FRI 
was 
he eginning of le pea 
uty. ‘He'received his colleg ge education at Ring’s 8 co ol. 
lege; Cam ambridge.'t H g 
proficiency, and when } 
ene £ ft 1; sit 
Of 
y. sttean + tt A 
dahigt : and. well 
informed general {cholar. On this account - was made on 
the junior canons of thé New. Inftitution, now Chrift-church, 
by whole means he had 
e oa 
a 
ards 
his opinions, and refolved to return to his native country and 
devote himfelf to the propagation of the In 1631 he em- 
barked for England: with this determination, leaving behind 
him‘a-wife whom he-h: d-married ; ; after this we hear no more 
of hifi till we find him wandering an a. place to place 
réduced to- great diftrels. So deplorable: and mean was his 
appearance; that at Reading he was taken up ‘by the magi- 
itratés, ‘who, ’ in thofe ‘days, not pe aos eed looked v upo n 
. In this-fituation, 
ian ‘he converfed i in the. Latin 
language, and to whom he made known his wants, and ex- 
hibited thofe panes of erudition and talent which. he 
poffeffed, and «which fheuld have ae as they mel 
merited, a very different treatment. Frit » by the 
mane interference of the “{c ool-matter, was 28 liberate, and 
came to Lon 
the Tower in 2 the year 1 
oh ‘pleading the caufe of the reformation ‘by: = 
ifcourfe,, but drew up tracts 
privately éirculated aoe th e conver ins to the new ndoehinee 
on Eucharift, fhewing that 
of Chrift: w was not a ars 
Thos. 
to 5 reafon an the author, but Frith was wen sally c changed : 
he wrote a ‘reply to : T ga which was not publithed till 
fome’ years’ afterwar no ea ae cou 
ditted -on the mind ‘of aa hone ee by the way of argu- 
he was: in ought before 
an epifcopal : aceon at ‘St "Pails c athedral,: where: he 
on the fubjects: of eae eer and 
* efforts were made to perfuade, or in- 
refpeCting thofe do€trines, and: to conform to ‘the creed of 
the catholic thurch. » He was, however, unmoved, and 
perfiited in maintaining the truth, nor could he be perfuaded 
to make any conc effin 3 accordingly the bifhop of London, 
hea much aos orrow : and commiferation, pro- 
ced upon gs ntence of condemnation as an ob- 
ftinate heretic, ae he was delivered over to the fecular 
wer, In purfu ance of this fentence a writ’ was: iffued 
for and he was-in a few days burnt at Smith- 
field,: maintaining a fortitude to the Jaft, and ‘charitably 
extending his i toa bigotted prieft who cm fea- 
ae 
€ pro-, 
FRI- 
voured to perfuade people that they ought no more to 
pray for him than for a dog. e was.author,of many pieces. 
10g. 
ee 
<CILD, was s anciently the fame with what we 
now calla guild, or a fe or Hines pede See GILp. 
FRITILLARIA, from fritillus, which fome 
take for a chefs-boar d, ere had a in. that fenfe alludes to 
the chequered nature of the petals. Fritillus however is 
ufed by Juvenal and Perfius for a pee lol is {uppofed. 
to have expreffed the oe ce of the dice.—Chequered 
Daffodil, or at s-hea en. o. “Schreb. 21g. 
Willd. Sp. Pl. v FL ie os Ait. hein rt. 
Clafs and order, yee Gee 
rd... baat “Tinn. tas Ju 
rs be dpe fpreading g at the 
bafe, of fix aiiag eal ae Nectary a little cell in 
the bafe of each petal. Stam. Filaments hs, awl-fhaped, 
clofe to the flyle; anthers vertical, erect, cblong, quadran- 
gular, extending to the open part of the corolla. Piff. 
Germen fuperior,: oblong,: triangular, obtufe ; ityle fimple, 
onger than the ftlamexs; ftigma threelobed, f{preading, 
obtufe. Peric obed, o 
. 7 
alve ¢ mero see horizontal 
outer ee ranged in two 
via of. Tournefort has an Shiba neQary» 
and an even ca a le. 
Corona. Imperialis of Tourefort t. we hae has a hemi+ 
oe nectary, and a -edged ca 
Eff. Ch. Corolla oe bell-fhaped, ce ‘fix petals, with 
net ine cavity above the claw of each. Stamens 
a; the length ‘of the la Calyx none. -Seeds flat 
1. F. imperialis. Crown Imperial. Linn. Sp. Pl. 
Curt. Mag. t. 1215.—* Clufter of many flowers, 
crowned with ieee, ‘the ttem naked below it.’’—-Suppofed 
to be a native of Perfia. It was brought from Conitanti+ 
nople to the gardens. of Europe, where it is quite: aie 
The root is a large fcaly bulb. _ Herb of very quick growth, 
foetid, two or three ‘feet high, fucculent, of a fine iiing 
green, -coniifting of a thick, fimple, Aral, leafy ften 
Leaves ay uae long, twitted 
ing; la rge, 0 e or pe lemonseoloured Frit er 
is a variety ar variegated leaves, and one with a red ftem, 
2. _F. erfica. ass Fritilary —Linn. 
It was. cultivated in England by Gerarde ard 
Parkin fon, but is not ny though guite hardy. 
he derbage is ce ous. F/owers numerous, dull p urple, 
fra! ler a in any other fpecies. 
a fewer but brighter Bewers i is given in 
- "This-is the 6 of Lin 
Curt. Mag. t 
yr Bae Whorled Fritilary. Willd. Sp. Pl. 
y. gi. Le aves ee linear-lanceolate. Stem 
fe a aed ”-Nutive of Siberia. Stem a foot - high, 
ere&t. Leaves four cr: ‘iv ve in a whorl, feffile, linear, very 
flender-pomted, the ends curled ioe ple fo as to refémble 
te 
tendrils. ower termina Wi 
FP. obliqua. iolet-low a "Frit ary. Curt Ma ag, 
t. “<.- Leaves aucous, Ea, ‘wife. 
Flowers few, on ferinitel leafy ftalks. Corolla obovate, 
connivent.”—-Country unknown: Flowers two ‘ four, 
thrice as nes as in a perfica. A ey carly-fipwering 
Species. a 
Be VT. pyren 
