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Excerpt from A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 2 of 12: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation, Particularly the British and Irish, From the Earliest Accounts of Time to the Present Period Abington (gervase), was born in Nottingham Bioplrit. And educated at Trinity college in Cambridge, became fellow: he took a doetor'a de gree in divinity, and was appointed domefiic chaplain to Henry earl of Pembroke prelident of the council in the Marches of Wales. By his interefi he became treafurer of the church of Landafl', prebendary of Wellington in the thedral of Hereford; and, in rsgl, was advanced to the lithooric of Landafl'. In 1394, he was tranllated to the fee of Exetert and, in 1597, to that of Worcelter: he was flewife made one of the queen's council for the marches Of Wales. To the library of his cathedral at Worcefier he wasm a very great benefactor, not only repairingthe edifice, but all'o bequuthing to it all his books, a gift of confiderable value. He died of the jaundice, May 17, 1610 [a]. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.