David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ Casaubon has recorded his delight with an improved punctuation of 1 Tim. iii. 15, 16, of which Melville informed him:— “These things write I unto thee — that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the Church of the Living God. The pillar and ground of the truth, and great without controversy, is the mystery of godliness, God was manifest in the flesh,” &c. It is said that such society was Casaubon’s relief from the literary tasks set him by the king. ”

“ In 1626, Meric Casaubon was formally naturalized as an English subject. He became B.D. in 1628, and became parson of Bledon, in Somersetshire, and in 1630, by command of King Charles I., he was made D.D. of Oxford. He was ultimately Rector of Ickham, in Kent (4 miles from Canterbury) , and a Prebendary of Canterbury.
He used to mention several providential deliverances in his life. When a boy in Geneva, he was saved from death in the night-time, the house having taken fire. During his residence in Christ Church, Oxford, he recovered from a sickness, “when he was given over for a dead man.” ”

“ This energetic and devoted lady is described by Maittaire as ever the most faithful partner of her husband’s vicissitudes, and also as a frequent sufferer from illness. As refugees their life was one of much penury. She made a journey from London to Paris in 1613, to obtain some money due to him, and returned on 26th October 1613, only to be laid up with a tedious illness. Having recovered, she made another journey to Paris in March 1614, and in the following July her husband died. Isaac Casaubon himself seems to have been an invalid for the last two years of his life ”

“ Du Moulin came to me with a complaint that I often criticised his writings in unhandsome terms, and I did not deny that I felt displeasure at the freedom and causelessness of his condemnation, repudiation, and vituperation of pious writers among the ancients. ”

“ Prideaux, merely to advance himself in the knowledge of divinity.”] He died in Canterbury in 1665, and was buried in the Cathedral on March 6th. [5] Referring to No. 7 in the above list, I begin a memoir of Florence Etienne Meric Casaubon, known as the Reverend Meric Casaubon, D.D., who was born at Geneva on 24th August 1599. He was his father’s only companion on his journey to England. He had received his early education at Sedan. He completed his school education at Eton, and afterwards (in 1614) he went to Oxford. His father had a strong affection for that University. ”