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NOTES:-Honorary Oxford Degrees, 61-'Essay towards the Primitive Language,' 62-Knowledge for the People, 63'Summa' of St. Thomas Aquinas - Byron, Shelley, and Keats-Leather Coins-Names ending in "Daughter "Ruling Passion strong in Death, 64-A Lady an OverseerHebridean Superstition-Long Tenure of Vicarage-Clergy and Religion-Officious and Official-St. Paul's, 65-Nynd- Mr. Vice-Chancellor and Gentlemen,-It has been Old Ships-Volunteers, 1745-Mandevile-Anythingarians-represented to me that the Reverend John Breynton, Japanese Furniture-Leal, 66. missionary at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, has been recomQUERIES:-Diddle, 66-"Turning up his eyes," &c-The mended to the University by the Archbishops of Canter Thatcher'-Linnæus-Derrick Carver-Nerot's Hotel-The Toby-Spark-Rubens, 67-Freiburg-Arms of Dunkirk-bury_and_York, and the Bishops of London, Durham, Grange-Anne Trelawney-Armorial-Information regard- and Winchester, as a person highly deserving to obtain ing Poem-Cardinal Adam- From Oxford to Rome the honour of the degree of D.D. by diploma, and that Cayenne-Date of Book, 68-James Family-Calasirian- they are persuaded the conferring this honour on him Lord Fanny - Royalist and Cromwellian Colours - King will be of service to the Church of England in North James's Lords-Theatrical Print - Plate-Accusative in America. I therefore give my consent, &c., ut supra, Italian-Authors Wanted, 69. LITCHFIELD. REPLIES:-House of Stewart, 69-Lot Roman Marriage NOTES ON BOOKS:-Harrison's Catalogue of the London Notes. HONORARY OXFORD DEGREES CONFERRED (Concluded from p. 4.) Mr. Vice-Chancellor and Gentlemen,-Whereas it has been represented to me that the Reverend Miles Cooper, Master of Arts, Fellow of Queen's College, intended to proceed regularly to his academical degrees, but being appointed President of the College and President of the Convention of the Clergy in New York, is thereby prevented from attending personally to perform his exercises; and whereas it is humbly requested in his behalf (on account of his great distance from the University, the dignity of his station, and the importance both to learning and religion of the employments in which he is engaged) the degree of Doctor in Civil Law (for which he is of full standing) may be conferred on him by diploma; to this his request I give my consent, and am, Mr. Vice-Chancellor and Gentlemen, Hill Street, Feb. 19, 1767. Mr. Vice-Chancellor and Gentlemen, -It has been representod to me that the Reverend Mather Byles, missionary of the Society for Propagating the Gospel at Christ Church, New England, has been recommended to the University by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and the Bishops of London, Durham, and Winchester, as a person highly deserving to obtain the Hill Street, May 21, 1770. Scrutinio habito, placuit majori parti Convocationis hisce literis consentire. Mr. Vice-Chancellor and Gentlemen,-It has been represented to me that the Rev. Charles Inglis, Assistant Minister of Trinity Church in New York, author of an Essay on Infant Baptism, and of the Vindication of the Bishop of Landaff's sermon before the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, is, both on account of his learning and firm attachment to the Church of England, worthy of the honour of being admitted to the degree of M.A. by diploma. I therefore give my consent that it be proposed in Convocation to confer the degree of M.A. by diploma on that gentleI am, &c., ut supra, man. LITCHFIELD. Hill Street, May 15, 1770. Scrutinio habito, placuit majori parti Convocationis hisce literis consentire. It is noticeable that we have here the first sign of a difference of opinion as to the conferring of these honorary degrees, which was probably caused by the growing bitterness of the American political question. There was, we see, an actual vote taken. The Convocation which granted the degrees was held on March 26; but Mr. Samuel Forster, the Registrar, contrary to previous practice, has not inserted in the register any copies of the diplomas themselves. With respect to Byles see Allibone's 'Dict.' Inglis, created D.D. in 1778 (see post), was afterwards the first bishop of Nova Scotia. A strongly worded address to the king on the rebellion in America, which ended, however, with a prayer that when it had been subdued the royal mercy might be "displayed in the pardon of a people who have forfeited their lives and fortunes to the justice of the state," passed Convocation on Oct. 26, 1775. On July 3, 1776, Mr. Thomas Hutchinson, the Governor of Massachusetts, and Stephen Oliver, Chief Justice of that province, were, in person, created Doctors in Civil Law. Convocation held Dec. 15, 1777: Mr. Vice-Chancellor and Gentlemen,-It has been represented to me that the Reverend Charles Inglis, Rector of New York, has been recommended to the Uni- At a Convocation held on Feb. 25, 1778, the degree refused to Charles Inglis in the preceding year was at length granted, upon a renewed letter from the Chancellor, which referred to his literary and theological merits, although still not without a division: Mr. Vice-Chancellor and Gentlemen,—It having been represented to me that the Rev. Charles Inglis, M.A., Rector of New York, author of an Essay on Infant Baptism, and of the Vindication of the Bishop of LanDowning Street, Dec. 3, 1777. daff's sermon before the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, is, both on account of his Scrutinio habito, non placuit majori parti venerabilis learning and from attachment to the Church of England, domus hisce literis consentire. NORTH. Mr. Vice-Chancellor and Gentlemen,-It has been represented to me that the Rev. Samuel Seabury, Rector of West-Chester in the province of New York, has been recommended to the University by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and the Bishops of London and Oxford, as a person highly deserving to obtain the honour of the degree of D.D. by diploma, and that they are persuaded that the conferring this honour on the said Samuel Seabury at this time would be serviceable to the cause of Religion, and peculiarly useful to the Church of England in America. I therefore give my consent that it be proposed in Convocation to confer the degree of D.D. by diploma on the above gentleman. I am, &c., ut supra, NORTH. With reference to Seabury, afterwards so well Diploma tenoris sequentis lectum erat, et in decreto Venerabilis Domus communi Universitatis sigillo munitum. Cancellarius, Magistri, et Scholares Universitatis Oxoniensis, Omnibus ad quos præsentes literæ pervenerint, salutem in Domino sempiternam. worthy of the honour of being admitted to the degree of NORTH. Downing Street, Feb. 18, 1778. Scrutinio habito, placuit venerabili cœtui hisce literis consentire. Diploma [&c.]. Cum omnium intersit quicunque humani generis ve ornamento vel felicitati consulunt, ut qui cæteros virtute antecellunt ii præ cæteris peculiari quadam honoris tessera insigniantur; Cumque vir reverendus Carolus Inglis, Verbi divini ́juxta `ritum Ecclesiæ Anglicana apud Americanos Minister (quem ab omni tempore sanctissimum officium doctrina et moribus honestâsse certissime compertum habentes, Magisterio in Artibus jamdudum ornavimus), nuper in summo discrimine egregiam Christianæ fidei et fortitudinis laudem reconjuratos Regis et Ecclesiæ hostes vindex et propugportavit, patriæ oppressæ pietatisque labefactatæ contra nator strenuus: Nos igitur, Cancellarius, Magistri, et Scholares antedicti (ut omnibus, quantum in nobis est, exemplar tam illustre palam ad imitandum proponatur) in frequenti Doctorum et Magistrorum senatu......[ &c., as in the preceding diploma, mutatis mulandis]. This was the last honorary degree conferred before the final separation of the colonies from Cum non minus ad justitiam quam ad virtutis ex- the mother country. On May 21 in the same istimationem pertineat, ut viri quorum insigniora in Rempublicam merita Academicis innotuerunt, ab iisdem year the degree of B.A. was allowed to Rev. utcunque rerum et loci discreti probitatis au com- Thomas Gwatkin, of Jesus College, who had mendationem et præmium quoddam singulare, con- been ordained priest by the Bishop of London sequantur: Cumque vir reverendus Samuel Seabury, in 1767, "and appointed by him to the ProEcclesiæ Anglicanæ apud Americanos presbyter (quem fessorship of Mathematicks and Natural Philodoctrina et moribus insignem Verbi Divini ministerio summa cum laude nunquam non vacasse honorifico ad-sophy in the College of William and Mary in modum testimonio plenissime compertum habemus), Williamsburgh, in the province of Virginia, in sævientibus nuper fanaticorum hominum intemperiis, which office he continued from the year 1769 to contra seditiosos piarum fraudum artifices, a partibus 1775," but had now returned to the University, Regis et Ecclesiæ vera fide et fortitudine stetit incon- and proposed to proceed regularly to the degree cussâ: Nos igitur, Cancellarius, Magistri, et Scholares antedicti, causæ tam eximia testimonium lubenter of M.A. tribuentes, in frequenti Doctorum et Magistrorum senatu, die Decembris decimo quinto annoque Salutis millesimo septingesimo septuagesimo septimo, præfatum reverendum virum Samuelem Seabury Doctorem in S. Theologia apud nos Oxonienses renunciavimus et constituimus, eumque virtute præsentis diplomatis singulis juribus, privilegiis et honoribus ad istum gradum quaqua pertinentibus frui et gaudere jussimus. In cujus rei testimonium sigillum Universitatis commune quo in hac parte utimur, præsentibus apponi fecimus. Datum in domo nostra Convocationis die annoque prædictis. W. D. MACRAY. 'AN ESSAY TOWARDS THE PRIMITIVE LANGUAGE.' I possess, I believe, a somewhat rare little 12mo. book entitled 'An Historical Essay Endeavoring a Probability That the Language of the Empire of China is the Primitive Language.' It was written by "John Webb of Butleigh, in the County of Somerset, Esquire." The title page bears the |