England, a mechanical fellow, and a great emissary, a dipper who goes about Surrey, Hampshire, and those counties, preaching and dipping’ (Brook, Puritans, iii. 27). What became of him at the Restoration does not appear, but it is probable that he was living in 1691, when the last of his numerous publications came from the press.
His works are: 1. ‘Certain Queries, or points now in controversy examined,’ 1645. 2. ‘The Exaltation of Christ,’ Lond. 1646, 12mo, with an epistle to the reader by Hanserd Knollys prefixed. 3. Letters dated Guildford, 20 April 1646, and London, 2 May 1646: printed in Edwards's ‘Gangræna,’ ii. 51, 52, and in Brook's ‘Puritans,’ iii. 28, 29. 4. ‘The Marrow of Christianity,’ Lond. 1647, 8vo. 5. ‘The Glory of Christ, and the Ruine of Antichrist, unvailed,’ 1647, 12mo. 6. ‘A Brief Discovery of the Corruption of the Ministry of the Church of England,’ Lond. 1647, 12mo. 7. ‘A Discovery of the New Creation. In a Sermon preached at the Head-Quarters at Putney,’ Lond. 1647, 12mo. 8. ‘A Vindication of the Army Remonstrance,’ Lond. 1648, 4to. This was in reply to a tract by William Sedgwick (Wood, Athenæ Oxon. iii. 895). 9. ‘A General Epistle to the Universall Church of the First Born,’ Lond. 1648, 12mo. 10. ‘A Second Generall Epistle to all the Saints,’ Lond. 1649, 12mo. 11. ‘The Heads and Substance of his Discourse with John Smith and Charles Carlile,’ Lond. 1651, 12mo. 12. ‘Narrative of the Conference between John Smith and Thomas Collier,’ Lond. 1652, 4to. 13. ‘The Pulpit-guard routed in its twenty Strongholds,’ Lond. 1652, 4to, in answer to a book published in the previous year by Thomas Hall, B.D., of King's Norton, Worcestershire, entitled ‘The Pulpit guarded.’ Hall replied to Collier, who published a rejoinder, with answers to comments which had been made on his work by John Ferriby and Richard Saunders. 14. ‘The Right Constitution and True Subjects of the Visible Church of Christ,’ Lond. 1654, 12mo. 15. ‘A Brief Answer to some of the Objections and Demurs made against the coming in and inhabiting of the Jews in this Commonwealth,’ Lond. 1656, 4to. 16. ‘A Looking-glasse for the Quakers,’ Lond. 1657, 4to. In reply to James Naylor. 17. ‘A Discourse of the true Gospel-Blessedness in the New Covenant,’ Lond. 1659, 12mo. 18. ‘The Decision of the Great Point now in Controversie about the Interest of Christ and the Civill Magistrate in the Government of this World,’ Lond. 1659, 4to. 19. ‘The Body of Divinity,’ Lond. 1674, 12mo. 20. ‘Additional Word to the Body of Divinity,’ 167–, to which Nehemiah Coxe published a reply. 21. ‘A Doctrinal Discourse of Self-denial,’ Lond. 1691, 8vo.
[Authorities cited above; also Murch's Presbyterian and Baptist Churches in the West of England, 192, 477; Cat. of Dr. Williams's Library, i. 82, ii. 141; Watt's Bibl. Man.; Cat. of Printed Books in Brit. Mus.; Bodleian Cat. i. 575, ii. 38, 327.]
COLLIGNON, CATHERINE (1755–1832), translator, was the daughter of Dr. Charles Collignon [q. v.] She translated from the French of the Abbé Ladvocat 'An Historical and Biographical Dictionary,' 4 vols, 8vo, Cambridge. 1792. 2nd edition. 1799-1801. Miss Collignon died at Bromley, Kent, on 4 Feb. 1832. By her will she left 1,000l. stock to Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.
[Gent, Mag. cii. pt. i. p. 187; Lowndes's Bibl. Man. (Bohn), p. 1297.]
COLLIGNON, CHARLES, M.D. (1725–1785), anatomist, was of French extraction, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated M.B. in 1749 and M.D. in 1754. He practised in Cambridge as a physician, and was in 1769 elected professor of anatomy, which office he held till his death on 1 Oct. 1785.
Collignon married a lady of Dutch parentage at Colchester, by whom he had an only daughter, Catherine [q. v.] Cole, who knew him well, says of him: 'He is an ingenious, honest man, and if they had picked the three kingdoms for a proper person to represent an anatomical professor, they could not have pitched upon a more proper one, for he is a perfect skeleton himself, absolutely a walking shadow, nothing but skin and bones; indeed. I never saw so meagre a figure, such as one can conceive a figure to be after the flesh and substance is all dried away and wasted, and nothing left to cover the bones but a shrivelled dry leather; such is the figure of our present professor of anatomy, 19 June 1770' (Cole, MS. Collection, British Museum, xxxiii. 264). He was a fellow of the Royal Society.
Collignon's works, which are mostly in the nature of moral reflections based on a little anatomy and medicine, include: 1. 'Compendium Anatomico-Medicum,' 1756. 2. 'Tyroncinium Anatomicum,' 1763. 3. 'Enquiry into the Structure of the Human Body relative to its supposed Influence on the Morals of Mankind,' 1764; third edition, 1771. 4. 'Medicina Politica; or Reflections on the Art of Physic as inseparably connected with the Prosperity of a State,' 1765. 5. 'Moral and Medical Dialogues,' 1769. These were collected with some' other minor writings at a quarto volume of 'Miscellaneous Works,' published by subscription in 1786.
