66 years before, who, we presume, stood more in need of the fellowship than did Fuller. Fuller, accordingly, "quitted his pretensions and designation to that preferment." The biographer adds, that he " totally declined," though he was assured that a special dispensation could be obtained in his particular case by which the election might have been assured. Thus, rather than that the statutes of the College should be altered on his account and that an irregular precedent should be formed, he allowed his own merits and interests to suffer"not willing to owe his rise and advancement to the courtesy of so ill a precedent that might usher in more immodest intrusions upon the privileges and laws of the college." Be this as it may, his connection with Queens' was soon afterwards severed. His course of study had begun with eagerness and finished with credit; and he must have left his associates with a mind well informed. At this time, then, he was something more than a mere "general scholar." In after years he looked back with a grateful remembrance to the years he had spent within the college walls. He thus affectionately concludes his notice of the house in the annals of his University: "And thus I take my farewell of this foundation wherein I had my education for the first eight years [1621-8] in that University. Desiring God's blessing to be plentifully poured on all the members thereof."1 Sect. v. 39, p. 82. As to the period of time here mentioned, we find him again saying of Queens' College, "to which I owe my education for my first seven years in that University." (Holy War, bk. v. chap. xxiv. p. 270.) The latter period of time noticeably agrees with that given in the register of SydneySussex College (p. 47 anted). Fuller perhaps took a long holiday before entering his new college in the following year. CHAPTER V. STUDENT LIFE: SYDNEY-SUSSEX COLLEGE. FIRST CURACY. (1629-31.) ADMISSION TO SYDNEY COLLEGE.-DR. MOUNTAGU. -DR. SAMUEL WARD: HIS RELATIONS TO FULLER.-RICHARD DUGARD.-FULLER AND THE HEBREW LANGUAGE. FULLER'S FRIENDS AND CONTEMPORARIES: ROWLAND LITTON, JOSEPH MEDE, EDWARD BENLOWES, ETC.; TAYLOR, d'ewes, etc.—Fuller APPOINTED TO A CURACY BY THE FELLOWS OF CORPUS CHRISTI.—THE PLAGUE. FULLER AND HOBSON THE CARRIER.-FULLER'S VERSES ON THE ROYAL CHILDREN.-DR. JAMES DUPORT.-SIR WM. PASTON.-DRAINAGE OF THE FENS. "[Hildegardis] never learned word of Latin, and yet therein would she fluently express her Revelation to those notaries that took them from her mouth; so that throwing words at random she never brake Priscian's head: as if the Latin had learned to make itself true without the speaker's care. And no doubt he that brought the single parties to her married them also in her mouth, so that the same spirit which furnished her with Latin words, made also the true syntaxis." (Holy State, p. 38.) N September, 1629, there occurred at Cambridge the ceremonious installation of Lord Holland as Chancellor of the University, in the place of the Duke of Buckingham, then recently assassinated. In November, Fuller was admitted at Sydney-Sussex College, not as "Tanquam Socius," as has been stated, but only "ad convictum Sociorum," i.e. as a fellow-commoner.1 Fuller says that in Pembroke Hall "a Tanquam it seems is a fellow in all things save the name thereof;" and he again defines the word as a fellow's fellow."2 To acquire the privilege of a fellow-commoner, higher fees had to be paid, the necessary annual charges being about £60 or £70.3 The extra expense in Fuller's case was perhaps defrayed by Bp. Davenant. Our author refers to his college maintenance in one of his Cambridge sermons, making an appeal to "us who are or should be 66 'Register, p. 47, anted. 2 Church-History, xi. 141; Worthies, § London, p. 207. 3 D'Ewes' Life. scholars, whom our parents have bred up at the Fountains of Learning and Religion, till our Portions are almost shrunk into our Education."1 SYDNEY (or more correctly Sydney-Sussex) COLLEGE was a new foundation in Fuller's time, having been erected at a cost of £5,000, by Frances Sidney, aunt of Sir Philip Sidney and widow of the Earl of Sussex. Here originally was a house of the Franciscans, founded by Edward I. In Fuller's day the area of their church was "easily visible in Sydney College garden, where the depression and subsidency of their bowlinggreen east and west, present the dimensions thereof; and I have oft found dead men's bones thereabouts." The site, which was purchased from Trinity College by the foundress' executors, was formerly very extensive; and the church was one of the largest in the town, being used by the University for their public Exercises and Commencements up to 1507. After the erection of the new college, the refectory of the Friary was converted into a chapel, and was so used up to 1776. Fuller tells us that some had falsely reported that the building was once a stable. Accordingly both it, and Corpus Christi and Emanuel Colleges, were in 1629 "presented" by Bishop Wrenn to Archbishop Laud, and by him to the King, as unconsecrated; "with which his majesty was much displeased, and determined for their consecration." But Fuller with others "their equals in learning and religion" contended that the continued series of divine duties performed in the chapel for more than thirty years did effectually consecrate it. Fuller quaintly terms the foundation a Benjamin college, "the least, and last in time, and born after the death of its mother." Though a "little babe," the college was, says Fuller, "well battelled "3 under the fostering care of its early Masters and others, who increased its small revenues. Its first Master was Dr. James Mountagu (afterwards Bishop of Bath and Wells), who was a benefactor both to it and the University. He was the advocate of "Low Church" views, being known for his Puritan inclinations; and his opinions gave a reputation to the college for many years. The promotion of Mountagu was Sermon Of Assurance, p. 15. 2 Hist. Camb. sect. ii. § 23 seq.; Cole's MSS. vol. xx. fol. 107, vol. xlvii. fol. 93. Grew fat. Fuller often employs this word, obsolete but for the fact that battels are still the daily allowances of food to the students at Oxford, as also expenses for provisions. In the Pisgah-Sight, e.g., we have: Bethsan, in Issachar, "after- very rapid he was highly in favour with King James, "who did ken a man of merit as well as any prince in Christendom." The works of the pedant monarch he translated into Latin, "and improved his greatness to do good offices therewith." i His influence at the Court was great. He it was who was the mover in the design for sending representatives to the Synod of Dort. He died (1618) Bishop of Winchester, being succeeded by "that gulf of learning" Andrewes. Fuller duly notes in his Worthies that Francis Cleark, Knt., was one of the noble benefactors of Sydney College, augmenting the scholarships and extending the buildings. And yet the worthy knight, he tells us, was a stranger to the foundation; and some said that his charity "pitched upon it" because it was the "youngest foundation." "But I have been informed that Sir Francis, coming privately to Cambridge, to see unseen, took notice of Doctor Ward his daily presence in the Hall, with the scholars' conformity in caps, and diligent performance of exercises; which indeared this place unto him." In the same book, Fuller alludes to a bequest paid by Chief Justice Bramstone, as an instance of the integrity of the Judge, "effectually relating to the foundation wherein I was bred."3 Dr. Ward gave our author particulars relating to these benefactions, to which there are also allusions in his Hist. Camb. Of John Lord Harrington, he says in The Worthies that his days were "not according to the hopes and desires of the lovers and honourers of virtue in this nation, especially of the Society in Sydney College, whereto he was a most bountiful benefactor." Among the curiosities of Sydney College was a skull, said by Fuller to have been brought from a well in Candia, which, says he, "was candied all over with stone, yet so as the bone remained entire in the middle, as by a casual breach thereof did appear. This skull was sent for [through Dr. Harvey] by King Charles; and, whilst I lived in the house, by him safely again returned to the college, being a prince as desirous in such cases to preserve other's propriety, as to satisfy his own curiosity." 5 284. Dr. SAMUEL WARD,6 who became Fuller's tutor-"my Reve Worthies, Northamptonshire, p. Ibid. Bedfordshire, p. 118. • Ibid. Essex, p. 329. Ibid. Warwickshire, p. 130. Ibid. 66 rend Tutor," he terms him'-had been Master of Sydney College since 1609. We have already met with him as interested in young Fuller, through the friendship of the former with Dr. Davenant. As the connection between Ward and his pupil was now, and had been for some time, very intimate, a few particulars of him may be noted. Ward belonged to a Durham family of more ancientry than estate," and had received his education at Christ and Emanuel Colleges. He soon acquired the reputation of being one of the most learned theologians of the day, and was accordingly chosen as a representative at the Synod of Dort. He became chaplain to Mountagu, the former Master of Sidney, through whose influence he was afterwards made chaplain to the King. At one time of his life, Dr. Ward was beneficed at Much-Munden, Hertfordshire: he had other preferment in the diocese of Bath and Wells, and in the province of York. He was an exact linguist, and was one of the translators of the Bible. To him, with eight other divines at Cambridge, was assigned a portion of the Apocrypha; and so well did they perform their task that the revisers of the whole volume-Drs. Smith and Raynolds-complimented Ward upon the production. On the promotion of his friend Dr. Davenant, then Margaret Professor, to the See of Sarum, Dr. Ward succeeded to the former office, an appointment entirely in accordance with Dr. Davenant's wish: he held it for above twenty years. followed the theology of Calvin; and in 1628, i.e. about the time that Fuller entered, Laud complained of this college, Emanuel (under Dr. Preston), and St. John's, as being "nurseries of Puritanism," and as calling for "reform." Towards the close of his life, Dr. Ward was much opposed to the practices of Laud and the Court clergy. Under Dr. Ward's conscientious mastership the college was very prosperous, having about 140 students. He devoted himself to the advancement of his pupils. And how entirely the college was devoted to him is proved by the particulars which have been put on record by his pupils, Fuller and Seth Ward. Lloyd also gives us the following particulars of Dr. Ward's college life: "[He was] so good a man that he was Tutor as well as Master to the whole college; yea, kept almost as big a college by his goodness, as he governed by his place; more depending upon him there and abroad as a benefactor, than did as a governour. Being a great recommender, as well as an incourager of worth, he used to say that he knew nothing that 'Worthies, § Warwickshire, p. 128. 2 Tanner MSS., Ixxiii. 25. |