Note 55 — BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF ADRIAN BATTEN, JOHN WELDON, THOMAS TUDWAY, MUS. D., WILLIAM BLAKE, D.D., AND CHARLES KING, M.B.

‘In the time of the Duke of Somerset’s chancellorship at Cambridge, during the discontents of several members of that university at the rigour of his government and paucity of his patronage, Tudway, himself a malecontent, and joining in the clamour, said, “The chancellor rides us all, without a bit in our mouths.” Nor did the wicked sin of punning quit him even in sickness; for having been dangerously ill of a quinsy, and unable, for some time, to swallow food, the physician who attended him, after long debates and difficulties, at length turning to Mrs. Tudway, said, “Courage Madam! the doctor will get up Mayhill yet—he has been able to swallow some nourishment.” On which he exclaimed, “Don’t mind him, my dear, one swallow does not make a summer.”’—Burney’s Hist. iii. 459 note.