[Footnote 4:  Dr. Richard Kilbie, born at Ratcliffe, in Leicestershire, and a great benefactor to his College, since he restored the neglected library, added eight new repositories for books, and gave to it many excellent volumes.  He became Rector in 1590, and in 1610 he was appointed the King’s Hebrew Professor.  He died in 1620.]

[Footnote 5:  An edition of this work was published in Oxford so recently as 1841.]

[Footnote 6:  Mr. Charles Crooke, a younger son of Sir John Crooke, of Chilton, in Bucks, one of the Justices of the King’s Bench.  In 1615, he proceeded D.D., being then Rector of Amersham and a Fellow of Eton College.]

[Footnote 7:  Brother of George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury, born at Guildford in 1560, and promoted to the See of Salisbury in 1615, as a reward for his Lectures against Suarez and Bellarmine, in defence of the King’s supreme power.  On his way to Sarum, he made an oration to the University, and his friends parted from him with tears.  He died March 2nd, 1617-8.]

[Footnote 8:  Dr. John Prideaux, born at Harford, in Devon in 1578, and Rector of Exeter College in 1612, when he acquired so much fame in the government of it, that several eminent foreigners placed themselves under his care.  He was made King’s Professor in Divinity in 1615, and Bishop of Worcester in 1641; but was reduced to great poverty in the Civil Wars, and died July 20th, 1650.]

[Footnote 9:  Dr. Arthur Lake, born at Southampton about 1550, and educated at Winchester School, whence he proceeded to New College, Oxford.  He was created Dean of Worcester in 1608, and Bishop of Bath and Wells in 1616.  He died on 4th May, 1626.]

[Footnote 10:  Dr. Tobias Matthew—­died March 29, 1628, aged 83.]

[Footnote 11:  Dr. William Laud, born at Reading, Oct. 7, 1573, and educated there, and at St. John’s College, Oxford.  In 1616, he was made Dean of Gloucester, in 1621 Bishop of St. David’s, and in 1622 he had a conference with Fisher the Jesuit, of which the printed account evinces how opposed he was to Popery; but his Arminian tenets gave offence to the Calvinists.  In 1626 he was translated to the See of Bath and Wells, in 1628 to London, and in 1633 to Canterbury.  His zeal for the establishment of the Liturgy in Scotland produced him numerous enemies, by whose means he was imprisoned in the Tower for three years, and beheaded Jan. 10th, 1644-45.  His works were published at Oxford, 6 vols. 8vo., 1847-9.]

[Footnote 12:  Dr. Henry Hammond was born at Chertsey, in Surrey, Aug. 18th, 1605, and was educated at Eton, and Magdalen College, Oxford.  His loyalty caused him to be deprived of his preferments during the Civil Wars, and at the Restoration he was designed for Bishop of Worcester, but died before consecration, April 25th, 1660.  His principal works are, his “Practical Catechism,” and “A Paraphrase and Annotations on the New Testament.”]

[Footnote 13:  Dr. Thomas Pierce, for some years President of Magdalen College, Oxford.  In his epitaph composed by himself he says, “Here lies all that was mortal, the outside, dust, and ashes of Thomas Pierce, D.D., once the President of a College in Oxford, at first the Rector of Brington-cum-Membris, Canon of Lincoln, and at last Dean of Sarum; who fell asleep in the Lord Jesus [Mar. 28, an. 1691], but in hope of an awake at the resurrection.”]