Wybunbury, Nantwich.
[Footnote 6: Lightfoot, who edited Broughton's works in 1662, entitled
them as follows:--"The Works of the great Albionen Divine, renowned in
many Nations for rare Skill in Salem's and Athens' Tongues, and familiar
acquaintance with all Rabbinical Learning," &c.
Ben Jonson has managed to introduce Broughton into some of his plays. In
his _Volpone_, when the "Fox" delivers a medical lecture, to the great
amusement of Politic and Peregrine, the former remarks,
"Is not his language rare?"
To which the latter replies,
"But Alchemy,
I never heard the like, or Broughton's books."
In the _Alchemist_, "Face" is made thus to speak of a female companion:
"Y' are very right, Sir, she is a most rare scholar,
And is gone mad with studying Broughton's works;
If you but name a word touching the Hebrew,
She falls into her fit, and will discourse
So learnedly of genealogies,
As you would run mad too to hear her, Sir."
(See also _The History of the Jews in Great Britain_, vol. i. pp. 305,
&c.)]
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