a term generally applied to a person holding some of the privileges conferred by the old municipal corporations. It came into peculiar use in England as the term for the parliamentary representation of a burgh. See Municipal Corporations.

Daniel, a learned and witty dissenting divine of the seventeenth century, born at Staines in Middlesex, of which parish his father was minister. He was educated at Westminster school, and in 1660 was sent to Magdalen Hall, Oxford, but not being able conscientiously to subscribe the necessary formulæ, he quitted that university without taking his degree. In 1667, after taking orders, he was appointed by Lord Orrery to the head-mastership of a school recently established by that nobleman at Charleville in Munster, and soon after became private chaplain to lady Mervin, near Dublin. On his return from Ireland, he openly avowed his Presbyterian principles, and frequently preached in contempt of the severe laws against nonconformity. For these offences he was imprisoned, but soon regaining his liberty, he went to London, where he speedily collected a large congregation, as much by the somewhat fanatical fervour of his piety as by the ludicrous illustrations which he frequently employed in his sermons. Besides preaching, he gave instructions to private pupils, of whom the most distinguished was Henry St John, afterwards Lord Bolingbroke. He died in 1712.

Right Rev. Thomas, bishop of Salisbury, was born at Odham, in Hampshire, in 1756. He was educated at Winchester, and in 1775 he removed to Oxford, where he gained a scholarship at Corpus Christi College. Before graduating, he edited a reprint of Burton's Pentalogia. In 1781 he brought out an edition of Dawe's Miscellanea Critica, with numerous annotations, a work so favourably received on the continent that it was reprinted verbatim at Leipzig in 1800. In 1783 he became a fellow of his college, and two years later undertook a journey to Holland, where he prosecuted his researches for some time. On his return he was appointed chaplain to Shute Barrington, bishop of Salisbury, through whose influence he obtained a prebendal stall in the cathedral of that town. In 1789 he published his Considerations on the Abolition of Slavery, in which he advocated the principle of gradual emancipation. From Salisbury he removed to Durham, where he effected much good among the poorer classes, by publishing and distributing suitable religious works. In 1803, he was promoted by his old schoolfellow Addington, then prime minister, to the vacant see of St David's, which he held for twenty years, and where he gave evidence of his philanthropic disposition by establishing the Society for the promotion of Christian Knowledge, and founding the college of Lampeter, which he liberally endowed. In 1820 he was appointed first president of the Royal Society of Literature recently founded; and three years later was promoted to the see of Salisbury, over which he presided for twelve years, prosecuting his benevolent designs with unwearied industry. Not the least important among the many services which he rendered to the church, was the establishment of a Church Union Society for the assistance of infirm and distressed clergymen, to which he bequeathed L3000. In the midst of his useful and laborious career, he was cut off by an attack of dropsy, February 19, 1837. A list of his works, which are very numerous, will be found in his biography by J. S. Harford. In addition to those already referred to, may be mentioned his "Essay on the Study of Antiquities;" "The first Principles of Christian Knowledge;" "Reflections on the Controversial Writings of Dr Priestley;" "Emendationes in Suidam et Heysehum et alios Lexicographos Graecos;" "The Bible, and nothing but the Bible, the Religion of the Church of England."