office. He was very solicitous in his last sickness lest his body should fall into the hands of the inquisitors; for the prevention whereof this expedient was made use of, that the doctor dying in a ground chamber, the boards were 5 taken up, and a grave being dug, the body covered with a shroud was deposited therein very deep, and four or five bushels of quick lime thrown upon it in order to consume it the sooner. Everything in the room was restored to the same order it was in before, and the whole 10 affair being committed only to a few trusty persons, was kept so secret as to escape the knowledge or suspicion of the Spaniards, and may remain so undiscovered till the resurrection.

If he wants a monument at Madrid (where his only 15 wish and happiness was to be buried in obscurity), he certainly deserves one at Cambridge, having been one of the best governors the university or college ever had; and had he lived ten years longer, he had undoubtedly received the rewards of his loyalty from the king. He had the grant 20 of the deanery of Ely upon Dr Fuller's being nominated to the deanery of Durham, but never reaped any advantage from that preferment: he had the rectories of Cottingham' and Paul's Perry, both of them, I think, in the diocese of Peterborough and in the county of Northampton, and held besides the rectory of Aberdaron without cure, whereunto he was presented, or had it otherwise (being a donative) of the college gift. He was originally scholar of Trinity college, fellow and master of Jesus, where after he had sat one year, he was removed to St John's. To that society 30 he was a benefactor for some books, both printed and MS.,

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that bear his name; and the two pictures of the king and queen (king Charles and queen Mary) were his proper goods, and were demanded' of his successor, but not being

1 Dr Sherman, Hist. coll. Jes. MS. 2 Febr. 24 an. 1639. The next presentation was granted him, but quære whether it ever took place. Mr William Bodurda is presented by the college to the rectory of Aberdaron vacantem per mortem

naturalem ultimi incumbentis, Jul. 23, 1651.

He gave £30 towards the new building at Jesus college.

Ex archivis. By Stephen Bearcroft upon Mr John Barwick's certificate dat. May 23, 1653.

restored (at a time when the king and queen were less valued than their pictures), they hang yet in the gallery and ought to be looked upon as his gift. His greatest benefactions were the services he did and the example he has left to those that succeeded him. Whilst he was 5 master he had three of the Howards' of the Norfolk family under his care, the youngest whereof (which ought not to be forgot) was Philip Howard, afterwards cardinal of that

name.

He (Dr Beal) was brother to another Dr Beale mas- to ter of Pembroke, who was a Worcestershire man; our doctor is said to have been of the same county, but by the most authentic account he was born in the county of Oxford.

He was charged by Mr Prynn with having been a 15 creature of bishop Laud; that crime was his honour, as well as the popery3 and Arminianism that was charged upon him, the true meaning whereof was that he was firm. to the principles of the church of England. Such vile aspersions and odious calumnies were sufficiently confuted 20 by the life and death and sufferings both of him and his patron.

Having been always in business or involved in troubles, and his last years having been spent in exile, he had less time for works of learning, of which kind he has left 25 nothing except some sermons now in my lord Clarendon's library at Cornbury, whereof his lordship has been pleased to give an expectation to the college, the most proper repository for such papers. Amongst these perhaps may be found his sermon that gave so much offence in preaching, 30 and may possibly offend at this day, and yet the sermon may be never the worse. Sir Edward Hide afterwards lord Clarendon gives him a very advantageous character in

1 Philippus Howard filius tertius Henrici baronis Mowbray et Matravers, nepos prænobilis Thomæ comitis Arundel et Surr. comitis mareschalli Angliæ, admissus est pensionarius major sub mro collegii,

quarto die Julii 1640. Ex regro coll. Jo. Thomas Howard filius natu maximus et Henricus Howard filius secundus admissi ut supra.

2 Hist. coll. Jes. MS.

3 Cant. Doome, p. 73, etc.

some of his MSS. papers1, where he styles him his worthy and learned chaplain, commemorates the blessings he had enjoyed from him and bemoans his loss: nor can I put a better period to his life and character than from the tes5 timony of so great a man.

1 Contemplations and Reflections, epist. dedicat. Feb. 1, an. 1670-1.

JOHN ARROWSMITH

DE FACTO TWENTIETH MASTER,

ADMITTED APRIL 11, 1644.

DR BEAL being most injuriously ejected', one John Arrowsmith B.D. was thrust into his place by the earl of Manchester in the following manner.

April 11, 16442, the right honourable Edward earl of Manchester in pursuit of an ordinance of parliament for 5 regulating and reforming the university of Cambridge came in person into the chapel of St John's college, and did in the presence of all the fellows then resident declare and publish Mr John Arrowsmith to be constituted master of the said college in room of Dr Beale now justly and law- 10 fully ejected, requiring him then present to take upon him the said place, and did put him into the master's seat or stall within the said chapel, and did likewise straitly charge all and every the fellows, etc. to acknowledge him to be actually master of the college and sufficiently authorized to 15 execute the said office, notwithstanding he be not elected nor admitted according to the ordinary course prescribed by the statutes; in this time of distraction there being a necessity of reforming as well the statutes themselves as the members of the college; and commanded this declaration 20 and act of his lordship to be entered in the leiger books of acts of the said college, to remain of record for perpetual memory.

1 By the earl of Manchester, in pursuance of an ordinance of parliament. 2 Regr. coll. Jo.

Accordingly it is entered in the leiger book of acts of the said college and stands recorded to perpetual memory. That lord has all the right done him he desired, and has taken effectual care that he shall be always remembered, 5 though he lived to do right in a different manner, by restoring1 some fellows (being then chancellor) that had been unlawfully ejected.

Upon his admission Mr Arrowsmith being required to take an oath or make a solemn declaration, did there 10 solemnly promise2 "in the presence of Almighty God the "searcher of all hearts, that being called and constituted "by the earl of Manchester in pursuance of an ordinance "of parliament, with the approbation of the assembly of "divines at Westminster, to be master of the college, he 15" would during the time of his continuance in that charge "faithfully labour to promote piety and learning in him"self, the fellows, scholars and students belonging to the "college, agreeably to the late solemn national league and "covenant by him sworn and subscribed, with respect to 20 "all the good and wholesome statutes of the said college "and of the university, correspondent to the covenant; and "by all means would procure the good, welfare and perfect "reformation both of the college and university, so far as "to him appertained." And having done this he took his 25 place in chapel and lodgings in the college, without observing the usual forms required by statute, then thought fit to be regulated and reformed.

The same oath or promise mutatis mutandis seems to have been required of the present fellows (for it was taken 30 by their successors), and seems to have been what was meant by the oath of discovery; for by the general clause of procuring reformation by all means they might oblige them to make such discoveries as were necessary thereunto: which with the covenant not being of easy digestion, several 35 of the fellows were ejected, beginning with the seniors. Mr Thornton, Bodurda, Tirwhit and Blechenden, men of good worth; and others of less name and character were brought into their places, such as could digest the covenant

1 An. 1660, Jul. 10. Regr. coll.

2 Regr. coll.