Poole

Poole (or POOL; Latinised Polus), MATTHEW, divine, was born at York about 1624, educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and held from 1648 till the passing of the Act of Uniformity (1662) the rectory of St Michael le Querne in London. He retired to Holland and died at Amsterdam in 1679. His principal work was his Synopsis Criticorum Biblicorum (5 vols. fol. 1669-76), in which the opinions of 150 biblical critics were summarised. In his English Annotations on the Holy Bible he had only reached Isaiah lviii., but the work was completed by his friends (2 vols. fol. 1685). Effective contributions to the Romish controversy were The Nullity of the Romish Faith (1666) and Dialogues between a Popish Priest and an English Protestant (1667).