Zacharie Bogan

Son of Will. Bogan Gent. was born at Little Hempston in Devonshire, became a Commoner of S. Alb. Hall in Mich. term under the tuition of Ralph Button a Puritannical Fellow of Mert. Coll. in the year 1640 and that of his age 15, admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. 26. of Nov. the year following, left the University when the City of Oxon was garrison’d for the King, return’d after the surrender thereof to the Parliament, took the degree of Bach. of Arts in Mich. term 1646, elected Prob. Fellow of the said Coll. in the year following, and afterwards proceeding in his faculty, became a retired and religious Student, and much noted in the University for his admirable skill in the Tongues. He hath written,

Additions to Franc. Rous his Archeologiae Atticae—Printed several times before 1674. in qu.

Of the threats and punishments recorded in Scripture, alphabetically composed with some brief observations on sundry texts. Oxon. 1653. oct. dedicated to his Father.

Meditations of the mirth of a Christian life. Oxon. 1653. oct. grounded on Psal. 32.11. and on Phil. 4.4. dedicated to his Mother Joan.

Comparatio Homeri cum scriptoribus sacris quoad Normam loquendi. Oxon. 1658. oct.

Help to prayer, both extempore, and by a set forme: as also to meditation, &c. Oxon. 1660. oct. published after the Authors death by Dan. Agas Fellow of C. C. Coll. He also wrot a large and learned Epistle to Edm. Dickinson M. A. of Mert. College, set before a book going under his name, entit. Delphi Phaenicizantes, &c. Oxon. 1655. oct. At length this our Author Bogan, who had contracted an ill habit of body by studying, surrendred up his pious Soul to God on the first day of Septemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and nine;1659. whereupon his body was committed to the Earth about the middle of the north cloister belonging to the Coll. of Corp. Christi, joyning to the S side of the Chappel there. At that time, and before, the Nation being very unsetled, and the Universities expecting nothing but ruin and dissolution, it pleased Mr. Bogan to give by his will to the City of Oxon 500 l. whereas had the nation been otherwise, he would have given that money to his College. His picture drawn to the life hangs in the Council Chamber joyning to the Guild-hall of the City of Oxon.