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 A D A M S O N. 45 the Juke of Lenox : fo that the remaining part of this prelate's J'ife was very wretched, he having hardly fubfiftence for his family. He died in 1591. A volume of this Prelatc'b works has been publifiied in 410. ADD1SON (LANCELOT), Ton of Lancelot Addifon a cler- gyman, born at Mauldifmeaburne in the parifh of Ciofby Ra- rei'fwort'n in Wcftmoreland, in 1632, was educated at the grammar fchoo! of Appleby, and afterwards fl-nt to Queen's College, Oxford, upon the foundation. On Jan. 25, 1654, he was admitted B A. and M. A. July 4, 1657. As he now had greatly diftinguifhed himfelf in the univerfity, he was chofen one of the terns filii for the act which w->s celebrated in (658; but, his oration having been very fatirical upon the pride, ignorance, hypocrify, and avarice or thofe then in power, he was compelled to make a recantation, and to afk pardon on his knees. Soon after he left Oxford, and retired to Petworth, in Sufiex, where he redded till the restoration. The gentlemen of Suffex having recommended him to Dr. Kin::, bifhop of Chefter, as a man who had buffered for his loyalty and attachment to the conititution of church and ftate, the bifhop received him kindly; and, in all probability, would have preferred him, had he not accepted of the chaplainfhipat Dunkirk, contrary to his lordihip's approbation. Mr. Addi-Wood'* A- Ibn continued at Dunkirk till the year 1662, when, the p' ace vo being delivered up to the French, he returned to England. 97 . 3 . The year following, he went chaplain to the garri.'on at Tan- gier, where he refiJed lorne years. He came back to England in 1670, with a refolution to return to Tangier. He was ap- pointed chaplain in ordinary to his majefty, foon after his coming over; he had no thoughts, however, of quitting hi? rhaplainlhip at Tangier; neverthelefs it was conferred upon another, whereby Mr. Addifon became poor in his circumlran- ces. In this fituation of his affairs, a gentleman in Wilt/hire beffowed on him the rectory of Million, in Wilts, worth about j :'o!. per annual. Soon after he was alfo made prebendary of Minor pars altaris, in the cathedral of Sarum ; and, July 6, 1 675, took the degrees of B. and D. D. at Oxford. His pre- ferments, though not very confiderable, enabled him to Jive in the country with great decency and hofpitality; and hedif- diarsjed his duty with a moft confcientious diligence. In 1683, the corr.miffioners for ecclefiaftical affairs, in confeder- ation of his former fervice at Tangier, conferred upon him the deanery of Litchfield, in which he was inftalled July $. Dec. 8, i6#4i he was collated to the archdeaconry of Coventrv. $ snd