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 HEBREW LEXICON. 411 Our third writer, Herbert Thorndike, was pro- bably born in 1598. He, too, was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He proceeded B.A. in 1617, and was afterwards elecled a fellow of his college. As a young man he was conspicuous for his knowledge of oriental languages, and especially of rabbinical literature. He was appointed Hebrew ledturer to his college in 1640, and later on helped Walton in the compilation of his great ' Polyglott,' undertaking the Syriac part, besides a share in the general supervision of the whole work. As a theologian he has lately been singled out by Dr. Wickham Legg as one of the leaders of that High Anglican school of devout learning and piety which persisted as an undercurrent throughout the eighteenth century, and came to the surface again in the Traftarian movement. He was appointed to a prebend of Westminster in 1661, and died in 1672. As long ago as 1856 Mr. Haddan, in his life of Thorndike, 1 pointed out that there is a slight difference in the title-pages of the only two copies known of an Epitome Lexici Hebraici, etc., published, as Thorndike's work, in 1635, the latter's name being given as c Thornedike ' in the copy at Jesus College, Oxford, and as 'Thornidicke' in the Cambridge University Library copy. Mr. Haddan also drew attention 2 to an entry in Nichols' ' History of Leicestershire' (vol. iv, p. 133) of a supposed earlier edition or issue of 22nd June, 1632. 1 Thorndike's Works. [Lib. of Anglo-Cath. Theol.] vi, p. 267. 2 Ibid. p. 176.