Friday 5th. Chapel & Livy. at Bodln. all the morning.
The Rector of Exeter, D.r Jones, left a card at my rooms,
& I afterwards heard from D.r Bliss, he wished me
to call on him tomorrow, to arrange if possble, some
plan by which I would be good enough, at my
own leisure, to look over & put their muniments in order,
& for which they would not only feel very much obliged, but
would reward me liberally. By Dr Bliss‘s advice, I
shall, if possible, comply with their wishes. I copied part
of Havelok today, & find it inferior, in point of com=
position, to Horn, but containing a great number of old
words & phrases, & in other respects very curious.
At 4. oC. D.r Bliss called with me on the President
of Magd.n College,(Dr. Routh) to request the liberty of copying &
collating two of their MSS., the Life of St. Neot, ascribed
to Ramsey, & printed by Whitaker, & the treatise on
Chess by Simon Aylward. The President very kindly
gave permission, & I am to come next Thursday to his
House, & then do what I think proper with the MSS.
in question. I forgot to say, I had a breakfast party
this morng, consisting of Mayo, Cosens & Watts. Dr
Copleston, the Prevost of Oriel, is also returned from
town, & enquired after me of D.r Bliss, at the library.
After dinner walked to the Charwell. It is still exceedingly
cold in the morning & evening, & more like November
than May. I had meditated going to town tomorrow, but
shall defer it till tomorrow week. Purchased a Thucy-
dides (Bekker) for £2.0.0
Mem. Today Dr. Bandinel shewed me a letter received from Harding,
in which he says, with respect to a certain person, late M. P. for
the University, & of library reputation^[Richd. Heber]: “There are damnable
reports about him, and to a summons to return to England,
he was silent“. This therefore confirms beyond a doubt, what
has some time before been whispered about, & it is beyond a
question true, that one of the first men of the present day
in the estimation of men of letters & of the world, has degraded
himself to the ######level of a brute! Of course he will not
return to Engld. or, if he does, he will be universally
shunned, & put out of the Society^ of which he had formerly appeared
so distinguished a member. All interest therefore he might
have possessed with regard to the Museum, in opposition to
my views, ###is now at an end, & I have nothing in future
to fear from that quarter.
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