. Archaeologia cantiana. of that year, and held office for two years. Having been Ire-elected in 1679, he discharged the duties with great ability Juntil 1700. Among his intimate friends were Sir Hans Sloane andDr. Isaac Barrow, the eminent theologian and mathematician, j iwhose executor he was. Hills life of Barrow was prefixed fto the earlier editions of the latters works, and is the only Jproduction known to have been published by him. f His reputation was such that he was chosen one of asmall committee appointed by the Royal Society to enquireinto the dispute between Sir Isaac Newton and L
. Archaeologia cantiana. of that year, and held office for two years. Having been Ire-elected in 1679, he discharged the duties with great ability Juntil 1700. Among his intimate friends were Sir Hans Sloane andDr. Isaac Barrow, the eminent theologian and mathematician, j iwhose executor he was. Hills life of Barrow was prefixed fto the earlier editions of the latters works, and is the only Jproduction known to have been published by him. f His reputation was such that he was chosen one of asmall committee appointed by the Royal Society to enquireinto the dispute between Sir Isaac Newton and Leibnitz asto their discoveries of the Method of Fluxions. It was probably through the influence of his friends in jthe Society that Hill was appointed in 1696 a Commissionerof Trade and Plantations, and afterwards from June 1699 tothe year 1702. There is in the British Museum a largevolume of papers relating to trade, imports and exports, etc.,collected by him in his official capacity, and it would seem j. ABRAHAM HILL, 229 that his ability was very great in this direction. The volumeis numbered Sloane 2902. In 1691 Archbishop Tillotson of Canterbury appointedhim to the office of his Comptroller, often expressing thepleasure he took in Mr. Hills conversation, and would fre-quently term him his learned friend and his instructingphilosopher. But an enterprise for which Abraham Hill deserves specialmention in the pages of Archceologia Ganticma was an attempthe made in the latter part of the seventeenth century tointroduce the manufacture of cider into Kent. For thispurpose he planted choice specimens of apples from Devonand Hereford on his estate, and formed large orchards in thedistrict. The project, however, was not a success; but theorchards in time attracted a population from which sprangthe village of Swanley, near by. There are also many beau-tiful trees of various sorts now nourishing in the grounds ofSt. Johns said to have been planted by him. On his beloved estate
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