by royal mandate in 1684, and held for many years the posts of fellow and vice-master of Trinity College.
He died suddenly in Cambridge, and was buried in Trinity College Chapel, where there was a monument to his memory.
[1] In 1687 Bainbrigg published An Answer to a Book entitled Reason and Authority, or the Motives of a late Protestant's Reconciliation to the Catholick Church, together with a brief account of Augustine the Monk, and conversion of the English.
The pamphlet assailed — an attack on John Tillotson's discourse against transubstantiation — was attributed to Joshua Basset, for a time master of Sidney Sussex College.
"He names Pope Gregory and Bede," he adds, "but gives not any ground to think that ever he has read over Bede's History or consulted Pope Gregory's Epistles.