of several words,—­not expecting such a hearer as Dr. Kilbie,—­and shewed three reasons why a particular word should have been otherwise translated.  When Evening Prayer was ended, the Preacher was invited to the Doctor’s friend’s house; where after some other conference the Doctor told him, “He might have preached more useful doctrine, and not have filled his auditors’ ears with needless exceptions against the late Translation:  and for that word, for which he offered to that poor congregation three reasons why it ought to have been translated as he said; he and others had considered all them, and found thirteen more considerable reasons why it was translated as now printed;” and told him, “If his friend, then attending him, should prove guilty of such indiscretion, he should forfeit his favour.”  To which Mr. Sanderson said, “He hoped he should not.”  And the preacher was so ingenuous as to say, “He would not justify himself.”  And so I return to Oxford.  In the year 1608,—­July the 11th,—­Mr. Sanderson was completed Master of Arts.  I am not ignorant, that for the attaining these dignities the time was shorter than was then or is now required; but either his birth or the well performance of some extraordinary exercise, or some other merit, made him so:  and the Reader is requested to believe, that ’twas the last:  and requested to believe also, that if I be mistaken in the time, the College Records have misinformed me:  but I hope they have not.

In that year of 1608, he was—­November the 7th—­by his College chosen Reader of Logic in the House; which he performed so well, that he was chosen again the sixth of November, 1609.  In the year 1613, he was chosen Sub-Rector of the College, and the like for the year 1614, and chosen again to the same dignity and trust for the year 1616.

In all which time and employments, his abilities and behaviour were such, as procured him both love and reverence from the whole Society; there being no exception against him for any faults, but a sorrow for the infirmities of his being too timorous and bashful; both which were, God knows, so connatural as they never left him.  And I know not whether his lovers ought to wish they had; for they proved so like the radical moisture in man’s body, that they preserved the life of virtue in his soul, which by God’s assisting grace never left him till this life put on immortality.  Of which happy infirmities—­if they may be so called—­more hereafter.

[Sidenote:  Standing for Proctor]

In the year 1614 he stood to be elected one of the Proctors for the University.  And ’twas not to satisfy any ambition of his own, but to comply with the desire of the Rector and whole Society, of which he was a Member; who had not had a Proctor chosen out of their College for the space of sixty years;—­namely, not from the year 1554, unto his standing;—­and they persuaded him, that if he would but stand for Proctor, his merits were so generally known, and he