312 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. Mr. Knewstubs is classed among the generous benefactors of St. John's college, Cambridge. September 1, 1623, he fou,nded two exhibitions for two poor scholars ; for which purpose he gave to the college eleven pounds a year, out of certain lands, called squires' lands, at Southrninster and Steeple in Essex. He appointed twenty shillings of this annuity for the use of the college, and ten pounds for two poor scholars, tobe elected at the general election of scholars, one of them to be out of the north, the other from the south. The former of these was to be a person born within the parish of Kirkby Stephen ; or, in case of the want of such a one, any one born in the county of Westmoreland, or educated in the school at Kirkby. Stephen : but in the want of such a one, then a person to he chosen out of the school at Appleby. The scholar from the south was to be a person born within the parish of Cockfield in Suffolk; and in the want of such a one, then a person 'to be chosen from the school at Sudbury. He appointed the nomination of the one to the vice-chancellor, or the incumbent of Kirkby Stephen and the schoolmaster for the timebeing; and of the other to the incumbent of Cockfield for the time being. He further ordered, that if either of the scholars should be absent from the college upwards of fifty days together, the allowance, during that period, shout to the use of the college ; and if absent ninety-one days, he should forfeit his His WORKS.-1. AConfutation ofcertain Monstrous and Horrible Heresies, taught by H. N. (Henry Nichols) and embraced by a number who call themselves The Family ofLove, 1579.-2. Lectures on Various Portions of Seripture.-3. An Answer to certainAsset' tions. RICHARD CRAKENTHORP, D. D.-This learned divine was born of respectable parents near Strickland in West- moreland, in the year 1577, and educated, in Queen's college, Oxford, where he was chosen fellow. About the year 1603, he became chaplain to Lord Evers, in his mission as ambassador to the court of Germany, by which he became acquainted with many persons celebrated for learning, And visited several of the foreign universities. Upon his return to England he became chaplain in ordinary to King James ; and, by the favour of Sir John Levesen, was presented to the rectory of 'Black-Notely, 4, Baker's MS. Collec. vol. xxiii. This volume is not paged.
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