[84] See an interesting article, The Church of England in the Eighteenth Century, in the Church Quarterly Review, July, 1877, p. 321, et seq. It is not however quite accurate to say ‘none were ordained,’ for Bishop Duppa held secretly ‘frequent ordinations of young loyal church scholars,’ among whom was Tenison, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury.—History of the Book of Common Prayer, Lathbury, p. 296.
[85] Dr. Bruno Ryves, Dean of Chichester in 1642, was in the city during Sir William Waller’s siege, and left a description of the sack of the cathedral and robbery of its plate by the commander and his troops. Dean Ryves was fined 120l. and deprived.—Memorials of the See of Chichester, p. 286.
[86] Abraham Cowley, born 1618; educated at Westminster; was the intimate friend of Lord Falkland and of the poet Crashaw. Cowley followed Henrietta Maria to Paris, remaining steadily loyal. He died 1667.
[87] History of the Royal Society (by C. R. Weld), p. 96. Galileo is said to have first discovered the use of the pendulum as a measure of time, while watching the oscillations of the bronze lamp in the cathedral at Pisa. A pendulum clock was long reckoned a ‘rarity.’ Bishop Seth Ward presented one, made by Fromantel, to the Society in 1662, in memory of his friend Mr. Laurence Rooke, late Astronomy Professor at Gresham College.
[88] Founded 1619 by Sir Henry Savile. He required that the Professor should explain the Ptolemaic and Copernican and other modern astronomical systems, should teach and read on Optics, Dialling, Geography and Navigation. He was to be of any nation in Christendom, provided he was of good reputation, had a fair knowledge of Greek, and was twenty-six years of age. If an Englishman he must have taken his M.A. degree. The choice of a professor was to lie with the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, the Chancellor of the University, the Bishop of London, the principal Secretary of State, Chief Justices, the Lord Chief Baron, and Dean of Arches. Oxford, vol. ii. p. 188. Ayliffe.
[89] He married Inigo Jones’s daughter.
[90] Lives of the Gresham Professors, Ward, p. 97.
[92] Isaac Barrow, born 1630. He was so little studious as a boy, and so fond of fighting, that his father used often solemnly to wish that if it should please God to take one of his children it might be his son Isaac. When, however, in 1677, he did really die, the Lord Keeper (Lord Nottingham) sent his father a message of condolence, importing that ‘he had but too great reason to grieve, since never father lost so good a son.’ Dr. Isaac Barrow, Bishop of Man, 1663, and S. Asaph, 1669, was his uncle. Life of Dr. Barrow, vol. i. p. ix., ed. 1830. Among his poems is the following, which seems to be incomplete:—
AD. DD. CHR. WREN.
Ad te, sed passu tremulo vultuque rubenti,