Edmund Chilmead

was born at Stow on the Wold in Glocestershire, became one of the Clerks of Magd. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1625, and in that of his age 16 or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being compleated in 1632, and not long after was made one of the petty Canons or Chaplains of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Whence being ejected by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648, he was forced, such were the then times, to obtain a living by that, which before was only a diversion to him, I mean by a weekly musick meeting, which he set up at the Black Horse in Aldersgat [•] street in London. He was a choice Mathematician, a noted Critick, and one that understood several Tongues, especially the Greek, very well. He hath written,

De musicâ antiquâ Graecâ. Published at Oxon, at the end of Oxford Edition of Aratus, an. 1672. oct.

Annotationes in Odas Dionysii. Printed also there, in the same Edition. He had likewise translated the aforesaid Odes into Lat. but that vrrsion is omitted.

Versio Latina & annotationes in Joh. Malalae Chronographiam. Oxon. 1091. oct. See in the Prolegomena to that Author, written by Humph. Hody Bac. of Div. and Fellow of Wadh. Coll. §. 42. He hath written also a little thing

De sonis, which, I presume, is yet in MS, as also,

Catalogus Manuscriptorum Graecorum in Bib. Bod. pro ratione Auctorum alphabeticus, an. 1636. MS. in Bodleys Library, of great use to curious and critical Students. He hath translated from French into English (1) A Treatise of the Essence, causes, symptoms, prognosticks, and cure of Love, or Erotique Melancholy. Oxon. 1640. oct. Written by Jam. Ferrand Doctor of Phys. (2) Unheard of Curiosities concerning the Talismanical Sculpture of the Persians. Lond. 1650. in a large oct. Written by Jam. Gafferel. Also from Lat. into English (1) Discourse touching the Spanish Monarchy. Lond. 1654. qu. Written by Tho. Campanella. Which Translation laying dead on the Booksellers hands, Will. Prynne of Linc. Inn wrot an Epist. and caused this Title to be printed and put before the remaining copies, Thomas Campanella a Spanish Frier his advice to the King of Spayne for the obtaining of the universal Monarchy of the World. Lond. 1659. qu. (2) Treatise of the Globes. Lond. 1639 and 59. oct. Written by Rob. Hues; and lastly from Ital. into English, The History of the rites, customs, and manner of life of the present Jews throughout the world. Lond. 1650. oct. Written by Leo Modena a Rabbin of Venice. At length this curious person resigning up his last breath in the prime of his years on the 19 of Febr. in sixteen hundred fifty and three,165 [•] /4. was buried in S. Botolphs Church without Aldersgate in London, having before, (with Joh. Gregory another Critick) received relief in his necessities from Edw. Bysshe Esq. then K. of Arms by the Parliaments Authority, and also assisted Sir Hen. Holbroke Kt. (by whom he had been exhibited to) in his Translation of Procopius of Caesarea his History of the Warrs of the Emperor Justinian, in 8 books, &c. Lond. 1653. fol. by exactly comparing the English with the Greek, as it was written by David Hoeschelius, who had it out of the Duke of Bavaria’s library.