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Within her grey walls for some four years Charles I. established his head-quarters when at war with his people; hither he summoned his phantom Parliament in opposition to the powerful and uncompromising Long Parliament at Westminster; and here, in later days, John Wesley declared that should a man walk abroad in the town, he would be treading upon the skulls of dead Jacobites. But, as is well known, many leading men of the popular party had received their early education at the knees of our venerable Alma Mater. Sir John Eliot-"lion Eliot, that grand Englishman "-spent three years at Exeter College; and, although he did not take a degree, there is evidence that he by no means neglected his studies. William Strode, one of the famous five members of the House of Commons impeached 66 by Charles I. in 1642, passed two years at the same College and achieved a degree. Sir John Maynard, the judge, was also a graduate of Exeter, and founded two lectureships therein. Henry Rolle, the judge, was of Exeter; and Thomas Chaloner the regicide, who gave a silver" eard pot" to the College. Sir John Robartes, Bt., second Baron Robartes and first Earl of Radnor, entered Exeter as a fellow-commoner, where, according to Wood, he "sucked in "evil principles both as to Church and State. He held the rank of Field-Marshal in Essex's army, contributed to the Epithalamia,' a volume of poems of 1625 (the year he entered Exeter); and left the hangings and traverse to it" in his study to the Rector of his College on going down from Oxford. Philip, fourth Baron Wharton, and his brother Sir Thomas Wharton were at Exeter together. Lord Wharton, whose beautiful portrait by Van Dyck belongs to the Emperor of Russia, gave a silver-gilt bowl and cover to his College-Sir Thomas presenting a silver "eard pot. Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, Bt., first Baron Ashley and first Earl of Shaftesbury, the celebrated statesman, intriguer, and Lord High Chancellor, was a gentleman-commoner of Exeter. He has told us how he took a leading part in the schools, "coursing with other Exonians against Christ Church. This coursing was in older times, I believe, intended for a fair trial of learning and skill in logic, metaphysics, and school divinity"; but by Cooper's time it had degenerated into little better than a free fight. He also was instrumental in causing that "ill custom of tucking freshmen to be discontinued ; and in preventing the senior Fellows from altering the beer of the College, which was stronger than other Colleges." He gave a silver tankard to Exeter. Shaftesbury's uncle by marriage Edward Tooker and his cousins John and Giles Tooker were of the same College. His younger brother, George Cooper, was & contemporary there of the last of these in 1642. 66 Magdalen College, "the very nursery of Puritans," claims John Hampden as a son. Thirty-three years after his matriculation, among the plate lent to the King one piece was probably that described as cantharus ex dono Ioannis Hamden Buckinghamiensis, 1610.' This is one of life's little ironies; for, like the greater part of the Oxford plate of the period, Hampden's gift was doubtless converted-by way of the meltingpot-into current coin on behalf of the royal cause. George Wither, the Puritan poet, from the tender mercies of both parties. The prominent Puritan divines bred at Magdalen Hall include Philip Nye, the Independent; Henry Hurst, a sometime Magdalen chorister, ejected from St. Matthew's, Friday Street, under the Act of Uniformity; Nathaniel Hardy, who conformed and became Dean of Rochester; and Thomas Horne, the Presbyterian Head Master of Eton. One of the sons of the last named, William Horne-an under master at his old school and Fellow of King's-became the first Etonian and married Head Master of Harrow. Some years ago Mr. R. Townsend Papers a letter of July, 1682, referring to Harrow School under Horne, in which the writer stated that the number of boys WES generaly abought six score; but in ye town their are maney bording houses." A. R. BAYLEY. 66 was of the same house; so were William as a moderate Parliamentarian, suffered Russell, fifth Earl and first Duke of Bedford; Sir Anthony Morgan, the soldier, who, migrating from the neighbouring Hall, was son of a Magdalen Fellow and Principal of Alban Hall; and Arthur Goodwin, friend and colleague of Hampden, with whom as an undergraduate he contributed Latin verses to the College collection on the death of Henry, Prince of Wales, entitled 'Luctus Posthumus.' Magdalen Hall had grown up under the shadow of the College through the gradual settlement of those who, while free to profit by the instruction of the Grammar Master, were not themselves members of the founder's Grammar Warner discovered among the Verney School. In process of time the Grammar Hall had largely usurped the premises of the School, and had become a recognized University institution. The cuckoo's nest -Wood calls it a Inest of Precisians had thriven marvellously under the protection of the lilies of Magdalen. Dr. John Wilkinson, who as Fellow of Magdalen had been tutor to Prince Henry, during his long tenure of the Principalship (which lasted until the beginning of the war) had made the Hall the chief seminary and stronghold of the Puritans in Oxford. He was afterwards President of the College, and was succeeded at the Hall by his nephew Henry Wilkinson, "Dean Harry," who was also Whyte's Professor of Moral Philosophy, Another Henry Wilkinson, "Long Harry, also of the Hall and Canon of Christ Church, was, like his namesake, one of the Parliamentary Visitors to the University and Margaret Professor of Divinity. Among other alumni of this Hall were Sir Harry Vane the younger (his father was of Brasenose), who, characteristically, discovered after a brief sojourn that he could not take the oaths required of him, and left without matriculation; Sir Matthew Hale, Chief Justice, and in 1659 M.P. for his University; Sir William Waller, the famous general, nicknamed by his admirers "William the Conqueror"; Robert Hammond, the soldier, who as Governor of the Isle of Wight became the unwilling gaoler of Charles I. at Carisbrooke Castle; John Lisle, regicide, and one of Cromwell's House of Peers, who was assassinated at Lausanne after the Restoration, leaving his widow Alice to be the victim of a famous judicial murder by Lord Jeffreys; Edward Leigh, miscellaneous writer, lay theologian, soldier, and member of Parliament; and Sir Ralph Verney, Bt.-son of Sir Edmund Verney, the royal standard-bearer at Edgehill-who, (To be continued.) THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK'S PLAYS. THE different editions of T. L. Peacock's works which have appeared since his death in 1866 contain no allusion to his three unpublished plays, and a diligent search for references to them has produced only one mention of their existence. This is a cursory notice of a few lines contained in Sir Henry Cole's Biographical Notes of T. L. Peacock,' of which ten copies were printed about 1875, and privately circulated. This neglect is very strange, since examination shows that they are most interesting and highly characteristic of their author. They are to be found in the Manuscript Department of the British Museum, in vol. 36.816-this being the second volume of The Literary Remains of Thomas Love Peacock,' which were purchased by the Trustees of the Museum of Mrs. Edith Clarke in 1903. In all three instances they are holographic. The handwriting is easily legible, presenting an agreeable contrast in this respect to most documents from Peacock's pen. Included in 'The Literary Remains" are also a list of the dramatis personæ of a tragedy called Otho' and the opening scene of a play entitled 'Virginia.' Although these have, like the others, remained unnoticed and unmentioned, the idea of Peacock being a playwright in addition to a novelist and poet should not come altogether as a surprise, for Mrs. Clarke states in the Biographical Notice' of her |