SAMPSON. 375 HisWaaxs. -1. Epistola de Grtecis literis, & Homed lectione & tmitatione, ad Pr.sidem, &c., 1558.-2. De Religions Cotwersatione & Reformatione deque Primates Regum, 1559.-3. De Rations Interpretandi Authores, 1559.-4. Optimates sive de Nobilitate, ejusque antiqua origine, natura, officiis, discipline, &c., 5. Orationes Wooditochix habitte ad illustress. R. Eliz., 1572.- 6. De Vita et Morte Johannis Juelli Ejusq ; verse Doctrinse Defensio, cum Refutation quorundam Objectorum, Hardingi, Sanderi, &c., 1573.-7. De fermento vitando; gonseio in Matt. xvi. Marc. viii. Luc. xii., 1582.-8. Jesuitismi pars prima, 1582.- 9. Jesuitismi pars secunda, 1584.-10. Apologelica Epistola ad Academise Oxoniensis Chancellarium, 1585.-11. Seven Sermons against Treason, 1588.-12. Conscio in die Cinerum,-Manyof these articles were translated and published in English. THOMAS SAMPSON, D. D.-This celebrated divine was born about the year 1517, and educated in the university of Oxford. Afterwards he studied at the Temple, became a zealous protestant, a distinguished preacher, and instru- mental in the conversion of John Bradford,, the famous martyr. He married the nieceof oldBishop Latimer. He- was ordained by Archbishop Cranmer and Bishop Ridley, who, at his request, dispensed with the habits. Hewashighly esteemed by these two reverend prelates. He was preacher in the army of Lord Russel, in his expedition against the Scots. In the year 1551, he became rector of Alhallows, Bread-street, London ; the year following he was preferred to the deanery of Winchester ; and he continued a famous preacher to the death of King Edward.+ Upon the accession of Queen Mary, hp concealed himself for some time. During this period, he and Mr. Richard Chambers, another zealous protestant, collected money in London, for the support and encouragement of poor scholars in the two universities. But it was no sooner discovered, than they were both obliged to flee for their lives. For, August 16, 1554, Mr. Bradford, Mr. Becon, and Mr. Veron, were apprehended and committed to the Tower ; and Sampson was to have been committed the same day, and was even sought after for this purpose, in the house in which Mr. Mr. Strype highly commends this work, both for the excellency of its matter, and the elegancy of its style. In this work, the author, speaking of astrology, says, " This science abpve the rest was so snatched at, so beloved, and even devoured by most persons of fashion, that they needed " no incitements to it, but a bridle rather : not to be set on, but rather " taken off from it. And that many had so trusted to this, that they almost "distrusted God."-Strype's Cranmer, p. 358.-Biog. Briton. vol. iii. 487. Edit. 1778. Strype's Crsmanr, p. 192, 292.-Troubles at Frankeford, p. 168,
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