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