Robert Abbot

, Master of Balliol college, was consecrated B. of Salisbury on the third of Decemb. 1615. to the great joy of all Scholars, especially such who knew the learning and piety of the man. He concluded his last day in the latter end of sixteen hundred and seventeen;1617-18. under which year you may see more of him among the writers. In the said See of Salisbury succeeded Dr. Martin Fotherby Son of Maurice Fotherby, of the ancient and gentile Family of his name living at Grimsby in Lincolnshire; which Martin having been bred Fellow of Trin. coll. in Cambridge, was, after he had been Prebendary of Canterbury 22 years, consecrated at Lambeth on the 18. Apr. 1618. He surrendred up his last breath on the eleventh day of March, an. 1619. and was buried in Allsaints Church in Lombardstreet within the City of London. Soon after was a very fair monument erected over his grave, with a large inscription thereon, but destroyed by the great Fire that hapned in London in the beginning of Sept. 1666. He hath extant at least 4 Sermons; besides his Atheomastix, which being put into the press before his death, was not published till 1622. fol. After him succeeded in the said See Dr. Robert Tounson, or Tonson, Dean of Westminster, sometimes Fellow of Queens coll. in Cambridge, who was consecrated thereunto on the 9. July 1620. See more in the Fasti, among the incorporations under the year 1599.