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folk, became Professor, Jan. 19, 1765, on the death of Dr Newcome; having carried the election against Dr Law, Bishop of Carlisle. He was also Vicar of Ickleton near Cambridge, which, together with the Forncetts, he held till his death in 1788 at the age of 72. He published, against Dr Middleton,- Defensio Miraculorum quæ in Ecclesia Christiana facta esse perhibentur post tempora Apostolorum,' being his Thesis when he kept his Act for B.D., Jan. 21, 1747; also,- An Examination of Dr Middleton's Free Inquiry into the miraculous powers of the early Church, Cambridge, 8vo., 1750; and in 1763 a volume of Sermons preached before the University, and before George the II. and III., to whom he was Chaplain in Ordinary for many years.

John Mainwaring, D.D. Fellow of St John's College, and Rector of Aberdaron, elected Professor Aug. 22, 1788. He published in 1780, in 8vo.,'Sermons preached before the University of Cambridge, to which is prefixed a Dissertation on that species of Composition.'

Herbert Marsh, B.D. Fellow of St John's College, elected Professor April 23, 1807; successively Bishop of Llandaff 1816, and Peterborough 1819. His Father was the Rev. Richard Marsh, Vicar of Feversham in Kent. He was born Dec. 10, 1757, and died May the 1st, 1839, in his 82nd year; and was buried in his own Cathedral. Of Bishop Marsh's numerous and important publications, a tolerably complete list may be seen in the Biog. Dict. of Living Authors, London, 1816; amongst these may

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be especially mentioned,— The Introduction to the New Testament by J. D. Michaelis, translated from the German, and considerably augmented with Notes explanatory and supplemental.' 'Lectures on the Criticism and Interpretation of the Bible.' 'A comparative View of the Churches of England and Rome;' and 'The History of the Politicks of Great Britain and France,' first published in German in 1799.

John James Blunt, B.D., sometime Fellow of St John's College, and Rector of Great Oakley, Essex, the present Professor, elected May, 9, 1839.

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A Catalogue of the Lady Margaret's Professors at Oxford, which being taken from Mr Wood, I must refer the Reader to that accurate Author for a larger Account, being out of my Province. [The continuation of this list, and the additional particulars relative to several of the Professors, are taken from Wood's History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford, by Gutch; Oxford, 1796, p. 828.]

Edmund Wylsford, Bach. (afterwards Doctor) of Divinity, read her Lecture before the Settlement Ann. 1497. He was Fellow of Oriel College, and having been her Confessor, as appears by her Will, was probably one of those Learned Men that would have determined her Foundation of a College to Oxford, at the place where Christ Church now stands. He began to read this Lecture on the morrow after the Trinity, an. 1497, at what time the Lady Margaret was disposed to have it read at her own charges.

John Roper, B.D., Fellow of Magdalen College, 1483, and Reader of the Sentences there, appointed her first Professor by the Charter of the Foundation, dated Sept. 8, an. 18 Hen. VII., viz. 1502. The Academicians made choice of him, an. 1500, as by their Epistle to the said Lady it appears; wherein,

and in another to a certain Bishop, they give him very honourable commendations. He was about that time Vicar of St Mary's Church, and Principal of Salesury Hall, afterwards of George Hall, Dr of Divinity, Rector of Witney in Oxfordshire, and at length one of the Canons of King Hen. VIII. his College. He died in the month of May, 1534.

John Kynton, D.D., a Franciscan Friar, succeeded Dr Roper, but at what time is uncertain. He had previously been Reader in Divinity at Magdalen College. He resigned Oct. 5, 1530; and died Jan. 20, 1535, and was buried in Durham College Chapel which stood on the site of Trinity College. William Mortimer, D.D., succeeded by election, Oct. 10, 1530.

Hugh Weston, D.D. Rector of Lincoln College, 1538, succeeded Dr Mortimer circa an. 1540. In his time, by the instinct of Dr Longland Bishop of Lincoln, the Salary of this Lecture, which was almost lost (the Abbey from whence it did issue being dissolved), was recovered, and by the Diploma of King Hen. VIII. an. 1543, confirmed. (See Ath. Ox. Vol. I. c. 295.) He was Archdeacon of Colchester, and Rector of St Botolph's Bishopsgate, and of Cliff in Kent; and in the first year of Q. Mary he had the Deanery of Westminster bestowed upon him, but was soon after forced to resign it in favour of the former Abbot, Fekenham, and was indemnified with the Deanery of Windsor. In 1557 he was deprived of this last Deanery, for adultery, by Cardinal Pole; and appealing to Rome, was com

mitted to the Tower, whence being discharged on bail in the beginning of Q. Elizabeth's reign, he died in Dec. 1558. He is chiefly notorious for having been Prolocutor in the Disputations that several Doctors held with Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer, in the Divinity School at Oxford, an. 1554. [See Fox's Acts and Mons.]

Christopher Goodman, Master of Arts of four years standing, and one of the Senior Students of Christ Church, but sometime of Brasenose College, and admitted B.A. there, is the next that appears to have read this Lecture. He is said by Fox, in his Acts and Monuments, and by others, to be Divinity Reader of the University in the reign of King Edw. VI. about 1548; but whether they mean of this Lecture, Wood cannot determine, not having found any thing thereof in the University Registers for that time, which are very imperfect. He was an Exile under Q. Mary's persecution, and well known by his writings; he died at Chester, June 4, 1603, aged 85'.

John Smyth, B.D. Provost of Oriel College, was designed Reader of this Lecture about the latter end of the year 1553. The next year on the 12th of April it was proposed to the Congregation, that the Salary of this Lecture for the half-year past should be converted for the reparation of the new Schools, and use of the University; but with this

Bale, writing in 1558, says of him,- nunc autem apud Genevenses Anglorum Ecclesiæ pastor, insignis eruditionis homo. [Script. Brit. pars post. p. 113.]

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