nephew and heir to the former, was an eminent schoolmaster and critic. He was born at Llangan, in Shropshire, in the year 1650; and it is remarkable, that at the age of eighteen, when he first went to school, he knew not one letter, nor understood one word of any language but Welsh; but he improved his time so well that he became a person of great and extensive knowledge. His genius led him chiefly to the study of antiquities and philology, in which he composed several books. The first he published was a grammar, in 1679, entitled *De Analogia seu Arte Latinae Linguae Commentariolus*. He also published a new and correct edition of Anacreon, with notes; an edition of Horace; a Dictionary of British Antiquities, in Latin; and several other works. He was a great master of the ancient British and Irish tongues, and particularly skilled in the Latin, Greek, northern, and oriental languages. He died on the 31st May 1723, after being above twenty years master of Mercer's school in London.