MOSS (Robert), dean of Ely, was bred in Bennet-college Cambridge, of which he was chosen a fellow. He acquired the reputation of one of the most ingenious performers of any about his time, of all kinds of public exercises, whether in classical or academical learning. His sermons at St Mary's were much crowded. He published sermons, and some poems; and he is supposed to be the author of a pamphlet intitled, A defence of my lords the bishops, as well as the clergy of the lower house of Convocation; in a letter from a member of that house to the prolocutor, concerning the late consultations about the bishop of Bangor's writings. He died in 1729, aged 63.