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228 sold and scattered after his death; and only two books of the collection are now known to exist, in all the book-loving world. One volume is in the Library of the British Museum, and his copy of "Anselm" is, where by rights it should be, preserved in the Bodleian Library in Oxford.

Thomas Allen, Mathematician, Philosopher, and Antiquary, was a Scholar of Trinity in 1561, and a Fellow in 1565; but about 1570 he went to Gloucester Hall, afterwards Worcester College, where the rest of his life was spent. John Denham, Poet, went, according to Wood, full ripe for the University, to Trinity in 1631; but being looked upon by his contemporaries and his seniors as "a slow and dreamy young man, given more to cards and to dice than to study, his seniors and contemporaries could never in the least imagine, at that time, that he would be able to enrich the world with his fancy, or by the issue of his brain, as he afterwards did. He continued about three years at the College, and then to London."

"Honest "or "Worthy" John Aubrey, as his contemporaries liked to call him, was emphatically an Oxford man, although his career as an undergraduate at Trinity was short. He entered as a Gentleman Commoner in 1642, when he began at once to turn his attention to