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 A M E L O T. i 9) poorly rewarded for all his labour and trouble : fmcc towards the end of his life he fued for a very fmall bifhopric, and met with a refufal, though he had all the qualities rcquifite to a bifhop. He could not forbear coni[i!. lining; of this ufage to his friend*, telling them that thofe, whom he had often fervcd very effectually, had been veiy cold to him on this occa- fion. He entered into the congregation of the Oratory in 1650, and continued amongit them till his death, which happened in 1678. AMES (WILLIAM), an Englifli divine, famous for his controverfial writings ; but much more fo abroad than in his native country, for he lived many years in foreign parts, and there ended his days. He was defcended from an ancient family in Noifolk, where he was born in 1576. He was educated at Chrift's college, Cambridge, under the famous Mr. William Perkins; from whom probably imbibing fomc Calvinittical principle?, he became a ftrenuous aflertor of the fame tenets, which gave fo much difguft, that, to prevent an expulhon in form, he forfook his college, went abroad, and was chofen by the ftates of Friefland, profeflbr of their uni- verfity. In 1613, his difpute with Grevinchovius, minifterNeai's Hift. at Rotterdam, appeared i;i print. He was at the fynod of of the Puri - Dort, in 1618, and informed king James's embaflador from^'y'p'Jy, time to time of the debates of that atiembly. When he had been twelve years in the doctor's chair at Francker, he refigned his profeflorftiip, and accepted of an invitation to the Englifh congregation at Rotterdam, the air of Franeker being too fharp for him, as he was troubled with a great difficulty of breathing. Upon his removal to Rot- terdam, he wrote his " Frelh Suit againlt Ceremonies," but rlid nut live to publifh it himfelf, for his conftitution was fo (battered that the air of Holland did him no fervice : he had determined to remove to New Kngland, but his afthma re- turning at the beginning of the winter, put an end to his life at Rotterdam, whe-e he was buried in November, 1633. He was a very learned divine, a Hrid Ca'vinift in doctrine, and of the pcrfuafion of the Independents with regard to the fub- ordination and power of the claffes and fynods. His writings were voluminous, chiefly controverfial, and confequently as much dil'icgartLu and forgotten as the controverfies which occafioned them. AMES (JOSEPH), the celebrated typographical hiftorian, and fecrctary to the Society of Anti4i;arics, was originally 'O4 *