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'Contrary methods justly George applies
To govern his two universities,
And so to Oxford sent a troop of horse,
For Tories hold no argument but force;
To Cambridge Ely's learned books are sent,
For Whigs admit no force but argument.'

This is not the only version of these epigrams, but the Rev. Cecil Moore
in his Memoir of the Bishop considers it to be the correct one.

Moore's diaries, letters, and private accounts are also preserved in the
Cambridge University Library. A volume containing his printed sermons
was published in 1715, and a second issue in two volumes in 1724. Both
series were edited by the Rev. Samuel Clarke, D.D.

JOHN BAGFORD, 1650?-1716

John Bagford was born about 1650. The exact date of his birth is
unknown, and he does not appear to have been acquainted with it himself,
for a short time before his death he informed Mr. James Sotheby that he
was either sixty-five or sixty-six years of age, he could not tell
which. According to the belief of Thomas Hearne, the antiquary, he was
born in Fetter Lane, London, and he was no doubt for some time a
shoemaker, for in a very curious and entertaining little treatise on the
_Art of Shoemaking and Historical Account of Clouthing of ye foot_,
which is believed to have been written by him, and is now preserved
among the Harleian manuscripts in the British Museum, the writer states
that he was brought up to the 'craft of shoemaking.' This trade,
however, he soon abandoned for a more congenial occupation, and he
became a collector of books on commission for booksellers and amateurs.
In pursuance of this work he made several journeys to the Continent, and
acquired a great knowledge of books, prints, and literary curiosities.
He was specially employed by Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, Sir Hans
Sloane, and John Moore, Bishop of Ely, who appear to have greatly
appreciated his judgment, diligence, and honesty; and the last-named
collector procured him, as some recompense for his services, admission
into the Charterhouse. Nothing is known of Bagford's parents, and little
of his domestic life, but he appears to have been married, for on the
back of a leaf in one of the volumes of his collections we find the
following memorandum in Bagford's writing: 'John, son of John and
Elizabeth Bagford, was baptized 31st October 1675, in the parish of St.
Anne, Blackfriars.' This son seems to have become a sailor in the Royal
Navy, for in another volume i