EXPELLED FROM CAIUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

Which is denied by Dr. Kippis, in the "Biographia Britannica," and

"when Doctors disagree, who shall decide?" In this case a third doctor

steps in for the purpose, in the person of the celebrated Master of

Emmanuel College, Dr. Richard Farmer, who, in a humorous letter,

printed in the European Magazine for 1794, says, on turning to the

_Gesta Book_ of Caius College, under the head, "Sir Dennis sent away,"

appears this entry: "March 4, 1680. At a meeting of the Master and

Fellows, Sir Dennis mulcted 3_l._; his scholarship taken away, and he

_sent out of the college_, for assaulting and wounding Sir Glenham

with a sword."

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