uated at Heidelburgh; he wrote several treatises on Astronomy,
Chronology and Medicine, particularly the Cosmographical Glass--printed
in 1559, at the close of which year he died.

Thomas Legge, born in 1535, was student at Cambridge, and succeeded his
friend Caius in the mastership of Caius College; he was a great and
distinguished Antiquarian; having attached himself to the Law, he was
appointed King's legal professor, and twice filled the vice Chancellor's
chair; he was also a dramatic writer, he died in 1607.

John Cosin, was born in Norwich, in 1594, he studied in Caius College,
Cambridge; he was promoted to several church preferments, which, at the
commencement of the civil wars, he was deprived of, being the first
clergyman who suffered that species of punishment for his loyalty. On
the return of King Charles the II. he was appointed to the deanery of
Peterborough, and soon afterwards called to the Bishoprick of Durham, and
died in 1672; he wrote some pieces on polemical divinity.

Edward Brown, was born in this city about the year 1642, he was educated
at the grammar school, and in 1665 took the degree of Bachelor in Physic,
at Cambridge, and was soon after admitted at Oxford, where he in 1667
obtained a doctor's diploma; he then travelled over great part of the
Continent, and on his return, published an account of his travels, which
contain some valuable information of Natural History, particularly on
Minerology and Metallurgy; after settling in London, he was appointed
physician to King Charles the II. and in 1705, became president of the
College of physicians, which office he held till his death; he was well
versed in the living and the dead languages; he died in 1708, at his seat
at Northfleet, in Kent.

Doctor Samuel Clarke, the son of Edward Clarke, esq. an alderman of
Norwich, and for several years one of its representatives in Parliament;
he was born in 1675, and completed his studies at Cambridge, where he
soon distinguished himself, particularly in the Mathematics; the
Newtonian Philosophy attracted his notice, and by his illustration of
that theory, he obtained very considerable credit at the early age of 22;
he afterwards applied himself to divinity, and was appointed to some
church preferments, but from his attachment to Mathematical knowledge, he
was unwilling to admit any thing for truth which did not allow of that
kind of demonstration; this gave a bias to his judgment, which is
apparent in a