Consec. mum locupletatum, istud qualecunque MNHMEION "Non sibi, sed patriæ, præluxit lampadis instar ; In minimis fido servo, majoribus apto, He is represented kneeling with a candle in his right Henry Robinson was a native of Carlisle. In 1581, he was una nimously elected provost of Queen's College, in Oxford, at the head of which he continued about eighteen years; and by his ex ample and authority restored its discipline, and left it in a mos flourishing state, when he was deservedly promoted to the see o Carlisle. He was eminent in the university as a disputant and a preacher. FRANCISCUS GODWIN, episcopus Landavensis, Et. 51, 1613. Vertue sc. 1742; h. sh. Francis Godwin was a learned divine, and a celebrated historia and antiquary. His laborious and useful" Catalogue of the Bishop of England," first published in 1601, was generally approved. I was for this valuable work, that Queen Elizabeth, who knew how to distinguish merit, promoted him to the bishopric of Landaff.† Dr Oct. 1601. Richardson has published an improved and elegant edition of thi book. In his younger years, he wrote his "Man in the Moon; or a Discourse of a Voyage thither, by Domingo Gonsales, 1638; 8vo. This philosophic romance, which has been several time printed, shews that he had a creative genius. His "Nuncius ina * In the print is a view of the cathedral in its entire state, before it was demo lished in the time of Charles I. + Translated to Hereford 1617. Domingo Gonsales, a little Spaniard, is supposed to be shipwrecked on a uninhabited island; where he taught several ganzas, or wild geese, to fly with light machine, and to fetch and carry things for his conveniency. He, after som mimatus," which contains instructions to convey secret intelligence, is very scarce. Ob. April, 1633. LANCELOT ANDREWS, episcopus Elyensis, &c. 1616; 4to. By Simon Pass, but without his name. There is another of him, looking to the left, by the same hand, and with the same date, inscribed " Episcopus Winton;" 4to. The former has been copied by Vertue. See Lancelot, bishop of Winchester. JOHN OVERALL, bishop of Norwich. Hollar f. 1657, 12mo. In Sparrow's " Rationale," &c. JOHANNES OVERALL, &C. R. White sc. 4to. John Overall was educated in Trinity College, Cambridge, and was thence elected to the mastership of Catharine Hall, in that university. Sir Fulke Greville, who was well acquainted with his learning and merit, recommended him to Queen Elizabeth as a proper person to succeed Dr. Nowel in the deanery of St, Paul's ; to which he was elected in May, 1602. In 1614, he was promoted Consec. to the bishopric of Lichfield and Coventry, whence he was translated to Norwich, and died within a year after his translation, 12th May, 1619. He was one of the translators of the Bible in this reign.* I have heard of none of his works besides, but his "Convocation Book.". Camden, in his "Annals of James I." styles him a prodigious learned man. ROBERTUS ABBATTUS, episcopus Salisburiensis. Delaram sc. 4to. A copy, in Boissard. time, ventured to put himself into the machine, and they carried him with great ease. He happened to be in this aërial chariot, at the time of the year when these ganzas, which were birds of passage, took their flight to the moon, and was directly carried to that planet. He has given a very ingenious description of what occurred to him on his way, and the wonderful things which he saw there. Dr. Swift seems to have borrowed several hints from this novel, in his voyage to Laputa. * See the names of the translators, and the parts assigned them, in the " Biographia," Artic. Boys. + The first impressions, by mistake of the engraver, were inscribed JOHANNIS. 1614. wich, Sept. 1618. Consec. Dec. 3, 1615. Consec. Dec. 8, 1616. ROBERTUS ABBATUS, episcopus Sarum; 8vo. in the " ROBERT ABBAT; 24to. Robert Abbot, elder brother to George, archbishop of Canterbury, and in learning much his superior, was some time master of Baliol College, in Oxford, and regius professor of divinity in that university. In 1615, he was, for his great merit, preferred to the see of Salisbury. The most celebrated of his writings, which are chiefly controversial, was his book "De Antichristo." King James commanded his "Paraphrase on the Apocalypse" to be printed with the second edition of his work; by which he paid himself a much greater compliment, than he did the bishop, Ob. 2 Mar. 1617, Et. 58. He was one of the five bishops who, within six years, sat in the chair of Salisbury, in this reign. ARTHURUS LAKE, olim episc. Bathon. et Wellens. &c. J. Payne sc. h. sh. A copy, in Boissard. It has also been copied by Hollar, in 4to. His head is before his works, fol. 1629. ARTHUR LAKE; in the " Oxford Almanack," 1729. Arthur Lake, brother to Sir Thomas Lake, principal secretary of state to James I. was educated at New College, in Oxford. In the beginning of this reign, he was preferred to the rich mastership of the hospital of St. Cross, near Winchester. He was afterward archdeacon of Surrey, and dean of Worcester; and in 1616, he succeeded Bishop Montague in the see of Bath and Wells. Several writers speak of him as a pattern of every kind of virtue. He was an excellent preacher, of extensive reading in divinity, and one of the best textuaries of his time. His works, which were published after his decease, consist of expositions of several of the Psalms, sermons, and meditations. Ob. 4 May, 1626, Æt. 59. He was a considerable benefactor to the library of New College, where he endowed two lectureships; one for the Hebrew language, and another for the mathematics.* * Richardson's "Godwin," p. 391. 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