FRA 
Young Franck, fon of the: preceding, was born in 1580, and 
» in the 
followed his father’s profeffion as hiftorical 
one oa action 
After fhudyg fome time a his fther, he travelled to 
much cf the tafle of ae Venetian, or ary o 
Ttalian {chools ; but continued the practice of his father, 
— a 
3) ae a fae art pure 
which dings his one. a ann es asa ae to the 
connoi works of the father and the fon are 
Gfte n conforinded aad miftaken for each other, fo fimilar are 
th nception and execution. Young Franck died i 
e 
1642, ee 62. 
- FRANCKEN, CuRisTIAN, learned German unitarian 
divine, was bora, coe the middle of the fixteenth century, 
at Gardleben, a town of Brandenburg. His parents were 
of the Hp ate perfuafion, but he himfelf, at an early 
period of life, ame a convert to popery, and entered the 
order of the Fei in the year 1568. was fent to 
ome to go through his noviciate, Rate after {pending 
ears in Tely, was recalled to ma- 
ae hed much z¢ val i ino 
appointed profeffor ‘of phi ee and i in this fituation he 
became convinced that the doctrincs of popery were un- 
feriptural and highly -erroneous, refigned his office, ard 
withdrew to his native town, e is Bi aid — this to have 
been wavering @ as to the acl he fhould adopt, and defirous 
of returning into the hofom of the church which he had jut 
oned. At length, nos rever, he joined himfelf 
1 
Tn 1584 he publifhed an account 
was afterwards republifhed by Socinus with notes, remarks, 
and many corrections. From this period to 1590, Francken 
was at the head of an unitarian feminary firft at Chelan 
and afterwards at cae) ‘lvania. From this place he went to 
Prague, where he is reported to have shea Pisa 
inte the communion of the Catholic church. He ne en 
to Rati ae _— > he was Vaid by iia Pope 
lius, one ae who 
attached to blo ousfinte, n thi 'y 
this proteétion blifhed his ¢ Sai Rixz Chriftiane, 
que Imperium ne es et diminuit Romanum.” From this 
more of ee : he was author of 
fe evere ae on the Set 
et 
iaiitaeam lees vuln, habitum a Sac cre 
ogiz De rGtore et Profeffore Paulo Florenio cum Chrif- 
oi Francken, &c.’. Moreri. 
cinu 
FRANCKLIN, Tomas, was born in London about 
1720. He was cducated at Wekminker, and at Trinity 
an inhabitant of Paris; by ie 
Toulmin’s Life af So-" 
lier 
icero on the nature of th ig ch s2? In 1750 ew 
oe to the Greek profeforhip in the unive erlity r of Cam- 
idge ; and, in De was prefented with the livings of 
and Thunbridge in 1 He rtfor dthire. In the following 
t moft confiderable works, wz. 
Int ma ie was snomie one af the king? 8 capls 
the ene a D.D. in 17703 he ftill io 
and even wrote a farce for 
fize. 
one took 
ranflation was pre ialogue 
rd Lyttelton in i Elydian Yields,” intended as an ac- 
count of the life and character of L : his latter 
ears Dr. Francklin held the living of Brufted in Kent. 
As a clergyman he was author of feveral fingle fermons 3 3 of 
a volume of “ Difcourfes on the et Duties ;’ ; nd of 
« A letter to ‘a bifhop concerning Leéturefh nips,” pointing 
out, in ftrong terms, the difgraceful weg that are often taken 
in procuring ¢ thofe offices. Gen 10g. 
FRANCKS, or Vrax 2 Jou BaABrist, a painter of ne 
tory and converfations. orn at Antwerp in 16co. 
At firft he made the works of V Tidy ee and Rubens his ftudy,. 
but never fucceede d-to any hich degree of excellence.’ He 
was mof fuccefsful in reprefenting interiors of galleries or 
grind apartments ornamented with ftatues and piures, 
with perfons engaged in different ways; either in conver 
neat and agreeable pencil; but he wasn 
in the arrangemert an dee a ‘mation iS lighte, fo that 
his | effects are frequently confufed 
wbraken defcribes one of hey works of this kind as 
excellent. It reprefents the interior of a grand 
cabinet of a ca ous perfor, decorated with 
butts and other ornamental f 
piciures arranged upon the wall ; which are fo admrably 
finifhed, that the taite of the 
ee ke recat in playir ing at a 
thefe artilts are sage commended, and the d delicacy of Ftouch 
with which they are execute 
F sii aibes, M. AG sr, fcholatiie of the sated: al of Co- 
logne; av rtant per hidtory of mutic, 
whole merit ha t many a 
which had neve rentercd the prefs, 1 nor would it have been 
known to oder mulicians that he ‘ever exifted, but for the 
general refearch in the principal ee of Europe after 
ee fora general | oe ce mu 
Magitter- Franco is : re native, or at leaf 
s a {cholattic or Liege ; ; but 
; believe Franed hunfeli, he was of Cologne ; for, 
if{putes which w a arife concerning 
iis locality, ns his ** Compendiuin de Difcantu,’’ one 
of his mutical ee ue been prclerved, in the follow- 
ig manner: “ Ego Franco de Colonia, &c.”? wh sa if the 
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