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ANDRE LORTIE, ci-devant ministre de l'Eglise reformé de la Rochelle, et a present a Londre. Van Somer f. 1681, h. sh. mezz.

He is placed here as D. D.

Andrew Lortie, S. T. P. occurs in Newcourt's" Repertory," vol. ii. p. 459, as rector of Packlesham, in Essex. He became so May 7, 1683, and was the same year incorporated D. D. of Cambridge, by royal mandate. He appears to have been presented to this benefice by Dr. Compton, then bishop of London, who, as Burnet informs us,* " was a great patron of the converts from popery, and of those Protestants, whom the bad usage they were beginning to meet with in France drove over to us." Dr. Lortie was certainly living in the year 1700. A person of both his names is mentioned in Letsome's "Historical Register," as the author of a volume of sermons, 1720, 8vo. He is there called, "late rector of Barton, Nottinghamshire, and was probably a son of the former.

TITUS OATES, D. D. appeared at the head of that cloud of witnesses which helped to obscure the reign of Charles II. As he has no right to occupy this class, I have placed him with the rest of his fraternity in the twelfth. His name is a perfect contrast to the next.

JOHN RAWLET, B. D. died Sept. 28, 1686, Et. 44; 8vo.

John Rawlet, a man distinguished by his many and great virtues, and his excellent preaching, was many years lecturer at Newcastleupon-Tyne. His sermons were plain, convincing, and persuasive; perfectly adapted to the lowest, and approved by the highest, capacities. He thoroughly understood the nature of a popular discourse, of which he has left us a specimen in his "Christian Monitor;" which has fully answered the purposes for which it was intended, and has been oftener printed than any other tract of practical

* Vol. i. p. 392, sub. ann. 1676.

divinity. This is a very proper book for the clergy to distribute among their parishioners. The pious author, who was himself the good Christian that he taught others to be, laboured for the sake of doing good. He was offered the living of Coleshill, in Warwickshire, worth 4007. a year; but refused it, as he thought he could be more useful at Newcastle. As he declined the acceptance, Lord Digby desired him to nominate some other person; upon which he recommended Mr. Kettlewell, on whom it was conferred. Mr. Rawlet was author of several other pieces, all of which have a tendency to promote practical religion.†

GULIELMUS WALKER, S. T. B. scholæ publicæ quondam Ludensis, nunc Granthamiensis, magister, Et. 59. Before his English Examples," 8vo.

William Walker, who was one of the most able schoolmasters of his time, was successively master of the schools of Lowth and Grantham, in Lincolnshire. He wrote several books on grammar, phraseology, rhetoric, and logic; and also, "A modest Plea for Infant Baptism." But the book which gained him most reputation, and which has been oftener printed than any of his works, except his "English Examples," was his "Treatise of English Particles," a judicious performance, and much wanted: it is dedicated to Dr. Busby. He is said to have had the honour of instructing Sir Isaac Newton, who was born at Woolstrope, a hamlet belonging to Colsterworth, a few miles from Grantham. Of this parish Mr. Walker

* The late ingenious and learned Mr. James Merrick, a well known clergyman of Reading, who was indefatigable in his endeavours to promote literature, charity, and piety, has distributed near 10,000 copies of this excellent tract chiefly among the soldiers, many of whom he has brought to a sense of religion.-Though I cherish and reverence the memory, I shall not here attempt the character of this worthy person; so worthy, so excellent, that it is, indeed, far beyond my power to do justice to it.

+ In Dr. James Stonehouse's " Friendly Letter to a Patient just admitted into I cannot here forbear mentioning an Infirmary," p. 25. edit. 6, are these words: " to persons of tolerable circumstances (if this letter should come into such hands), Rawlet's Treatise on Sacramental Covenanting,' which has passed through eight editions, and is, in my opinion, a lively and judicious book, in which there is a happy mixture of the instructive and pathetic."

This is contradicted in the "Gentleman's Magazine," for Nov. 1772, p. 522.
Popularly called Coltsworth.

was rector, and he lies buried in his own church with the following inscription on his tomb, which alludes to his capital work:

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He had a son who was vicar of Sunning, in Berkshire.

EDWARDUS BOYS, S. T. B. Et. 66. W. Faithorne sc. Before his Sermons.

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Edward Boys, who received the former part of his education at Eton school, was afterward successively a scholar and fellow of Corpus Christi College, in Cambridge. In 1634, he was appointed one of the university preachers; and, in 1640, was, by William Paston, esq. presented to the rectory of Mautby, in Norfolk. Mr. Masters, to whom I am indebted for this account of him, apprehends" that he was chaplain to Charles I. He certainly deserved that distinction, as he was a man of acknowledged merit, and a justly-admired preacher; and therefore much in favour with the bishop of Norwich. Roger Flynt, the editor of his sermons, with difficulty obtained leave of the dying author to communicate them to the public; but it was upon condition "that he should say nothing of him." From which he leaves the reader to judge how great a man he was, who made so little of himself. He hopes, however, that he may add, without breach of promise, "that when a man's genius is fitted for government; when his person is guarded with authority, and his deportment with gravity; when his courage is tempered with moderation, and his knowledge with discretion; when a priest and a gentleman meet in one person, the church must needs suffer a great loss, that such a one should expire in a country village consisting only of four farmers. But I must say no more than this, that he was nephew to Dr. Boys, that famous dean of Canterbury; and thou mayest judge by his writings; they were near of kin."

The Rev. RICHARD KINGSTON, M. A. and preacher of St. James's, Clerkenwell. Under the head,

which is engraved in the manner of Gaywood, are four Latin lines: "Umbra Viri facies," &c. 8vo. The print is prefixed to his " Pilula Pestilentales," a sermon preached at St. Paul's, in the midst of the late sore visitation, printed in 1665. The head is copied by Richardson.

Richard Kingston should be here mentioned with distinction and honour. In the midst of the dreadful pestilence, when "thousands fell on his right hand, and ten thousands on his left," he appeared to be under the peculiar care of Providence. At this time, as he informs us in the preface, he was occupied by day in visiting the sick, and by night in burying the dead; having no time for study but what he deducted from his natural rest.

JOHANNES GOAD, artis astro-meteorologicæ instaurator, Et. 62, 1677, &c. R. White sc. Before his posthumous work, entitled, “Astro-Meteorologia sana,' &c. 4to. 1690. This print is much like the author.

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John Goad, who was educated at St. John's College, in Oxford, was, near twenty years, chief master of Merchant Taylors' school, in London. In 1681, he was ejected from this employment, on account of some passages which savoured strongly of popery, in his "Comment on the Church Catechism," composed for the use of his scholars. After his ejectment, he taught school in Westminster. He was a man in general esteem for his probity and learning, and particularly for his abilities as a schoolmaster. He died Oct. 28, 1689, having, a few years before, declared himself a Roman Catholic.* He was author of several sermons, and one or two vocabularies, &c. but his great work, which employed him for a considerable part of his life, was his "Astro-Meteorologica; or Aphorisms and Discourses of the Bodies celestial, their Natures and Influences, discovered from the Variety of the Alterations of the Air, temperate or intemperate, as to Heat or Cold, Frost, Snow, Hail, Fog, Rain, Wind, Storm, Lightnings, Thunder, Blasting, Hurricane," &c. London, 1686, fol. This book gained the author a great reputation. The subject of it is a kind of astrology, founded,

It appears from Mr. Wood's account of him, that he only outwardly conformed to the church of England, from the year 1660.

for the most part, on reason and experiment, as will appear by comparing it with Mr. Boyle's "History of the Air," and Dr. Mead's book "De Imperio Solis et Lunæ."

JOHANNES NEWTON, Æt. 39, 1660; before "Mathematical Elements, by John Newton, M. A.” 1660; 4to.

John Newton, who was some time a commoner of Edmund Hall, in Oxford, was, soon after the restoration, created doctor of divinity, made chaplain to the king, and preferred to the rectory of Ross, in Herefordshire. He seems, by his works, to have run through the whole circle of sciences. There is in the "Athenæ Oxonienses," a catalogue of his books of arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry, astronomy, the seven liberal arts, cosmography, geography, logic, and rhetoric; down to ephemerides, almanacks, and instructions for children to read. Mr. Wood speaks of him as a learned man, but of a singular and capricious character. Ob. Jan. 1678-9.

EDMUNDUS ELISEUS, A. M. Coll. Bal. quondam Socius. He thus writes himself in the title-page to his "Miscellanea," 1662, 4to, before which is an anonymous print of him by Faithorne, in an octagon frame. Etatis suæ 28. An°. Do. 1662. With coat of arms.

EDMUND ELISEUS; in an octagon frame, &c. W. Richardson; 4to.

Edmund Elys,* son of a clergyman in Devonshire, was educated at Baliol College, in Oxford. In 1655, about the time when he took the degree of bachelor of arts, being then fellow of the college, he published a small volume of divine poems, and another in 1658. The same year he published "Miscellanea," in Latin and English verse, and several short essays in Latin prose. This book was reprinted in 1662. In the preface, and more particularly at p. 32, he speaks with great sensibility of some persons who had decried his performances, and aspersed his character on account of

* So written by Mr. Wood.

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