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Chapter 32 of 72

32. EDWARD LIVELY

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His stipend had been but small, and after many troubles, and the loss of his wife, the mother of a numerous family, he was well provided for by Dr. Barlow, that he might be enabled to devote himself to the business of the great Translation. He died of a quinsy, after four days' illness, leaving eleven orphans, "destitute of necessaries for their maintenance, but only such as God, and good friends, should provide." He was author of a Latin exposition of five of the minor Prophets, and of a work on chronology. Dr. Pusey, of Oxford, says, that Lively, "whom Pococke never mentions but with great respect, was probably, next to Pococke, the greatest of our Hebraists."

JOHN RICHARDSON.

This profound divine was born at Linton, in Cambridgeshire. He was first Fellow of Emanuel College, then Master of Peterhouse from 1608 to 1615; and next Master of Trinity College. He was also King's Professor of Divinity. He was chosen Vice-Chancellor of the University in 1617, and again in 1618. He died in 1625.

JOHN RICHARDSON.

and was buried in Trinity College Chapel.

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