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240 was a member of University College, as a Commoner, in 1603. He was esteemed, by those who knew him, as a great Master of the English language; a perfect Understander of French and Spanish; a good Poet, and no mean Orator. He died in Oxford; and, according to Wood, "he was buried in that little old chapel of University College (sometime standing near the middle of the present Quadrangle) [This was written about 1675] which was pulled down in 1668."

Edward Herbert, of Cherbury, according to his own statement, was only twelve years of age when he entered University College; and he remembered that at his first coming he disputed in logic, and made, in Greek oftener than in Latin, the exercises required by the college. Then, as Wood says, "he took himself to travel."

Gerard Langbaine, the Younger, Dramatic Biographer and Critic, was, in birth, in education, in life and in death, a thorough Oxford man. He was born in the Parish of St. Peter's-in-the-East; his father, bearing the same name, being Provost of Queen's. He went to school in and about Oxford; he entered University College as a Gentleman Commoner in 1672; he died in Oxford twenty years later, and he was "buried within the body of St. Peter's-in-the-East."

At college Wood tells us that the young