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• MATTHEW WREN, D. D.

My humblest Duty to his Grace, when you have Opportunity ; Serviceto the Dean of Canterbury, and to all in your h amily that remember,

SIR,

Tour very affeSlionate Friend and Brother,

Thomas, Afaph •

Numb. III.

ATT HE W Wren, the eldest Son of Dr. Matthew Wren , Lord Bi-’

shop of Ely, was originally a Student in Cambridge, and afterwards forseveral Years (in the Time of the Usurpation) in the University of Oxford,not in a College or Hall, but a private House. Aster his Majesty’s Restora-tion, he became Secretary to Edward, Earl of Clarendon ; was elected a Bur-gess for St. Michael’% in Cornwall, to serve in that Parliament that began at F v ff^ xo fiWestminster, May 8, 1661. After the Fall of the Lord Clarendon , he wasMade Secretary to his Royal Highness James, Duke of York, in whole Servicehe continued to the Time of his De-ath, which happened in 1672. aged about42 \ ears. His Body was conveyed to Cambridge, and there buried in Pem-broke-hall Chapel, in the fame Vault wherein his Father had been depositedfive Years before.

This ingenious Person hath written.

I. Considerations on Mr. Harringtons Common-wealth of Oceana, restrain’d to

the first Fart of the, Preliminaries, Lond. 1657.-Before these Considera-

tions is a large Letter sent by the Author to Dr. John Wilkins, Wardenof Wadham College (afterwards Biffiop of Chester ) by whom the said Authorwas desired to give his Judgment concerning the Common-wealth of Oceana.

II. Monarchy Asserted: Or the State of monarchical and popular Govern-ment j in Vindication op the Conjiderations on Mr. Harrington’j Oceana, Lond.

1659, an & *66o. *

III. Increpatio Bar-jesu; five polemicce adfertiones locorum aliquot f fcrip-turæ ab imposturis perverfionum in cateche/i Racoviana; colledlœ bine inde exopere pragrandt medit. critic, in S. Paginam conscript, a patre Juo episcopoKlienli in fohtudinesud carcerarid.

The reverend Dr. Barwick had recommended to Mr. Matthew Wren, toanswer the pernicious Leviathan of Mr. Hobbs, from which Mr. Wren ex-cused himself as insufficient, and would have had it undertaken by some pro-fessed Divine.

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