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versity have ever arisen from that order, (Magister artis , ingeniquelargitor venter) I offered myself for a scholarship a year beforethe usual time of the sizars sitting, and succeeded, on the 2dof May, 1,757. This step increased my expenses in college, butit was attended with a great advantage. It was the occasion ofmy being particularly noticed by Dr. Smith , the then Master ofthe College. He was, from the examination he gave me, so wellsatisfied with the progress I had made in my studies, that out ofthe sixteen who were elected scholars, he appointed me to aparticular scholarship (Lady Jermyn’s) then vacant, and in hisown disposal; not, he said to me, as being better than otherscholarships, but as a mark of his approbation ; he recommendedSaimdersons Fluxions, then just published, and some othermathematical books, to my perusal, and gave, in a word, a spurto my industry, and wings to my ambition.

I had, at the time of being elected a scholar, been resident incollege for two years and seven months, without having goneout of it for a single day. During that period I had acquiredsome knowledge of Hebrew ; greatly improved myself in Greekand Latin ; made considerable proficiency in mathematics andnatural philosophy ; and studied with much attention Locke’sworks, King’s book on the Origin of Evil, Puffendorf ’s Treatisede Officio Hominis et Civis, and some other books on similar sub-jects ; I thought myself therefore entitled to a little relaxation :under this persuasion I set forward, May 30th, 1757, to pay myelder and only brother a visit at Kendal. He was the 'first curateof the new chapel there, to the structure of which he had sub-scribed liberally. He was a man of lively parts, but being

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