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 350 A S G I L L. did other bufinefs in his profeffion till his death, which hap- pened fume time in November 1738, when he was upwards of four (core. was publiflied, he fent abroad another " Hanover vindicated, againft the Pre- treatife, under the title of " Mr. Afgill's " tender's fecond Declaration, in folio, ' Apology for an Omiffion in his late " intituled, The hereditary Right of " Summaries of all the Afts made for " 1714," cclavo. This was in anfwef " fhengthening the Froteftant Sue- to Mr. Berifurd's famous Book. ' ceffion." 5. " The Pretender's Declaration 3. " The Pretender'sDechration ab- " from Plombiers, 1714, erglifhed } " Araifled from two anonymous pam- " with a Polrlcript befoie it in relation " phlets/' the one intituled " Jus fa- " to Dr. Leflt-y's Letter fent after it, " crumj" the other, " Memoirs of the " 1715," oflavo. " moirs of two other Chevaliers in the " for the Prefs,'' " The Metamorphofes " Reign of Henry VII. 1713," oiavo. " of Man," " A Treatiie againft 4. " The SuccclTion of the Houfe of " Woclfton 3" and feveral other pieces. ASHMOLE, orAsMOLE (LIAS), a celebrated Englifh Athenx pViilofopher and antiquary, founder of the Alhmolean Mu- at Oxford, born at Litchfield in StafFordfhire, the col, 886. 23d of May, 1617, was educated at the grammar-fchool there; and, having a genius for mufic,was inftrucled herein, and admitted a choritter of that cathedral. At the age of fixteen, being fent to London, he was taken into the family SeehisDiary of James Paget, efq. baron of the exchequer, whofekindnefs f ' z ' he acknowledges with the utmoft fenfe of gratitude. In June 1634, he loft his father, whofe bad ceconomy proved very Ibid. p. 5. injurious to himfelf and family. He continued for fome years in the Paget family, during which time he applied to the law with great affiduity. In 1638, he became a folici- tor In chancery ; and on the nth of February, 1641, was Ibid. p. 6. fworn an attorney in the court of common pleas. In Auguft, 1642, the city of London being then in great confufion, he retired to Chefhire ; and towards the end of 1644, he went to Oxford, the chief refidence of the king at that time, where he entered himfelf of Brazen Nofe college, and applied with great vigour to the fludy of natural philofophy, mathematics, Ibid. p. 10. and aftronomy. On the gth of May, 1645, he became one of the gentlemen of the ordnance in the garrifon at Oxford^ from whence he removed to Worcefter, where he was com- mirtioiier, receiver, and regifter of the excife ; and foon after captain in lord Ashley's regiment, as well as comptroller of Jbid. p. 14. the ordnance. On the i6th of October, 1646, he was elecled a brother of the free and accepted mafons j and in fome of his manufcripts there are faid to be many curious particulars relating to the hiftory of this fociety. The kit Vs affairs
 * Publication, in which are contained " the Crown of trtaland alTerted, &c.
 * ' Chevalier de St. George; with Me- Befides thefe, he wrote " An Effay