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Venn: Adm. pens. (age 18) at TRINITY, June 26, 1683. S. of James, of Westminster, London. School, Westminster. ' Matric. 1683; Scholar, 1684; B.A. 1686-7; M.A. 1690; D.D. 1705 ('=<IT+>Comitia Regia. Certain gatherings of the Senate of the University at which royal personages were present and degrees specially conferred.'Com. Reg.). Fellow, 1689. Incorp. at Oxford, 1691. Regius Professor of Hebrew, 1699-1704. Faculty (Lambeth) to receive priest's orders, Apr. 5, 1695, from the Bishop of Rochester. R. of Sutton, near Shrewsbury, Salop, 1692-1705. R. of Spofforth, Yorks., 1700-8. Chaplain to the Duke of Somerset. Author, sermons, etc. Editor of Horace. Died Oct. 28, 1708. Buried at Spofforth.