[182] There is some suspicion that about this time the Government had a paid spy in College. In Sept. 1566 an Anthony Marcham, of Lincoln College, writes to Cecil asking money, otherwise he will be unable to stay on in Oxford (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series).
[183] There is, of course, the usual legend that Rotheram built this addition as “conscience-money” for his defalcations as Bursar.
[184] The Rotherams of Luton in Bedfordshire were descended from the Archbishop’s brother, to whom he had bequeathed that estate.
[185] Baker’s History of St. John’s, Cambridge (edit. Mayor), p. 208.
[186] The intrusive dog occurs several times in College orders. The most noteworthy entry is perhaps that of 30th June, 1726:—“No gentleman-commoner, or commoner, whether graduate or undergraduate, shall keep a dog within the College. The Bursar is required to see that all dogs be kept out of the Hall at meal-times.”
[187] Previously, the College meetings had been held in the Rector’s lodgings.
[188] The rooms which Wesley occupied in College are said, by tradition, to be those over the passage from the first quadrangle into the chapel quadrangle.
[189] This sermon, esquire-bedell G. V. Cox notes, was “two and a half hours long,” and the sitting it out made a vacancy in the headship of a College.
[190] Tatham’s broad Yorkshire dialect gave a tone of vigorous rusticity to his speech.
[191] I understand that it was not destroyed, but passed into private possession. The recovery, after so many years, of the Brasenose “brasen nose” forbids Lincoln to despair of yet getting back its overseer.