1749, with the life of the author prefixed. He died in 1699, in the 84th year of his age. He is, in his epitaph in the antichapel at Peter-house, styled, "Poeta, Orator, Theologus præstantissimus ; quovis nomine Hæreticorum Malleus, et Veritatis Vindex."

JOHANNES WALLIS, S. T. D. geometriæ professor Savilianus, Oxoniæ. Faithorne delin. et sc. 1688. Before his "Mechanica, sive de Motu," 1670; 4to.

JOHANNES WALLIS, S. T. P. geometriæ professor Savilianus, Oxon. reg. ma". a sacris, Regalis Societatis Lond. sodalis. Loggan ad vivum delin. 1678; h.sh. JOHN WALLIS, &c. Loggan. M. Burghers; fol. JOHN WALLIS, &c. Sonmans. Id. 1699; fol. JOHN WALLIS, &c. Cipriani. Basire, 1791. JOHN WALLIS, &c. Et. 85 (1700). Kneller. Faber. Dr. John Wallis was born at Ashford, in Kent, of which parish his father was minister. After learning a little arithmetic of his brother, he made his way in the mathematics by the force of a genius which seemed to be designed by nature for this branch of science, and that was equal to every thing to which it was applied. He was not content with treading in the footsteps of other mathematicians, but in several instances went beyond them; and is by Mr. Glanvill ranked with Vieta and Des Cartes, who are of the first class of discoverers in mathematical knowledge. He invented the method for measuring all kinds of curves, and was thought to have gone nearer than any other man towards squaring the circle, which he has demonstrated to be impossible. He greatly improved decimal arithmetic, and was the first that reduced a fraction, by a continued division, to an infinite series; which series was afterward employed by Lord Brouncker in squaring the hyperbola. He was the inventor of the modern art of deciphering,+ which he practised in the time of the civil war. The writers of the papers which he

Glanvill's "Plus Ultra," p. 31, & seq.

+ There is a discourse by Dr. Wallis on this art, printed in "An Essay on the Art of Deciphering;" Lond. 1737; 4to. This essay was written by the ingenious Mr. John Davys, formerly of Hart Hall, in Oxford, and afterward rector of Castle Ashby, in Northamptonshire.

undertook to explain, were astonished when they saw them deciphered; and fairly owned that there was great truth, if not infallibility, in his art. He was probably the first that invented a method of teaching deaf and dumb persons to speak, and to understand a language. He composed an English grammar, in which are many things entirely his own, and which shew at once the grammarian and the philosopher. Ob. 28 Oct. 1703, Et. 87. His works are in three volumes folio. A volume of his Sermons, 8vo. with some account of his life, was published in 1791, in which is an ingenious and interesting defence of the Trinity.

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HENRICUS MORUS, Cantabrigiensis, S. S. T. D. A. Et. 61, &c.

“O chara anima, quando una eris et nuda et simplex !" M. Antoninus, Med. lib. X. He is represented sitting under a large tree. W. Faithorne del. et sc. Before his Opera Theologica," 1675; fol.

HENRICUS MORUS, &c. D. Loggan ad vivum delin. h. sh.

We are informed by the author of his " Life," that this head is much like him; and that Faithorne, though his print is finely executed, has not hit his features.

HENRY MORE, &c. D. Loggan delin. M. Vander Gucht sc. 8vo. copied from the next above, and prefixed to his "Life," by Richard Ward, 1710.

Dr. Henry More, who was by many esteemed one of the greatest divines and philosophers,+ and was certainly one of the best men

* See "Philos. Transact." under the year 1670. Mr. Wood attributes this invention to Dr. Holder; which is, with good reason, contradicted by Mr. Warton, in his "Life of Dr. Bathurst," p. 157. See the article of Dr. Holder in this class.

+ Mr. Hobbes, who was one of his admirers, said, that" if his own philosophy was not true, he knew none that he should sooner like than More's of Cambridge." It is more natural for the human mind to fly from one extreme to the other than it is commonly imagined. Hobbes, in the instance before us, if he had not been attached to his own philosophy, would have chosen that which is just the contrary. So Alexander declared, "That if he were not Alexander, he would wish to be Diogenes;" having probably been taught by his master Aristotle, that contraction of desire may produce happiness, as well as amplitude of possession.

of his time, had a good deal of natural enthusiasm. He was fired or rather enraptured, with the Platonic philosophy; and his writings shew how happy a visionary the author was. Mr. John Norris, his friend, and a man of similar but superior character, styles him, "The intellectual Epicure." His works, which were formerly much read, have been long neglected. Sir Samuel Garth condemns them in the lump: speaking of Dr. Tyson's library, he says,

"And hither rescued from the grocer's come,

More's works entire, and endless reams of Blome."

He would at least have excepted his excellent "System of Ethics," if he had been acquainted with the book. This is commended by Mr. Addison, in No. 86 of the "Spectator."+ Ob. 1 Sept. 1687, Et. 73. Vide JOHANNES COCKSHUIT, Class VIII.

EDVARDUS SPARKE, S. T. D. 1662. A. Hertochs f. 8vo.

EDVARDUS SPARKE, S. T. D. regi a sacris, 1666, 8vo. White sc. Before his "Scintilla Altaris."

Dr. Edward Sparke, who was educated in the university of Cambridge, was, in the reign of Charles I. minister of St. Martin's church, in Ironmonger-lane, London; from which he was ejected in the civil war, and plundered of his goods. In 1660, he was restored to his benefice, and made chaplain to Charles II. In 1665, he succeeded Mr. William Bedwell in the vicarage of Tottenham High-cross, in Middlesex. He published a sermon preached at the funeral of Henry Chitting, esq. Chester-herald; a book of devotions; and "Scintilla Altaris, or a pious Reflection on primitive Devotion, as to the Feasts and Fasts of the Christian Church orthodoxly revived." This book has been several times printed.

SAMUEL DRAKE, D. D. Birrell sc. 4to.

Dr. Drake was fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge; and on account of his father's loyalty to Charles I. and his bravery in the sieges of Pontefract and Newark Castles, was created by royal mandate D. D. He had also a prebend in the cathedral church of York, and in the collegiate of Southwell. He died in 1673.

"Dispensary," canto iv.

+ The book is in Latin, and has been often printed at home and abroad.

RICHARD SHERLOCK, D. D. rector of Winwick. M. Vandergucht sc.

The print is prefixed to his "Practical Christian," the 6th edition of which was published in 8vo. 1713.

Richard Sherlock, a native of Oxton, in Werral, in the county of Chester, received part of his education at Magdalen Hall, in Oxford, whence he removed to Trinity College, near Dublin. He was some time a minister of several small parishes in Ireland; but, upon the commencement of the civil war, he came into England, and was chaplain to one of the king's regiments at Nantwich, in Cheshire. He was afterward curate to Dr. Jasper Mayne, of Christ Church, at Cassington, an obscure village near Woodstock. About the year 1652, he was retained as chaplain to Sir Robert Bindlosse, of Berwick Hall, in Lancashire, where he was much troubled with the Quakers, against whom he wrote several polemical pieces, a species of divinity that ill suited his disposition, as practical Christianity was his delight. Upon the restoration, he became doctor of divinity in the university of Dublin; and was, by the favour of his patron, James, earl of Derby, preferred to the rich benefice of Winwick.† He was afterward the same pious and humble man that he was before, and seemed to have only this advantage from his preferment, the constant exertion of that charity towards the poor and distressed, which was before a strong, but latent principle in his heart. His chief work is his " Practical Christian.” He caused this inscription to be engraved on brass, and fixed on a flat stone laid over his grave: "Exuviæ Richardi Sherlock, S. T. D. indignissimi hujus ecclesiæ rectoris. obiit 20. die Junii, Anno Etatis 76, Anno Dom. 1689.-Şal infatuum conculcate."-To which a person, who knew his merit, added these words: "En viri sanctissimi modestia! qui epitaphium se indignum inscribi volebat, cum vita et merita ejus laudes omnes longe superarent."

His " Life," prefixed to the 6th edition of his "Practical Christian," was written by his nephew Dr. Thomas Wilson, the primitive bishop of Sodor and Man, who resembled him in several circumstances of his character.

This place has reason to bless his memory for the useful charity which he has there established.

In the county of Lancaster. It is esteemed the richest living in England, and has been valued at 1400l. per annum.

It is also printed in the "Memorials and Characters," published by Wilford, p. 642.

GULIELMUS FALKNER, S. S. T. P. J. Sturt sc. 4to. Before his works.

William Falkner, who was one of the town-preachers at Lynn Regis, in Norfolk, was author of several pieces of divinity, printed in one volume in quarto, 1684. His "Libertas Ecclesiastica," written in English, and published in 8vo. 1674, is a book of merit. Mr. Wood, in his "Fasti," under the year 1671, mentions William Falconer, M. A. of Aberdeen, who was then incorporated into the university of Oxford, and was one of the first Scotch exhibitioners at Baliol College; but he was not at that time an author. Quære if the same person.

HENRY HIBBERT, D. D. D. Loggan f. h. sh.

This print is anonymous. Under the head is an epigram of six lines, which contain nothing but the old hackneyed turn of thought, which is so often seen under portraits; intimating that the pencil or the graver can express only the outside of an author, and that his mind is exhibited in his book. The print is distinguished by the word Burin, which is in larger letter than the rest.

Henry Hibbert, who received his education at Brazen-nose College, in Oxford, was successively minister of All-hallows the Less, and of St. Olave in the Old Jewry, London. He was author of sermons, and other theological discourses: but his chief work is "Syntagma Theologicum, or a Treatise wherein is concisely comprehended the Body of Divinity, and the Fundamentals of Religion orderly discussed," &c. 1662, to which is prefixed his portrait. Mr. Wood informs us that he was accounted a Presbyterian, but he was not ejected from St. Olave's, in 1662. Ob. 18 Dec. 1678.

DR. ADAM SAMUEL HARTMAN; oval; clerical habit.

I never saw this print but in the Pepysian collection.

DR. ADAM SAMUEL HARTMAN. Harding sc.

Mr. Wood informs us, that "Adam Samuel Hartman, D. D. of the university of Frankfort upon the Oder, bishop of the reformed churches through Great Poland and Prussia," was incorporated doctor of divinity at Oxford in 1680.