, our author’s second son, was born probably in 1667 or 1663, and
, our author’s second son, was born probably in 1667 or 1663, and educated at Westminsterschool, from which he was elected to Oxford, but instead
of being matriculated of Christ-church, was placed by his
father, now become a Roman catholic, under the private
tuition of Obadiah Walker, master of University college,
a concealed papist. It is supposed that he went to Rome
about the end of 1692, and obtained some office under his
brother in the pope’s household. Previously to his leaving
England, he translated the fourteenth satire for his father’s
Juvenal, and while at Rome, wrote a comedy, “The Husband his own Cuckold,
” which was acted in London, and
published with a preface by his father. He made a tour
in Sicily and Malta, of which his account, after remaining
many years in manuscript, was published in 1776, in an
8vo pamphlet. Soon after his return to Rome from this
excursion, in 1701, he is said to have died there of a
fever.