buried in the Church of St. Bride, Fleet Street, 1658. His poems were published under the name of Lucasta.
[See "Gentleman's Magazine" for 1791, 1792, "Biographia Dramatica," and "Wood's Athenæ Oxon." by Bliss.]
Thomas Lushington,
Was born at Sandwich in 1590. He become a Prebendary of Salisbury in 1631, and was preferred to the rectory of Bamham, Westgate, in the following year. He is known as the author of "Commentaries on the Epistle to the Hebrews," described as a "learned and judicious, plain and very profitable work," and other theological treatises. He died in 1664.
[See "Wood's Athenæ Oxon." by Bliss.]
Sir Roger Manwood,
JUDGE,
Roger Manwood was a native of Sandwich, where he was born in 1525. His grandfather had been twice mayor of the place, and its representative in Parliament in 1523. He was educated at the Grammar School of the town, and subsequently studied law at the Inner Temple. On his call to the Bar he was made Steward and recorder of his town, and elected its representative in Parliament, a position he continued to occupy till his call to the judicial bench. He became a Justice of the Common Pleas in 1572, and chief baron of the Exchequer in 1578, with the honour of knighthood. He testified his affection for his native town
