[401] The Life of Dr. Horneck, by Bishop Kidder, 9, 10.
[402] He is noticed in Evelyn’s Diary, April 24th, 1694.
[403] An impartial account of Mr. John Mason, p. 8.
[404] The following account of an eccentric clergyman, who died just after the Revolution, occurs in the Lansdowne MSS., Kennet Coll., 987, 116. The person referred to is Joseph Crowther, of whom Walker gives some account in his Sufferings of the Clergy, and Wood in his Athenæ Oxonienses.
“I remember him esteemed at Oxford a very severe disputant, and very tenacious of the rules of logic. He would often moderate in the public disputation in his own hall; but so fierce and passionate, that if the opponent made a false syllogism, or the respondent a wrong answer, he bid the next that sat by them kick their shins, and it became a proverb, ‘kick shins Crowther.’ He was extremely hated at Tredington (Diocese of Worcester), for his stiff contending with the people; they obliged him to keep a boar—he got a black one to spite them. The black pigs were called Crowthers.”
[405] Tanner MSS., xxviii. 248, 274.
[406] Tanner MSS., xxvii. 11, 78.
[407] Patrick’s Works, ix. 546.
[408] 1696, April 7. Baumgartner Papers, Strype Correspondence, iii. 45.
[409] Gibson Papers, v. 9. 1692, Dec. 17.