of bishops and of the scriptures; all other religious tenets being of secondary moment.
In 1709 he renounced Arianism (Great Elijah, i. 4), and gave himself out as ‘the great Elijah,’ a new prophet and ‘secretary to the Lord of hosts.’ His subsequent writings show an increasing craziness, and there is a more revolting grossness in his dreams, which constitute the autobiography of a diseased imagination. He ate sparingly, and claimed divine approval for his evening potations. He advertised and gave away his books. In 1714 he became acquainted with the works of Arise (i.e. Rhys) Evans [q. v.] He also read Pordage.
Freke spent the latter part of his life (apparently from 1696) at Hinton St. Mary, Dorsetshire, where he acted (from about 1720) as justice of the peace. He died at Hinton, surviving his elder brother, Thomas, who left no issue. He was buried on 2 Jan. 1744–5. He married Elizabeth Harris, with whom he does not seem to have lived very happily; she bore him twelve children, of whom eight were living in 1709 (ib. i. 25). Four sons survived him: Raufe (d. 1757); Thomas (d. 1762); John (d. 1761), from whom the family of Hussey-Freke of Hannington Hall is descended; and Robert.
He printed: 1. ‘Essays towards an Union of Divinity and Morality, Reason or Natural Religion and Revelation,’ &c., 1687, 8vo (eight parts). 2. ‘Select Essays, tending to the Universal Reformation of Learning,’ &c., 1693, 8vo. 3. ‘A Dialogue … concerning the Deity’ and ‘A Brief and Clear Confutation of the Doctrine of the Trinity,’ 1693. 4. ‘The Divine Grammar … leading to the more nice Syntax … of Dreams, Visions, and Apparitions,’ &c., 1703, 8vo (a second title is ‘The Fountain of Monition and Intercommunion Divine,’ &c.; at p. 162 is a section with separate title, ‘The Pool of Bethesda Watch'd,’ &c.; at p. 213 begins ‘The Alphabet,’ a dream-dictionary; at p. 264 are a few original verses). 5. ‘Lingua Tersancta; or, a … compleat Allegorick Dictionary to the Holy Language of the Spirit,’ &c., 1703, 8vo (it has a dedication to the Almighty); 1705, 8vo. 6. ‘The Great Elijah's First Appearance,’ &c., lib. i. 1709, 8vo; 2nd vol., containing lib. ii. and lib. iii., 1710, 8vo (has his full name). 7. ‘God Everlasting … or The New Jerusalem Paradise-State,’ &c., 1719, 8vo; two books, each in two parts, followed by ‘The Prophetick Foreknowledge of the Weather’ (anon.). Besides these he mentions that he had printed the following works: 8. ‘The New Jerusalem Vision Interpretation,’ 1701, or beginning of 1702. 9. ‘General Idea of the Allegorick Language,’ 1702 (probably much the same as No. 4). 10. ‘Carmel Aphorisms,’ 1715. He prepared for the press, and probably printed: 11. ‘Oracula Sacra,’ 1711. 12. ‘The Elijan King Priest and Prophet State,’ 1712.
[Wood's Athenæ Oxon. ed. Bliss, iv. 739 (Tanner's additions); Hutchins's Dorsetshire, 1813, iii. 153; Toulmin's Hist. View, 1814, p. 176; Wallace's Antitrin. Biog. 1850, iii. 389; Book Lore, October 1885, p. 144 sq.; Freke's works; information from A. D. Hussey-Freke, esq., and the Rev. W. Begley.]
FREMANTLE, Sir THOMAS FRANCIS (1765–1819), vice-admiral, third son of John Fremantle of Aston Abbots in Buckinghamshire, was born on 20 Nov. 1765, and at the age of twelve entered the navy on board the Hussar frigate, on the coast of Portugal. Two years later he was moved into the Jupiter, and shortly afterwards into the Phœnix with Sir Hyde Parker. He was in the Phœnix when she was lost on the coast of Cuba in the hurricane of October 1780 (Beatson, Nav. and Mil. Memoirs, v. 92; Ralfe, Nav. Biog. i. 379). After this he served in many different ships on the Jamaica station, where, in March 1782, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant, and where he remained till December 1787. During the Spanish armament in 1790 he was again with Sir Hyde Parker, in the Brunswick, and in the following year was promoted to the command of the Spitfire sloop. At the beginning of the war in 1793 he commanded the Conflagration, and in May was promoted to be captain of the Tartar just in time to sail with Lord Hood for the Mediterranean. For the next four years, in the Tartar, Inconstant, or Seahorse, he was attached to the Mediterranean fleet, and was, in an especial degree, associated with Nelson, who formed a very high estimate of his professional character and abilities. In the Tartar he led the way into Toulon when Hood occupied it on 27 Aug. 1793, and was afterwards, in 1794, engaged under Nelson in the reduction of Bastia. In the action off Toulon on 13 March 1795 [see Hotham, William, Lord] the Inconstant took more than a frigate's part, following up the French 80-gun ship Ça-Ira and so hampering her retreat as to lead to her capture. Fremantle's conduct on this occasion won for him the very warm praise of Lord Hotham (James, i. 286; Ekins, Naval Battles, p. 222), and a perhaps still higher testimony from Sir Howard Douglas (Naval Gunnery, 2nd edit. p. 255) as to the splendid gunnery practice of his ship. The Inconstant was afterwards attached to the squadron under Nelson, on the coast of Genoa [see Nelson, Horatio,
