gentleman. He was allied to the family of Clarendon.

From Westminster School, where he was a scholar on the foundation
under the care of Dr. Busby, he was at eighteen elected to Christ
Church in 1681; where he is said to have prosecuted his studies with
so much intenseness and activity, that before he was eight years'
standing he had read over, and made remarks upon, twenty-two
thousand odd hundred books and manuscripts. The books were
certainly not very long, the manuscripts not very difficult, nor the
remarks very large; for the calculator will find that he despatched
seven a day for every day of his eight years; with a remnant that
more than satisfies most other students. He took his degree in the
most expensive manner, as a GRAND COMPOUNDER; whence it is inferred
that he inherited a considerable fortune.

In 1688, the same year in which he was made Master of Arts, he
published a confutation of Varillas's account of Wickliffe; and,
engaging in the study of the civil law, became Doctor in 1692, and
was admitted advocate at Doctors' Commons.

He had already made some translations from the French, and written
some humorous and satirical pieces; when, in 1694, Molesworth
published his "Account of Denmark," in which he treats the Danes and
their monarch with great contempt; and takes the opportunity of
insinuating those wild principles by which he supposes liberty to be
established, and by which his adversaries suspect that all
subordination and government is endangered.

This book offended Prince George; and the Danish Minister presented
a memorial against it. The principles of its author did not please