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 afford interesting memorials of the events of the time; and his account of his embassy to Russia is published in "Hackluyt's Voyages."

[See "Lodge's Illustrations of British History," and "Biographia Britannica."]

JOHN RANDOLPH,

BISHOP,

Was the younger son of the above, and born at Saltwood in 1749. He was educated at Oxford, where he was chosen Prælector of Poetry in 1776, and in 1782 Regius Professor of Greek. In 1783 he became Rector of Ewelme, whence he was advanced to the See of Oxford in 1799, to be translated to Bangor in 1807, and thence to London in 1809. He died in 1813. He was the author of a work on the "Study of the Greek Language," and of other treatises.

[See "Gentleman's Magazine" for 1813, 1814.]

WILLIAM REDE,

BISHOP OF CHICHESTER, 1369,

Was born at Marden, and educated at Oxford, where he became a Fellow of Merton College, which he furnished with a "fair library, and books and astronomical tables of his own making, which are still to be seen therein, with his lively picture inserted." He was preferred Bishop of Chichester by Edward III. He was an architect as well as a divine and mathematician, and built a castle at Amberley in Sussex. He died in 1386.

[See "Fuller's Worthies."]