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So from henceforth "N. & Q." will be issued from No. 32, Wellington Street, Strand, where, We trust, with the continued assistance of those kind old friends who have rallied round it in its new office with contributions to enrich the present and fol- UNPUBLISHED HUMOROUS AND SATIRICAL Few people would look for humour in anything going a step farther in the same direction, to lay But I must premise a few words of explanation. Occupying an eminent station in the University, The stories of the folly of the Gothamites, The subject has not been mentioned (so far as any documents respecting it printed in the edi- malice. Therefore he resolved to build it in no Univer- The first of these papers-an "Epistle to the Reader," designed as a preface to the intended work-seems to be all but complete. I shall give it you as it stands. It will be found to be quaint and old-fashioned, but not without touches of effective pleasantry. "TO THE READER. "Come, Reader, let's be merry! I have a tale to tell : I would it were worth the hearing, but take it as it is. There's a great complaint made against this age, that no good works are done in it. Sure I hear Slander hath a tongue, and it is a woman's bird never born mute.* For not long since (besides many other things of worth) there was built in the air a very famous college, the SEMINARY OF INNOCENTS, commonly called in the mother tongue of that place, GOTAM COLLEGE. I do not think, in these latter freezing ages, there hath been a work done of greater either profit or magnificence. The founder got up into a tree (and borrowed a rook's nest for his cushion) to see the plot of the building, and the foundation laid. He resolved to build it in the air to save charges, because castles are built there of lighter materials. It is not to be spoken how much he saved in the very carriage of timber and stone by this politic device, which I do not doubt but founders in other places will imitate. Yet he would not have it raised too high in the air, lest his Collegians, which were to be heavy and earthy, should not get into it; and it is against all good building to need a ladder at the gate. The end of this building was as charitable, as the ordering of it prudent; for whereas there are many places in all commonwealths provided for the lame, and the sick, and the blind, and the poor of all sorts, there is none anywhere erected for innocents. This founder alone may glory that he is the first, and may prove the only patron of Fools. He was ever of opinion that, upon the first finishing of his College, it would have more company in it than any one College in any University in Europe. Such height would be waited upon by • Plautus. laughed heartily when he built the College: if thou canst dwell a little too near the College that I am so skilful in laugh at nothing in it, borrow a spleen. You know I it, and have idle time to spend about it. But it's no matter. What if I were chosen Fellow of the house? As the world goes, I had rather be rich at Gotham than poor in a better place. You know where I dwell. Come the College hang not over me, and I will show you as to see me at any time when it is safe, that the Ears of many Fellows of this Society highly preferred as of any other. I know you long to hear; but you shall come to my house for it, as near the College as it stands. There you shall find me at my devotion for Benefactors to this worthy foundation." This " Epistle to the Reader" is followed by a variety of rough notes, scattered over seventeen leaves, many of which contain only a sentence or two. They were apparently intended to be worked up into the designed work. We next have a Latin Charter of Liberties, supposed to have been granted to the College by the Emperor of Morea. There are among the papers two drafts of this charter. In one, the Emperor's name is given as Midas. They are both framed as if granted to the founder, who was at first designated as "Thomas White, miles," but the "White" was subsequently struck out. Why the name of Sir Thomas White, the founder of Reading School, where Laud was educated, and of his beloved College of St. John's, was thus introduced, I am unable to explain. The draft of a Foundation Charter of the College then follows. It runs in the name of "Thomas à Cuniculis, miles auritus, patriæ Moreanus." tions between them, of a paper entitled "The We next have two copies, but with many variFoundation of Gotam College." This was the author's principal effort. In his account of the †They are very long. * Anima prudens in sicco. rules and regulations of the college, he pours out his store of Gothamite recollections, with such fresh wit as he could make to tell against the chief members of the party to whom he was opposed. It is difficult occasionally to identify the persons alluded to, but many of them will be easily recognised. The two brothers, Dr. Sampson and Dr. Daniel Price, together with Dr. Thomas James, the author of Bellum Papale, were clearly leaders in the suggestion which excited Laud's dislike. Upon them the vials of his wrath were consequently poured. All three were strong anti-Romanists. Antony Wood tells us that Dr. Sampson Price was so distinguished in that respect, that he acquired the name of "The Mawl of Heretics,' meaning papists ;" and that, both he and his brother, were regarded with especial dislike at Douay. Both brothers were royal chaplains and popular preachers, and of the same way of thinking,-that way being in most respects nearly as far removed from Laud's way, as could co-exist within the pale of the Church of England. Dr. Thomas James, the well-known Bodley librarian, was a man of precisely the same anti-Romanist views as the Prices, but probably of far greater learning than either of them. All these had no doubt, like other men, their vanities and peculiarities; and it is upon these foibles that Laud seizes and applies them to the purposes of his ridicule. Thus, we learn that James was highly pleased with his dignity of Justice of Peace, whence Laud styles him Mr. Justice James, and appoints him library keeper of the new college. We learn also, that Dr. Sampson Price enjoyed his nap at the sermons in St. Mary's, and that Dr. Daniel was fond of an anchovy toast, and had a general liking (in which respect he was probably not singular, either at Oxford or elsewhere,) for a good dinner. All these points come out in the following paper; which I print, with one or two omissions, from one of the two manuscripts, adding here and there passages derived from the other. "THE FOUNDATION OF GOTAM COLLEGE. "The founder (being the Duke of Morea*) made suit and obtained leave for this foundation, that it might be erected, anno 1613. The reasons of his suit were: "1. Because, in the midst of so many good works as had been done for the bringing up of men in learning, there had been none taken in special for the Gotamists. "2. Because every College in the University had some or other of them in it, which were fitter to be elected and chosen out to live together in this new foundation. "3. Because it is unfit that, in a well-goverred commonwealth, such a great company of deserving men, or *This is not consistent with the foundation charter noticed before, and is an evidence that the author's design was still unsettled. In the margin is written, "Sir Thomas Cuninsby, con-founder." This is evidently the "Thomas Cuniculis," mentioned in the foundation charter. youth full of hope as those are (for stultorum plena sunt omnia), should want places of preferment or education. "Maintenance.-Their mortmain is to hold as much as will be given them, without any stint; which favour is granted them in regard of their number (being the greatest foundation in Christendom), and at the instant request of the honourable patroness the Lady Fortuna favet: provided always, that they hold no part of this their land, or aught else, in capite, but as much as they will in Knight's service, so they fit their cap and their coat thereafter. "Sociorum numerus.-' -The number of Fellows may not be under 500, and 200 probationers (if so many may be found fit); which it shall be lawful to choose out of any College in Oxford: Provided that when, if ever, there is any eminent man found in the other University of Cambridge, or any other, it shall be lawful for them, which after the founder shall be put in trust with the election, to admit them in veros et perpetuos socios. "The statutes are appointed to be penned in brief, for the help of their memory, which yet is better than the wit of any of the Fellowships. [Memorandum. In making of a speech, they must not stop at any time, but when their breath fails.] There is leave granted they may remove Cuckoo-bush,' and set it in some part of the College garden: and that in remembrance of their famous predecessors they shall breed a Cuckoo every year, and keep him in a pound till he be hoarse; and then, in midsummer moon, deliver him to the bush and let him at liberty. "Because few of these men have wit enough to grieve, they shall have 'Gaudyes every holyday and every Thursday through the year; and their Gaudyes' shall be served up in woodcocks, gulls, curs, pouts, geese, ganders, and all such other fowl, which shall be brought at a certain rate in ass-loads to furnish the College. But on other days which are not Gaudyes,' they shall have all their commons in calf's head and bacon, † and, therefore, to this purpose all the beef, mutton, and veal, shall be cut out by their butcher into calves' heads; and on fish-days conger, cod's head, or drowned eel, with a piece of cheese after it-of the same dairy with that cheese which their wise predecessors rolled down the hill, to go to market before them. "Broths, caudles, pottage, and all such settle-brain, absolutely forbidden. All other meats to be eaten assa. "Fasts. They are to fast upon O Sapientia. The solemn day of their foundation, Innocent's day. [Another solemn feast day to be renewed, St. Dunstan's.] "Benefices.Gotam annexed to the headship. The other benefices belonging to the Fellows are Bloxam, Duns-tu, Dunstable, St. Dunstan's (East, West), Totteridge, Aleton, Battlebridge, Gidding (Magna, Parva), the prebend of Layton Buzzard, Little Brainford, Little Witnam (Mr. Dunns being patron of Little Witnam, gave it to a good scholar), a petition being made by the College that Witnam, and all that Mr. Dunns had in his gift, should belong to the College. [Added in the margin :Cookeham (Magna, Parva), Steeple Bumstead, Üggly, St. Asaphs.] "An Act of Parliament held for them. "The College to be furnished with all munition save head-pieces. None of the generations of Wisemen, Wisedom, or Wise, eligible into the house, for the disgrace their predecessors have done to the College. The book of Wisdom to be left out of their Bibles. To abjure Pythagoras, Tacitus, Tranquillus, and Prudentius. |