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éf Minerals, with Examples of particu- 
lar Baths. . The Generation of Minerals 
m the Earth, from whence both the 
actual heat of Baths, and their Virtues 
proceed. By what Means Mineral 
Waters are to’ be difcovered. And 
' Fattly, of the Nature and Ufes of Baths, 
but efpecially of our Baths at Bathe, 
wn Sowmertetthire,” 4to. 1631... Again 
im 1632, and revifed-and corrected by 
Dr. Guidott in 1669, 8vo.—This is a 
performance of no ordinary INGEMUtYy 
attd evinces, for the period, great chemical 
and miner: ok cial knowledse. From the 
pretace to the laft mentioned ethane the 
above particulars are taken. 
THOMAS GUIDOTT, M.D.; 
mentioned in the preceding acceunt, was 
defcended from a noble family at. Flo- 
gence. His ancefior, Antonio Guidotti, 
came to England about the year *1548,5» 
apd received frorn King Edward VI. the 
honour of knighthood. The fubject of 
the prefent. ar ticle was born at Lyning= 
tonyin’ Hampthire, in 1638, and was edu- 
eated at Dorchefier grammar-ichool,from 
whence he removed. ‘to. Wadham colle “Be, 
Oxford, mm 1656. Te there tovk bis de-~ 
grees in arts, and entered on the ftudy 
of phytic, in which faculty he took his 
bachelor’s degree in 1666, with licenfe to 
practife. The year following he tettled 
at Bath, where he was greatly encouraged 
by an eminent phyfician there, Dr. J ohn 
Maplet, to whom ‘he afterwards: dedi+ 
cated m a very refpectfal and yrateful 
manner, his’ Difcourfe concerning ' the 
Antiquity, &c. of Bath, appended to! his 
edition of Dr. Jorden’s book above- 
yhentioned. But according to Wood, 
€Athen. Oxon. TI. 1101,) Guidott’s prac- 
tice at Bath decaying, occafioned by his 
impudence, lampooning, and libelling, 
he left that place in 1679, and retired to: 
London. * Tn 1671 he performed his ¢x-: 
ercife at Oxford’ for the degree of doctor 
of phytic, but it does not appre that he 
ever completed i it. 
Wood, who vives him a very bad moral 
character, fxys thap he was a perfon of 
od parts, well verfed in Greek and 
atm, and intelligent m his profeiiion. 
The fame author alfo fays that he had 
tivo offers, one to fettle at Copenhagen 
uncer Barthoime, and the other of a pro- 
fefforthtp of phyiic at Venice, both of 
which he declined. 
. Befides the piece already noticed, 
wrote “Some E ‘nquirics into ‘the Nouns 
of the Water of St. Vincent’s Rock, uear 
Briftol, ‘and that of Caftle-Cary -” — 
Account of the Lives. and Characters 
‘ 
Neglected Biography, by Di. Watkings, 
der ;” 
[Febs ¥5 
pf the phyficians of Bath; frem1598 t@ 
1676” —“ Obfervationes, Hydroftatice, 
Chromatice et Mileellaneas: “wniufcujul 
que Balnei apud Bathoniain, nataram, 
proprictatem, and dittinctionem, curatius 
exhibentes,” &c. &c.—When he died is 
not certain, but he was living m 1090. ng 
SILAS TITUS, © | 4 ’ 
This writer, who made the singel 
Cromwell tremble,.avas born at Buthy in 
Hertfordthire. . skis 1637 he. heeame a 
Commoner of Chrift- Church, Oxford, 
where he eontiiued ‘about thrée years, 
and then removed: to.one.of :the inns of 
court; but the great rebellion bréaki 
out, he entered at firit: mto tlie. par 
mentary fervice and became a Galptelits 
When the king’s caufe, however, decline 
ed, and he faw which way the mdepens 
dents were. going, ‘Titus adhered to his: 
fovercign, and was with the commiffioners 
appointed by parliament. to his Majeity 
at Newcafile, and afterwards at Holden-- 
hy. ‘The King being feized at that place 
and. carried off by Cornet Joyce, ‘the 
comiilliondrs-fent. him: with an expreis 
to the parliament an’ June, 1647, to'ae 
quaint theim,of the affair, for which fervice 
the parlianient gave: him fifty pounds’te 
buy a horfe: .Atter the death of Charles 
the Firlt, he became groom of the’ bed< 
chamber to. his fuecefior, whom he fol= 
lowed into. Scotland; and ferved under 
him. as colonel at the battle of W orcetteri 
Titus had the good:luck:to efcape after 
that action ;) andiived retired. fn 1637. 
he printed. by ftealth at:London, .a: final 
tract in quarto, under.the name of Wil. 
Lam Ailen, entitled . Kalhng no Murs 
in which he-proved that it was not 
only lawful, but highly-honourable to flay: 
the ufurper. Nay, ihe went fo far as to 
advife Cromwell to kill himfelt, “ very 
tairly giving um his choice of hanging, 
drowning, or piftolling,” which frightened 
Oliver exceedingly, and great pains were 
taken to find.out the reak author, but 
without effect...This fmall piece at its 
fir coming.out was fold for five fhillings, 
thongh the ordinar y price of fueh wee 
was but fixpence. 
At the Reftoration, Colgnel Hicnet was 
elected into parliainent ‘for Loftwithiel, 
im Cornwall. He oppofed the preroga~’ 
tive in 1678, onthe’ occation of @ates's’ 
plot, for which he loft his place.at court. 
‘The year fullowing he was chofen knight 
of the thire for the. county of Huntingdon, 
and in that parliament he zealoutly Spoker 
againitt the duke of York. . 
“Notw ithitanding this he was mtrodv:, a 
to that prince whew. -he was James ua 
Second, 
