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: indeed, was no longer united on the matter: the Rector and some of the fellows were for dropping it; but the party of opposition, led by three of the fellows, called by Newton the Triumvirate, had lately found a powerful ally in the newly appointed Bishop of Exeter, Dr. Stephen Weston, the Visitor of the College, who, basing his view of the case on Conybeare's representations, threw the whole weight of his influence into the scale in favour of what he considered the just cause of the College. That influence was sufficient to stop the further progress of the charter for an indefinite period. On May 18, 1725, Dr. Newton received from the Duke of Newcastle the unwelcome intimation that the Bishop of Exeter opposed his charter, and that he must' make the Bishop easy' before it could go forward. Meanwhile the Newtonian scheme had been fully established in Hart Hall, though still wanting the sanction of a charter to give it permanence. The tutors began already to be known as fellows—except when they were more irreverently spoken of as Anglers ;f the weekly disputations on Mondays and Wednesdays, the public lecture on Thursdays, the declamations on Saturdays—the whole system was in working order. But even here Newton's peace of mind was disturbed by some incidents which he could not help connecting with the opposition to his charter. The conduct of his case The chief being, of course, Conybeare; the others were James Atwell, who held a general power of attorney from the College to prosecute their claims, and Thomas Bailey, who died in 1733. t Amhurst (Terra Filius, p. 207) speaks of ' a formal fellow of Hart Hall'; and (p. 283), addressing Dr. Newton, ' a precarious Angler in your Hall'; precarious because Dr. Newton throughout maintained the right of dismissing his Tutors at p... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.