was also tutor and chaplain to his two daughters, Mary and Anne, who afterward sat upon the throne of Great Britain. Mr. Wood informs us, that he was prebendary and archdeacon of Exeter, and rector of the united parishes of St. Mary Hill and St. Andrew Hubbard, in London. He was a man of uncommon piety and charity, and a celebrated preacher. He died the 1st of February, 1703-4, and lies buried in the collegiate church of St. Catharine, near the Tower, where a monument is erected to his memory. Le Neve, by mistake, says that he was buried in the church of St. Mary Hill.*

MARCUS FRANCK, S. T. P. &c. W. Dolle sc. small h. sh.

Mark Franck, master of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and arch-` deacon of St. Alban's, was author of fifty sermons, published in folio, 1672, with his print prefixed. His character and preferments, except his rectory of Barley, in Hertfordshire, to which he was admitted on the 2d of February, 1663, are mentioned in the following inscription, which was formerly on his monument, near the entrance of the north door of St. Paul's, but perished soon after its erection, together with the church, in the conflagration of the city.

Hoc marmore tumulatur,
Doctrina, pietas, charitas,

Quippe monumentum illius Marci Franck,
S. T. D.

Archiepiscopo Cantuarensi a sacris,

Sancti Albani archidiaconi; hujus ecclesiæ thesaurarii
et prebendarii,
Cujus

Virtutem, humilitatem, eloquentiam,

in singulis sagacitatem,

Dictis metiri non liceat; dicat posteritas.

ISAAC CASAUBON. Vander Werff. P. v. Gunst. Prefixed to his and his son's" Epistolæ," fol.

* See Le Neve's " Fasti," p. 93.

Isaac Casaubon, born at Geneva 1559, was invited by James I. into England upon the death of Henry IV. of France. James, justly esteeming him as a man of the first rank in the learned world, made him his librarian, and afterward promoted him to a prebend of Canterbury, and likewise granted him a pension of 300l. per annum. He died the 1st of July, 1614, in the 55th year of his age; and was buried in Westminster Abbey; where a tomb was erected to his memory, by Thomas Morton, bishop of Durham.*

MERICUS CASAUBONUS. Is. F. (Isaaci Filius) p. Vr. Werff p. Van Gunst sc. h. sh. In the large volume of his father's and his own works; Roterodami, 1709.†

MERIC CASAUBON. R. Schothii; 8vo.

Meric, the learned son of the most learned Isaac Casaubon, was born at Geneva in 1599, and brought into England by his father when he was about eleven years of age. He received his education at Christ Church, in Oxford, under Dr. Edward à Meetkirk, the king's Hebrew professor. Whilst he was a student of that house, he acquired a great reputation at home and abroad for a "Vindication of his Father against an Impostor of the Church of Rome," who published under his name a book on the origin of idolatry. He also published, by command of King James, another vindication of him against the Puritans of that age. These two pieces, which are in Latin, were the foundation of his fame. He intended to pursue his father's great work against Baronius's "Annals," but was prevented by the distractions of the civil war, which interrupted the course of his studies. Cromwell made him large offers on condition of his writing the history of that turbulent period, which he thought proper to decline. He also declined the advantageous overtures made him by Christina, queen of Sweden, who, with a view to the advancement of learning, was desirous of his settling in that country. He was successively rector of Bledon, in Somersetshire, and Ickham, in Kent, and is entitled to a place

* See his epitaph, composed by Dr. Thomas Goad, rector of Hadley, in Suffolk, in the " Antiquities of Westminster Abbey."-See Barwick's "Life of Bishop Morton," p. 73.

+ See Batteley's "Cant. Sacra," p. 127. See also Wood.

1671.

Installed among the dignitaries of our church as a prebendary of Canterbury. His works in divinity and philology, particularly his "Notes on Classic Authors," bear a sufficient testimony to his learning and abilities; but the honour of the latter is believed to be in some measure owing to his father, as it is more than probable that he availed himself of his papers. What he has written concerning apparitions and spirits, and particularly his account of Dee and Kelly, deserves the notice of the curious reader, who may see a detail of his works in the "Athenæ Oxonienses." He died in July, 1671.

Installed

1685.

BENJAMIN CALAMY, S. T. P. Drapentier sc. h. sh. There is a large half-sheet print of Calamy, with the name of Henry Finch, dean of York, affixed.

BENJAMIN CALAMY, D. D. I. V. P. E. D. C. f. et exc. 4to. mezz.

BENJAMIN CALAMY, S. T. P. M. Vandergucht sc. 8vo. Before his volume of "Sermons."

Benjamin Calamy, chaplain in ordinary to the king, and prebenJune 18, dary of St. Paul's, was son of the famous Edmund Calamy, formerly mentioned, by a second wife. In 1677, he succeeded Dr. Simon Ford as minister of St. Mary Aldermanbury, in London, of which church his father was formerly minister. In 1683, he was preferred to the vicarage of St. Laurence Jewry, with St. Mary Magdalen, Milk-street, annexed. Though he was of a nonconforming family, he was a true son of the church of England, and one of her most distinguished ornaments. He was courteous and affable in his behaviour, exemplary in his life, and one of the best preachers and writers of his time. He has left us but few sermons; but these few are an abundant proof that he possessed that strength and clearness of head, as well as goodness and sensibility of heart, which are essential to the character of a Christian orator. He died, to the regret of all that knew him, in January, 1686.

EDWARD POCOCKE, D. D. &c. W. Green del. F. Morellon la Cave sc. h. sh.-Engraved from his portrait in the picture gallery at Oxford.

EDWARD POCOCKE, &c. in the "Oxford Almanack,”

1749, 1758.

Dr. Edward Pococke, canon of Christ Church, in Oxford, and Restored to his canonry rector of Childrey, in Berkshire, in the reigns of Charles I. and II. 27 July, was the greatest orientalist of his age. He acquired an early repu- 1660. tation at home and abroad, by publishing the four epistles which were wanting to a complete edition of the New Testament in the Syriac language.* He made two voyages into the East, where he attained to a perfect knowledge of the Arabic tongue, which he spoke with fluency and propriety. He collected a considerable number of coins and manuscripts for Archbishop Laud, and returned to England from his second voyage in 1640,

Spoliis Orientis onustus.

He was the first that read the Arabic lecture founded by his patron the archbishop: he was also professor of Hebrew: and discharged the duties of both these employments with great punctuality and sufficiency. He was ejected from his canonry of Christ Church for not taking the Engagement; and was succeeded by Peter French, brother-in-law to Cromwell. He was very near being ejected from his living of Childrey for "ignorance and insufficiency;" but Dr. Owen, the learned independent, interested himself in his behalf, and prevented his ejectment. He translated several books out of the Arabic, and Grotius "Of the Truth of the Christian Religion," into that language. He was not only a master of Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, Greek, and Latin, but was also well acquainted with the Persic, Samaritan, Ethiopic, Coptic, and Turkish languages: he understood the Italian, and was not ignorant of the Spanish. Ob. 10 Sept. 1691, Æt. 87. His Commentaries on Micah, Malachi, Hosea, and Joel, together with his " Porta Mosis," were published in two volumes folio, in 1740, by Mr. Leonard Twells, with the head and life of the author prefixed.

These epistles were the second of Peter, the second and third of John, and that of Jude.

↑ When Pococke was in the East, the mufti of Aleppo laid his hand upon his head, and said, "This young man speaks and understands Arabic as well as the mufti of Aleppo."

Samuel Clarke, a native of Brackley, in Northamptonshire, and some time of Merton College, in Oxford, was contemporary with Pococke, and in the next eminence to him for oriental learning. He was the first architypographus of the university, to which was annexed the office of superior beadle of law. He held both

RICHARDUS ALLESTRY, S. S. T. professor reg. Oxon. ædis Christi canonicus, coll. Etonensis præpositus reg. majestati a sacris. Loggan ad vivum delin. h.sh.

RICHARD ALLESTRY, D. D. in the same print with his two friends, Bishop Dolben and Bishop Fell. The original picture was painted by Lely.

It is remarkable that this worthy triumvirate bore arms for Charles I. in the civil war.

Doctor Allestry was educated in the grammar-school at Coventry, under Dr. Philemon Holland the translator, and afterward at Christ Church, in Oxford, under Mr. Richard Busby, who was then an eminent tutor. His parts, which were very extraordinary, were improved by a no less extraordinary industry. He had been seen, when he bore arms for Charles I. to carry his musket in one hand, and his book in the other. He was very active in the service of Charles II. before his restoration; and was employed more than once by the royalists in transacting business with that prince during his exile. In 1660, he was made a canon of Christ Church, and chaplain in ordinary to the king; and was, soon after, appointed regius professor of divinity. He sat in the chair seventeen years, and acquitted himself in it with honour. In 1665, he was appointed provost of Eton College, where he raised the school, which he found in a low condition, to an uncommon pitch of reputation. The west side of the outward quadrangle of that college was built from the ground at his expense. The excellent Dr. Hammond, who was his intimate friend, left him his valuable library, which he bequeathed himself to his successors in the divinity chair. His eagerness for study, and his intention of mind while he was employed in it, was so great, that it impaired his constitution, and hastened his death. He died Jan. 27, 1680-1. Forty of his sermons, to which his head is prefixed, were published by Bishop Fell. His Life, before his Sermons, contain some particulars well worth the reader's notice.

these employments upwards of ten years, and was possessed of them till the time of his death, which happened on the 27th of December, 1669. His portrait is in the gallery at Oxford. See particulars in "Athen. Oxon." vol. ii. col. 456, &c.