GODWIN (Thomas), a learned English writer born in 1517, was master of the free-school at Abingdon in Berkshire; where he educated a great many youths, who became eminent both in church and state. His works shew him to have been a man of great learning; such as, Historia Romanae anthologia, Synopsis antiquitatum Hebraicarum, Moses & Aaron, Florilegium Phrasicon, &c. He died in 1642.