CARY (Robert)

, a learned English chronologer and divine, was born at Cockington, in the county of Devon, about the year 1615. He took his degrees in arts, and LL.D. in Oxford. After returning from his travels he was presented to the rectory of Portlemouth, near Kingsbridge in Devonshire: but not long after he was drawn over by the presbyterian ministers to their party, and chosen moderator of that part of the second division of the county of Devon, which was ap- | pointed to meet at Kingsbridge. And yet, upon the restoration of Charles the 2d, he was one of the first to congratulate that prince upon his return, and soon after was preferred to the archdeaconry of Exeter; but from which he was however some time afterward ejected. He spent the rest of his days at his rectory at Portlemouth, and died in 1688, at 73 years of age.— He published Palælogia Chronica, a chronological account of ancient time, in three parts. 1, Didactical; 2, Apodidactical; 3, Canonical: in 1677.