William Guise

, or Guisius as in his book following he is written, Son of John Guise, was born of a knightly family living at Abloads Court near to Glocester in Glocestershire, became a Communer of Oriel Coll. an. 1669 aged 16 years, afterwards Fellow of that of Alls, Master of Arts and in holy Orders. In 1680 he resign’d his Fellowship, being about that time married and in great esteem for his Oriental learning, but soon after cut off by the small pox to the great reluctancy of all those who were acquainted with his pregnant parts. After his death Dr. Edw. Bernard Savilian professor of Astronomy published a book which Mr. Guise turn’d into Lat. and illustrated with a Commentary, entit.

Misnae pars: ordinis primi Zeraim tituli septem. Ox. 1690. qu. Before which is put the translation into Latine by Dr. Edw. Pocock of Mosis Maimonides praefatio in Misnam. Mr. Guise died in his House in S. Michaels Parish in Oxford, 1683. on the third of Sept. in sixteen hundred eighty and three, and was buried in that Chancel called the College Chancel in St. Michaels Church within the said City. Soon after was set up a monument over his grave at the charge of his Widow named Frances, Daughter of George Southcote of Devonshire Esq. with an inscription thereon, beginning thus. MS. Gulielmi Guise Equestri apud Glocestrenses familia orti, è Coll. Oriel. in Coll. Omn. Anim. asciti, Linguar. (praecipue Orientalium) peritissimi, Critici, Rhetoris, Mathemat. Theologi, in omnibus adeò eximii, ut raro quisquam in singulis; in juventute, ut raro quisquam in senio: quem, ne perfectionis humanae apices transiret, &c.