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CRAIG, James, a Scotch divine, admired as a preacher; he published 3 vois. of sermons, and died in 1744.

CRAIG, John, a Scotch mathematician, who made his name famous by a smali work of 36 pages in 4to, entitled "Theologia Christianæ Principia Mathematica."

CRAIG, William, a Scotch divine, celebrated for his pulpit oratory, died in 1783.

CRAIK, James, M. D., a native of Scotland, came to Virginia, where he became a distinguished physician, received an appointment in the army of the revolution, and was physician to the family of General Washington. He died in 1814.

CRAMER, John Frederic, learned professor at Duisburg, translated Puffendorf's tion to history, and died in 1715.

CRASSUS, Marcus Licinius, one of the triumvirs with Cæsar and Pompey, was defeated and killed in Syria, 53 B. C.

CRATES, a philosopher, disciple of Diogenes, the cynic, prided himself on his poverty and meanness, lived 328 B. C.

CRATES, an academic philosopher of Athens, 272 B. C.

CRATESIPOLIS, a queen of Sicyon, celebrated for her valour, 314 B. C.

CRATINUS, one of the great masters of what we call the ancient comedy. He flourished in the 81st Olympiad, some 20 or 30 years before Aristophanes. He was an Athenian born, and appears to have been an excessive drinker; and the excuse he gave for that vice was, that it was introduc-absolutely necessary to warm his fancy, and to put a soul into his verse. Aristophanes, in his CRAMER, Gabriel, of Geneva, well known Irene," has given us a pleasant account of over Europe as a mathematician, died in 1752. Cratinus' death, where he says that it was CRAMER, Nicholas, a Flemish painter, dis-caused by a fatal swoon, at the sight of a noble tinguished for taste and correctness, died in 1710. CRAMER, Daniel, a native of Beltz, in Brandenburg, professor of eloquence, at Wittemberg, and an able divine, wrote on Aristotle's logic;

he died in 1598.

CRAMER, John James, professor of oriental langauge at Zurich, and afterwards at Herborn, and author of several theological works; he died in 1702.

cask of wine split in pieces, and washing the streets. Suidas tells us that he wrote 21 plays.

CRATIPPUS, pronounced by Cicero, to be by far the greatest of all the peripatetic philosophers that he ever heard, was of Mitylene, and taught philosophy there.

CRATO, or DE CRAFTHEIM, John, physician to the emperor Ferdinand I., intimate with Luther-wrote "Luther's Table Talk;" he

CRAMER, John Andrew, a native of Qued-died in 1585. linburg, who first reduced the art of assaying in metallurgy into a system; he died in 1777.

CRAMER, John Andrew, a German divine, not distinguished excepting as a poet. He was professor in several institutions, and died in 1788.

CRANE, Thomas, a non-conformist divine, author of a" Treatise on Divine Providence," died in 1714.

CRANFIELD, Edward, was, for a short time, governor of the colony of New Hampshire, after 1682.

CRANIUS, Luca, a painter of Bamberg, whose pieces were once admired, died in 1553.

CRAVEN, Charles, colonial governor of S. Carolina, returned to England in 1716.

CRAWFORD, David, author of "Memoirs of Scotland," a "Peerage of Scotland,” a “History of the royal family of Stuart," a topographical description of the "County of Renfrew," &c., was born near Glasgow, in 1665, and died 1726.

CRAWFORD, William, born at Kelso, in 1676, wrote "Dying Thoughts," and some "Sermons," published in 2 vols. 12mo, and died in 1742.

CRAWFORD, Anne, a celebrated English actress, both in comedy and tragedy, but better remembered by her name of Barry, was born at Bath, in 1734, and died Nov. 29, 1801.

CRAWFORD, Dr. Adair, an eminent English physician and chymist, author of " ExperiCRANMER, Thomas, an English archbishop, ments and Observations on Animal Heat," and memorable for having endured martyrdom in the first who found out the medical uses inherent the cause of protestantism, was born at Aslac-in the Terra Ponderosa, born in 1749, died 1795. ton, in Nottinghamshire, in 1489, and burnt at Oxford, March 21, 1555, by order of queen Mary. He was an open, generous, honest man; a lover of truth, and an enemy of falsehood and superstition; he was gentle and moderate in his temper, and though heartily zealous in the cause of the reformation, yet a friend to the persons of those who most strenuously opposed it; he|| was a great patron of learning and the universities, a very learned man himself, and author of several works.

CRANSTON, Samuel, governor of RhodeIsland, from 1698 to 1727.

CRAYER, Gaspar de, a celebrated painter of Antwerp, greatly esteemed by Reubens and Vandyck, died in 1669.

CREBILLON, Prosper Joliot de, a French writer of tragedy, and usually ranked after Corneille and Racine, was born at Dijon, in 1674, and died 1762.

CREBILLON, Claude Prosper Joliot de, son of the foregoing, and a celebrated writer of noCRAPONE, Adam, a native of Salon, known vels, letters, and romances, was born in Paris, for the canal which bears his name, between 1707, and died there in 1777. The ease and ele Arles and the Durance; he was poisoned through|gance, together with the seducing levity of his envy, in 1598. writings, have obtained for him the appellation of the Petronius of France. His works, chiefly of a voluptuous tendency, have been collected in 11 vols. 12mo, 1779.

CRASHAW, Richard, an English poet, who was, in his lifetime, honoured with the friend ship of Mr. Cowley, and after his death, by the praise of Mr. Pope, who condescended both to read his poems, and to borrow from them. He died at Loretto, in Italy, in 1650.

CRASSO, Lawrence, baron of Pianura, wrote a history of the Greek poets, commended by the Italians, but censured by the French. CRASSUS, Lucius Licinius, a Roman orator, greatly commended by Cicero, died 92 B. C.

CREDI, Lorenzo di, an Italian painter of Florence, died in 1530.

CREECH, Thomas, eminent for his translations of ancient authors, both in prose and verse, was born near Sherborne, in Dorsetshire, in 1659, and died by his own hand, in 1701. His principal works are translations of Lucretius and Horace; but he translated other things of a

smaller kind, from Theocritus, Ovid, Virgil, Ju-fin as many. He is usually styled The Admirable venal, Plutarch, Cornelius Nepos, &c. &c.

CRELL, Lewis Christian, a native of Neustadt, and professor at Leipsic, died in 1735. CRELLIUS, John, a Socinian, who settled in Poland, where he became professor to the unitarians. He was a man of great learning, and wrote against Grotius.

CREMONINI, Cæsar, an Italian philosopher, who advocated the doctrines of Aristotle, în respect to the materiality of the soul; he died in 1630.

Crichton.

CRILLON, Lewis de Berthon de, a French general, who distinguished himself by his valour, in the time of Henry II., III., and IV. He died in 1615.

CRILLON MAHON, N. duke de, distinguished himself in the seven years war, and afterwards in the cause of Spain. He died in 1796. CRINESIUS, Christopher, a native of Bohemia, who published several learned works; he died in 1626.

CRENIUS, Thomas, a writer whose works CRINITUS, Petrus, a native of Florence, a were numerous. He wrote chiefly on philoso-man of great learning, but addicted to the basest phical subjects, and died at Leyden, in 1728. sensualities; he died in 1505.

CREQUI, Charles de, prince de Foix, a mare- CRISP, Tobias, a controversial writer on dichal, and peer of France, distinguished for his vinity, and the great champion of Antinomianvalour; he was killed by a cannon ball at theism, died in 1642. siege of Bremen, in 1638.

CREQUI, Francis de, great grandson of the preceding, a marechal of France, distinguished for his military enterprises and heroic courage; he died in 1687.

CRITIAS, one of the thirty tyrants of Athens, he fell in battle 400 B. C.

CRITO, one of the pupils and friends of So crates.

CRITOBULUS, a physician, who is said to have extracted the arrow which wounded the eye of Philip of Macedon.

CRITOLAUS, a Greek historian. CRITOLAUS, an Arcadian, who, when defeated by the Romans, poisoned himself, 146 B. C.

CRESCEMBENI, John Maria, an Italian poet, born at Maurata, in Ancona, 1663. He projected the establishment of a new academy, under the name of Arcadia, the members of which, at first, did not exceed 14, but afterwards increased much. They called themselves the shepherds of Arcadia, and each took the name CROESE, Gerard, a protestant divine, of Amof some shepherd, and some place in that an-sterdam, author of a history of the Quakers, cient kingdom. The founder of this society was died in 1710. appointed the director of it, in 1690, and held it|| to the year of his death, 1728. CRESCENS, a cynic philosopher, in the 2d century, who persecuted the Christians.

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CROESUS, the fifth and last of the Mermnade, who reigned in Lydia; was supposed the richest of mankind. He was the first who made the Greeks of Asia tributary to the Lydians, CRESCENTIUS, Peter de, a native of Bou- and his court was the asylum of learning and logne, in the 14th century, who travelled the polite arts. After a reign of 14 years, he years as a law practitioner; he published a va-||was defeated by Cyrus, 548 B. C.: the time and inable treatise on agriculture.

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CRESPI, Daniel, a celebrated portrait painter, of Bologna, died in 1630.

CRESPI, Guiseppe Maria, a painter of Bologna, who, by darkening his room very much, gave greater vivacity to his subjects, died in 1747.

CRESSEY, Hugh Paulin, an English divine, who became a catholic, and was chaplain to queen Catharine, he was much respected, and published some valuable works, particularly an able ecclesiastical history. He died in 1674. CRESTI, Dominico, a historical painter, of Florence, died in 1638.

manner of his death are unknown.

CROFT, Herbert, an English prelate, who wrote in favour of the protestants about 1675; he died in 1691.

CROFT, William, a celebrated musician, who succeeded Dr. Blow as master of the children,and composer to the Chapel Royal, and also as organist in Westminster Abbey. In 1712 he published, but without his name, "Divine Harmony, or a new collection of select anthems;" to which is prefixed, "A Brief Account of Church Music." In 1715, he was created doctor in music at Oxford; and in 1724 published by subscription, a noble work of his own, enCRETIN, William Du Bois, whose chief me- titled, "Musica Sacra, or Select Anthems in rit consisted in puns, low wit, &c. He was his- Score," in 2 vols. the first containing the fune torian to Charles VIII., Lewis XII., &c., and ral service which Purcell had begun, but did not died in 1525. live to complete. He was born at Nether-EatingCREVIER, John Baptiste Lewis, a Parisian, ton, in Warwickshire, about 1677, and died Aug. trained under the celebrated Rollin, and after-1727. wards professor of rhetoric. Upon the death CRORIUS, or DE CROI, a minister of Usez, of his master, in 1741, he took upon him to fi- who wrote several works in Latin; he died in nish his "Roman History." He published other works, and was greatly serviceable to the cause of virtue and religion, as well as letters. His death happened in 1765.

CREW, Nathaniel, bishop of Durham, in the time of James II., whose cause he espoused; he died in 1721.

1659.

CROIX, Francis Petit de la, secretary and interpreter to the king of France in the Turkish and Arabic languages, died Nov. 4, 1695, in his 73d year.

CROIX, John Baptist de la, second bishop of Quebec; came to Canada in 1685; he founded three hospitals, and died in 1727.

CRICHTON, James, a Scotch gentleman, born at Perth, in 1560, and blest with most ex- CROIX DU MAINE, Francis Grude de la, traordinary endowments, both of body and a Frenchman of the 16th century, who publishmind. He was murdered by his pupil, Vincen-ed an account of all French authors. tio di Gonzaga, son of the duke of Mantua, in CROKE, Sir George, many years one of the 1582. Though so young a man, Chrichton was judges of the King's Bench, and an eminent skilled in twelve languages, and in several uni- law-writer, was born at Chilton, Bucks, in 1559, versities, gave public challenges to disputations and died in 1641. The "Reports" of Sir George

Croke, are of the highest authority with the signal service, which was the last he performed profession. Sir Edmund Coke, recommending in his military capacity till the king's death. to the student an attention to these Reports, After that event (to which he was equally says, "There is no knowledge, case, or point in prompted by fear and ambition,) Cromwell was law, seem it of never so little account, but will appointed lord governor of Ireland, to whicn stand him in stead at one time or other; and kingdom he went in great pomp, and very soon therefore in reading, nothing is to be pretermit-made himself master of Drogheda, and the other ted." places which had been held by the royalists. CROMPTON, William, a non-conformist di- Having done this service, he was recalled to vine, author of several small tracts, died 1696. England, and made captain-general of all the CROMWELL, Thomas, earl of Essex, an parliament forces, marched again into Scotland, eminent statesman in the reign of Henry VIII., defeated the Scots at Dunbar, followed Charles was the son of a blacksmith at Putney, in Surry, II. into Worcester, and totally routed his whole and born about 1490. He was for some time force. Cromwell now found his power 0 clerk or secretary to the English factory at Ant-controllable, that he ventured on a step, bolder werp.-On his return to England he was admit-perhaps, than ever before had entered the head ted into the family of Cardinal Wolsey as his of any man in England. He abruptly dissolicitor; to whom he approved himself by his solved the Long Parliament, and, having turned fidelity and diligence in several important affairs; all the members out of the house, locked the and after the cardinal's fall, the king employed doors, put the keys in his pocket, and returned him in his own service, and raised him in a short home. This happened on the 20th of April, time to several eminent dignities. Having been 1653. On the 16th of December, in the same instrumental in promoting the Reformation, the year, he was invested with supreme authority, king granted him many noble manors and large under the title of lord protector of the three naestates, the spoils of the religious houses; ad-tions, England, Scotland, and Ireland; in which vanced him to the dignity of earl of Essex; and station, having for five years administered the constituted him lord high chamberlain of Eng-affairs of the kingdom with great vigour and land. The tide of prosperity, which had hither-ability, he died Sept. 3, 1658. to flowed in upon him, began now to take a turn: CROMWELL, Richard, eldest son of Oliver, a scheme that he laid to secure his greatness and named by him as his successor, was born proved his ruin; such is the weakness of hu- at Cheshunt, 1626, and died 1712.-An act was man policy! He used his utmost endeavours to passed, for recognising him as Protector, and for procure a marriage between king Henry and restoring the house of lords: but the Commons Anne of Cleves. As her friends were all Lu- fell into debates about settling the chief magistherans, he imagined it might tend to bring down trate's power, and that of the upper house; and the popish party at court; and he expected great these, with other proceedings, terminated in a support from a queen of his own making. But jealousy, between the protector and his army. the capricious inonarch, being disgusted with At last they discarded him, and took the governher person, on the first night's cohabitation, took||ment into their own hands. On the restoration an invincible aversion to the promoter of the he went abroad, but returned in 1680, under the marriage, who was soon after arrested at the assumed name of Clarke, and settled at Cheshcouncil table, attainted of high treason and here-unt, where he lived privately and died beloved, sy, and executed on Tower-bill, after six weeks imprisonment, July, 1540.

but he was not by any means qualified to support the station to which the aspiring talents of his father had raised him.

CRONECK, John Frederic baron de, born at Anspach, distinguished himself as an ingenious poet; he died in 1758.

CRONSTEDT, Axel Frederic, a native of Sweden, a naturalist, and inspector of the mines: he published various works, and died in 1765.

CROOK, Sir George, an Englishman, who became chief justice; died in 1641.

CROMWELL, Oliver, protector of the commonwealth of England, was son of Mr. Robert Cromwell, and born in the parish of St. John, Huntingdon, April 25, 1599, baptized the 29th of the same month, and was educated in grammar learning at the free-school in that town. From Huntingdon he was removed to Sydney college, in Cambridge, where he was admitted fellow commoner, April 23, 1616. He was elected a member of the third parliament of Charles I, which met Jan. 20, 1628, and from this time to CROSBY, Brass, born at Stockton-upon-Tees, 1641 was in warm opposition to all the measures in 1725, came early in life to London, where he of the court. At length when the king and practised several years as an attorney became parliament came to an open rupture, Cromwell alderman of the ward of Bread-street, în 1765, obtained a captain's commission; and his first and was elected lord mayor, September 24, 1770. military exploit was, securing the town of Cam-March, 1771, in the case of the proclamation bridge for the parliament. He was afterwards against Wheble and other printers, Mr. Alderrapidly promoted to the rank of lieutenant-gen-man Oliver was committed to the 'Tower; and eral under the earl of Manchester, in which ca Mr. Crosby (then lord Mayor) was ordered into pacity he distinguished himself at the battle of the custody of the serjeant at arms; but, on Marston Moor. He was then made lieutenant-his spiritedly observing, "that if any offence general of horse under Sir Thomas Fairfax, had had been committed, he was the greatest offen the principal share in defeating the royal party der, and that he longed to join his brother in of at Naseby, made himself master of Winchester fice," an order was signed for his commitment and several other places, reduced Carlisle and to the Tower. The parliament was prorogued Berwick, and entered Scotland in triumph. on the 23d of July, when the lord mayor was Having dismissed the Hamiltons (of the king's released and carried from the Tower to the party) from all offices of public trust, he return-mansion-house with every possible mark of the ed to England with every mark of honour and approbation of his fellow-citizens; and, after esteem on the part of the Scots. and, on his ar- the expiration of his mayoralty, was again reval in London, took his seat again in parliament, warded by the thanks of the corporation, and a and received the thanks of the house for this cup of 1001. in value. He died, Feb. 14, 1793

CROSS, Michael, an English artist, and fato that most laborious undertaking, his "Con mous copier of paintings, flourished in the cordance of Parallel Texts of Scripture;" reigns of Charles I. and II. work which, according to the usual computaCROSS, Lewis a painter, who retouched ation of time and assiduity, would be sufficient picture of Mary, queen of Scots, in a masterly manner; he died in 1724.

CROSWELL, Andrew, a minister in Boston, much engaged in controversy, died in 1785. CROUSAZ, John Peter de, a celebrated philosopher and mathematician, born at Lausanne, in Switzerland, April 13, 1663, died 1748.

to occupy the life of an ordinary man; and when it is considered that he printed it in his own house, and corrected the press as he proceeded, some idea may be formed of his industry and perseverance. Scarcely had he recovered from a severe illness, which his incessant application had produced, and which obliged him CROWNE, John, an American by birth, went to have recourse to the baths of St. Amand, in to England, and was patronised by Charles II., Flanders, when he projected the scheme of his at whose command he wrote several dramatic" Universal Gazetteer;" in the execution of pieces: the best known of which are, "City which he spent ten years of unwearied diliPolitics," and "Sir Courtly Nice;" the latter gence; the sale of the first edition sufficiently of which has been several times acted of late proved the favourable light in which it was reyears. His plays were 17 in number; some ofgarded by the public, and he had just gone which were performed with great success. He through the laborious office of editing a second died about 1703. edition, comprising 30,000 new articles; when, on the road to his native town, Wokingham, in Berkshire, he was arrested by a sudden illness, which terminated fatally before medical assistance could be procured. He died at Froxfield,

CROXALL, Dr. Samuel, a writer of good repute, born at Walton upon Thames, and known as publisher of the following works, viz: "The Fair Circassian," a poem; "Fables of Esop and others, translated into English;"Somersetshire, in bis 65th year, Sept. 5, 1808. "Select Novels; "Scripture Politics;" "The Royal Manual," &c. He died 1752.

CROZE, Mathurin Veyssiere la, a native of Nantes, was distinguished for his learning and works; he died in 1739.

CRUZ, Juana Inez de la, a lady of Mexico, distinguished for her poetry, and her acquaintance with the sciences; she died in 1695.

CRYTOPYLUS, Metrophanes, a Greek, educated at Oxford, and afterwards raised to the

CRUCIGER, Gaspar, a protestant of Leipsic,see of Alexandria; he died in 1641. author of commentaries on Scripture, died in 1548.

CTESIAS, a Greek physician in the service of Artaxerxes, king of Persia: he wrote a history of Persia.

CRUDEN, Alexander, a corrector of the press, whose literary labours will ever entitle him to ČTESIBIUS, a mathematician of Alexanthe veneration of all students of the sacred wri-dria, the inventor of the pump, water clock, ting. His "Concordance of the Holy Scrip- &c. 125 B. C.

tures of the Old and New Testament," is his CTESIPHON, an Athenian, whose attempt chief work, and a singular instance of indefati- to decree a golden crown to Demosthenes, was gable labour and perseverance in the most use-opposed by schines, and produced the two ful employment. His private character (though famous orations of the rival orators. naturally liberal in the extreme) was influenced CUDWORTH, Ralph, an eminent English by a temporary frenzy, which gave a certain co-divine, was born at Aller, in Somersetshire, lour to all his actions, and suggested to him ma-1617, and died 1688. He was a man of very ny whimsical plans of reformation, hopes of extensive learning, excellently skilled in the superiority, and visionary views of ambition, learned languages and antiquity, a good mathewhich were as useless to himself as unprofita-matician, a subtle philosopher, and a profound ble to others. Of his singularities, however, metaphysician. His great work, "The True which were many, the tendency was uniformly Intellectual System of the Universe," was pubvirtuous. He was born at Aberdeen, in 1701, lished in folio, 1678. and was found dead on his knees, apparently in CUERENIERT, Theodore Van, a native of the posture of prayer, at his lodgings in Isling-Amsterdam, ästinguished for science; but eston, on the morning of Nov. 1, 1770. pecially for maintaining that a Christian should CRUIKSHANK, William Cumberland, an not enter a place of worship; he died in 1590. eminent_anatomist, born at Edinburgh, 1745, CUEVA, Alfonsus de la, an ambassador from went to London 1771; where he soon got into Philip III. to Venice, who plotted the seizing most extensive practice as a surgeon. As a wri-of the city, which, however, failed; he died in ter, he is principally distinguished by his "Ana-1665.

tomy of the Absorbent Vessels in the Human CUFF, Henry, a celebrated wit and excellent Body," first published in 1786; and "Experi-scholar, born at Hinton, St. George, in Somerments on the Insensible Perspiration of the Husetshire, about 1560. He gave early marks of man Body," 1795.-Mr. C. died June 27, 1800. CRUSIUS, or KRANS, Martin, of Bamberg, the first who taught Greek in Germany, died in

1607.

genius and application; arrived in time at the Greek professorship at Oxford, and was chosen proctor of the university, in 1594. To the celebrated Robert, earl of Essex, Cuff became seCRUTTWELL, Rev. Clement, a gentleman cretary; he was involved in all the misfortunes whose various literary performances, for labour of that unhappy earl; and with Sir Gelly Merextent, and utility, have rarely been equalledrick, the earl's steward, executed at Tyburn, and, wher, regarded as the productions of an 1601.

unassisted valetudinarian, have perhaps never CUGNIERES, Peter de, an upright magistrate, been surpassed. Mr. C. first appeared as an au-who, in 1329, advocated the rights of Philip Va thor in his edition of "Bishop Wilson's Bible lois against the clergy.

and Works, to which he has prefixed a life; and CUJACIUS, James, a celebrated French lawin the splendid edition of the Bible, he has in-yer, born at Thoulouse, about 1520, and died at serted collations from the various texts; an Bourges, 1590.

employment which first directed his thoughts CULLEN, Dr. William, an eminent Scotch

physician and medical writer, whose principal CUNNINGHAM, William, a physician of works are," Synopsis Nosologa Methodica, Ed-London, greatly distinguished as an astronomer, inb., 1772," 2 vols. 8vo. ;" Lectures on the Mate-died after 1563.

ria Medica, Lond." 4to.; "First lines of the Prac- CUNNINGHAM, John, an elegant and intice of Physic, 1776," 8vo. [This is said to have genious pastoral poet and a dramatic writer, produced him 3000] "Institutions of Medi-born in Dublin, 1729, died in Northumberland, cine, Part I., containing Physiology," 8vo. "On 1773. the Recovery of Drowned Persons;" and "A CUNNINGHAM, Alexander, a native of ScotTreatise on the Materia Medica," 2 vols. 4to., land, author of "A History of Great Britain, 1789. He was born in Lanarkshire, and died from the Revolution in 1688 to the Accession of February 5, 1790. George I." This work was written in Latin, CULLUM, sir John, an Englishman, who pub-and lay in manuscript till 1787; when a faithful lished the history and antiquities of Hawsted, translation of it into English was made by Suffolk; he died in 1785. William Thompson, LL. D., and published in CULMER, Richard, a violent fanatic in Eng-2 vols. 4to The work was undoubtedly well lend, who was employed by parliament to break | deserving of publication; as it contains the hisdown and deface images, &c. tory of a very interesting period, written by one CULPEPER, Nicholas, was educated at Cam-who had a considerable degree of authentic in bridge, and bound apprentice to an apothecary; formation, and comprises many curious particubut employed all his leisure hours in the study lars unknown to other historians. The author of astrology, which fallacious science he after-died 1737, at the advanced age of 83 years. wards professed. He wrote many books, but the most noted is his "Herbal," wherein he tells us under what planets the simples grow, and speaks of their good and bad qualities. He died in Spitalfields, 1654.

CUNY, Lewis Anthony, author of funeral orations on the dauphin of France, queen of Poland, and cardinal Rohan.

CUPANO, Francis, a Sicilian, author of a catalogue of plants of Sicily, and a valuable his

CULPEPER, Thomas lord, lieutenant-go-tory of that island. vernor, and afterwards governor, of the colony of Virginia, died in 1719.

ČUPERUS, Gisbert, professor of history, of Daventer, published several works, and died in

CUMBERLAND, Dr. Richard, a very learn-1716. ed English divine, and bishop of Peterborough, CURÆUS, Joachim, a German, author of born in London, in 1632, died in 1718. He had the annals of Silesia and Breslau; he died in studied mathematics in all branches, and the 1573.

Scriptures in their original languages. His book CURCELLÆUS, Stephen, of Geneva, author "De Legibus Natura" is his capital work, and of an edition of the Greek Testament with va will always be read while sound reasoning shall|rious readings, &c.; he died in 1658. continue to be thought the best support of religion.

CUMBERLAND, William, duke of, second son of George II., distinguished for his military successes; he died in 1765.

CURIO, an orator, of Rome, who called Casar the man of all the women, and the woman of all the men.

CURIO, Cœlius Secundus, a Piedmontese, who forsook the Romish religion for LutheranCUMBERLAND, Richard, an eminent poet,ism; he was professor of eloquence at Basil, essayist, novelist, and dramatic writer, was aand died in 1569.

son of the bishop of Kilmore, and a grandson, CURIUS, Dentatus Marcus Annius, a Roby the maternal side, of the learned Dr. Richard man consul, distinguished in the wars against Bentley, under whose roof, in the Master's Pyrrhus, died 272 B. C.

Lodge of Trinity College, Cambridge, he was CURL, Edmund, a bookseller, and bookmaborn, Feb. 19, 1732. He received his educationker, rendered notorious by Mr. Pope, in his at the school of Bury St. Edmunds, at West-Dunciad. He was generally held to be of an minster, and at Trinity College. As a writer, immoral character, and was highly injurious to the number of his works is very extraordinary.the literary world by his piracies and forgeries. The drama, however, appears to have been his He deservedly lost his ears in the pillory, by a favourite pursuit; and a list of his performances sentence of the law, for publishing obscene perin this line of literature, will be found in theformances, and died Dec. 11, 1747. "Biographia Dramatica," 8vo., 1812. He died in London, May 7, 1811, and was buried in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey.

CUMBERLAND, Henry Frederic, duke of, whose union with the widow of a Mr. Horton produced the marriage act; he died in 1790. CUMING, John, an eminent physician, of Concord, Mass., and a benefactor of Harvard College; died in 1788.

CUROPALATE, John, author of a Greek history, from 813, to 1081.

CURRADI, Francesco, an Italian painter, who excelled in historical pieces; he died in 1660.

CURRAN, Rt. Hon. John Philpot, an eminent Irish lawyer, and orator, and sometime master of the rolls in Ireland, was born in the county of Cork, and died at Brompton, near London, Oct. 14, 1817, aged nearly 70 years. His oratory CUMING, William, an eminent English phy-was completely sui generis; always the sudden sician, much respected for his learning and skill; he died in 1788.

burst of strong and passionate feelings, which seemed to rise in proportion as the grand conCUMMING, Alexander, minister in Boston, ceptions of his mind became more and more ilcolleague with Dr. Sewall; died in 1763. luminated by the coruscations of his wit,-the CUNEUS, Peter, a lawyer, professor at Ley-lightning flashes of a vigorous and highly poetiden, highly commended by Vossius, Scaliger, cal imagination. &c., died in 1638.

CURRIE, Dr. James, an eminent medical and CUNEGONDE, wife of Henry II., (emperor) political writer, born at Kirkpatrick Fleming, in was accused of incontinence, and retired to a Dumfriesshire, May 31, 1756, died at Sidmouth, monastery. Aug. 31, 1805. Besides medical writings, which CUNITIA, a lady of Silesia, in the 17th cen-are numerous, he furnished, in 1800, a rich treat tury, who greatly excelled in mathematics and to the lovers of elegant literature, by publishing, astronomy; she died in 1604. in 4 vols. 8vo. "The Works of Robert Burnes,

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