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one article of faith as well as One person in the Godhead.' --Locke's _Works_, ed. 1824, vi, 200. _The proposed Riding School for Oxford_. (Vol. ii, p. 424.) My friend, Mr. C. E. Doble, has pointed out to me the following passage in _Collectanea_, First Series, edited by Mr. C. R. L. Fletcher, Fellow of All Souls College, and printed for the Oxford Historical Society, Oxford, 1885. 'The _Advertisement to Religion and Policy, by Edward Earl of Clarendon_, runs as follows:-- "Henry Viscount Cornbury, who was called up to the House of Peers by the title of Lord Hyde, in the lifetime of his father, Henry Earl of Rochester, by a codicil to his will, dated Aug. 10, 1751, left divers MSS. of his great grandfather, Edward Earl of Clarendon, to Trustees, with a direction that the money to arise from the sale or publication thereof, should be employed as a beginning of a fund for supporting a Manage or Academy for riding and other useful exercises in Oxford; a plan of this sort having been also recommended by Lord Clarendon in his Dialogue on Education. Lord Cornbury dying before his father, this bequest did not take effect. But Catharine, one of the daughters of Henry Earl of Rochester, and late Duchess Dowager of Queensbury, whose property these MSS. became, afterwards by deed gave them, together with all the monies which had arisen or might arise from the sale or publication of them, to [three Trustees] upon trust for the like purposes as those expressed by Lord Hyde in his codicil." 'The preface to the _Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon, written by himself_., has words to the same effect. (See also _Notes and Queries_, Ser. I. x. 185, and xi. 32.) 'From a letter in _Notes and Queries_, Ser. II. x. p. 74, it appears that in 1860 the available sum, in the hands of the Trustees of the Clarendon Bequest, amounted to L10,000. The University no longer needed a riding-school, and the claims of Physical Science were urgent; and in 1872 the announcement was made, that by the liberality of the Clarendon Trustees an additional wing had been added to the University Museum, containing the lecture-rooms and laboratories of the department of Experimental Philosophy.' Vol. i. p. 305. _Boswell and Mrs. Rudd._ (Vol. ii, p. 450, n. 1.) In Mr. Alfred Morrison's _Collection of Autographs_, vol. i. p. 103, mention is made among Boswell's autographs of verses entitled _Lurgan Clanbrassil_, a supposed Irish song.'
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