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of his brother-in-law, fir John Temple, he was removed from Oxford to
the houfe of fir Philip Warwick, at Clapham in Bedfordfhire. The trial
of king Charles drawing on, he wrote an addrefs to the general, (lord
Fairfax) and the council of officers, which he tranfmitted to them, and
publiffied. His grief for the death of his royal mailer was extreme ; but
after having indulged it for a time, he refumed his ftudies, and publiffied
feveral pieces. The rigour of his reftraint being taken off in the begming
of 1649, he removed to Weftwood in Worcefterlhire, the feat of the loyal
lir John Packington, from whom he received a kind invitation, and there
he profecuted his ftudies, and finiffied feveral of his writings, which were
afterwards publiffied. In 1653 he gave the publick his great work, the
Annotations on the New Testament, which in 1698 was tranf-
lated into Latin, with corrections and animadverfions by the celebrated Le
Clerc. In this work Hammond appears to have been considerably indebted
to Grotius, of whofe writinns he was a great admirer. He had undertaken
a commentary on the Old Teftament, of which he publiffied the Pfalms, and
went through a third pait of the book of Proverbs 5 but the execution of
this, and other excellent defigns, was prevented by the maladies with which
he was attacked in 1654, and which finally put an end to his life. A few
weeks previous to the restoration of Charles the Second, who intended to
have promoted him to the fee of Worcefter, on the 4th of April, 1660,
he was feized with a fit of the ftone, of which he died at Weftwood, on
the 24th of the fame month, and his remains were depofited in the burial-
place of the Packington family at Hampton-Lovett, in a chapel built by
fir Thomas Packington in the year 1561.
Dr. Hammond (fays Anthony Wood) was eloquent in the tongues,
exaCt in ancient and modern writers, well verfed in philofophy, and
better in philology, moft learned in fchool-divinity, and a great mailer in
church antiquity. “ His ftature (according to Dr. Fell, dean of Chrift-
“ church, and biffiop of Oxford, who knew him perfonally) was of juft
“ height and proportionate dimenfions ; his face carried dignity and at-
“ tractions in it, fcarce ever clouded with a frown, or fo much as darkened
** by refervednefs. His complexion was clear and florid, fo that efpecially
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of his brother-in-law, fir John Temple, he was removed from Oxford to
the houfe of fir Philip Warwick, at Clapham in Bedfordfhire. The trial
of king Charles drawing on, he wrote an addrefs to the general, (lord
Fairfax) and the council of officers, which he tranfmitted to them, and
publiffied. His grief for the death of his royal mailer was extreme ; but
after having indulged it for a time, he refumed his ftudies, and publiffied
feveral pieces. The rigour of his reftraint being taken off in the begming
of 1649, he removed to Weftwood in Worcefterlhire, the feat of the loyal
lir John Packington, from whom he received a kind invitation, and there
he profecuted his ftudies, and finiffied feveral of his writings, which were
afterwards publiffied. In 1653 he gave the publick his great work, the
Annotations on the New Testament, which in 1698 was tranf-
lated into Latin, with corrections and animadverfions by the celebrated Le
Clerc. In this work Hammond appears to have been considerably indebted
to Grotius, of whofe writinns he was a great admirer. He had undertaken
a commentary on the Old Teftament, of which he publiffied the Pfalms, and
went through a third pait of the book of Proverbs 5 but the execution of
this, and other excellent defigns, was prevented by the maladies with which
he was attacked in 1654, and which finally put an end to his life. A few
weeks previous to the restoration of Charles the Second, who intended to
have promoted him to the fee of Worcefter, on the 4th of April, 1660,
he was feized with a fit of the ftone, of which he died at Weftwood, on
the 24th of the fame month, and his remains were depofited in the burial-
place of the Packington family at Hampton-Lovett, in a chapel built by
fir Thomas Packington in the year 1561.
Dr. Hammond (fays Anthony Wood) was eloquent in the tongues,
exaCt in ancient and modern writers, well verfed in philofophy, and
better in philology, moft learned in fchool-divinity, and a great mailer in
church antiquity. “ His ftature (according to Dr. Fell, dean of Chrift-
“ church, and biffiop of Oxford, who knew him perfonally) was of juft
“ height and proportionate dimenfions ; his face carried dignity and at-
“ tractions in it, fcarce ever clouded with a frown, or fo much as darkened
** by refervednefs. His complexion was clear and florid, fo that efpecially
O 2