S.Trin.Jacobus Oglethorpe, e C.C.C.

16.Theoph.f.Sti.Jacobi, Lond.Equ.Aur.filius natu minor." That is, "_In Trinity Term, July 9, 1704_, James Oglethorpe, _aged_ 16, _youngest son of_ Theophilus Oglethorpe, _of St.James's, London, was admitted into Corpus Christi College_."] His first commission was that of Ensign; and it is dated in 1710; and he bore that rank in the army when peace was proclaimed in 1713[1].
In the same year he is known to have been in the suite of the Earl of Peterborough[2], ambassador from the Court of Great Britain to the King of Sicily and to the other Italian States; whither he was fellow traveller with the Rev.Dr.George Berkeley, his Lordship's Chaplain[3].

Highly honorable was such a mark of favor from his Lordship; and peculiarly pleasant and instructive, also, must have been such companionship with the amiable and excellent clergyman; and it afforded opportunity of concerting plans of usefulness, of beneficence, and of philanthropy, the object and tendency of which were apparent in the after life of each[4].
[Footnote 1: Biographical Memoir in the European Magazine, Vol.

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13.] [Footnote 2: NICHOLS, in the _Literary Anecdotes of the XVIIIth Century_, Vol.II.p.19, says, "he was aid-de-camp;" but as that was the title of a _military_ rank, rather than of an attendant on a _diplomatic_ ambassador, I have substituted another term, which however may embrace it, if it be really proper.] [Footnote 3: Dr.Berkeley, in a letter to Thomas Prior, Esq., dated Turin, January 6, 1714, n.s.says that he travelled from Lyons "in company with Col.