Owen Price

a Mountgomeryshire man born, was put in Scholar of Jesus Coll. by the Parl. Visitors, 12. Oct. 1648; whence, after he had continued 4 years therein, he was called to the charge of a public School in Wales, where he advanced his Scholars much in Presbyterian principles. In the year 1655. making a return to the University, he was entred into Ch. Ch, (of which, if I mistake not, he was made Student) and in the year following, did, by the favour of the deligated power of the Chancellour, accumulate the degrees in Arts. Soon after he became Master of the Free-School near Madg. Coll, where by his industry and good way of teaching, he drew many youths of the City, whose Parents were fanatically given, to be his Scholars. But upon the Kings restauration being ejected for Nonconformity, taught School, in which he much delighted, in several places, as in Devonshire, Besills-Lee near Abendon, &c, became useful among the brethren, and a noted Professor in the Art of Pedagogy. He hath written and published,

The Vocal Organ: or, a new art of teaching Orthography, by observing the instruments of pronunciation, and the difference between words of like sound, whereby any outlandish, or meer Englishman, woman, or child, may speedily attain to the exact spelling, reading, writing or pronouncing of any word in the English tongue, without the advantage of its fountains, the Greek and Latine Oxon. 1665. oct.

English Orthography: teaching 1. The Letters of every sort of print. 2. All Syllables made of Letters. 3. Short Rules by way of question and answer for spelling, reading, pronouncing, using the great letters and their points. 4. Examples of all words of like sound, &c. Oxon. 1670. oct. He died in his House near to Madg. Coll. 25. Nov. in sixteen hundred seventy and one,1671 and was two days after buried in the Church of S. Peter in the east, near to the door leading into the belfry, within the City of Oxon.