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 per Mayne, who were also divines, rests on his occasional verse, which shows a genuine lyrical faculty and sportive temperament. Specimens were included in many seventeenth-century anthologies and song-books, but much remains in manuscript, and well deserves printing. Two of his poems are in Henry Lawes's ‘Ayres for Three Voices,’ of which one, ‘To a Lady taking off her Veil,’ was reprinted in Beloe's ‘Anecdotes’ (vi. 207–8). Others, including ‘Melancholy Opposed,’ are in ‘Wit Restored’ (1658), in ‘Parnassus Biceps’ (1658), and in ‘Poems written by William, Earl of Pembroke’ (1660). An anthem by him was set to music by Richard Gibbs, organist at Norwich. A poem on kisses, in the manner of Lyly's ‘Cupid and Campaspe,’ appeared in ‘New Court Songs and Poems, by R. V. Gent.’ (1672), and in Dryden's ‘Miscellany Poems’ (pt. iv. 1716, p. 131); it was reprinted in ‘Notes and Queries’ (1st ser. i. 302) and elsewhere. Six poems by him from ‘an old manuscript volume’ are in ‘Gent. Mag.’ 1823, ii. 7–8; two of these are in Ellis's ‘Specimens,’ iii. 173. A song in Devonshire dialect, recounting a countryman's visit to Plymouth, is assigned to Strode (printed from Harl. MS. in ‘Notes and Queries,’ 2nd ser. x. 462). Some unpublished pieces are among Rawlinson Ms. 142 and the Sancroft manuscripts at the Bodleian Library, and the Harleian manuscripts at the British Museum.

Prince's Worthies of Devon, pp. 562–6; Wood's Athenæ Oxon. ed. Bliss, iii. 151–3; Langbaine's Dramatick Poets; Fleay's Biographical Chronicle of the English Drama; Foster's Alumni Oxon.; Welch's Alumni Westmonast. p. 86; cf. Hist. MSS. Comm. 4th Rep. p. 464.]  STRONG, WILLIAM (d. 1654), independent divine, was born in Durham. He was educated at Cambridge, graduating B. A. from St. Catharine Hall, of which he was elected a fellow on 30 Dec. 1631. In 1640 he became rector of Moore Critchell in Dorsetshire, but he was driven out in 1643, when the royalists obtained the ascendancy in the county. He fled to London, where he met a cordial reception, and frequently preached before parliament (Journal of House of Commons, v. vi. vii. passim). On 31 Dec. 1645 the commons appointed him as successor to Edward Peale in the Westminster assembly (ib. iv. 392, 395), and on 14 Oct. 1647 he became minister of St. Dunstan's-in-the-West, Fleet Street (ib. v. 454). On 9 Dec. 1650 he was chosen pastor to a congregation of independents, which comprised many members of parliament, and to which he preached in Westminster Abbey. On 29 July 1652 he was appointed to a committee for selecting 'godly persons to go into Ireland and preach the gospel' (Cal. State Papers, 1651-2, p. 351). A sermon preached at Westminster in July 1653 'against the liberty of the times as introducing popery,' attracted some attention (Cal. Clarendon Papers, iii. 236). He died in middle life in June 1654, and was buried in Westminster Abbey on 4 July; but on the Restoration his remains, with those of several others, were dug up and thrown into a pit in St. Margaret's churchyard. His widow Damaris survived him.

Strong was the author of: 1. 'Clavis Apocalyptica ad incudem revocata,' London, 1653, 8vo. 2. 'The Saints Communion with God, and Gods Communion with them in Ordinances,' ed. Hering, London, 1656, 12mo. 3. 'Heavenly Treasure, or Man's Chiefest Good,' ed. Howe, London 1656,12mo. 4. 'Thirty-one Select Sermons,' London, 1656, 4to. 5. 'A Treatise showing the Subordination of the Will of Man to the Will of God,' ed. Rowe, London, 1657, 8vo. 6. 'A Discourse on the Two Covenants,' published by Theophilus Gale [q. v.], London, 1678, fol. Strong also published several sermons, and wrote prefatory remarks to Dingley's 'Spiritual Taste Described,' London, 1649, 8vo.

[Funeral Sermon: Elisha, his Lamentation, by Obadiah Sedgwick, 1654; Prefaces to Strong's posthumous publications; Brook's Lives of the Puritans, iii. 196-200; Wilson's Dissenting Churches, iii. 151-6; Wood's Athenae Oxon. iii. 173, 443; Hutchins's Hist. of Dorset, ed. Shipp and Hodson, iii. 132.]  STRONGBOW, RICHARD, second. [See, d. 1176.]

STROTHER, EDWARD (d. 1737), medical writer, born in Northumberland, was perhaps son of Edward Strother, who was admitted an extra-licentiate of the College of Physicians on 1 Oct. 1700, and afterwards practised at Alnwick. On 8 May 1720 he graduated M.D. at the university of Utrecht, and on 3 April 1721 he was admitted a licentiate of the College of Physicians. He died on 14 April 1737 at his house near Soho Square.

He was the author of: 1. ‘A Critical Essay on Fevers,’ London, 1716, 8vo. 2. ‘Evodia, or a Discourse of Causes and Cures,’ London, 1718, 8vo. 3. ‘Pharmacopœia Practica,’ London, 1719, 12mo. 4. ‘D. M. I. de Vi Cordis Motrice,’ Utrecht, 1720, 4to. 5. ‘Experienced Measures how to manage the Small-pox,’ London, 1721, 8vo. 6. ‘Syllabus 