. A Rationale, or practical exposition of the Book of common-prayer. THE LIFE O F Dr. RICHARD COX,Bifliop of E L T. HIS great and learned Prelate wa?born at Whaddon^xn Bucklnghamjhire^in the Year i4pp> and inftrudted inthe firft Rudiments of Learning, atEaton School -y from whence he waselected to a Scholarfhip, at Kings-College in Cambridge^ in the Year if ip. Soon af-ter he had taken his firft Degree in Arts, he was,pn Account of his great Learning and Piety, re-moved to Oxford •, and preferd to be one of thejunior Canons of Cardinal Wolfefs new Foundationin that Univerfity. In December i
. A Rationale, or practical exposition of the Book of common-prayer. THE LIFE O F Dr. RICHARD COX,Bifliop of E L T. HIS great and learned Prelate wa?born at Whaddon^xn Bucklnghamjhire^in the Year i4pp> and inftrudted inthe firft Rudiments of Learning, atEaton School -y from whence he waselected to a Scholarfhip, at Kings-College in Cambridge^ in the Year if ip. Soon af-ter he had taken his firft Degree in Arts, he was,pn Account of his great Learning and Piety, re-moved to Oxford •, and preferd to be one of thejunior Canons of Cardinal Wolfefs new Foundationin that Univerfity. In December if if, he Wasadmitted ad eundem j and in the February follow-ing!. Bifhop Cox. cxix ing, kept an Aft for his Mailers Degree, whichwas conferred on him, in July, ifz6. He wasreputed one of the greater!: Scholars of his Age jand his poetical Compofitions were in much E-fleem, and univerfally applauded by the ben:Judges. His Piety and Virtue were not in-ferior to his Learning, and commanded the Re-fpect of all impartial Perfons : But fhewing him-felf averfe to many of the PopiJJj Superflitions,and declaring his Opinion freely concerning theCorruptions, under which the Church laboured jhe incurred the Difpleafure of the Governors ofthe Univerfity, was flripd of his Preferments,and thrown into Prifon, on Sufpicion of Herefy. A s foon as he was releafed from his Confine-ment, he left Oxon *, and fome Time after, waschofen Mailer of Eaton School •, which was ob-ferved to flourifti, in a very remarkable Manner,as long as he continued there. In i f 37, he com-menced Doctor of Divinity, in the Univerfity ofCambridge, and was made Arch-Deacon of Ely 5and foon
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