(Nicholas), an English poet and political writer, was born at Maidstone in Kent, and entered of St. John's college Oxford; from whence he was expelled for irregularity of conduct and libertine principles. Retaining great resentment against the university on this account, he abused its learning and discipline, and some of the most respectable characters in it, in a poem published in 1724, called Oculus Britanniae, and in a book entitled Terre Filiti. He published, A Miscellany of poems, sacred and profane; and, The Convocation, a poem in 5 cantos, which was a satire on the bishop of Bangor's antagonists. But he is best known for the share he had in the political paper called The Craftsman; tho', after having been the drudge of his party for near 20 years, he was as much forgotten in the famous compromise of 1742, as if he had never been born; and, when he died in that year of a broken heart, was indebted to the charity of his bookseller for a grave.