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Died April 24th 1667. in his 82.Year

From an original Miniature preserved in the Family

Pub. April.12 th 1793. by W. Richardson Castle S Leicester Square.

mends his modesty and humility, particularly in never seeking pre-
ferment; but he says too little of his zeal, which was, indeed,
ardent and active. This drew upon him the unjust imputation of
popery. Nothing seems to have rendered him more hateful and
invidious to the parliament than his standing high in the favour of
his sovereign. He was imprisoned in the Tower, by order of the
House of Commons, and continued there, under close restraint,
till the restoration. He died the 24th of April, 1667, in his eighty-
second year.
Dr. Richardson has made use of some of his manu-
scripts in his fine and accurate edition of Godwin "De Præsulibus
Anglia."

JOHN PRIDEAUX, late bishop of Worcester; frontispiece to his "Doctrine of practical Praying,' 1655; 12mo. Faithorne sc. but without his name.

JOHN PRIDEAUX, &c. when rector of Exeter Coll. Oxon; 4to.

JOHN PRIDEAUX, &c. in Nash's "Worcestershire."

He was so

Dec. 19, 1641.

John Prideaux, some time rector of Exeter College, in Oxford, Consec. and king's professor of divinity in that university, was deservedly esteemed one of the most learned men of his age. well known abroad, that foreigners came from all parts of Europe to be instructed by him. Before he applied himself to learning, he stood candidate for the office of parish-clerk, at Ugborow, in Devonshire; and to his great mortification, saw another chosen into that place. Such was his poverty, at his first coming to Oxford, that he was employed in servile offices in the kitchen, at Exeter College, for his support. But he was soon taken notice of for his admirable parts, and eager pursuit after knowledge, and admitted into that society. In process of time he became rector of it; and was by Charles I. preferred to the bishopric of Worcester. He has been often heard to say, that if he had been elected clerk of Ugborow, he should never have been a bisohp. He was so far from being ashamed of his original poverty, that he kept the leather-breeches, which he wore to Oxford, as a memorial