Church's deliverance budding forth out of the Crosse and Sufferings, and some remarkable Deliverances of a twentie yeares Sufferer, and now a Souldier of Jesus Christ,’ 1643, reprinted 1846. 2. ‘A great Victorie against the Rebels in Ireland near Trim on 24 May 1647, by Colonel Fenwicke's Forces.’
[Lowndes's Bibliographer's Manual (Bohn), iv. App. p. 271.]
FEOLOGELD (d. 832), archbishop of Canterbury, was abbot of a Kentish monastery in 803, and was elected to succeed Archbishop Wulfred on 25 April 832; he was consecrated on Sunday, 9 June, and died on 30 Aug. In some early lists he appears as Swithred, which was perhaps a second name.
[Haddan and Stubbs's Eccles. Documents, iii. 609, 611 n. a; Kemble's Codex Dipl. ii. 1024; Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Canterbury, an. 829; Florence of Worcester, Mon. Hist. Brit., 616 n. 8; Liber de Antiqq. Legg. p. 617 (Camd. Soc.); William of Malmesbury, Gesta Pontificum, p. 20 (Rolls Ser.); Gervase, col. 1642, Twysden; Diceto, i. 16, 135 (Rolls Ser.)]
FERCHARD, kings of Scotland. [See Fearchair.]
FERDINAND, PHILIP (1555?–1598), Hebraist, was born in Poland, of Jewish parents, about 1555. In his boyhood he learnt the Talmud, after the Jewish fashion, without grammatical rules. Afterwards he became a Roman catholic, and eventually a protestant. Coming to this country he entered the university of Oxford as a poor student. Dr. Airay, Dr. Rainolds, and others obtained for him employment in several colleges as a teacher of Hebrew. He was duly registered among the Oxford students, after he had taken the oath of supremacy and the usual oath to the university. He himself mentions that he read lectures assiduously for many years subsequently to his arrival in England. Removing to the university of Cambridge he was matriculated on 16 Dec. 1596, and probably obtained a living by teaching Hebrew. Dr. William Gouge, then a scholar in King's College, was one of his pupils (Clarke, Lives of Modern Divines, ed. 1677, p. 236). He obtained a professorship at Leyden through the interest of Joseph Scaliger, and died there at the close of 1598. Writing to Janus Drusius, 21 Dec. 1598, Scaliger laments the premature death of Ferdinand, and says that it interrupted his own Hebrew studies. In another letter he states that he had learnt from Ferdinand, whose practical familiarity with the Talmud was surprising, many proverbs which he proposed to send for insertion in Drusius's ‘Commentarium Verborum’ (Scaligeri Epistolæ, edit. Leyden, 1627, pp. 208, 594).
His only publication is: ‘Hæc sunt verba Dei &c., Præcepta in Monte Sinai data Iudæis sunt 613, quorum 365 negativa, et 248 affirmativa, collecta per Pharisæum Magistrum Abrahamum filium Kattani, et impressa in Bibliis Bombergiensibus, anno à mundo creato 5288 Venetiis, ab Authore Vox Dei appellata: translata in linguam Latinam per Philippum Ferdinandum Polonum. Cum licentia omnium primariorum virorum in inclyta et celeberrima Cantabrigiensi Academia,’ Cambridge, 1597, 4to.
[Addit. MS. 5869, f. 127; Ames's Typogr. Antiq. (Herbert), p. 1426; Cooper's Athenæ Cantabr. ii. 239, 549; Davies's Athenæ Britannicæ, iii. 37; Montagu's Diatribæ upon the first part of the late History of Tithes, p. 384; Archbishop Ussher's Letters (Parr), p. 4; Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (Bliss), i. 667.]
FEREBE, or FERIBYE, or FERRABEE, GEORGE (fl. 1613), composer, son of a Gloucestershire yeoman, was born about 1573, and matriculated at Oxford 25 Oct. 1589, aged 16 (Clark). He was a chorister of Magdalen College until 1591. He was admitted B.A. 1592, licensed to be M.A. 9 July 1595, and became vicar of Bishop's Cannings, Wiltshire. Wood relates how Ferebe found and ingeniously made use of an opportunity to display his talents before Queen Anne, the consort of James I, on her way from Bath, June 1613. In the dress of an old bard, Ferebe, with his pupils in the guise of shepherds, entertained the royal lady and her suite as they rested at Wensdyke (or Wansdyke) with wind-instrument music, a four-part song beginning ‘Shine, O thou sacred Shepherds' star, on silly [or seely] Shepherd swains,’ and an epilogue. This quaint and courtier-like action earned Ferebe the title of chaplain to the king.
Nichols mentions the publication, on 19 June same year, of ‘A Thing called “The Shepherd's Songe before Queen Anne in four parts complete musical, upon the Playnes of Salisbury.”’ In 1615 appeared ‘Life's Farewell, a sermon at St. John's in the Devises in Wilts, 30 Aug. 1614, at the Funerall of John Drew, gent., on 2 Sam. xiv. 14,’ 4to.
[Wood's Fasti, 1815, i. 270; Nichols's Progresses of James I, ii. 668; Bloxam's Register of Magdalen College, Oxford, i. 23; Oxf. Univ. Reg. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.), ed. Clark, vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 172, and pt. iii. p. 171.]
FERG, FRANCIS PAUL [FRANZ DE PAULA] (1689–1740), painter, born in Vienna, 2 May 1689, was son of an artist, Pancraz Ferg, from whom he received his
