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and applied himself to physic. He took a doctor's degree in that
faculty, in which he rose to such eminence, that he was, in the time
of the usurpation, appointed physician to the state. Upon the
restoration, he quitted his profession of physic, was elected a fellow
of the Royal Society, and president of his college: and having
entered into holy orders, he was made chaplain to the king, and
afterward dean of Wells. His learning and talents were various :
he was the orator and the poet, the philosopher and the divine.
He possessed an inexhaustible fund of wit, and was the facetious
companion at eighty years of age.
Ridicule was the weapon that
he made use of to correct the delinquents of his college; and he
was so absolute a master of it, that he had it always at hand.*
His poetical pieces in the "Muse Anglicana" are excellent in
their kind: they are much in the spirit of Ovid, who was his
favourite poet. His "Diatriba Theologica," in manuscript, which
he began at twenty-three years of age, are much commended by
Mr. Warton. He died greatly lamented by all that knew his
worth, and particularly by the society over which he presided, the
14th of June, 1704, in the 84th year of his age.

GEORGIUS STRADLING, S. T. P. decanus Cicestriensis, prebendarius Westmon. R. White sc. Before his "Sermons," published after his death, 1692; 8vo.

George Stradling was educated at Jesus College, in Oxford, Installed whence he was elected a fellow of All-Souls. He continued in the 1672. university during the interregnum, and was then much esteemed by Dr. Wilson, the music professor, for his extraordinary skill on the lute. He was, upon the restoration, made chaplain to Dr. Sheldon, bishop of London; and, about two years after, preferred to a prebend of Westminster. In 1671, he was installed chantor

Mr. Warton tells us that he took a whip with him "when he went out to surprise the scholars walking in the grove at unseasonable hours ;" but that he never made use of that illiberal weapon.-The following anecdote of him was told me by a gentleman of character: A milch ass, which was kept near his college for an invalid, who was a member of it, happened to stray into the belfry, and entangling himself in one of the bell-ropes, made an unusual jangling. Dr. Bathurst sent to inquire what was the meaning of it, and was told that it was occasioned by the ass. "I thought,” said he, with his usual quickness, “ that it was an ass or a gentleman commoner." This was humour as it came from Dr. Bathurst; but it was that kind of humour which by every repercussion loses something of its original force.

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of Chichester, and the next year dean of that church. There is a short account of him before his "Sermons," by James Harrington, esq. who gives him the character of a man of learning and exemplary life. Ob. 19 April, 1688. He lies buried in Westminster Abbey.

R. LOVE, D. D. dean of Ely, master of C. C. C. C. etched by Mr. Michael Tyson, 4to. The original is in the master's lodge.

Richard Love, a native of Cambridge, was educated at Clare Hall, of which he was some time fellow. In 1632, upon the death of Dr. Butts, he was, by royal mandate, admitted master of Corpus Christi College, in Cambridge, and, the next year, chosen vicechancellor of the university. He greatly endeared himself to that learned body, by the signal victory which he gained over Davenport, at the commencement; and afterward acquitted himself with uncommon sufficiency in the course of his office, as Lady Margaret's professor of divinity. He was a man of good natural, as well as acquired, abilities; and no mean orator. His "moderation was known unto all men;" as by his acquiescence in, rather than his compliance with, the changes of the times, during the civil war and the usurpation of Cromwell, he, with singular prudence, but without prostituting his principles, not only maintained the mastership of his college when the majority of the heads of houses were ejected, but so recommended himself to Charles II. that he, soon after the Installed restoration, was promoted to the deanery of Ely. He published, Sept. 28, about the same time, two Latin Orations; one, upon the king's return, spoken at the commencement, in 1660; the other addressed to his majesty in person, at Canterbury, when he, as substitute to the vice-chancellor, went to meet him on his way to London. He enjoyed his preferment but a few months, as he deceased in January the next year.t

1660.

JOANNES SPENCER, S. T. P. decanus Eliensis,

* His assumed, or religious, name, by which he commonly went, was Franciscus a Sancta Clara. He had lately published a book, at Douay, in which he attempted to reconcile the articles of the church of England with the decrees of the council of Trent.

+ See a particular account of him in Masters's "History of C. C. C. C."

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et Collegii Corporis Christi apud Cantabrigiensis custos. Vertue sc. 1727; h. sh.

This very learned author was, for his singular merit, elected Installed 19 Sept. master of Corpus Christi College, in Cambridge, in 1667; and was 1677. afterward preferred to the deanery of Ely. He published a " Discourse upon Prodigies," together with another concerning Prophecies, Lond. 1665; 8vo. His "Dissertatio de Urim et Thummim," &c. was printed at Cambridge, in 8vo. 1678. But his capital work is his book "De Legibus Hebræorum," the best edition of which was published by Mr. Chappelow, in two volumes folio, 1727, to which is prefixed his head, engraved at the expense of the society of Corpus Christi College. Ob. 27 May, 1695, Et. 63.

GULIELMUS HOLDER, S. T. P. &c. Societatis Regia Londini socius, 1683. D. Loggan ad vivum del. h.sh.

WILLIAM HOLDER; in Hawkins's "History of Music." C. Grignion.

Dr. William Holder was educated at Pembroke Hall, in the university of Cambridge. About the year 1642, he was presented to the rectory of Blechingdon, in Oxfordshire. After the restoration, he became canon of Ely, canon-residentiary of St. Paul's, and subdean of the chapel royal. He was a man of a truly philosophic genius, of which he has given abundant proof in his "Elements of Speech, an Essay of Enquiry into the natural Production of Letters; with an Appendix concerning Persons that are deaf and dumb." His "Treatise on the natural Grounds and Principles of Harmony," is allowed to be as rational a discourse on that subject as was ever published. He exactly knew the powers of the organs of speech, and composed a Natural Alphabet adapted to those powers. This would be a much more eligible alphabet for the Chinese, who have not yet adopted any, than that which is now in use. It was much controverted, whether the glory of first teaching deaf and dumb persons to speak, and understand a language, was due to him or Dr. Wallis. The true theory of the art appears to have been published by the latter, in his book "De Loquela," which came forth about six years before Mr. Popham was taught to speak by

is said to have

Ob.

Dr. Holder.* Peter de Cestro, physician to the Duke of Mantua,
been the first that hit upon this discovery.
24. Jan. 1697. He lies buried with his wife, who was only sister
to Sir Christopher Wren, in the vault under St. Paul's cathedral.
See more of him in "Athen. Oxon." II. col. 139.

JOHANNES CONANT, S. T. P. black cap, &c. 8vo.

Dr. John Conant was, in the time of the interregnum, rector of Exeter College, in Oxford; where he maintained a strict discipline, and caused that society to flourish more than any other in the university. In 1654, he was appointed king's professor of divinity, in the room of Dr. Sanderson; but was obliged to resign the chair to him upon the restoration. In 1662, he was ejected from his rectory of Exeter College for nonconformity; but afterward conforming, he became vicar of All-Saints, at Northampton, and was by Bishop Reynolds, whose daughter he had formerly married, made archarchdeacon, deacon of Norwich. He was a few years after preferred to a prebend of Worcester. He was a man of a modest and amiable character; of exemplary piety; and was, in other respects, well qualified for the preferments which he enjoyed. He particularly excelled as a preacher. Several volumes of his Sermons were published by Bishop Williams. Ob. March, 1693.

Installed

8 June,

1676.

Installed

12 Jan. 1678-9.

THOMAS HYDE, archdeacon of Glocester; a bust. Cipriani del. F. Perry sc. Before the collection of his works published by Dr. Gregory Sharpe, Oxon. 1767.

Doctor Thomas Hyde is a great character, but is much less known than he deserves to be, because the studies in which he was occupied are but little cultivated. Those that are acquainted with the oriental languages are astonished at the progress which was made in them by one man, though aided by the powers of genius, supported and strengthened by incessant industry. Before he was eighteen years of age, he was sent from Cambridge to London by

Vide" Athen. Oxon." ii. col. 139, and Wallis's "Memoirs and Sermons,"

8vo. 1791.

+ See the "Universal Magazine" for Jan. 1762, p. 15, et seq.-It is obvious to observe here, that the first rudiments of a newly-discovered art are generally so imperfect, that the improver of it not only receives his own share of honour, but even that which was due to the first inventor.

the celebrated Abraham Wheelock, to assist Mr. Brian Walton in the great work of the Polyglot Bible; and, about that period, undertook to transcribe the Persian Pentateuch out of the Hebrew characters, which Archbishop Usher, who well knew the difficulty of the undertaking, pronounced to be an impossible task to a native Persian. After he had happily succeeded in this, he assisted in correcting several parts of Mr. Walton's work, for which he was perfectly qualified. Of all his learned writings, the very catalogue of which is a singular curiosity, his "Religio veterum Persarum" is the most celebrated. This will ever be a valuable book. Dr. Gregory Sharpe, the learned and ingenious master of the Temple, has collected several of his pieces, formerly printed, and republished them, with some additional Dissertations and his Life prefixed, in two elegant volumes in quarto. Dr. Hyde was archdeacon of Gloucester, canon of Christ Church, head keeper of the Bodleian library, and professor both of Hebrew and Arabic in the university of Oxford. He was interpreter and secretary of the oriental languages during the reigns of Charles II. James II. and William III. He was perfectly qualified to fill this post, as he could converse in the languages which he understood. There never was an Englishman, in his situation of life, who made so great a progress in the Chinese. Bochart, Pococke, and Hyde, are allowed to have been the greatest orientalists that any nation ever produced. Ob. Feb. 18, 1702. I am informed by a good hand,† that his mind had been so much engrossed by his beloved studies, that he was but ill qualified to appear to any advantage in common conversation.

EDVARDUS LAKE, S. T. P. M. Vander Gucht sc. 8vo.

EDWARD LAKE, &c. G. Vander Gucht sc. Before his " Officium Eucharisticum," 12mo. copied from the former. It is uncertain when the picture was done from which his head was engraved.

Edward Lake, who had been a member of both universities, but took his degrees at Cambridge, was chaplain to James, duke of York; and as we learn from the inscription on his monument, he

* See it in the " Athen. Oxon.” or the “Biographia.”

The Reverend Mr. Merrick, of Reading, whose father knew him well.

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