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Philemon Holland , commonly called the“ Tranflator-General of his Age,” was a School-mafter, and pra&ifed phyfic at Coventry. He mademany ufeful additions to the “ Britannia,” whichwas the mod valuable of his productions. He con-tinued to tranflate till the age of eighty, and died in1636, in his eighty-fifth year. He made the follow-ing epigram, upon writing a large folio with a finglepen:—

With one foie pen I writ this book,

Made of a grey goofe quill;

A pen it was when it I took,

And a pen I leave it ftill,

William Alabaster . This Divine, whonever rofe higher in the Church than Prebend of St.Paul’s, was one of the heft Latin Poets of his age;and particularly eminent for his fkill in the Greekand Oriental Languages. He was once a convertto the Raman Catholic Religion, and publilhed /evenmotives for his converfion ; but, obferves Mr. Gran-ger, he foon found many more for his return to theChurch of England .

Edward Sympson, D. D. He was efteetneda good critic in the learned languages, and an ex-cellent hiflorian. He publilhed a very elaboratework, entitled, “ Cbronicon Catholicum ab exordioMundi,” in 16,52, and died in the fame year. This