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 "Nichols's Literary Anecdotes," Boswell's Life of Johnson," "Gentleman's Magazine," 1806, and Allibone's Dictionary of Authors."]

JOHN CARTER,

DIVINE,

Was born at Wickham in 1554, and educated at Clare Hall, Cambridge. After ordination he became Vicar of Bramford, Suffolk, then of Belstead. He died 21st February, 1634. His religious views were those of the Puritans, but he was a man not only of piety, but of humour and wit. His life was written by his son, and published in 1653. He was the author of an " Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount," published in 1627.

[See "Neale [sic]'s History of the Puritans," "Clarke's Lives," and the Biography by his son,"]

THOMAS CASE,

NONCONFORMIST DIVINE,

Was born at Bexley in 1598, and educated at Christ Church, Oxford. Being expelled from the living of Erpingham, in Norfolk, for Nonconformity, he joined the Parliament, and was appointed, when that party came to power, to the Ministry of St. Mary Magdalen, Milk Street, London. Subsequently he became Lecturer at Aldermanbury, St. Giles, Cripplegate, and finally rector of St. Giles in the Fields. He was the originator of the "Morning Exercises," in which some of the ablest Nonconformist sermons were published between 1677-90. He