SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THOMAS FULLER.* THOMAS FULLER, the author of the following work, was an eminent historian and divine of the Church of England, in the stormy times of Charles I. and the Commonwealth. He was born in 1608, at Aldwinkle, in Northamptonshire, a town which a few years later acquired the additional celebrity of being the birthplace of Dryden. After being initiated in the rudiments of learning by his father, who was the minister of the parish, he was sent at the early age of twelve years, to Queen's College, Cambridge, where he applied himself to his academic exercises with extraordinary diligence and success. Soon after he had ta * The following memoir is chiefly compiled from the Biographia Britannica and Aikin's General Biography. |