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MATTHEW WREN, D. D.

Lord Bishop of ELY .

0 C T 0 R Matthew Wren , Lord Bishop of Ely,and Count-Palatine, (eldest Son of * Francis Wren,

Citizen and Mercer of London , only Son of Cuth-bert Wren, of Monk's-Kir by, in the County of War-wick, second Son of William Wren, of Sherborne-Houje , and of Billy-Hall, in the Bishoprick ofDurham) was born in the Parish of St. Peter’ s-Cheap, Lofidon, in the Year 1585.

Being an eminent Scholar in his Youth, of pregnant Brat - /“*■Hopes, and more than ordinary Expectation, h z n p e Jfo„J°‘became, first a Student in Pembroke-Hall, in the s. T. p. et col-University of Cambridge ; then Greek-Scholar, and on November 9, 1605, was Mag- >»,s. e ^ e d Fellow of that House ; and (which was an happy Prognostick of hisuture Fortunes) had been invited and drawn thither by Dr. Lancelot Andrews,m °ft learned, pious, and worthy Master of that Hall, afterwards Bistiop

hnA ^ ren natm J amarit l8, 1552. anno 6 Edw. VI. apud Nubald-Rtvtl, in Ker-

l 1 a Monacborum ) in agro Warw'tccnst , Cycle (*) 7 °, lit er a dominicali F.

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