[332] Contrast Gibbon’s spiteful words: “To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligations; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother.”
[333] This Mr. Tristram is abused by Hearne. He had caricatured some of Hearne’s plates.
[334] Dugdale MSS.
[335] Wood.
[336] Whear, in his funeral oration over Camden, bears testimony to the lifelong intimacy of the two.—Camden’s Insignia.
[337] It had fared roughly in the Civil Wars “in gladiorum Bombardarumque fabricas mutata, quasi Vulcano magis quam Palladi imposterum sacranda prorsus desolata jacuit.”—Patent of 1698.
[338] Though Hearne calls him “a man of whimsical and shallow understanding”—“of a strange, unsettled, whimsical temper, which brought him into debt.”
[339] V. also “the case of Gloucester Hall, rectifying the false stating thereof by Dr. Woodroffe,” p. 40. “The poor Greek boys, whom he used in such a manner that they all or most of them ran away from him.”
[340] “The Doctor’s precipitation was so violent that he forgot all the Corporation which should have been incorporated but himself—as if he intended by the power of this charter to turn his Body Natural into a Body Politick.”—Case of Gloucester Hall, p. 24.
[341] Vide Case for the Attorney-General (College MS.).