deavoured to have approached more nearly this excellent model. Why was it not brought before the public? Why has it not been rendered into every language? I would willingly sacrifice my latter days to the pleasure of enriching our literature with it, were I better acquainted with the subtleties of the English tongue." During the successful career by which his learning and talents were crowned, Dr. Green did not forget the place of his nativity, but formed a charitable fund for its perpetual benefit. By his will, bearing date the 17th day of August, 1778, he bequeathed to the Mayor and Corporation of the town of Beverley, and to their successors, £1,000 three per cent. consols, in trust, out of the dividends to arise therefrom, to pay the yearly sum of £10 as an exhibition for the benefit of such scholar, the son of a freeman of Beverley, as the Mayor and Corporation of Beverley should from time to time nominate and appoint, to be sent from the free school there to Bennett or St. John's College in Cambridge, and who should have been educated at the said school at least three years immediately preceding such nomination; and he directed that the said exhibition should be continued to be paid to such scholar for seven years after his admission into either of the said colleges, if he should so long live and continue a member thereof, or until he should be of sufficient standing to take the degree of A.M., upon condition nevertheless that such scholar should proceed regularly to the degree of back of arts, and after that time should continue ell's “Lives of the Lord Chancellors," vol. vii., 56. to reside in one of the said colleges for two months at the least in every succeeding year during the time above specified; and after such exhibitioner should have enjoyed the benefit of the exhibition for the term of seven years, or in case of his death, or of his ceasing to be a member of either of the said colleges within that time, and before he was of sufficient standing to take the degree of master of arts, or should lose the benefit of that, his will, by not residing within the college of which he was a member after taking the degree of B.A., then the Mayor and Corporation should nominate and appoint another scholar, sent off from the said school, qualified as aforesaid, to succeed to the said exhibition, and who should enjoy the same for the like term and upon the like conditions, and so upon any future vacancy; and if in case of any vacancy there should be no such person ready to offer himself, or who should be judged by the Mayor and Corporation to be a proper candidate for such exhibition, then he willed and directed that all arrears of the said £10 which should accrue until a person qualified as aforesaid should be found, or during any vacancy, should be paid to the person next offering himself, and who should be chosen, over and above the £10 a year, and as an augmentation thereof; and he directed that the Mayor and Corporation should pay and apply the residue of the dividends and interest of the said £1,000 consols in clothing, maintaining, and instructing two boys, to be nominated by the Mayor and Corporation, in the Blue Coat School, in Beverley, to be distinguished from other boys of the ROBERT INGRAM, M.A., 1726-7-1804, AS born at Beverley on the 9th of March, 1726-7, and educated at the Grammar School there, under the Rev. John Clarke, from whence he was sent to Cambridge, and matriculated at Corpus Christi College, of which institution he was subsequently elected a fellow. He took his degrees of B.A. in 1749, and M.A. in 1758. His first preferment was the perpetual curacy of Bridhurst, in Kent, to which he was presented, in 1759, by Dr. Green, then Dean of Lincoln. What old associations would not this preferment bring before the mind of the good Dean. Had he not been born at Beverley, received the rudiments of his education at the Grammar School there, and also taken his degree at the same university as his protege ? Ingram afterwards obtained successively the small vicarage of Orston, in Nottinghamshire, and the vicarages of Wormington and Bosted, in Essex. He died 3rd August, 1804, leaving behind him a distinguished character for simplicity of manners, great integrity, and genuine benevolence. He had a high sense of the dignity and importance of the clerical functions, and for fifty years of his life was indefatigable 66 |