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 242 THOMAS HARDING April All these men were devoting their abilities to the same object that Harding had followed in the studies and activities of his last years, the struggle against the current of ideas that had estranged them from their home. Though life had become unbearable or dangerous in England, the affection for their native country was as fresh with them, and especially with Harding, as in the days when he was celebrated for his learning and favoured by king and court. Indeed he be- queathed a sum of 10 pounds sterling to New College, where he had spent so many days of his life, where he had gone through all the stages from freshman to warden, and where he had found the greater number of his friends who were staunch to him in exile as in prosperity. This legacy was made without the stipulation added by other donors, that their bequests to English institutions should be dependent on the re-establishment of the Roman hierarchy. Harding left important sums of money to his servant, William Smyth,^ on condition that he should place himself at the disposal of the executors to see that his bequests were performed in England, amongst which the legacy to New College was mentioned in particular,^ It was not possible for Hyde or for Bayley to venture into England, although a great part of the inheritance had remained in Wiltshire or in Winchester. Some goods and money had been entrusted to a Mr. Richard Pickering and his wife Cecile ; they were left to them by the will, with the stipulation that some of the silver should be reserved for their daughter Anne, the doctor's godchild. Other goods and valuables, in the custody of a Mr. John Bigges at Stapleton, were bequeathed partly to Bigges himself and to his wife, partly to a Dr. Griphyth of the Court of Arches ' in settlement of their accounts, with the condonement of what was owing to Harding from an uncle of Griphyth's, a Dr. Geffrey.* Finally, some University on 31 July 1661 : ' loannes Martialis Anglus ' (Lib. iv Intit., fo. 371) ; Wood, i. 250, 713 (bachelor of civil law, 1556) ; Diet, of Nat. Biogr.). ' This William Smyth was entered in the list of members of the Louvain University on 30 April 1565: 'M. Guilielmus Smytexis Anglus, pauper ' (Liber iv Intit., fo. 413). He is probably identical withthe William Smith, a member of the household of Gardiner, mentioned in his will (Nichols and Bruce, Wills, p. 46). ' This legacy was to be taken from a sum of money which was owing in England to Harding by one Henry Breyton. » Probably this Dr. Griphyth is identical with John Griffyth of All Souls College, Oxford, doctor of civil law on 7 July 1562, who, according to Wood (i. 719), was ' Principal of New Inn and the Queen's Professor of Civil Law, which last office he enjoyed four years while he was Bachelor of that faculty '. « This Dr. Geffrey is probably William Geffry, doctor of laws in July 1540, who after having been principal of St. Edward's and of Broadgates Hall, was appointed on 20 March 1553 chancellor of the church of Salisbury, of which Harding became treasurer in 1555, which may explain the debt which was not settled yet at Geffry's death in 1558 (see Wood, i. 694). There was one John Gryffyth or Gruffyth, bachelor of civil law in July 1518, who was successively treasurer of Llandaff, dean of St. Asaph, and I