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 Goldwell, Bishop of St. Asaph in the time of Queen Mary, was also born at the same place.

[See "Wood's Athenæ Oxon.," by Bliss; "Le Neve's Fasti," "Blomefield's History of Norfolk;" and "Hasted's Kent."]  STEPHEN GOSSON

DIVINE AND POET,

Was a Kentish man born in 1554, and educated at Oxford. He took Orders and obtained the living of Great Wigborough, in Essex, and subsequently the Rectory of St. Botolph in London, where he died in 1623. He was an imitator of his contemporaries, Spenser and Sidney, and excelled in pastoral poetry. He wrote several Plays, and a sermon entitled "The Trumpet of War."

[See "Wood's Athenæ Oxon,," by Bliss; "Gentleman's Magazine," 1795, and "Biographia Dramatica"]  WILLIAM GOSTLING

ANTIQUARY,

Was born at Canterbury in 1705. He was educated at the King's School there, for the church, and became Vicar of Stone, in the Island of Oxney, and Minor Canon of the Cathedral of Canterbury. He wrote several antiquarian treatises, the best known of which is ** A Walk in and about the City of Canterbury." He died in 1777.

[See "Gentleman's Magazine," 1777; "Hasted's Kent," and "Nichols's Literary Anecdotes"]