The General Biographical Dictionary (Volume 24); Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation. Particulary the British and Irish from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time  (English, Paperback, Chalmers Alexander)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: College, Oxford, in 1606. Here he took his degrees in -in-, and in 1619 was chosen fellow of All Souls. In 1629, by (he interest of Land, he succeeded Dr. Denison, as master of the free school of Reading. In 1634 he was admitted D. D. hut ten years afttr was deprived of his school by the parliamentary commissioners for Berkshire. He held, however, the rectory of East Locking in that county, to which he had been presented by his college, until his death, which happened Feb. 14, 1663, at the rectory-house. He was buried in the chancel of his own church. At the restoration he -had oltained a writ of restitution to the school, which was publicly read, he being present, as appears by the diary of the corporation ; but, after some dehate it was carried that Mr. Singleton, the then master, 'should have notice before an answer was resolved upon j and it appears that Mr. Singleton was confirmed in the place, being the sixth person who held it after Page. -- Dr. Pae was thought well versed in the Greek fathers, an able disputant, and a good preacher. He wrote " A Treatise of justification of Bowing- at the name of Jesus, by way of answer to an appendix against it," Oxford, 1631, '4to; and an " Examination of such considerable reasons as are made by Mr. Prynne in a reply to Mr. Widdowes concerning the same argument," printed with the former. The fate of this publication was somewhat singular. The point in dispute was at this time eagerly contested. Archbishop Abbot did not think it of sufficient importance to be allowed to disturb the peace of the church, and, by his secretary, advised Dr. Puge to withdraw his work from the press, if already in it. Laud, on the contrary, who was then bishop of London, ordered it to be printed, viewing the question as a matter of importance, it being a defenc...