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 Essex, whence he removed to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where, after taking his degree, he was elected a Fellow of Queen's. In 1649 he was appointed Savilian Professor at Oxford, and removing to London, took a leading part in founding the Royal Society. In 1658 he was made Keeper of the Archives at Oxford, and at the Restoration became the King's Chaplain and one of the divines to review the Liturgy. He died at Oxford 28th October, 1703. He was the author of several theological and mathematical works, which were collected and published in 1699. He was an adept in the art of decyphering, an art which he made available to his party, during the civil war.

[See his Life, prefixed to his Works, "Biographia Britannica," Thompson [sic]'s "History of the Royal Society," etc.]

SIR FRANCIS WALSINGHAM,

STATESMAN,

Was born at Chiselhurst, in 1536, of an ancient family, long settled in that place. He was educated at Cambridge and abroad, where he acquired such a knowledge of languages as commended him to Sir William Cecil, who employed him on several embassies to the Court of France. In 1573 he was appointed one of the Secretaries of State and knighted. He was subsequently Ambassador to James VI., in Scotland, and one of the Commissioners on the trial of Mary Queen of Scots. He died 6th April, 1590, and was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. His only daughter, Frances, was married first to Sir Philip Sidney,