76 THE BANDOG OR MASTIFF. 



great antiquary, and a man of very extensive erudition, his 

 great work Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanae has always been 

 considered of high authority, and is still a useful work for 

 reference. Skinner was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, 

 and settled as a physician at Lincoln, where he died in 1667. 



