_Archbishop Sancroft._--It is well known that Dr. William Dillingham,
Master of Emanuel College, Cambridge, published, in 1678, a volume of Latin
poems, partly translations from George Herbert, partly pieces of his own,
with some few added from other sources. But it is not known that most of
the pieces in this volume were corrected by the hand of Archbishop
Sancroft, and that one certainly was from his own pen. It occurs at p. 155.
of the octavo volume alluded to, and is entitled "Hippodromus." This is a
translation from an epigram by Thomas Bastard, first printed in 1598, and
beginning:
"I mett a courtier riding on the plaine."
That it is Archbishop Sancroft's is proved from an original letter
addressed to him by Dillingham in 1677, and preserved in the Bodleian.