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dies display a sprightly genius, and are extreme-keeper of the mendicean library, and afterwards ly diverting. bishop of Nocera; he died in 1537. FASTOLFF, Sir John, a valiant and renowned FAVRE, Anthony, an eminent lawyer at general during the English conquests in France, Bresse, afterwards governor of Savoy, died in born at Yarmouth, in Norfolk, in 1377, died 1459.1624. He was knighted in the field, and honoured with FAVRE, Claude. See VAUGELAS. the Garter. Sir John was a benefactor to both FAWCETT, sir William, an English officer the universities, bequeathing a considerable le-of great merit, who, for his services, was progacy to Cambridge for building the schools of moted to the rank of general, made a knight of Philosophy and Civil Law; and at Oxford he the bath, and governor of Chelsea hospital; he was so bountiful to Magdalen College, that his died in 1804.

name is there commemorated in an amiversary FAWKES, Francis, an ingenious English speech. Shakspeare has been very unjustly poet and divine, born in Yorkshire, 1721. He accused of having drawn his sir John Falstaff published a volume of poems, by subscription, to ridicule this great and good man. 1761, in 8vo, and several poems afterwards.

FAUCHET, Claude, vicar-general to the arch-But his great strength is supposed to have lain bishop of Bruges, and preacher to Louis XVI. in translation; as his Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, His manner of preaching disgusting the mo- Moschus, Musæus, and Theocritus, show. His narch, Fauchet became a bitter enemy of the go-name is set to a "Family Bible, with notes, vernment, a leader in the destruction of the Bas-1761," in 4to. He died Aug. 26, 1777. tile, and a member of the national assembly FAYDIT, Anselm, a Provencal poet, or trou and of the convention; he was guillotined in badour, celebrated among the princes of his time for his wit, and the elegance of his manFAUCHET, Claude, a French antiquarian,ners; he died in 1220. and historiographer to Henry IV., died in 1601. His writings are valuable, but inelegantly writ

1793.

ten.

FAUCHEUR, Michael le, a French protestant divine, admired as a preacher, died at Paris, in 1667.

FAUGERES,Margaretta V., distinguished for her literary accomplishments, was a native of the state of New-York; she was unfortunate in her marriage, and died in 1801. She published several little poems.

FAYDIT, Peter, a French priest, known for his satirical attacks on Bossuet and Fenelon, died in 1709.

FAYETTE, Louisa de la, a French lady of great celebrity, maid of honour to Anne of Austria, and the confident of Louis XIII., retired to a convent, after reconciling the monarch to his queen, where she died universally beloved and esteemed.

FAYETTE, Marie Madeleine, countess of, a French lady, more distinguished by her literary FAULKNER, George, a worthy printer, of productions than by her family. She was marDublin, of no mean celebrity, being the first man ried to the count de Fayette, in 1655, and died in who carried his profession to a high degree of 1693. The principal works of this lady are, credit in Ireland. He was the confidential prin- "Zaide," a romance often printed, and "La ter of dean Swift; and enjoyed the friendship Princesse de Cleves," a romance also, to which and patronage of the earl of Chesterfield, whose || Fontenelle is said to have given four readings. ironical letters to Faulkner, comparing him to M. Fayette was so regardless of fame, that she Atticus, are perhaps the finest parts of his writ- published these works under the name of Seings. He settled at Dublin, as a printer and grais, who, however, is supposed to have been bookseller, soon after the year 1726; raised no farther concerned than in aiding a little in there a very comfortable fortune by his well- the design of them. Voltaire says, that the roknown" Journal," and other laudable under-mances of Fayette were the first which exhitakings; and died an alderman of Dublin, Aug.bited the manners of people of fashion in a 28, 1775. graceful, easy, natural way: all before having been pompous, bombast, and swelling every thing beyond nature and life.

FAUQUIER, Francis, succeeded governor Dinwiddie, as chief magistrate of the colony of Virginia. He was respected for his integrity, talents, and piety, and was extremely popular with the colonists; he died in 1768.

FAUR, Guy de, lord of Pibrac, advocate-general of the parliament of Paris, and counsellor of state, known also as a poet; he died in 1584. FAUST, or FAUSTUS See FUST. FAUSTA, Flavia Maximana, second wife of the emperor Constantine, was suffocated in a bath, for her incontinence, in 327.

FAUSTINA, Anna Galeria, the wife of Antoninus Pius, known only for her profligacy, died in 141.

FAUSTUS, an English monk, abbot of the monastery of the Lerin islands, and afterwards bishop of Riez, in Provence; he died in 481. FAVART, Charles Simon, a Parisian, known for his admired operas, died in 1793.

FAVART,Marie Justine Benoite, a celebrated French actress, wife of the preceding, died in

1772

FAVOLIUS, Hugo, a Dutch physician and poet, died in 1585.

FAVORINUS, a Platonic philosopher, who lived in the age of Adrian.

FAVORINUS, Varinus, a Benedictine monk,

FEARNE, Charles, an eminent English conveyancer, and author of a well-known work, entitled, "An Essay on Contingent Remainders and Executory Devises," born in 1742, died Jan. 21, 1794.

FEATLEY, or FAIRCLOUGH,Daniel, D.D., an English divine, celebrated as an able theologian, and as a popular and eloquent preacher; he was provost of Chelsea college, where he died in 1645.

FECHT, or FECHTIUS, John, a Lutheran divine, settled at Rostock, died in 1716.

FECKENHAM, John de, so called because he was born of poor parents, in a cottage, near the forest of Feckenham, in Worcestershire, his right name being Howman. He was the last abbot of Westminster, and died in 1585. Camden calls him a "learned and good man, that lived long, did a great deal of good to the poor, and always solicited the minds of his adversaries to benevolence."

FEIJOO, Benedict Jerom, a Spanish Benedictine, who attempted, by his writings, to expose the ignorance of the clergy, and the inutility of pilgrimages, &c. He died in 1765.

FEITHUS, Everard, a learned German, who

retired to France, where he became conspicu-l one of the best books that is written in French, ous for his learning, and was honoured with the upon that subject. friendship of the most eminent literary men of that country.

FELIBIEN, Andrew, counsellor and historiographer to the king of France, born at Chartres, in 1619, died 1695. His "Dialogues upon the Lives of the Painters" have done him great ho

nour.

FELIBIEN, John Francis, son of the preceding, inherited from his father a taste and knowledge of the fine arts, and succeeded him in all his appointments; he died in 1733.

FELIBIEN, James, brother of Andrew, and archdeacon of Chartres, died in 1716.

FENN, Sir John, a very learned antiquary, born in Norwich, 1739, died February, 1794, hav ing greatly distinguished himself by his applica tion to the study of natural history and antiqui ties, which enabled him to collect and publish, in 4 vols. 4to, a large collection of "Original Letters, written during the reigns of Henry VI., Edward IV., Richard III., and Henry VII.," by such of the Paston family, and others, as were personally present in court and camp, and were, in those times, persons of great consequence in the county of Norfolk. These letters contain many curious and authentic state anecdotes, re

FELIBIEN, Michael, son of Andrew, an au-lating not only to Norfolk, but to the kingdom in thor of reputation, died in 1719. general, and to the wars in France.

FELIX, governor of Judea,in the reign of Nero. FELIX, bishop of Urgella, in Spain, deposed for heretical opinions, died in exile in 815.

FELIX, Minutius, a father of the primitive church, who flourished in the 3d century, about the year 220. He wrote a very elegant dialogue in defence of the Christian religion, entitled "Octavius."'

FELIX I., pope after Dionysius, was put to death in 274, and canonized.

FELIX II., was elected pope in 355, and afterwards died in exile in 365.

FELIX III., elevated to the papacy in the reign of Zeno, died in 492.

FELIX IV., a pious and exemplary prelate, was chosen pope in 526, and died four years after. FELL, Dr. John, an eminently learned divine, and bishop of Oxford, born at Longworth, in Berkshire, 1625, died 1686.

FELL, John, an English dissenting minister tutor of an academy at Homerton, died in 1797. FELLER, Joachim Frederic, a learned German, secretary to the duke of Weimar, died in

1726.

FENNER, Arthur, governor of the state of Rhode-Island, died in 1805.

FENTON, sir Geoffrey, an eminent writer and statesman during the reigns of Elizabeth and James I., was born in Nottinghamshire, and died in 1608. He is known by a translation from the Italian of "The History of the Wars of Italy, by Guiciardini

FENTON, Elijah, secretary to the earl of Orrery, an elegant poet, and one of the worthiest and most modest men that ever adorned the court of Apollo. In 1717 he published a volume of poems, and in 1723 introduced upon the stage his tragedy of "Mariamne." Fenton was much beloved by Mr. Pope, who, after his death,(1730) honoured him with the following epitaph: This modest stone, what few vain marbles can May truly say, Here lies an honest man: Whom Heaven kept sacred from the proud "A poet bless'd beyond a poet's fate,

and great:

Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease,
Content with science in the vale of peace,
Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear:
"Calmly he looked on either life, and here

FELLER, Francis Xavier, an ex-jesuit, of Brussels, author of Observations on Newton's Philosophy, and on Buffon's works, with other. writings; he died in 1802.

FELLTHAM, Owen, a miscellaneous writer, born in Suffolk, who lived many years in the family of the earl of Thomond, wrote a book of great merit, called "Resolves, Divine, Moral, and Political," many editions of which have been published. He died about 1678.

From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied,
Thank'd heav'n that he had liv'd, and that he

died."

FERAJUOLI, Nuzio, an eminent Italian landscape painter in the 17th century.

FERDINAND I., emperor of Germany, was crowned king of Hungary, in 1527, elected king of the Romans, in 1531, and succeeded his brother Charles V. as emperor, in 1558; he died in 1564.

FELTON, John, an Englishman, known only as the murderer of Villiers, duke of Buckingham, in 1628, for which he was executed. His FERDINAND II., king of Bohemia and Hunfather and grandfather had been executed be-gary, and emperor of Germany, in 1619; after fore him, as bigoted and seditious catholics. subduing his revolted Bohemian subjects, and FELTON, Henry, principal of Edmund hall, waging successful war against Denmark, and Oxford, died in 1739. other neighbouring powers, he died at Vienna, in 1637.

FENDALL, Josias, governor and chief justice of the province of Maryland, was succeeded in 1660 by Calvert. He was afterwards banished from the province, for misdemeanors.

FERDINAND III., son of the preceding, was also king of Bohemia, &c., and emperor of Germany. His plans of ambition and aggrandizement were successfully opposed by the Swedes, under the duke of Weimar, and by the French, under the great Conde, until the peace of Westphalia, &c.: the emperor died in 1657.

FERDINAND I., king of Castile and Leon, surnamed the Great, defeated the king of Leon, and usurped his throne; he penetrated into the centre of Portugal, and afterwards defeated and killed his brother, the king of Navarre; he died in 1065.

FENELON, Francis de Salignac de la Motte, archbishop of Cambray, born at the castle of Fenelon, in the province of Perigord, 1651, died 1715. He wrote many works; but what has gained him the greatest reputation, and for which he will be immortal, is his "Telemachus." No work ever had a greater reputation; the style of it is lively, natural, and beautiful; the fictions well contrived; the moral sublime; and the political maxims tending all to the happiness of mankind. He published another considerable FERDINAND II., king of Castile and Leon,' work, entitled, "A Demonstration of the Being and son of Alphonso VIII., died in 1187. of God, grounded on the knowledge of Nature, FERDINAND III., St., obtained the throne and suited to the meanest zapacity;" which is of Castile on the abdication of his mother; and

that of Leon, on the death of his father, Al-which he resigned in favour of Mr. Duga.d phonso IX., in 1230; he made war successfully Stewart. He died in 1816. against the Moors, and died in 1252.

FERDINAND IV., succeeded to the throne of Castile at 10 years of age, and died suddenly in 1312.

FERGUSON, James, an extraordinary phenomenon of the self-taught kind, particularly in the astronomical branch of science, was born in Bamffshire, Scotland, in 1710. His parents FERDINAND V., surnamed the Catholic, being in low circumstances, he was obliged to united the kingdoms of Castile and Arragon, by keep sheep for four years; but in this situation his marriage with Isabella, of Castile. During he learned to mark the position of the stars their reign, the Moorish power in Spain was de- with a thread and bead. One Alexander Cant stroyed by Ferdinand, and a new world was ley, butler to Thomas Grant, esq., taught him added to their dominions, by the discoveries of decimal arithmetic, algebra, and the elements Columbus; he died in 1516. of geometry: after this he went into two very FERDINAND VI., surnamed the Wise, suc-hard services. His ingenuity at length introceeded his father, Philip V., in 1746. He was duced him to Sir James Dunbar, when he learndistinguished for his justice, prudence, and be-ed to draw, and began to take portraits. At 30 nevolence, and his reign was prosperous and popular; he died in 1759.

FERDINAND I., king of Naples and Sicily, although a patron of commerce and the arts, was unpopular for his cruelties; he died in 1494.

years of age, he invented his Astronomical Ro tula, a machine for showing the new moons and eclipses. About 1744 he went to London, and, by his delineation of the complex line of the moon's motion, procured the honour of being FERDINAND, king of Portugal, died in 1383, ||elected fellow of the royal society, without payafter a turbulent and unfortunate reign. ing for admission. His dissertations and invenFERDINAND I., grand duke of Tuscany,tions in mechanics, and other branches of the eminent for the wisdom and energy of his go- mathematics, introduced him to the favour of vernment; he died in 1609. king George III., who conferred an annual penFERDINAND I., grand duke of Tuscany,sion of 501. upon him. He died November 16 after Cosmo II., was respected by all, for the decided and impartial neutrality he preserved during the wars between France and Spain; he died in 1668.

FERDINAND, of Cordova, a Spaniard, of the 15th century, so conspicuous for his learning, that he was considered by the vulgar as a magician.

FERDINAND LOPEZ, a Portuguese, who, in the 16th century, visited the East Indies, and published a valuable account of his voyage, &c. FERDINAND, Charles, a poet and philosopher, of Bruges, died at Paris, in 1494.

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FERGUSSON, Robert, a very ingenious though unfortunate, Scotch poet, born at Edin burgh, in 1750, died Oct. 16, 1774. He was pos sessed of the brightest genius, and the best heart; but his social qualifications were so fascinating that they led him into a course of dissipation and imprudence, which too often is the ruin of men of genius. Burns (his brother poet, and enthusiastic admirer) erected a neat monument to his memory in the Canongate church-yard.

FERMAT, Peter, a native of Toulouse, was distinguished as an able lawyer, and an eminen. mathematician and philosopher; the associate of Descartes and Huygens; he died in 1664.

FERDINAND, John, a jesuit, of Toledo, known as a theological writer, died in 1595. FERDINAND DE JESUS, an eloquent Car- FERMOR, William count Von, an officer in melite monk, of Spain, in the 17th century. the Russian service, distinguished for his vic FERDINANDI, Epiphanius, an eminent phy-tories over the Turks and Prussians, and parti sician, died in 1638.

cularly over the king of Prussia, and for the capture of Berlin; he died in 1771.

FERNANDEZ, Anthony, superior of the Portuguese jesuit missionaries, in India, and author of commentaries on parts of the Gid Testament; he died in 1628.

FERDOUSI, Hassan Ben Scharf, the most celebrated of all the Persian poets. His epic poem, entitled "Schanamek," that is, "The History," contains the annals of the kings of Persia, and consists of 60,000 verses. Ferdousi composed this poem at the command of the sul- FERNANDEZ, Benedict, a Portuguese jesuit, tan Mahmoud, and was employed upon it thirty and also a writer of commentaries on Scripture years; after which receiving only 60,000 drach-died in 1630. mas of silver for his trouble, he quitted the court FERNANDEZ, Alphonso, a Spanish Domiof Mahmoud in disgust, and wrote satiricalnican, and writer, died in 1640. verses against him. He died in 1020.

FERNEL, John Francis, physician to Henry

FERG, or FERGIRE, Francis Paul, an emi-II. of France, was distinguished for his indefati nent landscape painter, born at Vienna, died at gable attention to his studies, for his attainments London, in 1740. in philosophy and medicine, and for his attachment to private life; he died in 1558.

FERGUS I., king of Scotland, elected king for his services in repelling tile Picts; he was drowned in 404.

FERGUSON, Robert, a non-conformist divine, and a teacher; afterwards the associate of Monmouth, died in 1714.

FERGUSON, William, a Scotch painter, died in 1690.

FERNOUILLOT DE FALBAIRE, Charles George, a French author; he died in 1801.

FERRACINO, Bartolomeo, a selftaught and ingenious mechanic, born at Bassan, in Padua died in 1764.

FERRAND, James. a French physician, and anthor of a treatise, "De la Maladie d'Amour," FERGUSON, Dr. Adam, a natural and mo-printed at Paris, in 1622; and published in Enral philosopher, and political writer, born inglish, in 1640. Scotland, in 1724. His principal writings were "An Essay on Civil Society;" "History of the Roman Republic;" ;""A Treatise on Moral and Political Science;" and "Institutes of Mora! Philosophy." Dr. Ferguson held many years a rofessorship in the university of Edinburgh,

FERRAND, Lewis, a French lawyer, and advocate of the parliament of Paris, died in 1699 FERRAND, Anthony, a counsellor of Paris, author of madrigals, songs, &c., died in 1719. FERRAND, James Philip, a French painter in enamel, died in 1739

FERRANDUS, Fulgentius, a deacon of Car-1 thage, died before 551.

FERRIAR, Jolin, M. D., an estimable writer on medicine, the belles lettres, and archaiology, FERRAR, Robert, bishop of St. Davids, was died at Manchester, in 1815. He published "II burnt as a heretic, in the reign of Mary, in 1555.ustrations of Sterne," in which he detected FERRAR, Nicholas, a native of London, the source from which Sterne had evidently borwas secretary to the Virginia company, and rowed many of the ideas dispersed through his afterwards a member of parliament; he died eccentric performances.

in 1637. FERRIER, Jeremy, professor of divinity at FERRARI, Lewis, of Milan, professor of ma-Nisines, and secretary to the king of France, in thematics at Bologna, where he died in 1565. 1626, the year of his death.

FERRARI, Antony Mary Zachary Bartholomew, founder of the order of the Barnabites at Milan, died in 1544.

FERRARI, Octavian, an Italian author, born at Milan, 1518, died in 1586. Though excellently skilled in polite literature, yet he was principally famous for philosophy, being esteemed a Becond Aristotle.

FERRIER, Arnauld de, an eminent lawyer, and called the Cato of France, was born at Tou louse, in 1505, died 1585.

FERRIER, Lewis, a poet and dramatic writer, born at Avignon, died in 1721.

FERRIER, John, a jesuit, and confessor to the French king, died in 1674.

FERRIERES, Claude de, a doctor of civil law at Paris, and author of several valuable books on that subject, died in 1715.

FERRARI, Francisco Bernardino, of the same family with the former, born at Milan, 1577, died 1669. He was an able divine and sacred historian, and of no mean talents as andeaux, author of an elegant Latin history of antiquary.

FERRARI, Octavio, historiographer of Milan, of the same family with the former, born in 1607, died in 1682. He was remarkable for the sweetness, sincerity, and affability of his temper; and had so happy a way of conciliating persons exasperated against each other, that he acquired the title of "The Reconciler.

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FERRARI, John Baptist, a jesuit, author of a Syriac Dictionary, &c.; he died in 1655. FERRARI, Giovanni Andrea, a painter of Genoa, died in 1669.

FERRON, Árnauld du, a lawyer of Bour

France, to the reign of Francis I., in continuation of that of Emilius; he died in 1563.

FERTE, Henry de Senecterrc Marechal de, a celebrated French general in the reigns of Louis XIII. and his successor; he died in 1681.

FERUS, John, superior of the gray friars at Mentz, known as a popular preacher, and as a commentator on the Bible; he died in 1654.

FESTUS, Porcius, a proconsul of Judea, by whom the apostle Paul was sent to Rome. FESTUS, Pompeius, a celebrated grammarian of antiquity, who abridged a work of "Verrius FERRARIENSIS, a general of the Domini-Flaccus de Significatione Verborum." cans, and a writer on philosophy, died in 1528. FETTI, Dominico, an eminent painter, born FERRARS, George, a distinguished advocate, at Rome, in 1589, died 1624. From the paintings a member of parliament, and a favourite of of Julio Romano he took his colouring, the boldHenry VIII., and of his successor. He wroteness of his characters, and a beautiful manner of the History of Queen Mary, the Tragedy of thinking; he was very delicate in his thoughts; Richard II., and other works, and died in 1579. had a grandeur of expression, and a mellowness FERRARS, Edward, a poet and favourite of of pencil, that pleased the connoisseurs. His Henry VIII., died in 1564. pictures are scarce, and much sought after.

FERRARS, Henry, of the same family as the preceding, is known as having made large and valuable collections for a history of his native country; he died in 1633.

FERRAUD, N., a deputy to the national convention of France, distinguished for his hatred of monarchy, was shot at Paris, in 1795, during an attack on the convention.

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FEULLEE, Lewis, botanist to Lewis XIV. of France, born at Provence. in 1660, died 1732. There is of his a " Journal des Observations Physiques, Mathematiques, et Botaniques,' made upon the coasts of South America and New Spain, which is said to be very exact and curious, though written inelegantly.

FEUQUIERES, Anthony de Pas, marquis FERREAS, Don John of, born at Raba-of, distinguished as an officer, and made a marnezza, in Spain, in 1652, died in 1735. He was shal for his services in Germany; he died in author of a Spanish Dictionary, and of several 1711. works in Theology, Philosophy, and History; the most considerable of which was a "General History of Spain."

FEURBORN, Justus, rector of the university of Giessen, and author of several theological works in Latin, died in 1656.

FERREIN, Antony, a French anatomist, and FEUSTKING, John Henry, professor and lecturer on Materia Medica; he died in 1769. doctor of divinity in the university at WittemFERRETI, or FERRETUS, a poet and histo-berg, confessor to the duke of Saxony, and coun rlan, of Vicenza, who contributed to the revival sellor to the duke of Saxe Gotha, died in 1713. of learning in Europe, in the 14th century. FEVARDENTIUS,or FEWARDENT, FranFERRETI, Emilio, an Italian lawyer, secre-cis, a Franciscan friar, known for his bigoted tary to pope Leo X., died at Avignon, in 1552. hostility to the protestants; he died in 1641. FERRETY, Giovanni Batista, a Benedictine FEVRE, Claude, a French paintor, died n

monk, of Vicenza; the time of his death is un-London, in 1675. known.

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FEVRE, Guy le, sieur de la Boderie, a poet FERRI, Paul, a learned, popular, and elo-of Lower Normandy, eminent for his knowledge quent divine, of Metz, died in 1669.

of oriental literature, died in 1598.
FEVRE, Anthony le, brother of Guy, was in

FERRI, Ciro, a celebrated historic painter, born at Rome, in 1634, died 1689. He was a faith-the service of Henry IV. of France, and his amful imitator of Peter de Cortona, under whom he had been bred; and to whom he came so near in his ideas, his invention, and his manner of painting, that his ceilings, particularly, are often mistaken for Cortona's.

bassador to England, &c.; he died in 1615. FEVRE, Nicholas le, a French jesuit, author of a treatise on true religion, died in 1755.

FEVRE, James le, a learned Frenchman, the friend and correspondent of Erasmus, published

translation of the New Testament with com-tion at the Temple, was called to the bar, and mentaries; he died in 1537, aged 97. made no inconsiderable figure in WestminsterFEVRE, Nicholas le, born at Paris, was dis- hall. He began soon after to be molested with unguished as a profound scholar, well acquaint- such violent attacks from the gout, as rendered ed with the civil law, belles-lettres, and mathe-it impossible for him to be so constant at the bar matics. He was preceptor to the duke of Conde, and afterwards of Lewis XIII.; he died in 1611. FEVRE, Tanaquil, or Tannequi, a learned man, professor in the university at Saumur; he died in 1672.

as the laboriousness of his profession required; and a proof of the great force and vigour of his mind is, his pursuing so arduous a study under the exigencies of family distress, with a wife and children, whom he tenderly loved, FEVRE, Roland le, an eminent painter, born looking up to him for sustenance; with a body at Anjou, died at London, in 1677. torn by the acutest pains, and a mind distracted FEVRET, Charles, an eminent French civi-by a thousand avocations; yet obliged, for im lian, born in 1583, died 1661. Several authors mediate supply, to produce almost extempore, a have mentioned him and his works in a very play, a farce, a pamphlet, or a newspaper. A honourable manner. large number of fugitive political tracts, which FEVRET DE FONTETTE, Charles Marie, had their value when the incidents were actually an eminent French lawyer, and a member of the passing on the great scene of business, came academy of belles-lettres, died in 1772. from his pen. At this time too he produced his FEYDEAU, Matthew, a doctor of the Sor-" Joseph Andrews," which is too well known bonne, and a theological writer, died in 1694. FIASELLA, Dominico, an Italian and histo-expatiate on its merits. About 1745, Mr. F. rical painter, died in 1669.

FICHARD, John, a lawyer, of Frankfort, author of "Lives of Illustrious monks," died in 1561.

FICINUS, Marsilius, a learned Italian, who, under the patronage of Lorenzo and Cosmo de Medicis, became a distinguished philosopher, physician, and divine, and an able writer on numerous subjects; he died in 1499.

FICORONI, Francesco, a Roman medalist, and a writer on medals, and antiquities, died in 1747.

and too justly admired to leave us any room to

accepted of the office of an acting magistrate in the commission of the peace for the county of Middlesex, in which station he continued till pretty near the time of his death. Yet, amidst all the laborious duties of his office, he found leisure to amuse himself, and afterwards the world, with "The History of Tom Jones." and "Amelia." At length, however, his whole frame of body was so entirely shattered by continual inroads of complicated disorders, and the incessant fatigue of business in his office, that, by the advice of his physicians, he set out for Lisbon. Even in this distressful condition, his imagination still continued making the strongest efforts to display itself; and the last gleam of his wit and humour faintly sparkled in the FIDDES, Dr. Richard, an English divine," Journal" he left behind him of his "Voyage" and ingenious biographical and theoligical wri-to that place, which was published in 1755, at ter, born in 1671, died in 1725. His chief work London. In about two months after his arrival at Lisbon, in 1754, he died, in his 48th year. FIELDING, Sarah, sister of Henry, author of "David Simple," a novel of considerable merit,born in 1714, died in 1768.

FIDANZA, Johannes, a philosopher, poet, and theologist, of Tuscany, styled, on account of his great learning, the seraphic doctor; he died in 1274.

is,

"The Life of Cardinal Wolsey." FIELD, Richard, an English divine, eminent for his learning, benevolence and piety, chaplain to queen Elizabeth, canon of Windsor, and dean of Gloucester, he died in 1616.

FIENNES, William, lord Say and Sele, although raised to the peerage by James I., was a rebel against his son, an active member of the long parliament, and one of Cromwell's adher ents. He was afterwards chamberlain, and loru privy seal to Charles II.; he died in 1662.

FIENNES, Nathanael, second son of the preceding, was, like his father, an enemy to the church and king, a friend of Cromwell, and one of his peers; he died in 1669.

FIELDING, Sir John, half-brother to Henry FIELDING, Henry, son of general Fielding, an excellent magistrate, and author of many was born in 1707, and received the first rudi-useful regulations in the police of London and ments of his education at home, under the care Westminster, died in 1780. of the Rev. Mr. Oliver; he was removed to Etonschool; from whence, at about 18 years of age, he went to Leyden, where he studied under the most celebrated civilians for two years; at the expiration of which time he returned to London; and in 1727 commenced writer for the stage. Between this time and 1743 he wrote 26 dramatic pieces. About six or seven years after Mr. Fielding's commencing a writer for the stage, he married Miss Craddock, a young lady from Salisbury, possessed of beauty, and a fortune of about 1500l.; and near the same time his mother dying, an estate of somewhat better than 2001. per annum, came into his possession. This fortune, had it been conducted with prudence and economy, might have secured to him a state of independence for life, and, with the helps it might have derived from the produc-attempt, in 1547. tions of a genius unincumbered with anxieties and perplexity, might have even afforded him an affluent income; but, fond of figure and magnificence, he threw wide open the gates of hospitality, and suffered his whole patrimony to be wasted. In short, in less than three years, se reduced himself to the unpleasant situation of having no fortune. Not discouraged, however, he betook himself closely to the study of he law, and, after the customary time of proba-ology, at Paris, died in 1638.

FIENUS, Thomas, a very ingenious and learned physician, born at Antwerp, in 1566, died in 1631. He composed several works, among which were, "De Veribus Imaginationis."

FIESCHO, John Lewis, a noble Genoese, who conspired to deliver Andrew Doria and his fleet to the French, and was drowned in the

FIGINO, Ambrozio, a painter, born at Milan, died in 1590.

FIGRELIUS, Edmundus, a learned Swede. and professor at Upsal, died in 1676.

FILANGERI, Gaetano, a gentleman of Na ples, employed about the court, who wrote a popular work on legislation; he died in 1787. FILELFO, Francis. See PHILELPHUS. FILESAC, John, dean of the faculty of the

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