Page:A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices.djvu/145



Admitted 24 June, 1654.

Son and heir of Thomas Hookes of Coggs Farm, Oxford. He was educated at Westminster School, where he was a contemporary of Dryden, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1653. In 1653 he published two series of Poems entitled Amanda and Miscellanea Poetica, by which he is now chiefly remembered. He was called to the Bar 1 May, 1668. He died 7 Nov. 1712, and was buried in Lambeth Church, where there is an elaborate Latin inscription describing his virtues and attainments. His poems are chiefly interesting as illustrative of the manners of the time.

Admitted 17 August, 1695.

Son and heir of Ezekiel Hopkins, late Lord Bishop of Londonderry. He was born at Exeter, and educated at Dublin and Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1688. He became a friend of Dryden, who praised his verses, and most of the literary notables of the time. He was, however, of intemperate habits and died in his thirty-sixth year. Most of his poems deal with the subject of Love, and contain translations from Ovid and Tibullus, but he was the author also of three Tragedies entitled Pyrrhus (1695); Boadicea (1697); and Friendship Reproved (1697).

Admitted 24 May, 1561.

Son and heir of Richard Hopkins, whose description is not given in the Register. After some residence in the Temple he became "wearied of the heresy of the place" and removed to Louvain, and afterwards to Spain, whence he returned to France. In these wanderings he acquired much learning and knowledge of languages, which he employed in translating from the Spanish the treatises Of Prayer and Meditation (1582), and the Memorial of a Christian Life (1586) of Father Louis de Granada.

Admitted 11 November, 1609.

Third son of Sir Arthur Hopton of Witham, co. Somerset. According to Wood, before entering at the Temple he was a member of Lincoln College, Oxford, where, under "a noted and careful tutor he became the miracle of his age for learning," but it is doubtful whether in this he was not confounding him with a contemporary Arthur (afterwards Sir Arthur) Hopton, the diplomatist. He entered the Temple from Clement's Inn, and is said to have become an intimate friend of Selden and the learned men of the time. He devoted himself chiefly to mathematical subjects, and has left the following works: Baculum Geodcdicum, or the Geodetical Staff (1610); Speculum Topographicum (1611); A Concordance of Years, or an Exact Computation of Time (1612); Prognostications for the years 1607 to 1614. He died Nov. 1614, at the early age of 26.