chaplain. It was now also that he fell under the charge of being concerned in some unlawful marriages, and in such circumstances thought it his duty to resign his fellowship, but being honourably acquitted in an examination before the bishop of Ely, he was immediately re-elected by the college.

In 1571 the earl of Essex presented him to the rectory of Warley, in Essex, and soon after to the rectory of Ke dington, in Suffolk, and about this time he took his doctor's degree at Cambridge, and was incorporated in the same at Oxford. His degree at Cambridge was in consequence of a mandamus from the earl of Essex, that he might be qualified to accompany the earl of Lincoln, who was then going as ambassador to the court of France. Upon his return he was chosen master of Pembroke-hall, and as Wood says in his Fasti, Margaret professor of divinity, but Baker, in a MS note on Wood, says he never held the latter office.

In 1582, Dr. Fulke, with other learned divines, was engaged in a public disputation with certain Roman catholics, in the Tower, and had to contend again with his old school-fellow Campian, but was more successful. He died in the month of August, 1589, and was buried in the chancel of the church at Kedington, where is an inscription to his memory, partly in Latin, and partly in English. He was married, and had a large family, to whom he appears by his will to have been able to bequeath considerable property. To Pembroke-hall he bequeathed a piece of plate, to be called Dr. Fulke's cup, and used only at commencements and solemn feasts.

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His works, chiefly controversial, are, 1. " Anti-prognosticon contra predictiones Nostradami," &c. 1560. "Sermon at Hampton-court," 1571. 3. "Confutation of a libelle in forme of an apology made by Frocknam,' 1571. 4. "A goodly gallery, or treatise on meteors," 1571. 5. "Astrologus ludus," 1571. 6. "Metpomaxia, sive Ludus geometricus," 1578. 7. "Responsio ad Tho. Stapletoni cavillationes," 1579. 8. "A retentive against the motives of Richard Bristow; also a discovery of the dangerous rock of the popish church," 1580. 9." A defence of the translation of the Holy Scriptures in English," 1583. 10. "Confutation of Will. Allen's treatise in defence of the usurped power of the popish priesthood." But the work by which he is best known, and is still remembered

with high esteem, is his Comment upon the Rheims Testament, printed in 1580, and reprinted in 1601 with this title: "The Text of the New Testament of Jesus Christ, translated out of the vulgar Latin by the Papists of the traiterous Seminarie at Rhemes. With arguments of books, chapters, and annotations, pretending to discover the corruptions of divers translations, and to clear the controversies of these days. Whereunto is added the translation out of the original Greek, commonly used in the Church of England; with a confutation of all such arguments, glosses, and annotations, as containe manifest impietie of Heresie, Treason, and Slander against the Catholike Church of God, and the true teachers thereof, or the translations used in the church of England. The whole worke, perused and enlarged in divers places by the author's owne hand before his death, with sundry quotations and authorities out of Holy Scriptures, Counsels, Fathers, and History. More amply than in the former Edition." This work was published again, 1617 and 1633, in folio, as it was before, and proves that in power of argument and criticism, he was one of the ablest divines of his time, and one of the principal opponents of the popish party. One other work has been attributed to him, we know not on what authority, which was published under the name of Mr. Dudley Fenner; entitled "A brief and plain declaration, containing the desires of all those faithful ministers who seek discipline and reformation of the church of England, which may serve as a just apology against the false accusations and slanders of their adversaries," 1584. Having never been molested on account of his opinions, unless when at college, there seems no reason why he should now publish them under another name.'

FULLER (ISAAC), was an English painter of some note in the reign of Charles II. but of his family or masters we have no account, except that he studied many years in France under Perrier, who engraved the antique statues. In his historical compositions he has left little to admire, his colouring being raw and unnatural, and not compensated by disposition or invention, but in portraits his pencil was bold, strong, and masterly. In the latter he was much employed, particularly at Oxford. His own portrait

1 Fuller's Worthies.-Wood's Fasti.-Brook's Puritans.-Strype's Parker, p. 280, Strype's Whitgift, p. 15,

in the gallery there is touched with great force and character. The altar-piece of Magdalen was also by him, but has not been much approved. As an imitation of Michel Angelo, it falls far short of the sublime, although sometimes wild imagination of that great artist; nor is the colouring harmonious. Some of the figures, however, are correctly drawn; and he has at least imitated the temper of Michel Angelo with success, in introducing among the damned, the portrait of an hostler at the Greyhound-inn, near the college, who had offended him. The picture, it is well known, was honoured by Addison in an elegant Latin poem. At Wadham college is an altar-cloth by Fuller in a singular manner, and of merit; which is just brushed over for the lights and shades, and the colours melted in with a hot iron. Soon after the restoration, he was engaged in painting the circumstances of king Charles II.'s escape, which he executed in five large pictures. These were presented to the parliament of Ireland, where they remained for many years in one of the rooms of the parliament house in Dublin. But some time in the last century the house undergoing a thorough repair, these pictures were not replaced, but lay neglected, until they were rescued by the late earl of Clanbrassil, who obtained possession of them, and had them cleaned and removed to his seat at Tullymore park, co. Down, where they were a few years ago. Lord Orford speaks slightingly of these, which he had never seen, and probably with as much jus tice as of Fuller's altar-piece at All-souls college, which he never could have seen, for Fuller had no picture there. Fuller died in Bloomsbury-square July 17, 1672, and left a son, an ingenious but idle man, chiefly employed in coach-painting, who died young.'

FULLER (NICHOLAS), a learned English divine and critic, was born at Southampton in 1557, and educated at, the free-school in that town. He did not go directly thence to the university, but was taken into the family of the bishop of Winchester, Dr. Robert Horne; where spending some time in study, he was made at length his secretary, and afterwards continued in that office by his successor, Dr. Watson. But Watson dying also in about three years, Fuller returned home, with a resolution to follow his stu

1 Orford's Painters.-Chalmers's Hist. of Oxford.-Gent, Mag. vol. LXXIX, P. 291.

dies. Before he was settled there, he was invited to be tutor to the sons of a knight in Hampshire, whom he accompanied to St. John's college, Oxford, in 1584. His pupils leaving him in a little time, he removed himself to Hart-hall, where he took both the degrees in arts, and then retired into the country. He afterwards took orders, and was presented to the rectory of Aldington, or Allington, near Amesbury, in Wiltshire. He afterwards became a prebendary in the church of Salisbury*, and rector of Bishop's-Waltham, in Hampshire. He died in 1622. He was extremely learned in the sacred tongues, and, as Wood quaintly says, "was so happy in pitching upon useful difficulties, tending to the understanding of the Scripture, that he surpassed all the critics of his time." His "Miscellanea Theologica," in four books, were published first at Heidelberg, 1612, 8vo, and afterwards at Oxford, in 1616, and at London, in 1617, 4to. These miscella nies coming into the hands of John Drusius, in Holland, he charged Fuller with plagiarism, and with taking his best notes from him without any acknowledgment. But Fuller, knowing himself guiltless, as having never seen Drusius's works, published a vindication of himself at Leyden, in 1622, together with two more books of "Miscellanea Sacra," Leyden and Strasburgh, 1650, 4to. All these miscellanies are printed in the 9th volume of the Critici Sacri," and dispersed throughout Pool's "Synopsis Criticorum." There are some manuscripts of Fuller in the Bodleian library at Oxford, which shew his great skill in Hebrew and in philological learning; as "An Exposi tion of rabbi Mordecai Nathan's Hebrew Roots, with notes upon it," and "A Lexicon," which he intended to have published with the preceding.'

FULLER (THOMAS), an English historian and divine, was the son of the rev. Thomas Fuller, minister of St. Peter's, in Aldwincle, in Northamptonshire, and born

* In the Aubrey MSS. his presentation to the prebend is thus mentioned. After noticing that bishop Andrews made a point to prefer " ingeniose persous that were staked to poor livings, and did delitescere," he adds that the bishop made it his enquiry to find out such men. Amongst several others, Nicholas Fuller, minister of Allington, neer Amesbury, in Wilts, was one. The

bishop sent for him, and the poor man was afrayd, and knew not what hurt he had done. He makes him sitt down to dinner, and, after the desert, was brought in in a dish bis institution and induction, or the donation of a prebend, which was his way." Letters written by eminent persons, &c. 3 vols. 8vo, 1813.

Ath. Ox, vol. I.-Fuller's Worthies.

there in 1608. The chief assistance he had in the rudiments of learning was from his father, under whom he made so extraordinary a progress, that he was sent at twelve years of age to Queen's-college, in Cambridge; Dr. Davenant, who was his mother's brother, being then master of it, and soon after bishop of Salisbury. He took his degrees in arts, that of A. B. in 1624-5, and that of A. M. in 1628, and would have been fellow of the college; but there being already a Northamptonshire man a fellow, he was prohibited by the statutes from being chosen, and although he might have obtained a dispensation, he preferred removing to Sidney-college, in the same university. He had not been long there, before he was chosen minister of St. Bennet's, in the town of Cambridge, and soon became a very popular preacher. In 1631, he obtained a fellowship in Sidney-college, and at the same time a prebend in the church of Salisbury. This year also he issued his first publication, a work of the poetical kind, now but little known, entitled "David's Hainous Sin, Heartie Repentances, and Heavie Punishment," in a thin 8vo.

He was soon after ordained priest, and presented to the rectory of Broad Windsor, in Dorsetshire; in 1635 he came again to Cambridge, and took his degree of B. D. after which, returning to Broad Windsor, he married about 1638, and had one son, but lost his wife about 1641. During his retirement at this rectory, he began to complete several works he had planned at Cambridge; but growing weary of a country parish, and uneasy at the unsettled state of public affairs, he removed to London; and distinguished himself so much in the pulpits there, that he was invited by the master and brotherhood of the Savoy to be their lecturer. In 1640, he published his "History of the Holy War;" it was printed at Cambridge, in folio, and was so favourably received, that a third edition appeared in 1647. On April 13, 1640, a parliament was called, and then also a convocation began at Westminster, in Henry VII.'s chapel, having licence granted to make new canons for the better government of the church; of this convocation he was a member, and has amply detailed its proceedings in his "Church History." During the commencement of the rebellion, and when the king left London in 1641, to raise an army, Mr. Fuller continued at the Savoy, to the great satisfaction of his people, and the neighbouring nobility and gentry, labouring all the while