A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol 11 Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent the Earliest Accounts of Time to the Present

Excerpt from A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 11: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation, Particularly the British and Irish; From the Earliest Accounts of Time to the Present Period

In 1649, he was elected {indent of chrifi-church in Cx ford, where, lhewing himfelf too forward, pragmatical, and conceited, he was, as mr. Wood relates, often kicked and beaten. However, through the interefi of his patron, he was certainly of no fmall confcquence; for the oath called The engagement, being framed by the parliament that fame year, was fome time after (em down to the univerfity by him; and he procured fome to be turned out, and others to be (pared, according as affection or difail'eétion influenced him. While he' continued under-graduate, it was ufual with him to difcourfe in the public i'chools very fluently in the Greek tongue, which conveys no fmall idea of his learn ing. After he had taken a bachelor of arts degree, he went into Scotland, and ferved in the parliament army there from'

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