JUNIUS, Francis, or Francis du Jon, the ſon of the preceding, was born at Heidelberg in 1589. He at firſt deſigned to devote himſelf to a military life; but after the truce concluded in 1609, he applied himſelf entirely to ſtudy. He came to England in 1620, and lived 30 years in the earl of Arundel's family. He was greatly eſteemed not only for his profound erudition, but alſo for the purity of his manners; and was ſo paſſionately fond of the ſtudy of the northern languages, that, being informed there were ſome villages in Friesland where the ancient language of the Saxons was preſerved, he went and lived two years in that country. He returned to England in 1675; and after ſpending a year at Oxford, retired to Windſor, in order to viſit Voffius, at whoſe houſe he died in 1677. The univerſity of Oxford, to which he bequeathed his manuſcripts,
erected a very handſome monument to his memory. He wrote, 1. De Piſtura Veterum, which is admired by all the learned; the beſt edition of it is that of Rotterdam in 1694. He publiſhed the ſame work at London in Engliſh. 2. An explication of the old Gothic manuſcript, called the Silver one, becauſe the four Goſpels are there written in ſilver Gothic letters; this was publiſhed with notes by Thomas Mareſchal or Marſhal. 3. A large commentary on the Harmony of the four Goſpels by Tatian, which is ſtill in manuſcript. 4. A Gloſſary in five languages, in which he explains the origin of the Northern languages; publiſhed at Oxford in 1745, in folio, by Mr Edward Lee.