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JASPER MAYNE (1604-1672)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 936 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JASPER See also:MAYNE (1604-1672)  , See also:English author, was baptized at Hatherleigh, See also:Devonshire, on the 23rd of See also:November 1604 . He was educated at See also:Westminster School and at See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford, where he had a distinguished career . He was presented to two See also:college livings in See also:Oxfordshire, and was made D.D. in 1646 . During the See also:Commonwealth he was dispossessed,' and became See also:chaplain to the See also:duke of Devonshire . At the Restoration he was made See also:canon of Christ Church, See also:archdeacon of See also:Chichester and chaplain in See also:ordinary to the See also:king . He wrote a farcical domestic See also:comedy, The See also:City Match (1639), which is reprinted in vol. xiii. of See also:Hazlitt's edition of See also:Dodsley's Old Plays, and a fantastic tragi-comedy entitled The Amorous See also:War (printed 1648) . After receiving ecclesiastical preferment he gave up See also:poetry as unbefitting his profession . His other See also:works comprise some occasional gems, a See also:translation of See also:Lucian's Dialogues (printed 1664) and a number of sermons . He died on the 6th of See also:December 1672 at Oxford .

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