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A A. in Geography, a town of Spain, in the province 
of Eftramadura, on a river of the fame name, which rifes 
near the town, and runs into the Alagon, 1 5 i S.W. 0 
Coria. ~_ town is 15 miles .W.0 
ATA, ape de Gat » a promo at ory of Spain, 
on the coaft 0 Perak. confifting of an enormous rock of a 
fingular nature and appearance, 24 miles in circuit, and 
broad. Inthe centre of this aaa are four hills, near 
each other, called oe oe wo Friars, the 
Captain,’ and the he other fide of th 
te Mou 
promontory, beyond thele fourhills, is called «El Puerto dela 
Plata,’’ where the Mo orifh corfairs lie lurking for aaa 
veflels. N. lat. 36 W. long. 2° 2: 
GATAKER, 7. as, in Biogra aphy, was born in 
on in 1574. fi 
a. a a good ftock of gra 
s e of 16, fent t to St. John's 
as well ie in indefatigable diligence, as for the mode As of 
his man nd the excellence of his difpotiton, Heh 
the pipe to lofe his father in after he a 
been at college, and was by this ipaener oli lek without the 
s degrees, and was 
eflimation’ in which he was held, appointed one of the oe 
lages. 
ye ue ho abiael with a determination to fettle in L 
engaged as chaplain to fir William Cooke. a 
ds w which pro ved the means of his introduction to many 
perfons of eminence and learning, ala apie! in the pro- 
feffion of the law ; this led to the honourable poft of preacher 
ties of which he dif- 
pears. 
acquired by his difcourfes at oe s-inn chapel oceafioned 
feveral inftances ‘of valuable preferments to be o red to him, 
e might have held without relingui fhing ce fituation 
of een to that fociety. But he felt it was not right for 
any man to hold offices, the duties ‘of which he could not per- 
orm, and therefore he fet his face againft all pluralities. It 
e las becaufe his prefent 
as {mall, afforded him 
To thefe he devoted 
in nee original idle In 
Ahe imatrimonia} ftate, and Peete Fi noes of Rother- 
r to fit in the affembly of — at "Weltminker, and he 
- his opinions, ie was e 
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He now applied himfelf with 5 gy to the: 
bifl 
fubjects. the letters bias paf 
cen are preferved in the colleen ned to the life of 
the archbifhop, which afford Sp aiaat’ ev fie of the great 
knowledge and critical acumen of Gataker, and of the high. 
efteem in which he was held by that learned prelate. 
Mr. Gataker w . Bee cher at Lincoln’s-inn, he had dev 
fever a goa the eee ation of the nature, wu ute, 
abufe of lots, intended t o fhew the lawfulnefs of innocent 
and entertaining games of ae and the unlawfulnefs of 
- ha arial lots. What a delivered on this fubje@t had 
mifreprefented, 1e was accufed of having — 
ped in n behalf of gamblers, oF aide ged the. abufe and 
mifemployment of tithe. In juitifica n of his own conduét 
13 he publifhed the fubftance of his eer under the title 
“ Of the 
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fame work, and publi ments in 
the Latin nee uage. Tn 162 he ed the Lits i in eee 
of the Proteftant religion, againft the Catholics. His firft 
piece ir entitled “ 'Tranfubftantiation declared by the Con- 
feffion opifh Writers to have no neceffary Foundation in 
God's Week and demonttrated ia si againit Scripture, 
Nature, Senfe, and Reafon.” 2 he was appointed 
ate 
tended in his 7 aoeanate 
peace, and of re 
majority, and, for the 
filence. In o 
cleave to his o 
ae _ fae apoted on himfelf 
say rs he felt it a duty incumbent on him to 
n fentiments, ‘ands by ftedfattly a . 
nabled, upon the introductio he 
Pilea into the i with ae aid of olen whofe 
ents were fimilar to his own, to obtain confiderable 
+ qualification palit they —— to ones Mr. Gataker 
engaged other members, in writing the « Anno- 
cee on the Bible, which were p 
the affembly. r. Gata 
upon Tfaiah, : ee and a een, which are ge- 
nerally admitted to merit. While he was thus 
ployed he was o the erfhip of Trinity ce 
ete he thought proper to Bae, in order that he si ee 
have more leifure to attend to literary labours. He c 
pofed two works, in which his learning and criticzl aiae 
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were bah create) ie oehinn The firft was a treatife 
on the made himfelf known Mofes 
and he pee of Lrael, catia “ De Nom 
mato Differtatio, qua Vous Jehovah apud no 
ufus defenditur, &c.”” This has been frequently reprinted, 
and is to be found among the author’s “ Opera Critica,’ 
rante 
