RAMSDEN. 427 contributingmuch to the improvement of navigation, which, if he had lived longer, would probably have been more indebted to his labours.* Hedied February 9, 1637, aged forty years. His remains were interred in St. Peter's church, Broad-street, London ; wheri Dr. Hannibal Potter, formerly his tutor at Trinity college, preached his funeral sermon, and gave excellent commendations ofhis character.t He was a person of great learning, piety, and worth.t His WORKS, in addition to the pieces already noticed.-1. A Pre- face to the Sciographia of John Wells, 1635.-2. An Institution Trigonometrical,explaining the Doctrine of the Dimensions of plain andspherical Triangles, after the most exact and compendious way, by tables of sines, tangents, secants, and logarithms ; with the applica- tion thereof to questions ofAstronomy and Navigation, 163 ..-3. An Epitome of Navigation, 1674.-4. Several necessary Tables pertain- ing to Navigation, 1674.-5. A Triangular Canon Logrithmical ; or, a Table of Artificial Sines, Tangents, &c., 1674.-6. Two Cliliads; or, the Logarithms of absolute numbers, from an unite to 2000, 1674.-7. An Appendix, containing the Use of the Forestall, Quad- rant, and Nocturnal in Navigation, 1674. HENRY RAMSOEN, A. M.-This worthyperson was the son of Mr. Goeffry Ramsden, born at Greetland, in the parish of Halifax, Yorkshire, and educated in Magdalen college, Oxford, where he took his degrees in arts. In the year 1621 he was chosen fellow of Lincoln college, in the same university ; and five years afterwards, having made uncommon advancement in theological studies, he removed from that seat of learning, and becamea preacher in Lon- don, where, says Wood,§ " he was much followed for his edifying and puritanical sermons." On the death of Mr. Hugh Ramsden, his elder brother, he was made vicar of Halifax, where he continued the remainder of his days. He was inducted to the living in the year 1629, and died March 7, 1637, having constantly maintained an un- blemished character. After his death were published his four sermons, entitled, " A Gleaning of God's Harvest," 1639. His remains were interred in the chancel of Halifax church, where a monumental inscription was Biog. Britan. vol. iv. p. 2190, 2191. + Wood's Athena Oxon. vol. i. p. 522. t Ward's Gresham Professors, p. 83, 336. Athena Oxon. vol. i. p. 922.
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