A Life of Joseph Hall Dd Author:George Lewis Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. FELLOW OF EMMANUEL.—PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC. —HEAD MASTER OF BLUNDEL'S SCHOOL.—THE OFFER OF HALSTED.— THE SATIRES.—" MUNDUS ALTER ETIDEM" BY a s... more »tatute of the College only one of a shire could be fellow there at a given time, and Leicestershire was already represented by Mr. Nicholas Gilby, Hall's tutor. Hall was therefore excluded, and, the stipulated time for the allowance from his uncle being about to terminate, he was now entertaining notions of removal. The gracious Providence which seemed to keep him in all his ways was never more conspicuous than here. His own account is as follows :—" A place was offered me in the island of Guernsey, which I had in speech and chase. It fell out, that the father of my loving chamber-fellow, Mr. Cholmley, a gentleman that had likewise dependence upon the most noble Henry Earl of Huntingdon, having occasion to go to York, unto that his honourable Lord, fell into some mention of me. That good Earl, who well esteemed my father's service, having belikely heard some better words of me than I could deserve, made earnest inquiry after me—what were my courses, what my hopes ; and, hearing of the likelihood of my removal, professed much dislike of it ; not without some vehemence, demanding why I wasnot chosen Fellow of that College, wherein by report I received such approbation. Answer was returned that my county debarred me ; which, being filled with my tutor, whom his Lordship well knew, could not by the statute admit a second. The Earl presently replied, that, if that were the hindrance, he would soon take order to remove it. Whereupon his Lordship presently sends for my tutor, Mr. Gilby, unto York, and with proffers of large conditions of the chaplainship in his house, and assured promises of better provisions, drew him to relinqu...« less