, son of the preceding, but unworthy of him, was born in London in 1590, matriculated a
, son of the preceding, but unworthy of him, was born in London in 1590, matriculated
a member of Christ church, at the very early age of nine,
and took the degree of B. A. as a member of Jesus college
in 1603. After this he was translated to St. John’s college,
and thence elected probationer fellow of All Souls’ in 1607,
by his father’s influence, for he was then under the statutable years. In this college he took a degree in civil law,
but afterwards became extremely loose and dissipated, and
a disgrace to his parents. It is said, however, that he went
abroad, and returned a more sober character, and received
a pension from the king. At what time he died is uncertain, but probably not before 1654. His latter years he
employed in translating, 1. Paul Servita’s “History of the
Inquisition,
” Lond. On the
success and chief events of the monarchy of Spain,
” Considerations on the lives of Alcibiades and
Coriolanus,
” by the same author, A
compendious Method for attaining the Sciences, in a short
time, with the statutes of the academy founded by cardinal Richelieu,
” from the French, 1654, 8vo. 5. “The
antipathy between the French and the Spaniard,
” from the
Spanish,