JOHN, a commentator on Horace and Persius, was born in Somersetshire in 1550, educated at Winchester school, and at New College, Oxford, by which society he was appointed master of the free school at Taunton. In this situation he acquired some reputation; but growing weary of teaching he applied to physic, and practised, it is said, with considerable success. He died in 1612. His short marginal annotations upon Horace and Persius (1606 and 1614, 8vo) are generally feeble, and without erudition; yet his edition of the former has often been reprinted. Saxius describes him as minorum gentium philologus.