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Rh of the same kind as high as the year 1401, and solicits the favour of communications, of additions or corrections; but he did not publish any thing further on the subject, although he mentions that his manuscript collections were at least twice as great as what he had printed. His next work was the " Lives of the Protestant Bishops;" of which he published in the year 1720 two parts, containing the archbishops of Canterbury and York.

These later publications appear to have been as unprofitable as his first work, and to have plunged him into further pecuniary difficulties, which compelled him to turn his university education to some useful account; accordingly he entered the church in the forty-fourth year of his age, without having taken any degree at either of the universities. He was presented to the rectory of Thornton-le-Moor, in Lincolnshire, by the bishop of Ely, to whom he had dedicated his " Fasti Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ," and was instituted thereto on the 2nd Jan. 1721-22. This addition to his means, though evidently intended to afford him some relief from his troubles, had the contrary effect ; for immediately it became known to his creditors, they arrested him, and threw him into Lincoln jail. VOL. I. <!--footnote 23 continues on Page:Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae Vol.1 body of work.djvu/24 and the text has been included here