An historical and descriptive account of the Royal Hospital, and the Royal Military Asylum at Chelsea : to which is prefixed, an account of King James's College at Chelsea ... embellished with engravings, and interspersed with biographical anecdotes.

  • Faulkner, Thomas, 1777-1855.
Date:
1805
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An historical and descriptive account of the Royal Hospital, and the Royal Military Asylum at Chelsea : to which is prefixed, an account of King James's College at Chelsea ... embellished with engravings, and interspersed with biographical anecdotes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    April 8, l6l S. He died March 11, 1619, and was buried in All Saints church, in Lombard-street, London. Joiiy Boys, or Bors, was born at Nettles- ted, in the county of Suffolk, Jan. 3, 15^0, of which place his father was rector; under his care he was educated, and so extraordinary were his quickness and natural abilities as a child, that he was able to read the Bible in Hebrew by the time he was five years old. He was admitted at the age of fourteen to St. John’s College, Cambridge, and happening to have the small-pox when he was elected fellow, he was carried, carefully wrapped up in blankets, to preserve liis seniority. He applied himself to the study of medicine, but fancying himself afflicted with every disease of which he read, he was induced to give it up. M'hcn King James the First determined on a new translation of the Bible, Mr. Boys had a part of the work assigned to him, in the per- formance of which he was indefatigable ; he was also 6ne of the six persons employed in revising the whole work. In the year 15l6, Dr. Lancelot Andrews, bishop of Ely, bestowed upon him, unasked, a prebend’s stall in his cathedral. He • died