Janus Grüter was born at Antwerp, A. D. 1563: and after he had passed some time at Norwich under the tuition of Dr. Matthias, in the year 1577, he was admitted to our college and made his first essay of the University studies with us on the eleventh of June in that year. In writing of himself, he says in his preface to his large Anthology, “that, both by his mother and his grandmother, he was an Englishman and always was called such; and that he had lived and grown up to manhood in that island; that his studies had been either at Norwich or Cambridge, from his fourth to his nineteeth year.” The remainder of his youth he passed at Leyden in Holland; Heydelberg saw him grow old: at length, the Austrian arms sounding on all sides, Grüter to avoid the storms of civil war meditated a return to England, as having been educated in England, and therefore he might with propriety look to her care and guardianship as of a mother, and so much the more, because he had lived arrived at manhood and completed his education in that well-favoured island without leaving it. On the capture and sacking of Heydelberg he was stripped of all he possessed, and not long after he made choice of his last home in this life at Britta with his son in law; where bowed to the commands of fate most illustrious Grüter.