Note 93 — Chapter XII · ANCIENT AND PROTESTANT FOUNDATIONS
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This portrait in crayons by Samuel Cooper (1609-72) was presented to the College in January 1766 by Thomas Hollis. In Hollis’s papers underneath his memorandum of his present to the College are three lines of Andrew Marvell—
“I freely declare it, I am for old Noll; Though his government did a tyrant resemble, He made England great, and her enemies tremble.”
Mr. Hollis also gave to Christ’s College four copies of the “Paradise Lost,” two of them first editions. In 1761 he sent to Trinity his portrait of Newton. He also presented books to the libraries of Harvard, Berne and Zurich: chiefly Republican literature of the seventeenth century.