Dr EDWARD, a learned oriental scholar, was the eldest son of the Rev. Edward Pococke, and was born at Oxford in 1604, where he was also educated. In 1628 he was admitted probationer-fellow of his college, and about the same time had prepared an edition of the Second Epistle of St Peter, the Second and Third of St John, and that of St Jude, in Syriac and Greek, with a Latin Translation and Notes. In 1629 he was ordained priest, and appointed chaplain to the English merchants at Aleppo, where he continued five or six years; in which time he distinguished himself by his fortitude and zeal while the plague raged there. At length returning to England, he was in 1636 appointed reader of the Arabic lectures founded by Archbishop Laud. Three years after he went to Constanti- modesty and humility, and all the virtues that can adorn a Christian. His theological works were republished at London in 1742, in two volumes in folio.