be no mistake, for he is there styled Leonardus Pilkington S.T.P. frater episcopi Dunelmensis. And many years after this1, an. 158, he was at St John's, where he was twice entertained at the expense of the college, and where one of his name, and I suppose of his family, was ad- 5 Imitted fellow the year before. Children he had, one of them [viz. Grace] was married to Robert Hutton prebendary of Durham.

He gave or left the college seventeen books, which not coming in till the year 1594', I suppose he died about that 10 year. These were much of the same stamp with those of his brother, or rather of a lower form, such as Aretius, Hyperius, Sadeel, etc., and shew wherein his reading lay most, as well as what he was willing should be read by others. The encomium of the donor entered upon these 15 books is that of vir gravissimus; nothing is there said of his learning, though such encomiums are usually pretty large, and the character of learning would have cost the college no more than that of gravity, had it been as true. But that encomium was given him in Dr Whitaker's time, 20 when learning was at a much higher pitch, and when the character of that great man had drowned the fame of his predecessors.

That he left the college in great disorder is too evident from a letter of Dr Beaumont to archbishop Parker3 dated 25 the same year, where, after having given an account of the good order the several other colleges were in, he owns that St John's was in such disorder, that several would very hardly be brought to wear a surplice.

He and his younger brother John Pilkington were 30 appointed overseers of Rivington school after bishop Pilkington's death; as George Pilkington Esq., I suppose their eldest brother, had been appointed a governor by the letters patent of queen Elizabeth.

1 Liber thesaur. an. 158. I find him a party in an instrument dat. Aug. 28, 1585.

2 Lib. thesaur.

3 Feb. 24, 1564. MS. coll. Corp.

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4 Statut. of Rivington school. John Pilkington was archdeacon and prebendary of Durham.

5 Lit. Pat. an. Eliz. 8°

RICHARD LONGEWORTH TWELFTH MASTER,

ADMITTED MAY 11TH AN. 1564.

AT this juncture it was (of the queen's progress) that Richard Longworth succeeded Dr Pilkington, May 11th, 1564. The queen's coming was notified (as I said) to the university the 12th of July by a letter' from Sir William 5 Cecill their chancellor, wherein he desired that care might be taken about lodgings for her majesty, and what exercises in learning were to be presented to her ;-that special regard might be had to two things, order and learning, and that both in religion and civil behaviour;-as to him10 self, that he meant to lodge with his old nurse in St John's college, and desired the vice-chancellor to acquaint the master Mr Longworth therewith; where preparations were accordingly made for his reception, but the queen was to be received and the court was to be at King's college.

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The chancellor came to Cambridge on the 4th of August (the day before the queen made her entrance) in a couch or litter, having a sore leg, accompanied with his lady, a person noted for her learning and therefore more acceptable to the queen and the university". The heads 20 offered to have gone out to him, but he was either so modest or so wise as to refuse such public honours, which with greater wisdom were reserved for the queen. He came privately to St John's college in the afternoon, where he was received at the gate by the master and the society, 25 and Mr Curties, then senior proctor and afterwards bishop

1 Liter. MS. D. Gale.

2 Bishop Cosin's MS. account. MS. D. Evans.

of Chichester, made him an eloquent oration, wherein, as he complimented the chancellor very handsomely, so the learning and piety of his lady were not forgot. After that, being presented by Mr Lewknore another of the fellows with a gratulatory poem, he was conducted to his apart-5 ment in the master's lodgings: where he sent for the vicechancellor and the heads, to whom he repeated his former instructions, requiring that order should be diligently kept of all sorts, and that uniformity should be shewed in apparel and religion, and especially in the setting of the commu- 10 nion table, etc. which implied that there had been some want or neglect in these particulars.

The queen made her entrance on the 5th of August by Queens' college, where a large gate was hung cross the street from that college to the opposite house (now the 15 printing-house) guarded by the queen's servants; the two lanes near King's college were likewise barred up and guarded to keep out the crowd. All the passage from Queens' college to the west end of King's college chapel was lined with scholars; the doctors stood nearest the 20 chapel, the vice-chancellor with the senior doctor and orator upon the lowest step. Within the chapel (the inner part whereof was hung with tapestry and arras of the queen's) were the provost with his fellows in their copes, making a lane where she was to pass towards the choir.

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Her majesty entered the town on horseback in a gown of black velvet pinked, a caul upon her head set with pearls and precious stones, with a hat spanged with gold and a bush of feathers, attended by Garter king at arms with the other great officers of the crown, with other lords 30 and ladies very numerous, the chancellor riding near her, describing the order and degree and quality of the scholars; and as she passed, the scholars loudly proclaimed Vivat Regina, to which she often replied Gratias ago.

As soon as she came to the west end of the chapel, 35 every one alighted from their horses, except the queen, and there the chancellor delivered up the staves, and the public orator Mr Master kneeling down made an oration', where

MS. bishop Cosin.

in whilst he enlarged upon her majesty's praises, she often shook her head and bit her lips, and sometimes broke out in these expressions, non est veritas and utinam; but when he praised virginity, she commended the orator and bid 5 him continue there. In conclusion she gave him a just encomium, particularly admiring his memory, as he well deserved that could go on half an hour without pause or hesitating, whilst the queen's horse was curvetting under her, and she herself making remarks upon the different 10 periods of his speech. Then she alighted and advanced towards the chapel under a rich canopy supported by four of the principal doctors, when after Te Deum begun by the provost and sung with the organ, and after evening song solemnly had, etc. she departed to her lodging, as 15 she went thanking God that had sent her to this university, where she was so received, as she thought she could not be better.

The next day being Sunday, Dr Perne in his cope preached a Latin sermon before her majesty in King's 20 chapel upon this text, Omnis anima subdita sit, etc.;

about the midst of his sermon, she sent the lord Hunsden to will him to put on his cap, which he did unto the end, and after the sermon was over, ere he could get out of the pulpit, she signified to him by the lord chamberlain, that it 25 was the first that ever she heard in Latin, and she thought she never should hear a better.

In the evening she heard prayers again in the chapel, and this day had been well spent, had not the conclusion been very different from the rest of the day. For the same 30 day late and in the same place one of Plautus' comedies (his Aulularia) was acted before her by torches upon a stage erected in the chapel to that purpose, which she stayed out, though it held in acting till twelve o'clock at night. And yet this, which was innocent in queen Eliza35 beth, when it came to be acted over again in a succeeding reign in a more inoffensive manner, was looked upon as so profane and scandalous as to alarm the nation.

It would be very tedious to give a narrative of the proceedings of the following days and of the several acts and 40 disputations held before her majesty. It was philosophy

and divinity that she attended to most, and was best pleased with these performances. Mr Bing the respondent in philosophy acquitted himself well, and it was then observed' that as Mr Cartwright one of his opponents expressed more heat, so Mr Preston shewed better manners, 5 whom the queen took particular notice of and dubbed him. her scholar. But no man acquitted himself so well as Mr Hutton the respondent in divinity, to the satisfaction and admiration of all his auditors, and it was to that day that he owed his future preferments. The queen favoured him 10 in her looks, her words and actions, and though Dr Perne one of his opponents disputed upon him very warmly and very learnedly, yet he, that had given such content whilst he preached upon Omnis anima, etc., lost himself in the opinion of the queen for having touched too freely 15 upon the power of excommunicating princes, though it were only by way of argument: so nice a thing it is to approach majesty upon any pretence or at any distance; especially where majesty is at its full height, as it then was

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For however it may have been since, it was then in this manner her majesty was received in our congregations or assemblies. At her entrance all men were upon the knee, nor did any one presume to rise till leave was given, and after they were up, no one presumed to sit 25 till leave was given the second time by an express allowance. The greatest peer, the duke of Norfolk, and the greatest favourite, Robert Dudley, addressed her majesty upon the knee, as they then did, when they desired her to dismiss the university with an oration.

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I pass over private colleges, all which her majesty. visited in one morning (except Magdalene and Jesus), there being little done at these houses except orations or verses, either spoke or delivered in. Amongst the rest she visited St John's college and rode into the hall, 35 where she was received with an oration by Mr Bohun; wherein, though she was put in mind of her relation to the foundress and intimation given of the college losses,

1 MS. bishop Cosin; MS. D. Evans.