 adopted as follows : — " Whereas our meeting.? gi-ow troublesome to some of 

 the practising physicians by the neglect of others to give early attendance. 

 It is thought fit that a mulct of six pence be laid on those who do not come 

 within one quarter of an hour after the time appointed in the monitary bill 

 sent by the President. And to the end none may have reason to complain 

 of the tediousness of the meetings : no man shall be obliged to continue 

 longer at a meeting than two hours from the first date, but after that time is 

 at liberty to depart when he pleases, altho the business of the meeting be 

 not fully completed." For many years afterwards a fine of six pence for 

 coming "tardy " was a common occurrence at the meetings of the College. 



In his will, which was signed on August 28, 1694, Willoughby bequeathed 

 his property, Newtown, Go. Dublin, to his niece, Katherine Willoughby, with 

 a charge of ten pounds a year to Edward and Jane Phillips " and the longest 

 liver of them." To this Edward Phillips, who was his servant, he bequeathed 

 his wearing apparel, and he desired his body to be decently buried in 

 St. Andrew's Church, Dublin. His " herbarium vivuni" or " hortus siccus," a 

 collection of botanical specimens which he had made at Padua, he had 

 presented to Merton College in 1663, and it is still preserved in the l^ibrary 

 there. The catalogue of his library and the diploma of his degree at Padua 

 are preserved in the Library of Trinity College. The catalogue is a quarto 

 volume, newly bound in calf. It contains the entries of 775 volumes, 

 arranged alphabetically under the names of the authors ; in addition, several 

 entries have been obliterated, as if the books had been removed from the 

 library. The latest dated book noticed was for 1690, but on the first four 

 pages there ai-e a number of entries of books which have been lent to various 

 persons. Some of these entries are dated, the latest being April 29, 1692. 

 There is not any nientiou in the catalogue of books either by King or by 

 Molyneux. 



