Samuel Knight (priest)

[3] He then became chaplain to the Earl of Orford, who presented him to the rectory of Burrough Green and vicarage of Chippenham in Cambridgeshire in 1707.

[2] He was appointed chaplain to King George II in February 1731[2] and was promoted to be Archdeacon of Berkshire in 1746 by Thomas Sherlock, bishop of Salisbury.

[5] He died on 10 December 1746 and was buried in Bluntisham Church, where a white marble monument was erected with an inscription by his friend Edmund Castle.

[9] The full title of the work - 'More Particularly that Part of it which He Spent in England, Wherein an Account is Given of His Learned Friends, and the State of Religion and Learning at that Time in Both Our Universities' - underlines the focus of the biography on Erasmus' friends in England and English universities.

[10] Both works were dedicated to Spencer Compton, speaker of the House of Commons[2] He corresponded with Browne Willis in order to provide him with information on Ely Cathedral for Willis' publication Survey of Lincoln, Ely, Oxford, and Peterborough Cathedrals (1730).