e the restauration. There was not an house
next the street but was illuminated. For if any disrespect was shown,
the windows were certainly broke. The people run up and down, crying
_King James the third_! _The true King_! _No usurper_! _The duke of
Ormond_! and healths were everywhere drank suitable to the occasion, and
every one at the same time drank to a new restauration, which I heartily
wish may speedily happen."

I give the following extract as a record of the dinner hour in Oxford in
1717:--

24_th April_ 1717.--"On Sunday morning last (being Easter-day) Dr
Charlett, master of University college, sent his man to invite me to
dinner that day. I sent him word that I was engaged, as indeed I was.
Yesterday he sent again. I sent word I would wait upon him. Accordingly
I went at twelve o'clock. When I came I found nobody with him but Mr
Collins, of Magdalen coll., whom he had also invited." {41}

Here is an interesting scrap of history:--

19_th April_ 1718.--". . . King William the Conqueror's beard alwayes
shaven, for so was the custome of the Norman. Thus were the Englishmen
forced to imitate the Normans in habit of apparell, shaving off their
beards, service at the table, and in all other outward gestures. The
English before did not use to shave their upper lips."

11_th Nov._ 1720.--"Dr Wynne. . . . This worthy doctor was the man also
that put a stop to the selling of fellowships in All Soul's college, as I
have often heard him say; and I have as often heard him likewise say,
that he always voted for the poorest candidaters for fellowships in that
college, provided they were equally qualified in other respects; a thing
not practised now."

Here is a pleasant inversion of the relation between boy and
schoolmaster:--

21_st Jan._ 1718-19.--"I remember that I heard formerly Tom Rogers, who
was yeoman beadle, say, that when he was that year, when the plague
raged, a school-boy at Eaton, all the boys of that school were obliged to
smoak in the school every morning, and that he was never whipped so much
in his life as he was one morning for not smoaking."

27_th Feb._ 1722-23.--"It hath been an old custom in Oxford for the
scholars of all houses, on Shrove Tuesday, to go to dinner at ten o'clock
(at which time the little bell, called _pan-cake bell_, rings, or at
least should ring, at St Maries), and at four in the afternoon; and it
was always followed in Edmund hall, as long as I have been in O