MARSHAL (Thomas), a very learned English divine in the 17th century, was educated at Oxford. This city being garrisoned upon the breaking out of the civil wars, he bore arms for the king. Afterward he had several successive preferments in the church; and died at Lincoln-college, of which he was rector. By his will he left all his books and MSS. to the university of Oxford, and money to Lincoln-college for the maintenance of three scholars. He was a noted critic, especially in the Gothic and English-Saxon tongues; and eminent for his piety and other valuable qualities. He wrote, 1. Observations in Evangelorum versiones per antiquos duos, Goth. scilicet & Anglo-Sax. &c. 2. Notes on the church-catechism, &c.