241 years. In the year 1602, a minister of the same name, and most probably the same person, became vicar of Redburn in Hertfordshire, where he continued till June, 1616, when he died.. HENRY AIRAY, D. D.-This learned personwas born in Westmoreland, in the year 1560, and received his grammar learning under the famous Mr. Bernard Gilpin, who, at the age of nineteen, sent him to Edmund's-hall, Oxford ; but afterwards he removed to Queen's college. Having takers his degrees, he became a frequent andzealous preacher, was chosen provost of the college, and afterwards vice- chancellor of the university. In each of these departments, says Wood, he shewed himself a zealous Calvinist, and a great promoter of those of his own opinion, but went beyond the number of true English churchmen. And he adds, that though he condemned himself to obscurity, and affecteda retired life, being generally admired and esteemed for his holiness, integrity, learning, gravity, and inde- fatigable pains in the ministerialfunction, lie could not keep himself from public notice.+ By his singular wisdom, ,learning, and prudence, in the government of his college, many scholars went forth, who became bright ornaments both in church and state. Another writer observes, that he was so upright and unrebukable through the whole of his conversation, that he wasreproached by some as a precisian. But how much he condemned the injurious zeal of the separatists ; how far he disliked all the busy disturbers of the church's peace ; how partially he reverenced his holy mother, the church of England; and how willingly he conformed himself to her seemly ceremoniesand injunctions, his practice andhis friends are witness. He was, it is added, an humble and obedient son of the church, and no less an enemy to faction than to separation.t However much Dr. Airay might oppose the separatists, or partially reverence the church of England, or willingly conform himself to her seemly ceremonies and injunctions, it is an indubitable fact, that he was a true nonconformist. When lie was provost of Queen's college, he was called in question by the vice-chancellor, for his nonconformity to the ceremonies and discipline of the church. And on * Neweourt's Repert. Encl. vol. 1. p. 859. + Wood's Athena Oxon. vol. i. p. 348. Airay on Phil. Pref. Edit. 1618. "=
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