. Biographia Britannica : or, The lives of the most eminent persons who have flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, from the earliest ages, down to the present times . Davey and B. Law, and M. Cooper. MDCCLVIl. I- ■ . ^ C 55 ] THE L I V E S OF THE Moft Eminent PERSONS Who have flourifhed in GR EAT-B RITAIN and IR E LAND, From the earlieft Ages, down to the prefent Times, G. AT AC RE!, or, as he wrote his name in the latter part of his life^,GATAKER (Thomas), a profound Scholar, an acute Critic, anable Commentator, a famous Preacher, and one of the Affembly ofDivines in the XVIIth century. He
. Biographia Britannica : or, The lives of the most eminent persons who have flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, from the earliest ages, down to the present times . Davey and B. Law, and M. Cooper. MDCCLVIl. I- ■ . ^ C 55 ] THE L I V E S OF THE Moft Eminent PERSONS Who have flourifhed in GR EAT-B RITAIN and IR E LAND, From the earlieft Ages, down to the prefent Times, G. AT AC RE!, or, as he wrote his name in the latter part of his life^,GATAKER (Thomas), a profound Scholar, an acute Critic, anable Commentator, a famous Preacher, and one of the Affembly ofDivines in the XVIIth century. He was defcended from a very an-cient family in the county of Salop ; but his father, being a youngerbrother, was intended for a learned profeflion, and by fome veryfingular accidents was determined to take Holy Orders, and inprocefs of time became domeftic Chaplain to that potent nobleman Robert DudleyEarl of Leicefter, and Redtor, of the parifh of St Edmund the King in Lombard-ftreet (a), where, by his zealous preaching, he merited the tide of a man of quick MFuikrsWof*parts, and fincere attachment to the Proteftant religion [A], His mothers name ^/ rop was. (i)VUIare Anglicanum. [^] To the Proteftant Religion.] As to the nameof this family, it is certain that it has been writtenboth ways, Gatacre and Gataker, but the laft feemsto have been the old manner of fpelling it, agreeableto the name of the village in Shropihire, from whenceit was taken (i) ; and ic was very probably, upon thisaccount, that the learned man, whofe article is beforeus, departed from his fathers manner of fpelling;and, inflead of Gatacre, himfelf Gataker. Asto his father, we have, fo far as it goes, a very fair ac-count of him, from the pen of Dr Thomas Fuller,which, as it is very fhort, and, for its fubftance, can (t)Toilets Wor- fcarce be reduced into a lefs compafs, we will give it thies, Shropihire, in his own words (2). *• *• V O L. IV. N«\ CLXXXI. Thomas Gataker, younger fon of William
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