1671. "He was accounted by all who knew him an honest and strict man, generous and religious, and well skilled in physic and chymistry." He was the author of a poem entitled "Epsom Wells," and of a greater part of a book entitled "Musarum Deliciæ." He is also said to have assisted Sir John Suckling in the composition of some of his poetry, and to have been the author of the scoffing poem on that knight, entitled "Sir John Suckling's Campaign," and beginning:—
Sir John he got him an ambling nag,
To Scotland for to ride-a,
to be seen in Percy's "Reliques of Ancient Poetry."
[See "Wood's Athenæ Oxon." by Bliss, "Brydge's Censura Literaria."]
Odo Cantianus,
This learned Benedictine, it may be presumed from his title, was a native of Kent. His learning and eloquence raised him to be Prior and Abbot, first of St. Saviour's, Canterbury, 1172, and afterwards of Battle Abbey, 1175. He died in 1200. He was the author of several treatises, chiefly commentaries on the Holy Scriptures. He was a friend of Thomas k Becket and of John of Salisbury, who has left a panegyric of him.
[See "Leland's De Scriptoribus Britannicis," and "Tanner's Bibliotheca."]
Osborn of Canterbury,
MUSICIAN AND BIOGRAPHER,
Was so called, says Fuller, "because he had his first birth
