. his kind of travel. Yours to use, John Dodderidge. Notwithstanding all which, for what reason I know not, this book never yet cameunder the press. This gentleman was an excellent antiquary and historian; and onthis account he is mentioned with great respect by Bp. Godwin de Pracsul. in his Brittania, and Mr. Carew in his Surveigh of Cornwall; all which wereable and suflicient judges, and by others also. He inhabited in the parish of St. Mary the More, in the city of Exeter, where seve-ral of his family lie interred, as
. his kind of travel. Yours to use, John Dodderidge. Notwithstanding all which, for what reason I know not, this book never yet cameunder the press. This gentleman was an excellent antiquary and historian; and onthis account he is mentioned with great respect by Bp. Godwin de Pracsul. in his Brittania, and Mr. Carew in his Surveigh of Cornwall; all which wereable and suflicient judges, and by others also. He inhabited in the parish of St. Mary the More, in the city of Exeter, where seve-ral of his family lie interred, as appears from the publick register of that church. As Ath. Oxon, for himself, he lived to a fair age of near eighty years, and died in Nov. 1601; he |^^j|,jgjj jj^ ^.j^g Cathedral church of St. Peter there, as appeared from a ring with his sealof arms not long since diggd out of his grave; where tho he had adorned divers tombsin that church with epitaphs, as Bp. Leofricus, Bp. Stapledons, and others, yet hadhe none to adorn his own. HOOKER,. ^<r(iilp* miCHAIRD eOOKER, h,l,Ushi-ii Dfc^5!^jBoi}.hv CtirtLt Plx-nwudi. ( 507 ) HOOKER, RICHARD, MASTER OF THE TEMPLE. Hooker, Ricliard, Master of the Temple, bom whether at Exeter, or Heavy-tree ^^^^- ^-li-near adjoyning, is yet a question; but none at all, whether he was a native of : His birth happened about the year of our Saviours Incarnation 1553 ; whoseparents were not so remarkable for their riches, as vertue, though some of his ances-tors had place in the highest seat of authority in that antient and honourable city;Robert Hooker his grandfather was mayor thereof, an. 1529; and John Hooker hisgreat-grandfather, an. UQO. eIoiT^^s*^ He being put to school, there was observed in him, even in his tender years, such 115. a propensity to learning, mixd with meekness and modesty of conversation, that hisschool-master persuaded his parents (who intended him for an apprentice) to cont
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