[103] The Master at this time was Good’s successor, John Venn, who married “an ancient maid,” niece to the first Earl of Clarendon.
[104] W. D. Christie, Life of Shaftesbury (1871), ii. 390-401.
[105] Riley, p. 451.
[106] Reliqq. Hearn, iii. 308.
[107] Terrae Filius, 1733 (2nd ed.), pp. 5f.
[108] J. R. M’Colloch, Life of Dr. Smith, prefixed to the Wealth of Nations (ed. Edinburgh, 1828), i. p. xvi.
[109] Scotland and Scotsmen in the Eighteenth Century, ii. 307 note.
[110] J. Pointer, Oxoniensis Academia (1749), i. 11. Hearne mentions a custom which had been given up at Merton since Wood’s time, but which partially survived “at Brazenose and Balliol coll., and no where else that I know of. I take the original thereof to have been a custom they had formerly for the young men to say something of their founders and benefactors, so that the custom was originally very laudable, however afterwards turned into ridicule:” Reliqq. Hearn, iii. 76.
[111] R. Blacow, Letter to William King, 1755. The whole story is told by Dr. G. B. Hill, Dr. Johnson, his Friends and his Critics (1878), pp. 68-72.
[112] Life and Correspondence (ed. C. C. Southey, 1849), i. 164, 170, 177, 203, 211 f., 215, 176 note.