and fellows of Corpus Christi College to the curacy of St. Benet’s, Cambridge.  Within a twelvemonth after—­namely, in 1631—­HE made his first appearance as an author.  His Davia’s Heinous Sin, Hearty Repentance, Heavy Punishment, which came out in that year, was his sole adventure of noteworthy compass as a versifier; and he certainly testified his discretion in choosing thenceforward to be satisfied with writing prose.  A valuable prebend attached to the Salisbury Cathedral was bestowed on him at this time, near about which he is supposed to have delivered, in discourses, his so-called Comment on Ruth.  Next we hear of him as rector of Broadwindsor, where, probably, he composed his History of the Holy War, published in 1639.  His Holy State was given to the world in 1642.  Having just before this removed to London under circumstances which are involved in some obscurity, he was there appointed lecturer to the Inns of Court and to the Savoy Chapel.  But trouble awaited him, as it then awaited all other loyalists whom it had not overtaken already, and 1643 found him a refugee at Oxford.  There he was warmly welcomed by the king and his adherents, but on his imprudently daring to urge lenient counsels, his moderation gave as much dissatisfaction to the court party as it had previously given to the Parliamentarians, and he fell into temporary disgrace.  Nevertheless, he suffered, at the hands of the anti-royalists, the same spoliation which would have been visited on a malignant of the extremest stamp.  To fill up the measure of his misfortune—­as if it were not enough that he should be deprived of his stated means of livelihood—­he was despoiled of his library.  For a while, also, his loyalty was held, though without the slightest grounds, in considerable suspicion.  On coming to be better known, however, he was restored to favor, and was enrolled among the royal chaplains.  If the doubts as to the sincerity of his adhesion to Charles were ever actually thought to have good foundation, they must have been dissipated by his voluntarily exposing himself to danger, as he did at one of the sieges of Basing House.  Like Isaac Barrow, he would at need have done duty militant just as effectually with carnal weapons as with spiritual.  No longer required at Basing House, he repaired to Oxford again, and then to Exeter, where he was nominated chaplain to the princess Henrietta Anne.  But he held his new post for only a short period.  Leaving Exeter, he once more sought Oxford, and thence went to London.  Forbidden to preach there, he retired to Northamptonshire, and then reappeared at the metropolis, where he was sojourning in the memorable year 1649.  Becoming in that year curate of Waltham Abbey, he enjoyed an interval of quietude while all around him was turbulence.  Yet he was soon in London afresh, lecturer at various churches from 1651 till near the end of his life.  In 1658 he was appointed rector of St. Dunstan’s, Cranford, but we read of him as subsequently journeying to The Hague and to Salisbury, and as preaching at the Savoy Chapel.  It must have solaced his latter days to reflect that he had survived to welcome the Restoration.  He died, from what is reasonably surmised to have been typhus fever, on the 16th of August, 1661, and lies buried in the chancel of the church to which he last ministered, at Cranford, Surrey.