Complex sentence: Briggs was born at Norwich, for which city his father, Augustine Briggs, was four times M.P. At thirteen he was entered at Corpus Christi, Cambridge, under Thomas Tenison, became a fellow of his college in 1668, and M.A. in 1670.
Split into simpler sentences: Briggs was born at Norwich, for which city his father, Augustine Briggs, was four times M.P. At thirteen he was entered at Corpus Christi, Cambridge, under Thomas Tenison. He became a fellow of his college in 1668, and graduated M.A. in 1670.