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prefixed, which occupy no lefs than thirty- 
feven leayes, we learn, that his Chrifian 
name was fhez Matthew. According to 
Moreri he was the fon of a player, and on 
. going to England fa//ely aflumed the neme 
of * Luzancy,”* to which it feems he pre- 
fixed ‘* Hippolitus.”” 
Perhaps, like that ancient model of con- 
tinence, he fled trom the allurements of 
- fome frail Parifian dame ; or more proba: 
bly, having taken an abundant draught 
of the waters of Lethé, and entering as 
far as in him lay on a new ftage of exift- 
ence, his country, name, profefiion, and 
religious tenets being all about to un- 
dergo a change, he borrowed from Vir- 
gil an idea of that diftinguifhed perfonage: 
Pzoniis revocatum herbis et amore Diane. 
Be this as it may, the earlieft notice I 
can trace of him here is in the Oxford 
Graduate Book; he is there called a 
Member of Chrift Church, and is faid to 
have been created M.A, in 1675: Cocke's 
Preacher’s Affiftant exhibits him as au- 
- thor of a Sermon preached on the day of 
his Abjuration in 1676, and calls him vi- 
Memairs of the late Mr. Battifaill, 
[Feb. 1 
car of Dover Court and Harwich in Effex. 
This coincidence of dates 1s remarkable 5 
and F fee no reafon to queftion its authen-. 
ticity. It looks as 1f Oxford (ow dif- 
tinguifhed from all other European Uni- 
verfities, for clofing her gates againft every 
feét but one, by exaéting from boys fif- 
teen or fixteen years old a fubicription to 
39 abftrufe articles, which have occafioned 
much controverfy, and a ftill greater abun- 
dance of equivocation among the learned) 
could, in the feventeenth century, not only 
admit a Roman Catholic ftudent, but be- 
ftow on him her moft fupernumerary dil- 
tinctions. 
I have feen an oftavo volume of Lu- 
zaucy on Baptifm and the Lord’s Supper,. 
dated 1701. A fhort life of the Duke of 
Schomberg, who was killed in Ireland, 
at the Battle of the Boyne, written by 
bim in the French language, and publiflied 
at Amfterdam in 1690, is mentioned in 
Le Long’s Bibliotheque Hiftorique de la 
France, No. 31,686, 3d Vol. folio, Paris, 
17633 by the account there given of the. 
author, he appears to have died a Soci- 
nian previous to the year 1716. L. Ly 
MEMOIRS OF EMINENT PERSONS. 
ORIGINAL MEMOIRS of the late MR. Jo- 
NATHAN BATTISHILL, communicated 
by DR. BUSBY. oe 
\ Y HEN Death deprives the world of 
WV an individval, whofe genius and 
profeffional learning have attracted gene- 
yal notice, mankind at large feel a fecret 
concern at that lofs which his perfonal ac- 
quaimtances ftill more fenfibly regret, 
while his particular friends indulge the 
tendereft forrow, and drop on his tomb 
the tear of involuntary lamentation. 
The author of this remark had the fa- 
tisfaction of being among thofe dearly re- 
garded vy the fubject of the prefent me- 
moirs, who was formerly his tutor, and 
is induced to communicate them to the 
readers of. the Monthly Magazine, from 
the double motive of gratifying public 
curiofity, and of doing juftice to the me- 
rits of tis departed friend. 
The Reverend Mr. Jonathan Battifhill, 
formerly rector of the parith of Sheepwath, 
near Hatherleigh, in the county of Devon, 
and grandfather to the late Mr. Jonathan 
Battifhill, had two fons, Jonathan and John. 
The former ferved his clerkhip in the 
profeffion of attorney at law, with Mr. 
Bafil Herne, ef Paternofter-row, father of 
the prefent Sir William Herne, Knight, 
of the fame place, and afterwards married 
Milfs Mary Leverton, of Great Torring- 
ton, in the above county, by whom he had 
iffue, of which the fubject of this account 
was the only furvivor. 
Mr. Jonathan Battifhill was born in 
London, May, 1733. Difcovering at a 
very early age an uncommon genius for 
mufic, and having an excellent voice, he 
was, in the year 1747, placed in the choir 
of St. Paul’s, under the tuition of Mr. 
Savage; then mafter of the young gentle- 
men of that cathedral. He was foon qua- 
lified to fing at fight ; and before he had 
been in the choir two years, his per-~ 
formances there gave proofs of his native 
tafte and improving judgment which 
attonifhed and delighted his hearers. On 
his voice quitting him at the ufual pericd 
of life, he became an articled pupil of the 
above mafter, under whom he continued 
his proteflional ftudies with an ardour and 
fucceis which, together with his fuperior 
underftanding, love of reading, and high 
relifh of the beauties of our beft authors,: 
gveaily diftinguifhed him from the gene- 
rality of his young cotemporaries. In 
contemplating the works of the great ca- 
thedral 
