A MANUAL OF PRAYERS FOR THE USE OF THE SCHOLARS OF WINCHESTER COLLEGE, BY THE RIGHT REV. THOMAS KEN, D. D. LATE LORD BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. A NEW EDITION. OXFORD: JOHN HENRY PARKER. M.DCCC.XL. 213. MEMOIR OF BISHOP KEN. HOMAS KEN, the admirable Author of this little book, was born at Berkhampstead in Hertfordshire, in July 1637. In his fifteenth year he was sent to Winchester College, where he was admitted, as appears by the register of the College, on the 30th of January 1651. It would seem, however, from various circumstances, that there is a clerical error in this entry, and that he was admitted in Jan. 1652. name is still to be seen, cut in the stone, on a buttress in the south east corner of the college cloisters, THO. KEN, 1656. Among his schoolfellows was Francis Turner, afterwards Bishop of Ely, to whom he was most warmly attached. The friendship of these two excellent men lasted all their lives, who were in many remarkable re His a |