LUCIUS, second Viscount Falkland, a nobleman of great accomplishments, was born about 1610 at Burford in Oxfordshire, but as his father was lord-deputy of Ireland, he received his education at Trinity College, Dublin. He left the university to serve in the Low Countries; but being disappointed in obtaining promotion, he returned to England, and became an ardent student of literature. He made great progress in the study of the Greek and Latin historians and fathers, and lived in terms of intimacy with Johnson, Suckling, Cowley, and other celebrated literary men of the day. In 1638 he succeeded to his father's title, and was appointed gentleman of the privy-chamber to Charles I. In 1640 he took his seat in the House of Commons as member for Newport, Isle of Wight, and joined the parliamentary party in their resistance to the arbitrary measures of the king. He took a prominent part in the impeachment of Lord Finch, and in the endeavours to deprive the bishops of their seats in the House of Lords. On the breaking out of the civil war he raised and headed a troop in defence of the king, whom he attended at the battle of Edgehill, at Oxford, and the siege of Gloucester. He fell by a musket-shot in the battle of Newbury, leaving behind him a large collection of poems and political writings, which have since been published.

Robert, LL.D., a learned English chronologer, was born in Devonshire about the year 1615. On the restoration of Charles II., he was preferred to the archdeaconry of Exeter; but was ejected soon after, and spent the remainder of his days at his rectory of Portlemouth, where he died in 1688. He published *Paleologia Chronica*, a chronology of ancient times, in three parts, didactical, apodeictical, and canonical; and translated the church hymns into Latin verse.