つ Some Account of the LIFE OF Dr. BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE. D R. BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE was descended of an antient and good family, and was the fixth son of his father, being born in ShropShire, March the 11th 1609. He was educated at Emanuel College, in the university, where he was chosen fellow, and was an excellent tutor and instructor of youth, and bred up many perfons of quality, and others who afterwards proved useful and eminent; as many perhaps as any tutor of his time. About the age of four or five and thirty, he was made provost of King's College, where he was a most vigilant and prudent governor, a great encourager of learning and good order; and by his careful and wife management of the estate of the college, brought it in to a very flourishing condition, and left it fo. " It cannot, says Dr. Tillotson, be denied (nor " am I much concerned to dissemble it) that here " he possessed another man's place, who by the i" niquity of the times was wrongfully ejected; I " mean Dr. Collins, the famous and learned divini"ty-profeffor of that university; during whose life " (and he lived many years after) by the free con" fent of the college there were two shares out of "the common dividend allotted to the provost, one " whereof was conftantly paid to Dr. Collins, as if " he had been still provost. To this Dr. Whichcote Archbishop Gillotson I didal the Funeral series of Wide Tillotson's Marks Vol. 1. |