man (as the fashion was), wth much offended Mr. Shervill, the recorder, who in zeale (but without knowledge) clambered up on the pewes to breake the windowe, and fell downe and broke his legg (about 1629), but that did not excuse him, for being questioned in the Star-chamber for it, Mr. Attorney Noy was his great friend, and shewed his friendship there. But what Mr. Shervill left undonne, the soldiers since have gonne through with, that there is not a piece of the glass painting left.

"Edmundus Cant. A. B. primus legit Elementa "Euclidis, Oxoniæ, 1290. Mr. Hugo perlegit "Lib. Aristotelis Analytic. Oxon. Rogerus "Bacon vixit A. D. 1292." This out of an old booke in the Library of University college, Oxon.

SIR THOMAS EGERTON, LORD CHANCELLOR,

Was the naturall sonne of Sir Rich. Egerton, of.... in Cheshire. He was of LincolnesInne, and I have heard Sir John Danvers say, that he was so hard a student, that in three or 4 years' time he was not out of the house. He had good parts, and early came into good practice. My old father, Colonel Sharington Talbot,* told

* He had, I believe, 200 adopted sonnes,

me that.

Earle of Shrewsbury desired him to buy that noble mannour of Ellesmer for him, and delivered him the money. Egerton liked the bargain and the seat so well, that truly he e'en kept it for himself, and afterwards made it his barony, but the money he restored to the Earl of Shrewsbury again.

His son and heir, since Earle of Bridgewater, was an indefatigable ringer.

DESID. ERASMUS, ROTERODAMUS.

He loved not fish, though born in a fish towne.* He was of the order of .... whose habit was the same that the Pest-house master at....t in Italie wore, and walking in that town, people beckoned to him to go out of ye way, taking him to be the master of the Pest-house, and he not understanding the meaning, and keeping on his way, was there well basted. He made his complaint when he came to Rome, and had a dispensation for his habit.

His name was Gerard Gerard, which he translated into Desiderius Erasmus. He was begot

*From Sir George Ent, M.D.

↑ I thinke, Pisa.

(as they say) behind_dores.* His father (as he says in his Life writt by himself) was the tenth and youngest son of his grandfather, who was therefore designed to be dedicated to God.† *

His father took great care to send him to an excellent schoole, which was at Dusseldorf, in Cleveland. He was a tender chitt, and his mother would not entruste him as a boarder, but took a house there, and made him cordialls, &c. [From J. Pell, D.D.]

He studied sometime in Queen's colledge, in Cambridge, his chamber was over the water. He mentions his being there in one of his Epistles, and blames the beer there. One Long since wrote in the margent of the book in Coll. Libr. in which that is sayd-Sicut erat in principio, &c. and all Mr. Paschall's time they found fault with the brewer. He had the parsonage of Aldington, in Kent, which is about 3 deg. perhaps a healthier place then Dr. Pell's parsonage, in Essex. I wonder they could not find out for him better preferment; but I see that the O and being in the second house, he was not born to be a rich man. He built a schoole at Rotterdam, and endowed it, and ordered the institution. Sir George

* Vide an Italian booke in 8vo. de Famosi Bastardi. V. Anton. Possevini Apparatus.

+ [A table containing the calculation of his Nativity is here omitted. EDIT.]

Ent was educated there. A statue of brass is erected to his memory on the bridge in Rotterdam. Sir Charles Blount, of Maple-Durham, in com. Oxon. (neer Reding) was his scholar, (in his Epistles there are some to him) and desired Erasmus to doe him the favour to sit for his picture, and he did so, and it is an excellent piece: which picture my cos. John Danvers, of Baynton (Wilts), has: his wife's grandmother was Sir Ch. Blount's daughter or grand-daughter. 'Twas pitty such a rarity should have been aliened from the family, but the issue male is lately extinct. I will sometime or other endeavour to get it for Oxford Library.

They were wont to say that Erasmus was interpendent between Heaven and Hell, till about the year 1655, the Conclave at Rome damned him for a heretique, after he had been dead yeares.

....

His deepest Divinity is where a man would least expect it: viz. in his Colloquies in a Dialogue between a Butcher and a Fishmonger, 'Ixvoφαγία.

Vita Erasmi, Erasmo Autore, is before his Colloquies, printed Amstelodam, CIO IOC XLIV. But there is a good account of his life, and also of his death, and where buried, before his Colloquies printed at London.

If my memory fails not, I have read in the first edition of Sir Rich. Baker's Chron. that y* Syn

taxis in our English Grammar was writt by Erasmus.

Mem. Julius Scaliger contested with Erasmus, but gott nothing by it, for, as Fuller sayth, he was like a badger that never bitt, but he made his teeth meet. He was the IIpódpopos of our knowledge, and the man that made the rough and untrodden wayes smooth and passable.

"The staires which rise up to his studie at "Queen's College, in Cambr. doe bring first into "two of the fairest chambers in the ancient

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building; in one of them, which lookes into "the hall and chief court, the Vice-President "kept in my time; in that adjoyning, it was my "fortune to be, when fellow. The chambers "over are good lodgeing roomes; and to one of "them is a square turret adjoyning, in the upper "part of which is the study of Erasmus; and "over it leads. To that belongs the best pros"pect about the colledge, viz. upon the river, "into the corne-fields, and countrey adjoyning. "So yt it might very well consist with the civility "of the House to that great man (who was no " fellow, and I think stayed not long there) to let "him have that study. His sleeping roome

might be either the Vice-President's, or, to be neer to him, the next. The room for his ser"vitor that above it, and through it he might

goe to that studie, which for the height, and "neatnesse, and prospect, might easily take his