230, LIVES OF THE PURITANS. rabbinical learning.. Mi. Strype declares that he was one of the greatest scholars in Christendom, in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and all Talmudical literature.+ Most of his works were collected and printed in London, in 1662, with his life prefixed by Dr. Lightfoot, entitled, " The Works of the great Albionean Divine, renowned in many Nations for rare Skill in Salems and Athens Tongues, and familiar Acquaintance with all Rabbinical Learning, Mr. Hugh Broughton." This edition of his works, though bound in one large volume folio, is divided into four tomes. Towards the last tome is Mr. Broughton's funeral sermon by Mr. Speght, in which the preacher says, " Touching the fruit of his sowing, viz. his private reading in the time, and with the approbation of the reverend and learned Bishop Aylmer ; and of his public preaching in Christ's church, in St. Peter's, and in my church ; howmany are there (yea somealive) who may thank God daily, that ever they knew and heard him ? For myself, 1 confess, and profess so much, and shall ever do so whilst I breathe."t There are many of Mr. Broughton'smanuscripts, in his own hand, still preserved in the 'British Museum. Someof them are the literary productions of his pen ; others relate to the controversies in which he engaged ; and the rest are miscellaneous. These, in all thirty-five; are bound in one volume quarto.4 There is also his manuscript " Harmony of the Bible." 11 WILLIAM BURTON, A. B.-This pious minister was born in the city of Winchester, and educated first at Wickham school, then in New College, Oxford, where be was chosen fellow. He was afterwards beneficed in the city of Nor- wich, where Sir William Perryman, afterwards lord chief baron, a worthy religious person, and a great promoter of christian piety, was his great friend and patron. In 1583, his name is among the Norfolk divines, above sixty in all, who scrupled subscription to Wbitgift's three articles.a Whether, on account of his nonconformity, he felt the iron hand of the archbishop, by suspension, deprivation, or imprisonment, as was the case with many of his brethren, * British Biography, vol. iii. p. 120. Strype's Annals, vol. ii. p. 612. Sloane's MSS. No. 3088. 11 MS. Register, p. 436. Biog. Britan. vol. ii. p. 612, Harleian MSS. No. 1525.
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