Doctor John Franklin, Fellow and Master of Sidney College, Cambridge,
1730, "a very fat, rosy-complexioned man," dying soon after he was
made Dean of Ely, and being succeeded by Dr. Ellis, "a meagre,
weasel-faced, swarthy, black man," the _Fenman_ of Ely, says (Cole) in
allusion thereto, out of vexation at being so soon called upon for
_recognition money_, made the following humorous distitch:--
"The Devil took our Dean,
And pick'd his bones clean;
Then clapt him on a board,
And sent him back again."
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