Thomas Batchcroft (15..-1670)
One sent this Doctor a pidgeon-pye from New-market or thereabout, and he askt the bearer whither ’twas hott, or cold? He did out-doe Dr. Kettle.
Notes
359Memorandum: in Sir Charles Scarborough’s time (he was of Caius College) Dr.... (the head of that house) would visit the boyes’ chambers, and see what they were studying; and Charles Scarborough’s genius let him to the mathematics, and he was wont to be reading of Clavius upon Euclid. The old Dr. had found in the title ‘......, e Societate Jesu,’ and was much scandalized at it. Sayd he, ‘By all meanes leave-off this author, and read Protestant mathematicall bookes.’