DUNSTER. letter from Charles II., then at Brussels, in which his majesty attempts to acquit himself of being at all inclined to popery, and urges Mr. Cawton to use his utmost endeavours. to sup- press all such unworthy aspersions.. At length, Mr. Cawton having served the Lord seven years at Cambridge, seven years at Wivenhoe, seven years in London, and seven years in Holland, died at Rotterdam of a fit of the palsy, August 7, 1659, in the fifty-fourth year of his age. He was alaborious student, an excellent logician, and an incomparable linguist. He had a most exact know- ledge of the Greek, Hebrew Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic ; and was familiar in the Dutch, Saxon, Italian, Spanish, and French languages. But that which made his excellent abilities and literature appear to the greatest advantage, was his eminent piety and holy conversation. He was highly dis- tinguished for his faith, patience, sincerity, self-denial, and hospitality. As a minister, he was laborious, affectionate, and faithful ; as a master, he was the teacher and governor of his house; as a husband, he was affectionate and tender- hearted ; as a father, he was ever careful to promote the best interests of his children ;t and, it is added, " he was a great honour to his profession, and a pattern of virtue in every social relation. He had few equals in learning, and scarcely a superior in piety."; Wood says, " he was a learned and religious puritan ' "§ which is no mean character from his unworthy pen. The learned Mr. Thomas Cawton, one of the ejected nonconformists in 1662, was his son.II He trod in the footsteps of his father, whose life he published in 1662, with the sermon annexed which his father preached at Mercer's chapel, February 25, 1648, entitled, " God's Rule for a Godly Life ; or, a Gospel-Conversation opened and applied," fromPhil. i. 27. HENRY DUNSTER.-Thisperson was apious and learned divine, who, to escape the persecutions of Archbishop Laud, retired to New England in 1640. Upon his arrival, he was chosen president of Harvard college, Cambridge ; which expense attending it entirely ruined him of his fortune. He spent upon it upwardsof twelve thousand pounds. The author only received a very poor reward for his incredible and indeed Herculean labours.-Granger's Biog. Hist. vol. iii. p. 29.-Biographia Britannica, vol. iii. p. 310. Edit. 1778. * Life of Hr. Cawton. p. 78-80. I. Ibid. p. 7,31, &c. t Granger's Biog. Hist. vol. iii. p. 47. § AthenmOxon, vol. ii. p.482. 11 Palmer's Noncon. Hem, vol. i. p. 158.
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