tish herring-fishery, tendered to the same illustrious personages presents of pickled herrings, &c. all which, both poems and herrings, he took care to inform the public "were most graciously received." He was employed in compiling some of the lives in the "General Dictionary, including Bayle ;" and translated various works from the French. In all his employments he maintained an amiable and unblemished character, and died much lamented at his house in Brownlow-street, Long Acre, of a paralytic stroke, Feb. 2, 1771.1

LOCKYER (NICHOLAS), a non-conformist divine, the son of William Lockyer of Glastonbury in Somersetshire, was born in that county in 1612, and in 1629 studied in New-Inn hall, Oxford, where he took the degree of bachelor of arts. He afterwards went into holy orders, and had a cure, but siding with the presbyterian party, became a leading man in their committees, and other measures for reforming the church. He obtained, by the same interest, a fellowship of Eton college, and in 1658 was made provost, but was ejected at the Restoration. He passed the remainder of his life at Woodford in Essex, where, as Wood says, he died "a wealthy man," March 13, 1684-5; and was buried in St. Mary's-church, Whitechapel. His works, of which Wood has given a very copious list, consist of sermons, and tracts of practical piety. Calamy, who gives but a slight account of him, says, that "his writings shew him to have been very zealous and affectionate; earnestly bent upon the conversion of souls.

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LODGE (THOMAS, M. D.), a dramatic poet, descended from a family which had its residence in Lincolnshire; but whether the doctor himself was born there, seems not very easy to be ascertained. Langbaine and Jacob, and, after them, Wincop and Chetwood, who, in the general, are little more than copiers, say that he was educated at Cambridge, but Wood informs us, that it was at Oxford, where he made his first appearance about 1573, and was afterwards a scholar under the learned Dr. Hobye, of Trinitycollege. Here he made very considerable advances in learning, dedicating his leisure time to the reading the poets of antiquity; and, having himself a turn to poetry, especially of the satirical kind, he became known by

Biog. Dram.-Gent. Mag. vol. LXII. p. 314.-Nichols's Bowyer.-Boswell's Life of Johnson.

2 Ath. Ox. vol. II.-Calamy.-Harwood's Alumni Etonenses.

various compositions of that nature, which obtained him no inconsiderable reputation as a wit and poet. Mr. Lodge, however, sensible how seldom the study of poetry yields a competent provision to its professors, after having taken one degree in arts, applied himself, with great assiduity, to the more profitable study of physic, and for further improvement went abroad. After staying a sufficient time at Avignon to be entitled to the degree of doctor in that university, he returned, and, in the latter end of queen Elizabeth's reign, was incorporated in the university of Cambridge. He afterwards settled in London, where, by his skill and interest with the Roman Catholic party, in which persuasion, it is said, he was brought up, he attained great practice. In what year Dr. Lodge was born does not evidently appear; but he died in 1625, and had tributes paid to his memory by many of his contemporary poets, who have characterized him as a man of very considerable

genius.

His dramatic works are, 1. "Wounds of Civil War, a tragedy, 1594," 4to. 2. "Looking-Glass for London and England, a tragi-comedy, 1598" (assisted by Robert Green.) Winstanly has named four more dramatic pieces besides the first of the two above named, which he asserts to have been written by this author, in conjunction with Robert Green, 1. "Lady Alimony," a comedy. 2. "Laws of Nature," a comedy. 3. "Liberalitie and Prodigalitie," a comedy. 4. "Luminalia." But the first three of these, though they might be brought to agree in point of time, yet are all printed anonymously; and, as to the last, it was written on a particular occasion, and that not till two years after Dr. Lodge's death, and full thirty-five after that of Robert Green.

His other writings were, 1. " Alarm against the Usurers, containing tried experiences against worldly abuses," Lond. 1584. 2. "History of Tribonius and Prisæria, with Truth's Complaint over England." 3. "Euphues Golden Legacy." 4. "Treatise of the Plague, containing the nature, signs, and accidents of the same," Lond. 1603, 4to. 5. “Countess of Lincoln's Nursery," Oxford, 1622, 4to. 6. "Treatise in defence of Plays." 7. "Catharos Diogenes in his singularitie, &c." Lond. 1591, 4to. Of this satire the reader may see an account in the Bibliographer. 8. "The Divel conjured," ibid. 1596, 4to. noticed in the "Restituta." He translated also into English Josephus's Works,

Lond. 1602, 1609, 1620, &c. fol.; and Seneca's Works, "both moral and natural," ibid. 1614, 1620, &c. fol.

LODGE (WILLIAM), a spirited and tasteful engraver of the seventeenth century, was the son of a merchant at Leeds, where he was born July 4, 1649, and inherited an estate of 300l. a year. From school he was sent to Jesus college, Cambridge, and thence to Lincoln's-inn, where his studies appear to have ended. He afterwards went abroad with Thomas lord Bellassis, in his embassy to Venice, and meeting with Barri's " Viaggio Pittoresco," he translated it, and added heads of the painters of his own engraving, and a map of Italy. This was printed in 1679, 8vo. While on his travels, he drew various views, which he afterwards etched. Returning to England, he assisted Dr. Lister of York, in drawing various subjects of natural history, inserted in the Philosophical Transactions. He died at Leeds, in August 1689, and was buried in Harwood church. Besides the portraits above mentioned, there are several views by this artist, etched in a slight but spirited style, from his own designs, which he made both at home and abroad. They bear the marks of genius and a good

taste.2

LOFTUS (DUDLEY), a very learned, oriental scholar, was the second son of sir Adam Loftus, and great grandson of Dr. Adam Loftus, who was archbishop of Armagh, then of Dublin, and one of the lords justices, and lord chancellor of Ireland. He was born in 1618, at Rathfarnam, near Dublin, a stately castle built by his ancestor the archbishop, and was educated in Trinity college, where he was admitted fellow-commoner in 1635. About the time he took his first degree in arts, the extraordinary proficiency he had made in languages attracted the notice of archbishop Usher, who earnestly advised his father to send him to Oxford, where he might improve his oriental learning, a matter which that worthy prelate considered as highly important in the investigation of the history and principles of the Christian religion. Mr. Loftus was accordingly sent by his father to Oxford, and entered of University college, where he was incorporated B. A. in November 1639. About this time he commenced the

1 Ath. Ox. vol. I.-Cibber's Lives.-Biog. Dram,-Phillips's Theatrum by sir E. Brydges.-Warton's History.-Ellis's Specimens.-Bibliographer, vol. I. -Restituta, vol. I.

2 Walpole's Anecdotes.-Strutt's Dictionary.

study of the law, with a view to take his bachelor's degree in that faculty, but at the persuasion of his friends in University college, took his degree of master of arts in 1641, and then returned to Ireland at the moment the rebellion broke out. His father, who was at that time vice-treasurer, and one of the privy council, procured a garrison to be placed in his castle of Rathfarnam, and gave the command of it to his son Dudley, who displayed his skill and courage, by defending the city from the incursions of the Irish inhabiting the neighbouring mountains. He was afterwards made one of the masters in chancery, vicargeneral of Ireland, and judge of the prerogative court and faculties, all which offices he held to the time of his death. He was also a doctor of the civil law, and esteemed the most learned of any of his countrymen in that faculty. Towards the latter part of his life, his talents and memory were very much impaired, and when about seventy-six years of age, he married a second wife, but died the year following, in June 1695, and was buried in St. Patrick's church, Dublin.

Mr. Loftus's greatest excellence lay in the knowledge of various languages, especially the oriental; and it is said, that when only twenty years of age, he was able to translate as many languages into English. Among archbishop Usher's letters is one from him to that prelate, which, although short, shews his avidity to search out oriental books and MSS.; as well as his high respect and gratitude to Usher, who first directed his attention to the treasures of the Bodleian library. Yet his character in other respects does not correspond with his parts or learning. He was accounted, says Harris, an improvident and unwise man, and his many levities and want of conduct gave the world too much reason to think so. The same biographer mentions "a great, but free-spoken prelate," who said of Mr. Loftus, that "he never knew so much learning in the keeping of a fool."

His learning, indeed, and his industry appear very evident by his many writings. Besides the Ethiopic New Testament which he translated into Latin, at the request of Usher and Selden, for the Polyglot, and which procured him from Walton the character of "vir doctissimus, tam generis prosapia, quam linguarum orientalium scientia, nobilis," he published, 1. Logica Armeniaca în Latinam traducta," Dublin, 1657, 12mo.

2. "Introductio in totam

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Aristotelis Philosophiam," ibid. 1657, 12mo. 3. "The Proceedings observed in order to, and in the consecration of, the twelve Bishops in St. Patrick's Church in Dublin, Jan. 27, 1660," Lond. 1661, 4to. 4. "Liber Psalmorum Davidis ex Armeniaco idiomate in Latinum traductus," Dublin, 1661, 12mo. 5. "Oratio funebris habita post exuvias nuperi Rev. patris Joan. (Bramhall) archiepiscopi Armachani," ibid. 1663, 4to. 6. "The Speech of James duke of Ormond, made in a parliament at Dublin, Sept. 17, 1662, translated into the Italian," ibid. 1664. "Reductio litium de libero arbitrio, prædestinatione, et reprobatione ad arbitrium boni viri," ibid. 1670, 4to. "A Book demonstrating that it was inconsistent with the English government, that the Irish rebels should be admitted to their former condition with impunity, by topics drawn from principles of law, policy, and conscience,' published under the name of Philo-Britannicus. 9. "Lettera esortatoria di mettere opera a fare sincera penitenza mandata alla signora F. M. L. P. &c." 1667, 4to. This piece was written on account of a lady of Irish birth, with whom he was criminally connected, and whom he wished to pass for an Italian, as she was educated in Italy. Her name was Francisca Maria Lucretia Plunket. It was to her he wrote this exhortatory letter, which was followed soon after by, 10. "The Vindication of an injured lady, F. M. Lucretia Plunket, one of the ladies of the privy chamber to the queen mother of England," Lond. 1667, 4to. 11. Two pamphlets of the "Case of Ware and Shirley," a gentleman who married an heiress against her will. 12. "A Speech delivered at the Visitation held in the diocese of Clogher, sede vacante, Sept. 27, 1671," Dublin, 1671, 4to. 13. "The first marriage of Katherine Fitzgerald (now lady Decies), &c. asserted," Lond. 1677, 4to. Readers of the present times will be surprised to be told, that this pamphlet relates to the marriage of lord Decies, aged eight years, to Katherine Fitz-gerald, aged twelve and a half. The little lady in about twenty months took another husband, Edward Villiers, esq. Mr. Loftus's opinion was, that the first marriage was legal. His argument was answered by Robert Thomson, LL. D. in a pamphlet under the title of " Sponsa nondum uxor," Lond. 1678, 4to. 14. "Several Chapters of Dionysius Syrus's Comment on St. John the Evangelist, concerning the Life and Death of our Saviour," Dublin, 4to. 15. "The Com