Hall and Christ's College, Cambridge, and became D.D. in 1651. His most distinguished work, The Intellectual System, first appeared in 1678, and was re-published with additions by Dr. Birch, in 1743. He was not only eminent for extensive learning and profound knowledge in metaphysics and philosophy, but for exemplary piety, and great moderation and rectitude of character. Mr. Granger observes, Dr. Cudworth held the same rank in metaphysics, that Dr. Barrow did in geometry; and his daughter (Demaris) he styles the learned and accomplished Lady Masham (wife of Sir Francis Masham), whose memory deserves to be held in high honour, both for her own attainments, and her unshaken friendship to the great Locke. At the period of Dr. Cudworth's death, which occured at Cambridge in 1688, he appears to have been a Prebendary of Gloucester, and Rector of Ashwell, in Herfordshire. The famous Mr. Locke died at the house of Lady Masham, at Oates, in Essex. This extraordinary woman was the chief adviser of royalty in many political transactions of the reign of Queen Anne; and she was also an authoress, having produced a discourse concerning the "Love of God," 8vo., and "Thoughts in Reference to a Virtuous and Christian Life," 8vo. She died in 1708, aged fifty, and was buried in the Abbey Church, at Bath. Her son, Francis Cudworth Masham, Esq., brother of Lord Masham, died May 25th, 1731. The Rev. John Cudworth, Clergyman of Kineton, in Warwickshire, who seems to have been the second son of John Cudworth, Esq., of Werneth, was father Of the Rev. John Cudworth, an antiquary, and author of several papers amongst the Rawlinson MSS. in the Bodleian Library: this Rev. Gentleman was Rector of Kiddington, in Oxfordshire, and kept a most esteemed School there, where he died in 1729. During the Protectorate of Cromwell, 1655, on expedition was fitted out to attack the Island of Hispaniola, and the command given to Admirals Penn and Venables. One of the oflicers engaged in this expedition was Thomas

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