John Ailmer

was born of gentile Parents, in Hampshire as it seems, educated in Wykehams School near Winchester, admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. after he had served two years of probation, an. 1652, took the degrees in the Civil Law, that of Doctor being compleated in 1663, being then and before accounted an excellent Greecian and a good Greek and Lat. Poet, as it appears by this book, which he composed when a young man.

Musae sacrae: seu Jonas, Jeremiae threni, & Daniel Graeco redditi carmine. Oxon. 1652. oct. and also by divers Gr. and Lat. verses, dispersed in various books. He died at Petersfield, on Good Friday, Apr. 5. in sixteen hundred seventy and two,1672. and was buried in the Church at Havant in Hampshire, as I have been informed by the Letters of my sometimes friendly acquaintance Mr. Isaac Walton, dated at Farnham 26. May 1683.