DR DANIEL, a very learned English divine, was born in 1638, and bred at Oxford; where, in 1664, he was elected perpetual fellow of his college. He afterwards became chaplain to Dr Seth Ward, bi-

(A) Bishop Berkeley was present at these conversations, and from his son we received the account we have given of them. They are likewise mentioned, but not stated so accurately, by Bishop Newton in his own Life. Whitby shop of Salisbury; who collated him in 1668 to the prebend of Yatesbury in that church, and soon after to that of Hulborn and Burbach. In 1672 he was admitted chanter of the said church, on the death of Mr John South, and then, or soon after, rector of St Edmund's church in Salisbury. He was made a prebendary of Taunton Regis in 1696, and died in 1726. He was ever strangely ignorant of worldly affairs, even to a degree that is scarcely to be conceived. His writings are numerous, and well known; particularly his Commentary on the New Testament.

a sea-port town in the north riding of Yorkshire, seated on the river Esk, near the place where it falls into the sea. The houses are neat, strong, and convenient; the number of inhabitants about 9000. Ship-building is their principal employment. W. Long. o. 24. N. Lat. 54. 30.