both express'd the greatness of their Founders and preserved the splendor of the Kingdom which might at the reformation have in some measure been kept up and converted to sundry pious uses Upon consideration thereof those Gent. declined it and pitch'd upon the Vault where K. Ed. 4. had been inter'd being on the north side of the Choire near the Altar that K. being one his late Maj. would oftentimes make honorable mention of and from whom his Maj. was lineally propagated That therefore induced Mr. Herbert to give order to N. Harrison and Hen. Jackson to have that Vault opened partly covered with a fair large stone of Touch raised within the Arch adjoyning having a range of iron bars gilt curiously cut according to Church work c. But as they were about this work some Noble-men came thither namely the Duke of Richmond the Marq. of Hertford the Earl of Lindsey and with them Dr. Juxon B. of London who had license from the Parliament to attend the Kings body to his grave Those Gent. therefore Herbert and Mildmay thinking fit to submit and leave the choice of the place of burial to those great persons they in like manner viewed the Tomb-house and the Choir and one of the Lords beating gently upon the Paâ—ement with his staff perceived a hollow sound and thereupon ordering the stones and earth to be removed they discovered a descent into a Vault where two Coffins were laid near one another the one very large of an antique form and the other little These they supposed to be the bodies of K. Hen. 8. and Qu. Jane Seymour his third wife as indeed they were The Velvet Palls that covered their Coffins seemed fresh tho they had laid there above 100 years The Lords agreeing that the Kings body should be in the said Vault inter'd being about the middle of the Choir over against the eleventh stall upon the Soveraigns side they gave order to have the Kings name and year he died cut in lead which whilst the Work-men were about the Lords went out and gave Puddifant the Sexton order to lock the Chappel door and not suffer any to stay therein till farther notice The Sexton did his best to clear the Chappel nevertheless Isaac the Sextons man said that a Foot Soldier had hid himself so as he was not discern'd and being greedy of prey crept into the Vault and cut so much of the Velvet Pall that covered the great body as he judged would hardly be missed and wimbled also a hole thro the said Coffin that was largest probably fancying that there was something well worth his adventure The Sexton at his opening the door espied the sacrilegious person who being searched a bone was found about him with which he said he would haâ—t a knife The Governour being therefore informed of he gave him his reward and the Lords and others present were convinc'd that a real body was in the said great Coffin which some before had scrupled The girdle or circumscription of capital letters of lead put about the Kings Coffin had only these words King Charles 1648. The Kings body was then brought from his Bed-chamber down into S. George's Hall whence after a little stay it was with a slow and solemn pace much sorrow in most faces being then discernable carried by Gentlemen of quality in mourning The Noblemen in mouring also held up the Pall and the Governour with several Gentlemen and Officers and Attendants came after It was then observed that at such time as the Kings body was brought out from S. George's Hall the sky was serene and clear but presently it began to snow and the snow fell so fast that by that time the corps came to the west end of the royal Chappel the black velvet Pall was all white the colour of innocency being thick covered over with snow The Body being by the Bearers set down near the place of burial the Bishop of London stood ready with the Service book in his hands to have performed his last duty to the K. his Master according to the order and form of burial of the Dead set forth in the book of Common Prayer which the Lords likewise desired but would not be suffer'd by Col. Whitchcot the Governour of the Castle by reason of the Directory to which said he he and others were to be conformable Thus went the White King to his grave in the 48 year of his age and 22 year and 10 month of his Reign To let pass Merlins Prophecy which some allude to the White Sattin his Maj. wore when he was crowned in Westm Abbey former Kings having on purple Robes at their Coronation I shall conclude this Narrative with the Kings own excellent expression running thus Crownes and Kingdoms are not so valuable as my honor and reputation Those must have a period with my life but these survive to a glorious kind of immortality when I am dead and gone a good name being the embalming of Princes and a sweet consecrating of them to an eternity of love and gratitude amongst posterity MARTIN LLEWELLIN Lluellyn or Lluelyn so many ways I find him written the seventh son without any daughter between of Mart. Lluellyn was born in London on the 12 of Decemb. 1616 and on the 22 of the said month was baptized in the Church of Little S. Barthelmew near Smithfield In 1636 he was elected a Student of Ch. Ch. from Westm School took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1643 at which time he bore arms for his Majesty and was at length a Captain In 1648 he was ejected by the Visitors appointed by Parliament so that afterward going to the great City he prosecuted then his genius as much to Physick as before it had to Poetry In 1653 he obtained the favour of the men in power then in the University to be admitted Doctor of Physick and so consequently took the Oaths that were then required and afterwards became Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians In 1660 he was sworn Physitian to his Majesty at that time newly return'd to his Kingdoms and in the same year he was not only made Principal of the Hall of S. Mary the Virgin but one of the Commissioners appointed by the King for regulating the University of Oxon in which office he shew'd himself active enough In 1664 he left the University and setling with his wife and family in a market Town in Bucks called Great Wycombe practised his faculty there was made a Justice of the Peace for that County and in 1671 was elected Mayor of that Corporation in which offices he behaved himself severe against the Phanaticks He hath written Men-miracles A Poem Printed 1656. in oct Divers Poems Printed 1656. in oct Satyrs Printed 1656. in oct Elegies Printed 1656. in oct Divine Poems Printed 1656. in oct Among his Elegies is one upon Rob. Burton alias Democritus Junior of Ch. Ch another upon the eminent Poet and Orator Will. Cartwright a third upon Dr.
should be performed in French according to the book of Common Prayer by Law established his Majesty providing for one Minister and they themselves allowed to add to him as many as by them should be thought convenient provided that the said Ministers be presented to the Bishop of London and by him instituted By vertue of the said Grant the Liturgie of the Church of England was first read in French in the Fr. Ch. at VVestm assembled by the Kings special favour in the Chappel of the Savoy in the Strand on Sunday 14 July 1661 and the same day in the morning our author Durell who had the chief hand in setting up this Church according to this new model did preach and in the afternoon Le Couteur then Dean of Jersey from which time he with others were constant Preachers for several years following and much resorted to and admired by all In the beginning of Apr. 1663 he Durell was made Preb. of North Aulton in the Church of Salisbury being then Chapl. in ord to his Maj. and in Feb. following he succeeded Dr. A. Hawles in his Prebendship of VVindsore and about that time was made Prebendary of Durham and had a rich Donative confer'd on him In the latter end of 1669 he was actually created Doctor of Divinity as a member of Merton Coll by vertue of the Chancellours Letters read in a full Convocation held on the 13 of Octob. going before whereby we are informed that his fame was so well known to them the Academians especially for the great pains he had taken in the Church that he could hardly propose any thing to them in his behalf in which they would not be willing to prevent him The most noble Chancellour farther adds that of his parts and learning they were better Judges than himself but had not so much experience of his Loyalty Fidelity and Service to his Majesty as himself c. In July 1677 he became Dean of Windsore in the place of Dr. Br. Ryves deceased and so consequently Dean of VVolverhampton and had he lived some years longer there is no doubt but he would have been promoted to a Bishoprick He was a person of unbyassed and fixed Principles untainted and steady Loyalty as constantly adhering to the sinking cause and interest of his Soveraign in the worst of times who dar'd with an unshaken and undaunted resolution to stand up and maintain the honour and dignity of the English Church when she was in her lowest and deplorable condition He was very well vers'd also in all the Controversies on foot between the Church and the disciplinarian Party the justness and reasonableness of the established Constitutions of the former no one of late years hath more plainly manifested or with greater learning more successfully defended against its most zealous modern oppugners than he hath done as by his Works following is manifest Several of his professed Adversaries do give him great commendations particularly Lewis du Moulin who saith that he is in familiari progressu vir civilis ingenio ore probo pectore niveo oratione profluente lenocinante c. And one of another perswasion named Father Simon Priest of the Congregation of the Oratory calls him a learned English Protestant But now let 's proceed to the Works of Learning by him published which are these Theoremata Philosophiae rationaâ—is moralis naturalis supernaturalis quorum veritatem tueri conabitur in Coll. Sylvano Acad. Cadomensis c. 8 Jul. 1644. Cadom 1644. quart The Liturgy of the Church of England asserted in a Serm. on 1 Cor. 11.16 Lond. 1661. 62. qu. ded to Jam. Duke of Ormonde It was preached in French at the first opening of the Savoy Chap. for the French 14 Jul. 1661. Translated into English by G. B. Doctor of Phys A view of the Government and public Worship of God in the reformed Churches beyond the Seas wherein is shewed their conformity and agreement with the Church of England as it is by Law established Lond. 1662. qu. Tho this book wherein the author speaks several things of himself was wrot in English yet the adverse party thought fit to rally up their scatter'd forces and appear against it in different languages One is in French intit An Apologie for English Puritans The Writer of which neither mentions Dr. Durell or any body else in the title and tho an Independent yet he pleads the cause of the Presbyterians The other Answer which is an Apologie also is said by a certain person to have been written by Hen. Hickman bearing this title Apologia pro Ministris in Anglia vulgo Nonconformists an 1662 Aug. 24 die Bartholomaeo dicto ejectis c. And tho this and others are stiled Apologies yet our author Durell saith they are Satyrs and no other but famosi adversus Ecclesiam Anglicanam libelli Dr. Lew. du Moulin designed once to translate the said View of the Government c. which is often quoted by many eminent Writers and highly commended into Latine for the sake and use of Foreigners but VVill. Jenkyns the noted Presbyterian Minister deter'd him from his purpose threatning him with no lesser punishment than that of eternal damnation if so pernicious a book as he was pleased to call it in which the concord of the Church of England with all the reformed Churches as to Church Government and divine Worship should be by his means communicated to Foreigners The Doctor himself hath told us this saying that for this reason he let fall the work after he had began it having proceeded no farther in it than the translation of the Preface which Dr. Durell had by him as wrot with Moulins own hand This and more concerning the whole matter may be seen in our Authors Responsio ad Apologistae prefationem going next before his Vindiciâ— c. As for Jenkins before mention'd a most rigid Presbyterian he had been Pastor of the Black Fryers and afterwards of Ch. Ch. in London had been engaged with the Presbyterian Ministers in their Plot to bring in K. Ch. 2. from Scotland 1651 for which he had like to have gone to the pot with his dear brother Love was ejected from Ch. Ch. for Nonconformity an 1662 and carrying on afterwards the trade of Conventicling was several times imprison'd and otherwise troubled He hath written many things not now to be mentioned among which is The busie Bishop or the Visitor visited c. Lond. 1648 written in answer to a Pamphlet published by J. G. called Sion Coll. visited He hath also several Sermons extant two or more were preached before the Long Parliament and a fun sermon also on 2 Pet. 1.15 was preached 12 Sept. 1675 by the occasion of the much lamented death of the learned Dr. Laz. Seaman But several passages therein giving offence came out soon after an Answer to some part of it intit A vindication of the conforming Clergy from the unjust aspersions of heresie c. in a letter
the event proved to be known that he was the author Theologo-Historicus or the true life of the most rev Divine and excellent Historian Peter Heylyn D. D. Sub-Dean of Westminster Lond. 1683 oct Published as the author pretended to correct the errours supply the defects and confute the calumnies of a late writer viz. George Vernon M. A. Rector of Bourton on the Water in Gloucestershire who had before published the said Doctors life Answer to Mr. Baxter's false accusations of Dr. Heylyn Printed with the Theologo-Historicus c. Catechisme for the use of his Parish This I have not yet seen and therefore cannot tell you when or where 't was printed This Dr. Barnard died at Newarke in his journey to the Spaw on the 17. of August in sixteen hundred eighty and three and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Waddington before mention'd as I have been enformed by his son of both his names lately Fellow of Brasn Coll who also told me that he left behind him a Manuscript chiefly against Socinianisme which is not yet printed JOHN OWEN son of Hen. Owen sometimes a petty Schoolmaster at Stokenchurch afterwards Vicar of Stadham near Watlington in Oxfordshire was born in the said Town of Stadham bred in Grammar learning mostly under Edw. Sylvester who taught School for many years in Allsaintes Parish in Oxon entred a Student in Queens Coll. in 1628 instructed in Logic and Philosophy by Tho. Barlow Fellow thereof and took the degrees in Arts that of Master being taken and compleated in 1635 at which time as the cumstom and statute is he swore allegiance and fidelity to the King his heirs and lawful successors Which Oath is taken by all who take but one degree And this for one is to be noted of all such whom I have and shall mention in this Work About the same time he entred into holy Orders and when made Priest swore canonical Obedience to the Bishop his Diocesan Afterwards he became Chaplain to Sir Rob. Dormer of Ascot in the Parish of Great Milton near the place of his nativity where he served and did all things requisite to his Office according to the Church of England and taught also the eldest son of the said Knight About that time he became Chaplain to John L. Lovelace of Hurley in Berkshire where continuing till the turn of the times he sided then with the rebellious rout preached against Bishops and their Courts Common Prayer Book Ceremonies c. Afterwards he was made Minister of Fordham in Essex took the Covenant became Pastor of factious Coggeshall in the same County where lately that noted Presbyterian Ob. Sedgwick had held forth But then he perfectly beholding that the Independents grew prevalent he changed his mind adhered to them and endeavoured to ruin the Presbyterians He violated all Oathes as of canonical Obedience Solemne League and Covenant c. and being a man of parts was more enabled to do greater mischief by them especially in preaching up Sectarisme as he did ever and anon wheresoever he came By the doing of these things he became endeared to Ol. Cromwell who had him ever after in great respect and in some things relied on his Council In the latter end of 1648 when K. Ch. 1. was beheaded he in his discourses and Sermons applauded the Regicides and declared the death of that most admirable King to be just and righteous preached against K. Ch. 2. and against all the Loyal party In 1649 June 7. was a Thanksgiving by the Parliament Officers of the Army Lord Mayor and Citizens at Ch. Ch. in London for Cromwells victory over the Levellers at which time Tho. Goodwin and this our author Owen who had about that time taken the Engament preached to them out of the Politicks and on the day after a Committee was appointed to consider how to prefer those two Preachers to be Heads of Colleges in this University as a reward for asserting the late proceedings of Parliament and Cromwell upon the aforesaid Thanksgiving day It was not then thought fit that such men should serve God for nothing In the times of S. Peter and S. Paul Godliness was great gain but in the days of the late Saints Gain was great godliness On the 17. Sept. 1650 it was ordered by the Parliament according to the desire of Ol. Cromwell then General of the forces that he and Joseph Caryl should go into Scotland and on the 18 of March following it was ordered by them that he should be Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. In which place being soon after setled he with Tho. Goodwin President of Madg. Coll. the two Atlases and Patriarchs of Independency did with some others who were their admirers endeavour to setle Independency in the University according to Cromwells mind but in their designs they found much opposition from the Presbyterians with whom they had several clashes concerning the promoting of their doctrine In the year 1652 he was made Vicechancellour in which Office he being then also one of the Visitors for by that time several Independents had been added to them he endeavoured to put down Habits Formalities and all Ceremony notwithstanding he before had taken an Oath to observe the Statutes and maintain the Privileges of the University but opposed in this also by the Presbyterians While he did undergo the said Office he instead of being a grave example to the University scorned all formality undervalued his office by going in quirpo like a young Scholar with powdred hair snake-bone bandstrings or bandstrings with very large tassels lawne band a large set of ribands pointed at his knees and spanish leather boots with large lawne tops and his hat mostly cockâ—d On the 10. of Dec. 1653 he the said Owen Tho. Goodwin R. Fairclough the elder Nich. Lockyer Jos Caryl c. were presented to the Parliament to be sent Commissioners by three in a Circuit for ejecting and setling Ministers according to the rules then prescrib'd but that project taking not effect there were Commissioners appointed by Oliver for approbation of publick preachers whereof John Owen was one of the chiefest and in the year following Commissioners from the Layty and Assistants to them from the Clergy in every County for the ejecting of such whom they then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters that is Loyal and Orthodox Divines At which time John Owen and Tho. Goodwin were appointed for the County of Oxon together with Thankful Owen Pres of S. Jo. Coll Sam. Wells Minister of Banbury Joh. Taylor Min. of Broughton Cristoph Rogers Ambr. Upton Pet. French Hen. Wilkinson Ralph Batton Hen. Cornish Canons of Ch. Ch. Edm. Stanton Pres of C CC. Rob. Harris Pres of Trin. Coll. Franc. Howell of Ex. Coll. Mr. Brice of Henley c. In 1654 Owen stood to be elected Burges for the University of Oxon to sit in a Parliament then called and rather than he would be put aside because he was a Theologist he renounced
the Coll. of Edinburgh where he commenced Master of Arts afterwards he retired to Oxon to compleat his Learning especially his Divinity by the advice instruction and lectures of Dr. Prideaux an 1637. 38. c. Soon after he upon recommendations became one of the Chaplains to James Marquess of Hamilton at that time his Majesties High Commissioner for Scotland In which station he did acquit himself so well to the satisfaction of his noble Patron that upon his return to England he procured a Presentation for him from his Majesty to the Church of Birsa in the Stewartry of Orknay where Continuing some years his prudence diligence and faithfulness in the discharge of his Office did procure him much of veneration and respect from all persons especially from his Ordinary who confer'd upon him the dignity of Moderator to the Presbytery In the beginning of the year 1650 when the noble James Marq. of Montross landed in Orknay this Dr. Atkins was nominated by the unanimous Votes of the said Presbytery to draw up a Declaration in their names and his own which with their approbation and consent was published containing very great expressions of Loyalty and constant resolution firmly to adhere to their dutiful Allegiance For this the whole Presbytery being deposed by the general Assembly of the Kirk at that time sitting at Edinburgh the said Doctor was likewise excommunicated as one that conversed with the said Marquess against whom they had emitted the like Brutum Fulmen At that time the Scottish Council past an Act to apprehend him the said Doctor to the end that he might be tried for his life but upon private notice from his Kinsman Sir Archibald Primerose at that time Clerk to the said Council he fled into Holland where he sculked till 1653 and then returning into Scotland he transfer'd his family to Edinburgh where he resided quietly and obscurely till the year 1660. Upon the return then of his Majesty K. Ch. 2 he attended Dr. Tho. Sydserf Bishop of Galloway the only Scottish Bishop who had the good fortune to survive the calamities of the Usurper's Government to London where the Bishop of Winchester presented him to the Rectory of Winfrith in Dorsetshire and continuing there till the year 1677 he was elected and consecrated Bish of Murray in Scotland to the great rejoycing of the Episcopal Party In 1680 he was translated to the See of Galloway with dispensation to reside at Edinburgh because it was thought unreasonable to oblige a reverend Prelate of his years to live among such a rebellious and turbulent People as those of that Diocess were the effects of whose fiery zeal hath too frequently appeared in affronting beating robbing wounding and sometimes murthering the Curates He had the oversight of the said Diocess for 7 years which he so carefully governed partly by his pastoral Letters to the Synod Presbyteries and Ministers and partly by his great pains in undertaking a very great journey for a man of his age and infirmities to visit his Diocess that had he resided on the place better order and discipline could scarce be expected He died at Edinburgh of an Apoplexy on the 28 of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and seven aged 74 years Whereupon his body was decently inter'd in the Church of the Grey Friers there at which time John then Bish of Dunkeld since deceased preached his funeral Sermon His death was sadly regretted by all good and pious men who knew him to be a man of great reputation for his sincere piety constant Loyalty singular learning and true zeal for the Protestant Religion according to the Constitutions of the Church of England of which he lived and died a worthy Member Upon his Coffin was fastned this Epitaph Maximus Atkinsi pietate maximus annis Ante diem invitâ religione cadis Ni caderes nostris inferret forsitan oris Haud impune suos Roma superba Deos. He was very zealous and vigorous in opposing the taking off the Penal Laws in Scotland at which time notwithstanding he was so infirm by age and sickness that he could not walk yet he was daily conveyed to the Parliament where he declared publickly his aversion to the abolishing the said Penal Laws and to use his interest with the Nobility and Gentry of the Parl. in perswading them to a firm and constant adherence to the Protestant Religion and to oppose all the designs that might be prejudicial to the same SAMUEL PARKER sometimes of Wadh afterwards of Trin. Coll and Archd. of Canterbury became B. of Oxford on the death of Dr. Fell an 1686 and dying in the latter end of sixteen hundred eighty and seven under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 616 was succeeded in the same See by Timothy Hall as I shall tell by and by SETH WARD sometimes of Sidney Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards of that of Wadh. in Oxon c. was first made B. of Exeter and afterwards of Salisbury who dying in the beginning of Jan. in sixteen hundred eighty and eight was succeeded in that See by Gilb. Burnet D. D. sometimes Preacher of the Rolls in Chancery lane in London consecrated thereunto according to the form prescribed in the book of Common Prayer in the Chappel belonging to the B. of London's house at Fulham by the B. of London Winchester Lincoln Landaff S. Asaph and Carlile on Easter-day 31 of March 1689. The said Dr. Ward did about his Majesties restauration 1660 endeavour to make his Loyalty known by being imprison'd at Cambr by his ejection his writing against the Covenant and I know not what but not a word of his cowardly wavering for lucre and honour sake of his putting in and out and occupying other mens places for several years c. See among the Writers p. 627. HUMPHREY LLOYD the third son of Rich. Lloyd D. D. and Vicar of Ruabon in Denbighshire by Jane his wife the daughter of Rudderch Hughes Clerk of the family of Maesâ—y Pandy was born at Bodâ—y Fudden in the Parish of Trawsfynydd in the County of Merioneth in Jul. or Aug. an 1610 became a Com. of Oriel Coll. for a time afterwards of Jesus where he was Scholar and thence again to Oriel Coll of which he became Fellow in 1631 and a great Tutor for many years When the K. and Court were setled in Oxon he became known to Dr. Joh. Williams Archb. of York then there who made him his Chapl. and gave him the Prebendship of Ampleford in the Church of York which he kept to his death After the decease of his father which was in the time of the Troubles he succeeded him in the Vicaridge of Ruabon but was soon deprived of it and his Prebendship by the Usurpers till restored again to both by the happy Revolution in 1660. On the 13 of Aug. 1661 he was made Canon of S Asaph and in the month following he was actually created D. of D. On the 14 of Dec. 1663
in 64 and 74. in fol. with The Religion of Protestants Nine sermons printed at Lond. 1664. and 74. in fol. with his Apost Institution c. and The Religion of Protestants c. These I think are all the things he hath written except his Motives published by E. Knott which being answer'd by him as I have before told you were replyed upon by the Author of a book entit Motives maintained or a reply to Mr. Chillingworths answer to his own motives of his Conversion to Cath. Religion printed 1638 in three sh in qu. It must be now known that in the beginning of the civil distempers our Author Chillingworth suffer'd much for the Kings Cause and being forced to go from place to place for succour as opportunity served went at length to Arundell Castle in Sussex where he was in quality of an Engineer in that Garrison At length the Castle coming into the hands of the parliamentarian Forces on the sixth day of January 1643 he was by the endeavours of Mr. Franc. Cheynell about that time Rector of Petworth made to Sir Will. Waller the prime Governour of those forces conveyed to Chichester and there lodged in the Bishops house because that he being very sick could not go to London with the prisoners taken in the said Castle In the said house he remained to his dying day and tho civilly used yet he was much troubled with the impertinent discourses and disputes of the said Cheynell which the royal party of that City looked upon as a shortning of our Authors days He gave way to fate on the 24 of January or thereabouts in sixteen hundred forty and three and the next day his body being brought into the Cath. Church accompanied by the said royal party was certain service said but not common Prayer according to the Defuncts desire Afterwards his body being carried into the Cloyster adjoining Cheynell stood at the grave ready to receive it with the Authors book of The Religion of Protestants c. in his hand and when the company were all setled he spake before them a ridiculous speech concerning the Author Chillingworth and that book and in the conclusion throwing the book insultingly on the corps in the grave said thus Get thee gone then thou cursed book which hast seduced so many precious souls get thee gone thou corrupt rotten book earth to earth and dust to dust get thee gone into the place of rottenness that thou may'st rot with thy Author and see Corruption After the conclusion Cheynell went to the pulpit in the Cath. Church and preached a sermon on Luke 9.60 Let the dead bury the dead c. while the Malignants as he called them made a shift to perform some parts of the English Liturgy at his grave About the time of the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. Oliver Whitby his great admirer sometimes M. A. of this University did put an inscription on the wall over his grave which being for the most part in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 297. b. should also have been here inserted but forasmuch as several faults are therein as that he was D. of Divinity Chauntor of Salisbury and that he died in 1642 I think it fit therefore to be omitted in this place In his Chancellourship of Salisbury succeeded the learned and godly Dr. Joh. Earl on the 10 of Feb. 1643 but who in the Mastership of Wygstans Hospital I cannot yet well tell By his Will dated 22 of Nov. 1643 he gave to the Mayor and Corporation of Oxon 400 l. to be paid by 50 l. per an in eight years And as it is paid he would have it lent to poor young Tradesmen by 50 l. a piece for ten years they giving good security to repay it at ten years end and to pay for it 40 s. per an consideration And the use and consideration so paid to be laid out in binding young poor Children boys or girls apprentices allowing 8 l. a piece to every one to bind him or her out c. HENRY FITZ-SIMON the most noted Jesuit of his time was matriculated as a member of Hart Hall 26 Apr. 1583 and in that of his age 14 said then and there in the matricula to be an Irishman born and the son of a Merchant in Dublin In Decemb. following I find one Henry Fitz-Simons to be elected Student of Ch. Ch. but whether he be the same with the former I dare not say it How long he continued in the University or whether he took a degree it no where appears Sure it is that he being in his mind then if not before a Rom. Catholick he went beyond the seas entred himself into the Society of Jesus and made so great a proficiency under the instruction of Leonard Lessius that he in short time became so eminent that he taught publickly among them Philosophy for several years At length retiring to his native Country he endeavoured to reconcile as many persons as he could to his Religion either by private conference or publick disputes with protestant Ministers In which work he persisted for two years without disturbance being esteem'd the chief Disputant among those of his party and so ready and quick that few or none would undertake to deal with him In fine he being apprehended for a dangerous person was committed to safe custody in Dublin Castle in the year 1599 where he continued about 5 years As soon as he was setled there which as 't is said he desired before that it might be so was several times heard to say That he being a Prisoner was like a beare tyed to a stake and wanted some to bait him which expressions being looked upon as a challenge Mr. Jam. Usher then 19 years of age did undertake and did dispute with him once or twice or more concerning Antichrist and was ready to have proceeded farther but our Author was as 't is said weary of it and him Afterwards at the term of the said five years being freed from prison upon condition that he would carry himself quietly and without disturbance to the K. and the Realm he went forthwith into voluntary exile into the Low Countries where he spent his time in performing Offices requisite to his Function and in writing books some of which have these titles A catholick confutation of Mr. Joh. Riders clayme of antiquity and a caulming comfort against his caveat Roan 1608. qu. Reply to Mr. Riders postscript and a discovery of puritan partiality in his behalf printed with the former book Answer to certain complaintive letters of afflicted Catholicks for Religion c. printed with the former also Justification and exposition of the sacrifice of the Mass in 2 books or more printed 1611. qu. Britannomachia Ministrorum in plerisque fidei fundamentis fidei articulis dissidentium Duac 1614. qu. See before in Franc. Mason p. 393 394. Catalogue of the Irish Saints This I have not yet seen and therefore cannot tell whether it
by divine right upon the Church is sacriledge This he confessed he did but he was put upon it suddenly by the H. of Commons in May 1641 and had no time given him but one hour However afterwards he was so zealous in that point that he before he had purchased such was a forward Preacher for it and after he had made purchases he wrot and published a book intit No sacrileege nor sin to aliene or purchase the Lands of Bishops or others whose offices are abolished Lond. 1659. 2 edit Also A Case concerning the lawfulness of buying Bishops Lands This last I have not yet seen nor another paper reported to be his wherein the Kings Majesty is attempted by the offer of five hundred thousand pounds to make good by an Act of Parliament the purchases of Bishops Deans and Chapters Lands for 99 years Printed 1660. See more in Joh. Gauden among these Writers an 1662. num 206. Apologie for purchases of Lands late of Bishops Deans and Chapters This is a sheet in fol. and therein is shewed a great deal of reading but whether it was all pen'd by Burges tho no doubt but he had a hand in it I know not Reasons shewing the necessity of Reformation of the publick 1 Doctrine 2 Worship c. Lond. 1660. qu. Which tho in the title it is said that divers Ministers of sundry Counties in England wrot yet Mr. Baxter saith that our Author Burges pen'd them They were answer'd by Dr. Joh. Pearson and Dr. Hen. Savage the former of which was replied upon by our Author Burges in a Postscript to a piece of his which I have not yet seen Answer'd or rejoyn'd by the said Pearson in a little thing intit Answer to Dr. Burges his word by way of Postscript in vindication of No necessity c. Antidote against Antisobrius Printed about 1660. Some of the differences and alterations in the present Common-prayer book from the book established by the Act in the fifth and sixth of Ed. 6. and first of Q. Eliz. Printed in one sh in qu. 1660. The book of common-Common-Prayer c. compared with the old Editions and all the Alterations noted down Lond. 1663. oct I shall make mention of this work more anon and in the mean time tell you that after the Kings Restauration our Author Burges being deprived of all the Church-lands that he had purchased at very easie rates and of his pension from S. Pauls Cathedral notwithstanding he tugged hard to keep some he retired to his house at Watford before mention'd where exercising himself much in penitence and in observing the duties of the Church was at length reduced to such poverty that he was forced to sell all or most part of his Library to buy bread But that was not all for about that time he was so much troubled with a cancer in his neck and cheek that all he could get could not in the least cure it or satisfie that hunger which it caused Insomuch that being brought very low in body and purse he sent to Sir Rich. Browne who was elected Lord Mayor of Lond. in 1660. for relief and in his letter told him that he was brought to great want and poverty and that he was eaten up with a cancer in his neck and cheek I am saith he reduced to want a piece of bread as this bearer my son may better inform you but Sir mistake me not I do not beg I only acquaint you with my condition and do you what is fit c. To which Sir Richard made return and told the Doctor that Tho he was the prime cause and motive of his Rebellion against the late King by his preaching and violent persuasions yet if he would preach a Recantation sermon in S. Pauls Cathedral he would take care that he should never want so long as he lived But the reply made to it being this that he was not then in a capacity to do it Sir Richard rewarded him with 3 l. only Afterwards dying obscurely and in want was obscurely buried in the middle of the body of the Church at Watford before mentioned on the ninth day of June in sixteen hundred sixty and five About three weeks before his death he sent certain Common-prayer books to the publick Library at Oxon and in a spare leaf before the title of one of them he wrot this note following with his own hand dated at Watford 16 May 1665. I Cornelius Burges being an 1627 by my dear and much honoured mother the renowned University of Oxford made Doctor in Divinity am much grieved that I am able to do nothing worthy of her yet I humbly offer that I have viz. the first book of the first of Edw. 6 as also the second book of common-Common-prayer 5 and 6 of Ed. 6. wherein this hath several Alterations upon the censure of Bucer extant in his book Scripta Anglicana I also add a third book of common-Common-prayer renewed and established in 1 Elizab. which book is very hard to be had that was then printed I could never see any other of that edition I also add a fourth book of common-Common-prayer in 12 o wherein I have noted all the differences between that book established by this great Parliament an 1663 and the former book established before All these I most humbly and thankfully give to my said honorable mother of Oxford I being ready to dye beseeching her to account of these four small mites as our Lord and blessed Saviour did of the poor Widows two mites that by casting in that cast in all she had Cornelius Burges The Common-prayer book wherein this note was written was printed in fol. at Lond. 1549 in the month of May. At the bottom of the title of which is this written by Dr. Burges This is one of the very first books of Common Prayer in the beginning of Edw. 6. which book at the Request of Archb. Cranmar was reviewed and censured by Martin Bucer and then reformed accordingly in the 5 of Ed. 6. which latter is the book still in force by the statute of 1 Eliz. and this meaning the Common-Prayer-book printed 1549 is repealed KENELME DIGBY the magazine of all Arts or as one stiles him The ornament of this Nation son and heir of Sir Everard Digby of Dry-stoke in Rutlandshire Kt. by Mary his wife daughter and sole heir to Will. Mulsho of Gothurst commonly called Gadhurst in Buckinghamshire was born at Gothurst on the eleventh day of July 1603 1 Jac. 1. yet Ben. Johnson for rhyme-sake will have it June thus Witness thy action done at Scanderoon Upon thy birth day the eleventh of June About the year 1618 he was sent to Glocester Hall after he had been trained up in the Protestant Religion which afterwards he left for that of Rome and committed to the care of Tho. Allen who used to say that he was the Mirandula of his age but to the tuition of another where continuing
admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. on the 4 of Oct. the same year and afterwards Fellow and M. of A. About which time taking holy Orders he became Minister of Bushy in Hertfordshire but his title to the Rectory being weak he changed it with Dr. Seaton for the Church of Kingston upon Thames in Surrey In 1634 he took the degrees in Divinity and being puritanically affected he sided with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the civil distempers was made one of the Assembly of Divines 1643 became a frequent Preacher within the City of London and sometimes before the members of the Long Parliament In 1648 he was for the services done for the cause constituted President of Corp. Ch. Coll. by the authority then in being and so long as he kept that place he shewed himself a zealous brother for the carrying on of the Presbyterian discipline Soon after he took the oath called the Engagement as before he had done the Covenant but upon the restoration of K. Ch. 2. being ejected to make room for him whose bread he had eaten for 12 years he retired to a Market Town in Hertfordshire called Rickmansworth where exercising his function among the Brethren till S. Barthelmews day an 1662 was then silenced for Nonconformity He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Rupes Israelis the rock of Israel preached at S. Marg. Westm before the House of Com. at their monthly Fast 24. Apr. 1644 on Deut. 32.31 Lond. 1644. qu. 2 Phinehas's zeal in execution of judgment Fast-serm before the House of Lords 30 oct 1644. on Psal 106.30 Lond. 1645. qu. 3 Sermon at Great Milton in the County of Oxon 9. Dec. 1654 at the funeral of Mrs. Elizab. Wilkinson late Wife of Dr. Hen. Wilkinson Princ. of Magd. Hall on 1. Thes 4.14 Oxon 1659. qu. To which is added 1. A narrative of her godly life and death 2 Verses and Elegies on her death made by certain Presbyterian Poets of the Univ. of Oxon. viz. John Wallis D.D. W. Carpender M. A. of Christ Church Edm. Hall of Pemb. Coll Dr. Hen. Wilkinson the Husband c. He the said Dr. Stanton hath other Sermons extant which I have not yet seen Dialogue or discourse between a Minister and a Stranger Lond. 1673. oct Treatise of Christian conference Pr. with the Dialogue He concluded his last day at Bovingden in Hertfordshire after he had exercised his gifts there in private for some years on the 14 day of July in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried in the Church there His life such as 't is was written by one Richard Mayow wherein the reader may satisfie himself more of the Doctor but not so fully as may be wished unless he reads the Appendix to it written by Will. Fulman of C. C. Coll. Sam. Clark in his collection of printed lives 1683 involves all or most of that written by Mayow without taking any notice of the Appendix either because he had not seen it or that it was too satyrical or made much against the Doctor as it doth with unquestionable veracity Mayow was sometimes Minister of Kingston upon Thames but ejected thence for nonconformity 1662 and was author of a book called A treatise of closet prayer Pr. in oct MERIC CASAUBON son of the most learned Isaac son of Arnold Casaubon by Joanna Rosseau his Wife which Isaac married the Daughter of Henry Son of Rob. Stephan both eminent men of their times as their works manifest This Person Mer. Casaubon whom we are now to mention who was descended from both sides of learned Parents was born within the City of Geneva in France in the month of Sept. 1599 and at 9 years of age being brought into England by his Father was instructed by a private Master till 1614 at which time he was sent to Ch. Ch. in this University where being put under a most careful Tutor Dr. Edw. Ã Meetkirk the Kings Hebr. Professor was soon after elected Student of that House and afterwards making a very considerable progress in Logick and Philosophy took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1621 at which time he was much noted for his sufficiences in the arts and sciences In the same year tho he was then young he published a Book in defence of his Father against the calumnies of a certain Rom. Catholick as I shall tell you in the Catalogue following Which making him known to K. Jam. 1 he ever afterwards had a good opinion of him That book brought him also into credit abroad especially in France whence he had offers and invitations for some promotion there his Godfather Meric de Vic sometimes Governor of Calis being then or soon after Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of that Kingdom The next book that he published was Vindicatio patris c. written by command of K. James in defence of his Father and the Church of England against the Puritans of those days of which book he gave a farther account in his Necessity of reformation About that time he being beneficed in Somersetshire at Bledon by the favour of Dr. Andrews B. of Winton and Bach. of Div. did chiefly design to go on where his Father had left off against Baronius his Annals but was diverted by some accidental occasions or provocations At length when he came to maturity of years for such a work and had acquainted Archb. Laud his great friend and patron with his design who was very ready to place him conveniently in Oxon or Lond. according to his desire to the end that he might be furnished with books necessary for such a purpose the troubles and divisions began in England so that he having no certain place was forced to sell a good part of his books and in conclusion after 20 years sufferings more or less he was grown so old and crazy in body that he could not expect to live many years and thereupon was forced to give over that project Some years after his publication of the said two books he was made Prebendary of Canterbury by the favour of Dr. Laud if I mistake not Rector of Ickham 4 miles distant thence and in 1636 he was actually created Doct. of Div. by command from his Majesty when he and his Queen were entertained by the muses there In the beginning of the Civil War that followed he lost all his spiritual promotions and lived retiredly with that little he had left In 1649 one Mr. Greaves of Greys Inn an intimate acquaintance with our Author Casaubon brought him a message from Ol. Cromwell then Lieu. General of the Parliament forces to bring him to Whitehall to confer with him about matters of moment but his Wife being then lately dead and not as he said buried he desired to be excused Afterwards Greaves came again and our author being in some disorder for it fearing that evil might follow he desired to tell him the meaning of the matter but Greaves refusing went away the second time At length
then a Thanksgiving day for which he was forced to make his palinody on the first of Aug. following in the Apodyterian for several things therein savouring of Popery but also the said Historical narration lately published as he said by the Head of Univ. Coll for a very good book and wondred why any one should find fault with it c. Two discourses concerning the adoration of our B. Saviour in the Eucharist The first contains Animadversions upon the alterations of the Rubrick in the Common Service in the Common prayer book of the Church of England The second The Catholicks defence for their adoration of our Lord as believed really and substantially present in the holy Sacrament of the Eucharist Oxon. 1687. qu. Published in an 1686. by Mr. Walker without licensing by the Vicech by vertue of the Kings license granted to him to print certain books laying by him at Oxon. But A.C. of Trin. Coll. obtaining by another hand the said book while t was in printing sheet by sheet from L. Lichfield the Printer came out an answer to it about a month after entit A discourse of the holy Eucharist in the great points of the real presence and adoration of the Host In answer to the two discourses lately printed at Oxon on this subject To which is prefix'd a larg historical Preface relating to the same argument Lond. 1687. qu. Published in Feb. 1686 and written as t was then reported by Will. Wake of Ch. Ch. Another book also was published against it entit A reply to two discourses lately printed at Oxford concerning the adoration of our blessed Saviour in the Eucharist Oxon. 1687. qu. Published in the latter end of May that year and written as t was then commonly reported by Doctor Hen. Aldrich Can. of Ch. Ch. In the introduction to this book 't is said that a scandalous report was industriously spread about the nation as if Oxford Converts came in by whole shoales and all the University were just ready to declare Upon the comming out of the first answer Mr. Walker perceiving that he had been falsly dealt with by the Printer in permitting his book to go away sheet by sheet as 't was printed he set up Cases of Letters and a Press in the back part of his Lodgings belonging to him as Master of Univ. Coll. where he caused to be printed another book of Mr. Woodheed entit Church government part V. A relation of the English reformation and the lawfulness thereof examined by the Theses delivered in the four former parts Oxon. 1687. qu. with K. Alfreds picture in the title cut in a wooden bordure This was published in the beginning of Apr. the same year but the zealous men of the Church of England then in the University perceiving that Mr. Walker would cut their own throats at home as they said were resolved to answer whatsoever he published So that about the 13. of June following were published Animadversions on the eight Theses laid down and the inferences deduced from them in a discourse entit Church government part V. lately printed at Oxon. Oxon. at the Theater 1687. qu. Two discourses The first concerning the spirit of Martin Luther and the original of reformation The second concerning the celebracy of the Clergy Oxon. in Mr. Walkers lodgings 1687. qu. This was published in a very short time after Church Government To the said two discourses came out An answer to some considerations on the Spirit of Mart. Luther and the original of the reformation lately printed at Oxon. Oxon at the Theater 1687. qu. Published on the 10. of Aug. the same year and written by Mr. Franc. Atterbury of Ch. Ch. Pietas Romana Parisiensis or a faithful relation of the several sorts of charitable and pious works eminent in the Cities of Rome and Paris The one taken out of a book written by Theodor. Amydenus the other out of that by Mr. Carr. Oxon in Mr. Walkers Lodgings 1687. oct Answered in a book entit Some reflections upon a treatise called Pietas Romana Par. lately printed at Oxon To which are added c. Ox. 1688. qu. Written by James Harrington B. A. of Ch. Ch. since a Barrester of the Inner Temple The Pietas Parisiensis before mentioned was written by Tho. Carre Confessor of Sion Printed at Paris 1666. in tw Motives to holy living or heads for meditation divided into considerations counsels and duties Together with some forms of devotion in Letanies Collects Doxologies c. Oxon. in Mr. Walkers Lodg. 1688. qu. Published by him about the 12 of July the same year Catholick Theses Ox. 1689. qu. Concerning images and idolatry Ox. 1689. qu. Succession of the Clergy Antient Church Government Apocalyps paraphrased A larger discourse concerning Antichrist The reader may now be pleased to know that when Mr. Walker left Oxon which was on the 9. of Nov. 1688 to prevent the insults of the rabble upon the comming into England of the Pr. of Aurange he caus'd to be lodged in the house of a certain Boatman near Oxford Wharff many printed copies of certain books written by our author Woodhead that had not then been sold and the copies of these four last books that were then about half finished to the end that they might be conveyed by water to London there to be disposed of as he should think fit but the waters being then too high for their passage the said books remained in the Boatmans hands till the 23. of Dec. following At which time some of Col. Mordants Soldiers then in Oxon. searching the house of the said Boatman a reputed Fanatick under pretence for the finding out a P. Priest which he was suspected to harbour they discovered the said books and finding upon examination that they belonged to Mr. Walker they seized on and convey'd them away to the Colonels quarters with intentions to have them publicly burnt but upon farther consideration they at length after they had detained them several weeks did as I have heard restore them to the person whom Mr. Walker had appointed to look after them But to return It was also reported very frequently that he Woodhead wrote Gods benefits to mankind Oxon. 1680. qu. Published by Mr. Walker as his own nay and many stick not to say which is a wonder to me that he was the author of The whole duty of man and of all that goes under the name of that author He the said Abr. Woodhead did also translate from Lat. into English S. Augustine's Confessions with the continuation of his life to the end thereof extracted out of Possidius and the Fathers own unquestion'd works Printed 1679 in a large oct And from Spanish into English 1 The life of the holy mother S. Teresa foundress of the reformation of the discalced Carmelites according to the primitive rule Printed 1669. c. qu. Written originally by her self 2 The history of her foundations 3 Her death and burial and the miraculous incorruption and fragrancy of her body This S.
and visited in person those Colleges which of right belonged to him as B. of Winchester was received and entertained with great solemnity in all only in Co. Ch. Coll. finding stubborness he bound some to their good behaviour Daniel Agas one of the Fellows who had been educated there under the Presbyterians accused the Bishop of injustice before his face for granting and sending Letters to the Coll. in behalf of Tho. Turner son of Dr. Th. Turner to come in Scholar for which his impudence he was put out of Commons for 3 weeks This worthy Doctor who was most famous for his great charity and benefaction while he sate at Winchester was a person of approved and throly tried Loyalty not of the number of those lukewarm irreligious Temporizers who had learn'd politickly to shift and quit their Principles to make them suit to the times and so pliably to tack about as still to be ready to receive what ever revolution and turn of affairs should happen and by an easie submission to that government which was uppermost alway to stand fair for promotion under a succession of continued usurpations tho of a quite different nature and complexion He was so firmly setled in and fixed to the Ch. of England that he constantly bore up against and became impregnable either by the attempting allurements of a splendid papacy or the reproachful and ignominious treatment of the ruder disciplinarian party He had courage enough to own a persecuted Church and an exil'd Prince and as he vindicated on all occasions the honour and dignity of the former both against the open assaults and batteries of her professed Adversaries and the moâ—e sly and undermining insinuations of her pretended friends so did he act with no less vigour by leaving no projects unattempted which carried in them any reasonable probability of success whereby he might affect his Majesties restauration to his Crown and just rights which altho managed with his utmost skill industry and best interest yet fell short of his design And as he was a constant Adherer to his Master in his sufferings who reposed so great confidence in his experienc'd fidelity as to admit him to the honorable privacy of his most important and weighty concerns so he was upon and since the restauration rewarded by him as I have before told you for his many eminent and good services done by himself and upon his engagement by others for the Royal Cause and Family He was a great Calvinist and esteemed one of the main Patrons of those of that persuasion He was a good and pious Prelate who by temperance and a regular exercise did arrive to a good old age having enjoyed ease and quiet for many years since that time he was forced to eat his bread in forreign Countries In the 74 year of his age and after he was without any remarkable decay either in his limbs or senses His usual course then was to rise about 5 of the clock in the morning Winter and Summer and to go to bed about eleven at night and in the coldest mornings never to have a fire or warm his bed at night He eat but once in 24 hours and had never either Gout Stone Stranguery or Head-ach but enjoyed almost a constant health from his infancy having never kept his bed for any sickness but twice only Afterwards his grinders began to cease and those that looked out of the windows began to be darkned and other infirmities followed to conduct him to his long home where that he might safely arrive and that it might be to him a place of everlasting rest and happiness he did humbly in his last dayes beg all good mens prayers As for his works of learning they are these Sermon at the coronation of K. Ch. 2. in the Collegiat Church of S. Peter in Westm 23. Apr. 1661 on Prov. 28. 2. Lond. 1661. qu. Letter to a friend in Vindication of himself from Mr. Baxters calumny Lond. 1662. qu. in six sh and an half The writing of which was occasion'd by some passages in Mr. Baxters Address to the inhabitants of Kiderminster before his book entit The mischief of self-ignorance in the benefits of self-acquaintance These reflected on that account which our author Morley had before briefly both in a Sermon at Kederminster soon after he as Bishop of Worcester had prohibited Baxter to preach there and in a conference held in his own house with him in the presence of Dr. Warmstry Dean of Worcester concerning a very groundless and dangerous exception made by the Commissioners of the Presbyterian persuasion appointed by his Majesty to meet others of the Episcopal Divines at the Savoy in the Strand an 1661. to review the book of Common Prayer in order to a design'd accommodation between both parties against a solid sound position at that time laid down in a due and regular form of reasoning by the Commissioners nominated to appear in the Churches behalf But as to the letter before mention'd Baxter in his Second part of the Nonconformists plea for peace c. and in his Apologie for the Nonconformists Ministers c. endeavours to answer some parts of it and the Bishop Morley is mention'd by name among many others in the title to this last piece It may not be now amiss here by the by to take notice that as Mr. Baxter is extreamly guilty of still throwing upon the tired Reader the self same nauseated matter very often so he seems to take no greater delight in the telling any other story than that concerning the Savoy Papers viz. the proceedings of the Divines on both sides in persuance of his Majesties Commission that their reply to the answer of the Episcopal Divines return'd to their general and particular exceptions against the Liturgy all which are contained in a piece printed at Lond. 1661. qu. without any Printer's or Bookseller's name to it entit The grand debate c. and also The petition of peace with the reformation of the Liturgy c. that is in their common and ordinary acceptation of that charming word Reformation with an abolition and destruction of the Liturgy for it was of this nature printed also after the same sculking manner with the former Lond. 1661. qu were never answered either by word or writing altho great importunity had been used to procure replyes to these three several Papers Mr. Baxter is generally said to have penned The Petition of Peace with the reformation of the Liturgy c. before mention'd He himself saith that these two were drawn up in eight dayes but not by whom and that a poor reading Curate whom they were forced to use for copies keeping some for himself gave them to the Printer thro meer poverty to get a little money and that by his means they came out very false and without their knowledge as did also those other Papers called The grand debate c. Mr. Baxter thinks himself qualified with such a peculiar excellency and knack of
then admitted because he was esteemed by the faction a zealous Royallist Afterwards with much ado he obtained the Church of Bolton in Craven in Yorkshire which being worth but 50 l. per an supposed then enough to maintain a malignant Minister he was permitted to keep it during the sad affliction of the Church of England In 1661 his Maj. K. Ch. 2. being then setled in the regal Throne he was admitted to the Church of Whalton by John L. Bishop of Durham was about the same time made Preacher of the Parochial Chappel of S. John in the Town and County of Newcastle upon Tyne and chosen a member of the Convocation for Yorkshire as he was again in 1679 and Procurator Cleri for the Archdeaconry of Northumberland He hath written The Pourtraicture of the Primitive Saints in their actings and sufferings according to S. Paul's canon Heb. 11. One part whereof to verse 23 was preached at Newcastle 1652. The other from verse 22 to the end was preached at the same place an 1659. Both which were afterwards published in qu. Origo Protestantium or an answer to a popish manuscript of N. N's that would fain make the Protestant Catholick Religion bear date at the very time when the Roman popish commenced in the world wherein Protestancy is demonstrated to be elder than Popery Lond. 1677. and 79. qu. Answer to the Jesuits letter Printed with the former book and the Jesuits letter with it No reformation of the established religion Lond 1685. oct This loyal religious and learned person died on the 22 of May in sixteen hundred eighty and nine and was buried in the Chap. or Church of S. John in Newcastle before mention'd just before the altar Soon after his ingenious Son Joh. Shaw belonging to the Cath. Church of Norwich bestowed an epitaph on his Fathers marble part of which runs thus Hic quod remanet Johannis Shaw hujus Ecclesiae Pastoris Deo Ecclesiae Patriae Regi pie fidelis c. Besides this John Shaw was another of both his names and time Minister of Hull in Yorkshire author of several Sermons among which are 1 Britannia rediviva or a soveraign remedy to cure a sick commonwealth preached in the Minster at York before the Judges at the Assize 9. Aug. 1649 2 The Princess Royal preached at the same place before the Judges 24 Mar. 1650. c. And among other things he hath published a book entit Mistriss Shawes tomb stone or the Saints remains being a brief narrative of some few remarkable passages in the holy life and happy death of Mrs. Dorothy Shaw the Wife of Mr. John Shaw who died oh the 10. Dec. 1657. Lond. 1657. oct WILLIAM ANNAND son of Will. Annand Parson of Air the Head-Burgh royal of the Shire of Air in the Dioc. of Glasgow in Scotland was born in the said Burgh an 1633 and being 5. years of age was conveyed by his Father with his family into England in the time of the great rebellion and Presbyterian tyranny an 1638 they being forced to make their escape thither on account of their loyalty to their Prince and their adherence to the Episcopal government then established by law in that Kingdom He was descended of the Annands of Auchterellon an antient family in the Shire of Aberdene and Parish of Ellon but now their estate there is out of their hands In 1651 our author W. Annand became a Scholar of Univ. Coll and tho then put under a Presbyterian Tutor and Discipline yet he took all occasions to frequent Sermons preached by loyal persons in and near Oxon. In 1656 he being then Bach. of Arts he took holy Orders according to the Church of England from the hands of Dr. Thomas Fulwar Bishop of Ardfert or Kirrie in Ireland in the beginning of Aug and the same year we find him preacher of Gods word at Weston on the Green near Bister in Oxfordshire where he found great encouragement from Sir Fr. Norris Lord of that Town After he had proceeded in Arts he became Vicar of Leighton Budezard in Bedfordshire where continuing in good repute for his ready and edifying way of preaching till 1662 he then went in the quality of a Chaplain with his Grace John Earl of Middleton Lord high Commissioner of Scotland when he left the Court at Whitehall to go to that Kingdom In the latter end of 1663 he was instituted to the Tolbooth Church at Edinburg where continuing several years was transplauded to the Trone Church of that City which is also a Prebendship In Apr. 1676 he was by the presentation of his Majesty under his royal hand with the Privy Seal of his Kingdom of Scotland appended thereto made Dean of Edinburgh and on Oct. 1. an 1685 he commenced Doctor of Div. in the University of S. Andrew His works as to learning are these Fides Catholica Or the doctrine of the Cath. Church in eighteen grand ordinances referring to the Word Sacraments and Prayer in purity number and nature catholickly maintained and publickly taught against hereticks of all sorts Lond. 1661. 62. in a pretty thick qu. Solutions of many proper and profitable questions sutable to the nature of each ordinance c. Print with Fides Catholica c. Panem quotidianum or a short discourse tending to prove the legality decency and expediency of set forms of prayer in the Churches of Christ with a particular defence of the book of Common prayer of the Church of England Lond. 1661. qu. Pater noster Our Father or the Lords Prayer explained the sense thereof and duties therein from Scripture History and Fathers methodically cleared and succinctly opened Lond. 1670. oct Mysterium Pietatis or the mystery of godliness c. Lond. 1671. oct Doxologia or glory to the Father the Churches Hymn reduced to glorifying the Trinity Lond. 1672. oct Dualitas or a twofold subject displayed and opened conduceable to godliness and peace in order first Lex loquens the honor and dignity of Magistracy with the duties thereupon c. secondly Duorum unitas or the agreement of Magistracy and Ministry at the election of the honorable Magistrates of Edinburgh and opening of the diocesan synod of the rev Clergy there Edinburg 1674. qu. He died at about one of the Clock in the Morn of the 13 of June in sixteen hundred eighty and nine whereupon his body was conveyed in the evening of that day to the vestry of that part of S. Giles's Church which is called the High Church of Edinburgh in which Church as Dean he did ordinarily preach at the very same time that Duke Gordon surrendred up the Castle there to the Convention On the 15 of the said month he was honorably interr'd in the Grey Friers Church but without a funeral Sermon because not permitted by the Presbyterians in whose hands the Magistracy then was As his life was pious and devout so was his sickness and death to the great comfort of those then present with him He received his
Master of the Coll. wherein he had been educated and thereupon left his charge at S. Ed. Bury and in short time after resigned Hankdon to his Curate having before expended in reparations there 200 l. On the 3 of Nov. 1667 he was consecrated Bish of Exeter upon the Translation thence of Dr. Ward to Salisbury where sitting with great commendations till the death of Dr. Reynolds was then translated to Norwich as I have before told you He hath published 1 Rationale upon the book of Common Prayer of the Ch. of England Lond. 1657. c. in tw 2 Collection of Articles Injunctions Canons Orders Ordinances c. Ibid. 1661. qu besides a Sermon concerning Confession of sins and the power of absolution c. He died towards the latter end of the month of May an 1685 and in the next month he was succeeded by Dr. Will. Lloyd B. of Peterborough who continuing there till after K. Will 3. came to the Crown was then ejected as a Non-juror or one that would not violate his Oath so the former King WILLIAM LUCY sometimes of Trin. Coll. in this Univ afterwards of Caies in Cambr was consecrated B. of S. David on the first Sunday in Advent an 1660 and died in the beginning of Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and seven under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 443. In the See of S. David succeeded Dr. Will. Thomas as I shall tell you when I come to him GILBERT SHELDON the youngest son of Rog. Sheldon of Stanton in Staffordshire near to Ashbourne in Derbyshire was born there on the 19 of July 1598 and had his Christian name given to him at his Baptization by Gilbert Earl of Shrewsbury to whom his father was a menial Servant In the latter end of 1613 he became a Communer of Trinity Coll and proceeding in Arts seven years after was in the year 1622 elected Fell. of that of All 's and about the same time took holy Orders Afterwards he was made domestick Chapl. to Thom. Lord Coventry L. Keeper of the Great Seal who finding him to be a man of parts recommended him to K. Ch. 1. as a person well vers'd in Politicks In 1634 he proceeded in Divinity being then as it seems Preb. of Gloc and in the latter end of the year following he was elected Warden of his Coll. About the same time he became Chapl. in ord to his Maj was afterwards Clerk of his closet and by him designed to be Master of the Hospital called the Savoy and Dean of Westm that he might the better attend on his royal person but the change of the Times and Rebellion that followed hindred his settlement in them During the time of the said Rebellion he adhered to his Maj. and his cause and therefore was not only ejected his Wardenship but also imprison'd with Dr. H. Hammond in Oxon and elsewhere by the Visitors appointed by Parliament an 1648 to the end that their eminency in the Univ. might not hinder their proceedings and to keep them both from attending the King at the Treaty in the Isle of Wight After he was released he retired to his friends in Staffordshire Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire whence and where from his own purse and from others which he made use of he sent constantly moneys to the exil'd King followed his Studies and Devotions till matters tended to a happy restauration of his Maj. On the 4 of Mar. 1659 Dr. Joh. Palmer who had usurp'd his Wardenship almost 12 years died at which time there being an eminent foresight of his Maj. return there was no election made of a Successor only a restitution of Dr. Sheldon who instead of re-taking possession in person which he never did was made Dean of his Maj. Chap royal and nominated to succeed Dr. Juxon in London upon his translation thence to Canterbury Whereupon being consecrated thereunto in the Chap. of K. H. 7. at Westm by the Bish of Winchester delegated thereunto by Canterbury assisted by York Ely Rochester and Chichester on the 28 of Oct. S. Sim. and Jude an 1660 sate there as one thought fittest to take charge and care of that great and populous City till the decease of the said Dr. Juxon and then being elected to succeed him in Canterbury by the Dean and Chapter thereof on the 11 of Aug. 1663 the Election was confirmed on the 15 of the same month by his Majesty to whom Dr. Sheldon had been for some time before one of his Privy Council and thereupon was translated with great solemnity in the Archb. Chap. at Lambeth the 31 of the said month On the 8 of Sept. following Dr. Humph. Henchman Bish of Salisbury was elected to the said See of London and on the 15 he was translated thereunto in the Ch. of S. Mary le Bow where he sate to the time of his death In 1667 Dr. Sheldon was elected Chancellour of the Univ. of Ox. but was never install'd or ever was there after that time no not so much as to see his noble work call'd the Theater or ever at Canterbury to be there personally installed Archbishop or upon any other occasion while he was Archbishop At length arriving to a fair age he surrendred up his soul to God on Friday about 7 of the clock at night of the 9 day of Nov. in sixteen hundred seventy and seven Whereupon his body was privately inter'd in the parochial Ch. of Croyden in Surrey near to the tomb of Archb. Whitgift according to his own special direction upon Friday evening the 16 of the said month Soon after was a most stately monument erected over his grave by his heir Sir Joseph Sheldon then lately L. Mayor of London son of his elder brother Ralph Sheldon of Stanton before mention'd with a large inscription thereon part of which runs thus Fortiter suaviter hic jacet Gilbertus Sheldon antiqua Sheldoniorum in agro Staffordiensi natus c. vir omnibus negotiis par omnibus titulis superior in omnibus magnus in propriis bonus utriusque fortunae dominus Pauperum parens literatorum Patronus Ecclesiae stator de tanto viro pauca dicere non expedit multa non opus est Norunt praesen tes posteri vix credent c. He hath only extant A Sermon before the King at Whitehall 28 June 1660 being the day of solemn Thanksgiving for the happy return of his Maj on Psal 18.49 Lond. 1660. qu. His works of piety and charity were many in his life time as first the building of the Theater at Oxon which cost him more than 16 thousand pounds besides the gift of 2000 l. to buy lands worth an 100 l. per an to keep it in repair This noble Structure was built chiefly for the celebration of the public Acts yet since neglected 2 The fair Library at Lambeth House built at his own charge 3 Two thousand pounds towards the Structure of S. Pauls Cathedral 4 Considerable sums of money to Trin.
be in Latine or in another Language In the year 1608 he went according to summons to Rome where being appointed for the mission of Ireland he published his profession of the four vows and then being sent back to the Low Countries he went again into Ireland where he spent many years in confirming the Rom. Catholicks in their antient Religion and in gaining proselytes to his opinion At length the Rebellion breaking out there in 1641 of which he was a great Abettor and Encourager was after the Rebels began to be subdued forced to fly for shelter into Woods and on Mountains and to creep and sculk into every place for fear of being taken and hanged by the English Soldiers In the beginning of the year 1643 he was forced to change his place and retire for safety to a moorish and boggy ground where sheltring himself under a Shepherds cote no better than a hovel which could not keep out the wind and rain lived there in a very sorry condition and had for his bedding a pad of straw which would be often wet by the rising and coming in of the water Notwithstanding all this misery he seemed to be very cheerful and was ready to instruct the young ones about him and comfort others But being in a manner spent and his age not able to bear such misery long was with much ado taken away And being conveyed to some of the brethren into a better place expired among them on the Calends of Febr. the same year but where or in what place buried my informer tells me not By his death the R. Catholicks lost a pillar of their Church being esteem'd in the better part of his life a great ornament among them and the greatest defender for their Religion in his time GEORGE SANDYS a younger son of Edwin Archb. of York was born at Bishops Thorpe in that County and as a member of S. Maries Hall was matriculated in the University in the beginning of Dec. 1589 and in that of his age eleven at which time Henry his elder brother was remitted into the said Matricula but both as I conceive received their tuition in Corp. Ch. Coll. How long George tarried there or whether he took a degree it appears not In the month of Aug. 1610 he began a long journey and after he had travelled thro several parts of Europe visited divers Cities particularly Constantinople and Countries under the Turkish Empire as Greece Egypt and the Holy Land Afterwards he made a view of the remote parts of Italy and the Islands adjoyning That being done he went to Rome the Antiquities and Glories of which place were in four days time shew'd unto him by Nich. Fitzherbert sometimes an Oxford student who as I have before told you ended his days in 1612. Thence our Author went to Venice from whence he first set out and so to England Where digesting his notes and enterlarding them with various parts of Poetry according to the fashion of that time published them in English under this title Sandys Travailes c. in four books Lond. 1615. 1621. 27. 32. 52. 58. 70. 73. c. all in folio and illustrated with several Maps and Figures except the first edit The said Travailes are contracted in the second part of Sam. Parchas his books of Pilgrims lib. 8. The Author upon his return in 1612 or after being improved in several respects by this his large journey he became an accomplish'd Gent. as being Master of several Languages of a fluent and ready discourse and excellent Comportment He had also naturally a poetical fancy and a zealous inclination to all humane learning which made his company desir'd and acceptable to most vertuous men and Scholars of his time He also wrot and published A paraphrase on the Psalms of David and upon the Hymns dispersed throughout the Old and New Testam Lond. 1636. oct reprinted there in fol. 1638 with other matters following under this title Paraphrase upon the divine Poems which contain a paraphrase on Job Psalmes of David Ecclesiastes Lamentations of Jeremiah and songs collected out of the Old and New Test The said Paraphrase on Davids Psalmes was one of the books that K Ch. 1. delighted to read in as he did in G. Herberts Divine poems Dr. Hammonds Works Hookers Ecclesiast policy c. while he was a Prisoner in Carisbroke Castle in the Isle of Wight Paraphrase on the divine Poems viz. on the Psalmes of David on Ecclesiastes and on the Song of Solomon Lond. 1676. oct Some if not all of the said Ps of David had vocal Compositions set to them by the incomparable Hen. and Will. Lawes with a thorough bass for an Organ in 4 large books or volumes in qu. He the said G. Sandys translated also into English 1 The first five books of Ovids Metamorphosis Lond. 1627. 32. 40. fol. methodized and expressed in figures 2 Virgils first book of Aeneis printed with the former 3 Tragedy of Christs passion Lond. 1640. written in lat by Hug. Grotius to which Trag. Sandys put also notes What other things he hath written and translated I know not nor any thing else of him only that he being then or lately one of the Gent. of the privy Chamber to K. Ch. 1. gave way to fate in the house of his neice the Lady Margaret Wyat dau of Sir Sam. Sandys and widdow of Sir Francis Wyat Kt. Grandson to Sir Tho. Wyat beheaded in Qu. Maries Reign called Boxley abbey in Kent in the beginning of March in sixteen hundred forty and three and was buried in the Chancel of the parish Church there near to the door on the south side but hath no remembrance at all over his grave nor any thing at that place only this which stands in the common Register belonging to the said Church Georgius Sandys Poetarum Anglorum sui saeculi facile princeps sepultus fuit Martii 7. stilo Anglic. an dom 1643. One Tho. Philpot M. A. of Clare Hall in Cambr. hath in his Poems printed at Lond. 1646. in oct a copy of verses not to be contemn'd on his death I find another George Sandys contemporary with the former and a Knight who having committed felony was executed at Tybourne as it seems on the fourth of March 1617. HANNIBAL GAMMON a Londoner born and a Gentlemans Son became a Commoner of Broadgates hall in 1599. and in that of his age 17 took the degrees in Arts and afterwards was made Minister of S. Maugan in Cornwall where he was much frequented by the puritannical party for his edifying and practical way of preaching He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Gods smiting to amendment c. preached at the Assizes in Launceston 6. Aug. 1628. on Esay 1.5 Lond. 1629. qu. 2 Praise of a godly woman a wedding Sermon c. Lond. 1627. q. 3 Sermon at the Lady Roberts funeral 10. Aug. 1626. c. These two last I have not yet seen nor another Sermon preached at the Assizes in Launceston
and are printed in a book intit Gerard. Jo. Vossii clarorum virorum ad eum epistolae Lond. 1690. fol. published by Paul Colomesius I have seen and perused a Ms transcrib'd under the hand of Joh. Birkenhead containing all the passages which concern the University of Oxon. since Dr. Laud's first nomination and election to the Chancellourship of the said University It commences 12 Apr. 1630 and ends 14 Dec. 1640 bound up in a vellam cover in fol. and endorsed thus Gesta sub Cancellariatu meo Oxon. This Ms was communicated to me when I was composing the Hist and Antiq. of the Univ. of Oxon. by Dr. Peter Mews President of S. Johns Coll. wherein finding many useful things for my purpose which another may do for his and therefore it escap'd Prynn's hands I thought it therefore not unworthy of a place here as I could do of many other things under his hand which I have seen reserved in private custody as choice monuments but time calls me away and I must hasten Yet I cannot but let the Reader know that there is a fol. Ms going from hand to hand entit Wholsome Queries resolved by Dr. Laud manifesting that Monarchy is no safe Principle for Protestants c. sed caveat lector At length in the beginning of the civil Distempers this worthy Archbishop was upon suspicion of introducing Popery into the Nation arbitrary Government and I know not what aggravated in an high degree committed Prisoner first to the Black-rod and afterwards to the Tower where remaining about four years was at length by the Votes of a slender house beheaded on Tower-hill on the tenth day of January in sixteen hundred forty and â—our Whereupon his body being buried in the chancel of the Church of Allhallowes Barkin which he before had consecrated remained there entire till July 1663 at which time being removed to Oxon was on the 24 day of the same month deposited with ceremony in a little Vault built of brick near to the high Altar of S. Johns Coll. Chappel Thus died and buried was this most reverend renowned and religious Arch-prelate when he had lived 71 years 13 weeks and four days if at least he may be properly said to dye the great example of whose vertue shall continue always not only in the minds of men but in the Annals of succeeding ages with renown and fame RICHARD BAKER son of Joh. Bak. of Lond. Gent. by Cath. his wife daug of Reynold Scot of Scots hall in Kent Kt. a younger son of Sir Joh. Baker of Sissingherst in Kent Kt. Chancellour of the Exchequer and of the Council to K. Hen. 8. was born in Kent particularly as I have been informed by his daughter at Sissingherst before mention'd entred a Commoner of Hart Hall in 1584 and was matriculated in Mich. term that year as a Kentish man born and the son of a Gent. being then in the 16 year of his age at which time several of the family of the Scots before mention'd studied then in the said Hall After he had spent about 3 years in Logic and Philosophy in that house then flourishing with men of note in several Faculties he went to one of the Inns of Court afterwards beyond the seas and nothing was omitted by his Parents to make him an accomplish'd person In 1594 after the celebration of a most solemn Act he was with other persons of quality actually created Master of Arts and in 1603. May 17. he received the honour of Knighthood from K. Jam. 1. at Theobalds at which time this our Author who lived at Highgate near London was esteem'd a most compleat and learned person the benefit of which he reaped in his old age when his considerable estate was thro suretiship very much impaired In 1620 he was High Sheriff of Oxfordshire being then Lord of Middle Aston and of other lands therein and if I mistake not a Justice of the Peace He was a person tall and comely of a good disposition and admirable discourse religious and well read in various Faculties especially in Div. and Hist as it may appear by these books following which he mostly composed when he was forced to fly for shelter to his studies and devotions Cato variegatus Or Catoes moral disticks varied Lond. 1636. 'T is a Poem Meditations and disquisitions on the Lords Prayer Lond. 1637. qu. there again 1640 fourth edit qu. A copy of this book in Ms being sent to his quondam Chamber-fellow Sir Hen. Wotton before it Went to the press he returned this testimony of it I much admire the very character of your stile which seemeth unto me to have not a little of the African Idea of S. Austins age full of sweet raptures and of researching conceits nothing borrowed nothing vulgar and yet all flowing from you I know not how with a certain equal facility Med. and disq on the three last Psalmes of David Lond. 1639. Med. and disq on the 50 Psal Lond. 1639. Med. and disq on the seven penitent Psalmes Lond. 1639. qu. Med. and disq on the first Psal Lond. 1640. qu. Med. and disq on the seven consolatorie Psalmes of David namely the 23.27.30.34.84.103 and 116. Lond. 1640. in qu. Med. and Prayers upon the seven days of the week Lond. 1640. in 16. which is the same I suppose with his motives of prayer on the seven days of the week Apology for Laymens writing in Divinity Lond. 1641. in tw Short meditation on the fall of Lucifer printed with the Apology A solliloquy of the soul or a pillar of Thoughts c. Lond. 1641. in tw Chronicle of the Kings of England from the time of the Roman Government unto the death of K. James c. Lond. 1641. c. fol. Which Chronicle as the Author saith was collected with so great care and diligence that if all other of our Chronicles were lost this only would be sufficient to inform posterity of all passages memorable or worthy to be known c. However the Reader must know that it being reduced to method and not according to time purposely to please Gentlemen and Novices many chief things to be observed therein as name time c. are egregiously false and consequently breed a great deal of confusion in the peruser especially if he be curious or critical There was another edition of it that came out in 1653 and 58 in which last was added The history of the raigne of K. Ch. 1. with A continuation from his death to 1658. Lond. 1660. fol. made by Edw. Philipps sometimes a student of Magd. Hall Afterwards in 1671 if I mistake not came out another edit in which was contained an addition of The first thirteen years of K. Ch. 2. that is from the death of K. Ch. 1. to the Coronation of K. Ch. 2. as also the Occurrences of his Restauration by George late Duke of Albemarle extracted from his Excellencies papers c. which as I have been informed were for the most part
all likelyhood in a certain possibility of rising higher if the times had not interrupted him In the beginning of 1640 he was elected Burgess for Q. Mynhead in Somersetshire to sit in that Parliament which began at Westminster 13 Apr. the same year and soon after siding with his Maj. in the rebellious times suffer'd much in his estate having 300 l. at one time given thence to one Serle a widdow In the month of Sept. in 1648 he and Dr. Ryves were sent for to Newport in the Isle of Wight by his Majesty to be assisting to him in his Treaty with the Commissioners sent from Parliament But that Treaty taking no effect he retired to his habitation at Chiswick near London where living to see his Master murdered before his own door he soon after ended his life He was a person of smooth Language was an excellent Civilian and a tolerable Poet especially in his younger days and well vers'd in Histories whether ecclesiastical or civil He hath extant Vita Henrici Chichele Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis sub Regibus Henric. V. VI. Oxon. 1617. qu. remitted into the Collection of Lives published by Dr. Bates an 1681. De usu authoritate Juris civilis Romanorum in Dominiis Principum Christianorum lib. 2. Lond. 1â—53 and 79. oct Leydâ—â— 1654. Lips 1668. in tw c. In which book Dr. Gerard Langbaines labours were so much that he deserved the name of Co-author Dr. Duck paid his last debt to nature in the month of May in sixteen hundred forty and nine and was buried in the Church at Chiswick in Middlesex to the poor of which place he gave 10 l. He left considerable legacies to Exeter and All 's Colleges and 10 l. to the poor of North Cadbury in Somersetshire besides other gifts of charity elsewhere which for brevity sake I now pass by RICHARD ALLEN was born in or near to Abendon in Berks was originally of Ball. Coll. and as a member of that house he took one degree in Arts. Afterwards he was made one of the first Scholars of Pembr Coll proceeded in his faculty was made Fellow and at length beneficed near Ewelme in Oxfordshire He hath written An antidote against heresie or a preservative for Protestants against the poyson of Papists Anabaptists c. Lond. 1648. dedicated to his Uncles Sir Tho. Gainsford Kt and Humph. Huddleston Esq One of both his names but after in time was Pastor of Henfield in Sussex and Author of Englands Distemper their cause and cure according to the judgment of famous Princes Peers Parliaments c. occasion'd by a learned Frier accusing the whole Nation of Perjury for abjuring Transubstantiation and sent to the Author for a reply Lond. 1677. qu. in 3 sh and an half Whether this Rich. Allen was ever of Oxon I know not I shall make mention of Rich. Allein among these Writers under the year 1681. NICHOLAS DARTON a Cornish man born was entred into Exet. Coll. either in the condition of a Batler or Servitour in Mich. term 1618 aged 15 years took one degree in Arts afterwards holy orders and at length became Minister of Killesbye in Northamptonshire He hath extant Several sermons as 1 The true and absolute Bishop with the Converts return unto him on 1 Pet 2.25 Lond. 1641. qu. dedicated to Will Lord Say at which time the Author who was always before esteemed a Puritan closed with the Presbyterian Party He hath one or more extant which I have not yet seen Ecclesia Anglicana or his clear and protestant Manifesto as an evangelical key sent to the Governour of Oxford for the opening of the Church doors there that are shut up without prayers or preaching Printed 1649. qu. JOHN PRIDEAUX was born in an obscure town called Stowford near to Lyfton in Devon on the 17 of Sept. 1578 became a poor Scholar of Exeter Coll. under the tuition of Will. Helme Bach. of Div. in Act term 1596 and in 1602 was elected probat Fellow of that house being then Bach. of Arts. In the year after he proceeded in that Faculty and thereupon entred into holy Orders so that being soon after noted for his great Learning and profound Divinity he was elected Rector of his Coll. upon the death of Holland in 1612 he being then Bach. of Div. and the same year proceeded in the same faculty In 1615 he was upon the promotion of Dr. Abbot to the See of Sarum made the Kings Professor of Divinity by vertue of which he was made Canon of Ch. Ch. and Rector of Ewelme in Oxfordshire And afterwards did undergo the Office of Vicechancellour of this University for several years as I have elsewhere told you In the Rectorship of his College he carried himself so winning and pleasing by his gentle government and fatherly instruction that it flourished more than any house in the University with Scholars as well of great as of mean birth as also with many Foreigners that came purposely to set at his feet to gain instruction So zealous he was also in appointing industrious and careful Tutors that in short time many were fitted to do service in the Church and State In his Professorship he behaved himself very plausible to the generality especially for this reason that in his Lectures Disputes and Moderatings which were always frequented with many Auditors he shew'd himself a stout Champion against Socinus and Arminius Which being disrellish'd by some who were then rising and in authority at Court a faction thereupon grew up in the University between those called Puritans or Calvinists on the one side and the Remonstrants commonly called Arminians on the other which with other matters of the like nature being not only fomented in the University but throughout the Nation all things thereupon were brought into confusion to the sorrow of the Puritan who had with all his might opposed Canterbury in his generous designs of making the English Church glorious At length after he had sate 26 years Professor he was one of those persons of unblemished reputation that his Majesty tho late made a Bishop by the endeavours as some say of James Marq. of Hamilton his somtimes Pupil The See which he was design'd to govern was Worcester to which being elected 22. of Nov. was consecrated at Westminster on the 19. of Dec. following an 1641 but received little or no profit from it to his great impoverishment So that upon that account and for his adhering to his Maj. in the time of the Civil War wherein he pronounced all those of his diocess that took up arms against him excommunicated he became at length Verus Librorum helluo for having first by indefatigable studies digested his excellent Library into his mind was after forced again to devour all his books with his teeth turning them by a miraculous faith and patience into bread for himself and his children to whom he left no legacy but pious poverty Gods blessing and a Fathers prayers as it appears in
his last will and testament He was an humble man of plain and downright behaviour careless of money and imprudent in worldly matters All that knew him esteem'd him a noted Artist a plentiful fountain of all sorts of learning an excellent Linguist a Person of a prodigious memory and so profound a Divine that they have been pleased to entitle him Columna fidei orthodoxae and Malleus Heresecus Patrum Pater and ingens Scholae Academiae oraculum In him also as an ingenious Author saith the heroical wits of Jewell Rainolds and Hooker as united into one seem'd to triumph anew and to have threatned a fatal blow to the Babylonish Hierarchy Insomuch that he might have justly challenged to himself that glory which sometimes Ovid speaking of his own Country Mantua Virgilium laudet Verona Catullum Romanae gent is gloria dicar ego As his learning was admired by forreigners Sext. Amama Rivet and others so were his books especially those written in Latine a cat of which and of the English follow Tabulae ad Grammaticam Graecam introductoriae c. Oxon. 1608. 1629. 39. c. qu. Tyrocinium ad Syllogismum legitimum contexendum Heptades Logicae sive monita ad ampliores tractatus introductoria These two last are printed and go with the Tabulae c. Castigatio cujusdem circulatoris qui R. P. Andream Eudaemon Johannem Cydonium E Soc. Jesu seipsum nuncupat Opposita ipsius calumniis in Epistolam Isaaci Casauboni ad Frontonem Ducaeum Oxon. 1614. oct Alloquium sereniss Reg. Jacobo Woodstochiae habitum 24. Aug. 1624. pr. in one sh in qu. Orationes novem inaugurales de totidem Theologiae apicibus prout in promotione Doctorum Oxoniae publicè proponebantur in Comitiis Oxon. 1626. qu. Lectiones decem de totidem religionis capitibus praecipuè hoc tempore controversis prout publicè habebantur Oxoniae in vesperiis Oxon. 1625. qu. Several Sermons as 1 Serm. at the consecration of Exeter Coll. Chap. on Luke 19.46 Oxon. 1625. qu. 2 Purez Uzzah Serm. before the K. at Woodstock on 2. Sam. 6. ver 6.7 Oxon. 1625. qu. 3 Concio ad Art Baccalaureos pro more habita in ecclesia B. Mariae Oxon. in die cinerum in Act. 2.22 an 1616. Oxon. 1626. Twenty Sermons Oxon. 1636. qu. The two first of which are entit Christs counsell for ending law cases Among them are the Consecration Serm. and Perez-Uzzah beforementioned Nine Sermons on several occasions Oxon. 1641. qu. Lectiones XXII Orationes XIII Conciones VI Oratio ad Jacobum Regem Oxon. 1648 fol. Among which are contained the former Lections Orations and Speech to the K. Jam. at Woodst Fasciculus controversiarum ad Juniorum aut occupatorum captum collegatus c. Oxon. 1649. 51. 52. qu. Theologiae Scholasticae Syntagma Mnemonicum Oxon 1651. Conciliorum Synopsis Printed with the Syntagma before-mentioned Published in English at the end of An easie and compendious introduction c. mentioned before in Mathias Prideaux Historie of successions in states countries or families c. Oxon. 1653. c. Epistola de Episcopatu fol. a fragment of which I have seen in one folio sh Euchologia or the doctrine of practical praying being a legacy left to his daughters in private directing them to such manifold uses of our common-prayer-Common-prayer-book as may satisfie upon all occasions without looking after new lights from extemporal flashes Lond. 1655. 56. oct c. Dedicated to his daughters Sarah Hodges and Elizabeth Sutton The doctrine of conscience framed according to the form in the common-Common-prayer left as a legacy to his Wife Printed in tw Manuductio ad Theologiam polemicam Oxon. 1657. oct Published by Mr. Tho. Barlow with an Epistle before it in the name of the printer Hypomnemata Logica Rhetorica Phys Metaphys c. Oxon. in oct Sacred eloquence or the art of Rhetorick as it is laid down in Scripture Lond. 1659. oct What other things are published under his name I know not unless a Comment on the Church Catechisme pr. 1656. in oct and therefore I am to add that he departing this mortal life of a Feaver at Bredon in Worcestershire in the house of Dr. Hen. Sutton Son of Will. Sutton D. D. Chanc. of Glocester and Rector of Bredon who married his daughter Elizabeth on the twentieth day of July in sixteen hundred and fifty was accompanied to his grave in the Chancel of the Church there by many Persons of quality in the neighbourhood of that place on the 16. of August following Over his grave was a plain stone soon after laid with an Epitaph composed by himself the day and year of his death excepted engraven on a brass plate fixed thereunto the copy of which is already printed wherein you 'll find that he was sometimes Chaplain to Pr. Henry and afterwards to K. Jam. and K. Ch. 1. Before I go any farther I shall take leave upon the hint before-mentioned of Dr. Prideaux's making his College florish to set down the names of such Outlanders that have retired to Exeter Coll. for his sake have had Chambers there and diet purposely to improve themselves by his company his instruction and direction for course of studies Some of them have been Divines of note and others meer Lay-men that have been eminent in their respective Countries wherein afterwards they have lived most of them are these Joh. Combachius the Philosopher Phil. Cluver the Geographer Sixt. Amama Linguist Nichol Vignier and Dav. Primerose two learned Frenchmen All whom are already mentioned among these Writers Christian Rumphius an eminent Physician see in the Fasti an 1613. Jacobus Dorvilius commonly called D'Orville a Gentlemans Son of Heidelberg in Germany matriculated as a member of Exeter Coll. in Mich. term 1615 and in that of his age 19. Joh. Schermarius a learned German who occurs a member of Ex. Coll. 1613 in which year he had certain lat verses published at Oxon. Jacobus Aretius and Frederick Dorvilius two other Germans who are mentioned in the Fasti an 1613. and 15. Joh. Rodolphus Stuckius of Zurick in Helvetia was a Sojournour of the said Coll. in Mich. term 1615 and afterwards published some of Pet. Martyrs works as I have before told you Joh. Waserus a Native of the same place entred Soj. in the same term and year and afterwards the writer of Elementale Chaldaicum and other things Caesar Calendrinus entred into the said Coll. in the beginning of 1616. see in the Fasti 1620. Imanius Young or de Junge a Zelander in Mich. term 1619. Paul Amaraut or Amarant a Germ. matriculated among the Exonians 1619 aged 18. Christian Son of Herman Julius Viceroy to the K. of Denmark in the Isle of Gotland Gregory and Errick Sons of Pet. Julius Lord of Alsted Linberg c. in Denmark Which three young men were instructed in Logick and Philosophy by Dr. Prideaux Ovenius Julius elder brother to the said Christian was also a Student in the said Coll. under Prideaux who
the aforesaid Merchants as I have been informed by Dr. Tho. Marshall lately Rector of Linc. College who succeeded him in that office of Preacher there HUMPHREY SYDENHAM was born of an antient and gentile family in a Market Town in Sommersetshire called Dulverton became a Sojournour of Exeter Coll. in Lent term 1606 took a degree in Arts as a member of that House made Fellow of Wadham Coll. by the Foundress thereof an 1613 and the year after proceeded in Arts being the first of all that Coll. that took that degree Afterwards he entred into the sacred function was made Priest by Lewis Bishop of Bangor in 1621 had the Rectory of Ashbrittle in Sommersetshire bestowed on him by the presentation of his Majesty an 1627 and three years after that of Pokington in the said County by the same hand About that time he was made Chaplain to Edward Lord Howard of Escrick so that thereby being capacitated to hold several Benefices had the Rectory of Odcombâ— in the same County given to him by his Maj. in Dec. 1644 Sir Joh. Sydenham Bt. to whom that Rectory did belong being then in his minority and a Ward Which three Benefices or at least two he lost soon after by the Parliamentarian commissioners of Sommersetshire He was a Person of a quaint and curious stile better at practical than School Divinity and was so eloquent and fluent a Preacher that he was commonly called Silver-tongue Sydenham He hath published these Sermons following Five Sermons preached upon several occasions Lond. 1627. qu. 1 The Athenian Babler on Acts 17.18 2 Jacob and Esau c. on Rom. 9.18 3 Arraignment of an Arrian on Joh. 8.58 4 Moses and Aaron c. on Exod. 4.12 5 Natures overthrow and deaths triumph on Eccles 12.5 preached at the funeral of Sir Joh. Sydenham Kt. at Brimpton 15. Dec. 1625. Other Sermons Lond. 1630. qu. The first of which is called The passing bell on Psal 32.6 2 The rich mans warning peece on Psal 62.10 3 The waters of Marah and Meribah on Rom. 12.1 Sermons upon solemn occasions preached in several auditories Lond. 1637. qu. They are 8 in number and the first is entit The well-tun'd Cymbal on Psal 15.16 preached at the dedication of an Organ lately set up at Bruton in Sommersetshire All which Sermons were at their preaching and publishing wonderfully cried up by most People of understanding but books have their credit or discredit from the fancy of their readers as they please to like or dislike He paid his last debt to nature in Sommersetshire in sixteen hundred and fifty or thereabouts but where buried unless at Dulverton I cannot tell nor whether he had any other Sermons published after his death JOHN SEAGER was educated in S. Maries Hall where he was observed by his contemporaries to be studious and a good Disputant Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts he became Minister of Broadclist in Devonshire and wrot A discovery of the World to come according to the Scriptures c. Lond. 1650 in a pretty thick oct What other things he hath publish'd I know not nor any thing else of him SAMUEL YERWORTH or Jeruvorthus as he writes himself in the title of the book following was born in Dorsetshire became a Student in Oriel Coll. in the year 1607 and in that of his age 16 or thereabouts took one degree in Arts and afterwards being noted for his excellency in the knowledge of the Hebrew tongue taught and read it privately divers years in Oxon to young Students and for their benefit wrot Introductio ad linguam Ebraeam brevissima praecipua duntaxat ejus documenta eaque ex optimis Grammaticis collecta complectens c. Oxon. 1650. oct At the time when it was published he gave notice to the Reader that if the said introduction should be kindly received he would put forth a more full and compleat Grammar with Scholia added to each Chapter as need should require but whether the Grammar was acceptable among Scholars and so consequently the Author stood to his promise I know not WILLIAM HEMMINGS Son of John Hemmings a Comedian or Actor of playes with Will. Shakespear was born in London elected from Westminster School a Student of Ch. Ch. an 1621. aged 16 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1628 and at hours of recess from happier employments than the delight of poetry composed The fatal contract comedie Lond. 1653. qu. printed from the original copy by the care of A. T. and A. P. There again in 1661. qu. It was revived not many years since under the title of Love and revenge with some alterations and in 1687 it was reprinted as a new play under the title of The Eunuch a Trag. This being founded on a French Chronicle was said in the first edition of it 1653. to be a French Comedie The Jewes Tragedy or their fatal and final overthrow by Vespasian and Titus his Son Lond. 1662. qu. written agreeable to the authentick History of Josephus Our Author Hemmings left behind him greater monuments of his worth and ability but whether they are yet published I cannot tell However the Fatal contract having justly gained an esteem with men of excellent judgments by several copies of it that flew abroad in Ms was therefore published for the satisfaction of all Persons especially such who had lighted upon imperfect copies CHRISTOPHER LOVE Son of a Father of both his names was born at Cardiff in Glamorganshire became a Servitour of New Inn in Midsommer or Act term 1635 aged 17 years took a degree in Arts holy Orders and would with great impudence and conceitedness ascend the pulpit in the Church of S Peter in the Baylie joyning to the said Inn and there hold out prating for more than an hour before Academical as well as Lay auditors In 1642 he proceeded Master of Arts and was Junior of the Act then celebrated at which time he performed the exercise of that office with more confidence than was seemly He himself tells us that when he was a Scholar in Oxon and Master of Arts he was the first Scholar that he knew of or ever heard of in Oxon that did publickly refuse in the Congregation house to subscribe unto those impositions or Canons imposed by the Archb. touching the Prelates and Common prayer For which tho they would not denie him his degree yet he was expelled the congregation never to sit as a member among them c. About that time he left the University went to or near London and became a sedulous preacher up of treason and rebellion About the beginning of the Wars saith he I was the first Minister that I knew of in England who was accused of preaching treason and rebellion meerly for maintaining in a Sermon in Kent at Tenterden the lawfulness of a defensive War at the first breaking out and irruption of our troubles c So that being
hundred fifty and one Afterwards Col. Edm. Ludlow who was Lieut. Gen. of the Army there did execute the Office of Deputy for a time by the appointment of the superior Power On the 9 of Dec. the Parliament ordered a Bill to be brought in for the setling of 2000 l. per an on the Wife and Children of Ireton out of the Lands belonging to George Duke of Bucks and on the 17 of the said month his carcass being landed at Bristow was pompously conveyed towards London and laying in state for a time in Somerset house in the Strand all hung with black was hung over the common gate an Atchievment commonly called a Hatchment with this Motto under his Arms depicted thereon Dulce est pro patria mori which was englished by an honest Cavalier thus It is good for his Country that he is dead On the sixth day of Febr. following his body was interr'd with great state in the Chappel of K. Hen. 7. at Westminster at which time John Owen Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. preached not without some blasphemy on Dan. 12.13 and had about that time Elegies made on his death and a stately tomb erected over his grave with the Effigies of him and his wife thereon After the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. his body with that of Oliv. Cromwell were taken up on Saturday 26 Jan. 1660 and on Munday night following were drawn in two several Carts from Westminster to the Red Lyon in Holbourne where they continued that Evening The next morning the carcass of Joh. Bradshaw President of the High Court of Justice which had been with great solemnity buried in S. Peter's Church at Westminster 22 Nov. 1659. was carried in a cart to Holbourn also and the next day following that which was the 30 of January on which day K. Ch. 1. was beheaded in 1648. they were drawn to Tybourne on three several Sledges followed by the universal outcry of the people Afterwards they being pulled out from their Coffins were hanged at the several angles of that triple tree where they hung till the sun was set After which they were taken down their heads cut off to be set on Westminster Hall and their loathsome trunks thrown into a deep hole under the Gallowes where they now remain At the same time Iretons tomb was broken down and what remained over the Graves of Cromwell and Bradshaw were clean swept away and no footstep left of their remembrances in that royal and stately burial place of our English Kings While this Ireton lived came out a Pamphlet intit Independency stript and whipt or Ireton's Petition c. 1648. qu. and after his death another called The Kingdom of Christ to the Parliament from 1649 to 1652 with the name of Hen. Ireton Deputy of Ireland in the Title page But these I have not yet seen FRANCIS WOODCOCK son of Rob. Woodcock was born in the City of Chester applied his mind to Academical studies in Brasn Coll. in Easter term 1629 aged 15 years took a degree in Arts holy Orders from a Bishop and then left the House and had a Cure of Souls bestowed on him But being always puritannically affected he sided with the Presbyterians upon a defection of a predominant party in the Long Parliament an 1641 became a Lecturer of S. Laurence Ch. in the Jewry in London a Covenantier one of the Assembly of Divines and at length by ordinance of Parliament dat 10. Jul. 1646 was made Parson of S. Olaves in Southwark having for some time before exercised his function in that place He hath written and published The two Witnesses in several Lectures at S. Laurence Jewry on Rev. 11. with the great question discussed Whether the two Witnesses were slain or no. Lond. 1643. qu. made extant by vertue of an order of the Committee of the H. of Commons bearing date 27 of Apr. the same year This book was afterwards reprinted Several Sermons as 1 Christs warning-piece giving notice to every one to watch and keep their garments Fast-sermon before the H. of Com. 30 Oct. 1644. on Rev. 16.15 Lond. 1644. qu. 2 Lex Talionis or God paying every man in his own coine Fast-serm before the H. of C. 30 Jul. 1645 on 1 Sam 2.30 latter part Lond. 1645. qu. 3 Joseph parallel'd by the present Parliament in his sufferings and advancement Thanksgiving sermon before the H. of C. 19 Feb. 1645. for reducing the City of Chester by the Parl. Forces under the command of Sir Will. Brereton on Gen. 49.23 24. Lond. 1646. qu. What other things he hath extant I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying in sixteen hundred fifty and one or thereabouts was buried in the Church of S. Olaves befotementioned One of his sirname was by Act of Parl. dat in Mar. 1659 60 appointed among several other Ministers to approve of Ministers of the Gospel according to the Presbyterian way which Act came soon after to nothing He is the same person who was afterwards a frequent Conventicler and has one or more Sermons extant in The morning exercise methodized Lond. 1676. qu. THOMAS RYVES who writes himself in some of his books Rivius was the fourth son of John Ryves of Damery Court in Dorsetshire educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near to Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. as a native of Langton in the said County of Dorset after he had served two years of probation an 1598 where applying his studies to the faculty of the Civil Law took the degrees therein that of Doctor being compleated 1610 about which time he was an eminent Advocate in Doctors Commons and the Court of Admiralty Afterwards he was one of the Masters of Chancery and Judge of the Faculties and Prerogative Court in Ireland where he was held in great esteem for his knowledge in the Laws At length upon the coming to the Crown of K. Ch. 1. he was made his Advocate and by him knighted was engaged in his Cause when the grand Rebellion broke out wherein he gave good evidence of his Valour and notwithstanding he was then well stricken in years yet he received several wounds in Fights and Skirmishes for his Cause He was accounted a thorough-pac'd Scholar in all polite learning was a pure Latinist and Master of a smooth stile He understood also the Common Law so well that he was as fit to plead in Westminster Hall as in his proper Courts and therefore his and the assistance of Dr. Duck were required by his Maj. at the Treaty for Peace in the Isle of Wight He hath written and published The Vicars plea or that a competency of means is due to Vicars out of the several Parishes Lond. 1620. quart Regiminis Anglicani in Hiberniâ defensio adversus Analecten lib. 3. Lond. 1624. qu. Imperatoris Justiniani defensio contra Alemannum Lond. 1626. oct Historia navalis antiqua lib. 4. Lond. 1633. oct Hist navalis media lib. 3. Lond. 1640.
The capacious title of these collections is The History of Great Britaine being the life and raign of K. James the first relating to what passed from his first access to the crown till his death Lond. 1653. fol. In which History which some call an infamous Pasquil you 'll find the Author to favour Rob. D'evereux the last Earl of Essex and his allies and to underprize such as were more in the Kings favour than he The reason is because he from his youth had attended that Count in his chamber and had received an annual pension from him several years After his death he was received into the Family of Robert Earl of Warwick and by him made his Steward of whose Father named Robert also he maketh honourable mention in the said History in which may easily be discerned a partial Presbyterian veine that constantly goes throughout the whole work And it being the Genie of those People to pry more than they should into the Courts and Comportments of Princes do take occasion thereupon to traduce and bespatter them Further also our Author having endeavour'd in many things to make the world believe that K. James and his Son after him were enclined to popery and to bring that Religion into England hath made him subject to many errors and misrepresentations He gave way to fate at Felsted near to Little Lighes the seat of the Earl of Warwick in the County of Essex about the beginning of October in sixteen hundred fifty and two and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there After his death the said History coming into the hands of a certain Doctor had some alterations made therein as 't is said by him who shaped it according to his desire In the year before the said Hist was published came out a most desperate and libellous book full of lyes mistakes nonsense c. entit The divine Catastrophe of the Kingly family of the house of Stuarts or a short History of the rise raigne and ruin thereof Wherein the most secret and Chamber-abominations of the two last Kings Jam. 1. and Ch. 1. are discovered c. Lond. 1652. oct written by one who pretended to be a diligent observer of the times named Sir Edw. Peyton Knight and Baronet the same who had written and published A discourse concerning the fitness of the posture necessary to be used in taking the bread and wine at the Sacrament Lond. 1642. qu. The said book called The divine Catastrophe c. being highly resented by the Royalists the Author of it therefore was condemn'd of great baseness and ingratitude His puritanical education had been at Cambridge for a time and therefore he being out of my road I have no more to say of him but this that he was bred in Grammar Learning at S. Edmunds Bury that after he had left the University he setled on his patrimony in Cambridgshire in which County I suppose he was born that afterwards he served in one or more Parliaments in the latter end of Jac. 1. and in others after and was Custos Rotulorum for Cambridgshire of which office he was deprived by the endeavours of the great favourite of K. Jam. 1. called George Duke of Buckingham At length he siding with the Presbyterians in the time of grand rebellion had his share of sufferings for that cause while the war lasted wrot a sharp Pamphlet against the Kings violation of the rights and privileges of Parliament as he calls them by endeavouring to seize upon and imprison five of the members thereof 4. Jan. 1641. and was ready upon all occasions to blast the reputation of his Majesty and his followers At length having lived to see the Line of the Steuarts extirpated for a time died at Wicket in Cambridgshire in the beginning of the year 1657. JOHN GREAVES Son of John Gr. Rector of Colmore near to Ailresford in Hampshire was born there educated in Grammar and Polite learning under his Father the most noted Schoolmaster in all that Country became a Student in this Univ. in the fifteenth year of his age an 1617 took a degree in Arts and being Masters standing was a Candidate for a Fellowship of Merton Coll. in 1624 at which time shewing himself an admirable proficient in Philosophy Latine and Greek Learning was the first of five that was elected Afterwards being made compleat Fellow and Master of Arts he had more liberty to pursue his critical studies much advanc'd by his acquaintance and familiarity had with Pet. Turner a senior Fellow of that House who finding him a compleat Master and gentile withal was by his endeavours brought into the favour of Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury At length in the year 1633 his worth and knowledge being well known to that worthy Person he sent him to travel into the Eastern parts of the world to obtain books of the Languages for him The voyage he performed not without great danger and having satisfied himself with many curiosities return'd in 1640 to the great content of his Patron and three years after upon the death of Dr. Bainbridge he became not only the Savilian Professor of Astronomy in this University but also superior reader of Lynacres Lecture in Merton Coll. In the performance of which especially that of Astronomy his learning was so made manifest to the remnant of the Academians then left that he gained thereby to himself an unperishing reputation But then again the Parliamentarian visitation coming on the impetuous Visitors mostly Presbyterians who did not or at least would not discern between Dunces and Scholars threw him out of his Lecture and right to his Fellowship which by supreme authority he kept in Commendam with his Astr Lecture and the rather for this cause that he avoided an answer to several articles of misdemeanour pretended to have been committed by him while the King was in Oxon that were by the endeavours of some factious and puritanical Fellows put up to them and prosecuted Among them I find these 1 That he betrayed the College in discovering to the Kings Agents 400 l. in the treasury which thereupon was taken away for the Kings use 2 That contrary to his oath he conveyed away a considerable part of the College goods without the consent of the company and thereby gratified Courtiers with them in other houses 3 That he feasted the Queens confessors and sent divers presents to them among which was an holy thorne and that he was more familiar with them than any true Protestants use to be 4 That he was the occasion of ejecting Sir Nath. Brent from his Wardenship for adhering to the Parliament and bringing in Dr. Harvey into his place 5 That he was the occasion why Mr. Edw. Corbet and Mr. Ralph Button puritannical fellows were turned out of their respective offices and chambers in the College because they abode in the Parliaments quarters c. 6 That he gave leave to Father Philips the Queens confessor and Wyatt one of her
these Several Sermons as 1 Sermon of Confirmation preached at the first Visitation of John Lord Bish of Oxon 27 Sept. 1619 on Acts 8.17 Lond. 1620. qu. 2 Serm. concerning decency and order on 1 Cor. 14.40 Lond. 1638. qu. and two or more other Sermons which I have not yet seen viz. one on 1 Cor. 1.10 and another on 1 Joh. 4.1.2.3 Both printed at Lond. in qu. 1635. Treatise shewing the nullity and invalidity of the Presbyterians Ordination of Ministers according to the Parliaments Ordinance an 1644. This book I have not yet seen and therefore can say no more of it only that it stood unanswer'd by the Presbyterians either Scots or English Principles of Religion or a short exposition of the Catechism of the Church of England Oxon. 1646. and several times after at London oct One of which Editions bears this Title A short Exposition of the Catechism of the Church of Eng. with the Church Catechism it self and order of Confirmation in English and Lat. for the use of Scholars Mr. Geree's Case of Conscience sifted wherein is enquired whether the King can with a safe Conscience consent to the abrogation of Episcopacy Lond. 1648. qu. See in Joh. Geree p. 65. who made a Reply to this Two Letters to Mr. T. B. giving an account of the Church Catholique where it was before the Reformation and whether Rome were or be the Ch. Catholick Lond. 1653. Answer'd by R. T. Esq printed as 't is said at Paris 1654 in a little oct By which R. T. is meant as I have been informed by some Rom. Catholicks Thomas Read LL. D. sometimes Fellow of New Coll. in Oxon. This Dr. Boughen as I have been informed lived to see his Majesty restored and what before he had lost he did obtain ISAAC COLF a Kentish man born of gentile Extraction was educated in Ch. Ch. and as a Member thereof took the Degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated an 1611. Afterwards entring into the sacred function he became at length Rector of S. Leonards Church in Eastcheap within the City of London where he was much reverenced by the Orthodox Party for his Religion and Learning In the beginning of the Civil Wars commenc'd by the Presb. he was forced by them to give up his rectory to one H. Roborough scribe to the Ass of Divines Whereupon retiring to Chaldwell in Essex the liberal man devised liberal things viz. an Almeshouse for poor People at Lewsham in Kent with a considerable maintenance He hath written Commentary on the eleven first verses of the fourth Chapt. of S. Mathew Lond. 1654 oct and other things which I have not seen When or where he died I cannot tell or where his reliques were lodg'd ALEXANDER GRIFFITH a Welsh man born was educated in Hart Hall took one degree in Arts an 1618 retired to his Country and there had a School or a small cure or both conferred upon him In 1631 he proceeded in his faculty being then or after beneficed in South Wales but after the Rebellion broke out he suffered for his Loyalty and at length was sequestred from his Spiritualities He hath written Strena Vavasoriensis or a New-years gift for the Welsh Itinerants Or an hue and crie after Mr. Vavasor Powell Metrapolitan of the Itinerants and one of the Executioners of the Gospel by colour of the late Act for the propagation thereof in Wales c. Lond. 1654. in 4 sh in qu. Therein is a true relation of the birth course of life and doctrine of the said Vav Powell A true and perfect relation of the whole transaction concerning the petition of the six Counties of South Wales and the County of Monmouth formerly presented to the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England for a supply of Godly Ministers and an account of Ecclesiastical revenues therein c. Lond. 1654. in 7. sh and half in qu. He is supposed also to be Author of or at least to have had a hand in a Pamphlet entit Mercurius Cambro-Britannicus or News from Wales touching the miraculous propagation of the Gospel in those parts c. Lond. 1652. in 3 sh in qu. Of what other things he is the Author or promoter I know not nor whether he lived to be restored to his Spiritualities ROBERT GENTILIS Son of Aubrey Gentilis mention'd among these Writers under the year 1611. p. 314 was born in London matriculated as a member of Ch. Ch. 19. of Apr. 1599 in the ninth year of his age took the degree of Bach. of Arts as a member of Jesus Coll. in the beginning of July 1603 was translated to S. Johns Coll. soon after and became Collector in the Lent following for Proctor W. Laud of that House Thence he was elected Probationer Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1607 by the endeavours of his Father who got him sped into that house by an argument in Law as being under the statutable years In the said Coll. he continued for some time took a degree in the Civil Law but turned a Rake-hell became King of the beggars for a time and so much given up to sordid liberty if not downright wickedness that he not only spent all that he could get from his Father whom he would often abuse but also afterwards what he could get from his Mother to whom also he was very disobedient as she in her last will confesseth Afterwards he travelled beyond the Seas took up and became a sober man and at his return was a retainer to the Royal Court and received a Pension from the King He hath translated from Ital. into English 1 The history of the inquisition Lond. 1639. qu. written by Paul Servita 2 Of the success and chief events of the Monarchy of Spayne and of the revolt of the Catalonians Lond 1639. in tw written by Marquess Virgilio Malvezzi 3 Considerations on the lives of Alcibiades and Coriolanus Lond. 1650. in tw written by the same Author Also from French into English Le Chemia abrege or a compendious method for the attaining of sciences in a short time together with the Statutes of the Academie founded by the Cardinal of Richelieu Lond. 1654. oct And lastly from Spanish as it seems into English The antipathy between the French and the Spaniard Lond. 1641. in tw Ded. by the translator to Sir Paul Pindar Kt to whom in his Epist he promiseth something that shall be his own invention that is to publish something of his own writing but whether he was as good as his word I know not One Robert Gentilis a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict in the Monastery of Pontfract in Yorkshire wrot a book of Homelies and therefore is numbred among our English Writers but Quaere whether he was not an Outlander HUGH ROBINSON born in S. Maries Parish in the County of Anglesie educated in Grammatical learning in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll after he had served two years of Probation an 1605 took the
against the Holy Ghost At length having lived to the age of seventy and two years concluded his last day at Eaton in the house of Hannah Powney before mentioned on Munday the nineteenth day of May at about eight of the clock at night in sixteen hundred fifty and six and was according to his desire buried but little better than in private in Eaton College Churchyard Over his grave was afterwards an Altar Monument erected at the charge of one Pet. Curwen sometimes a Scholar of Eaton and his great Admirer with an Inscription thereon which partly runs thus Musarum charitum amor Johannes Halesius nomen non tam hominis quam scientiae hic non jacet at lutum quod assumpsit optimum infra ponitur nam certe supra mortales emicuit moribus suavissimis ingenio subtilissimo pectore pleno sapuit mundo sublimior adeoque aptior Angelorum choro c. WILLIAM HOWE son of Will. Howe was born in London educated in Merchant Taylors School became a Commoner of S. Johns Coll. in 1637 and in that of his age 18 or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts entred upon the Physick line bore Arms for his Maj. King Ch. 1. in Oxon at what time the generality of Scholars then remaining in the University did the like and being very forward in expressing his Loyalty was afterwards made Captain of a Troop of Horse But upon the declining of his Majesties Cause he desisted prosecuted his study in Physick retired to London practised that Faculty first in S. Laurence Lane and then in Milkstreet and was commonly called by the name of Doctor Howe This person being a noted Herbalist or Simpler of his time wrot and published Phytologia Britannica natales exhibens indiginarum stirpium sponte emergentium Lond. 1650. oct and obtained coâ—rected and published a book of Mathew de L'obell the Kings Botanist intit Stirpium illustrationes plurimas elaborantes inauditas plantas subreptitiis Jo. Parkinsoni rapsodiis ex codice Ms insalutato sparsim gravatae c. Lond. 1655. qu. before which our Author Howe put an Epistle to the Reader He died in his house in Milkstreet in the month of Aug. or beginning of Sept. in sixteen hundred fifty and six and was buried according to his will I suppose in the Church of S. Margaret within the City of Westminster in a grave at least six foot deep on the left side of the body of his Mother He left behind him a choice Library of books of his Faculty but how they were bestowed I cannot tell JOHN PENDARVES son of Jo. Pend. of Crowan in the County of Cornwal was born there or at least in that County admitted a poor Scholar or Servitour of Exeter Coll. on the eleventh of Decemb. in the year 1637 and in that of his age 15 where by the benefit of a good Tutor he became a tolerable Disputant In the latter end of 1641 he took the degree of Bach. of Arts and compleated it by Determination At which time all things in the Nation tending to a confusion he left the Coll. in July 1642 sided with the rout and by a voluble tongue having obtained the way of canting went up and down unsent for preaching in houses barns under trees hedges c. At length after several changes he setled his mind on Anabaptism and having got a numerous multitude of Disciples made himself head of them defied all Authority contradicted and opposed all orthodox Ministers in their respective Offices and Employments challenged them to prove their calling and spared not many times to interrupt them in their Pulpits and to urge them to disputes At length after several Challenges Jasp Mayne D. D. of Ch. Church who had been much troubled with him at Pyrton near Watlington in Oxfordshire undertook to be his Respondent So that the eleventh of Sept. 1652 being appointed for the Encounter in the Church at Watlington were present innumerable people on each side but Pendarves being back'd with a great party of Anabaptists and the scum of the People who behaved themselves very rude and insolent the Disputation was so interrupted that it came to nothing This Fellow who was Lecturer at Wantage and Pastor to the Anabaptists at Abendon in Berkshire tho he accounted himself a true born English man yet he was so ill deserving to be reckoned so as that like to another Herostratus he with his brethren did endeavour by raising a desperate combustion to utterly undo the distressed and tottering Church of England which in few years before was accounted glorious and renowned And as we may really suppose that he did these things to no other end but to gain wealth and make himself famous to posterity so would it I know be accounted worthy by some if my omission of his name could bury him in oblivion But so it is that his Works are fled abroad and have been and are yet entertained by and taken into the hands of many and therefore if I should do it 't would be to little purpose The titles of such that I have seen are these Arrowes against Babylon or Queries serving to a clear discovery of the Mystery of iniquity Lond. 1656. qu. Answerâ—d by Will. Ley Minister of Wanting alias Wantage Christop Fowler of Reading and Joh. Tickell of Abendon in Berks. Endeavours for reformation in Saints apparel Queries for the People called Quakers These last two are printed with the Arrows against Babylon Prefatory Epistle to a book intit The Prophets Malachy and Isaiah prophecying to the Saints and Professors of this generation c. Lond. 1656. qu. Several Sermons as 1 Of the fear of the Lord on Rev. 15. former part of the fourth verse Lond. 1657. qu. c. with others and other theolog Tracts which I have not yet seen particularly the Disputation between him and Doctor Mayne which Pendarves and his party printed as I have heard to their own advantage At length after a short life spent in continual agitation he surrendred up his last breath at London about the beginning of September in sixteen hundred fifty and six Whose body thereupon being embowelled and wrap'd up in Sear-cloth by the care of the Brethren and afterwards Preparations made for his Funeral the body was some weeks after conveyed by water to Abendon in Berks. before mentioned where being lodged in a Grocers house on a Saturday was Praying and Preaching by the Anabaptists in the said house on Sunday Munday and Tuesday not without Reflections on the then Government by Oliver and endeavours made to raise Mutinies About three of the clock in the Afternoon of the said Tuesday being the 30 of Sept. and the next day after that of S. Michael his body was conducted from the said house by the Brethren to a little garden ground then lately purchased for a Burial-place for the Anabaptists situate and being in Oxstreet at the west end of the said Town where it was with great lamentation by them deposited At
from the late conspiracy against all three that is for the discovery of the design of Nath. Tomkyns Rich. Chaloner c. to reduce London to the obedience of the K. on Psal 95.1 Lond. 1643. qu. 3 Davids reserve and rescue Serm. before the H. of C. 5. Nov. 1644 on 2. Sam. 21.16.17 Lond. 1645. 46. qu. 4 Sermon before the H. of Com. on 1. Kings 22.22 Lond. 1644. qu. This I have not yet seen and therefore I know not yet to the contrary but that it may be a Thanksg Serm. 18. July 1644 for the victory over Pr. Rupert at Marston Moore near York 5 Abrahams Offering Serm. before the L. Mayor and Aldermen of London on Gen. 22.2 Lond. 1644. This also I have not yet seen nor another on 2. Sam. 22.22 printed there the same year in qu. nor a Thanksgiving Sermon before the House of C. preached 12. May 1646 for the taking of several Towns in the West by the Parl. Forces as also a Fast Sermon before the H. of Lords 24. June the same year Microcosmography in Essays and Characters printed 1628. in oct or tw Contemplations and Devotions on all the passages of our Saviours passion Lond. 1631. in oct or tw An answer to Dr. Fern. Lond. 1642. The same I suppose which is intit An answer to misled Dr. Hen. Fearne according to his own method of his book c. printed the same year in 6. sheets in qu. The independency on Scriptures of the independency of Churches wherein the question of Independency of Ch. Government is temperately first stated secondly argued c. Lond. 1643. in 6. sh and half in qu. This book was answer'd by Sam. Rutherford D. D. of the New Coll. in S Andrews in Scotland who died 1661 replyed upon by Rich. Mather Minister of Dorchester in New England Worldly policy and moral prudence the vanity and folly of the one the solidity and usefulness of the other in a moral discourse Lond. 1654. oct This came out again in the year following in oct with this title Wisdomes Tripos concerning worldly policy moral prudence and Christian wisdome What other things are published under his name I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died at Winwick in the latter end of Septemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and nine and was buried on the 29 day of the same month in the Chancel of the Church there as I have been informed by the Letters of Dr. Richard Sherlock his next successor in the Rectory of Winwick saving one GRIFFIN HIGGS second Son of Griff. Higgs by Sarah Paine his Wife Dau. of Rob. Paine of Caversham in Oxfordshire Son of Nich. Higgs descended of a wealthy and honest Family living in Glocestershire was born at Stoke Abbat commonly called South Stoke near Henley in Oxfordshire and was baptized there on the day of S. Sim. and Jude in the year 1589. After he had been trained up in Grammar learning at Reading he was sent to S. Johns Coll. in the beginning of the year 1606 where making great proficiency in Logick and Philosophy under Mr. Rich. Tillesley his Tutour he was worthily esteemed the flower of the undergraduats of that house whether for Oratory or Disputations After he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts he wrot in Lat. verse Nativitas vita mors D. Thomae White Militis Alderm Civitatis Lond. Fundatoris Coll. S. Johannis Bapt. Oxon. This is a MS. in the custody of the President of that house and hath this beginning Inclyto Whitaeae primordia condere gentis Also in prose A true and faithful relation of the rising and fall of Thom. Tooker Prince of Alba Fortunata Lord of S. Johns with the occurrents which hapned throughout his whole dominion This is also a Ms bound with the former and hath this beginning It hapned in the year of our Lord 1607 the 31. of Oct. being All saints Eve c. This Book which is in fol. contains verses speeches playes c. as also the description of the Christmas Prince of S. Joh. Coll. whom the Juniors have annually for the most part elected from the first foundation of the College And in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeths Reign John Case afterwards Doctor of Phys and a noted Philosopher did with great credit undergo that Office When the said Tooker was elected Prince he assumed these titles viz. The most magnificent and renowned Thomas by the favour of fortune Prince of Alba Fortunata Lord of S. Johns High Regent of the Hall Duke of S. Giles Marquess of Magdalens Landgrave of the Grove Count Palatine of the Cloysters Chief Baylive of Beaumont High Ruler of Rome Master of the Mannour of Walton Governour of Glocester Green sole Commander of all titles turnaments and triumphs Superintendent in all solemnities whatsoever The said Tooker who was Fellow of S. Johns Coll. was afterwards Bach. of Divinity Prebendary of Bristow c. and the custom was not only observed in that Coll. but in several other Houses particularly in Mert. Coll where from the first foundation the Fellows annually elected about S. Edmunds day in November a Christmas Lord or Lord of misrule stiled in their registers Rex Fabarum and Rex regni fabarum Which custome continued till the reformation of Religion and then that producing Puritanisme and Puritanisme Presbytery the professors of it looked upon such laudable and ingenious customes as Popish Diabolical and Antichristian Our Author Higgs was about the same time that he wrot and collected the said Folio Book elected Probationer Fellow of Mert. Coll. an 1611 and taking the degree of Master had Holy Orders confer'd on him and two small cures successively in that College gift In 1622 he did undergo with great courage tho of little stature the procuratorial office of the University and being afterwards Bach. of Div. was in the year 1627 sent to the Hague by his Majesty to be Chaplain to his Sister Elizabeth Qu. of Bohemia in which employment he continued at least 12 years In the year 1629 30 he performed his exercise at Leyden for the degree of Doctor of Divinity and was forthwith created Doctor of that fac by the famous Andrew Rivet At length being called home from his service by his Majesty he was by the endeavours of Dr. Laud made Rector of the rich Church of Clive or Cliff near to Dover in Kent Chauntor of S. Davids and upon the removal of Dr. Sam. Fell to the Deanery of Ch. Ch. in Oxon was made Dean of Lichfield in 1638 the Cathedral of which he adorned to his great charge and Chapl. in ord to his Majesty At length the Civil Wars breaking forth he sufferâ—d for his Majesties cause was plundred sequestred lost his spiritualities c. So that retiring to the place of his nativity spent there the remainder of his days in great retiredness study and devotion He hath written besides those things beforementioned Problemata Thologica Lugd. Bat. 1630. qu. Miscellaneae Theses
Nephew called John Kirton Doctor of the same faculty who is to be mentioned elsewhere JOHN GOUGHE commonly called Goffe Son of the Rector of Stanmer in Sussex was born in that County began to be conversant with the Muses in Merton Coll. an 1624 made Demie of that S. Mar. Magd. in 1627 aged 17 years or more perpetual Fellow 29. July 1630 being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty he entred into Orders and became a Preacher in these parts In 1642. Sept. 26. he was inducted into the Vicaridge of Hackington alias S. Stephen near to the City of Canterbury in the place of James Hirst deceased From whence being ejected soon after for refusing the Covenant was with other loyal Clergy men cast into the County Prison in S. Dunstans Parish in the Suburbs of the said City In 1652 he by the endeavours of his Brother William whom I shall anon mention was inducted into the rectory of Norton near Sittingbourne in Kent on the thirteenth day of March and in the year 1660 he being restored to his Vicaridge of S. Stephen was actually created Doctor of Divinity in the beginning of December the same year and inducted again according to the Ceremonies of the Church of England into the rectory of Norton on the 4. of March following which were all the spiritualities he enjoyed He hath written a book intit Ecclesiae Anglicanae ΘΡΗÎΩΔΙ'Α in qua perturbatissimus regni ecclesiae status sub Anabaptistica tyrannide lugetur Lond. 1661. oct Also a large latine Epistle written to Dr. Edw. Simson set before a book written by him intit Chronicon Catholicum c. Lond. 1652. fol. He concluded his last day in the Parish of Norton beforementioned and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of S. Alphage in Canterbury on the 26. day of Nov. in sixteen hundred sixty and one This Person who was a zealous Son of the Church of England had an elder Brother named Steph. Goffe originally of Mert. Coll afterwards of S. Alb. Hall and a Bigot of the Church of Rome and another Brother named William whether elder or younger I know not who was originally a Trader in London afterwards a Presbyterian Independent one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. and one of Olivers Lords who to save his neck from the Gallows did upon a foresight of the Kings return in 1660 leave the Nation and died obscurely in a strange Land The Father of the said Goffes was Steph. Goffe somtimes Bach. of Arts of Magd. Coll a good Logician and Disputant but a very severe Puritan eminent for his training up while a Tutor several that proved afterwards very noted Scholars among whom must not be forgotten Rob. Harris D. of D. sometimes President of Trin. Coll. in Oxon. THOMAS LUSHINGTON a famous Scholar of his time was born at Sandwych in Kent matriculated in the University as a member of Broadgates Hall in Lent term 1606 7 aged 17 years but how long he stayed there it appears not Sure it is that he having had some publick employment in the Country or elsewhere did not take the degree of Bachelaur nor that of Master of Arts till 1618 in which year he was a Communer of Linc. Coll. Not long after he returned to Broadgates again and was there at the time when it was converted into the College of Pembroke where he spent some years in Theological studies took the degree of Bach. of Div. and soon after for the great respect that Corbet B. of Oxon had for made him one of his Chaplains In June 1631 he became Prebendary of Bemister Secunda in the Church of Salisbury on the promotion of the said Corbet to the See of Oxon and in the year following proceeding in his faculty the said Bishop took him with him when he was translated to Norwych bestowed on him the rectory of Burnham-Westgate in Norfolk and got him to be Chaplain to K. Ch. 1. When the grand rebellion broke out he lost his spiritualities and lived obscurely in several places publishing then divers books to gain money for his maintenance At length upon the return of K. Ch. 2 in 1660 he was restored to his spiritualities and had offers made to him of great dignities in the Church but being then aged and infirm he chose rather to keep what he had with quietness than be a Dean with riches He was esteemed a right reverend and learned Theologist yet in many matters imprudent and too much inclined to the opinions of Socinus His preaching also while he remained in the University was generally well esteemed and never gave distaste but in one Sermon which tho esteemed by some to be admirable yet by more blasphemous An account of which you shall have as it followeth In the year 1624 22. Jac. 1. nothing but War with Spain sounding in the ears of the vulgar upon the breaking off of the Spanish match with Prince Charles it pleased this our Author Lushington to utter in his Sermon on Matth. 28.13 at S. Maries on Easter Munday these words Now the Pesant thinks it comes to his turn under pretence of his priviledge in Parliament that he should dispose of Kings and Commonwealths c. Afterwards also thus Nothing now contents the Commonalty but war and contention c. For which as also for several other passages reflecting on the Spanish match he was called into question by Dr. Piers the Vicechancellour and by him was a time appointed for him to recant what he had said Which being done not without the consent of certain Doctors the Repetitioner was commanded to leave out divers passages of the said Sermon which he according to custome was to repeat the Sunday after commonly called Low Sunday His recantation Sermon on Acts 2.1 latter part which he preached the very next day after the Repetitioner had delivered his four Sermons I have seen and therein I find that his meaning for the first passage was only to reprehend the seditious doctrines of Knox Buchanan and others and the tumultuary practices of the common People formerly used both in town and country to affront their Prince because of their privilege to elect Parliamentarie Persons The word now hath the latitude of this age that in Parliament I intended not locally in relation to the vulgar who have a voice to elect Knights and Burgesses but at the present themselves hold no place personally in the Parliament c. As for other passages he said he had no intent to cross the present resolution for War but only to check the inordinate desire of it somwhat too frequent in most mens mouthes and it thought to him somewhat harsh to hear in the Chappel give peace in our time O Lord and presently in the Chambers God send us war again c. Besides this recantation which his friends caused to be put upon him least he should be called into question by the Parliament he was severely check'd by the Vicechancellour and Doctors for using
and of the repulse given to the Rebels at the Town of Newark Oxon. 1642. in 2 sh in qu. View of the proceedings in the West for a pacification Letter to a Gent. in Leycestershire about the Treatie at Uxbridge shewing that all the overtures which have been made for peace and accommodation have proceeded from his Majestie only Printed 1643 in 4. sh in qu. The Roundheads remembrancer or a true and particular relation of the great defeat given to the Rebels by his Maj. Subjects of Cornwall under the command of Sir Ralph Hopton in Tuesday 16. May 1643. Printed 1643 in one sh in qu. This Pamphlet is generally said to have been written by Heylyn Relation of the proceedings of S. Joh. Gell. This is the same if I mistake not with a Pamph. intit Theeves Theeves or a relation of Sir Jo. Gells proceedings in Derbyshire in gathering up the rents of the Lords and Gentlemen of that Country by pretended authority from the two Houses of Parliament printed 1643. qu. This Sir John Gell who was Son of Tho. Gell of Hopton in Derbyshire Gent. became a Commoner of Magd. Coll. in this University in 1610 left it without a degree exercised himself in martial seats beyond the Seas retired to his patrimony was made a Baronet in Jan. 1641 and being then a Presbyterian took up arms soon after for the Parliament became a Colonel and one of their Champions Afterwards hating the proceedings of the Independents when they had murder'd the King he entred into a plot against the Parliament in which Coll. Euseb Andrews being engaged suffer'd death an 1650. for which being imprison'd was at length tried for his life before the High Court of Justice but being found only guilty of misprision of treason for concealing it he was condemn'd to loose his estate and to perpetual imprisonment from the last of which he was released by order of Parliament 5. of Apr. 1653. He died in the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields in the City of Westminster in Nov. 1671 aged 79 years or thereabouts and was as I suppose buried at Hopton Quaere having had this character given of him by the Presbyterians while they were dominant that he was a man beloved of his Country and feared by his enemies valiant in his actions and faithful in his ends to promote truth and peace Of the same family was Rob. Gell D. D. of Pampisford in Cambridgeshire and sometimes Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury which Doctor died in the very beginning of the year 25. of March or thereabouts 1665. The black ✚ Cross shewing that the Londoners were the cause of this present rebellion c. The Rebells Catechisme composed in an easie and familiar way to let them see the hainousness of their offence c. Printed 1643. in 4. sh in qu. Discourse in answer to the common but groundless clamour of the Papists nick-naming the religion of the Church of England by the name of a Parliament Religion Written in 1644 at the request of George Ashwell of Wadham Coll. But when this book was printed it had this title following put to it Parliaments power in Lawes for religion or an answer to that old and groundless calumny of the Papists nick-naming c. Oxon. 1645. in 6. sh in qu. In another edition printed at Lond. 1653. in 7. sh in qu. it hath this title The way of reformation of the Church of England declared and justified against the clamours of our Adversaries reproaching the religion here by law established by the name of a Parliament religion c. This was afterwards printed in the first part of Eccles Vindicata Brief relation of the death and sufferings of the most reverend and renowned Prelate the L. Archb. of Canterbury with a copie of his speech and other passages on the Scaffold more perfect than hath been hitherto imprinted Oxon. 1644 in 4 sh in qu. Bibliotheca Regia or the Royal Library c. Lond. 1649. 50. and 59. oct Heylyns name is not set to it but 't is generally known to be his collection from some of the works of K. Ch 1. In this book is inserted the conference between K. Ch. 1. and the Marquess of Worcester at Ragland which by many is taken to be authentick because published by Heylyn See more among the Writers in the first vol. in Lewis Bayly p. 486. Stumbling block of disobedience c. in answer to and examination of the two last sections in Calvins institutions against Soveraigne Monarchy MS. written in 1644. printed at Lond. 1658. qu. with this title The Stumbling block of disobedience and rebellion cunningly laid by Calvin in the Subjects way discovered censured and removed The promised seed Written in vers The undeceiving the People in the point of Tithes c. Lond. 1648. 51. Published under the name of Ph. Treleinie which is an Anagram for Peter Heylyn Reprinted at Lond. in qu. 1657. in the first part of Eccles Vindicata Theologia Veterum The sum of Christian Theologie contained in the Creed according to the Greeks and Latines c. lib. 3. Lond. 1654. and 1673. fol. Full relation of two journies The one into the main Land of France The other into some of the adjacent Islands in 5 Books Lond. 1656. qu. These adjacent Islands are Guernsey and Jersie c. Survey of the estate of the two Islands Guernsey and Jersie with the isles depending c. in one book Lond. 1656. qu. This is printed with the former and both were published by their Author Pet. Heylyn because a little before a false copy of them had crept abroad under the title of France painted to the life as I shall farther tell you anon Observations on The Historie of the raigne of K. Charles published by Hamon L'estrange Esq for illustration of the storie c. Lond. 1656. oct Upon the coming out of which observations L'Estrange printed another edit of the said Hist Lond. 1656. fol. and at the end added a book intit The Observator observed or animadversions upon the observations on the History of K. Charles c. Whereupon our Author Heylyn came out with this book following entit Extraneus Vapulans or the Observator rescued from the violent but vaine assaults of Hamon L'Estrange Esq and the back blows of Dr. Nich. Bernard an Irish Dean Lond. 1656. oct In our Authors Epist to the reader before this book dat 7. June 1656 he tells us that in one week of the last term he was plundered twice first of his name and secondly of his good name Of his name by one Will. Leak a Bookseller who publishing a discourse of his Dr. Heylyns under the title of France painted to the life by a false and imperfect copy hath fathered it in Stationers Hall on one Rich. Bignall a Fellow to him utterly unknown Secondly plundered of his good name by Ham. L'Estrange Esq by loading him with abusive language Ecclesia Vindicata or the Church of England justified 1 In the
Preacher against Bishops Ceremonies c. and being a frequent and constant holder forth was followed by those of the vicinity especially such who were of his perswasion In 1654 he was appointed an Assistant to the Commissioners of Surrey for the ejecting of all such whom they then called ignorant and scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters and was not wanting in any thing whereby he might express his zeal for the aforesaid cause His works are these The light of faith and way of holiness shewing how and what to believe in all estates and conditions Lond. 1630. oct Doctrine of the Sabbath vindicated or a confutation of a Treatise of the Sabbath written by Mr. Edw. Brerewood against Mr. Nich. Byfield Lond. 1632. qu. The Power of the Christ of God or a Treatise of the power as it is originally in God the Father and by him given to Christ his Son c. Lond. 1641. qu. Several Sermons as 1 Zions answer to the Nations Embassadors c. Fast Sermon before the H. of Commons 25 June 1645 on Isay 14.32 Lond. 1645. qu. 2 Sermon on 1. Cor. 3.17 Lond. 1653. qu. c. The Gospels Glory without prejudice to the Law shining forth in the Glory of God the Father Son and Holy Ghost for the Salvation of sinners who through grace do believe according to the draught of the Apostle Paul in Rom. 3.34 Lond. 1659. Beginning of the Doctrine of Christ Lond. 1660 in tw Whether any other matters were by him published I know not nor any thing else of him only that after he had been ejected from Long Ditton for Nonconformity he retired to Mortclack in Surrey where dying in December in sixteen hundred sixty and four was buried in the Church there leaving this character behind him among the Godly and such that frequented his Conventicles that he was a pious good and harmless man He had another Brother called Adoniram Byfield who became first to be known for the love he bore to the righteous cause by being Chaplain to Colonel Cholmondiley's Regiment in the Army of Robert Earl of Essex the Generalissimo for the Parliament in 1642 and soon after for his being one of the scribes to the Assemb of Divines and a most zealous Covenantier He was afterwards Minister of one of the Collingborns in Wilts was an Assistant to the Commissioners of that County for the ejection of such whom they then 1654 called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters He died about the time of his Majesties restauration as it seems for on the 12 of Feb. 1660 Catherine his Relict had letters of administration granted to her to administer the goods debts c. of him the said Ad. Byfield of the Parish of S. Martins in the Fields in Middlesex lately deceased JEREMY STEPHENS Son of Walt. Stephens sometimes Rector of Bishops Castle in Shropshire was born there 1592 entred a Student in Brasn Coll. 29 March 1609 where by continual lucubration he diligently ran through all the forms of Logick and Philosophy and took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1615. In Decemb. the same year he was made Deacon and about that time Chaplain of All 's Coll. In 1616 May 26 he received the Orders of Priesthood and in 1621 was made Rector of Quinton in Northamptonshire Five years after that he had confer'd upon him the Rectory of Wotton within a Mile of Quinton which with Quinton were bestowed on him by K. Ch. 1. In 1628 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and in 1641 was made Prebendary of Biggleswade in the Church of Lincolne by the favour of Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury as a reward of his Labours with Sir Hen. Spelman in the Edition of the first tome or volume of the Councils In 1644 he was sequestred from all his Ecclesiastical preferments by a Committee sitting at Northampton plunder'd imprison'd barbarously used and silenced After the Kings returâ— in 1660 he was restored to them and for a requital of his sufferings had the Prebendship of Ilâ—racomb in the Church of Salisbury confer'd upon him upon the resignation of Edw. Davenant He hath written and published these things following Notae in D. Cyprian de unitate Ecclesiae Lond. 1632. oct Notae in D. Cypr. de bono patientiae Lond. 1633. oct Both which were collated with antient Mss by the care of certain Oxonian Theologists Apologie for the antient right and power of the Bishops to sit and vote in Parliaments Lond. 1660 the question then of restitution being under debate In the year 1663 he began to print the History of Sacriledge designed and began by Sir Hen. Spelman and left to Stephens to perfect and publish but that work sticking long in the Press both the copy and sheets printed off perished in the grand conflagration of London 1666. Besides these he finished and fitted for the Press divers other pieces whereof the argument of some were superseded by the Kings happy restauration such as A comparison between the Belgick Gallick Bohemian and Scotch with the English Covenant Account of the principles and practices of the Presbyterians The Sequestration of the Clergy by Joh. Pym and Joh. White Other things which he finished but prevented their publication by death are these Treatise of the Laws of England The design of the Cormorants upon the Church Lands defeated in the time of K. Hen. 5 effected in the days of K. Hen. 8. and other things He also published B. Gregorii magni Episcopi Romani de curâ pastorali liber verè aureus accuratè emendatus restitutus è Vet. Mss cum Romanâ Editione collatis Lond. 1629. oct This was the Book that the most renown'd K. Alfred translated into the Saxon Language and recommended to all the Diocesses of his Kingdom in that great dearth of learning when scarce a Priest on the North of Humber was found able to translate the Lords Prayer or to understand the Latine Service This I say he published being collated with antient Mss by the care of several Oxford Doctors and Bach. of Divinity In the year also 1633 he was joyned with Sir Hen. Spelman to assist in compiling and publishing the first Tome of the English Councils a work that cost them seven years labour And tho the Book bare the name of Spelman yet is the assistance of our Author Stephens acknowledged by Spelman in the Preface to the Reader in these words Quo autem auspicio in lucem prodibunt me jam sane propemodum exhausto secundus tertius viz. Tomus haud ausim polliceri Nisi illos vir dilectus bono natus publico Jeremias Stephens typis curaverit mandandos cujus operâ primuâ— hic Tomus me adhuc tantum non invito in lucem prodiit After this viz. in 1641 Spelman died and was buried in the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster near to the door of S. Nicholas Chappel 24. oct and then some years after our Author Stephens published Spelmans larger
in his own Country to serve in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westm 3. of Nov. the same year but his election being voted void he sided notwithstanding with the faction was seemingly a Presbyterian and afterwards all things to all men So that being esteemed very capable of carrying on the beloved cause he was first made a Committee man of his County and afterwards was called into the House of Commons by the Independents upon their excluding the active Presbyterians purposely to carry on their designs against the King Afterwards he being very ready to keep pace with them he not only subscribed his vote for the trial of his Majesty Ch. 1. but personally sate in judgment when sentence was past for his decollation About that time he being observed by some of the H. of Commons to be a Person of strange principles in Religion an Arrian Socinian and I know not what and also to be a Person of no good Morals he was publickly complained of in the house by Colonel Joh. Downes one of the Regicides and afterwards a member of the Council of State Whereupon Fry published The Accuser ashamed or a pair of Bellows to blow off the dust cast upon John Fry a member of Parliament by Col. Jo. Downes who charged the said John Fry of blasphemy and errour Printed at Lond. in Febr. 1648. in oct To which he added 1 A word to the Priests Lawyers Royalists Self-seekers and rigid Presbyterians 2 A brief ventilation of that chaffie and absurd opinion of three Persons or substances in the Godhead Afterwards he being exasperated by the Presbyterian Ministers and some Independents he wrot and published The Clergy in their colours or a brief character of them c. Lond. 1650 in 4. sh in oct Which the next year was answered by J. D. Nephew as 't was said to Mr. John Davy of Taunton Magdalen in Somersetshire Soon after the publication of the said Clergy in their colours the Parliament took so much cognizance of the matter that they sate on Saturday 22. Feb. 1650 from morning to night in debate of certain passages published in the said books as 1 In debate of that added to the Accuser ashamed in the title running thus that chaffie and absurd opinion of three persons or substances in the Godhead 2 In that in p. 22. running thus that gross and carnal opinion of three distinct Persons or subsistences in the Godhead Persons and subsistences are subsistences or accidents As for the word Person I do not understand that it can be properly attributed but to man It is out of doubt with me that if you ask the most part of men what they mean by a Person they will either tell you 't is a man or else they are not able to give you any answer at all As for the word Accident I suppose none will attribute that to God for according to my poor skill that word imputes no more but the figure or colour c. of a thing and certainly no man ever saw the likeness of God as the Scriptures abundantly testifie c. These things being discussed it was resolved by the members of Parliament that they were erroneous prophane and highly scandalous Afterwards they proceeded to the book called The Clergy in their colours wherein p. 34 is this said by the Author I cannot let pass one observation and that is the strange posture those men put themselves into when they begin their prayers before their Sermons whether the fools and knaves in stage plays took their pattern from these men or these men from them I cannot determine c. what wry mouths squint eyes they make c. how like a company of conjurers do they mumble out the beginnings of their prayers that the People may not hear them c. These passages being debated the Parliament resolved that they were scandalous Again also p. 42. thus I must confess I have heard much of believing things above reason and the time was when I swallowed that still but I may say with S. Paul c. When I was a child c. Every man that knoweth any thing knoweth this that it is reason that distinguishes a man from a beast If you take away his reason you deny his very Essence therefore if any man will consent to give up his reason I would as soon converse with a beast as with that man c. These matters being debated it was resolved by Parliament that they were erroneous Afterwards they resolved that the said book called The Accuser ashamed and the other called The Clergy in their colours be burnt and that the Sherriffs of London and Middlesex be authorized and required to cause all the printed copies of both the said books and every of them wheresoever they should be found to be burnt some in the New-Pallace-yard at Westm and some at the Old Exchange Not a word in the order was there of the Hang-man for that would have sounded ominous to the whole pack of them then in pomp and great splendor At the same time it was resolved that the said Joh. Fry be disinabled to sit as a member of Parliament so that being solemnly cashier'd he had more liberty to keep company with John Biddle which he did as with others of that opinion This Person who had ran through most if not all religious even to Rantisme died soon after and thereby saved the Hang-man his labour JOHN ELLIS received his first breath in the Parish of Llanderkuin near to Harlech in Merionithshire entred a Student in Hart Hall in the year 1617 and in that of his age 18. or thereabouts where going through with infinite industry the several classes of Logick and Philosophy became M. of A. in 1625 and three years after was elected Fellow of Jesus Coll. being then in holy orders In 1632 he was admitted to the reading of the sentences and soon after going into Scotland upon what account I know not was made and admitted Doctor of his faculty in the University of S. Andrew on the day before the Cal. of August 1634 and in Oct. following was incorporated in this University Before that time having taken to Wife Rebecka Daugh. of John Pettie of Stoke-Talmach near to Thame in Oxfordshire Esq became Rector of Whitfield near that place which Benefice he keeping till about 1647 was made Rector of S. Maries Church in a Market town called Dolgelhy or Dolgethle in his own county where he continued till the time of his death siding with all parties and taking all Oathes His works are these Clavis fidei seu brevia quaedam dictata in symbolum Apostolorum Oxon. 1642. 43. oct Translated into English by Will. Fowler a composer in the Art of Printing Camb. 1669. oct Comment in Obadium Proph. Lond. 1641. oct Defensio fidei seu responsio succincta ad argumenta quibus impugnari solet confessio Anglicana una cum nova articulorum versione Lond. 1660. He concluded his last day at Dolgethle before
Mathematician an example of great candor and moderation and such as is rarely found among the Nonconformists c. as I have been informed by one of his near Relations JAMES SCUDAMORE Son of Joh. Scud. of Kenchurch in Herefordshire was born in that County educated in Westminst School transplanted to Ch. Ch. in Midsomer term 1661 aged 19 years and soon after was made one of the Students of that house This person who was poetically given wrot Homer a la mode A mock Poem upon the first and second books of Homers Iliads Oxon. 1664. in 9 sh in oct and in the next year he took the degr of Bach. of Arts. Afterwards retiring to his Relations then living in the City of Hereford was drown'd in the River adjoyning to the great reluctancy of all those that were acquainted with his pregnant parts as he was recreating himself by swimming in the month of July in sixteen hundred sixty and six whereupon his body was conveyed to the graves of his Relations where he was with great lamentation inter'd In 1681 was published in oct Homer a-la-mode the second part in English Burlesque or a mock Poem upon the ninth book of Iliads Invented for the Meridian of Cambridge where the Pole of Wit is elevated by several degrees but who the Author of it was I know not WILLIAM STREAT was born of gentile Parents in Devons became either a Batler or Sojourner of Exeter Coll. in the beginning of the year 1617 aged 17 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and was benefic'd in his own Country Upon the change of the times in 1641 he sided with the Presbyterians and preached very schismatically being about that time Rector of South-Pool near to Kingsbridge in Devonshire When the Cause of K. Ch. 1. declined he preached bitterly against him and his Followers blasting them with the name of bloody Papists and when his Son K. Ch. 2. was in Exile he became a desperate enemy to and continually preached against him And every trivial thing that he could hear or read in those satyrical Prints called Merc. Politici and other Pamphlets against him be sure he published in the Pulpit to his Parishioners as I have been credibly informed by some Ministers of his Neighbourhood After the restauration of K. Ch. 2 an 1660 he wheeled about as many covetous and poor spirited Saints did sneak'd to the great men then in authority conformed and kept his rectory to his dying day to the great reluctancy of the generous Royalists of those parts He hath written a book entit The dividing of the Hoof or seeming contradictions throughout sacred Scriptures resolved and applied c. Lond. 1654 in a pretty thick qu. dedicated to God and Gods People Other matters they say he hath published but such I have not yet seen nor do I know any thing else of this Author who should rather have been buried in oblivion than mention'd only that dying at South-Pool was buried in the Church there in sixteen hundred sixty and six leaving then this character behind him among the said Ministers of his neighbourhood that he was as infinite a rogue and as great a sinner that could be and that 't was pity that he did escape punishment in this life ROBERT VAUGHAN was born of an antient and gentile family in Merionithshire was entred a Commoner of Oriel Coll. in the year 1612 and in that of his age 20 where passing his course in Logick and Philosophy retired without a degree to his patrimony in the said County called Hengwrt or Hengherst near Dolgethle became noted for his admirable skill in the Histories and Antiquities of his own Country of Wales having had a natural genie to them and took infinite pains in describing the Genealogies of the most antient families thereof The things of his composition that are extant are only these British Antiquities revived Oxon. 1662. qu. Pedegree of the Earl of Carbury Vaughan Lord President of Wales Short account of the five tribes of Cambria These two last are printed with the first He hath also several letters extant which he formerly wrot to the learned and religious Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland in one of which dated 14 Apr. 1651 he tells the said Primate that he had translated into the English Tongue The Annals of Wales which he then sent to him to be perused He died at Hengwrt before mention'd in sixteen hundred sixty and six being then a Justice of Peace as I have been informed by Mr. Thom. Ellis sometimes Rector of Dolgethle and was buried in the Church of that Parish wherein Hengwrt said to be in Kyntons land in the Lordship of Huntyndon is situated He left behind him a choice Library of MSS. in the British Tongue now as I have been informed in the custody of Sir William Williams of Greys Inn Baronet occasion'd by a Law sute concerning it JOHN FAIRECLOUGH commonly called Featley Son of Joh. Featley of Oxon elder brother to Dr. Daniel Featley was born in Northamptonshire became either Clerk or Choirister of All 's Coll. in Mich. term 1620 aged 15 years took one degree in Arts four years after and in 1626 had the honor to be the first Preacher of the Gospel in the infancy of the Mother Colony of S. Christophers in the Western Indies How long he continued there I know not sure I am that after his return he became beneficed in Surrey Chaplain to K. Ch. 1. and Prebendary as it seems of Lincoln In the beginning of the Rebellion he lost all was for a time Curate at Acton for his Uncle Dr. Featley and in June 1643 he with his Wife Children and Servants shipped themselves for S. Christophers before mention'd where he and they continued several years After his Majesties return in 1660 he became one of his Chaplains was installed Chantor of Lincoln in the same year was in the next actually created D. of D. and soon after had the Vicaridge of Edwinstow in Nottinghamshire worth about 60 l. per an confer'd on him by the Dean and Chapter of the said Church He hath written and published Several sermons as 1 Serm. to the West-India Company on Josh 1.9 Lond. 1629. qu. 2 Obedience and Submission at S. Saviours in Southwark at a Visitation 8 Dec. 1635. on Heb. 13.17 Lond. 1636. qu. c. A succinct history of the life and death of the learned and famous Divine Daniel Featley D. D. Lond. 1660. in tw Printed at the end of a book intit Dr. Dan. Featley revived proving that the Protestant Church is the only Cath. and true Church A divine Antidote against the Plague or mourning tears in Soliquies and Prayers as 1. For this general Visitation 2. For those whose houses are shut up of the Plague c. Lond. 1665. He also published a book intituled The league illegal Lond. 1660. qu. Written by his said Uncle Dr. Featley and ded to Edw. Earl of Clarendon by the Publisher who
so general approbation that several impressions of them were made in qu. and oct This Disswasive from popery was answered first by a book bearing this title Truth will out or a discovery of some untruths smoothly told by Dr. Jer. Taylor in his Disswasive from popery c. Printed 1665. qu. written by his friendly Adversary Edward Worsely a Jesuit of the Family of Worseley in Lancashire And secondly by John Sargeant a Sec. Priest in one of his Appendices to Sure footing in Christianity as I shall elsewhere tell you 2 Unum necessarium or the doctrine and practice of repentance rescued from popular errors c. Lond. 1655. oct 3 Two answers to the Bishop of Rochesters Warner two letters concerning the chapter of original sin in the Unum necessarium Lond. 1656. in tw 4 A discourse of confirmation 5 Two letters to Persons changed in their religion This was first Pr. at Lond. 1657 in tw and put at the end of the second edit of Measures and offices of friendship 6 Three letters to a Gentlewoman that was tempted to the communion of the Romish Church The said edit containing the said six Treatises or Books bears this general title 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or a collection of Polemical discourses wherein the Church of England is defended in many material points c. Lond. 1674. in a large fol. The other books that our author Dr. Taylor hath written and go under his name are these New and easie institution of Grammar for the use of the youth of Wales Lond. 1647. oct This is commonly said to be his yet there have not been wanting some that have said that it was written by Dr. Taylors Usher or Assistant named Will. Wyatt See more in the Fasti an 1661. among the created Bachelaurs of Div. Twenty five Sermons preached at Golden Grove being for the Winter half year beginning on Advent Sunday and continuing till Whitsunday Lond. 1678. fol. the fifth edit with his picture before them as before many of his other books Twenty seven sermons preached at Golden Grove being for the Summer half year beginning on Whitsunday and ending on the 25 Sunday after Trinity Lond. 1678 fol. sixth edit A supplement of eleven Sermons preached since his Maj. restauration Lond. 1678. fol. seven of them were before printed at Lond. 1664. fol. To which three more being added were printed again at the same place an 1667. fol. The ninth Sermon of the said eleven is that preached at S. Maries in Oxon before mention'd The general title set before the said twenty five twenty seven and the supplement of eleven Sermons with other things contained in the said Vol. runs thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A course of Sermons for all the Sundays in the year c. with a supplement of eleven Sermons preached since his Maj. restauration Whereunto is adjoyned A discourse of the divine institution necessity sacredness and separation of the office Ministerial c. written by the special command of K. Ch. 1. with Rules and advices to the Clergy c. This great vol. is closed with a Sermon on 1. Joh. 3.2 preached at the authors Dr. Taylor funeral by George Rust who succeeded him in the See of Dromore as I shall anon tell you A short Catechisme for the institution of young persons in the christian religion Lond. 1652. oct or tw An explication of the Apostolical Creed Printed with the Short Cat. and both composed for the use of the Schools in Wales A discourse of Baptisme its institution and efficacy upon all believers Lond. 1652. qu. A consideration of the practice of the Church in baptizing infants of believing parents and the practice justified Printed with the former Discourse The great exemplar of sanctity and holy life according to the christian institution described in the life and death of Jesus Christ In three parts Lond. 1653. fol. sec edit Lond. 1667. fol. 4th edit The sixth edit of which book bearing the title of Antiquitates Christianae c. is printed together with another book entit Antiquitates Apostolicae Or the Lives Acts and Martyrdoms of the holy Apostles of our Saviour c. Written by Will. Cave D. D. Chapl. in ord to K. Ch. 2. sometimes of S. Johns Coll. in Cambr. since Minister of Islington near Lond Canon of Windsore and author of several books Clerus Domini or a discourse of the divine institution necessity sacredness and separation of the office Ministerial c. Lond. 1655 in a thin fol. This is mention'd before but not so full A farther explication of the doctrine of original sin Lond. 1656. oct The first explication is in his Unum necessarium before mention'd cap. 7. Both which explications being very heterodox were generally condemned A collection of Offices or forms of Prayer in cases ordinary and extraordinary c. Lond. 1658. oct The Psalter or Psalmes of David after the Kings translation with arguments to every psalme Pr. with the Collection of Offices See before in the first Vol. in Christoph Hatton an 1591. p. 223. The Ephesian Matron Lond. 1659. in tw Certain letters to Hen. Jeanes concerning a passage of his Jeanes in the explication of original sin Oxon. 1660. published by the said H. Jeanes The worthy Communicant or a discourse of the nature effects and blessings subsequent to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper c. Lond. 1660. 67. c. octavo Cases of conscience occurring in the duty of him that ministers and him that communicates Pr. with the Worthy Com. Letter concerning praying with the spirit c. Lond. 1660. qu. set before Hen. Leslie B. of Downe and Connor his Discourse of praying with the spirit and with understanding in two serm preached at Hillsborough an 1659 on 1 Cor. 14. ver 15. Lond. 1660. qu. Rule and exercise of holy living c. together with prayers containing the whole duty of a Christian c. Lond. 1668 eighth edit The twelfth edit came out in 1680. and all printed in tw and oct Rule and exercise of holy dying c. Lond. 1668. eighth edit The twelfth came out in 1680 and all printed in tw and oct Ductor Dubitantium or the rule of conscience in all her general measures serving as a great instrument for the determination of cases of conscience In four books Lond. 1660. fol. which was the first edit I think There again 1676. third edit Rules and advices to the Clergy of the dioc of Downe and Connor c. Dubl 1661. oct Lond. 1663 c. See before Discourse of artificial beauty in point of Conscience between two Ladies Pr. 1662. oct A disswasive from Popery to the people of Ireland Lond. 1664. qu. This seems to be different from the two parts of the Disswasive before mention'd Qu. Succinct narrative of the life of Dr. Jo. Bramhall Archb. of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland This is in or at the end of the Sermon preached at his funeral 16 Jul. 1663 by our Author Dr. Jer. Taylor Which
County of Middlesex c. RICHARD RHODES a Gentlemans Son of London was educated in Westminster School transplanted thence to Ch. Ch. and soon after was made Student thereof being then well grounded in Grammar and in the practical part of Musick He wrot and compos'd Flora's Vagaries a Comedy Which after it had been publickly acted by the Students of Ch. Ch. in their common Refectory on the 8. of Januar. 1663 and at the Theatre-Royal by his Majesties Servants was made publick at Lond. 1670 and afterwards in 1677. qu. This Person who only took one degree in Arts at which time he made certain compositions in Musick of two or more parts but not as I conceive extant went afterwards into France and took as I have heard a degree in Physick at Mountpelior But being troubled with a rambling head must needs take a journey into Spain where at Madrid he died and was buried in sixteen hundred sixty and eight In which year also George More M. of A. and Fellow of Oriel Coll died there also being then in attendance on the English Embassador JOSEPH ALLEIN son of Tobie Alleine was born in a Market Town in Wilts called The Vies or Devises an 1633 and being when a Child forward to learn was educated in Grammar there which faculty he in a short time conquering was instructed by a Minister of that or a neighbouring place in the art of Logick At 16 years of age he was sent to Linc. Coll. being then well skill'd in the Lat. and Gr. tongue where continuing till 8. of Nov. 1651. was then admitted Scholar of that of Corp. Chr. and in short time after if the Wilts Fellowship should happen to be void as it did he would consequently have been Fellow But he esteeming himself as most admirably well gifted for extempore prayer as indeed he was by those of his party who took him to be a pretious young man for he and his friend could hardly ever walk or discourse together but before they parted they must at his request go and pray together he humbly desired the President of the said Coll. that upon the next vacancy of a Chaplainship he would confer that office upon him purposely as was conceived by some that he might shew his excellencies in publick twice in a day I say that he being sollicitous for that place his acquaintance would often disswade him from taking it as being much inferior to a Fellowship yet take it he did prised it and looked upon it as his honour and happiness to enjoy it This was I presume in the beginning of the year 1653 for in July that year he as Chaplain of Corp. Ch. Coll. was admitted Bach. of Arts. But before he could stay to take the degree of Master he received a Call to assist George Newton Minister of Taunton S. Magdalen in Somersetshire an 1655 where being ordained in a publick association meeting of the Brethren he administred all ordinances jointly with Mr. Newton Soon after our author Joseph received another Call to take to Wife a fair and holy Sister which being effected he would as in jest complain to his intimate friend of C. C. C. of the inconveniences of marriage viz. that whereas he used to rise at four of the clock in the morn or before his loving spouse would keep him in bed till about six Also whereas he used to study 14 hours in a day she would bring him to eight or nine And lastly that whereas he used to forbear one meal a day at least for his studies she would bring him to his meat c. At Taunton in this employment under Mr. Newton he continued till Barthelmewtide called by his party The black day an 1662 at which time being deprived of it for non-conformity sate silent for a time to his great regret At length receiving a third Call for the propagation of the Gospel he would by all means forsooth go into China to do it but being disswaded by the Brethren he fed the flock of Gods people in private At length he being snap'd for a Conventicler was committed to prison at Ilchester where he continued some years not without teaching and preaching and writing letters to the chosen of God in Taunton Several pieces of his practical divinity he hath written of which these are published A most familiar explanation of the Assemblies shorter Catechisme Wherein their larger answers are broken into lesser parcels thereby to let the light by degrees into the minds of the learners When this was first printed I cannot find Sure I am the last edition came out at Lond. 1674. in oct A most brief help for the necessary but much neglected duty of self examination to be dayly perused Printed with the former book Letter of Christian councell to a destitute flock Printed with the former also Christian letters full of spiritual instructions c. Lond. 1672. oct They are about 40 in number and were all written in prison to persons of his Church Five more were added to the second edit Lond. 1677. oct Cases of Conscience c. Lond. 1672. oct This goes under his name and without doubt he was the Author of it Remains being a collection of sundry directions sermons sacrament speeches and letters not heretofore published Lond. 1674 oct The true way to happiness in a serious treatise shewing 1 What conversion is not c. 2 What conversion is c. This book commended in two Epistles one by Mr. Rich. Baxter the other by Rich. Alleine was printed at Lond. 1675. oct It is the same book with that of the same author which was publ in 8o. an 1672 entit An alarum to the unconverted c. The other part of the title is altogether the same with this before mention'd and at the end of this new impression if they be different in more than their titles is a copy of English verses said to be made on the reading of Mr. Jos Alleine's book entit An alarum to the unconverted which plainly shews that they are the same Mr. Baxter tells us that he was also author of The Synopsis of the Covenant Or God speaking from mount Gerizim c. Printed in Mr. Rich. Alleine's book entit Heaven opened c. being the third part of his Vindiciae poetatis In which book is also printed another shorter piece entit A Sololoquie representing a believers trial in Gods Covenant c. Also another shorter than that called A form of words expressing mans covenanting with God Besides these he hath also written Prayers for his peoples use And a little thing entit A call to Archippus to perswade the silent Nonconformists to pity Souls And left behind him at his death several Theological MSS written and composed by him but all or most are imperfect except this Theologiae Philosophicae sive Philosophiae Theologicae specimen In quo aeterni dei providentia solius naturâ— lumine comprobatur c. Written an 1661 and licensed for the Press but being
should have known whether he was the same who was afterwards the famed Author of Hudibras After Sam. Butler had continued in Cambridge about 6 or 7 years but in what Coll. or Hall his brother knows not he was taken into the service of Elizabeth Countess of Kent in whose family living several years he did for a diversion exercise his parts in Painting and Musick and at length became so noted for the first that he was entirely beloved of Sam. Cooper the Prince of Limners of his age Great Selden who was much conversant in the family of that Countess had an esteem for and would often employ him to write letters beyond sea and translate for him At riper years he studied the Common Law but did not practise it only lived on the jounture of a widow that he had married After the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he became Secretary to Richard Earl of Carbury L. President of the Principality of Wales and of the Marches thereof who as 't is said made S. Butler Steward of Ludlow Castle when the Court there was revived Afterwards he became Secretary to George Duke of Buckingham when he was made Chancellour of the University of Cambridge and had promises of places and employments of greater value and credit from Edward Earl of Clarendon when he was L. Chanc. of England especially for this cause that his Majesty had a respect for him and the more for his poem called Hudibras the first part of which came out in 8o. an 1663 and was not only taken into his Majesties hands and read by him with great delight but also by all Courtiers loyal Scholars and Gentlemen to the great profit of the Author and Bookseller Afterwards came out a second part and both printed together with several additions and annotations And at length a third and last part but without annotations as by the copy printed 1678 appears In 1682 was published in 8o. Butlers Ghost or Hudibras The fourth part with reflections on these times But whether he was the Author of I know not for I have not yet seen it This Sam. Butler who was a boon and witty companion especially among the company he knew well died of a Consumption 25 of Sept. 1680 and was according to his desire buried six foot deep in the yard belonging to the Church of S. Paul in Covent Garden within the Liberty of Westminster viz. at the west end of the said yard on the north side and under the wall of the Church and under that wall which parts the yard from the common high way As for our voluminous Author Will. Prynne he died in his lodgings in Lincolns Inn on the 24 of Oct. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was buried in the Walk under the Chappel there which stands upon Pillars Over whose grave tho there is no Epitaph only his name and Obit which are now worn out yet I shall venture to give you this Epitaph that was then made upon him Here lies the corps of William Prynne A Bencher late of Lincolns Inn Who restless ran through thick and thin This grand scripturient paper-spiller This endless needless margin-filler Was strangly tost from post to pillar His brains career were never stopping But pen with rheume of gall still dropping Till hand o're head brought ears to cropping Nor would he yet surcease such theams But prostitute new virgin-reams To types of his fanatick dreams But whilst he this hot humour hugs And for more length of tedder tugs Death fang'd the remnant of his lugs NATHANIEL FIENNES second son to Will. Fiennes Vicount Say and Sele of whom I have made mention before was born at Broughton in Oxfordshire educated in Grammar learning in Wykeham's school near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. at his first entry therein because he was a Founders kinsman an 1624 aged 16 years where continuing about 5 years departed without a degree and went to the Inns of Court or to travel or both In 1640 he was elected Burgess for Banbury to sit in that Parliament which began at Westm in Apr. the same year and again for the same place to sit in that that commenc'd the 3 of Nov. following wherein shewing himself very busie and zealous for the Cause had a Commission given to him to be Captain of a Troop and afterwards to be Colonel of a Regiment of Horse under Robert Earl of Essex the Capt. Gen. of the Parliament Forces raised to fight against the King Afterwards shewing himself a zealot for the Covenant and professing himself in all respects to be a thorough-paced Parliamenteer was made Governour of the Garrison of Bristow when first taken in for the use of the Parliament Where being no sooner setled but he used many insolencies and barbarities too many here to be named among which was 1 His causing the Kings Proclamation forbidding all Sea-men and Marriners and all Officers of his Navy to take employment under Robert Earl of Warwick lately made Admiral of the Kings royal Navy by the Parliament to be burnt in the publick market-place there 4 March 1642 by the hands of one of the City Sargeants being then the chief market-day notwithstanding he connived at the publishing it the day before 2 In causing to be murdered under the notion of Plotters against the Parliament two eminent Citizens of Bristow Rob. Yeomans and George Bowcher notwithstanding his Maj. sent letters in their behalf to have their lives spared to the extream horror and amazement of all honest men and the great grief of his Majesty who could not choose but look upon it as the most barbarous act which the impudence and cruelty of the said Rebellion had produced against him 3 In his and his murtherous Crews contempt and profanation of Gods holy Worship and Service and permitting the rending of Surplices tearing the book of common-Common-Prayer breaking down Organs exterminating the whole Liturgy out of the Congregations c. 4 His discountenancing and driving away the orthothodox Ministers and substituting in their places the most infamous and notorious Schismaticks that he could pick out of Bristow and other places as Joh. Tombes of Lemster Edm Cradock .... Bacon .... Walter .... Simonds and one Mathew Hazard whom tho I name last yet deserves to have precedency of all the rest as being a main Incendiary in the Rebellion violently egged on by his wife whose disciple the silly man was But at length the said City of Bristow being by Col. Fiennes surrendred to Pr. Rupert for the use of his Majesty 27 July 1643 he was thereupon called into question and articles were drawn up against him by the restless proceedings of Will. Prynne and Clem. Walker So that he being tryed for his life for the same before a Council of War sitting at S. Alban in Dec. the same year notwithstanding he had made a large defence for what he had done in open Parliament on the 5 of Aug. going before he was sentenced to lose his head for
so pleasing to the Royalists who have found much wit and mirth therein that some of them have caused it to be chained to desks in publick places and in some country Churches to be read by the vulgar But as by the publishing of this book he hath much displeased the Presbyterians of whom some have fallen foul upon him in their Writings for so doing so hath he more displeased another party for the writing of this book following The history of the Romish Treasons and Usurpations with an account of many gross corruptions and impostures of the Church of Rome c. Lond. 1671 and 81. fol. Which book had it not fallen into the hands of a knavish Bookseller might have been extant in the life time of the author and so consequently more compleat and exact than now it is At its first publication I was enformed by a letter written by a noted man of that party that the Papists did look upon the said book as a simple thing That he the Author fought against his own shadow and that all sober Catholicks did disallow much of what he combats against That he prayed much to the Lord that he might live to see his book published and then nunc dimittis but it was not granted him c. This Mr. Foulis had laid the foundations of other books which he intended to advance and have them published but the day before he died he committed them to the flames as many other notes he did which would have been serviceable to some scholars He ended his days in the prime of his years occasion'd by a generous and good natur'd intemperance on the Vigil of the Nativity of our Saviour in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was buried under the north wall at the upper end of the Chancel of S. Michaels Church within the City of Oxon. on the 26 of Dec. being S. Steph. day In his grave was afterwards buried William Stone LL. Bach. sometimes Principal of New Inn who died 22 June 1685. SAMUEL CLARKE right famous for oriental learning son of Thom. Clarke of Brackley a market town in Northamptonshire was born there or at least in that County became a Student in Mert. Coll. in Lent term 1638 aged 15 years where continuing about three years left the University then with the City about to be garrison'd for the Kings use Some time after the surrender thereof to the Parliament he returned to his College submitted to the Visitors and the same year 1648 he took the degree of M. of Arts. The next year July 24 he was designed the first Architypographus of the University and for his better encouragement in that Office had the grant of the superior Beadleship of the Civil Law when it should fall void given to him and after his death to his Successors in that place for ever In 1650 he was Master of a Boarding-school at Islington near London where continuing for some time did give his assisting hand towards the correcting and publishing of the Polyglott Bible In 1658 he made another return to the University and upon a foresight of the death of him that held the superior Beadleship of Law was elected Architypographus 14 May 1658 and on the 29 of the same month superior Beadle of the Civil Law both which places he kept to his dying day and shew'd himself a most necessary and useful person in the concerns thereof belonging to the University Vir Graecis latinisque literis probe instructus in studiis philologicis versatissimus c. His Works are these Variae lectiones observationes in Chaldaicum Paraphrasin These are in the sixth Vol. of the Polyglott Bible beginning in pag. 17. You are to understand that in this Vol. which consists chiefly of notes on the many versions of the other precedent Volumes there are divers number of pages and therefore I cannot better refer you to his Notes than I have done already Scientia metrica rhythmica seu tractatus de Prosodia Arabica ex authoribus probatiss eruta Oxon. 1661. oct Septimum Bibliorum Polyglott 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 volumen cum versionibus antiquissimis non Chaldaica tantum sed Syriacis Aethiopicis Copticis Arabicis Persicis contextum This is yet in MS and not printed He did also accurately describe and turn into Latine from the original Autographe in Cambridge publick Library Paraphrastes Chaldaeus in lib. Paralipomen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 n. Which book Dr. Edm. Castell consulted when he composed his Lexicon Heptaglotton as he tells you in the Preface to the first Vol. of that elaborate work And it is mention'd to be the labour of Mr. Sam. Clarke in the Proposals of the University of Oxon for printing of MS published in Sept. in half a sheet of paper an 1681 Our Author Clarke also took great pains in the Hebrew Text Chaldee Paraphrase and the Persian Gospells in the Polyglott Bible which last he translated into Latine This Translation is placed next after the several Versions of the Apocryphal books There also goes under his name a Translation out of Hebrew into Latine the Mishna of the first Massěceth or Tract of the Talmud called Beracoth i. e. about their prayers and forms of blessing See more in Tho. Greaves an 1676. He paid his last debt to nature in his house in Halywell in the Suburb of Oxon on the 27 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was buried in the middle of the body of the Church belonging to the said Parish of Halywell dedicated to the Holy Cross Two days after his death was an election made for his successor in the place of Beadle and Architypographus for which stood Tho. Bennet M. A. of Ch. Ch. then Corrector of the University press being put up by his Dean Dr. Joh. Fell as being the most fit person that could be then thought on But Bennet stirring little in the matter supposing the Masters could not otherwise but choose tho then they had little or no respect for him they elected a boon companion not at all fit to be Archityp named Norton Bold M. A. and Fellow of C. C. Coll. who had been put aside from being elected when he stood after the death of Edm. Gayton mention'd under the year 1666. This being done to the discontent of Dr. Fell as Lichfields Election was after Gayton's death who could not otherwise but look upon it as a great contempt of his generous design he upon a foresight of the short life of the then superior Beadle of Div. Tim. Wilkins obtained a Mandamus that Mr. Bold should be translated to that place and thereby make his once more vacant and so consequently bring his man therein Soon after Wilkins died and a Convocation thereupon being called Oct. 6. an 1671 Bold was translated to that place by virtue of the said Mandamus to his advantage and somewhat of disgrace At that time were Candidates for the supply of that vacancy Mr. Bennet before mention'd Noah
years and was buried according to his desire near the west door fast by the Christning pew in S. Pauls Church in Covent Garden within the liberty of Westm but he was no kin to the former Will. Neile because he was of the Neales of Wollaston near Northampton JOSHUA CHILDREY son of Robert Childrey was born within the City of Rochester where being educated in Grammar learning became a Student in Magd. Coll. in Lent term 1640 aged 17 years and about that time was made one of the Clerks of the said house But soon after leaving the University upon the eruption of the civil war he returned to his native Country and came not again till the Garrison of Oxon was surrendred for the use of the Parliament at which time taking the degree of Bach. of Arts was two years after that expelled by the Parliamentarian Visitors Afterwards he taught School at Faversham in Kent yet not without some disturbance by the godly party where continuing till his Maj. restoration was made Chaplain to Henry Lord Herbert was actually created D. of D. and had the Rectory of Upway in Dorsetshire bestowed on him In the year 1663 Jan 23 he was collated to the Archdeaconry of Salisbury on the death of Dr. Anth. Hawles and on the first of June 1664 he was collated to the Prebendship of Yatminster Prima in the Church of Salisbury by Dr. Earle Bishop of that place he being then accounted a learned and religious Divine a good Astrologer and a great Virtuoso His works are Indago Astrologica or a brief and modest inquiry into some principal points of Astrology as it was delivered by the Fathers of it and is now generally received by the Sons of it Lond. 1652. in 2. sh in qu. Syzygiasticon instauratum or an Ephemeris of the places and aspects of the Planets c. calculated for the year 1653. Lond. 1653 oct His chief design is to prove the aspects of the Planets related to the Sun of greater efficacy in the change of the air then when respecting the earth as center c. Britannia Baconica or the natural rarities of England Scotland and Wales According as they are to be found in every Shire Historically related according to the precepts of the Lord Bacon c. with observations upon them and deductions from them c. Lond. 1661. oct From which book Dr. Rob. Plot took a hint for the writing The natural History of Oxfordshire As for the other works of his which are not extant you may be pleased to know from his letter dated at Upway 12. Jul. 1669. written to Mr. Hen. Oldenburg Secretary of the Royal Soâ—ciety concerning some observations of the weather philosophical collections Portland and Purbeck stones serving for fewel shifting of tydes at Weymouth c. thus In my next God willing I shall send you part of my collections of Naturalls out of voyages and itineraries In the mean time take this brief account of my studies so far as concerns Philosophy Some two years before the happy return of the King I bought me as many paper books of about 16 sheets apiece as my Lord Verulam Bacon had Histories at the end of his Novum Organon Into which books being noted with the figure and title given them by my Lord I entred all Philosophical matters that I met with observable in my reading and intend God willing to continue it This I acquaint you with to let you see how earnest and serious I have been for several years in that which is the business of the Royal Society tho indeed I first fell in love with the Lord Bacons philosophy in the year 1646 and tried several experiments though such as I now reckon be not of any moment in 1647. 48. 49. 50 and besides these I have two larger paper books in folio one of which I call Chronologia naturalis and the other Geographia naturalis the former containing the time of all droughts comets earthquakes c. and the other the natural rarities of Countries These paper books cannot be expected to be yet full and God knows whether I shall live to see them filled But God willing such and so as they are I intend to bequeath them to the Royal Society whensoever I die c. He concluded his last day at Upway before mention'd having never been of the said Society on the 26. of Aug. in sixteen hundred and seventy and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there In the latter end of Sept. following succeeded him in his Archdeaconry John Sherman Doct. of Div. of Camb. who dying in the parish of S. Sepulchre in London after a short injoyment of that Dignity viz. in the latter end of the year in March 1670 was succeeded in the beginning of May following by John Prideaux D. D. as I shall elsewhere tell you Besides this John Sherman was another of both his names but before him in time educated in Gramar learning in the Charter-house School in Academical in Trin. Coll. in Camb. where he arrived to great eminence in several sorts of literature He wrot a book entit White salt or a sober correction of a mad world in some well wishes to goodness Lond. 1654. oct and another called The infallibility of the holy Scripture asserted c. Lond. 1664. qu. c. This learned religious and conscientious Person died in Aug. as it seems an 1663. EDWARD FORD the eldest Son of Sir John Ford Knight was born at Uppark in the parish of Harting in Sussex became a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1621 aged 16 years but before he took a degree he left that House and whether afterwards he travelled or studied in the Inns of Court I know not Sure it is that about the beginning of the Civil War he was prick'd High Sherriff for Sussex adheer'd to the King at Oxon from whom he received the honour of Knighthood there 4. Oct. 1643 and about that time had a commission to be a Colonel in his Army against the Rebels for which afterwards he suffered equally with other Royalists In Nov. 1647 when the King made his escape from Hampton Court he with Dr. Steph. Goffe were committed to safe custody as being suspected for the design of the Kings escape In 1656 he upon Olivers encouragement and invitation of the chief Citizens of London raised the Thames water into all the highest streets of that City ninety three foot high in four eight-inch pipes to the wonder of all and honor of the nation done at his own charge and in one years time with his rare engine that he had invented for that purpose by which several parts of the nation did afterwards find benefit in the draining of Mines and Lands much better and cheaper than any other device before 'T was he also that made the great water Engine against Somersethouse for the serving the Inhabitants of the Strand and of other parts adjoyning with water which hindring the
he return'd again and told him that the Lieu. Gen. intended his good and advancement and that his particular errand was that he would make use of his Pen to write the History of the late War desiring withal that nothing but matters of fact be impartially set down c. To which he returned answer that he desired his humble service and hearty thanks be returned for that great honour done unto him and withal that he was uncapable in several respects for such an employment and could not so impartially engage in it but that his subject would force him to make such reflections as would be ungrateful if not injurious to his Lordship Notwithshanding this answer Cromwell seemed so sensible of his worth that tho he could not win him over to his desires yet he acknowledged a great respect for him and as a testimony thereof he ordered that upon the first demand there should be delivered three or four hundred pounds by a certain Bookseller in London whose name was Cromwell whensoever his occasions should require without acknowledging any benefactor at the receipt of it But this offer as I have been informed by our authors Son John Casaubon a Chirurgion of Canterbury he scorned to accept tho his condition was then mean At the same time it was proposed by the said Greaves who belonged to the library at S. James that if our author would gratifie him in the foregoing request Cromwell would restore unto him all his Fathers books which were then in the Royal Library there given by K. James who had invited him into England and withal a Patent for 300 l. per an to be paid to the family so long as the youngest Son of Dr. Is Casaubon should live but this also was refused Not long after there was a proposal made by the then Sweedish Ambassador in England from Christina Qu. of Sweedland to our author M. Casaubon whereby he was invited by the said Queen into her Country to have the government of one or inspection of all her Universities and for an encouragement she proposed not only an honorable Salary for himself but offered to settle 300 l. per an upon his eldest Son during life But this also was waved with full design to spend the remainder of his days in England After the Kings return he was restored to his Spiritualities and went on in writing books which he continued almost to his last He was a general Scholar but not extraordinary in any one sort unless in criticisms wherein his Fathers notes might probably have set him up He was also a religious man loyal to his Prince exemplary in his life and conversation and very charitable to the poor The Writings and Translations which he published were many as the Catalogue following will tell you Pietas contra maledicos patrii nominis religionis hostes Lond. 1621. oct Vindicatio patris adversus impostores qui librum ineptum impium De origine idolatriae nuper sub Isaaci Casauboni nomine publicavit Lond. 1624. 25. in 8. sh in qu. Which book Of the original of idolatry was translated out of a French copy by Abr. Darcy Isaac Casaubon having been dead about 10 years before and was dedicated to Prince Charles and presented to K. James and all the Lords of the Council It is said to have been written before Isaac Casaubon was born but his name being fraudently inserted in the title page Meric the Son who was then a Student of Ch. Ch. informed his Majesty by Letters of the wrong done to his Father by making him the author of such a book contrary to his Genius and constant profession being full of impertinent allegations out of obscure and late authors whom his Father never thought worthy the reading much less the using their authority After his Majesties perusal of that letter he was much incensed at the matter and Dr. Mountaigne Bishop of Lond. had much ado to make his Chaplains peace for licensing it the printer and translator being for some time kept in prison Yet after all this the same translation was printed at Amsterdam with a justificatory preface of the former edition to make the book more vendible for their own profit tho discredit to the memory of others He the said Mer. Casaubon hath also written Notae emendationes in Optatum Afrum Milevitani Episcopum de schismate Donatistarum Lond. 1631. oct Translation out of Gr. into English of and notes upon Marc. Aurel. Antoninus his meditations concerning himself Lond. 1634. 35. qu. Revised and corrected Lond. 1664. oct 3d. edit c. Treatise of use and custome in things natural civil and divine Lond. 1638. qu. The use of dayly publick prayers in three positions Lond. 1641. qu. Notae emendationes in Marci Antonini Imperatoris de seipso ad seipsum libros XII Lond. 1643. oct Guil. Xylander did first of all make the said book publick in Gr. and Lat Which version our author did mend in many places and made it new c. The original cause of temporal evils Lond. 1645. qu. Discourse concerning Christ his incarnation and exinanition Lond. 1646. qu. Before which is an introduction Concerning the principles of Christianity and Divinity De verborum usu accuratae eorum cognitionis utilitate Diatriba Lond. 1647. in tw De quatuor linguis commentationis pars prior quae de lingua Hebraica de lingua Saxonica Lond. 1650 oct The author had not opportunity of finishing the other two tongues Gr. and Lat. Some annotations on the Psalmes and Proverbs Done at the earnest request of certain Booksellers whereof our author hath given a farther account in the first part of Credulity p. 106. Which Annotations were in the last edit of the Assemblies Annotations on the Bible reprinted with some additions Notae in Hieroclem de providentia fato Lond. 1655. octavo Treatise concerning Enthusiasme as it is an effect of nature but is mistaken by many for either divine inspiration or diabolical possession Lond. 1655. 56. oct Translation into Engl. of and notes on Luc. Florus Hist of the Romans Lond. 1658. 59. oct Notae in Epicteti Enchiridion Lond. 1659. oct Notae in Cebetis tabulam Lond. 1659. oct Notae in Paraphrasin Enchiridii Lond. 1659. oct De nupera Homeri Editione Lugdunâ-Batavicâ Hackiana dissertatio Lond. 1659. oct Dissertatiuncula super loco Homerico quo Dei in hominem tam mentes quam fortunas imperium asseritur Printed with the former book 1659. Vindication of the Lords prayer as a formal prayer and by Christs institution to be used by Christians as a prayer Lond. 1660. oct The first occasion of writing this treatise was the relation of a strange affront done publickly unto Christ or if you will more punctually to the Lords Prayer in the chief Church of Oxon by one Dr. John Owen that had under the usurping powers the chief â—â—vernment of that famous University from 1652 to 1657. Concerning the heinousness of which affront viz. by putting
freed himself from that suspicion I know not Sure it is that he was a most dangerous and seditious Person a politick Pulpit driver of Independency an insatiable esurient after riches and what not to raise a family and to heap up wealth He hath written Letter from Scotland to his Brethren in England concerning his success of affairs there Lond. 1643. qu. Steph. Marshalls name is also subscribed to it Exhortation to the taking of the solemn league and Covenant for reformation and defence of religion c. Printed at Lond. in Feb. 1643 and there again once or twice That edit which came out in 1645 is in tw The excellency and lawfulness of the solemn league and covenant set forth in a speech to the H. of Commons and the reverend Assembly of Ministers at the taking of the said covenant 25 Sept. 1643. Lond. 1660. second edit qu. Apologetical narration submitted to the honourable Houses of Parliament Lond. 1643. qu. In this narration are joyned with Phil. Nye others as Thom. Goodwin Sidrach Simpson Jerem. Burroughs and Will. Bridge all formerly in exile but then members of the Ass of Divines In an answer to this by Anon 't is said that it was written by Tho. Goodwin and Phil. Nye only as the title of the said answer tells you thus An anatomy of Independency or a brief commentary and moderate discourse upon The Apologetical narration of Mr. Tho. Goodwin and Mr. Phil. Nye Lond. 1644. qu. An Epistolary discourse about toleration Lond. 1644. qu. In this discourse are joyned with him Tho. Goodwin and Sam. Hartlib The keys of the Kingdom of Heaven and power thereof according to the word of God c. Lond. 1644. sec edit Thom. Goodwin had also a hand in this book Mr. Anth. Sadler examined or his disguise discovered shewing the gross mistakes and most notorious falshoods in his dealing with the Commissioners for approbation of publick preachers in his Inquisitio Anglicana c. Lond. 1654. qu. Tho no name is set to this pamphlet yet 't was generally reported that it was wrot by Joh. Nye Bach. of Arts of Magd. Coll. and Clerk to the said Triers or Commissioners assisted therein by his Father The Principles of faith presented by Tho. Goodwin Ph. Nye c. to the Committee of Parliament for religion by way of explanation to the proposals for propagating the Gospel Lond. 1654. qu. Beames of former light discovering how evil it is to impose doubtful and disputable formes for practices upon Ministers especially under the penalty of ejection for nonconformity unto the same c. Lond. 1660. qu. Case of great and present use c. Printed 1677. oct The lawfulness of the oath of Supremacy and power of the King in Ecclesiastical affairs with Qu. Elizabeths admonition c. Lond. 1683. qu. It was then reprinted and in 1687 being printed again it was dedicated by Hen. Nye the Authors Son to K. Jam. 2. Vindication of Dissenters proving that their particular congregations are not inconsistent with the Kings supremacy in Ecclesiastical affairs Printed with The Lawfulness c. 1683. Some account of the nature constitution and power of Ecclesiastical courts Printed with the former also an 1683. The Lawfulness of hearing the publick Ministers of the Church of England proved by Phil. Nye and John Robinson Lond. 1683. qu. He hath also a Sermon extant preached before the Citizens of London an 1659 Printed that year in qu. and perhaps more and something about catechising which I have not yet seen He died in the Parish of S. Mich. Cornhill or near it in Lond. in the month of September in sixteen hundred seventy and two and was buried on the 27 day of the same month in the upper Vault under part of the said Church of S. Michael I have been informed by those that knew this Mr. Nye that he had much more moderation in his last years than he ever before shewed To which I then made answer that good reason he had so to be because he was altogether incapacitated from being otherwise JOHN WILKINS Son of Walt. Wilk Citizen and Goldsmith of Oxon was born at Fawlsley near to Daventry in Northamptonshire in the house of his Mothers Father Joh. Dod the Decalogist educated in Grammar Learning under Edw. Silvester a noted Greecian who taught a private School in Allsaints Parish in Oxon entred a Student in New Inn in Easter Term an 1627 aged 13 years but making no long stay there he was removed to Magd. Hall under the tuition of Mr. Joh. Tombes and as a Member thereof took the degrees in Arts. Afterwards entring into holy Orders he became Chaplain to William Lord Say and afterwards to Charles Count Palatine of the Rhyne and Prince Elector of the Empire with whom he continued for some time At length upon the breaking out of the Rebellion he closed with the Presbyterians having always before been puritanically affected and took the Covenant Afterwards being designed by the Committee for the reformation of this University to be Warden of Wadham Coll he was actually created Bach. of Div. in the Pembrochian Creation 12 Apr. 1648 and the next day was put into possession of his Wardenship in the place of a loyal person then ejected The next year he was created Doct. of Div. and about that time took the Engagement that is to be faithful to the Commonwealth of England as it was then established without a King or House of Lords In 1656 or thereabouts he took to wife Robina the widow of Pet. French sometimes Canon of Ch. Ch. and sister to Oliver Cromwell Protector of England which marriage being contrary to the Statutes of Wadh. Coll. because they prohibit the Warden thereof from marrying while he is Warden he obtained a dispensation from Oliver to keep it notwithstanding Afterwards by the favour of Richard Cromwell who succeeded Oliver in the Protectorship he had the Headship of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge confer'd upon him upon the death of Dr. Jo. Arrowsmith in the beginning of 1659 which is the best preferment in that University But being ejected thence the next year about the time of his Majesties Restauration he became Preacher as it seems to the honorable Society of Greys Inn Minister of S. Lawrence in the Jewry in London in the place of Dr. Ward took the Oaths again which he before had taken when he took his Academical degrees and entred into the Ministry and became a member of the Royal Society of and to which he was one of the Council and at length a considerable benefactor Soon after he was made Dean of Rippon in the room as I suppose of Tho. Dod D. D. Rector of Malpass in Cheshire and sometimes Chapl. in ord to K. Jam. and K. Ch. 1. who dying 10 of March 1647 was buried in the Church of Malpass and at length by the endeavours of George Duke of Buckingham then in favour with K. Ch. 2 he obtained upon the death of Dr. George Hall the
Bishoprick of Chester to which he was consecrated in the Chappel at Ely house in Holborn on the 15 of Nov. 1668 by Dr. Cosin Bishop of Durham Dr. Laney B. of Ely and Dr. Ward Bishop of Salisbury at which time Dr. Jo. Tillotson Preacher of Lincolns Inn delivered an excellent sermon upon that occasion This Dr. Wilkins was a person endowed with rare gifts he was a noted Theologist and Preacher a curious Critick in several matters an excellent Mathematician and Experimentist and one as well seen in Mechanecismes and new Philosophy of which he was a great Promoteâ— as any of his time He also highly advanced the study and perfecting of Astronomy both at Oxford whilst he was Warden of Wadh. Coll and at London whilst he was of the Royal Society and I cannot say to the contrary that there was any thing deficient in him but a constant mind and setled principles Dr. Gilb. Burnet tells us that this Dr. Wilkins who was for a Comprehension and a limited indulgence for Dissenters in Religion was a man of as great a mind as true a judgment as eminent virtues and of as good a soul as any he ever knew c. And one or more of the Royal Soc. say that all that knew Bishop Wilkins must needs acknowledge him for his universal insight into all parts of learning solid judgment rare prudence and dexterity in the management of worldly affairs and transactions universal charity ingenuity temper and moderation of spirit to have left behind him but few equals c. To pass by the Characters given of him in discourse by the great men of the Church of England as by Archb. Sheldon B. Fell Archb. Dolben c. who did malign him for his wavering and unconstant mind in Religion which I know will be displeasing to many I shall give you a cat of his works The discovery of a new world or a discourse tending to prove that 't is probable there may be another habitable world in the Moon Lind. 1638. 40. oct and there again in 1684. which is the fourth edit Discourse concerning the possibility of a passage to the world in the Moon Printed with the Discovery Discourse concerning a new Planet tending to prove that 't is probable our Earth is one of the Planets Lond. 1640. in oct The Authors name is not put to any one of these three things but they are so well known to be his that Langrenus in his Map of the Moon dedicated to the King of Spain names one of the spots of his Selenographick Map after his name Mercury or the secret Messenger shewing how a man may with privacy and speed communicate his thoughts to a friend at any distance Lond. 1641. The publication of which was occasion'd by the writing of a little thing called Nuncius inanimatus by Fr. Godwin Mathematical Magick or the wonders that may be performed by mechanical Geometry in two books Lond. 1648. 1680. oct The last edit hath the Authors picture before it in his Lawn sleeves Ecclesiastes or a discourse of the gift of preaching as it falls under the rules of art Lond. 1646. 47. 51. 53. 56. and 1675. oct Discourse concerning the beauty of Providence in all the rugged passages of it Lond. 1649. in tw Lond. 1677 fifth edit in oct Discourse concerning the gift of Prayer shewing what it is wherein it consists and how far it is attainable by industry c. Lond. 1653 and 1674 oct Essay towards a real Character and a philosophical Language Lond. 1668. fol. An account of which is in the Philosophical Transactions num 35. The Reader may be pleased now to know that one George Dolgarno a Scot wrot a book intit Ars signorum vulgo character universalis lingua philosophica Lond. 1660 61. oct This book before it went to the Press the Author communicated to Dr. Wilkins who from thence taking an hint of a greater matter carried it on and brought it up to that which you see extant This Dolgarno was born at Old Aberdene and bred in the University at New Aberdene taught a private Grammar School with good success for about thirty years together in the Parishes of S. Michael and S. Mary Magd. in Oxford wrot also Didascalocophus or the deaf and dumb mans Tutor Oxon. in oct and dying of a fever on the 28 of Aug. 1687 aged 60 or more was buried in the north body of the Church of S. Mary Magd. in the Suburbs of Oxon. Dr. Wilkins hath also written An alphabetical Dictionary wherein all English words according to their various significations are either referred to their places in the philosophical Tables or explained by such words as are in those Tables This is printed with the Essay Of the principles and duties of natural Religion two books Lond. 1675. oct Published by Jo. Tillotson D. D. Sermons preached upon several occasions Lond. 1682. oct They are in number 15 and were published by the said Dr. Tillotson Our learned and critical Author Dr. Wilkins died of the terrible disease of the Stone in the house of the said Dr. Tillotson then in Chancery-lane in London on the 19 of Nov. in sixteen hundred seventy and two and was buried on the 12 of Dec. following under the north wall of the Chancel of the Church of St. Lawrence in the Jewry before mention'd At which time Dr. Will. Lloyd then Dean of Bangor preached his funeral Sermon which having been since twice printed you may see his full character therein as also in the Epist dedic of Dr. Seth Ward made to Dr. Jonath Goddard put before the Inquisitio in Bullialdi Astronomiae fundamenta JASPER MAYNE made his first entry on the stage of this transitory world in a Market Town in Devonsh called Hatherlagh an 1604 entred into Ch. Ch. in the condition of a Servitor 1623 being then encouraged in his studies by Dr. Duppa Afterwards he was chosen into the number of Students took the degr in Arts holy Ord. and became a quaint Preacher and noted Poet. At length by the favour of the Dean and Canons of the said house he was made Vicar of Cassington near Woodstock and of Pyrton near Watlington in Oxfordshire In the beginning of the Rebellion when the King took up his abode in Oxon he was one of those many Divines that were appointed to preach before him the Court and Parliament and for his reward was actually created Doct. of Div. 1646. Two years after he was deprived of all right he had to his Students place and soon after of the Vicaridge of Pyrton and at length of Cassington So that being in a manner put to his shifts he was prefer'd to be Chaplain to the Earl of Devonshire and so consequently to be a Companion with Th. Hobbes of Malmsbury between whom there never was a right understanding After the Kings return he was made Canon of Ch. Ch. in Jul. 1660 and about that time was not only restored to his Vicaridges but was made
and mostly lived in Somerset house in the Strand within the liberty of Westminster c. One of his Adversaries tell us that Cressy was an author grave and sober whose reason was very keen and sharp one that he was the Coripheus of the Roman party which is true but I must take leave here to tell the reader that while he continued in Oxon he was accounted a quick and accurate Disputant a man of a good nature manners and natural parts and when in Orders no inconsiderable preacher But after he had spent diâ—ers years in a religious order and was returned into England his former acquaintance found great alterations in him as to parts and vivacity and he seemed to some to be possest with strange notions and to others a reserved Person and little better than a Melancholick Which mutation arose not perhaps known to him upon his solely giving himself up to religion the refinedness of his soul and the avoiding of all matters relating to humane and profane learning as vanities His works are these Exomologesis or a faithful narration of the occasions and motives of his conversion to Catholick unity Paris 1647. and 53. in oct In the last edition is an Appendix in which are cleared certain misconstructions of his Exomologesis published by J. P. author of the Preface to the Lord Falklands Discourse of infallibility This Exomologesis was the golden calf which the English Papists fell down to and worshipped They brag'd that book to be unanswerable and to have given a total overthrow to the Chillingworthians and book and tenents of Lucius Lord Falkland Sancta Sophia or directions for the prayer of contemplation c. extracted out of more than XL treatises written by the late rev Father Aug. Baker a Monk of the English congregation of the holy Order of S. Benedict Doway 1657. in 2. vol. in a large oct Certain patterns of devout exercises of immediate acts and affections of the will Printed with S. Sophia Roman-Catholick doctrines no novelties or an answer to Dr. Pierces Court Sermon miscalled The primitive rule of reformation Print 1663. in oct A non est inventus returned to Mr. Edw. Bagshaw's enquiry and vainly boasted discovery of weakness in the grounds of the Churches infallibility Pr. 1662. oct Letter written to an English Gent 16. July 1662 wherein Bishop Morley is concern'd Printed among some of the said Bishops treatises Lond. 1683. qu. The Church History of Britanny from the beginning of Christianity to the Norman conquest c. Printed at Roan in Normandy 1668. fol. 'T is mostly taken from 1 Annales Ecclesiae Britannicae Printed at Leodes 1663 in 4. vol written by Mich. Alford alias Griffith a Jesuit 2 The first and 2 vol. of Monast Anglic. Printed at Lond. 1655. and 1661. fol. 3 The Decem Scriptores Hist Anglicanae Printed there also in 1652. fol. and the collection in Ms contained in several folios made from several antient Mss relating to English antiquities chiefly in the Cottonian Library by Aug. Baker before mention'd Many severe censures have been given by learned men of the author Cressy for publishing many Miracles and Monkish stories in the said Ch. Hist of Britanny particularly by that great Master of the English language Edward somtimes Earl of Clarendon who knew him well in the University to be much averse to such matters as also the author of Reflexions upon the devotions of the Rom. Church c. Lond. 1674. oct Yet let this be said of him that forasmuch that he doth mostly quote his authors for and leaves what he says to the judgment of the Readers he is to be excused and in the mean time to be commended for his grave and good stile proper for an Ecclesiastical Historian After it was published he went forward with a second volume which was to conclude about the time of the dissolution of Monasteries made by K. Hen. 8 but before he had finished 300 years after the Norman Conquest he died Answer to part of Dr. Stillingfleets book entit Idolatry practised in the Church of Rome Printed 1672. in oct Fanaticisme fanatically imputed to the Cath. Church by Dr. Stillingfleet and the imputation refuted and retorted c. Printed 1672. oct Question why are you a Catholick Pr. 1673. oct Qu. why are you a Protestant Pr. 1673. oct Epistle Apologetical to a Person of honour touching his vindication of Dr. Stillingfleet Print 1674. oct The Person of honour was Edw. E. of Clarendon Reflections on the Oath of Supremacy This I have not yet seen He also published Sixteen revelations of divine love shewed to a devout servant of our Lord called mother Juliana an Anchorete of Norwych who lived in the days of K. Ed. 3. Printed 1670. oct and dedic by Cressy to the Lady Mary Blount of Sodington Widow of Sir George Blount and also changed from old into modern English more compendiously a book written before the change of religion entit An abridgment of the book called the cloud of unknowing and of the counsel referring to the same This is not printed but in Ms and was shewed to me by Fath. Wilfrid R a Benedictine Monk See more in Maur. Chawney in vol. 1. p. 160. At length Mr. Cressey having lived to about the age of man he surrendred up his last breath at East Greensted in Sussex in the house of Rich. Caryl Esq on the tenth day of Aug. S. Laurence day in the year sixteen hundred seventy and four and was buried in the Church there as I have been informed by the Superior of his order on this side of the river Trent in England named Gregory Mallet alias John Jackson who dying in the Sheldonian Family on the 10. Sept. 1681 was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Long Compton in Warwickshire THOMAS TRAHERNE a Herefordshire man born was entred a Communer of Brasn Coll. on the first day of March 1652 took one degree in Arts left the house for a time entred into the sacred function and in 1661 he was actually created Mast of Arts. About that time he became Rector of Credinhill commonly called Crednell near to the City of Hereford afterwards Domestick Chaplain to S. Orlando Bridgman Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and Minister of Tuddington called by some Teddington near Hampton Court in Middlesex and in 1669 Bach. of Divinity He hath written Roman forgeries or a true account of false records discovering the impostures and counterfeit antiquities of the Church of Rome Lond. 1673. oct Christian Ethicks or divine morality opening the way to blessedness by the rules of virtue and reason Lond. 1675. oct He died at Teddington before mention'd in the house of S. Orl. Bridgman and was buried on the tenth day of Octob. in the Church there under the reading desk in sixteen hundred seventy and four This Person who always led a single and a devout life was well read in primitive antiquity as in the Councils Fathers c. DAVID WHITFORD a
his learning desiring to be Master of no more than he knew how to use He was constantly known every day to walk his rounds among the Booksellers shops especially in Little Britaine in London and by his great skill and experience he made choice of such books that were not obvious to every mans eye He lived in times which ministred peculiar opportunities of meeting with books that were not every day brought into publick light And few eminent Libraries were bought where he had not the liberty to pick and choose Hence arose as that vast number of books so the choiceness and rarity of the greatest part of them and that of all kinds and in all sorts of learning especially in History of which he had the most considerable Writers of all ages and nations antient and modern especially of our own and the neighbouring nations of which as 't was thought there was scarce any thing wanting that was extant He was also a great collector of Mss whether antient or modern that were not extant and delighted much to be poring on them He collected also abundance of pamphlets published at and before the time of reformation of religion relating to Ecclesiastical affairs and it was supposed that the copies of some of them were not then extant in the World and therefore esteemed as choice as Mss Among the books relating to history were his collection of Lives the Elogia of illustrious men the authors who have written the lives and characters of Writers and such who have writ of the foundations of Monasteries Nor was he the owner of this choice treasure of books as an idle possessor or did he barely turn over the leaves but was a constant peruser of and upon his buying did generally collate them observed the defects of impressions the all arts used by many and compared the differences of editions concerning which and the like cases he with great diligence and industry entred many memorable and very useful remarks and observations upon very many of his books under his own hand He hath written Letter to Dr. Hen. Hammond concerning the sense of that article in the Creed He descended into Hell Dated from his house in Little Moorfields near London where he mostly lived after he had buried his Son in Apr. 1659. Which Letter being answer'd by Dr. Hammond in the same month were both afterwards published an 1684. See more in Dr. Hammond under the year 16â—0 p. 161. This I think is all that R. Smith hath extant Those things that are not are these Observations on the three grand Impostors Exposition on these words used in the form of Marriage with my body I thee worship Written in qu. Collection of expositions of Baptisme for the dead Wr. in qu. Collection of several expositions and opinions of Christs descent into hell See more in Dr. Hammond before mentioned Miscellaneous tracts chiefly Theological Collection of Arms belonging to the name of Smith in colours MS. in oct Vita S. Simonis Stock Angli Carmelitae Collected from the Writings and Mss of John Bale Life of Hugh Broughton and Cat. of his works He also translated from Latin into English 1 The fifth book of Histories of Corn. Tacitus 2 The order of receiving the new Bishop after his consecration before he enter into the Cathedral Church of Salisbury taken out of an old Ms ritual belonging to that Church and from French into English Bosquires Sermon before the company of Shoomakers in France an 1614. on the Festival of S. Crispin and Crispiana Besides these and others of his writing and translations he made ten thousand instances or remarks with his own hand either of authors in or before the title or in the margin of their works This Mr. Rich. Smith who was a man of an excellent temper great justice c. died 26. March in sixteen hundred seventy and five and was buried in the Church of S. Giles near to Cripplegate in London Soon after was a marble monument erected over his grave for him his Wife and Children with an inscription thereon which for brevity sake I shall now pass by Afterwards there was a design to buy his choice Library for a publick use by a collection of moneys to be raised among generous persons but the work being publick and therefore but little forwarded it came into the hands of Richard Chiswell a Bookseller living in S. Pauls Ch. yard London who printing a catalogue of with others added to them which came out after Mr. Smiths death they were exposed to sale by way of Auction to the great reluctancy of publick spirited men in May and June 1682. HEZEKIAH WOODWARD the youngest of the nine Children of his Father was born in Worcestershire and after he had spent six years or more in a Grammar school was sent to Oxon in the beginning of the year 1608 and setled in Ball. Coll. where being put under a careful Tutor took a degree in Arts in the latter end of the year 1611. Afterwards he retired to London taught school there several years and was esteemed eminent in his profession but having been always puritanically affected he sided with the Presbyterians upon the change of the times in 1641 was a great Zealot and frequent Preacher among them either at S. Mary in Aldermanbury or near it Afterwards he took the Covenant and shewed the use and necessity of it in his discourse and preachings but soon after when he saw the Independents and other factious people to be dominant he became one of them and not unknown to Oliver who having quartered more than an year in the Vicaridge-house at Bray near Maydenhead in Berks during the time of the Rebellion in which time he had opportunity to know the Parish to be very large being a whole Hundred of it self he sent afterwards thither our Author Woodward being then his Chaplain or at least Favourite under the notion of doing some eminent good to that great place and to take care of it and the souls therein This was about the year 1649 at which time one Mr. Brice the then Vicar left it and was afterwards Minister of Henley in Oxfordshire Here he continued ten years or more and had the good opinion of the rabble and factious people but of others of sense and judgment not He was always very invective in his sermons which by the sober party were accounted dull against the King his Followers whom he call'd Malignants the Church of England her Rites Ceremonies and all Forms of Worship and it is commonly now reported among the Inhabitants of Bray that he wrot a book against the Lords Prayer which was answer'd by Brice before mention'd He was also an eager man and spent much time in preaching against observation of times and days as Christmas Easter c. against May-poles Morices Dancing c. He had a select Congregation out of his Parish of those that were to be saved who frequently met to pray in the Vicaridge-house which if he had
severe Puritans and under a puritanical discipline And being esteemed a plain honest man a Person of great integrity and profound in the Law he was entertained by both as well loyal as Presbyterian parties In 1643 he took the Covenant and as I have been often informed he appeared several times with other Lay-persons among the Assembly of Divines He was then in great esteem with the Parliament and was employed by the members thereof as to his counsel about several matters particularly in the reducing the Garrison of Oxford to their service who as a Lawyer was added to the Commissioners appointed by them to treat with those appointed by the King And in that capacity he did good service by advising them especially Fairfax the Generalissimo to have in his eye a preservation of that place Oxon so famous for learning from ruin Afterwards tho the loss of the blessed K. Ch. 1. was a great grief to him yet he took the oath called the Engagement and thereby was the more enabled to plead and practice his profession In Jan. 1651. he with Will. Steel Esq Recorder of the City of London Charles George Cock Esq Sir Hen. Blount Kt John Fountaine Esq a common Lawyer Hugh Peters Clerk Joh. Rushworth of Linc. inn Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper Bt c. were appointed by the Parliament to consider of the reformation of the Law and accordingly they met several times in the room formerly called the House of Lords but what the result of their meeting was I cannot yet tell On the 25. of Jan. 1653. our author Hale was by writ made Serjeant at Law and soon after one of the Justices of the Common Bench in which place he acted with great justice and integrity not without the displeasure sometimes as 't is said of the Protector In 1654 he was one of those 5 Knights who were elected for the County of Glocester to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 3. of Sept. purposely as 't is said to obstruct the mad and wicked projects then on foot by two parties that had very different principles and ends In 1658 he was elected one of the Burgesses of the Univ. of Oxon to serve in that Parliament called Richards Parliament which began at Westm 27. Jan. the same year and in Ap. 1660 he was elected one of the Knights for Glocestershire to serve in that Parliament called the Healing and blessed Parliament which began at the same place on the 25 of the said month Which Parliament calling the King home from his Exile he was soon after made Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Knighted In the month of May 1671 he was upon the death of Sir John Keeling advanced to the place of L. Ch. Justice of the Court of Kings Bench and on the 18 of the said month took the usual Oathes before the Lord Keeper and his seat accordingly on that Bench. He was an unwearied Student a prudent man a solid Philosopher a famous Lawyer the Pillar and Basis of justice who would not have done an unjust act for any worldly price or motive the ornament of his Majesties Government and honour of England the highest faculty of the soul of Westminster Hall and pattern to all the reverend and honorable Judges a godly serious practical Christian the lover of goodness and all good men a lamenter of the Clergies selfishness and unfaithfulness c. a great contemner of riches pomp and vanity of the world a pattern of honest plainess and humility c. As for his works relating to learning they are these An essay touching the gravitation and non-gravitation of fluid bodies and the reasons thereof Lond. 1674. oct Difficiles nugae or observations on the Torricellian experiment Lond. 1674. oct Upon which two ingenious discourses Dr. Hen. More of Cambridge hath written Remarks so far forth as they may concern any passages in his Enchiridion Metaphysicorum c. Lond. 1676. oct Contemplations moral and divine In two parts Lond. 1676 c. in a large oct Directions touching and keeping the Lords day Lond. 1676 c. in a large oct Poems on Christmas day Lond. 1676 c. in a large oct Contemplations mor. and div The sec part Lond. 1677. oct They were both printed together at Lond. 1679. oct The primitive origination of mankind considered and explained according to the light of nature Lond. 1677. fol. This book came out a little before the authors death and why he published it I shall give you these three reasons 1 Because that some writings of his Contempl. mor. and divine did without his privity come abroad in print which he never intended And this book might have had the same fate if not in his life time yet after his death 2 Because possibly there had been some more care been used by him in the digesting and writing thereof than of some others that have gone abroad in publick 3 That altho he could never be brought to value the writings of his that were then published as worthy of publick view yet he found them well accepted by many which encouraged him to let this book come abroad under his own name wherein he used more care than in those lesser tracts c. Observations touching the principles of natural motion and especially touching rarefaction and condensation together with a reply to certain Remarks touching the gravitation of Fluids Lond. 1677. oct These observations being in answer to Dr. Hen. Mores Remarks before mention'd were replied upon by the said Doctor Lond. 1678. The primitive origination of mankind considered and examined according to the light of nature Lond. 1677. fol. An account of which is in the Philosophical Transactions nu 136. p. 917. Londons liberty or a learned argument of law and reason an 1650 This came out afterwards with this title Londons liberties or the opinions of those great Lawyers Lord Ch. Justice Hale Mr. Justice will Wild and Mr. Serjeant Maynard about the election of Mayor Sherriffs Aldermen and Common council men of London and concerning their charter c. Lond. 1682. fol. At which time the press was at liberty without control Discourse touching provision for the poor Lond. 1683. in tw Short treatise touching Sherriffs accompts Lond. 1683. oct To which is joyned his Tryal of witches at the Assizes held at Bury S. Edmonds on the 10. of March 1664 which was published by its self in oct in 4. sh an 1682. Pleas of the Crown or a methodical summary of the principal matters relating to the subject Lond. 1685. sec edit in oct The first edit came out in 1678. oct His judgment of the nature of true religion the causes of its corruption and the Churches calamity by mens additions and violences with the desired cure Lond. 1684. qu. Written in three discourses at several times published by his great friend and admirer Mr. Rich. Baxter and by him dedicated to the honourable Judges To this book is annex'd The judgment of Sir Franc. Bacon
Witchcraft vindicated Lond. 1670. oct written by R.T. and reflections made on it by Dr. Casaubon in his book of Credulity and Incredulity our Author Wagstaffe came out with a second edition and additions therein Lond. 1671. oct For the writing of which book he was also laughed at by wags of this University because as they said he himself look'd like a little Wizard It was also frequently reported that he was Author of a libellous Pamphlet intit Sundry things from several hands concerning the University of Oxford viz. 1 A petition from some well affected therein 2 A model for a Colledge reformation 3 Queries concerning the said University and several persons therein Lond. 1659 in one sheet and half in qu. But I think to the contrary that he was not the Author but rather one of the Students of Ch. Ch. that sedulously endeavoured to lay it at the door of Wagstaffe who dying in his Lodgings opposite to the end of Chancery-lane in Holbourn on the second day of Septemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and seven aged 44 or thereabouts was buried in Guildhall Chappel within the City of London under the Seats on the left hand as you enter into that Chappel This person died in a manner distracted occasion'd by a deep conceit of his own parts and by a continual bibbing of strong and high tasted Liquors WILLIAM SQUIRE or Esquire whose Father was a Proctor in the Archbishops Court at York was born in Yorkshire entred a Student in Trin. Hall in Cambridge an 1647 took the degree of Bach. of Arts in that University 1650. went thence to Oxon for preferment and entring himself a Batler in Brasn Coll. was incorporated in this University in the same degree in 1652. Soon after obtaining a Chaplainship in All 's Coll and taking the degree of Master of Arts he was elected Fellow of Univ. Coll where continuing for some time after his Majesties Restauration was by the favour of Dr. Sheldon B. of London promoted to the Rectory of Raulaston or Rolleston in Derbyshire near Burton upon Trent in Staffordshire Afterwards being sensible of the increase of Popery in the Nation he published these two books The unreasonableness of the Romanists requiring our Communion with the present Romish Church or a discourse drawne from the perplexity and uncertainty of the Principles and from the contradictions betwixt the Prayers and Doctrine of the present Romish Church to prove that it is unreasonable to require us to joyne in Communion with it Lond. 1672. oct Some more considerations proving the unreasonableness of the Romanists in requiring us to return to the Communion of the present Romish Church Lond. 1674. in oct He died at Raulaston before mentioned in the beginning of September in sixteen hundred seventy and seven and was buried in the chancel of the Church there under a black marble stone which had been laid over the grave of one of his Predecessors on the fourth day of the same month In his Rectory succeeded Tho. Wickham Mast of Arts of Trin. Coll. in Oxon. JAMES HARRINGTON Esq was born at Upton in Northamptonshire on the first Friday in January an 1611 became Gent. Commoner of Trin. Coll. in 1629 left it before he took a degree travelled into France Germany and Italy learned the Languages of those Countries returned an accomplish'd Gentleman and afterwards for some years waited upon the Prince Elector Palatine in his Chamber In the beginning of the Civil War 1642 he sided with the Presbyterians and endeavoured to get into the H. of Commons to sit as a member there but could not In January 1646 he went as a Volunteire with the Commissioners appointed by Parliament to go to the King at Newcastle to treat for a Peace and Settlement and bring him nearer to London In the month of May 1647 he with Thom. Herbert were admitted Grooms of the Bed-chamber to the said King then at Holdenbie in Northamptonshire upon the dismissing first of some of his old Servants and secondly upon the desire of the Commissioners they being ordered so to do by the Parliament His Majesty it seems had taken notice that those two persons had followed the Court since his coming from Newcastle and being satisfied with the report he had received concerning them as to their sobriety and good education was willing to receive them into his service to wait upon his person in his Bed-chamber with Mr. Jam. Maxwell and Mr. Patrick Maule afterwards Earl of Penmaure in Scotland who were then the only persons of the Bed-chamber that were remaining While our Author Harrington was in this capacity his Maj. loved his company and did choose rather finding him to be an ingenious man to discourse with him than with others of the chamber They had often discourses concerning Government but when they hapned to talk of a Commonwealth the K. seemed not to endure it At that time it was that Harrington finding his Maj. quite another person as to his parts religion morals c. than what were represented by the faction who gained their ends by lyes and scandals he became passionately affected with and took all occasions to vindicate him in what company soever he hapned to be but then again it being sometimes imprudently done he did suffer for it in those captious times as by this story 't will appear His Majesty being hurried away from Holdenby to the Head-quarters of the Army and from thence conveyed by slow paces to Hampton Court and thence jugled into the Isle of Wight where he treated with the Commissioners of Parliament for peace and from Newport there hurried away by Lieut. Coll. Ralph Cobbet to Hurst Castle in Hampshire on the last of Nov. 1648 it hapned that Harrington who was then with his Maj. as one of the Grooms of the Chamber did one morning fall into discourse with the Governour of that Castle and some other Officers of the Parl. Army concerning the late Treaty at Newport wherein he magnified the Kings wisdom in his arguments with the Commissioners upon the propositions for Peace and Satisfaction the Parliament had in his concessions and probability in a happy event if this force in removing him to Hurst Castle had not interven'd and made an unhappy fracture which created parties enlarging also upon his Majesties learned disputes with Mr. Rich. Vines and other Presbyterian Divines with such moderation as gained applause from all those that heard him argue Which discourse how inoffensive soever and without exception at any other time or place truth is not at all times seasonable nor safe to be spoken as by our Authors example was evidenced For those captious persons with whom he held discourse being full of jealousie and apt to wrest his words to the worst sense they withdrew a little and at their return they told him plainly they were dissatisfied with what he had said He desired them to instance wherein they replied in all particulars which when he began to repeat for his own satisfaction
Apostles by their most macerated bodies and countenances and were indeed in that respect pitied by many comforted and bless'd by true Hearts as they passed the streets After his Majesties restauration he did not read the English Liturgy in his Church in Covent garden neither did the Parishioners enjoy it from the mouth of another till the latter end of 1661 at which time they petitioned the Bishop of London to have it read unto them In the interim this fat Doctor had a fat Deanery design'd him by his Majesty upon a supposal that he would conform and 't was verily thought that he would have taken it as Reynolds had the Bishoprick of Norwych could he have been ascertain'd that the Kings declaration about Ecclesiastical affairs published at his restauration would have indulged him while he was a Dean as then while he was a parochial Minister or as 't is said had not a female Saint who had read many of his books and wrot much of his Sermons extracted from them every sentence that made for the Covenant for the government by presbytery for the honor of Smectymnus or that made against the Bishops and Liturgy of the Church all put in a Letter and sent by her to him Which of these two was the reason I am not certain Sure it is that while these things were agitating and after he had taken a great deal of pains as a commission'd person by his Majesty in the Savoy conference about the Liturgy the Act of uniformity was published and rather than he would conform he not only refused the Deanery but left his rectory at Barthelmew day an 1662. Afterwards he did set up a Conventicle in Covent-garden and tho imprison'd for it for some time in the Gate-house yet as 't was thought he got more from the Brethren than if he had been a Dean or had continued in his rectory His works are these Many Sermons as 1 Meat out of the Eater or hopes of Unity in and by divided and distracted times Fast sermon before the House of Commons 30. June 1647 on Zech. 14.9 latter part Lond. 1647 qu. 2 Englands spiritual languishing with the causes and cure Fast serm before the H. of Com. 28. June 1648 on Rev. 2.3 Lond. 1648. qu. 3 The blessed estate of them that die in the Lord on Rev. 14 13. 4 Sermon before the L. Protector and Parl. on a publick day of humiliation 24. Sept. 1656. on Amos 4.12 5 The Saints triumph over death Fun serm on Ch. Love 25. Aug. 1651. on 1. Cor. 15.57 Lond. 1658 oct 6 Sermon on Matth. 15.7.8 Printed in the book called The morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1661. qu. 7 Farewel sermon at Barthelmew-tyde on Heb. 12.2 Lond. 1662. oct This sermon tho put out under his name yet it was disclaimed by him under his hand in the common News of Sept. 24. an 1663. published by Roger L'estrange 8 How we ought to improve baptisme on Acts 2.38 Printed in the Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1674. and 76. qu. 9 Serm. on 2. Thes 2.15 Published in the Morning exercise against popery in Southwark Lond. 1675. qu. 10 Serm. on Rom. 5.12 Published in The morning exercise methodized c. Lond. 1676. qu. 11 Twenty sermons on the Psalms Acts c. Lond. 1678. qu. with his picture before them published by Dr. Will. Bates 12 Eighteen sermons on the second Chapt. of the sec Epist to the Thess containing the description use growth and fall of Antichrist c. Lond. 1679 oct 13 Sermons on the 119 Psal Lond. 1681. fol. They are in number 190 and have his picture before them This is called The first vol. of Sermons 14 A second Volume of sermons in two parts The first containing 27 sermons on the 25 of S. Matthew forty and five on the 17 of S. John and twenty and four on the sixth to the Romans The second part containing 45 sermons on the eighth to the Romans and 40 on the fifth Chapt. of the sec Epist to the Corinthians c. Lond. 1684. 85. fol. 15 The third Vol. of sermons in two parts The first containing sixty six sermons on the eleventh Chapt. to the Hebrews To which is annex'd A Treatise of the life of faith The second part contains A Treatise of self denial with several sermons on the sacrament of the Lords Supper and other occasions c. Lond. 1689. fol. Besides these there is now May 1691 prepared for the press a fourth Vol. in fol. of select sermons on several Texts A practical commentary or exposition on the Epistle of S. James Lond. 1651. 53. qu. Exposition on the Epistle of S. Jude Lond. 1652. qu. Smectymnus redivivus being an answer to a book entit An humble remonstrance c. Lond. 1653. 60. 61. This book called Smectymnus was written as I have elsewhere told you by Steph. Marshall Edm. Calamy Thom. Young Matth. Newcommen and Will. Spurstow and first of all published in 1641 being the year after the said Humble remonstrance was published Practical exposition of the Lords Prayer Lond. 1684. oct with his picture before it He also made some additions to the second edition of The life and death of Ignatius Jurdaine sometimes Alderman of Exeter written by Ferdinando Nicolls Minister of S. Mary Arches in Exeter Lond. 1655. in tw Also an Epistle commendatory before A Commendatory or Exposition on the second Epist to the Corinth Lond. 1655. fol. Written by Dr. Rich. Sibbs was one of the three that collected and published Thirty and one select sermons written by Will. Strong and wrot the Epistle to the reader before the second edit of The larger and lesser Catechismes of the Assemb of Div. Lond. 1658. qu. with several other little things of the like stamp He paid his last debt to nature after he had ran through many changes on the 18. of Oct. S. Lukes day in sixteen hundred seventy and seven and was accompanied to his grave in the Church at Stoke-Newington near London before-mention'd by hundreds of the brethren At which time Dr. Will. Bates one of his perswasion the same who also had been offered a Deanery with our author if he would conform preached his funeral Sermon Which being published the Reader if curious may see therein the character and encomiums of him the said Dr. Manton JOHN PARRY son of Edw. Parry sometimes Bishop of Killaloe in Ireland was born in the City of Dublin educated in Trin. Coll. there till he was Bach. of Arts Afterwards going to Oxon in the latter end of 1650 was incorporated there in the same degree and about that time being made Fellow of Jesus Coll. he proceeded in Arts. At his Majesties restauration he went into Ireland in the quality of a Chaplain to James then Marquess afterwards Duke of Ormonde L. Lieutenant of that Realm took the degree of Bach. of Div. at Dublin 26. Jan. 1660 and in the next year returning to Oxon for a time was incorporated in
congregations in the beginning of the year 1643 and would admit no man to the sacrament but such as were members of the same or baptize any children tho born within the Parish for which they were supposed to serve but of such that should enter into their New Covenant and that they challenged to themselves a power of examining the lives and conversations of the members of their said congregation casting out whom they please and for what they list and not admitting any to the Eucharist nor the children of any to baptisme till they had satisfied the Church that is themselves in the sincerity of their repentance and be again restored by them Also that neither of them would permit the Sacrament of the Lords Supper to be administred in their parishes at Easter in 1643. Besides a congregation or more in London our author Holmes had several in the Country particularly at Dover and like a Bishop of a diocess he would go twice or thrice in a year to visit purposely to pray and preach to them and in one of his Sermons to the members there he prayed God to bless and remember them who had but a bit once in a quarter or half a year He was accounted by many especially those of his perswasion a profound Divine and to be well skill'd in the Tongues particularly in the Hebrew and by others a mutable and fantastical person When the Act of conformity was published he left his cure or cures and spent most of his time in the parish of S. Giles without Cripplegate London where he kept or at least frequented Conventicles He hath written Usury is injury cleared in an examination of its best apology alledged by a Country Minister out of Dr. Ames in his cases of conscience Lond. 1640. qu. The new world or the new reformed Church discovered out of the 2. Epist of Pet. ch 3.13 first briefly opened before some of the Nobility and others in the Country Afterwards more fully delineated and prosecuted before the honorable House of Commons 30 May 1641. Lond. 1641. qu. Besides this he hath other Sermons extant as 1 Gods gracious thoughts towards great sinners in two Sermons on Isaiah 55.8.9 2 Thanksgiving Sermon before the H. of Com. in Ch. Ch. Lond. 6. Oct. 1659. on Psal 33.1 Lond. 1659. qu. c. Vindication of baptizing believers In some animadversions upon Mr. Tombes his exercitations about infant baptisme as also upon his examen c. Lond. 1646. qu. Daemonology and Theology the first the malady demonstrating the diabolical arts and devillish hearts of men The second the remedy demonstrating God a rich supply of all good Lond. 1650. oct This was answer'd by Anon. Character of the crying evils of the times Lond. 1650. octavo Church cases cleared Wherein are held forth some things to reclaim professors that are slack-principled Antichurchians Nonchurch-seekers Church levellers with a pacificatory preface The resurrection revealed or the dawning of the day-star about to rise and radiate a visible incomparable glory far beyond any since the creation upon the universal Church on earth for a thousand years yet to come before the ultimate day of the general judgment to the raising of the Jews c. Lond. 1654. c. fol. in 7. books This piece is looked upon by some to be learnedly written who take the author to be a perfect Chiliast or Millinarian as Mr. Jos Mede Dr. Hen. More and many other Orthodox as well as Hetrodox Divines Peter Sterry that high flown Blasphemer and Joseph Caryl perused this book and gave their judgments thereof and the last of them an Imprimatur in the title Whence 't is very easie and proper to observe how ready and extreamly forward the last pretended Reformers were not only to countenance but patronize the many generally exploded opinions in matter of religion of their Brethren however hetrodox erroneous and groundless insomuch that Divines by publick appointment were ordered to peruse their books and after a transient cursory view of to represent them to the world in extravagant lavish characters of their extraordinary worth and excellency As for the author Holmes tho he was accounted a Millinarian yet he doth not contend for a carnal sensual and gross liberty and worldly to be enjoyed before the general resurrection by the Saints but spiritual purified and refin'd freedom from the dominion and enslaving vassalage of sin and corruption to be exercised in holiness and sanctity Open door for mans approach to God Lond. 1650 qu. Of Gospel musick Printed in qu. This and the next going before I have not yet seen In the year 1652 was published by him the said Dr. Holmes a folio book containing 16 several treatises as 1 Christs offering himself to all sinners as concerning all objections on John 6.37 2 Mistakes about prayer 3 Faith in abstract in its high acting above outward sense inward sensation and natural reason 4 Antidote against Antinomianisme 5 Gods gracious thoughts This is mention'd before 6 Gods gracious expressions engaging to comfort them that accept of his grace on 1. Cor. 1.3.4 7 Moderation of spirit for quietation of mind in trying times on Phil. 4.5 8 Necessaria Or the Body of Div. necessary to salvation on Rom. 8.29.30.31 9 Soul-cordials against sore discomforts in a Com. or explications and applications of the whole 43. Psal 10 The gracious heart is not to seek great things in grievous times on Jer. 45. ver 5. former part 11 Gods saving a people with a notwithstanding their sins on Psalm 106.8 12 The Christian Hammerers against the Antichristian horns on Zech. 1.21 latter part 13 The Churches glory and defence from Isay 4. ver 5. 14 The only happy people described out of Psal 144.15 15 The malady of a mixt Communion 16 Commentary literal or historical and mystical or spiritual on the whole book of Canticles These 16 things I say were printed for the author in one vol. at Lond. 1652. fol. with the general title to them of The works of Nathaniel Holmes But they laying dead on the Booksellers hands they printed a new title to them with the year of our Lord 1669 which hath made them move among some of the Brethren Ten Exercitations in vindication of The resurrection revealed Lond. 1661. fol. An essay concerning the Sabbath or the Sabbath day rest from controversie c. Lond. 1673. oct The brazen serpent or Gods grand design c. Lond. 1673. qu. Besides several other things which I have not yet seen as The peasants peace c. At length this Dr. having lived till he was almost blind departed this mortal life in the Parish of S. Giles without Cripplegate before mention'd in the month of June as I conceive in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried as I suppose according to his will in the Chancel of the Church of S. Mary Aldermanbury in London close to the worthy Ministers there interred He died rich left behind him a Widow called Sarah a
learn to admiration JOHN CORBET Son of Rog. Corb. Shoomaker was born and educated in Grammar learning within the City of Glocester became a Batler of Magd. Hall in the beginning of the year 1636 aged 16 years and in 1639 he was admitted Bach. of Arts. Afterwards he was made a Master of one of the Schools and a Lecturer in that City but when it was garrison'd for the Parliament use he became Dinner-Chaplain to Col. Edw. Massey Governour thereof preached seditiously vilified the King and his party in a base manner and would several times say in common discourse and in the Pulpit sometimes that nothing hath so much deceived the world as the name of a King which was the ground of all mischief to the Church of Christ When the War was terminated he was called to be a Preacher at Bridgwater in Somersetshire whence after some time spent in holding forth he went to the City of Chichester where he was frequented by schismatical people At length being called to a richer Cure he went to Bramshot in Hampshire where being setled it was his desire made to the Delegates of the Convocation of this University that they would dispence with him for ten terms absence and give him leave to accumulate the degree of Bach. of Divinity Which desire being granted his supplicate in order thereunto followed 14 May 1658 and granted simpliciter conditionally that he perform all exercise requisite for the said degree But whether he did so or was admitted to that degree it appears not in the Register At Bramshot he continued till the Act of Uniformity cast him out an 1662 and then he retired to London as most Nonconformists did where he lived privately taking no employment till his first wife died and then he lived in the house with Sir Joh. Micklethwaite President of the Coll. of Physitians and afterwards with Alderm Webb about which time he married a daughter of Dr. W. Twyss and then lived privately with Mr. Rich. Baxter at Totteridge in Hertfordshire At length the Kings license or toleration being published in the middle of March 1671 he was invited by the godly party to Chichester where he preached till a month before his death at which time removing to London to be cut of the stone in the bladder he died as soon as he came to that City without effecting his desire One of his perswasion tells us that he was a man so blameless in all his conversation that he never heard one person accuse or blame him except for Nonconformity that he was of so great moderation and love of peace that he hated all that was against it and would have done any thing for concord in the Church except sinning against God and hazarding Salvation c. He hath written and commended to posterity An historical relation of the military Government of Gloucester from the beginning of the Civil Warr between King and Parl. to the removal of Col. Massie from that Government to the command of the Western Forces Lond. 1645. in 18 sh in qu. A Vindication of the Magistrates of the City of Gloucester from the calumnies of Robert Bacon printed in his relation of his usuage there which he intitles The Spirit of Prelacy yet working or truth from under a cloud Lond. 1646. qu. Ten questions discussed which tend to the discovery of close Antinomianisme Printed with the Vindication The interest of England in the matter of religion unfolded in the solution of three questions c. Lond. 1660. oct in two parts Answer'd first by Râ—g L'Estrange in his Interest mistaken or the holy cheat c. Lond. 1661 and 62. in oct Wherein it appears that our author Corbet justifies in his said book the Presbyterian cause of 1641 that he excludes the Royal Party that served the late King from having any hand in the restoring of this that he revives the pretended misdemeanours of the Bishops as occasioners of the last Warr that he maintains the actings of the Presbyterians according to the Covenant that he makes the two Houses participate of the Soveraignity and denies the lawfulness of the English Ceremony c. 2 By an Anonymus in his book intit The Presbyterians unmasked c. Lond. 1676. oct Which book came out again in 1681 under the title of The Dissenter disarmed c. supposed verily to be written by Sam. Thomas Chanter of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. This is the author whom Mr. Baxter stiles A shamless Writer who published a bloody invective against Mr. Corbets pacificatory book called The Interest of England as if it had been written to raise a War The Kingdom of God among men a tract of the sound state of Religion c. Lond. 1679. oct The point of Church-unity and schisme discussed An account of himself about conformity These two last are printed with The Kingdome of God c. Discourse of the Religion of England asserting that reformed Christianity setled in its due latitude is the stability and advancement of this Kingdome In 2 parts Self-employment in secret containing 1 Evidences upon self-examination 2 Thoughts upon painful afflictions 3 Memorialls for practice Lond. 1681. in tw Published after the Authors death with a prefatory Epistle by Joh. How An account given of the principles and practices of several Nonconformists Wherein it appears that their Religion is no other than what is profest in the Church of England c. Lond. 1682. qu. An Enquiry into the oath required of Nonconformists by an Act made at Oxon. Wherein the true meaning of it and the unwarrantableness of taking it is consider'd Lond. 1682. in 3 sh in qu. An humble endeavour of some plaine and brief explications of the decrees and operations of God about the free actions of men more especially of the operations of divine grace Lond. 1683. qu. Remaines Lond. 1684. in tw being most of the 9 Tracts which he left behind him to be published He the said J. Corbet had also laboured much in compiling the first vol. of Historical Collections published by Joh. Rushworth and dying on the 26 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred and eighty was buried in the Church of S. Andrew in Holbourne near London as I have been informed by the Letters of Mr. Rich. Baxter dated 22 of Feb. following Besides this Jo. Corbet was another of both his names Minister of Bonyl one of the collegiat Churches of the Provostry of Dunbarton in Scotland who for not submitting to the Covenant was ejected from that Kingdom and went into Ireland where he published The ungirding of the Scotish armour c. Dubl 1639. qu. and The Epistle congratulatory of Lysimachus Nicanor to the Covenanters in Scotland c. printed the year following in qu. Which Mr. Corbet who was an ancient man and a Minister of Galloway had his head cut off by two Swiniards in the time of the Rebellion in Ireland an 1641. See more in the Epistle to the Reader written by Andr. Allam of S. Edm. Hall set
on Psal 4.9 Lond. in oct Heaven opened or a brief and plain discovery of the riches of Gods Covenant of Grace Being the third part of Vindiciae Pietatis Lond. in oct The World Conquered or a believers victory over the World laid open in several Sermons on 1. Joh. 5.4 Being the fourth part of Vind. Pietat Lond. 1668. oct All which pieces were printed together at London 1671 in oct and were entit The Works of Mr. Rich. Allein in four parts Dedicated to the Inhabitants of the Parish of Batcombe Godly feare or the nature and necessity of feare and and its usefulness both to the driving sinners to Christ and to the provoking Christians on in a godly life through the several parts and duties of it till they come to blessedness Lond. 1674. oct This book consists of Sermons preached on several texts A rebuke to Back-Sliders and a spur for Loiterers in several Sermons lately preached to a private Congregation Lond. 1677 c. oct A Companion for Prayer or directions for improvement in grace and practical godliness in times of extraordinarie danger Lond. 1680. in tw Instructions about Heart-work What is to be done on Gods part and ours for the cure and keeping of the Heart that we may live in the exercise and growth of Grace here and have a comfortable assurance of glory to eternity Lond. 1682 oct with a preface of Dr. Sam. Annesley alias Aneley to it To the second edit of this which came out in 1684 was added our author Alleins book entit A Companion for prayer c. He also had a hand in writing The life of Joseph Alleine his kinsman and digested fitted for the Press and published his Remaines c. See more in the said J. Alleine among these writers page 300.301 At length this our zealous author concluding his last day at Frome Selwood before mention'd in the house of one Rob. Smith wherein he had lived several years and had kept Conventicles on the 22. of Decemb. in sixteen hundred eighty and one was buried in the Church there in or about the midst of the middle alley At which time Rich. Jenkins M. of A. somtimes of Gloc. Hall a Luke-warm Conformist and Vicar of that place the same who married Tho. Thynne of Longleat Esq to Elizabeth Countess of Ogle heir to the illustrious Family of Percy preached his funeral Sermon containing many pathetical Encomiums of him having several times before also visited him in his sickness THOMAS HERBERT son of Christop Herbert son of Thomas Herbert somtimes Alderman of the City of York descended being a younger brother from Sir Rich. Herbert of Colebroke in Monmouthshire Knight was born in Yorkshire particularly as I conceive within the City of York admitted Commoner of Jesus Coll. in 1621. under the tuition of Mr. Jenkyn Lloyd his kinsman but before he took a degree his Uncle called Dr. Ambr. Aikroyd fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. brother to his mother Jane dau of Jo. Aikroyd of Folkerthorpe in Yorkshire invited him to that house where his continuance being short he went thence to London to wait upon that most noble Count William Earl of Pembroke who owning him for his kinsman and intending his advancement he sent him to travel in 1626 with allowance to defray his charges So that spending some years in travelling into Africa and Asia the great he did at his return wait on the said noble Count who inviting him to dinner the next day at Baynards Castle in London died suddenly that night whereby his expectation of preferment from him being frustrated he left England a second time and visited several parts of Europe After his return he married and setling in his native Country delighted himself more with the converse of the Muses than in the rude and brutish pleasures which most Gentlemen follow In the time of the rebellion he adhered to the cause of the Parliament and by the endeavours of Philip Earl of Pembroke he became not only of the Commissioners of Parliament to reside in the Army of Sir Thomas Fairfax but also a Commiss to treat with those on the Kings side for the surrender of Oxford Garrison Afterwards he attended the said Count especially at that time in Jan. 1646 when he with other Commissioners were sent from the Parliament to the King at Newcastle to treat about peace and bring him nearer to London When his Majesty came thence and was setled at Holdenby in Northamptonshire jealousies increased which begat fears against which there was then no fence The Commissioners persuant to instructions addressed themselves altogether on a certain time unto the King and acquainted him therewith and humbly prayed his Majesty to dismiss such of his servants as were there and had waited upon him at Oxon. This their application was in no wise pleasing to the King he having had long experience of the loyalty and good affection of those his servants as it appeared by his countenance and the pause he made ere he gave the Commissioners any answer Howbeit after some expostulation and deliberation he condescended to what they proposed they not opposing the continuance of Mr. Jam. Maxwell and Mr. Patr. Maule their attendance upon his royal person as Grooms of his Majesties Bedchamber in which place they had several years served the King Next day his Majesties servants came as at other times into the presence Chamber where all dinner time they waited but after his Majesty rose from dinner he acquainted them with what had passed 'twixt him and the Commissioners and thereupon they all knelt and kissed his Majesties hand and with great expressions of grief for their dismiss they poured fourth their prayers for his Majesties freedom and preservation and so left Holdenby All that afternoon the King withdrew himself into his Bedchamber having given order that none should interrupt him in his privacy Soon after this his Majesty purposing to send a message to the Parliament he after dinner called Philip Earl of Pembroke to him and told him that he would have Mr. Herbert come into his Chamber which the Earl acquainting the Commissioners with Mr. Tho. Herbert our author was brought into the Bedchamber by Mr. Maxwell and upon his knees desired to know the Kings pleasure He told him he would send a message to the Parliament and having none there that he usually employed and unwilling it should go under his own hand called him in for that purpose Mr. Herbert having writ as his Majesty dictated was enjoyn'd secrecy and not to communicate it to any until made publick by both Houses if by them held meet which he carefully observed This errand was as I conceive His Majesties message for Peace dated from Holdenby 12. May 1647. About a week after the King was pleased to tell the Commissioners that seeing that Mr. Jam. Levingston Hen. Moray John Ashburnham and Will. Legge were for the present dismist he had taken notice of Mr. Jam. Harrington and Mr. Tho. Herbert who had
University and Chaplain to his Royal Highness the Duke of York did answer it in a book entit A fuller answer to Elymas the Sorcerer or to the most material part of a feigned memorial towards the discovery of the Popish Plot c. in a letter addressed to Mr. Thom. Jones Published at Lond. in Feb. 1682 in 8. sh in fol. with the date in the title of 1683 set to it Our author Jones also published his Sermon preached at the funeral of Ez. Tongue D. D. which I have not yet seen At length this person who was troubled with a rambling and somtimes craz'd pate dying at Totteridge in Hertfordshire on Sunday the eight of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and two was buried in the Chappel or Church of that place He had a little before been received into the house there belonging to Franc. Charlton Esq the same who was suspected to be in Monmouths rebellion an 1685 and the same whose Sister Magaret had been married to Mr. Rich. Baxter HENRY BLOUNT third son of Sir Tho. Pope Blount of Tittenhanger in Hertfordshire Knight son of Will. Blount of Blounts hall in Staffordshire was born at Tittenhanger before mention'd which is in the parish of Ridge on the 15. of Decemb. 1602 educated in the Free-School at S. Alban where by the help of his pregnant parts he made such large steps in learning that before he was 14 years of age he was transplanted to Trinity Coll of which he became a Gent. Commoner and there not so much upon his relation to Sir Tho. Pope the Founder thereof as upon account of his own intrinseck worth and the facetiousness of wit so peculiar to him he had in a particular manner the deference and respect of the said Coll. After he had taken one degree in Arts he retired to Greys Inn studied the municipal Law and at length upon his retreat thence sold his Chamber to Tho. Bonham of Essex the Poet. In 1634. May 7 he embarked at Venice for Constantinople in order to his voyage into the Levant returned about two years after became one of the Gentlemen Pensioners to K. Ch. 1 and by him Knighted 21. Mar. 1639. Afterwards he attended him at York Edghill Battle and at Oxford for a time and then leaving him he retired to London where being esteemed a Cavalier was called before the House of Commons and question'd by them for his adherence to his Majesty But he remonstrating to them that he did no more than what his place required that is his duty to wait he was acquitted So that closing with that party he was appointed one of the Committee of 21 persons in Jan. 1651 to consult about the reformation of the Law to consider of the inconveniences in it and mischiefs which frequently arised from the delays and other irregularities in the administration thereof and about that time he shewed himself active against the payment of Tythes and endeavoured that every Minister should not have above an 100 l. per an for his pains in administring the Gospel In 1654. Jul. 5. he with Dr. Rich. Zouch Dr. W. Clerk Dr. Will. Turner Civilians Mr. Lucy c. sate in the Upper Bench in Westm Hall for the trial of Pontalion Sa brother to the Portugues Embassador three more Portugueses and an English boy for a murther and a riot committed by them in the New Exchange and on the 1. of Nov. 1655 he was appointed one of the Committee to take into consideration the Trade and Navigation of the Common wealth c. He was esteemed by those that knew him a Gentleman of a very clear judgment great experience much contemplation tho not of much reading and of great foresight into Government He was also a person of admirable conversation and in his yonger years was a great Banterer which in his elder he disused He hath written and published A relation of a voyage into the Levant Lond. 1636. 37 qu c. In other editions in tw it hath this title A voyage into the Levant being a brief relation of a journey performed from England by way of Venice through the Turkish Empire and Egypt unto Grand Cairo c. It was so well esteemed abroad that as I have been enformed it hath been translated into French and Dutch In the first of which Languages I have seen a book entit Voyage de Levant Par. 1632 qu. written by D. C. He also wrot as I have been enformed by some of his relations tho his sons know nothing of it a pamphlet entit The Exchange Walke printed much about the time that Hen. Nevill published his pamph called The Parliament of Ladies c. 1647. This Sir Hen. Blount whom I have mentioned in Joh. Lylie in the first vol. p. 257. and in Walt. Ramsey in this p. 166. died on the ninth day of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and two and was buried privatly on the eleventh day in a vault joyning to the Church of Ridge leaving then behind him two ingenious sons one named Tho. Pope Blount a Baronet author of Censura celeberiorum authorum sive tractatus in quo varia virorum doctorum de clarissimis cujusque seculi Scriptoribus judicia traduntur c. Lond. 1690. fol as also of Essayes on several subjects and another called Charles who published Anima Mundi or an historical narration of the opinions of the Antients concerning mans soul after this life Lond. 1679. oct The Manuscript copie of this book in which the father was suppos'd to have a considerable hand went about the City of London with many gross passages in it Afterwards being printed it was taken for granted that the said book was published according to that copy But those errors were all decryed and exploded in the impression and with those corrections Rog. L' estrange the Licenser was prevail'd upon at the instance of a particular friend to license it Afterwards L' estrange hearing the clamours that were raised about this book and the fate to which it was doom'd he waited upon Dr. Compton Bishop of London laid the matter before him and his Lordship thinking the book however inconvenient to be published was pleased to rest satisfied with the bare suppression of it But advantage was taken in the Bishops absence of burning it contrary to his Lordships promise and as 't was believ'd to his order The said Mr. Ch. Blount also published Great is Diana of the Ephesians or the original of Idolatry together with the politick institution of the Gentiles Sacrifices Lond. 1680 oct Also Janua Scientiarum or a compendious introduction to Geography Chronology Government History Phylosophy and all gentile sorts of literature Lond. 1684 oct and a little pamphlet for the Liberty of the Press besides his publication in English with philological notes on each chapter of The two first books of Philostratus concerning the life of Apollonius Tyaneus written Originally in Greek Lond. 1680 in a thin fol. Soon after suppressed and only a few copies
talking about these Papers that I find him not a little angry with Dr. Joh. Hinckley barely for being so bold and daring as to pretend to write somthing relating to them for he himself saying that he believed no man then viz. 1671. living could give an account of them besides himself he judged questionless that the Doctor herein had too rudely invaded his sole Province Yet notwithstanding this together with a great deal of talk about their Sentiments and reception of his Majesties Declaration about Ecclesiastical affairs the reduction and model of Episcopacy made by the learned Usher Primate of Ireland and that other of Dr. Hall Bishop of Norwych subscribed to by Dr. Rich. Holdesworth either of which they would as he saith have willingly allowed of he with a great deal of confidence repeated in the preliminary introductions to most of his very many late most bitter pieces against the Church as if he could not otherwise by any means begin a treatise unless these hughly beloved relations did kindly usher the following very uneven unconcocted roving often repeated and medley stuff will hardly perswade us to believe that he hath been so little conversant with books especially such as have been wrot against his own party and himself as not to have very well known that Roger L'estrange in a book of his entit The relapsed Apostate c. published not long after those three Papers above mention'd had fully and at large answered his Petition for peace animadverted on many parts of the reformed Liturgy and that moreover he had in a Supplement to his Relapsed Apost refuted the Two papers of proposals concerning the Discipline and Ceremonies of the Church together with a single sheet in form of petition to his Majesty and that the Papers compriz'd in The great debate c. were briefly also touched and reflected on in the same Supplement c. Mr. L'estrang taketh notice also of this unwarrantable boast and vaunt of Mr. Baxter concerning these Papers in a late preface to the third edit of The relapsed Apostate c. Lond. 1681. qu therein citing Baxters words to that purpose out of the Preface to his answer to Dr. Stillingfleets Charge of Separation c. Mr. Baxter indeed altho in some of his books he saith expresly that none of the above named Papers were ever answer'd by any confesseth that two small treatises one entit Pulpit conceptions popular deceptions or the grand debate resum'd in the point of Prayer viz in defence of prescribed forms c. Lond. 1662. qu. and the other Concerning Lent-Fast had been wrot against some single parts occurring in those three Papers above mention'd as also that L'estrange had said somthing against their Liturgy and that he had no more to say this last in his answer to a Letter of Dr. Hinckley yet mentions nothing even there of L'estranges answers to any of their other Papers But all this being spoken by the way lets now return to our author Morley and his other writings Epistola apologetica paraenetica ad Theologum quendam Belgam scripta Lond. 1663. in two sh and an half in qu written at Breda 7. Jun. 1659. This came out again with several of our authors treatises which I shall anon mention under this title Epistola ad virum clariss D. Cornelium Triglandium unum ex Pastoribus Hagiensibus Principi Auriaco à studiis conscripta in quâ agitur de sereniss regis Car. 2. erga reformatam religionem affectu c. Lond. 1683. qu. The author of this as writing to a Protestant who was a favourer of his Masters interest and with whom he had before held some correspondence by Letters fully clears K. Ch. 2. from all the least ground of suspicion of his enclining to Popery throughout his whole time of exile contrary to what some English men had reported either thro ignorance or hatred and which was by an easie credulity too greedily entertain'd by some foreigners After this he vehemently presseth the Dutch as desiring that this his Epistle might be communicated to other Dutchmen of the like perswasion with the person to whom it was immediatly directed with strong reasons drawn from the several perswasive heads vigorously to employ their speedy and utmost endeavours to restore his Majesty to his lawful throne and just rights The Summe of a short conference betwixt Fath. Darcey a Jesuit and Dr. Morley at Bruxells 23 June 1649. Stil Nov. Lond. 1683. qu. An argument drawne from the evidence and certainty of sense against the doctrine of Transubstantiation Vindication of the argument drawne from sense against Transubstantiation from a pretended answer to it by the author of a pamphlet called A treatise of the nature of Catholick faith and heresie Answer to Father Cressy's Letter This which is about religion and the Clergy of England was written in 1662. Sermon before the King at Whitehall 5. Nov. 1667 on 1. Cor. 14.33 Answer to a Letter written by a Rom. Priest 1676. Letter to Anne Duchess of York some few months before her death written 24 Jan. 1670. This Duchess who was dau of Sir Edw. Hyde Lord Chanc. of England afterwards E. of Clarendon was carefully principled in the doctrine of the Protestant faith by our author Morley while he continued at Antwerp in the family of her father yet died in the faith of the Rom. Church Ad clarissimum virum Janum Ulitium Epistolae duae de invocatione Sanctorum Written on the first of July 1659. The aforesaid Summe of a short conference c. with all the things that follow to these two Epistles were with the Epistle to Corn. Trigland c. printed together in one vol. in qu. an 1683. Soon after was published by L. W. a book entit A revision of Dr. Morley's Judgment in matters of religion or an answer to several treatises of his written on several occasions concerning the Church of Rome Which book was answer'd by another called The revision revised or a vindication of the right rev father in God George L. Bish of Winton against c. Lond. 1685. qu. Letter to the Earl of Anglesey of the meanes to keep out Popery and the only effectual expedient to hinder the growth thereof Lond. 1683 At the end of A true account of the whole proceedings betwixt James Duke of Ormonde and Arthur Earl of Anglesey Printed in fol. Vindication of himself from divers false scandalous and injurious reflections made upon him by Mr. Rich. Baxter in several of his writings Lond. 1683. qu. What else he hath published I know not unless A character of K. Ch. 2. Lond. 1660. in one sheet in qu. then vulgarly reported to be by him written much about which time other Characters were published as that by Dr. Wall Charlton c. He made also an Epitaph on K. Jam. 1. an 1625 which was afterwards printed at the end of Dr. John Spotswood's Church Hist of Scotland At length after this most worthy and pious Bishop had
1661 he was admitted Bach. of Div and four years after publishing observations on the Evangelists did thereby revive his memory so much in his Coll. that the Society chose him fellow thereof without his knowledge or seeking 17. Dec. 1668. In the year following he proceeded in his faculty was elected Rector of his Coll. an 1672 upon the promotion of Dr. Crew to the See of Oxon and afterwards was made Chaplain in Ord. to his Majesty In the month of May an 1680 he became Rector of Bladon near Woodstock in Oxfordshire and upon the promotion of Dr. Frampton to the See of Glocester he was nominated Dean of that Church in Jan. 1680 in which Deanery being installed on the 30. of Apr. 1681. he gave up Bladon in Feb. 1682. He was a person very well vers'd in books was a noted Critick especially in the Gothick and English Saxon tongues a painful preacher a good man and governour and one every way worthy of his station in the Church He hath written Observationes in Evangeliorum versiones perantiquas duas Gothica scil Anglo-saxonica c. Dordrecht 1665. in a thick large quarto The Catechisme set forth in the book of common-Common-prayer briefly explained by short notes grounded upon holy Scripture Oxon. 1679. oct and several times after The said short notes were drawn up and composed by our author upon the desire and motion of Dr. John Fell Bish of Oxon to be used by the Ministers of his Diocess in the catechising of the Children of their respective Parishes In other editions that followed soon after was added An Essay of questions and answers framed out of the same notes for the exercise of youth by the same hand which Catech. with notes and essay were translated into Welsh by John Williams a Cambridge Scholar Tutor to a certain person of quality in Jesus Coll. in this University Printed at Oxon. 1682. oct He the said Dr. Marshall did also take a great deal of pains in compleating the large English life of the aforesaid Dr. Usher published by Rich. Parr sometimes Fellow of Exeter Coll. but died before it was published which hapning suddenly in his lodgings in Linc. Coll. early in the morning of the 19. of Apr. being then Easter Sunday in sixteen hundred eighty and five was buried in that Chancel commonly called the College Chancel of the Church of Allhallows alias Allsaints within the City of Oxon. By his last Will and Test he gave to the publick Library of the Univ. of Oxon all such of his books whether Manuscript or printed that were not then in the said Library except only such that were in his said will otherwise disposed And the remaining part to Linc. Coll. Library I mean such that were not there at that time already c. Also so much money which was raised from his estate that came to 600 l. and more he gave to the said College with which was purchased fourteen pounds per an a fee-farm rent issuing out of the mannour of Little Dean in Glocestershire and twelve pounds per an a rent-charge out of some Lands in Brill in Bucks Which benefaction three Scholars of Linc. Coll. do now successively enjoy In his Deanery succeeded Will. Jane D.D. Can. of Ch. Ch. and the Kings Professor of Div. in this Univ. of Oxon and in his Rectory of Linc. Coll. Fitzherbert Adams Bach. of Div. and Fellow of the said House who hath since been a considerable Benefactor thereunto and may in time be a greater Besides the said Tho. Marshall who was always taken to be an honest and conscientious Puritan was another of both his names author of The Kings censure upon Recusants that refuse the Sacrament of the Lords Supper delivered in three Serm. Lond. 1654. qu. and of other things JOHN MARSHAM second son of Tho. Marsham Citizen and Alderman of London descended from the antient family of his name in Norfolk was born in the Parish of S. Barthelmew in London 23. Aug. 1602 educated in the Coll. School at Westminster under Dr. John Wilson became a Communer of S. Johns Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Tho. Walker afterwards Master of Univ. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1619 took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1625 in which year he went into France and wintred at Paris In the two following years he visited most parts of that Nation and of Italy and some of Germany and then returned to London In 1629 he went through Holland and Gelderlandht to the siege of Boldoc or Balduck and thence by Flushing to Bologne and Paris to attend Sir Tho. Edmonds Embassador extraordinary to swear the peace at Fountaine Bleau During his abode in London he studied the Municipal Laws in the Middle Temple and in 1637 8 he was sworn one of the six Clerks in Chancery In the beginning of the Civil War he left London followed his Majesty and the Great Seal to Oxon and thereupon was sequestred of his said place by the members of Parl. sitting at Westm plundred and lost to an incredible value After the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon and the declining of the Kings cause he returned to London and compounded among several hundreds of Royallists for his real estate At which time he betook himself wholly to his studies and lived in a retired condition In the beginning of the year 1660 he served as a Burgess for the City of Rochester in that happy Parliament that recalled the King and took away the Court of Wards about which time being restored to his place in Chancery he had the honor of Knighthood confer'd upon him on the first of July 1660 being then of Whornplace in Kent and three years after was created a Baronet He was a person well accomplish'd exact in Histories whether civil or profane in Chronology and in the Tongues Pere Simon calls him in a preface to a work of his Le grand Marsham de Angleterr and Monsieur Corcaoy the K. of France his Libr. keeper and all the great and learned men of Europe his contemporaries acknowledg him to be one of the greatest Antiquaries and most accurate and learned Writer of his time as appears by their testimonies under their hands and seals in their letters to him which would make a vol. in fol. He hath written Diatriba Chronologica Lond. 1649. qu. Most of which was afterwards remitted into the book that follows Chronicus Canon Aegyptiacus Ebraicus Graecus disquisitiones Lond. 1672. fol. This was reprinted in Lower Germany in qu. with a new Index and Preface wherein are given to the author very great Encomiums by a Forreigner unknown to him There are many things worthy to be inserted thence which for brevity sake I shall now pass by He also wrot the Preface set before the first vol. of Monasticon Anglicanum Lond. 1655. which he entit ΠΡΟΠΥΛΑΙΟΠJohannis Marshami Printed in 7 sheets and an half in fol. but much disliked and disrellish'd by the Rom. Cath.
Viaticum from the hands of Dr. Alex. Monro Principal of K. James's Coll. at Edinburgh and his colleague in S. Giles's Church named Dr. John Strachan Professor of Div. at Edinb did assist after the manner of the Church of England They and several other Ministers and Layicks communicating then with him he regretted with tears the overthrowing of their Church saying he never thought to have outlived the Church of Scotland yet hoped others should live to see it restored c. His Father Will. Annand before mentioned lived very obscurely divers years after he came into England But at length obtaining the Vicaridge of Throwley in Kent 1649 and afterwards the rectory of Leveland in the same County the Usurper then ruling he caused his Son to be educated in learning in a good condition RICHARD SHERLOCK was born at Oxton in Cheshire and originally as 't is said a Student in Magd. Hall where he obtained a part of Acad. learning Thence he was translated to Trin. Coll. near Dublin where he proceeded Master of Arts in 1633 entred into the sacred function and soon after became Minister of several small Parishes in Ireland united together and yeilding no more than 8O l. per an At length upon the breaking out of the rebellion in that Country he journied into England and became Chaplain to a Regiment of his Majesties forces at Namptwich in Cheshire But that place being taken by the Parliament forces in Jan. 1643 he retired to Oxon where he became Chaplain to the Governour of the Garrison there and at length by the favour of Dr. Pink Warden of New College he was made one of the Chaplains of that House much about the time that P. Gunning and Is Barrow were made Chaplains also In 1646 he had the degree of Bach. of Div. confer'd on him in consideration of several Sermons that he preached either at Court or before the Parliament in Oxon but in the year 1648 or thereabouts being thrown out of his Chaplains place by the Visitors he became Curat for Dr. Jasp Mayne in an obscure Village called Cassington near Woodstock in Oxfordshire who allowing him 16 l. per an for his pains for the Vicaridge there is esteemed to be worth but 50 l. yearly he gave a good part thereof away to the poor of that place At length leaving that Cure upon the ejection of the Doctor about 1652 he went into Lancashire became Chaplain to Sir Rob. Bindlosse of Borwick hall in the Parish of Warton Bt where as long as he continued he was very much troubled with the People called Quakers against whom he wrot several things as I shall tell you anon After the restauration of K. Ch. 2 an 1660 he was made Doctor of Div. of the Univ. of Dublin and about that time by the favour of his honorable Patron Charles E. of Derby whose Chaplain he was Rector of Winwick in Lancashire a place among other fat benefices of England of greatest name He was a person of a most pious life exemplary conversation of great charity hospitality and so zealous a man for the Church of England that he was accounted by precise persons popishly affected and a Papist in Masquerade He hath written and published The Quakers wild questions objected against the Ministers of the Gospel c. briefly answered Lond. 1654. oct 1656. qu. Animadverted upon by a noted Quaker called Rich. Hubberthorne in a book entit A Reply to a book set forth by the Priest of Borwick-hall in Lancashire called Rich. Sherlock c. Lond. 1654. qu. and by another more noted than he named George Fox in his book called The great mystery of the great Whore unfolded c. Lond. 1659. fol. p. 242.243 c. A discourse of the holy spirit his workings and impressions on the souls of Men This is also against the Quakers Discourse of divine revelation mediat or immediat Discourse of error heresie and schisme These three last pieces are printed with The Quakers wild Questions c. The principles of holy Christian Religion or the Catechisme of the Church of England paraphras'd c. Lond. 1656. oct Written for the use of Borwick-hall The thirteenth impression of this book came out at Lond. 1677. oct Sermon preached at a visitation held at Warrington in Lanc. 11. May 1669 on Acts 20.28 Lond. 1669. qu. Mercurius Christianus The practical Christian A treatise explaining the duty of self-examination c. Lond. 1673. oct Confessions Meditations and Prayers in order to the receiving of the holy Communion of the body and blood of Christ Printed with Merc. Christ The second part of the practical Christian consisting of meditations and psalmes illustrated with notes or paraphrased relating to the hours of prayer c. Lond. 1675. oct The practical Christian or the devout Penitent A book of Devotion containing the whole duty of a Christian in all occasions and necessities c. in 4 parts 1. Of self examination confession of sins c. 2. Of the Communion of the holy body and blood of Christ 3. Of the hours of Prayer and occasional meditations 4. Of the four last things death judgment hell and heaven Lond. 1676. 77. c. Several short but seasonable discourses touching common and private prayer relating to the publick offices of the Church c. Oxon. 1684. oct c. This book contains 1. The irregularity of a private prayer in a publick congregation which was first printed 1674 in 4 sh in qu. 2. Dr. Steuarts judgment of a private prayer in publick c. 3. A discourse of the differences between long prayers prohibited and continuance in prayers commanded 4. Meditations upon our going to Church with short directions for our demeanour in the House of God c. 5. Sermon preached upon the Archbishop of Yorks provincial Visitation at Warrington At length this most holy zealous mortified and seraphical Dr. Sherlock having spent all his time in holy and chast celebacy surrendred up his most pious soul to God in sixteen hundred eighty and nine and was buried on the 25 of June within the Chancel at the first entrance into it out of the body of the Church at Winwick before mention'd at which time his friend and acquaintance Tho. Crane M. A. preached his funeral Sermon which being extant you may see a full account therein of the great piety charity hospitality strictness of life c. of him the said Dr. Sherlock Some years before his death he caused his Grave-stone to be laid in that place where his body was afterwards buried and ordered for his epitaph to be engraved in brass and sixt upon his stone this following Exuviae Richardi Sherlock S. T. D. indignissimi hujus Ecclesiae Rectoris Obiit 20 die Junii anno aetatis 76. an dom 1689. Sal infatuum conculcate Whereupon a certain Person reflecting upon it and much honouring his pious memory did subjoyn and add this further inscription En viri sanctissimi modestia Qui Epitaphium se indignum inscribi
were Joh. Goad Humph. Brook now one of the Coll. of Physitians Edm. Gayton Joh. Hyfield c. On the 24. of Sept. 1637. our author Wright took holy Orders from Dr. Franc. White Bishop of Ely in the Chappel at Ely House in Holbourn near London and on the 22. of Dec. 1639 he was ordained Priest by Dr. Bancroft B. of Oxon in Ch. Ch. Cathedral at which time he preached the Sermon which was afterwards printed with 4 more And it being then well approved and thereupon he accounted an elegant preacher was the reason why he did frequently appear in S. Maries Pulpit in Oxon before the City of Lond. at S. Pauls and before K. Ch. 1. when he resided in Oxon in the time of the grand Rebellion In 1643 he took to him a wife from Yarnton near Oxon and in Aug. 1645 he became Vicar of Okeham in Rutlandshire by the favour of Dr. Juxon B. of London and thereupon received Institution from Dr. Towers B. of Peterborough but as for Induction he altogether refused because he was then to have taken the Covenant so one Benj. King a Parliamenteer was put into that Vicaridge Afterwards Mr. Wright went to London and resided there in a retired condition till after the decollation of K. Ch. 1. About that time Sir Geo. Grime or Graham of Peckham near Camberwell in Surrey gave him entertainment in his House and because he would not be idle he instructed Sir George's son in Lat. and Gr. learning read the Common Prayer on all Sundays and Holydays and on principal Feasts he preached and administred the Sacraments About 1655 he was prevailed with to leave Peckham and to live in London where he was chosen by the Parishoners of S. Olave in Silverstreet to be their Minister and to receive the profits of that little Parish of which he was in effect the Relator tho formally to take actual possession of the Living he would not as his nearest Relation hath told me because he would avoid Oaths and Obligations This employment he kept 4 years and preached constantly twice every Sunday once there and once in some other Church baptized and buried according to the Common Prayer as the Relator adds and gave the Sacrament according to the Liturgy of the Church of England whereupon being esteemed one of the Cavalier Ministers of London as Dr. J. Hewit Dr. J. Pearson c. were had his share in troubles and was once or more examined for keeping intelligence with the Loyal party About our Lady day in 1659 he left S. Olaves Ch. to prevent new impositions and engagements then offer'd to such as were in any public Ministry and applyed himself to his private studies After his Majesties restauration Benj. King before mention'd did by his Hand and Seal 2. Aug. 1660 resign up all his title and pretensions to Okeham whereupon he returned in Oct. following and had peaceable possession delivered to him of the Church there A little before he had left London to go to Okeham he was offerd to be Chaplain to the Queen of Bohemia only sister to K. Ch. 1. but he waved that honor and went to Okeham He was a person of open and profess'd affections for Conformity and no favourer of Sectaries and their Conventicles and therefore not belov'd by the Dissenters of his Parish which was always full of them His Life and Conversation was sober and reserv'd was a man very charitable to widdowes and fatherless children and gave money to them and others amounting to the twentieth part of the true value of his Living His works as to learning are these Delitiae delitiarum sive Epigrammatum ex optimis quibusque hujus novissimi seculi Poetis in amplissima illa Bib. Bodleiana pene omnino alibi extantibus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in unum corollum connexa Oxon. 1637. in tw Five Sermons in five several stiles or waies of preaching The first in Bishop Andrews way before the late King upon the first day of Lent The second in B. Halls way before the Clergy at the authors own Ordination in Ch. Ch. in Oxon. The third in Dr. Maynes and Mr. Cartwrights way before the University at S. Maries in Oxford The fourth in the Presbyterian way before the City at S. Paules in Lond. and the fifth in the Independed way never preacht Lond. 1656. oct The first is on Matth. 9.15 2 On Deut. 33.8 3 On Cant. 2.2 4 On Luke 16.9 5 Luke 9.23 The chief end in printing these Sermons was first to shew the difference between the University and City breeding up of preachers and to let the people know that any one that hath been bred a Scholar is able to preach any way to the capacity and content of any auditory And secondly that none can do this but they only that have had such education yet notwithstanding ordinary capacities are more taken with Cloak and Lay mens preaching than that of the Gown A practical Commentary or Exposition upon the book of Psalmes wherein the text of every Psalme is practically expounded according to the doctrine of the Cath. Church in a way not usually trod by Commentators and wholly applyed to the life and salvation of Christians Lond. 1661. fol. c. Practical Commentary upon the Pentateuch or five books of Moses Lond. fol. He also made a collection of Poems which he intituled Pernassus biceps Or several choice pieces of Poetry composed by the best wits that were in both the Universities before their dissolution Lond. 1656 oct The Epistle before them in the behalf those then doubly secluded and sequestred members was written by the Collector Wright and those verses of his composition in the said book are in p. 1.54.121.122.126 and 128. He hath also compleated other books which are not yet printed as 1 A comical entertainment called The Reformation presented before the University at S. Johns Coll. Written while he was an Undergraduate 2 Novissima Straffordii sive quaestio Straffordiana prout à Parliamento exercebatur 'T is a Narrative of Tho. Earl of Strafford's tryal written in pure Latine and stile of Tacitus 3 Several Sermons besides an imperfect collection towards the compleating A practical Commentary on the other parts of the Bible besides what he had already done some books whereof are finished This Mr. Wright who refused for quietness and solitude sake several preferments in the Church after his Majesties restauration departed this mortal life in a good old age on Friday the ninth of May in sixteen hundred and ninety and was on the Sunday following buried in the Church at Okeham before mentioned He left behind him a son named James Wright born at Yarnton near to and in the County of Oxon in the house of James Stone father to his mother Jane entred in 1666 without being educated in any Univ into the Society of New Inn near London from whence he removed three years after to the Middle Temple where at the end of the usual time of study he was
called to Bar. This person hath written and published The History and Antiquities of the County of Rutland collected from records antient Manuscripts Monuments on the place and other authorities illustrated with Sculpture Lond. 1684 in a thin fol. To which was put an Addition Lond. 1687 in 2 sh and an half in fol. He hath also published little trivial things of History and Poetry meerly to get a little money which he will not own THEODORE HAAK was born at Newhausen near Wormes in the Palatinate on the day of S. James S. V. an 1605 educated in Grammar and in the Reform'd Religion in those parts travelled into England in 1625 retired to Oxon about the beginning of Aug. the same year while the two Houses of Parliament were sitting there continued half an year in obtaining Academical learning and afterwards at Cambridg as much Thence he went and visited several Cities and recesses of the Muses beyond the Seas returned in 1629 became a Communer of Glocester Hall continued there near three years but took no degree and soon after was made a Deacon by Dr. Jos Hall Bishop of Exeter In the time of the German Wars he was appointed one of the Procurators to receive the benevolence money which was raised in several Diocesses in England to be transmitted into Germany which he usually said was a Deacons work and when the Wars broke out in this Nation he seemed to favour the interest of Parliament having been alwaies Calvinistically educated The Prince Elector did afterwards kindly incite him to be his Secretary but he loving Solitude declined that employment as he did the Residentship at London for the City of Hamburgh and for Fred. 3. King of Denmark c. The Reader may be pleased now to understand that when the Synod of Dort was celebrated in 1618 care was then taken that the most learned and pious Divines of the United Provinces should make a new and accurate Translation of the Bible and Annotations to be put thereunto In which work they were assisted by many eminent and able Divines from most of the reformed Churches and particularly from England by Dr. Geo. Carleton Bishop of Chichester Dr. Jo. Davenant B. of Sarum Dr. Hall B. of Exon Dr. Sam. Ward of Cambr. c. by whose great and assiduous Labours jointly for many years together the said Annotations were compleated and came forth in print first an 1637. These Annotations I say commonly called the Dutch Annotations being thought very fit and of great use by the Assembly of Divines sitting at Westm to be translated into English by the hand of Th. Haak it was ordered and ordained by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parl. 30. of March 1648. for the encouragement of the said undertaker Theod. Haak that he or whom he should assign should have the priviledge of printing and vending the said Annotations for the space of 14 years which terme should begin from the time of the first impression So that none else under what pretence soever should be permitted to intermeddle in printing the whole or any part thereof upon the pain of forfeiting a thousand pounds to the said Theod. Haak c. Afterwards the work going forward and the whole Englished by Haak it came out with this title The Dutch Annotations upon the whole Bible together with their translation according to the direction of the Synod of Dort 1618. Lond. 1657. in two vol. in fol. Before which is an exact narrative touching the work and the said translation Besides the translation of this great work Mr. Haak hath translated into High Dutch several English books of practical Divinity as 1 Of the deceitfulness of mans heart written by Dan. Dyke 2 The Christians daly walke c. written by Hen. Scudder 3 The old Pilgrim being the Hist of the Bible written by Anon. but not yet printed as other translations which he had made are not He also translated into High Dutch in blank verse half the Poem called Paradise lost written by Joh. Milton which comming into the hands of J. Secbald Fabricius the famous Divine at Heidelberg he was so much taken with it that in a Letter sent to the Translator he tells him incredible est quantum nos omnes afficerit gravitas stili copia lectissimorum verborum c. He also made ready for the Press before his death about 3000 Proverbs out of the Germ. into the English tongue and as many into the Germ from the Language of the Spaniard who are famous for wise sayings and had most part of them from the Arabians This Mr. Haak who was several years Fellow of the Royal Society hath Observations and Letters in the Philosophical Collections which were published in the beginning of May 1682 and perhaps in the Transactions Quaere At length this virtuous and learned person departing this mortal life in the house of his kinsman Fred. Slare or Slear M. D situate and being in an Alley joyning to Fetter Lane on Sunday the ninth day of May in sixteen hundred and ninety was buried three days after in a vault under the Chancel of S. Andrews Church in Holbourn near London At which time Dr. Anth. Horneck a German preached his Funeral Sermon wherein were delivered several remarks of Mr. Haaks life but that Sermon being not yet extant I cannot therefore refer you to it Among the many great and learned acquaintance which Mr. Haak had were Prince Rupert Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland Dr. Williams Archb. of York Joh. Selden Dr. Hall Bishop of Exeter Dr. Predeaux B. of Worc. Dr. Walton B. of Chester Dr. Wilkins B. of the same place Briggs and Pell Mathematicians Dr. W. Alabaster the Poet whose Manuscript called Elisaeis he had by him and kept it as a choice relique of his deceased friend to the time of his death Sir Will. Boswell Ambassador at the Hague who encouraged him to keep and continue his correspondence with the learned Marseanus and others of later time JOHN RUSHWORTH was born of Gentile Parents in the County of Northumberland educated for a time in this University in the latter end of the Raign of K. Jam. 1 but left it soon after without being matriculated and retiring to London he entred himself a Student in Lincolns Inn of which he became a Barrister But his Geny then leading him more to State affairs than the Common Law he began early to take in Characters Speeches and passages at conferences in Parliament and from the Kings own mouth which he speak to both the Houses and was upon the stage continually an eye and an ear witness of the greatest transactions He did also personally attend and observe all occurrences of moment during the eleven years interval of Parliament in the Star-Chamber Court of Honour and Exchecquer Camber when all the Judges of England met there upon extraordinary cases and at the Council Table when great causes were tried before the K. and Council Afterwards when matters were agitated at a great distance he was
more than what the King was pleased of his own bounty to confer upon him which was 100 l. per an in compensation of quadruple the loss he sustained This Person who hath been always an intimate friend and acquaintance as well of the antient Greek and Latine as of the choicest modern Poets both Italian French and Spanish hath written and translated 1 Medea a Tragedy Lond. 1648. oct translated from Lat. into English verse with annotations 'T is one of Seneca's Tragedies 2 Seneca's answer to Lucilius his Quaere why good men suffer misfortunes seeing there is a divine providence Lond. 1648. oct written originally in Lat. prose and translated into English verse It was dedicated by Mr. Sherburne to K. Ch. 1. during his captivity in the Isle of Wight which he was pleased most graciously to approve and accept of 3 Salmacis Lyrian and Sylva forsaken Lydia the rape of Hellen a comment thereon with several other Poems Lond. 1651. oct On which three translations as also annotations on each of them the most ingenious Thomas Stanley before remembred mention'd also in the Fasti 1640 did make an excellent copy of verses as also upon the mutual friendship between him and our author Ed. Sherburne the beginning of which is this Dear friend I question nor can I yet decide Whether thou more art my delight or pride 4 The Sphere of Marcus Manilius made an english Poem Lond. 1675. fol. 'T is adorned with Cuts and an account thereof is in the Philosophical Transactions num 110. p. 233. It was chiefly intended by its author for the use of the young Gentry and Nobility of the Land to serve as their initiation in the first rudiment of spherical learning 5 A Catalogue with a character of the most eminent Astronomers antient and moderne Which with other matters as first Of the Cosmical System secondly A Cosmographical-Astronomical Synopsiâ— c. are added by way of an Astronomical Appendix to The Sphere of Marc. Man before mention'd 6 Troades or the Royal Captives a Trag. Lond. 1679. oct Written originally in Lat. by L. An. Seneca englished with Annotations by Mr. Sherburne He had likewise laying by him another Trag. of Seneca Hippolitus and Phaedra long since by him translated with Annotations Which three Tragedies viz. Medea Troades and Hippolitus he endeavours to prove that they belong only to the Philosopher among all the rest that go under the name of Seneca The sixteenth Idillium of Theocritus in N. Tates Miscellanies is ascribed to him and perhaps other things in other books In 1682. Jan. 6. his Majesty K. Ch. 2 did in consideration of his great sufferings and the long and faithful services by him performed to his royal Father of blessed memory and to himself confer upon him the honor of Knighthood in his private Bedchamber at Whitehall having also suffered several indignities from the faction in the time of the Popish Plot who endeavoured to out him of his place for being as they supposed a Rom. Cath. After K. Jam. 2 had abdicated the Government and left the Nation he was outed for altogether and put to trouble So that whereas he before for 19 years together had suffered for his Loyalty to his Prince and had in some manner suffered after his restauration as I have told you before so now doth suffer upon account of his Religion being living near London in a retired yet cheerful and devout condition spending his time altogether in books and prayer Henry Sherburne younger Brother to Edw. before mention'd was then also Dec. 20. actually created Master of Arts He was soon after made Comptroller of the Ordnance in the Army of Ralph Lord Hopton but how long he continued in that employment I know not While he continued in Oxon he drew an exact ichnography of the City of Oxon while it was a Garrison for his Majesty with all the fortifications trenches bastions c. performed for the use of Sir Tho. Glemham the Governour thereof who shewing it to the King he approved much of it and wrot in it the names of the bastions with his own hand This ichnography or another drawn by Rich. Rallingson was by the care of Dr. John Fell engraven on a copper plate and printed purposely to be remitted into Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon lib. 1. between p. 364. and 365. This Henry Sherburne who was an ingenious man was kill'd in a mutiny that hapned among some of the Soldiers in Oxon on the 12 of June 1646 Whereupon his body was buried the next day in the Chur. of S. Peter in the East in the said City January 16. In a Convocation then celebrated were these following persons actually created Masters of Arts by vertue of the Kings Mandamus then read viz. Henry Lord Seymour Son of Will Marq. of Hertford He was Knighted by his Maj. on the 17 of Jan. 1644. See among the Doctors of Phys an 1645. Sir John Stawell See among the Doctors of Physick this year Amiaâ— Paulet Esq Joh. Stawell Esq Mr. Edw. Stawell Rob. Hawley a Captain Francis Lord Hawley one of the Gent. of the Bedchamber to James Duke of York died 22 of Dec. 1684. aged 76 or thereabouts but whether Robert was nearly related to him I know not Joh. Stanhop He was Master of the Horse as it seems to the Marquess of Hertford George Strangwaies an Officer He was one of the antient and gentile family of his name in Dorsetshire Geor. Trimme Secretary to the Marq. of Hertf. Anth. Lightfoot Servant to Prince Charles Râ—g Sanders a Captain Rich. Knightley c. All which with others were lately come to Oxon among the forces under the conduct of the said William Marquess of Hereford In the same convocation were others also created by vertue of the Letters of the said Marq. soon after Chanc. of this Univ. which were then read The names of some of them follow Edw. Windham Esq Edw. Kirton Esq He was a Parliamentary Burgess for Milborne in Somersetsh to serve in the Parl. began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 but leaving it because of the violent proceedings of the members thereof he retired to his Majesty at Oxon and late in the Parl. there 1643. Tho. Lower Esq He was also a Burgess for Eastlow in Cornwall but leaving the said Parliament he retired to Oxon and sate there I take this person to be the same who was Son and Heir of Sir W. Lower of S. Winnow in Cornw. Knight which Thomas dying a Bachelaur 5. Feb. 1660 was buried in the Parish Church of S. Clement Danes within the Liberty of Westminster as I have elsewhere told you ... Bampfield a Colonel Joh. Miller a Captain Hugh Windham Hugh Smith Franc. Chalk or Chock of Avington in Berks He was Knighted 26. Oct. 1643. All which with others did attend the said Marq. of Hertford when he came to Oxon. Feb. 1. Anth. Goslyng was then created by vertue of a dispensation pass'd in convocation Feb. 21. was another convocation celebrated and therein a
Rights and Privileges of the Subject 3 Apr. 4 Car. 1. Lond. 1641. qu. Upon the declining of the Kings Cause he fled beyond the sea being an excepted person by the Parliament and died at Caen in Normandy about the end of Aug. 1649 leaving then behind him a son named Edward who had his fathers estate restored to him after his Majesties return from his exile One Rob. Heath Esq wrot and published Clarestella together with other occasional Poems Elegies Epigrams and Satyrs Lond. 1650. in tw but what kin he was to Sir Rob. Heath the Judge or whether he was of this University I know not as yet Sir Sampson Emre Knight sometimes written Evers Serjeant at Law was created the same day This person who was the third son of Sir Franc. Ewre Kt Brother to Ralph Lord Ewre had been his Majesties Attorney Gen. in Wales was now with him in Oxon sate in the Parliament there and was afterwards a Sufferer for his Cause Rob. Holbourne a Counsellor of Linc. Inn was also created Doct. of the Civ Law the same day In 1640 he was chose Burgess for Michel in Cornwal to serve in that Parl that began at Westm 3. of Nov. the same year and on the 15 of Dec. following he argued two hours in the H. of Com. in justification of the Canons In 1641 he was Lent Reader of the same Inn and soon after leaving the Parl. because of their desperate proceedings he retired to his Maj. at Oxon sate in the Parl. there 1643 and in the latter end of that year was made the Prince's Attorney in the place of Sir Ric. Lane one of his Majesties Privy Council and a Knight In the latter end of 1644 he was present at the Treaty at Vxbridge in behalf of his Majesty as he was afterwards at that in the Isle of Wight About which time retiring to London he was forced to compound for his Estate but not permitted to abide in any of the Inns of Court He hath published The Reading in Lincolns Inn 28 Feb. 1641 upon the Statute of the 25 of Ed. 3. cap. 2. being the Statute of Treasons Oxon. 1642. in two sh in qu. and revived The transactions of the high Court of Chancery both by practice and president c. originally collected and written by Will. Tothill Esquire Feb. 7. Charles Roser Esq Feb. 7. Degory Collins Esq Sir Troylus Turbervill Kt was created the same day This most valiant person who was of the Turbervills of Moreden in Dorsetshire was afterwards Captain Lievtenant of the Kings Life-guard of Horse and was slain at his Majesties going from Newark to Oxon towards the latter end of August 1645. Sir Thom. Thynne Kt was also created the same day I take this to be the same Sir Thom. who was a younger son of Sir Thom. Thynne of Longleat in Wilts Kt and the same who was father by his wife the daughter of Dr. Walt. Balcanquall sometimes Dean of Durham to Thom. Thynne of Longleat who was murdered in the Pall-Mall at Westm. on the 12 of Feb. 1681. Feb. 21. John Penruddock of Compton-Chamberlaine in Wilts Esq was then being in the service of his Majesty actually created Doctor of the Civ Law and three days after had the honor of Knighthood confer'd upon him by his Majesty He was father to Colonel John Penruddock who when a youth at Blandford school and after when a Fellow Com. of Qu. Coll. in this University delighted in books when a man in arms which in his maturer years he willingly put on to redeem the liberties of three enslaved Kingdoms tho with the loss of his own life by the axe in the Castle of Exeter 16 May 1655. Let therefore all military men of Honour approach with devotion his altar-tomb and offer up their tributary tears as due victims to distressed valour Adrian Scrope of Cockrington in Lincolnshire Esq was actually created the same day This most valiant person who was son of Sir Jervais Scrope of the same place and High Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1634 did most loyally attend his Majesty at the fight at Edghill where receiving several wounds was left among the dead as a dead person there but recovered by the immortal Dr. Will. Harvey who was there but withdrawn under a hedge with the Prince and Duke while the battel was in its height 'T is reported that this Adr. Scrope received 19 wounds in one battel in defence of his Majesties Cause but whether in that fought at Edghill I cannot justly say it sure I am that he was made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Ch. 2. an 1661. There was another Adrian Scrope a Soldier also but taking part with the Parliament became one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. as I shall elsewhere tell you Feb. 21. Franc. Baker Esq Feb. 21. Edw. Bosworth Gent. Feb. 21. Tho. Bosworth Gent. Feb. 21. Joh. Wentworth Gent. Feb. 21. Thom. Morrys Gent. Mar. .... John Godolphin of Glouc. Hall This year but the month week or day when I know not being omitted by the Registrary was actually created Doctor of the Civ Law Rob. Levinz M. A. of Linc. Coll. now in arms for his Majesty and a very zealous person for his Cause He was son of Will. Levinz of Seukworth joyning to Botley near Abendon in Berks who exercised the trade of Brewing in the Parish of S. Peter in the Baylie within the City of Oxon and he the son of Will. Levinz sometimes Alderman and Apothecary of the said City This Robert who was afterwards a Captain did considerable service according to his capacity but upon the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon to the Parliament he betook himself to his book again as some hundreds of Scholars did that had bore arms After the murder of K. Ch. 1 he engaged himself for his son received a Commission from him for the raising of Forces and blank Commissions for divers Officers But he being at length discovered by certain inquisitive persons employed purposely to find out plots against the State he was hurried before a Court-Marshal where acknowledging their allegations against him and the justice of his Cause was by them sentenced to be hang'd Whereupon he was hurried away in a Coach from the Mewse guarded by a Troop of Horse to the Exchange in Cornhill where he was executed about noon on the 18 of July 1650 aged 35 years leaving a widow behind him daugh of Sir Peregrin Bertie son of Robert Earl of Lindsey These things I here set down because the said Dr. Levinz was afterwards numbred among the Loyal Martyrs Doct. of Phys From the 1 of Nov. to the 31 of Jan. were more than 20 Doctors of Physick actually created of which number were these that follow Nov. 1. Sir Rich. Napier Kt originally of Wadh. Coll afterwards Fellow of that of Allsoules was then actually created Doctor of Phys This person who was Nephew and Heir to Rich. Napier Rector of Linford in Bucks a younger son of Sir Rob. Napier of
created M. of A. in Convocation by vertue of a dispensation from the Delegates 24. Samson Eyton of Vniv Coll. lately made Fellow thereof by the Visitors who had spent 8 years in study in Harwarden Coll. at Cambridge in New England was then actually created M. of A. by vertue of the Delegates order Dec. 22. Joh. Boncle commonly called Bunkley was actually created M. of A. by vertue of the Chancellours Letters O. Cromwell which speak very honorable in his behalf as that his eminent learning and worth is such that I accoâ—â—t that I may very freely commend him unto you He is known to learned men He is like to adorn that degree viz. of Mast of Arts a considerable ornament to the Vniversity c. The same day he was elected superior Beadle of Divinity in the place of John Blagrave deceased by vertue of the Letters from the said Chanc. also But Boncle being soon after made Master of Charter house School near London in the place of Sampson Wilson removed to a Living in Peterborough he resign'd his Beadleship in the year following Afterwards he became Master of Eaton School and Fellow of the Coll. there whence being remov'd after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he became Master of the School in Mercers Chappel in London where he was living in 1673. In the latter end of July this year Ralph Austen Deputy Registrary to the Visitor for Will. Woodhouse and Registrary afterwards in his own right was entred a Student into the publick Library to the end that he might find materials for the composition of a book which he was then meditating The book afterwards he finish'd and entit it A treatise of Fruit-trees shewing the manner of grafting planting pruning and ordering of them in all respects according to new and easie rules of experience c. Oxon. 1657. sec edit qu. Ded. to Sam. Hartlib Esq This book was much commended for a good and rational piece by the honorable Mr. Rob. Boyle who if â— mistake not did make use of it in a book or books which he afterwards published And it is very probable that the said book might have been printed more than twice had not he the author added to and bound with it another treatise as big as the former entit The spiritual use of an Orchard or garden of Fruit-Trees c. Which being all divinity and nothing therein of the practick part of Gardening many therefore did refuse to buy it He hath also written A dialogue or familiar discourse and conference between the Husbandman and Fruit-trees in his nurseries orchards and gardens wherein are discovered many useful and profitable observations and experiments in nature in the ordering of Fruit-trees for temporal profit c. printed 1676. 76. in oct Much of the former book is I presume involv'd in this This Mr. Austen who was either a Presbyterian or an Independent I know not whether was a very useful man in his generation and spent all his time in Oxon to his death in planting gardens there and near it in grafting in oculating raising Fruit-trees c. He was born in Staffordshire and dying in his house in the Parish of S. Peter in the Baylie in Oxon was buried in the Church belonging thereunto in the Isle joyning on the S. side of the Chancel on the 26. of Octob. 1676 after he had been a practiser in gardening 50 years An. Dom. 1653. An. 5. Car. 2. An. 0 1 Oliv. Protect Chanc. Oliver Cromwell General of the Parliament Forces sworn Protector of Engl. Scotl. and Irel. 16. Dec. this year and soon after proclaimed Vicechanc. John Owen again 19. Oct. He was created Doct. of Div. by a Diploma dated 23. of Dec. this year as I shall tell you by and by among the Creations Proct. Philip Ward of Ch. Ch. Apr. 20. Rob. Gorges of S. Joh. Coll. Apr. 20. Bach. of Arts. June 21. Thom. Wight of C. C. Coll. 30. Richard Lucy of Queens Coll. Of the first of these two you may see more among the Masters an 1656. The other was made Chancellour of the Church of S. David by his Father Dr. Lucy Bishop thereof and died in 1689. July 4. Henry Stubbe of Ch. Ch. He was now a usual courser in the Greek tongue in the publick Schools 6. Joseph Alleine of Corp. Ch. Coll. Oct. 17. Ezek. Hopkins of Magd. Coll. The last was afterwards successively Bishop of Raphoe and London-Derry 18. Joh. Wagstaff of Oriel Coll. Dec. 23. Edw. Fowler of C. C. Coll. Jan. 25. Nich. Stratford of Trin. Coll. The second of these three who was admitted in Convocation was afterwards B. of Glocester and a Writer and therefore to be remembred among the living Writers hereafter The last was afterwards B. of Chester and a Writer also and therefore to be remembred in future time Feb. 2. Clement Ellis of Qu. Coll. Feb. 2. Joseph Williamson of Qu. Coll. Both these are living the one a Writer the other a man of note See more of the last among the created Doctors of the Civil Law in 1674. Will. James of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day Feb. 4. Tho. Duncombe of C. C. Coll. 23. John Nye of Magd. Coll. Of the first of these two you may see more among the Doctor of Div. 1671. and of the other among the Writers in this Vol. under his Father Philip Nye p. 370. Adm. 157. or thereabouts Bach. of Law Four were adm but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop Mast of Arts. Apr. 25. Hamlet Puleston of Jes Coll. Apr. 25. Will. Squire of Brasn Coll. June 10. Joh. Parry of Jes Coll. 21. Rob. Lovel of Ch. Ch. 22. Joh. Hall of Pemb. Coll. 27. Joh. Smith of Brasn Coll. 30. Charles Perot or Perrot of Oriel Coll. This person was born at Radley near Abendâ—n in Berks had spent some time in travel to learn the modern languages returned a well bred Gentleman wrot two or more political pamphlets in defence of the prerogative without his name set to them and therefore he would not publickly acknowledge or communicate the titles of them to me See in March Nedham among the Writers an 1678. p. 469. This Mr. Perot who was Fellow of Oriel Coll died on the 23 of April 1677 aged 45 or thereabouts his Father being then living Whereupon his body was buried near to that of his Grandfather Rob. Perot Gentleman and by that of his Mother Elizabeth daugh of Sir Will. Stonehouse of Radley before mention'd in the Chancel of the Church of North-Lee near to Witney in Oxfordshire Oct. 11. Thom. Ashton of Brasn Coll. This forward and conceited Scholar who was Son of a Father of both his names was born at Tuerdley in Lancashire admitted Servitour of the said Coll. 13. June 1647. aged 16 years took a degree in Arts and then was made Fellow thereof After he had proceeded in that faculty he became straightway a malepert preacher in and near Oxon And at length having a turn to preach at
brethren therefore did Hen. Stubbe write and publish The Savilian Professors case stated c. as I have told you in my discourse of him p. 415. July 4. George Kendall B. D. of Exet. Coll. Incorporations May 26. John Wybâ—rd Doct. of Phys of Franaker in West Friesen He was the Son of Walt. Wyberd of Tackley in Essex became a Commoner of Pemb. Coll. in the latter end of the year 1638 aged 24. years left it when the troubles began in England travelled and took the degree of Doct. at Franaker before mention'd in July an 1644 and at length became well vers'd in some parts of Geometry This person who in his certificate for his degree at Franaker is stiled Trinobans Anglus hath written Tactometria or Tetagmenometria Or the Geometry of Regulars practically proposed Lond. 1650 oct Steph. Skinner of Ch. Ch. Doct. of Phys of Heidleberg was incorp the same day July 11. Joh. Mapletoft Bac. of Arts of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge See among the Incorporations an 1669. Hezekiah Burton M. A. and Fellow of Magd. Coll. in the same University He was afterwards D of D Chaplain to Sir Orlando Bridgman Lord Keeper of the Great Seal Rector of the Church of S. George in Southwark Prebend of Norwich in the place of John Rhodes deceased in Octob. 1667 and at length Rector of Bernes or Barnes in Surrey He died in Aug. or Sept. 1681 and afterwards had published under his name 1 Several discourses viz. first of piety and chastity secondly of repentance thirdly of seeking first the Kingdom of Christ Lond. 1684. oct 2 A second vol. of discourses Lond. 1685. oct the contents of which are in the next leaf following the title Both published by Joh. Tillotson D. D. Dean of Canterbury and Residentiary of S. Pauls Cathedral afterwards Dean of the said Church upon Dr. Stillingfleets promotion to the See of Worcester in Sept. 1689 Clerk of the royal Closet and at length Archbishop of Canterbury to which See he was consecrated in the Church of S. Mary le Bow 31. May 1691 upon the deprivation of that most conscientious and religious Archprelate Will Sancroft D. D. July 11. John Bodington M. A. of Sidney Coll. in Cambr. He was afterwards Rector of Newton-Blossomvile in Bucks and author of The Mystical Solomons coronation and espousals on Cant. 5.11 Lond. 1662 oct and perhaps of other things Qu. These three last Mapletoft Burton and Bodington were of the number of 32 Cantabrigians who were incorporated just after the Act whereof two were Bach. and the rest Mast of Arts. Among the Masters Samuel Clarke of Pemb. Hall was one and John Smith of Qu. Coll. another several of both whose names have been Writers and one Joh. Smith who writes himself M. of A. wrot Grammatica quadrilinguis or brief instructions for the French Italian Spanish and English tongues with the Proverbs of each language c. Lond 1673 74. oct and another who writes himself C. M. Coll. Med is author of several books among which is A compleat discourse of the nature use and right managing of the wonderful instrument the Baroscope c. Lond. 1688. oct See in p. 475. Creations Apr. 5. Joh. Windebanke M. A. sometimes Fellow of New Coll Son of Sir Franc. Windebanke formerly Secretary of State to K. Ch. 1 was then actually created Doct. of Phys by vertue of the Chancellours Letters Ol. Cromwell which say that since he hath left the Vniversity he hath spent some time in forraign parts in the study of Phyâ—ick and hath been a practitioner in that faculty for some years with much credit and reputation c. He afterwards practised Physick at Guilford in Survey and became honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Phys Apr. 20. Thom. Manton sometimes of Wadh. Coll. was created Bach. of Div. by vertue of a dispensation from the Doctors delegated by the Chanc. of the Univ. June 5. It was ordered by the Delegates that Nich. Lokyer sometimes of New Inn might have the degree of Bach. of Div. confer'd on him which was confirmed by the Doctors delegated by the Chancellour yet it doth not appear that he was created or diplomated An. Dom. 1655. An. 7. Car. 2. An. 2 3 Ol. Protect Chanc. the same viz. Ol. Cromwell Vicechanc. Dr. Owen Sept. 18 Proct. Sam. Bruen of Bras Coll. Apr. 25. Edw. Ã Wood of Mert. Coll. Apr. 25. But the junior Proctor dying 22. May Mr. Richard Franklin of the same Coll. was admitted into his place on the first of June following Bach. of Arts. Apr. 4. Job Roys of Mert. Coll. 7. Hen. Bagshaw of Ch. Ch. He is living and a Writer and therefore to be remembred hereafter June 15. Tho. Branker of Ex. Coll. 28 Joh. Bridall of Queens Coll. 28 Rob. Southwell of Queens Coll. The first of these last two was afterwards a Common Lawyer and hath published several things of his profession The other was created Doctor of the Civ Law in 1677 under which year you may see more of him July 5. Tho. Tregosse of Exet. Coll. Oct. 11. Joseph Glanvill of Exet. Coll. The first of these two who did not compleat his degree by Determination was born of an antient and gentile family at S. Ives near to the Lands end in Cornwall bred in the said Coll. in the condition of a sojourner under the tuition of Francis Howell and after he had left the University took orders according to the Presbyterian way and was a constant Preacher at the place of his nativity for two years In Oct. 1659 he removed to the Vicaridge of Milar and Mabe in Cornwall where continuing till 1662 was silenc'd because he would not conform according to the Act of Uniformity then published Afterwards preaching in private and in Conventicles he was several times brought into trouble and imprison'd At length giving way to fate at Penryn on the 18. of Jan. 1670 was published the next year a little book entit The life and death of Thomas Tregosse late Minister of the Gospel at Milar and Mabe in Cornwall with his character Lond. in oct and at the end are The Letters of Thomas Tregosse All written according to the Presbyterian mode Oct. 11. Edw. West of Ch. Ch. afterwards of S. Maries Hall 16. Edm. Elys of Ball. Coll. This person who is now living at Totness in Devon a Non-juror is to be remembred hereafter as a Writer because he hath written and published several books Dec. 14. John Williams of Magd. Hall He is now an eminent Minister in Lond. and a frequent Writer Jan. 16. Nich. Lloyd of Wadh. Coll. 21. Nich. Horsman of C. C. Coll. Jan. 30. John Fitwilliams of Magd. Coll. Jan. 30. Joh. Price of Vniv Coll. Jan. 30. Will. Annand of Vniv Coll. Of the first of these three you may see more among the Doct. of Div. 1677 Of the second among the Masters an 1658 and of the last among the Writers an 1689. p. 632. Feb. 1. Nath. Crew of Linc. Coll. He was afterwards successively Bish
535. Jul. 5. Rich. Steel M. of A. of S. Johns Coll. in Cambr. This person who was living a Nonconformist Minister in 1684 hath written several things among which are 1 The Husbandmans calling shewing the excellencies temptations graces duties of the christian husbandman in eleven Sermons Lond. 1668. 72. c. oct 2 A plain discourse of uprighteousness shewing the properties and privileges of an upright man Lond. 1671. c. oct 3 An antidote against distractions or an endeavour to serve the Church in the daily case of wandrings in the worship of God Printed thrice at least in oct The third edit was printed in 1673. 4 The Tradesmans calling Being a discourse concerning the nature necessity choice c. of a calling in general and directions for the right managing of the Tradesmans calling in particular Lond. 1684. oct Jul. 5. Edw. Fowler now or lately Chapl. of C. C. Coll. in Oxon was incorporated Mast of Arts as a member of Trin. Coll in Cambridge He is the same who took the degree of B. of A. an 1653 and the same who was afterwards B. of Gloc. He retired as it seems for a time to Cambr. and taking the degree of Master there return'd to his Coll. again in Oxon. Oct. 10. Pet. du Moulin D. of D. of Leyden in Holland afterwards confirmed or incorporated at Cambr was then incorporated in this Univ. in the same degree He was the son of Pet. du Moulin the famous Protestant Writer of France came into England in his elder years but whether he had preferment before the grand or Presbyterian Rebellion broke forth I know not After Ireland was reduced by the Parl. Forces he lived there sometimes at Lismore Yoghal and Dublin under the Patronage of Richard Earl of Cork Afterwards going into England he setled in Oxon where he was Tutor or Governour to Charles Visc Dungarvan and Mr. Rich. Boyle his brother Canon Commoners of Ch. Ch. lived there two or more years and preached constantly for a considerable time in the Church of S. Peter in the East After the restauration of K. Ch. 2. he became Chaplain in ordinary to him and Prebendary of Canterb where he spent the remaining part of his days He hath written 1 Regii sanguinis clamor ad coelum Hag. Com. 1652. qu. See more in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 883. 2 Treatise of peace and contentment of mind Lond. 1657. c. in a thick oct The third edition of this book which came out in 1678 was revised and much amended by the author 3 A week of Soliloquies and Prayers with a preparation to the holy Communion Printed there the same year and again in 1678. 79. in tw In which edition are added other Devotions in two parts 4 Vindication of the sincerity of the Protestant Religion in point of obedience to Soveraignes c. in answer to a Jesuitical libel intit Philanax Anglicus Lond. 1667. qu. and 1679 which is the 4 edit 5 Poematum Libelli tres Cambr. 1670. oct In which book p. 128 is an Epicedium on Dr. Will. Juxon Archb. of Cant. In another edition of these Poems in 1671 was added Mantissa aliquot poematum 6 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Incrementum Psal XCII ver 14. Lond. 1671. oct 7 Serm. at the Funeral of Dr. Thomas Turner Dean of Canterb. 17 Oct. 1672 on Philip. 1.21 Lond. 1672. qu. 8 Addition to a book written by his father intit The papal Tyranny as it was exercised over England for some ages Lond. 1674. qu. 9 Papal Tyranny two Sermons on Rev. 18. 4.5 Ibid. 1674. qu. 10 Reply to a person of honour his pretended answer to the Vindication of the Protestant Religion in point of obedience to Soveraignes and to the book of Papal Tyranny Lond. 1675. qu. 11 Ten Sermons preached on several occasions Lond. 1684. oct Among which are those I presume before mention'd He hath written as I conceive other things but such I have not yet seen and also translated from French into English 1 Faith in the just victorious over the World Serm. preached at the Savoy in the Fr. Church 10 Oct. 1669. Lond. 1670. qu. Which Serm. was preached by Dr. Franc. Durant de Brevall heretofore Preacher to Hen. Maria the Qu. Mother installed Preb. of Westminster in May 1671. 2 The ruin of Papacy or a clear display of the Simony of the Romish Clergy With a circulatory Letter to the Fathers of those Virgins that desert their families to turn Nuns Lond. 1679. oct c. This Dr. du Moulin who was an honest and zealous Calvinist died in the 84 year of his age and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Canterbury 10 Oct. 1684. The last words which he utter'd on his death-bed were Since Calvinism is cried down actum est de religione Christi apud Anglos c. In his Prebendship succeeded the learned and pious Will. Beveridge a Native of Leicestershire D. of D. of Cambr. and Archdeacon of Colchester installed therein 5 Nov. 1684. Feb. 16. Joseph Teate Mast of Arts of Dublin He was originally Bach. of Arts of S. Johns Coll. in this Univ. Whence going into Ireland he took the degree of Master at Dublin 17 Aug. 1655. I find A Sermon preached at the Cathedral Church of S. Canier Kilkenny 27 Feb. 1669. Lond. 1670. qu preached by Joseph Teat Dean thereof which Joseph is to be understood to be the same with the former Feb. 19. Joh. Packer Doct. of Phys of Padua He was afterwards one of the Coll. of Phys at Lond. Mar. 10. The most famous and learned Theophilus de Garencieres of Paris made Doct. of Phys at Caen in Normandy 20 years before this time was then Mar. 10. incorporated here in the same degree not only upon sight of his testimonial Letters which abundantly speak of his worth subscrib'd by the K. of France his Embassador in Engl. to whom he was domestick Physitian but upon sufficient knowledge had of his great merits his late relinquishing the Rom. Church and zeal for that of the Reformed This person who was one of the Coll. of Phys at Lond. hath written 1 Angliae flagellum seu Tabes Anglica Lond. 1647. in twenty fours 2 The admirable vertues and wonderful effects of the true and genuine tincture of Coral in Physick grounded by reason established by experience and confirmed by authentical authors in all ages Lond. 1676. in oct and other things as I conceive but such I have not yet seen He also translated into English The true prophecies or prognostications of Mich Nostradamus Physitian to K. Hen. 2 Francis 2 and Charles 9. Kings of France c. Lond. 1672. fol. He died poor and in an obscure condition in Covent Garden within the Liberty of Westm occasion'd by the unworthy dealings of a certain Knight which in a manner broke his heart but the particular time when I cannot tell 19. Walt. James Doct. of Phys of Padua The said degree he took at Padua in October 1655. Creations Apr.
the severe stroke of Rebels had not untimely sequestred and cut him off S. Pauls Cathedral had silenced the fame of antient wonders our English Clergy had been the glory of the world the Bodleian libr. in Oxon. had daily outstript the Vatican and his publick structures had o'ertopt the Escurial Whosoever also will read over the Breviat of his life and actions pen'd by himself for private use but purposely publish'd by his inveterate enemy W. Prynne with his rascally Notes and diabolical Reflections thereon purposely to render him more odious to the common people followed therein by another Villain will find that he was a man of such eminent vertues such an exemplary piety towards God such an unwearied fidelity to his gracious Sovereign of such a publick soul towards the Church and State of so fix'd a constancy in what he undertook and one so little biassed in his private Interests that Plutarch if he were alive would be much troubled to find a sufficient parallel wherewith to match him in all the lineaments of perfect vertue Next as for his great reading and learning may be by curious persons seen in his works and thereby easily perceive that he was versed in books as well as in business the titles of which follow Several sermons as 1 Sermon preached before his Maj. at Wansted 19 June 1621 on Psal 122.6 7. Lond. 1621. qu. 2 Serm. at Whitehall 24 Mar. 1621 being the day of the beginning of his Maj. most gracious raigne on Psal 21.6 7. Lond. 1622. qu. 3 Serm. before his Maj. at Whitehall on Psal 75.2 3. Lond. 1625. qu. 4 Serm. at Westm 6 Feb. at the opening of the Parl. on Psal 122.3.4.5 Lond. 1625. qu. 5 Serm. at Westm 17 Mar. 1627 at the opening of the Parl. on Ephes 4.3 Lond. 1628. qu. 6 Serm. at Whitehall at a solemn Fast before the K. 5 Jul. 1626. on Psal 74.22 Lond. 1626. 7 Serm. at Paules Cross on the Kings inauguration on Psal 22.1 printed at Lond. Which seven Sermons were reprinted at the same place in oct an 1651. Speech delivered in the Star-chamber 14 June 1637 at the censure of Joh. Bastwick Hen. Burton and Will Prynne Lond. 1637. qu. c. Conference between him and Jo. Fisher Lond. 1623. fol. published under his Chaplains name R. B. i. e. Rich. Baylie of S. Johns Coll. Reprinted 1639 and 1673. fol. Answer to the Exceptions of A. C. printed with the former Which Conference was look'd upon as a piece so solidly compacted that one of our Historians who shews himself to be none of Lauds greatest friends gives it the commendation of being the exactest Master-piece of polemique Divinity of any extant at that time and farther affirms that he declared himself therein so little theirs meaning the Papists as he had for ever disabled them from being so much their own as before they were Sir Edw. Deering also his profess'd adversary in the Preface to the book of speeches could not but confess that in the said book of Laud especially in the last half of it he had muzled the Jesuit and should strike the Papists under the fifth ribb when he was dead and gone and being dead that wheresoever his grave should be Pauls should be his perpetual monument and his own book his Epitaph It was answered by a Jesuit named Tho. Carwell alias Thorold a Lincolnshire man born in a book intit Labirinthus Cantuariensis Par. 1658. fol. Replied upon by Dr. Meric Casaubon as I shall tell you elsewhere and by Mr. Edw. Stillingfleet Various Letters as 1 Letters of state dispersed in the Cabala's and divers books 2 Letter with divers Mss to the University of Oxon. Lond. 1640 with the answer of the University in one sh in qu. which I have mention'd elsewhere They were both written in Lat. but foolishly translated into Engl. by a precise person purposely to bring an Odium on Dr. Laud. See Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 348. b. 3 Letter to the Univ. of Oxon. when he resigned his office of Chancellour Oxon. 1641. in one sh published by occasion of a base libel or forgery that ran under the said title The University's Answer in Lat. is joyned to it c. Notes in Ms on a book entit Romes Master-piece c. Lond. 1643. qu. Which book was published by Will. Prynne and by his endeavours was conveyed to him when he was Prisoner in the Tower of London where he wrot the said notes This book with notes coming after his death into the hands of Dr. Rich. Baylie who married Dr. Laud's neice came after his into mine Breviate or Diary of his life Lond. 1644. in 10 sh in fol. This was a pocket book which he had wrot in the Lat. tongue for his own private use but restless Prynne having had a hint of such a thing obtain'd an Order from the Committee of Lords and Commons appointed for the safety of the Kingdom dat 30 May 1643 to seize upon his papers letters c. By vertue of which order he with others repaired to the Tower of London the next day early in the morning and rushing suddenly into his Chamber before he was stirring from his bed went directly to his breeches lying by the bed-side and thrusting his hand into his pockets with very great impudence took the said Breviate thence Whereupon thinking to plague the Archbishop as much as he could in his life time and make him more odious to the Mobile published it to the World and caused under hand that a printed copy might be sent to him But so it fell out that the Publisher Prynne was extreamly mistaken for all judicious and impartial men did take it for the greatest piece of Justice from Prynns hands that ever he before had done For what the generality could not think before of the Archbishop were then confirm'd of his character which I have before told you that he was a man of eminent vertues exemplary piety c. Speech and Prayer spoken at his death on the Scaffold on Towerhill 10 Jan. 1644. Lond. 1644 45. qu. This is call'd his Funeral Sermon preached on Heb. 12.1 2. and is kept in Ms under his own hand in S. Johns Coll. Library It was answer'd by his implacable enemy Hen. Burton Minister of S. Mathews Ch. in Fridaystreet Lond. in a Pamphlet bearing this title The grand imposture unmasked or a detection of the notorious hypocrisie and desperate impiety of the late Archb. so stiled of Canterbury which he read on the scaffold at his Execution 10 Jan. 1645. printed in two sh and half in qu. Other Answers were published by Anonymi which for brevity I shall now omit Officium quotidianum or a manual of private Devotions Lond. 1650 and 63. in oct A summary of Devotions Lond. 1667. in tw published according to the copy written with his own hand in the archives of S. Johns Coll. Library Variae epistolae ad clariss Ger. Jo. Vossium The number of them is 18
the same degree In 1662 Feb. 19 he by the name of John Parry S. T. prof was installed Prebend of Bugthorp in the Church of York on which day also Rob. Mossom D.D. was installed Preb. of Knaresburg in the same Church Afterwards by the favour of Ormonde he became Dean of Ch. Ch. in Dublin about the latter end of the year 1665 in the place of Dr. Mossom before mention'd made Bishop of Derry and at length Bishop of Ossory in the place of Griffith Williams deceased by the same hand an 1672 with liberty then given to him to keep his Deanery in Commendam He hath written Tears well directed or pious reflections upon our Saviours sufferings and our own sins c. Lond. 1666. oct Discourses and ejaculations upon the holy festivals of the Circumcision Epiphany Resurrection and Penticost These two which are printed together are grounded upon several parts of Scripture Sermon on Nehem. 13. ver 14. Ox. 1670. Pious meditations and prayers Lond. 1673. oct He also wrot the large Epistle to Sir James Ware set before The Comment of the Bishops of Ireland written by that Knight and digested fitted for the press and published a book written by his Father entit David restored or an antidote against the prosperity of the wicked and afflictions of the just in a seasonable discourse on the 73 Psalm Printed in oct 1600. This Dr. Jo. Parry died 21. of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and seven and was buried near to the body of his Father in the Church of S. Audoen in Dublin In the See of Ossory succeeded his Brother Dr. B. Parry as I shall tell you among the Writers in the next year ARTHUR BRETT was descended of a gentile family but where born unless in the City of Westminster I know not In 1653 he was elected a Student of Ch. Ch. from Westm School and afterwards taking the degrees in Arts became one of the Terrae filii in the Act celebrated in S. Maries Church 1661 Rob. Field of Trin. Coll. being the other at which time he shew'd himself sufficiently ridiculous This person who was a great pretender to poetry wrot and published Poem on the restauration of K. Ch. 2. Lond. 1660. qu. Threnodia On the death of Henry Duke of Glocester Oxon. 1660. in 2. sh and an half in qu. Patientia Victrix or the book of Job in lyrick vers Lond. 1661. oct What other things he hath published I cannot tell Sure I am that he taking holy orders afterwards had some mean employment bestowed on him but grew so poor being as I conceive somewhat crazed that he desired the almes of Gentlemen especially of Oxford Scholars whom he accidentally met with in London In which condition I saw him there in 1675. He died in his mothers house in the Strand near London about sixteen hundred seventy and seven but where his lean and macerated carkass was buried unless in the yard of S. Clements Ch. without Temple-bar I know not WILLIAM PETRE second son of Will Lord Petre was born in his Fathers house at West Thorndon in Essex became a Gent. Com. with his Brother Robert afterwards Lord Petre of Exeter Coll. about the beginning of Lent term an 1612 aged 10 years and soon after when Wadham Coll. was finished by his great Aunt Dame Dorothy Wadham he was translated thither and became the first Gent. Com. or Nobleman thereof Afterwards leaving the University without the taking of a degree he went to the Inns of Court travelled and became a Gen. of many accomplishments He hath translated into English The lives of Saints with other feasts of the year according to the Roman Calendar St. Omer 1669. Written in Spanish by Pet. Ribadeneira of the Society of Jesus To which are added a translation by the same hand of all those Saints which have been put into the Calendar since the authors Ribadeneira edition until the year 1669 besides those Feasts of Spain which the author himself hath inserted This Mr. Will. Petre died 16. January in sixteen hundred seventy and seven in his house at Stanford Rivers in Essex where he had an estate left him by his Father and was buried in the Church there as I have been informed by his Sisters Son that most generous and well bred Gentleman Ralph Sheldon of Beoly in Worcestershire commonly called Great Sheldon WILLIAM JEMMAT or Gemote was born in the borough of Reading in Berks. of which his Father had been twice Mayor in the Reign of Qu. Elizabeth educated in the Free school there became a Student in Magd. Coll. an 1610 took one degree in Arts which being compleated by Determination he retired to Magd. Hall took the degree of Master as a member thereof holy orders and became preacher for a time at Leachlade in Glocestershire Afterwards he was made Minister of Nettlested in Kent Chaplain for a time to the Earl of Northumberland and for 14 years a licensed Lecturer at Istleword in Middlesex At length leaving that Cure in 1640 or thereabouts he went to his native place exercised his function in praying and preaching there among the Brethren took the Covenant became Minister of S. Giles Church in the said borough of Reading and was much followed and admired by those of his perswasion He hath written and published these things following Several Sermons in number about seven Printed at Lond. 1623. 24. 27. 28. 1643. 44. c. Among them is one entit S. Matthews conversion c. another The Spiritual Trumpet c. and a third The rock or a settled heart in unsettled times c. Abridgment of Dr. John Prestons works Lond. 1648. 58. oct Exposition of the historical prophecy of Jonah Lond. 1666. qu. dedic to the Lady Cecilia Knollys Now and ever c. Lond. 1666. qu. This I have not yet seen He also collected and published Five Sermons preached by Tho. Taylor of Cambr. on occasion of the Gun-powder-treason Lond. 1620. qu did also put into order correct and publish the said Doct. Plain and pithie exposition of the twelfth chapter of S. Johns Revelation Lond. 1633. qu. entit Christs victory over the Dragon c. and lastly his book entit Christ revealed or the old Testam explained c. Lond. 1635. qu. Before which Sermons Exposition and Christ revealed our author Jemmat hath put Epistles as also before the said Taylor 's Commentary on the Epist of S. Paul to Titus Which Taylor commonly called the Illuminated Doctor had for several years been a Minister in Reading where he was held in great veneration by Jemmat in his tender years and indeed by all that were his Auditors there Mr. Jemmat hath also translated into Lat. some part of Dr. Thomas Goodwins works which were printed at Heidelberg in 1658. oct with his name thus set in the title Interprete Guil. de Magno conventu that is William of the Great convention Moot or Mote At length after he had shew'd himself a mutable man according to the times he
lived in died full of years on the 28. of January in sixteen hundred seventy and seven At which time he left a considerable legacy of books to the Church of S. Giles before mention'd in the chancel whereof he was buried on the 31. of the said month He had two Sons that were Ministers one named John who was Vicar of the said Church and the other Samuel who lived and died Rector of Eastling in Kent CHRISTOPHER FOWLER son of Joh. Fowl of Marlborough in Wilts was born there became a Servitour of Magd. Coll. in 1627 aged 16 or thereabouts where continuing till he was Bach. of Arts he retired to S. Edm. Hall took the degree of Master of that faculty as a member thereof entred into holy Orders and preached for some time in and near Oxon and afterwards at West Woodhey near Dunnington Castle in Berks. At length upon the turn of the times in 1641 he closed with the Presbyterians having before been puritanically affected took the Covenant and became a very conceited and fantastical preacher among them For by his very many odd gestures and antick behaviour unbeseeming the serious gravity to be used in the pulpit he drew constantly to his congregation a numerous crowd of silly Women and young People who seemed to be hugely taken and enamour'd with his obstreporousness and undecent cants He was then as I conceive Minister of S. Margarets Church in Lothbury London to which City he retired for safety under pretence of being disturbed by the Malignants as he called them at Dunnington and soon after being a zealous Brother for the cause he became Vicar of S. Maries Church in Reading an Assistant to the Commissioners of Berks for the ejection of such that were then called by the Godly party scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters and at length Fellow of Eaton Coll. near Windsore notwithstanding he had refused the Engagement After his Majesties restauration he lost his Fellowship of Eaton and being deprived of his cure at Reading for nonconformity retired to London and afterwards to Kennington near Newington S Mary in Surrey and carried on the trade of conventicling to his last His works are these Daemonium meridianum Satan at noon or antichristian blasphemies anti-scriptural divilismes c. evidenced in the light of truth and punished by the hand of justice Being a sincere relation of the proceedings of the Commissioners of the County of Berks against John Pordage late Rector of Bradfield in Berks. Lond. 1655. qu. Notes and animadversions upon a book of Jo. Pordage entit Innocency appearing c. Printed at the end of Daem merid This John Pordage who was the Son of Sam. Pordage Citizen and Grocer of the Parish of S. Dionise Backchurch in London who died in the latter end of the year 1626 was called Doctor by a charientismus and had been preacher at S. Laurence Church in London before he came to Bradfield From which last being ejected by the said Commissioners as having been conversant with evil spirits as they said and for blasphemy ignorance scandalous behaviour divilisme uncleanness and I know not what he therefore wrot the said book of Innocency appearing c. in his own vindication But that book availing nothing he continued notwithstanding ejected and as the Commissioners said he took part with the great blasphemer Abiezer Coppe and appeared in his behalf before when he was accrimated by them of various foul matters Daemon merid the second part discovering the slanders and calumnies cast upon some corporations with forged and false articles upon the author in a Pamphlet entit The case of Reading rightly stated c. by the Adherents and Abettors of the said Joh. Pordage Lond. 1656. qu. A word to Infant-baptisme and a glaunce to Mr. Pendarves his Arrows against Babylon c. Answer to the Mayor Aldermen and Assistants of Reading in Berks. to a scandalous pamphlet entit The case of the Town of Reading stated These two last are printed with the second part of Daemon Merid. Sober answer to an angry Epistle directed to all publick teachers in this nation and prefix'd to a book called by Antiphrasis Christs innocency pleaded against the cry of the chief priests written in hast by Tho. Speed Quaker and Merchant of Bristow c. Lond. 1656. qu. Sim. Ford a Minister in Reading assisted our author Fowler in the composition of the said book which was soon after animadverted upon by that noted Quaker called George Fox in his book entit The great mystery of the great Whore unfolded c. Several Sermons as 1 How Christians may get such a faith as may be not only saving at last but comfortable and joyful at present on 2. Pet. 1.8 This is in the Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1674. and 76. qu. 2 Scriptures to be read by the common people on 1. Thes 5.27 in The morning exercise against popery preached in Southwark Lond. 1675. qu. 4 Sermon on S. John 19.42 Printed 1666. qu. This or any others besides that he hath published I have not yet seen At length this our author Ch. Fowler who was esteemed a little better than crazed or distracted for some time before his death departed this mortal life in Southwark in the latter end of January in sixteen hundred seventy and seven and was buried within the precincts of S. John Baptists Church near Dowgate in the Ch. yard I think in London As for John Pordage before mention'd commonly called Dr. Pordage whom I have heard Mr. Ashmole commend for his knowledge in or at least his great affection to Astronomy was restored to Bradfield after his Majesties return lived there several years leaving behind him a Son named Samuel of Linc. inn author of Herod and Mariamne Trag. and of The Siege of Babylon Trag. Com also of Eliana a Romance and of a Translation of Troades Which Samuel was Steward to Philipp the second Earl of Pembroke and not to Old Philipp or Philipp the first as I have told you among the Writers in the first Volume pag. 336. NATHANIEL STEPHENS son of Rich. Steph. Minister of Staunton Barnwood in Wilts was born in that County became a Batler of Magd. Hall in Lent term an 1622 aged 16 years took the degrees in Arts and afterwards became a puritannical Preacher in his own Country At length upon the change of the times he closed with the Presbyterians took the Covenant preached frequently against the Kings Followers and Prelacy and was not wanting on all turns to carry on the blessed cause At length having the Rectory of Fenny Drayton or Draiston in the Clay in Leycestershire confer'd on him wrot and published A precept for the baptisme of Infants out of the New Test c. partly against the Cavills of Mr. Everard in his late treatise intit Baby-baptisme routed c. Lond. 1651. qu. Animadverted upon by Joh. Tombes in his first part of Antipedobaptisme Plain and easie calculation of the name