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 sea, for his excellent compositions," and was esteemed the "prime composer" of the time of Charles I. and Oliver Cromwell. He was living in 1670.

[See "Wood's Athenæ" (Life).]

JOHN OF ELTHAM,

PRINCE,

Second son of King Edward II. and Isabel his Queen, was born at Eltham in 1315. He was afterwards created Earl of Cornwall. Fuller calls him "a sprightly gentleman, and who would have given greater evidence of his abilities, if not prevented by death in the prime of his age." He died in Scotland in 1336. "This John of Eltham," again remarks Fuller, "was the last son of an English king who died a plain Earl, the younger sons of kings from this time forward being created Dukes, except expiring in their infancy."

[See "Fuller's Worthies."]

JOHN OF KENT,

LEARNED MONK,

Was so called according to Fuller, because he was born in Kent. "After he had studied at home with good proficiency, he went over to France, where he became canon in the Church of St. Mary in Angers; but afterwards being weary of wordly wealth, he quitted that place, and turned Franciscan friar, and by Pope Innocent IV. he was sent joint legate into England. He flourished in the year 1248."

[See "Fuller's Worthies."]