HUMPHRY, a learned clergyman of the church of England, was born at Padstow in Cornwall in 1648. He studied three years at Westminster under Dr Busby; and then was removed to Christchurch, Oxford. Here he published, in 1676, his Marmora Oxoniensis ex Arundeliana, Seldeniana, altique conflata, cum perpetuo Commentario. This introduced him to the lord chancellor Finch, afterward earl of Nottingham, who in 1679 presented him to the rectory of St Clements near Oxford, and in 1681 bestowed on him a prebend of Norwich. Some years after he was engaged in a controversy with the Papists at Norwich, concerning the validity of the orders of the church of England, which produced his book upon that subject. In 1688 he was installed in the archdeaconry of Suffolk; to which he was collated by Dr Lloyd, then bishop of Norwich. In 1691, upon the death of Dr Edward Pococke, the Hebrew professorship at Oxford being vacant, was offered to Dr Prideaux, but he refused it. In 1697, he published his Life of Mahomet, and in 1702 was installed dean of Norwich. In 1710 he was cut for the stone, which interrupted his studies. for more than a year. Some time after his return to London, he proceeded with his Connection of the History of the Old and New Testament; which he had begun when he laid aside the design of writing the History of Appropriations. He died in 1724.

PRIENÉ, an ancient town of Asia Minor. It is now called Samsun, and Samsun-katesi, which do not however appear to be very recent. It was taken in 1391 by Bajazet, who subdued Ionia. It had formerly, without including the citadel, three gateways; one of which was towards Kelibesh, an adjoining village; and without it are vaults of sepulchres. The entrance was not wide. A part of the arch, consisting of a single row of massive stones, still remains; but those on which it rests are so corroded by age, broken, or distorted, as to seem every moment ready to yield and let down their load. A rugged way leads to a second opening in the wall opposite to this, and about a mile from it; beyond which are likewise vaults of sepulchres. Between these was a gate facing to the plain; and on the left hand going out of it is a hole, resembling the mouth of an oven, in the side of a square tower; and over it an inscription in small characters, exceedingly difficult to be read. It signifies, that a certain Cyprian in his sleep had beheld Ceres and Proserpine arrayed in white; and that in three visions they had enjoined the worship of a hero, the guardian of the city, and pointed out the place where, in obedience to them, he had erected the god. This was probably some local hero, whose little image was set in the wall, and whose name and memory have perished.