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fabricating plots in the manner of Gates. These being detected, he was convicted and sentenced to fine and the pillory. He wrote a life of himself when in the Queen's Bench prison, published in 1782, and referred to by Macaulay. His death occurred about the year 1717.

[See his Life, by Abel Roper]


William Fulman,

ANTIQUARY,

Was the son of a tradesman of Penshurst, where he was born in 1632. He was sent by Dr. Hammond, the incumbent of Penshurst, to be educated at Oxford, but was ejected by the Parliamentary visitors along with his patron. After the Restoration, he obtained the living of Meysey Hampton, in Gloucestershire, where he died in 1688. He was well read in antiquities, and wrote historical notices of the University of Oxford, ("Academiæ Oxoniensis Notitia.") "Comments on Bishop Burnet's History of the Reformation," and edited the works of Charles I., and of his patron, Dr. Hammond.

[See "Wood's Athenæ Oxon.," by Bliss."]


Henry Gally,

DIVINE,

Was born at Beckenham in 1676. He was Lecturer at St. Paul's, Covent Garden, in 1721, and became Prebendary of Gloucester, in 1728. He published several sermons and theological works, translated "The Moral Characters of