EDMUND, D.D., a learned English divine of the 17th century, distinguished by his skill in the eastern languages. He was educated at Cambridge; where he was master of Catharine hall, and Arabic professor; and was at length canon of Canterbury. He had the greatest share in the Polyglott Bible of London; and wrote the Hexaglottion pro septem Orientalibus, &c. On this excellent work, which occupied a great part of his life, he bestowed incredible pains and expense, even to the breaking of his constitution, and exhausting of his fortune, having expended no less than 12,000l. upon that work. At length, when it was printed, the copies remained uncollected upon his hands. He died in 1685; and lies buried in the churchyard of Higham Gobyon in Bedfordshire, of which he was rector. It appears from the inscription on his monument, which he erected in his lifetime, that he was chaplain to Charles II. He bequeathed all his oriental manuscripts to the university of Cambridge, on condition that his name should be written on every copy in the collection.