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Volume 17 · 63 words · 1797 Edition

(Stephen), an English antiquarian, born in 1622. He travelled, and studied in several foreign universities during the civil wars; and in 1654, returned and settled at Lincoln, where he practised physic with success until the year 1667, when he died of a malignant fever. His works were collected in folio in 1671, by Mr Henshaw, under the title of Etymologicon Linguae Anglicane, &c.