William Masters

second son of Sir Will. Mast. of Cirencester in Glocestershire Knight, was born there, admitted Bach. Fellow of Mert. Coll. from that of Ch. Ch. by the the Committee of Parliament and Visitors of the University, 25. Mar. 1650, being then an Undergraduat; took the degree of Master of Arts about two years after, and under the name of a Student in Theology did publish these two things following, he being then 26 years of age.

Essayes and observations Theological and Moral. Wherein many of the humours and diseases of the age are discovered and characterized, &c. Lond. 1653. oct.

Drops of Myrrhe: or Meditations and Prayers—These are printed with the former book, and are fitted to divers arguments in that work. Afterwards the author was beneficed at Woodford Roe in Essex, was Bach. of Divinity, Rector of S. Vedastus in Foster Lane in Lond. and a Minor Preb. in S. Pauls Cathedral; but what else he published, I cannot yet find. He died in the month of Sept. or thereabouts,1684. in sixteen hundred eighty and four, and was buried in the Church of Woodford before mention’d. By his last will and test. he gave to the Univ. of Oxon 5 l. per an, to have two Sermons preached every year in S. Maries Church there, viz one on Shrove Sunday and the other on the last Sunday in June.