[89] Hurrell had visited Keble there early in April, and caught a fresh cold.
[91] Prosperity, in _Lyra Apostolica_. Edited by H. C. Beeching, M.A. London: Methuen [1900], p. 146.
[92] Mary Sophia Newman, the youngest of the family, died, aged 17, on January 5, 1828.
[93] _Histoire de la Conquête de l’Angleterre par les Normands._ Par Augustin Thierry. Paris: Santelet, 1826. Tomes 1-4, 2de edition, 8o.
[94] A sentimental complaining fellow: the ‘dreary prospects’ being the prospects of a single life devoted to moral reforms.
[95] The usurper of the Portuguese crown, third son of King John VI. The English destroyed his fleet off Cape St. Vincent, July 5, 1833.
[97] Six weeks later, an English lady, Miss Frere, writes home from Malta of our three tourists, ‘Archdeacon Froude, his son, and another clergyman’ … ‘all very agreeable.’ She laments the ill-health of Mr. Newman, but adds that ‘the son, on whose account they are travelling, is quite well.’ _Works of the Rt. Hon. John Hookham Frere_, vol. i., Memoir, by the Rt. Hon. Sir Bartle Frere. London: Pickering, 1874, p. 242.
[98] Newman says, ‘It was at Rome that we began the _Lyra Apostolica_’ (_Apologia_, 1890, p. 34); this letter antedates the arrival at Rome by some days. Newman dates the _Lyra_ from Froude’s choosing its motto from the _Odyssey_ on the eve of magazine publication.
[99] The Rev. C. A. Ogilvie? or Frederick Oakeley? or the young Devonian Nutcombe Oxenham, who, like Isaac Williams, his tutor and lifelong friend, was a Scholar of Trinity? The associates of Mr. Williams were almost exclusively of Oriel.
[100] Froude had visited Samuel Wilberforce there, at Brighstone.
[101] ‘We are keeping the most wretched Christmas Day … by bad fortune we are again taking in coals…. This morning we saw a poor fellow in the Lazaret, close to us, cut off from the ordinances of his Church, saying his prayers with his face to the house of God in his sight over the water; and it is a confusion of face to me…. The bells are beautiful here … deep and sonorous, and they have been going all morning: to me very painfully.’ Newman to his sister Harriett, _Letters and Correspondence_, i., 274.
[102] Major John Longley, afterwards Lieutenant-Governor of Dominica. Charles Thomas Longley, Head Master of Harrow School from 1829 to 1836, became Archbishop of Canterbury. Cythera is Cerigo.