Arthur Charlett

[3] He was son of Arthur Charlett, Rector of Collingbourn Ducis, Wiltshire, by Judith, daughter of Mr Cratford, a merchant of London, and was born at Shipton, near Cheltenham, on 4 January 1655.

After receiving his early education at the free school at Salisbury, he matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford, on 13 January 1669, at the age of 14.

[3] On 17 December 1684, Charlett took the degree of B.D., and when in 1692 the Mastership of University College was refused by internal candidates, he was chosen as Master on 7 July, with the backing of John Hudson, and the next day proceeded to D.D.

43 of The Spectator where Charlett, under the name of Abraham Froth is made to write a letter describing the business transacted at the meetings of the hebdomadal council.

In the spring of 1706 he was in some trouble, being sent for to London to give an account of a paper he had shown circulated, asserting that Gilbert Burnet was to receive a large sum of money when presbyterianism was established.

In 1714, he used his influence with the Vice-chancellor of the university to have Thomas Hearne prosecuted for his preface to William Camden's Elizabeth, and so put a stop to its printing.