[87] See [page 215], [note].
[88] The candidates in 1701 were as follows:
| Mr. Henry Boyle, afterward Lord Carleton, | 180 | } Both of Trinity |
| Mr. Newton | 161 | } College. |
| Mr. Hammond | 64 |
[89] The banquet which was on this occasion given in the college hall to the royal visiter seems to have cost about 1000l., and the university was obliged to borrow 500l., to defray the expense of it.—Monk’s Life of Bentley, p. 143, 144.
[90] The candidates in 1705 were as follows:
| The Hon. Arthur Annesley | 182 |
| Hon. Dixie Windsor | 170 |
| Mr. Godolphin | 162 |
| Sir Isaac Newton | 117 |
[91] Journals of the House of Commons, vol. xvii. p. 677, 716.
[92] Whiston’s “Longitude Discovered.” Lond 1738.
[93] This anecdote concerning the Chronological manuscript is not correctly given in the Biographia Britannica, and in some of the other lives of Newton. I have followed implicitly Newton’s own account of it in the Phil. Trans. 1725, vol. xxxiii. No. 389, p. 315.
[94] M. Biot has supposed that this abstract was an imperfect edition of Newton’s work on Chronology.