A supplement to The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary: being a curious miscellany of sacred and profane history / Collected especially out of Lewis Morery, D. D., his 8th ed. cor. and enl. by Monsieur Le Clerc; in two volumes in folio. By Jer. Collier. Together with a continuation from the year 1688, to this time, by another hand.
- Louis Moréri
- Date:
- 1705
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A supplement to The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary: being a curious miscellany of sacred and profane history / Collected especially out of Lewis Morery, D. D., his 8th ed. cor. and enl. by Monsieur Le Clerc; in two volumes in folio. By Jer. Collier. Together with a continuation from the year 1688, to this time, by another hand. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![POC and the People from Revolting, hut penetrated with luccefs into Portugal with Offensive Arms, though he foon quitted his Conquefts. But the’ taking of Gibraltar, by the Prince of Heffe and the Confederate Fleet, was a great Mortification, and an unexpected Blow to this Prince ; the EffeCT of which, Time alone mud produce. PLOT ( Robert) Doctor of Laws, was Born at Sutton-Barn in the Parifh of Borden, in the County of Kent, and Educated at Magdalen-Eall in the Univerfity of Oxford, where, in the Tear 1671, he proceeded Doctor of Laws. Six Years after, he publifh'd his Natural Hiftory of Oxfordshire; and that of Staff or dfhire, in 1686 : The former being Dedicated to King Charles II. And the latter, to his Brother and SuccefTor King James. Of both thefe Hidories, befides their genei^l Acceptance with the Learned and Ingenious, we have in thefe words following the Approbation of the greated • Joh. Raij * Naturalift of our Age : Robertas Plot, thS?Stir- LL. DoBor f cujus Hi for its Nat. LcBu fium Bri- fans digniffimis Territorij turn Oxonienjis, tarmkarum. turn Stafferdienfts, non pattca in Hiftoriam & Synopftn hanc noftram tran full, &c. He was the firft Keeper of the Afhmolean Mu- fetum, or Repolitory of Natural Curiofities and An¬ tiquities in the faid llniverfity : To which Charge he was Ele&ed by the Donor thereof, Elias AJh- mole, Efq; in the Year 1683. To whom, two Years after, as a Specimen of Graritude, he Dedicated his Tentamen Philofophicum de Origine Fcntium in Pra- leBione habita coram Societate Philofophica Oxonij ad Scientiam Naturalem promovendam injiituta. The fame Year that be was made Keeper of the Mnfaum by Mr. Afhmole, he was alio Chofen Profei- for of Chymidry by the Vice-Chancellor ; both which Places he difeharged with much Reputation, all the time he continued therein, which was about the fpace of Seven Years, bedowing, at his Refigna- tion of the Place of Keeper, a very large Collection of Natural Bodies, being chiefly fuch as he had figured and defetibed in his Hidories of Oxford/hire and Staffordfhire ; which the Univerfity, according to their ufual condant Care for the Prelervation and furtherance of all ufeful Knowledge, have re- pofited in two large Cabinets, didinguifh a in the Catalogue of the Mufaum, by the Names of Seri- mum Plotianum Oxonienfe, & Serin. PL Staffordienfe. r?e was alio, at the fame time, chofen Secretary to the Royal Society, and has publifh’d their Philofophical TranfaBions for the Years 1683, and 1684. Henry late Duke of Norfolk^ in 1687. was pleafed to confer on him the Place of Secretary to the Court of Honour: And the following Year, he re¬ ceived the Title of Hiftoriographer to King James II. He was Nominated Mowbray Herald Extraordinary, by the Warrant of Henry late Duke of Norfolk.] January the 20th, 1694. and Condituted Regifier] by another. Warrant, Jan. 2 2d, the fame Year/ He Died at his Houfe call’d Sutton-Barn, by Borden in Kent, April the 30th, 1696 ; and was Buried at Borden atorefaid on the 5th of March following, leaving his Edate to his Elded Son Robert, who now enjoys it. POCOCKE, ( Dr. Edward) the Son of Edward Pocockey Vicar of Chievely in the County of Berks, was Born in the City of Oxon, An. 1604. He was admitted into the Univerfity of Oxford in 1618, chofen Scholar of Corpus ChriJH College in J620, and Fellow in 1628. Having there attain’d to iome Skill in the Oriental Languages, as thofe Four Epidles (which were wanting to make the Printed Syriacf Verfion of the New Teftament per¬ fect ) let forth by him Anno 1630, fhew: The Defire of Improving ir, carry'd him into the Eafl, where Arabicf was yet a living-Language, where the greated Maders of it were to be met with, and many valuable Monuments of their, then decayed, Learning, to be found. He went Chaplain to the Company of Turkey-Merchants Trading to Aleppo, and tarried there fix \ ears; during which time, he made it his Bufinels to make himlelf perfect in thole Languages to acquaint himfelf with fuch Learning as was to be found in their Books, and to procure Manufcripts, fome for Arch-Bifhop Laud, and others for himlelf. Anno 1636, Arch-Bifhop Laud defigmng to found an Arabick LcBure in the Uni- vei lity of Oxon, call d him Home, and did him the Honour to Name him his fir ft LeBurer, in his Deed of Donation, with a fair Charafter. After one Years day in England, he went to Confiantinople, Chaplain to Sir Peter fVyche, then fent AmbalTador thither, where he fpent four Years to furnifh him- lelf more compleatiy with Oriental Books and KTrmrr Sh?r£ly, afterL Return, he was V in • C\ Prefented t0 the Re&ory otChUdry in Berkfhire, Anno 1648. He had been Named by King Charles I. to be Regius Profejjor of Hebrew in' Oxon and at the fame time was Voted to the Place by the Commilhoners appointed by Parliament to Difpofe of Ecclefiadical Preferments; yet was ihortly after 1 urn d out again by them, for refilling to take the Engagement. Anno i66o he was Redor’d to his Profeflorihip, and indalled Canon cf Chrifi. Church in Oxon, where he afterwards lived till the Year 1691, when having near compleated his Eightv- eighth } ear, he was tranflated to a Better Place, i he Inlcription on his Monument at Oxford is this: * E D OAR DU S FO COCKE, S. T. D. ( cujus ft Nomen audias, nihil hie de fama defideres ) Nat us eft Oxonhz, Nov. 8. A. D. 1604. Socius in Collegium Corporis ChriJH cooptatus 1628* In Linguam Arabica LeBuram Public'e haben- % dam primus eft infiitutus, 1636. Beinde etiam in Hebraicam Profef Regio fucceffit, 164S. Defideratijfimo Marito, Sept. 10. 1691. in Coelum reverfo, MARIA BURDET, Ex qua nevenam fufeepit fobolem Tumulum hmc mcerens pofuit. He was a Perfon of Primitive Piety, Integrity and Chanty, of wonderful Modedy and Humility He was a general Scholar ; an expert Critick in Greet • His Tranflations, which few have equal’d, fhew his Command of Latin. He was the greated Mader of all the learned Oriental Languages that Europe has had ; efpecially the World is indebted to him for lus New Difcoveries in Arabick: He has given us a fuller Account of their Manners, Learning and Books, than all who went before him ; and has fliewn the Ulefulnefs, if not the Necetfity of that Noble Language, in order to the underdanding the Hebrew i teaching us, from feveral Indances, that where fome have charged the Hebrew Text of the Bible with Corruptions, to derogate from its Au¬ thority, this Miltake has rifen only from their want of a fuller infight into that Language. His Skill in the red, and in all Jewifh Learning, is evident from his Mifcellaneous Notes on Porta Mofts and his Commentaries on the Prophets. y ’ The Books which he has Publifh’d, are thefe: L Eptfiola Pctrt fecunda 5 Johannis fecunda & tertia & Juda, Syriace cum Verjione & Notts. 2. Abul Earajii Specimen HifiorU Arabum, cum Verf. & Noth 3. Maimonidis Porta Mofts, cum Verf. & Notis 4. Eutychij Annales in Latin. Verf. 5. Carmen To. grai, cum Verf & Noth. 6. Abul Earajii Hiftoria Dynaftiarum Latine reddita. 7. Grot ins de Veri- tateChriftiana Religionis, in Linguam Arab, verf us. 8. P artes pracipua Liturfu Anglic ana Arabica faBa. 9. Commentaries on the Prophets Micah, Malachi Hofea, Joel; which he finifh’d with his Life. And this was a great Indance of the Strength and Vi¬ gour of his Underdanding, That being a Publisher of Books above Sixty Years, neither the Firft nor Lad Ihewed any Defeat in it.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30457750_0683.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
