(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 wars he followed the king to Oxford; for which he was sequestrated 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 Distriba Chronologica; Chronicon Canon, Aegyptiacus, Ebracius, Graecus, &c. He died in 1685.