ELLYS, SIR RICHARD, BART., of Wyham, Lincolnshire, a gentleman of scholarly habits and extensive intercourse with the learned men of his day. He was the great-grandson of the illustrious Hampden. From his intimacy with Dutch literati he is supposed to have studied in Holland. The Wetsteins dedicated to him their edition of Sui cer's Thesaurus, Amst. 1728 ; Abr. Gronovius his edition of Aelian's Var. Hist., Amst. 1731 ; and Horseley, his Brittania Romana. He was the friend and correspondent of Boston of Ettrick, whose Tractatus Stigmatologicus was dedicated to him by D. Millius [BosToll, and in the appendix to Boston's Memoirs are several letters that passed between them. Ellys held at first with the Re monstrant party, but became afterwards a decided Calvinist ; he was a Dissenter, and belonged to the congregation of Dr. Calamy, and afterwards to that of Thomas Bradbury. He sat in Parliament as member for Boston from 1715 to ; his death took place 21st Feb. 174i, and as he died sizzepro/e, the baronetcy became extinct with him. His only work is entitled, Fortuita Sacra; qui bus subjicitur Comment. de Cymbalis Veterum, Svo, Roter. 1727. It contains dissertations on various
passages of Scripture, written by the author for his own private use, but which his friends induced him to publish. These discover very consider able critical talents, and great acquaintance with the language of the Bible '—(Orme). His essay on the cymbals of the ancients spews his acquaint ance with classical literature. In the dedication to him of Suicer's Thesaurus his scholarship is highly lauded.—W. L. A.
ELM. This occurs only Hosea iv. 13. [ALAH.] ELNATHAN : Sept. 'EAXavacrOci.t, vdOco, NdOav), the father of Nehushta, mother of Je hoiachin ; distinguished as of Jerusalem' (2 Kings xxiv. 8). He was sent by Jehoiakim on an embassy to Egypt, to bring Urijah, who had fled thither to escape the wrath of the king (Jer. xxvi. 22). In xxxvi. 12, he is described as one of ` the princes.' He was one of those who in vain entreated the king not to destroy the roll containing Jeremiah's prophecy against Israel and Judah (ver. 25). Three others of this name are mentioned, Ezra viii. 6,—+