Fellow in 1627, and later on Vice-Master. He was Greek professor at Cambridge, and was said “to have been the main instrument by which literature was upheld in this university during the civil disturbances of the seventeenth century." Isaac Barrow was his pupil, and when, in 1654, Duport resigned the Greek professorship at Cambridge he recommended him for the post. Barrow did not then succeed in obtaining it, although he did so at the Restoration. He complained, however, that no one attended his lectures. "I sit like an Attic owl," he says, "driven out from the society of all other birds." In 1662 Duport published a collection of Latin poems. In 1664 he was made Dean of Peterborough, and in 1668 Master of Magdalene College. He was not allowed to preach in St Paul's Cathedral a second time, because of a sermon he had preached there as to the way that Cathedral was profaned. He said: "Church aisles were exchanged into shops, and churchyards into markets." 1

Duport was buried in Peterborough Cathedral, where there is a tablet erected to his memory. He wrote verses in praise of Walton. They are set out at the end of this book, and translated

1St Paul's Cathedral was turned into a market, and the aisles, the communion table and the altar served for the foulest purposes. Churchyards seem to have been in old times used as market-places. An Act of Parliament provided that neither fairs nor markets be kept in churchyards, for the honour of the Church.

into English for the benefit of readers who may not be competent to translate them.

BRIAN DUPPA, BISHOP OF WINCHESTER

(1588-1662).

"There has perhaps never passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful.”

DR JOHNSON.

His father was by repute Vicar of Lewisham in Kent, where he was born. He was educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford, becoming a Fellow of All Souls' in 1612, and Dean of Christ Church in 1629, where during his reign. he made many changes in the interior of the Cathedral. In 1626 he married, and later on he became tutor to the Prince of Wales, afterwards Charles II., who visited Duppa when he was dying and knelt at his bedside to receive his blessing. In 1638 he was made Bishop of Chichester, and translated to Salisbury in 1641. At the Restoration he was, in 1660, made Bishop of Winchester. Some say he assisted Charles I. in the composition of Eikon Basilike, but he did not write much. Duppa was a man of "exemplary piety, lively conversation, and excess of good-nature." He was noted for his charity. His last days were spent in retirement at Richmond in Surrey,

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where he interested himself in the preservation of the Episcopal succession during the Commonwealth, even admitting men privately to holy orders. He died at Richmond, Surrey, and was buried on the north side of Edward the Confessor's Chapel in Westminster Abbey; and King, Bishop of Chichester, preached his funeral sermon. His portrait is at Salisbury and at Christ Church, and a bust of him is at All Souls' College. He bequeathed legacies to his old school, to Christ Church and All Souls, to his former sees, and to various charities.

DANIEL FEATLEY

(1582-1645).

"The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.'

He was born at Charlton-upon-Otmoor, in Oxfordshire, and educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He became domestic chaplain to Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury, and was presented to the living of Lambeth in February 1618, on resigning Northhill Rectory, in Cornwall. He became a great controversialist and was a Calvinist. His best known works are, "The Dippers dipt: or, the Anabaptists duck'd and plung'd over head and ears at a Disputation in Southwark, &c.," and Clavis Mystica.