Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Wotton, William
Meantime Wotton obtained preferment, also was in 1691 awarded the dwelling of Llandrill-yn-Rhôs at Denbighshire, became chaplain to Daniel Finch, second earl of Nottingham, and also a little afterwards rector of Middleton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. In 1704 he published'A Letter to Eusebia,' an assault on Toland, also in 1705 that a'Defence' of his 'Reflections.' Bishop Burnet introduced him 18 Nov. 1705 into the prebend of Grantham South at Salisbury Cathedral, which he held until his death, also Archbishop Tenison at 1707 conferred upon him the degree of D.D.. He printed in 1706 a visitation sermon,'A Defence of the Rights of the Christian Church,' which assaulted Tindal and received much applause. He had been always on the job, and printed in 1708'A Brief View of Hickes's"Thesaurus,''' at 1711'The Rights of the Christian Church Adjusted,' and'The Case of Convocation Considered.' He had been in embarrassed circumstances in 1714 and retired to Wales, in which he composed a treatise'De Confusione Linguarum Babylonica' (published posthumously, 1730, 8vo). He printed in 1718 two volumes entitled'Miscellaneous Discourses about the Traditions and Usages of the Scribes and Pharisees.' The work is in four parts, where the first two are around Misna, the third on Shema, phylacteries, and gates along with door-posts, the fourth about the observance of one day in seven. He recommends the clergy whenever possible to understand Hebrew and also the background of Jewish traditions from Jews. Simon Ockley [q. v.], the historian of the Saracens, commended the publication in a letter to the writer, and it's frequently been quoted in after theological writings. He printed a'Description of the Isle of Llandaff' at 1719.
Wotton diligently researched Welsh, and on his return to London preached a sermon at Welsh, devoted to the stewards of the Society of Ancient Britons, on 1 March 1722, that was printed in 1723. In addition, he made significant progress within a version with translation of these laws of Hywel Dda, released after his death since'Leges Wallicæ' at 1730, fol. He was likely invited in Celtic studies at Catharine Hall, that has in the time of Nehemias Donellan [q. v.] to that of George Elwes Corrie [q. v.], and even afterwards, produced a string of pupils of languages.
Wotton expired on 13 Feb. 1726--7 in Buxted at Essex. Following his departure variations of a number of the works appeared, and in 1734'Some Ideas regarding a Proper way of analyzing Divinity.' He kept a highly effective memory during his life, his learning had been constantly prepared, and he assisted lots of other scholars, one of them Browne Willis [q. v.] His design was of strokes and quite clear. He also gave a Roman dictionary, which was awakened at Sandy, Bedfordshire, to Archdeacon Battely of Canterbury to get a tobacco-jar (Letter in Nichols's Illustrations, iv. 99). He had been the friend of Richard Bentley and of Sir Isaac Newton, also appears to have felt no bitterness at the sarcasms of Swift. He abandoned, with his wife Anne Hammond, of St. Alban's Court, near Canterbury, 1 girl Anne (1700--1783), who married William Clarke (1696--1771) [q. v.]
The Cambridge University Library copy of the work includes a manuscript note saying that the first manuscript of this essay was awarded to T. Waller that the bookseller, who issued it, by E. Umfreville. It had been composed using a commitment to Charles II in 1673, but not published until 1753. The identical backup comprises cautious notes from Richard Porson. Monthly Overview, 1753; Monk's Life of Bentley, 1833, vol.
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