might have been procured.

Edward Young was born at Upham, near Winchester, in June, 1681. He
was the son of Edward Young, at that time Fellow of Winchester
College, and Rector of Upham, who was the son of Jo. Young, of
Woodhay, in Berkshire, styled by Wood, GENTLEMAN. In September,
1682, the poet's father was collated to the prebend of Gillingham
Minor, in the church of Sarum, by Bishop Ward. When Ward's
faculties were impaired through age, his duties were necessarily
performed by others. We learn from Wood that, at a visitation of
Sprat's, July the 12th, 1686, the prebendary preached a Latin
sermon, afterwards published, with which the Bishop was so pleased,
that he told the chapter he was concerned to find the preacher had
one of the worst prebends in their Church. Some time after this, in
consequence of his merit and reputation, or of the interest of Lord
Bradford, to whom, in 1702, he dedicated two volumes of sermons, he
was appointed chaplain to King William and Queen Mary, and preferred
to the Deanery of Sarum. Jacob, who wrote in 1720, says, "he was
Chaplain and Clerk of the Closet to the late Queen, who honoured him
by standing godmother to the poet." His Fellowship of Winchester he
resigned in favour of a gentleman of the name of Harris, who married
his only daughter. The Dean died at Sarum, after a short illness,
in 1705, in the sixty-third year of his age. On the Sunday after
his decease, Bishop Burnet preached at the cathedral, and began his
sermon with saying, "Death has been of late walking round us, and
making breach upon breach upon us, and has now carried away the head
of this body with a stroke, so that he, whom you saw a week ago
distributing the holy mysteries, is now laid in the dust. But he
still lives in the many excellent directions he has left us both how
to live and how to die."