veyances and Tenures in Capite,’ &c., London, 1661, 4to; and ‘The Mistaken Recompense by the Excise for Pourveyance and Tenures,’ &c., 1664.
On 30 Nov. 1661 Philipps and John Moyle received a grant, with survivorship, of the office of remembrancer of the court of the council and marches of Wales. In his eightieth year he still retained his ‘great memory.’ He died on 17 Nov. 1690, and was buried near his wife in the south-west part of the church of Twyford, near Acton, Middlesex. He wrote his own epitaph some years before his death. Philipps ‘was eminent in his time, considering that his parts were never advanc'd, when young, by academical education’ (Wood); he was ‘of great assiduity and reading, and a great lover of antiquities’ (Aubrey).
In addition to the works mentioned above, Philipps published: 1. ‘Restauranda; or the necessity of Publick Repairs, by setting of a certain and royal yearly Revenue for the king,’ &c., London, 1662, 4to. 2. ‘The Antiquity, Legality, Reason, Duty, and Necessity of Præ-emption, and Pourveyance for the King,’ &c., London, 1663, 4to. 3. ‘The Antiquity, Legality … of Fines paid in Chancery upon the suing out or obtaining some sorts of Writs retornable into the Court of Common Pleas,’ &c., London, 1663, 4to; Somers' ‘Tracts,’ vol. iii. 1750, 4to; ib. vol. viii. 1809, 4to. 4. ‘Pretended Perspective Glass; or, some Reasons … against the proposed registering Reformation,’ 1669, 4to. 5. ‘The Reforming Registry; or, a Representation of the very many Mischiefs and Inconveniences … of Registers,’ &c., London, 1671, 4to. 6. ‘Regale Necessarium; or the Legality, Reason, and Necessity of the Rights and Privileges … claimed by the King's Servants,’ London, 1671, 4to. 7. ‘Some reasons for the Continuance of the Process of Arrest,’ London, 1671, 4to. 8. ‘Reasons against the taking away the Process of Arrest, which would be a loss to the King's Revenue,’ &c., 1675. 9. ‘The Ancient, Legal, Fundamental, and Necessary Rights of Courts of Justice, in their Writs of Capias, Arrests, and Process of Outlawry,’ &c., London, 1676, 4to. 10. ‘Necessary Defence of the Presidentship and Council in the Principality and Marches of Wales, in the necessary Defence of England and Wales protecting each other.’ 11. ‘Ursa Major and Minor. Showing that there is no such Fear as is factiously pretended of Popery and arbitrary Power,’ London, 1681. 12. ‘Plea for the Pardoning Part of the Sovereignty of the Kings of England,’ London, 1682. 13. ‘The established Government of England vindicated from all Popular and Republican Principles and Mistakes,’ &c., London, 1687, fol.
[Biogr. Brit.; Watkins's Biogr. Dict. 1821, p. 846; Aubrey's Letters, ii. 491, 492; Wood's Athenæ Oxon. ed. Bliss, iii. 377, 380, 451, 997; Fasti, ii. 5; Cal. of Proc. of Comm. for Advance of Money, pp. 1256–8; Journals of the House of Lords, iv. 144; Cal. State Papers, Dom. Ser. Charles II, xliv. 141, cxxxvii. 142; Hist. MSS. Comm. 4th Rep. p. 44, 5th Rep. pp. 75, 97, 119, 578, 6th Rep. pp. 2, 5, 10, 51, 7th Rep. pp. 180, 232; Notes and Queries, 2nd ser. x. 210.]
PHILIPPS, JENKIN THOMAS (d. 1755), translator, of Welsh origin, studied at the university of Basle, and there pronounced in 1707 a Latin oration on the ‘Uses of Travel’ which was published in London in 1715. He appears to have occupied some place about the English court as early as 1715, when he wrote in Latin and French a ‘Discours touchant l'Origine & le Progrès de la Religion Chrêtienne parmi la Nation Britannique. Presenté au Roi.’ The Latin version (3rd edit. 1731) was republished in the author's ‘Dissertationes Historicæ Quatuor,’ London, 1735. Philipps, who was an accomplished linguist, was engaged as a private tutor between 1717 and 1720, and expounded his methods in ‘A compendious Way of teaching Ancient and Modern Languages,’ London, 2nd edit. 1723; 4th, much enlarged, London, 1750. In 1717 he translated from the German ‘An Account of the Religions, Manners, and Learning of the People of Malabar, in several Letters, written by some of the most learned Men of that Country to the Danish Missionaries,’ London, 12mo, which was followed by ‘Thirty-four Conferences between the Danish Missionaries and the Malabarian Bramans (or Heathen Priests) in the East Indies, concerning the Truth of the Christian Religion,’ London, 1719, 8vo.
Before 1726 Philipps became tutor to the children of George II, including William Augustus, duke of Cumberland, for whose use he published ‘An Essay towards a Universal and Rational Grammar; together with Rules in English to learn Latin. Collected from the several Grammars of Milton, Shirley, Johnson, and others,’ London, 1726 (3rd edit. 1741, 12mo). He also published for the duke's use ‘Epistolæ Laconicæ ex operibus Ciceronis, Plinii, Erasmi,’ 1729 (editio nova, 1772); ‘Epistolæ sermone facili conscriptæ,’ 1731 and 1770, 8vo; and ‘Epistola hortativa ad serenissimum Principem Gulielmum, 1737, 4to. Philipps was appointed ‘historiographer’ to the king, and died on 22 Feb. 1755.
