CATLIN-IVIEDE. 429 his children. When he lay upon his death-bed, after hearing a relation of the cruel and barbarous sentence pro- nounced upon the Bishop of Lincoln in the star chamber, he broke out in these words in the presence of a number of respectable persons : " Alas ! poor England," said be, " thou hast now seen thy best days. I, that am fourscore years old, and have in all my time seen no alteration in religion, nor any foreign enemy setting foot in England, nor any civil wars among themselves, do now foresee evil days a coming, but shall go to the grave in peace. Blessed be that God whom I have served, who bath accepted my weak service, and will be my exceeding great reward ;" and in a few hours after, he left this world of sin and sorrow, to' enter upon the joy of his Lord. He died July 24, 1637, aged eighty years, and his remains were interred in Barham church, when Dr. Young of Stow-Market preached his funeral sermon. Mr. Catlin had two sons in the ministry, William and Zachary. The former was witness in favour of Bishop Williams at his trial, for which he was deeply censured ; and the latter was minister at Thurston in Suffolk, in the year' 1652, when he was sixty-nine years of age. They both appear to have been puritans.. JOSEPH MEDE, B., D. - This celebrated scholar was born at Burdon in lssex, in the month of October, 1586, and descended from a respectable family in that county. He received his grammar learning first at Hoddesdon in Hertfordshire, then at Wethersfield in Essex. While at the latter place, he bought Bellarmine's Hebrew Grammar, and, without the assistance of a master, obtained considerable knowledge of the Hebrew tongue. In the year 1602, he was sent to Christ's college, Cambridge, where he became pupil to Mr. Daniel Rogers, took his academical degrees, and was afterwards chosen fellow of the house. Hegained a most distinguished reputation, and became one of the most celebrated scholars of the age. lie was an acute logician, an accurate philosopher, a skilful mathematician, a good anatomist, a great philologist, an excellent textuary, and particularly happy in making the scripture expound itself: He is said to have been ". as deeply versed in ecclesiastical antiquities, and as accurately skilled in the Greek and Latin fathers, as any man living.' When the famous Archbishop Baker's Mt. Collo, vol. xrrviii. p. 445, 446.
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