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 (afterwards Charles II) and from that time his promotion was rapid. In the same year he became Bishop of Chichester, in 1641 he was promoted to Salisbury, to be translated at the Restoration to Winchester. He was an especial favourite with Charles I, whom he is said to have assisted in composing the Ikon Basilike. He did not long survive his last promotion, dying in 1662. He was a man of exemplary piety, and of much learning. He wrote several devotional works and sermons, including "Holy Rules and Helps to Devotion," published 1674.

[See "Wood's Athenæ Oxon.," by Bliss; "Le Neve's Fasti"; "Biographia Britannica."]

JOHN EASDAY

John Easday, who, it may be assumed, was a Kentish man, was, according to Fuller, an Alderman and Mayor of the city of Canterbury in the year 1585. Though a person of "but an indifferent estate," he repaired the walls of the city, which were fallen to decay, "as far as his name is inscribed on the wall," an example which, the chronicler adds, has found many panegyrists, but few imitators.

[See "Fuller's Worthies."]

PRINCE EDMUND

Youngest son of Henry VII., created Duke of Somerset, was born at Greenwich in 1495. He died in childhood in 1500, at Bishop's Hatfield, in Hertfordshire, which was