Thomas Vicars

, who writes himself Vicarsus and de Vicariis, was born within the City of Carlile in Cumberland, made his first entry into Queens coll. in the beginning of 1607. aged 16. where, after he had been a poor serving Child, Tabarder, and Chaplain, he was elected Fellow 1616. being then M. of A. Six years after he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences; about which time he being esteemed an able Theologist, Preacher, and well qualified with other learning, was taken into the Family of Dr. Carleton B. of Chichester, and by him preferr’d (after he had married his Daughter Anne) to the Vicarage of Cockfield near Horsham in Sussex, and, as it seems, to a Dignity in the Church of Chichester. His works are,

Manuductio ad artem Rhetoricam, ante paucos annos i [•] privatum quorundum Scholarium usum concinnata, &c. Lond. 1621. oct. there again 1628. in tw. being the third edit. This book is the effect of certain Lectures in Queens coll. publick Refectory, when he bore the office of Rhetorick Reader.

Brief direction how to examine our selves before we go to the Lord’s Table, how to behave our selves there, and how to try our selves afterwards. Lond. 1622. or thereabouts, in oct.

Confutatio cujusd. libelli de amplitudine regni caelestis sub ementito C. Secundi Curionis nomine in lucem emissi. Ox. 1627. qu. He hath also translated from Lat. into English, A Manuduction to Theology. Clar. 1628. Lond. 1622. or thereabouts, and 26. in oct. written by Barthelm. Keckerman. Before which translation is a copy of verses made by Mich. Drayton the Poet, an attestation by Ad. Airay B. D. and a dedication to A [••] e the Wife of Dr. Carleton B. of Chichester. One Tho. Vicary published The Surgeons directory, in 1651. oct. who was, as I suppose, a Chirurgion by profession, and therefore not to be taken to be the same with Tho. Vicars before mentioned.