516 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. whom was Dr. Robert Harris, another puritan divine, and some time president of Trinity college,Oxford. Mr. Goughe was living in 1610." ROBERT CLEAVER was minister at Drayton in Oxford.. shire, but silenced by Archbishop Bancroft for nonconfor- mity. In the year 1571, Mr. Thomas Merburie of Christ's college, Cambridge, left a legacy in his last will and testament " to that grave and learned man, Mr. Cleaver."+ He was a most pious, excellent, and useful preacher. Mr. Clark styles him "a godly minister, a bright shining star, and a very able textman."# He died about the year 16134 He was author of " An Exposition on the last chapter of Proverbs." Mr.' Cleaver and Mr. Dod were joint authors of " An Exposition on the ten Commandments," for which they were usually called decalogists. They also published "The Patrimony of Christian Children," containing a defence of infant-baptism, with some strictures on the sentiments of the baptists. ROBERT MANDEVILL, A. M. wasliornin Cumberland, in the year 1578, and educated first in Queen's college, then at Edmund's-hall, Oxford. In the year 1607, he was elected. vicar of Abby Holm in his native county. Although he met with great opposition in this place, yet, by his zealous and frequent preaching, his exemplary and pious life, he was successful in propagating the gospel. He shewed himself a zealous enemy to popery and all profaneness. He dissuaded his parishioners from keeping markets on the Lord's day, and from the observation of profane sports. According to Wood, " he was accounted a great man, a hard student, a laborious preacher, a zealous and religious puritan." He died at Abby Holm in 1618, aged forty years. He was author of " Timothy's Task, being two Sermons preached -in two synodical Assemblies at Carlisle," 1619 ; and " Theological Discourses."H JOHN WILKINSON, denominated an ancient and stout separatist,ii was a great sufferer for nonconformity. He was Wood's Athenas Oxon. vol. i. p. 888. ii. 171. + Baker's MS. Collec. vol. iii. p. 314. C'ark's Lives annexed to Martyr. p. 318, 319. § Wood's Athenw, vol. i. p. 457. Ibid. p. 375. it Jessop's Errors of Anabaptism, p. 77. Edit. 1623.
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