ANTHONY TUCKNEY DE FACTO TWENTY-FIRST MASTER. 231 choice: nor had they then any man more fit to fill the Ichair than he. In this post he continued till the restoration, when a set of young men (for the old ejected members seem to have 5 been content with their commons) were so intoxicated with the return of the king and flushed with warmer expectations, as to forget all reverence and gratitude that was due to a venerable old man and to turn upon their benefactor, to whom most of them owed encouragement, and some of 10 them their preferment. The same person that had been so much reverenced by them was now neglected; complaints were brought by them and preferred at court against him; where meeting with countenance, the good old man, partly awed with the terrors of the higher powers and partly 15 grieved and vexed with the ingratitude of his fellows, or possibly foreseeing a consequent necessity upon his noncompliance, was easily prevailed with' to resign his preferments; a pension of a hundred pounds per annum being reserved to him out of the emoluments of his professorship, 20 which was duly paid him to his dying day. The rest of his time he spent in retirement, most part at London, where he had been pastor of St Michael le Querne, and where he had been commissioner at the conference at the Savoy: but either through diffidence of him25 self or for other reasons, though he had filled the chair at Cambridge so many years with reputation by acquitting himself extremely well, yet never could be prevailed with to appear and act in that conference: whilst Mr Baxter, who knew nothing of an university nor was acquainted 30 with any other chair save that of the pulpit, only in the strength of natural logic ventured to engage in mood and figure with some of our best and most experienced divines, with such success as usually attends rash undertakings. He died in a good old age and in good esteem, and 35 was buried in St Andrew's church Under-Shaft in the same city. Some little things he published himself whilst 1 His resignation of his mastership and professorship is dated June 22 anno Dni 1661. Regr. acad. ex origin. 2 MS. Dr M. 3 He died in Spittle-yard in Febr. an. 1669-70, in the 71st year of his age. V. Calamy, [Account] p. 81. living; after his death were published a pretty large volume of his sermons in English, Lond. an. 1676, and his lectures. and theses in Latin in another pretty large volume in quarto at Amsterdam an. 1679, with a short account of his life prefixed, as I suppose, by Dr William Dillingham his suc- 5 cessor at Emmanuel college. One thing may be said in favour of him and his predecessor, or rather is a right owing to their memory, that though they were not perhaps so learned as some of those that have before and since filled that post and station, yet 10 their government was so good and the discipline under them so strict and regular, that learning then flourished, and it was under them that some of those great men had their education that were afterwards the ornaments of the following age. I need not name them; Stillingfleet, Beve- 15 ridge, Cave, etc. are names well known, names that will live in future ages, when their first instructors may perhaps be forgot. This observation might be carried through other colleges: Dr Worthington was the pattern of a wise and prudent master, and was a better governor, though not so 20 great a man (and yet he was every way great), as he that succeeded him at Jesus college; and it had been happy for that society had he been continued there under a better title, as he desired', with the same even temper wherewith he contentedly receded. Nor was this the only loss we 25 sustained through the heat and forwardness of those times. Dr Tuckney died towards the latter end of February2 and was buried as aforesaid on the first of March 1669-70. The distemper of which he died was a jaundice attended with the scurvy. 1 Dr We's letters. MSS. [Diary and Correspondence, i. 38, 39.] 30 PETER GUNNING TWENTY-SECOND MASTER, ADMITTED JUNE THE 25TH AN. 1661. COULD any thing have atoned and expiated for the ingratitude of the society towards Dr Tuckney, it was their choice of so worthy a man as Dr Gunning; one who had suffered an ejectment at Clare hall under the usurpa5 tion, and had shewed as much zeal and activity in the service of the king and church as any one in his station had done. Him the college thought of, and to make the election more easy, the king's letters were sent down', not mandatory (which there was no need of, for the fellows 10 already began to be strangely possessed with loyalty to the king and affection to the church), but dispensing with some irregularities or difficulties in the manner of the choice, and recommending Dr Gunning as a man of worth, chaplain in ordinary and one that would be acceptable to 15 the court. No more was needful to be done, the doctor was chose and admitted master June 25 an. 1661. He had been master of Benet, where he was admitted. Feb. 3 an. 1660 in pursuance of the king's mandate upon the death of Dr Love. That was too confined a station 20 for him; he was to be placed upon an eminency where he might give light to the university; and this society having been miserably tainted and infected with factious and pernicious principles, it was necessary to bring in such a man as would effectually rout out the old leaven and 25 restore it to its former lustre. This, no doubt, was the intention of placing Dr Gunning here, for he was made 1 Dat. Jun. 18 an. reg. 13. king's professor about the same time, and succeeded Dr Tuckney in both his preferments. And how well he answered the end of his coming hither appeared in the consequences, when the old taint and leaven being removed and better principles planted in their place, they quickly 5 took such firm and deep root as not to shrink, though they were not long after called upon trial. That matter I shall not meddle with here, and being now come within the memory of man, I am sensible I must be more tender of what I deliver; I shall therefore give a short account of 10 this great man from his own papers; they will answer for themselves. "I was born (you now hear bishop Gunning') in the year of our Lord according to the style of the church of England 1613, Jan. 11, on Tuesday at five of the clock in 15 the afternoon, and was baptized by the mercy of God Jan. 16, being Sunday, as appears by the register of the parish of Hoo in Kent near Rochester. When I was two years old, it pleased God to call my father out of this world. 20 "At thirteen years of age an. 1626 I was by the dean of Canterbury Dr Bargrave called out of a private school in Lenham in Kent to the king's free school in Christ's church in Canterbury, where I was made king's scholar. In the year 1628 I was chosen upper victor of that 25 school. "In the year 1629, being then fifteen years of age and four months, I went to Cambridge and was admitted in Clare hall, where I soon had a double scholarship, one of the foundation and another of my lord of Exeter's. In 30 the year of our Lord 1632 I commenced bachelor of arts and was made senior brother. In the year of our Lord 1632 ending on new year's day January 1 I was chosen fellow of the college, when I was nineteen years old. At the same year ending at the latter act I was made tripus. 35 In the year 1633 ending in February I came into profit. In the year 1634 I was at Michaelmas term chosen moderator of the bachelors, and so continued two terms, one 1 From bp. Gunning's papers MSS. varicator. before and another after Christmas. In the year 1635 in July I commenced master of arts and was sworn præIn the year 1642 I should have commenced bachelor of divinity; but the heads of the university be5 ing carried away by Cromwell, I refused it. "In the year 1643, May 1, I was expelled the university of Cambridge for preaching a sermon in St Mary's against the covenant, as well as for the refusing the covenant. In the same year I went with my friend Mr Isaac 10 Barrow to Oxford, where I continued to the year 1646, in which year I commenced bachelor of divinity in Oxford; where I had continued (only going out on Sundays to Cassington for two years of that time) unto that time when the town of Oxford was surrendered; whence I 15 came out with articles (for freedom of my conscience) which I have still by me. In the same year 1646 after the surrendering I was sent for to live with the right honourable viscountess Falkland, where after a month's stay and an earnest invitation from my lord Hatton to 20 come to be tutor to his son the now lord Hatton and to Sir Francis Compton, where there was the use of a large library offered me, I was by the advice of the lady Falkland herself in her kindness to me advised to embrace that other condition. 25 "From the year 1646 unto the year 1650 I continued at Kirby house with the lady Hatton and her son. In the year 1650 I was invited from Kirby to be tutor to the earl of Sunderland with double salary offered me, which I refused, being unwilling to leave the place where 30 I was. "In the year 1656 Sir Robert Shirley my honoured. patron was pleased to settle on me the annuity of a hundred pounds a year during my natural life (at which time also my lord Scudamore offered me the annuity of 35 forty pounds per annum during [life] to have lived with him and read philosophy to him). In Sir Robert Shirley's house I continued officiating that whole year until his death in the Tower. "In the years 1657, 1658, 1659 and part of 1660, 40 through the mercy of God I continued publicly officiat |