0. 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, AND 377, STRAND, LONDON: M DCCC LXXI. HOMAS KEN, the admirable Author of this little book, was born at Berkhamp Among his school stead, 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. His 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. fellows 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 respects united together. They were both raised to the episcopal dignity, and nearly at the same time. They both attended the death-bed of King Charles a |