JUNIUS, FRANCIS, son of the preceding, was born at Heidelberg, 1589. In early life he studied mathematics with a view to the military profes sion ; but the peace of 16o9 caused him to turn his attention to literature and theology. After finish ing his studies he went to France to visit his parents. In 162o he came over to England, and was received into the house of the Earl of Arundel, where Ile lived as his librarian for thirty years. In 1650 he returned to the Continent, in order to pass some time in the bosom of his family. For two years he lived in Friesland, in a district where the ancient Saxon tongue \vas preserved, that he might study the language. In 1675 he returned to England, and in 1676 went to Oxford, whence he retired to Windsor, to his nephew Isaac Vos sius, and died there, November 19, 1677.
Junius the younger was a very learned philolo gian, simple and pure in his manners, without ambition. He is said to have studied fourteen
hours a day, and to have suffered no inconvenience from so sedentary a life. He wrote De pictura Veterum, libri iii., Amsterdam 1637, 4to ; Observa tiones in Willerami Paraphrasim francicam Can Canticorum, 1635, Amsterdam, 8vo ; Anna tationes in harmoniam latino-francicam guatuar evangelistarunz latine a Tatian. confectam, Amster dam 1655, Svo; QuatuorD. .7. c. Evangel:or:1m Versiones perantiglice dua, gothica scilicet et anglo saxonica, etc. ; Accedit glossarium gothicum: cui pramittitur alphabetum gathicum 7-21721C71711, saxonicunt, etc., Dordrechti 1655, 4to ; Cademonis Paraphrasis poetica Geneseas, Amsterdam 1655, 4to. His Etymologicum Anglicanum was edited by Edward Lye, Oxford 1743, folio.—S. D.