Dodderidge,
(afterwards Sir John Dodderidge, who died one of the Judges of the
King's-Bench) Mr. Camden, Mr. Stow, &c. who had regular Meetings, or
Conferences, for the Improvement and Illustration of the History and
Antiquities of England. That Society had a particular Claim to our
Author; and in 1589 he was elected a Member of the College of the
Antiquaries (H). The Oration he made at his Introduction, contained,
(as I am informed by a Gentleman who saw it)
"an elegant Display of the Devastations Time so
swiftly makes upon all things; thence it subsides to
the Advantages and Commendations of that kind of Study,
they had chosen to be the Subject of their Conferences :
and concludes with a pathetical Exhortation to his
Auditory, That they would persevere in establishing what
they had so nobly begun, and continue to employ their
Labours upon those things, which were worthy of them;
that so they might not be drawn into Oblivion themselves,
by that which they would rescue from it, and that Time
might not rob them of aught more considerable than that
which they should restore.
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