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elected Master of Trinity College. In 1673 he be- 

 came Bishop of Chester, where he died on the 16th 

 of July 1686, being buried in the Cathedral. No 

 monument was erected to his memory until 1860. 

 It is uncertain whether he ever married. There is 

 a portrait of him at Trinity College, Cambridge, but 

 there is no portrait of him at Jesus, and his only 

 monument there is the inscription which he caused 

 to be placed in the chapel on the grave of his old 

 friend Stephen Hall, the sturdy President in 1644 

 {College Histories : Jesus, Cambridge, p. 122). Arch- 

 deacon Churton, in 1844, edited most of his works. 



THOMAS PIERCE 



(1622-1691). 



" Beware of entrance to a quarrel." 



Thomas Pierce, or Peirse, was a son of the 

 Mayor of Devizes in Wiltshire. He was educated 

 in Magdalene College, Oxford, and was elected a 

 Fellow in 1643. He became a popular preacher. 

 In 1661 he was elected President of his college, 

 but he was an Ishmael in it, and in about ten 

 years' time resigned the post. He seems to have 

 been a very quarrelsome man, " wanting in tact 

 and judgment at a time when the peculiar con- 

 dition of the college made these qualities absolutely 

 necessary." In 1675 he became Dean of Salisbury 

 and came into frequent collision with his Bishop, 

 Seth Ward ; he appears, however, to have been 



