PRIEST || Prime. folk; to which he was collated by Dr Lloyd, then bishop of Norwich. In 1691, upon the death of Dr Edward Pocock, the Hebrew professorship at Oxford, being vacant, was offered to Dr Prideaux, but he refused it. In 1697, he published his Life of Mahomet; and in 1702, was installed dean of Norwich. In 1710 he was cut for the stone, which interrupted his studies for more than a year. Some time after his return to London, he proceeded with his Connexion of the History of the Old and New Testament; which he had begun when he laid aside the design of writing the History of Appropriations. He died in 1724.