William James

, or Jamesius as he writes himself, Son of Hen. James, (by Barbara his Wife Daugh. of Will. Sutton, mention’d in the first Vol. p. 494.) and he the Son of one James Citizen and Alderman of Bristow, was born at Mahone in Monmouthshire, educated in his first years of knowledge at Blandford Forum in Dorsetshire under his Uncle Will. Sutton, Son of the before mentioned Will. Sutton; and being extraordinary rath ripe, and of a prodigious memory, was entred into his Accedence at five years of age. In 1646 he was elected a Kings Scholar of the Coll. at Westminster, where making marvellous proficiency under Mr. Busbye his most loving Master in the School there, was elected thence a Student of Ch. Ch. an. 1650. Before he had taken one degree in Arts, his Master made him his Assistant in the said School, and upon the removal of Adam Littleton into Edw. Bagshaw’s place, he was made Usher and at length second Master. This Person while he was very young (about 16 years of age) wrot and published.

’ΕΙΣΑΓΩΓΗ’ in Linguam Chaldaeam. In usum Scholae Westmonast. Lond. 1651 in 6 sheets or more in oct. Dedic. to Mr. Rich. Busby his Tutor, Parent, and Patron; and also had a chief hand in the English introduction to the Lat. Tongue, for the use of the lower forms in Westm. School—Lond. 1659. oct. He died in the prime of his years, to the great reluctancy of all that knew his admirable parts, on the third day of July, 1663. in sixteen hundred sixty and three, and was buried at the West end of S. Peters, called the Abbey Church in Westminster, near the lowest door, going into the Cloister.