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, was the son of a gentleman in Nottinghamshire: at the age of 14 he was sent  Emanuel College, Cambridge, where  studied very closely for three years;  the charge of maintaining him being  great for his father's narrow fortune,  was bound apprentice to Mr Bates,  Surgeon in London. What little he got, he laid out in learning navigation and other parts of mathematics, as he  fancied he should be a great : When his time was expired, he  Mr. Bates, and studied physic two years at Leyden, in Holland.