anity are as charming, to those
who have the happiness of his conversation, as his learning is profitable
to his correspondents. The university library is not yet put into any
order."

25_th June_ 1728.--"The Cambridge men are much wanting to themselves, in
not retrieving the remains of their worthies. Mr Baker is the only man I
know of there, that hath of late acted in all respects worthily on that
head, and for it he deserves a statue."

3_rd Aug._ 1728.--"Yesterday Mr Gilman of St Peter's parish in the east,
Oxford (a lusty, heartick, {46a} thick, and short man), told me, that he
is in his 85th year of age, and that at the restoration of K. Charles
II., being much afflicted with the king's evil, he rode up to London
behind his father, was touched on a Wednesday morning by the king, was in
very good condition by that night, and by the Sunday night immediately
following was perfectly recovered and hath so continued ever since. He
hath constantly wore the piece of gold about his neck that he received of
the king, and he had it on yesterday when I met him."

I hope that Oxford, which had treated poor Hearne so ill, was impressed
by the facts recorded on 10th June 1730:--

"On Thursday, June 4th, the earl of Oxford (Edw. Harley) was at my room
at Edm. hall from ten o'clock in the morning till a little after twelve
o'clock, together with Dr Conyers Middleton, of Trin. coll. Camb., and my
lord's nephew, the hon. Mr May of Christ Church, and Mr Murray of Christ
Church."

7_th Aug._ 1732.--"My friend the honble. Benedict Leonard Calvert {46b}
died on 1st June 1732 (old stile) of a consumption, in the _Charles_,
Capt. Watts commander, and was buried in the sea. When he left England
he seemed to think that he was becoming an exile, and that he should
never see his native country more; and yet neither myself nor any else
could disswade him from going. He was as well beloved as an angel could
be in his station; (he being governour of Maryland); for our plantations
have a natural aversion to their governours, upon account of their too
usual exactions, pillages, and plunderings; but Mr Calvert was free from
all such, and therefore there was no need of constraint on that score:
but then it was argument enough to be harrassed that he was their
governour, and not only such, but brother to Ld. Baltimore, the lord
proprietor of Maryland, a thing which himself declared to his friends,
who were likewise too sensible of it. And