(Sir John), a very learned English writer in the 17th century. He studied the law in the Middle Temple, and was sworn one of the six clerks in the court of chancery in 1638. In the beginning of the civil war he followed the king to Oxford; for which he was sequestered of his place by the parliament at Westminster, and plundered. After the declining of the king's affairs, he returned to London; compounded, among other royalists, for his real estate; and betook himself wholly to his studies and a retired life, the fruits of which were some excellent works. He wrote Diatriba Chronologica; Chronicon Canon, Egyptianus, Ebraicus, Graecus, &c. He died in 1685.