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< ¦¦ f classes of logic and philosophy , was admitted SJaster of Arts in tbe latter end of 1623 , and fellow of the said College 10 th of
June , 1028 . * " He was then observed / ' says Wood , tO . be no drudge at his study , hut being a man of great parts would do much in a little tune when he
settled to it . He would often walk in the college grove and contemplate , but wfeeri he met with any scholar there , he would enter into discourse and dispute with him , pu rposely to facilitate and make the way of Wrangling
common vvrtri him ; which vtas a fashion used in those days * especially among the disputing theologfsts , or among thosfc that set themselves apart purposely for divinity /' t
While he Tesided m college , Chillingworth was in Correspondence with Laud . then archbishop , and is said to have sent his grace
* Wood . Atheo . Oxon . Vol . II . col . 20 . 1 st ed . In allusion to the place of both ChillingwortlTs birth and education , Fuller says , ( Worthies , p . 389 > 3 4 *>) ; after his quaint manner , € i by the benefit of his birth , he fell from the lap of his mother into the armes of the Muses . "
f Woof ! , ut sup . —Aubrey says , in his account erf Chillingworth , ( in his Lives , lately published with Letters , &c . from the £ odletany &c . ) " My tutor , W . Browne , hath told me , that Dr . Chillingworth . sttded not much , but when he did , b < did much in a little time . He much delighted in Sextus Empericus . He did walk much in the college
grove , and there contemptere / and meet with some cofTs-head or other and dispute with him and baftlc him . He thus prepared himself before hand . He would always be disputing 3 so would my tutor . I think it was an epicleniick ciil of that time , which 1 think nOW is gmwn otit of fajftion , as unmHtinctly actd boyiihe . " ., , -, ¦ .
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weekly intelligence of what passed in the TJniyersrt ^ 4 ^ Little is known of Chiffih | - wonh's college studies . His works , though wholly theological ,, corroborate the satem £ nt of hi *
biographers , that hfc iapfrfieo with great success to mathematics no one could have reasoned so croselj and conclusively who had fib % been " th ' drougfily ' exefcised"fn "" tn ¥ rigid tnethods of deii | o | istration » It were Jess to have been expected that he should have courted the
J Aubrey relates , that in thlis cofi respond en ce with Laud ne betrayed , the contents of a private lettef ^ wrllteti i f him by Dn Gill , master of St . # a&l * ii School , with whom Tie ma $ ht £ ifte& £ B
epiaffokty intercourse fdr ^ 6 tti « ^ JiM !** Gill , it is alleged , in one . of h \ $ |^ ters had called King Jarnds andj ' ¦ ftgi gon the old fool and the yoktig pn ^ , ana this letter , it is added , Wafe cdrnrriirm * to
cated by Ghillihg ^ rorth the archbK shop , upon svhuch . a Btorm was raised ^ from which Gill was with difficulty saved . This story rests upon no foundation , or a -very slight < Me . Chif « ling worth ' s 1 fe wat ransacked by hit theological opponents , whilst he * fca ^ yet living , and if so severe a charge rf ^ treachery to a ffiend could have Decii
brought against him , there is'ho a 6 tibt " it wduld have been urged bf ^ flie ^ Pirjri * . tans whom he offended by ncglcfct , dt the Romanists whom he had provok ^ t b y his apostacy , j [ as they tended it ) , and continued to irritate ?> V ftls ' wri ^
tings . It the fects * were , Upon thewhole , as they tire stajtfed by Aubrey , Chilling worth ' s conduct would adriut of some lighter censure * tthan that belonging to treachery : he might be only imprudent in disddsfngWhatbcrg ^ t ^ have been cttnccaled , nor will the dit ~
closure ^ if pear- a certain i }^ i of ptemeditated infidelity to a friend , to anjr one who considers the age and characterofthte prelate , and of his adopted ^ t > n ; Laud , ^ u ^ p kioug , intriguing , tagacmts ; and constantly devoted to the » cvaft » of tte piiestiioOd and of the state , —Ctiillincworth , forward , Irattk , ingcriucrt ^ andcaaiidwit . / .., . ; " ^
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) t Brief Memoir of Mr . Cfiiltingwort % .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1814, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2436/page/2/
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