The Snell exhibitions : From the University of Glasgow to Balliol college, Oxford / By W. Innes Addison.
- William Innes Addison
- Date:
- 1901
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The Snell exhibitions : From the University of Glasgow to Balliol college, Oxford / By W. Innes Addison. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![“ the recommendations of the lady Calverly1 (daughter to the said lady Houghton) “ was taken into the service of Sir Orlando Bridgman, who having much chamber- “ practice, [Snell] did write severall conveyances for him and was so diligent a “servant to him, and to his lady, that when ever the said knight was afflicted with “ the gout, he was the onlie person who was trusted to attend him. At the king’s “ restauration when Sir Orlando was made Lord Cheif Baron of the Exchecquer, “ Snell was made the crier of that court; in which office he continued after Sir “ Orlando was made Lord Cheif Justice of the Common Pleas ; and when he was “made Lord Keeper, he was (at the instance of John, duke of Lauderdale) “ employed to be the seal-bearer. Being thus in esteem he was employed some- “ times into Scotland for the duke of Monmouth, and bore the great seal while “the earl of Shaftsbury was Chancellour. He married a servant maid2 in the “family of Sir Orlando, named Joane, daughter of Vincent Coventrie, rector of “ Begbrooke near Woodstock in Oxfordshire (sister to the wife of Benjamin Cooper, “ registrarie of the Universitie, in whose house, in Holywell, Snell died), by whome “ he left issue one only daughter, named Dorothie. At the time of his death he “bequeathed his mannour of Uffeton alias Olufeton alias Ulveton in Warwickshire, “ worth about 450 li. per annum, to be employed (after certaine yeares spent and “moneys paid thence for the use of his wife and daughter) for the maintenance of “ certaine Scotch scholars in such College or hall that the Vice-chancellour of Oxon, “ Provost of Queen’s College, Master of Balliol College, and the President of St. “John’s, for the time being, shall think fit. Their number not to be above 12, or “ under 5 ; to be chosen from Glasgow college (from which universitie he received “a diploma to be Master of Arts, anno 1662) from the number of such that had “ spent 3 yeares (or 2 at the least) there, or one or two in some other college in “Scotland, etc. They are to enjoy the said exhibition about 10 or 11 yeares, and “ then they are to returne into their owne native country, to get preferment there.” page 190. “(chancel) [Elizabeth Coventry dyed Septemb. 24 anno dom. 1664. She “ was the widdow of Vincent Coventry, rector of Begbroke com. Oxon. Charles “the sonne of Benjamin Cooper, dyed Aprill 18 A.D. 1663. Halywell chancel.]” The second is from the “ Monumental Inscriptions ” at the end of The Anterior and Present State of the City of Oxford, chiefly collected by Anthony a Wood, with additions by the Rev. Sir John Peshall, B.A., 1773, page 24 : “ Holliwell Church—On flat stones—‘Joh. Snell Scoto Brit. Arm. obt. Aug. 6, “‘1679’ Arms a cross Potence, sans colour. ‘Johannae Uxor. ej. obt. Sep. 3, ‘“1697’.” The third is from James Ingram’s Memorials of Oxford, 1837—Holywell, p. 2, note b : “ In the chancel was buried John Snell Esq. whom we have recorded as a ' Mary, wife of Sir Hugh Calverley of Lee, County Chester, Knight. 2 At the period in question, the parson’s “boys followed the plough, and his girls went out to service.” [Macaulay’s Hist, of England, Ed. 1850, Vol. I., p. 329.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31353460_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
