[354] Reeve’s Charity at Windsor is an example.—Annals of Windsor, ii. 370.
[355] Blomefield, i. 412.
[356] Faulkener’s History of Chelsea, 153.
[357] Tillotson’s funeral sermon for Mr. Gouge, 62–64.
[358] Life of Thomas Firman, late Citizen of London, 1698.
Wesley prefaces the life of Firman in the Arminian Magazine with these words: “I was exceedingly struck at reading the following life, having long settled it in my mind that the entertaining wrong notions concerning the Trinity was inconsistent with real piety. But I cannot argue against matter of fact. I dare not deny that Mr. Firman was a pious man, although his notions of the Trinity were quite erroneous.”—Southey’s Life of Wesley, ii. 68.
[359] Life and Times, pt. ii. 296–7.
[360] Birch’s Life of Boyle, Appendix. The New England Company is still in existence. I hope to be able to give some account of its proceedings in a future volume.
[361] The College referred to was Emmanuel.—D’Oyley’s Life of Sancroft i. 128.
[362] “The gradual exclusion of mental by physical science from the circle of ‘philosophy’ as defined in the Cambridge Schools, belongs to the first half of the 18th, not of the 17th century,” says the author of Thorndike’s Life, but he justly adds that in the 17th century ancient philosophy and languages were yielding “to the continually-increasing influence of mathematics and natural philosophy.”—Works, vi. 166.