Nicholas Grey

was born in London, elected Student of Ch. Ch. from the College School at Westminster in the year 1606, aged 16 years, where making great proficiency in learning under the tuition of Mr. Sam. Fell, took the degrees in Arts, and being noted for a pure Latinist and Greecian, was made the first Master of Charter house or Suttons Hospital School. After he had taught there some years, he married against the Statute of that School and Hospital, so that thereby being made uncapable of the place, the Governours thereof gave him a Benefice, (Castle Camps in Cambridgeshire I think) where for some time he lived as ’twere out of his Element. On the 29 of January 1624, he was admitted chief Master of Merchant Taylors School, where continuing till 1631, he was then, or soon after, made chief Master of the School at Eaton Coll, and at length Fellow of that house; but whether he proceeded D. of D. in the Univ. of Oxon (which degree was confer’d on him about that time) I know not, for it appears not so in the publick Register. In the time of the Rebellion he was turned out from his Fellowship and Parsonage by the Presbyterians, was put to difficult shifts, and with much ado rub’d out for some years. At length obtaining the Mastership of Tunbridge School in Kent, in, or before, the Reign of Oliver, (in the place of Tho. Horne made Master of Eaton School) continued there till the Kings return, and then being restored to his Parsonage and Fellowship, was in hopes to spend his old age in peace, retiredness and plenty, but he died soon after, as I shall anon tell you. His works are these.

Dictionary in English and Latine, Lat. and English.—Several times printed at London, but when first of all published, I know not. This Dict. mostly taken from that of Rider, had many additions put to it by Grey, but a second or third edit. of Holyok’s Dict. coming out, prevented (as ’tis said) the publication of them. He also published Luculenta è sacrâ scripturâ testimonia, ad Hugonis Grotii baptizatorum puerorum institutionem. Lond. 1647. 50. 55. &c. oct. Which Catechism was written by Hug. Grotius in Latine Verse, turned into Gr. Verse by Christ. Wase B. of A. and Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge, (since superior Beadle of Law in Oxon) and into Engl. Verse by Franc. Goldsmith of Greys Inn Esq. This book is dedicated to John Hales Fellow of Eaton Coll. by Dr. Grey, who hath also published, Parabolae Evangelicae lat. redditae Carmine paraphrastico varii generis in usum scholae Tunbrigiensis. Lond. in oct. when printed I know not, for ’tis not put down in the tit. or at the end. He gave way to fate, in a poor condition, at Eaton, 1660. in sixteen hundred and sixty, and was buried in the Choire of the Church or Chappel there, near to the stairs that go up to the Organ loft, on the fifth day of October, as I have been informed by the letters of John Rosewell B. D. sometimes Fellow of C. C. Coll. in Oxon, afterwards School-master of Eaton, Canon of Windsore and Fellow of Eaton College.