sect or party among the Lutherans; the followers of Philip Melanchthon. He had strenuously opposed the Ubiquists, who arose in his time; and the dispute growing still hotter after his death, the university of Würtemberg, who espoused Melanchthon's opinion, were called by the Flacians, who attacked it, Philippists.

PHILLIPS, FABIAN, was author of several books relating to ancient customs and privileges in England. He was born at Prestbury in Gloucestershire, September 28, 1601. When very young, he spent some time in one of the Inns of Chancery; and went from thence to the Middle-Temple, where he became learned in the law. In the civil wars, he was a bold adherent of the king's prerogative; and was so strongly attached to Charles I. that, two days before that monarch was beheaded, he wrote a protestation against the intended murder, and caused it to be printed, and affixed to posts in all public places. He likewise published, in 1649, 4to, a pamphlet entitled, "Veritas Inconceivable; or King Charles I. no Man of Blood, but a Martyr for his People;" which was reprinted in 1660, 8vo. In 1663, when the courts of justice at Westminster, especially the chancery, were voted down by Oliver's parliament, he published, "Considerations against the dissolving and taking them away;" for which he received the thanks of parliament. He was for some time filazer for London, don, Middlesex, Cambridgeshire, and Huntingdonshire; and spent much money in searching records, and writing in favour of the royal prerogative. The only advantage he received for this attachment to the royal cause was, the place of one of the commissioners for regulating the law, worth 200l. per annum, which only lasted two years. After the restoration of Charles II., when the bill for taking away the tenures was depending in parliament, he wrote and published a book to show the necessity of preserving them, entitled, "Tenenda non tollenda;" or, the Necessity of preserving Tenures in capite, and by Knight's-service, which, according to their first institution, were, and are yet, a great part of the salus populi, &c. 1660," 4to. In 1663 he published, "The Antiquity, Legality, Reason, Duty, and Necessity of Pre-emption and Pourveyance for the King," 4to; and afterwards many other pieces upon subjects of a similar kind. He assisted Dr Bates in his "Elenchus Motuum;" especially in searching the records and offices for that work. He died, November 17th, 1690, in his 89th year. He was a man well acquainted with records and antiquities; but his manner of writing is neither close nor well digested. He published a political pamphlet in 1681, entitled, "Ursula Major et Minor;" showing that there is no such fear, as is factitiously pretended, of Popery and arbitrary Power."