in English, published under the title of a "Key to the Holy Tongue," with a Hebrew Dictionary, which is omitted in the second edition. The first is dated 1593, a year after his death.

When his son EPHRAIM was born, does not appear, but he was educated at Emanuel college, Cambridge, where he took his degree of A. B. in 1609, and that of A. M. in 1614. His only preferment in the church appears to have been the rectory of St. Augustine's, Watling-street, but the time of his admission is not stated by Newcourt or Walker. He was sequestered, however, in 1643, although he had always been accounted, and indeed admired as a preacher of puritan principles. The truth was, that he early perceived the real designs of the republican party, and exerted himself to oppose them. In a sermon at Mercers' chapel, he addressed himself to some of them in these words, "You desire truth and peace; leave your lying, and you may have truth; lay down your arms, and you may have peace." He went farther than even this, by declaring openly for episcopacy and the liturgy, and publishing a learned treatise against sacrilege, entitled "A Coal from the Altar;" and another, "Communion comeliness," in which he recommended the placing of rails around the communion-table. He also published a sermon, called "Noli me tangere," containing many loyal sentiments and much attachment to the church. Crimes like these were not to be forgiven; and accordingly his house was plundered, his library and furniture carried off, and his old and lame wife literally turned into the street. Mr. Udal died about the latter end of May 1647. His funeral sermon was preached by the rev. Thomas Reeve, B. D. who was neither ashamed nor afraid to give him what he seems to have deserved, a high character for piety and zeal.1

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UDAL (NICHOLAS), an eminent schoolmaster of the sixteenth century, styled by Leland, in his "Encomia," Odovallus, was born in Hampshire in 1506, and was admitted scholar of Corpus Christi college, Oxford, June 18, 1520. He then took the degree of bachelor of arts, and became probationer fellow Sept. 3, 1524; but was prevented taking the degree of master soon afterwards, on account of his inclination to the tenets of Luther. He then

1 Ath. Ox. vol. I.-Walker's Sufferings.-Gent. Mag. vol. LXXII.

obtained the mastership of Eton school, and, in the performance of his duty there, behaved, as Thomas Tusser the poet tells us, with great severity. He proceeded in arts in 1534, but in 1541 was near losing his place, being suspected of some concern in a robbery of plate belonging to the college, with two of his scholars. For this fact he was examined by the king's council, but we do not know the result of their inquiries. The charge probably was discovered to be ill-grounded, as he was at this time in possession of the living of Braintree in Essex, which he did not resign till 1544, and in 1552 was preferred to the rectory of Calbourne in the Isle of Wight. He afterwards was servant to queen Catherine Parr, and, in the beginning of Edward VI.'s time, was promoted to a canonry at Windsor. The time of his death is not known, unless by a manuscript note on a copy of Bale, in which that event is said to have taken place in 1557, and that he was buried at Westminster. In 1555 he had been appointed headmaster of Westminster-school, a circumstance not noticed by Wood. He is said to have written several comedies, and Bale mentions "The Tragedy of Popery." But none of these now exist. A specimen, however, of his abilities in this way, may be seen in a long quotation from a rhiming interlude by him, printed in Wilson's "Art of Logicke,' 1587, and reprinted in the new edition of Wood's Athenæ. His more useful works were, 1. "Flowers for Latin speaking, selected and gathered out of Terence, and the same translated into English," &c. often printed, particularly in 1533, 1538, 1568, and 1575. Both Leland and Newton wrote encomiastic verses on this book. 2. A translation of the " Apophthegms" of Erasmus, 1542 and 1564, 8vo. 3. "Epistolæ et carmina ad Gul. Hormannum et ad Joh. Lelandum." 4. A translation of Erasmus's "Paraphrase on the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles," 1551, fol. 5. A translation of Peter Martyr's "Treatise on the Sacrament." He also drew up "An answer to the sixteen articles of the Commons of Devonshire and Cornwall," a MS. in the royal collection.'

UDINE (GIOVANNA DA), an eminent artist, called Gio. DA NANNI, or RICAMATORI, as Vasari promiscuously calls him, was born in 1494, at Udine in the Friul, and passed from the school of Giorgione to that of Raphael Sanzio,

1 Ath. Ox. vol. I. new edit.-Tanner.-Bale.-Gent, Mag. vol. LXXX.

under whose direction he executed the greater part of the stuccoes and grotesque ornaments in the Logge and various apartments of the Vatican. In this branch of the art he is not only considered as the first, but as an inventor: for though under Alexander VI. Morto da Feltro had begun to paint in grotesque, he was not acquainted with stucco, which was first discovered in the baths of Titus, and successfully imitated by this artist. His bowers, plants, and foliage, his aviaries, mews, birds and fowls of every kind, impose on the eye by a truth of imitation less the result of labour than of sentiment: his touch is all character, and never deviates into the anxious detail of fac-similists. After the saccage of Rome he visited other parts of Italy, and left various specimens of his art at Florence, Genoa, and Udine. He died in 1564.'

UFFEMBACH, or UFFENBACH (ZACHARY CONRADE D'), a very learned German, was born at Frankfort Feb. 22, 1683, and was the son of a counsellor of that city, of an antient family. In 1694 he was sent for education to the college of Rudelstadt, where he applied with such ardour that his master was obliged to check him, and especially prevent his studying by night, to which he was much addicted. Besides the classics, which, young as he was, he always read with a pen in his hand, making such remarks or extracts as struck his fancy, he studied also the Hebrew language, and logic, and metaphysics, to which he soon added history, geography, chronology, &c. In 1698 he was obliged to return home to recover his health, which had probably been injured by intense application, and he for some time confined himself to lessons on history and geography from Arnold, then rector of the college of Frankfort. He was afterwards sent to the university of Strasburgh, where he studied the sciences, attended the anatomical lectures, &c. ; but his leading object was literary history and bibliography, in pursuit of which he passed much of his time in the public libraries. In 1700 he had the misfortune to lose both his parents, which obliged him to return to Frankfort. When his grief had in some degree subsided, he went to Halle, and continued his studies there about two years. In 1702 he took his degree of doctor of laws, and returned to Frankfort with a copious library, which he had collected in the course of his studies. He

1 Argenville, vol. I,-Bullart's Academie des Sciences. Pilkington by Fuseli.

then visited some of the most famous universities on the continent; but in 1704 settled at Frankfort, where the library he formed was then considered among the best in Europe. To make it still more complete appears to have been the object of his ambition, and he re-commenced his travels for that purpose in 1708 and 1709. In one of those years he was at Oxford, and had some inducement to settle there, but imagined that the climate would not agree with his health. When he returned to Frankfort from these tours in 1711, he brought an addition of four thousand books to his collection. In 1721 he was made a senator of his native city, but became now so diligent in his civic duties as to have little time to spare to his studies, which inclined him in 1729 to publish a catalogue of his library, with a view to dispose of a considerable part of it. He died Jan. 6, 1734, universally regretted. He had begun several learned works, which his employments as a magistrate, and afterwards his bad state of health, prevented his finishing; among these were, 1. "Glossarium Germanicum medii ævi." 2. A history of his life, in Latin. 3. "Selecta historiæ litterariæ et librariæ," in several volumes. These be bequeathed to John George Schelhorn, along with his literary correspondence in eighteen large quarto volumes. In 1736 John Christ, Wolff printed an account of two collections made by Uffembach, which he had just purchased; the first consisting of an immense quantity of letters, mostly originals, written by the eminent men of the two or three preceding centuries; the second comprized various curious MSS. on literary subjects. Schelhorn, in his "Amonitates litterariæ," has availed himself much of Uffembach's collections; and in vol. IX. has an article entitled "De primitiis typographicis, quæ Haerlemi in civica et Francoforti in bibliotheca Uffembachiana adservantur." And he afterwards published a Life of Uffembach, prefixed to his "Commercii Epistolaris Uffembachiani Selecta, &c." 5 vols. 1753-1756, 8vo.1

UGHELLI (FERDINAND), an ecclesiastical historian, was born March 21, 1595, at Florence, of a good family. After pursuing his studies with great credit, he entered among the Cistertians, and held several honourable posts in his order. He was appointed abbot of Trois Fontaines at Rome, procurator in his province, and counsellor to the

1 Chaufepie.-Saxii Onomast,

congregation of the Index. The popes Alexander VII. and Clement IX. esteemed Ughelli, and gave him a pension of 500 crowns; but he refused several bishoprics that were offered. He died at Rome, in his abbey, May 19, 1670, aged seventy-five. His principal work is, "Italia sacra, sive de Episcopis Italiæ, et Insularum adjacentium," &c. Rome, 1642-1662, 9 vols. folio. This work, which is esteemed of good authority, was reprinted at Venice, 17171722, 10 vols. with considerable additions; but this second edition is very incorrectly printed. A third, which is said to be free from this objection, and is very much enlarged, was published at Florence, 1763, &c. by the abbé del Riccio. Ughelli's other works are the Lives of the cardinals of the Cistertian order, and some genealogical familyhistories.'

ULLOA (DON ANTONIO), a celebrated Spanish mathematician, and a commander of the order of St. Jago, was born at Seville Jan. 12, 1716. He was brought up in the service of the royal marines, in which he at length obtained the rank of lieutenant-general. In 1735 he was appointed, with Don George Juan, to sail to South America, and accompany the French academicians who were going to Peru to measure a degree of the meridian. On his return home

in 1745, in a French ship, he was taken by two English vessels, and after being detained some time at Louisbourg in Cape Breton, was brought to England, where his talents recommended him to Martin Folkes, president of the Royal Society, and he was the same year elected a member of that learned body. On his return to Madrid he published his "Voyage to South America," which was afterwards translated into German and French. There is also an English translation, in two vols. 8vo, 1758, but miserably garbled and inaccurate. In 1755 he made a second voyage to America, where he collected materials for another work, which however did not appear until 1772, under the title of "Entretenimientos Physico-historicos." He travelled afterwards over a considerable part of Europe to collect information respecting such improvements in arts and manufactures as might be serviceable to Spain, and was the means of introducing many which had not before been known in Spain, or very imperfectly carried on. He died on July 5, 1795. There are a few of his papers in the "Philosophical Transactions." "

! Moreri.-Niceron, vol. XLI.-Tiraboschi.

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