31. Dr. William Hopkins, Prebendary of Worcester, a learned Antiquary. Died May 18, 1700.

"Admitted to the first prebendal stall at Worcester, Mar. 22, 1675-6-buried in that Cathedral.

"The Editor of the Antiquities of Worcester, 8vo. p. 50, 51, says, "His singular merits require a more particular enumeration, which I briefly extract from the account published of him in a PREFACE before Seventeen Sermons, preached by Dr. Hopkins, and published by his very learned and intimate friend George Hickes, D. D. 1708, 8°. who tells us that he was born and baptized at Evesham in Worcestershire, 28 Aug. 1647, that at 13 years of age he was admitted a Commoner of Trinity College in Oxford, under the tuition of Dr. Nicholas Stratford, late Bishop of Chester, and that before he proceeded M. A. he retired to St. Mary's Hall, where he was first taken notice of by Bp. Fell, by whom he was recommended as Chaplain to Mr. Henry Coventry, then appointed Embassador to Sweden, for which he set out 2 Sept. 1671, where he made himself no mean proficient in the Septentrional languages. Soon after his return he was promoted in this Church, which, had he lived, he had done ample justice to in accounting for her antiquities; but being snatched away, he left a rough sketch and some few papers, many of which have been communicated to the Editor of this work. On 23 June, 1678, he was presented to the Curacy of Mortlake in Surry, by the Chapter of Worcester. He was elected Master of St. Oswald's Hospital in Worcester, 16 May, 1697." Ibid.

52. Dr. Sam. Fuller, Dean of Lincoln. Died March 4, 1699.

"Samuel Fuller, the son of John Fuller, 'Clerk, and Dorcas, his wife, was born at Stebbing in Essex, and there baptized on the 16 July 1635, as in the Register Book.

"His father, John Fuller, (son of Thomas Fuller, Vicar of Stebbing) was born 4 Aug. and bapt. 22 Aug. 1602.

"His said grandfather, Thomas Fuller, made his entry with his own hand in the said parish Register.

"A. D. 1600, nono die Septem. excessit ex hac vita Johannes Durden istius parochia Vicarius, a cujus temporis puncto successit Thomas Fuller in artibus Magister, prædicator, natus in ista villa ab honestis parentibus, educatus in Academia Cantabr. Coll. D. Petri, presentatus per lib. disposit. Bartholemei Brock generoși 1600, æt. 38. regn. Eliz. 43,"

"Thomas Fuller was admitted to the Vicarage of Hatfield Peverell in Essex, 1590; and of Little Baddow, 1596.

John Fuller was admitted to the Vicarage of Stebbing 1633, on the death of his father.

"Mr. Dean Fuller had an elder brother, Dr. Thomas Fuller, Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. They were both ordained before the restoration by their uncle, Dr. Thomas Fuller, Arch bishop of Cassels in Ireland.

"His said brother, Dr. Thomas Fuller, had been first Scholar of Catherine Hall, and thence elected Fellow of Christ's College. He was Chaplain to Gen. Lockhart, while Governor of Dunkirk. He was after the King's restoration presented to the Rectory of Newenby, Co. Linc. which he held with the Church of Willingale in Essex, where he died and was buried 22 March, 1701. He had been inducted to the said Rectory of Willingale 16 Dec. 1670, at the presentation of Robt. Cole, Gent.

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'Their father, Mr. John Fuller, died Minister of the church in Ironmonger-lane, London, and was there buried.

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They had a younger brother, Francis, a Dissenting Teacher, tho' episcopally ordained by his uncle the Archbishop. See his Funeral Sermon, by Jer. White. He left a son, Francis Fuller, of St. John's in Cambridge, who studied physic, author of Medicina Gymnastica, who was left heir to his uncle, Dr. Sam. Fuller, Dean of Lincoln.

“Dr. Samuel Fuller was taken Chaplain to Dr. William Fuller, Bishop of Lincoln, for name sake.

"The Dean's Epitaph was composed by Mr. Read, Minor

"This brother Francis had been Minister of Marston St. Lawrence, with the chapels annexed in the diocese of Peterborough."

and Master of the Free School, to whom the Dean had been a special and familiar friend.

"The Dean's distemper was in his leg upon an ill habit of body, imputed to the Lincoln ale. He was a plentiful feeder, and at sometimes a liberal drinker, tho' in small glasses.

"His preferment to the Deanery was owing to the interest of the Lay Lords, who loved him for his hospitality and wit. K. William refused him for some time, but was prevailed on by the importunity of the Lords. He expected to have been Master of St. John's in Cambridge, and seemed to please himself with â prospect of that station. He desired also to have been Rector of St. Clement's Dane, and thought his interest in the Exeter family to have been great enough, because he knew how to accommodate his humour to the genius of that house. So that his picture was hung up in the drinking-room, and M. Verrio upon the stairhead drew his face for the Bacchus riding on a barrel." Ibid,

53. Dr. Joseph Beaumont, Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge. Died 23 Nov. 1699, æt. 84.

"He was appointed Master of Peter House, Cambridge,* by the Bp. of Ely, 21 Apr. 1663, made King's Professor of Divinity, 1672.

"He was in great esteem for his learning, and particularly for his knowledge of the Latin tongue. Whether he hath extant besides his poem entitled Psyche I know not."

54. Dr. Edward Stilling fleet, Bishop of Worcester. Died March 27, 1699, æt. 64.

"He was consecrated Bishop of Worcester, Oct. 13, 1689. "There was published at London in 1710, 8vo, for Henry Mortlock

"The Life and Character of that eminent Prelate, the late Dr.

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* See Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy, pt. II. p. 152.

Edw. Stilling fleet, Lord Bishop of Worcester, together with some account of the works he hath published.”

"This Life is said to have been drawn up by his Chaplain, Dr. Rich Bentley, in order to prefix it to the new edition of his works, in 6 vols. fol." Ibid.

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55. Dr. John Saumares, Dean of Guernsey and Canon of Died 1 Sept. 1697.

Windsor.

"He was of Pembroke College, Oxford, created D.D. 1671, and in the same year Canon of Windsor, and about the same time Rector of Hartley-Wespall, in Hampshire.

"He was a man very obsequious to the Courtiers at Windsor, and used to invite and entertain them with cold treats and choice wines, by which he got a good interest among them; and when ́one upon that occasion told Dr. Isaac Vossius, that his brother Saumares was a great man at Court, he answered, ́nostri amant stultitiam et salsumenta."

Imo, aulici

"Dr. Isaac Vossius was a great despiser of Dr. Saumares, and hearing him once preach in St. George's Chapel, upon that text, We have this treasure in earthly vessels,' whereon he described the Apostles for such a set of simple and illiterate men, that being asked how he liked the preacher upon that subject, Deum!" said he, "Vir vere Apostolicus!" Ibid.

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56. Dr. John Conant, Archdeacon of Norwich.

Died

March 12, 1693.

"He was installed to this Archdeaconry 8 June, 1676, and Dec. 1681. These preferments he

to a Prebend of Worcester

kept till his death, which happened at his cure at Northampton. He married a daughter of Mr. Edward Reynolds, Bishop of Norwich.

"I heard a story in Oxford that Mr. Conant, while Fellow of Exeter, was encouraged to court Dr. Reynolds's daughter, but had that timorous modesty in him, that he could not possibly ex

press himself to her, till her relations left them two in a parlour, and carried away the candle, which surprize of being left in the dark, taught him to speak to her.

"He left a son, John Conant, of Merton College, LL.D. afterwards an advocate of Doctors' Commons, who soon however retired into Oxfordshire." Ibid.

57. George Lillye, an eminent Divine, died in 1559.

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'George Lillye was collated to the Prebend of Kentish Town on the resignation of John Feckenham, 22 Nov. 1556.

"On 13 Mar. 1557, he was presented by the Archbishop of Canterbury, to whom he was Chaplain, to a Prebend in the church of Canterbury, vacant by the death of Richard Thornden, Bishop Suffragan of Dover.

Bale, in the marginal notes inserted with his own hand into the fol. edit. Script. Britan. at Basil, 1557, has added to his printed account of George Lillye, first, among his Latin writings, De vita, moribus, ac fine Thomæ Cranmeri, lib. I. "Deum immortalem oro atque obtestor, si primum mihi hoc munus," &c. and again, after "claruit anno Domini, 1550," Obiit Lilius Cantuariæ, sepultus anno Dni 1559.

"1543. Towards the end of this year Paulus Jovius wrote a Description of Britain, under this title, Descriptio Britannia, Scotia, Hyberniæ, et Orcadum Pauli Jovii Episcopi Nucerini. He had the whole plan and the materials from George, son of Will. Lilye, with promise of a correct map, &c. whom therefore he highly commends.

"Insignem ex optimis literis laudem tulit Gulielmus Lilius qui primus cives suos Latine atque diserte loqui feliciter docuit. Hujus autem filius Georgius Lilius in Italia elegantioribus studiis excultus mirifice paternum decus tuetur, condito volumine in que Summorum Pontificum et Cæsarum Romanorum series Laconica brevitate describitur; ab eodem quoque solerti ingenio Britannia tabulam spectamus erudite graphiceque descriptam, atque adeo incisam in æs ut cum hoc opere ad certiorem jucundioremque Regionis notitiam conjungatur."