John Wilkins

sometimes of New Inn, afterwards of Magdalen Hall, was consecrated Bish. of Chester, an. 1668, on the death of Dr. George Hall, and died in Nov. in sixteen hundred seventy and two;1672. under which year you may also see more of him among the Writers, p. 370.371. In the said See succeeded the learned Dr. Joh. Pearson born at Creake in Norfolk, bred in Eaton School, admitted into Kings Coll. in Cambridge an. 1631, commenced M. of A, became Chaplain to George Lord Goring at Exeter, Preb. of Sarum, Preacher at S. Clements Eastcheap, and afterwards at S. Christophers, in London. In 1660 he was installed Archd. of Surrey, after it had laid void about eleven years, (being then D. of D.) was afterwards Master of Jesus Coll. in Cambr. Preb. of Ely, Chapl. in ord. to his Maj, and Master of Trin. Coll. in the said Univ. I say that he succeeding Dr. Wilkins in Chester, was consecrated to that See (with Dr. Pet. Mews to Bath and Wells) on the ninth day of Febr. an. 1672, having before published an Exposition on the Creed, &c. After his death, which I have mention’d elsewhere, succeeded in the See of Chester Dr. Thom. Cartwright. The said Dr. Joh. Pearson had a younger brother named Richard, born also at Creake, bred in Eaton School, admitted into Kings Coll. in 1646, was afterwards M. of A, Professor of the Civil Law at Gresham Coll, and kept his Fellowship with it, went out Doct. of the Civ. and Canon Law upon the coming of the Prince of Tuscany to Cambr. in the beginning of 1669, he being then Under-keeper of his Maj. Library at S. James. He was a most excellent Scholar, a most admired Greecian, and a great Traveller: He died in the summer-time, an. 1670, being then, as ’twas vulgarly reported, a Rom. Cath.