John Flavell

, a native of Bishops-Liddiard in Somersetshire, was entred a Student in Trinity coll. in 1610. aged 14. and soon after became the forwardest Youth in that house, for his quick and smart disputations in Logick and Philosophy. At length the Foundress of Wadham coll. having been often told of the pregnancy of his parts, she made him one of her first Scholars thereof, in 1613. In the year following, he took the degree of Bach. of Arts, and became very useful among the Juniors by his frequent reading of Logick Lectures, and presiding in Philosophical disputations in the publick Refectory. In 1617. he proceeded in Arts, being then esteemed a good Greek and Lat. Poet, was Senior of the Act that year, and chose publick Professor of Grammer in the University, in which Faculty he was excellent and took great delight. He hath written,

Tractatus de Demonstratione methodicus & polemicus. Oxon. 1619. &c. oct. in 4 books, not intended for the Press, only for the use and profit of private auditors. But so it was, that after his death, his notes coming into the hands of Alex. Huish of the same coll. he put them into order, disgested, and sent them to the Press, which since hath been taken into the hands of all Juniors, and have undergone several impressions.

Grammat. Graec. Enchyridion. in oct. This goes under the name of Joh. Flavell, but whether written by the former, I know not, for I have not yet seen it. He died in the flower of his youth on the 10. 1617 Nov. in sixteen hundred and seventeen, and was buried in Wadham coll. Chappel. I find another Joh. Flavell, after the former in time, author of a little thing intit. A Prayer or Treatise of God’s mighty power and protection of his Church and People, &c. Lond. 1642. and another (if not the same) author of Husbandry spiritualized, &c. Lond. 1669. qu. of A Saint indeed, &c. Lond. 1670. oct. and of several other things, but whether he was ever of this University, I know not. He occurrs Minister of Dartmouth in Devon. 1672. and several years after.