DR PETER, an eminent English writer, Heylin, was born at Burford, in Oxfordshire, in 1650. He studied at Hart Hall, Oxford; where he took his degrees in arts and divinity, and became an able geographer and historian. He was appointed one of the chaplains in ordinary to King Charles I.; was presented to the rectory of Hemingford in Huntingdonshire, made a prebendary of Westminster, and obtained several other livings: but of these he was deprived by the parliament, who also sequestrated his estate; by which means he and his family were reduced to great necessity. However, upon the restoration, he was restored to his spiritualities; but never rose higher than to be subdean of Westminster. He died in 1662; and was interred in St Peter's church in Westminster, where he had a neat monument erected to his memory. His writings are very numerous: the principal of which are, 1. Microcosmus, or a description of the Great World. 2. Cosmographia. 3. The history of St George. 4. Ecclesia Vindicata, or the church of England Justified. 5. Historical and Miscellaneous Tracts, &c.