(Richard), a learned divine and polite writer, was born in 1671, and educated at Oxford. He was presented to the living of Halham in Yorkshire, where he was so admired for the sweetness of his voice and the gracefulness of his delivery, that the people for several miles round flocked to his sermons. Coming to London in 1712, he was, by the favour of Dean Swift, introduced to the earl of Oxford, who made him one of his chaplains, and the queen soon after appointed him chaplain to the garrison at Hull; but losing his patrons upon the change of the ministry, he lost his chaplainship; and being obliged to apply himself to writing, composed, 1. A Body of Divinity; 2. The Life of Cardinal Wolsey; 3. A Treatise of Morality, &c. He died in 1725.

FIDE-JUSSORES Affidui. See ASSIDUUS.

FIDE-Juror, in the civil law, is a surety, or one that obliges himself in the same contract with a principal, for the greater security of the creditor or stipulator.