es,
he denied himself the luxuries, and even the comforts of life; and he
went about so meanly clad, that the coachman of his late father
happening to meet him one day, and judging from his appearance that he
was in a destitute condition, begged his acceptance of half a crown to
relieve his distress. The story is told by Dr. Rawlinson himself.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 69: Rev. W.D. Macray, _Annals of the Bodleian Library_.
London, etc., 1868, p. 168.]

[Footnote 70: _Ibid._ p. 168.]

[Footnote 71: When the head of Layer was blown off from Temple Bar
(where it had been placed after his execution), it was picked up by a
gentleman in that neighbourhood, who showed it to some friends at a
public-house; under the floor of which house, I have been assured, it
was buried. Dr. Rawlinson, mean-time, having made enquiry after the
head, with a wish to purchase it, was imposed on with another instead of
Layer's, which he preserved as a valuable relique, and directed it to be
buried in his hand.--Nichols, _Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth
Century_, vol. v. p. 497.]

[Footnote 72: Macray, _Annals of the Bodleian Library_, p. 170.]

[Footnote 73: Rawlinson also left to the University some autograph
writings of King James I. The existence of these had been forgotten, and
has only been recently discovered.]

MARTIN FOLKES, 1690-1754

Martin Folkes, the eminent antiquary and scientist, was the eldest son
of Martin Folkes, a Bencher of Gray's Inn. He was born in Lincoln's Inn
Fields, London, on the 29th of October 1690, and after receiving his
early education at the University of Saumur, was sent, in 1707, to Clare
Hall, Cambridge, where he so greatly distinguished himself in all
branches of learning, and more particularly in mathematics and
philosophy, that in 1714, when only twenty-three years of age, he was
elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and two years later was chosen
one of its Council. In 1723 he was appointed a Vice-President of the
Society, and on the retirement of Sir Hans Sloane in 1741 he became
President, a post he held until 1753, when he resigned it on account of
his health. Folkes was also elected a Fellow of the Society of
Antiquaries in 1720, and in 1750 he succeeded the Duke of Somerset as
President, an office he filled during the remainder of his life. His
attainments were also recognised by the French Academy, which elected
him in 1742 one of its members. He was a D.C.L. of the University of