Copy 1, Volume 1

Memorials of Cambridge: a series of views of the colleges, halls, and public buildings / engraved by J. Le Keux; with historical and descriptive accounts by Thomas Wright ... and the Rev. H. Longueville Jones.

  • Thomas Wright
Date:
1847
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Credit: Memorials of Cambridge: a series of views of the colleges, halls, and public buildings / engraved by J. Le Keux; with historical and descriptive accounts by Thomas Wright ... and the Rev. H. Longueville Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Heath, archbishop of York in 1553, and lord chancellor of England under the persecuting Mary; and John Tillotson, archbishop of Canterbury in 1691. The former had been successively bishop of Rochester and Worcester, before his elevation to the see of Canterbury, and had been deprived by Edward VI. in 155] - he was again deprived at the beginning of the reign of Queen — Elizabeth. Other bishops belonging to this college were, Augustin Lindsell, bishop of Hereford in 1633 ; Hum- phrey Henchman, bishop of London in 1663; Peter Gunning, master of St. John’s College, and bishop of Ely in 1674; John Moore, bishop of Ely in 1707; and one Irish prelate, Josiah Hort, bishop of Ferns in 1721, Of these prelates, T illotson, Lindsell, and Gunning, are well known as theological writers. Among other theolo- gians and men remarkable for their piety, we may mention the names of Dr. John Boyse, dean of Canterbury, author of the learned Postils in defence of the Litany, and of Bishop Andrews, against Belanus the Jesuit; Ralph Cudworth, master of the college in 1644, the well-known author of the ‘ Intellectual System ;’ the eminently pious Nicholas Ferrar, who died in 1637 ; Henry Jollyffe, dean of Bristol ; and, among the puritans and nonconformists, David Clarkson, Joseph Trueman, and Samuel Calvert. Among writers on philosophy were, Richard Tompson and Dr. Green. The celebrated William Whiston, fellow in 1693, and the unfortunate Dr. William Dodd, executed for forgery, were also of Clare Hall. 3 Among the linguists and antiquaries of Clare Hall, we find the names of Abraham Wheelocke, the celebrated orientalist and Anglo-Saxon scholar, fellow in 1617 : Thomas Phillipot, the historian of Kent, 1659 ; Dr. John