There are four boys
who are called Bishop's boys, from their being established
by Williams, Bishop of Lincoln; they have a gratuitous
education, and a small allowance which is suffered to
accumulate till the period of their admission into St.
John's College, Cambridge; they are distinguished by wearing
a purple gown, and are nominated by the dean and head-
master.
What a cloud of recollections, studded with bright and variegated
lights, passes before my inward vision! Stars of eminence in every
branch of learning, science, and public duties, who received their
education within those walls; old Westminsters, whose fame will last as
long as old England's records, and who shall doubt ~85~~that will be to
the end of time? Here grew into manhood and renown the Lord Burleigh,
King, Bishop of London, the poet Cowley, the great Dryden, Charles
Montague, Earl of Halifax, Dr. South, Matthew Prior, the tragedian
Rowe, Bishop Hooper, Kennet, Bishop of Peterborough, Dr. Friend, the
physician, King, Archbishop of Dublin, the philosopher Locke, Atterbury,
Bishop of Rochester, Bourne, the Latin poet, Hawkins Browne, Boyle, Earl
of Cork and Orrery, Carteret, Earl of Granville, Charles Churchill, the
English satirist, Frank Nicholls, the anatomist, Gibbon, the historian,
George Colman, Bonnel Thornton, the great Earl of Mansfield, Clayton
Mordaunt Cracherode, Richard Cumberland, the poet Cowper.
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