SPENSER (Dr John), a very ingenious and learned English divine, born in Kent in 1630; who became master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and afterwards dean of Ely. He published a Discourse on Prodigies, which is a truly philosophical and learned work; and another famous work De legibus Hebræorum ritualibus, et eorum rationibus; and after a life spent in the closest application to his studies, died in 1695.