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He was born in Yorkshire, and entered Queens" College, Cambridge as a sizar in 1691.
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Joseph Wasse
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He became bible clerk in 1694, scholar in 1695, was Bachelor of Arts in 1694, fellow and Master of Arts in 1698, Bachelor of Divinity in 1707. In 1711 Wasse was presented to the rectory of Aynhoe, Northamptonshire, by Thomas Cartwright, with whom he was on close terms. He passed most of his time in his library at Aynhoe, and, according to William Whiston, Richard Bentley thought him the second scholar in England.
Wasse died unmarried on 19 November 1738.
Participant of his library was acquired by his successor at Aynhoe, Doctor Francis Yarborough, later principal of Brasenose College, Oxford (1745–1770). The books, with manuscript notes by Wasse, were given by Yarborough"s heirs to the college.
Wasse"s copy of Thucydides, with many notes, went to the Bodleian Library.
