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Plumeian Professorship, Plume Library and Dr Plume’s Charity are
names given by posterity. In his biography he kept scrupulously to the
third person of “a Friend” and published both that and his edited version
of the
Century of Sermons
under the name of his former patron, Dr John
Hacket, excluding himself from the list of 17th-century English authors.
He forbade his unnamed portrait, “now (1703) in Mr Pond’s house” in
Maldon, “ever to be brought into my library” and gave no further
directions for its fut u re location.