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
Oxonii 1624. Printed with Balliofergus c. This Dr. Savage died in Ball. Coll. on the second day of June in sixteen hundred seventy and two and was buried in the Chappel belonging thereunto next below the steps leading to the altar being the first that was ever known to have received sepulture therein In his Headship of Ball. Coll. succeeded Dr. Thom. Good whom I shall mention elsewhere ABIEZER COPPE the Son of Walt. Coppe was born in the antient Borough of Warwick in Warwickshire 20. May 1619 educated in Grammar learning there and at about 17 years of age was sent to All 's Coll. in the beginning of 1636 where continuing but for a short time in the condition of a Servitor I think he became one of the number of Portionists commonly called Postmasters of Mert. College at which time tho he was put under the tuition of a good Tutor Ralph Button I think yet being naturally vitious all lectures or examples could not reform or make him live like a Christian And it was then notoriously known that he would several times entertain for one night or more a wanton huswife in his Chamber under that called Oxoniam quare as I have heard in the little or old quadrangle to whom carrying several times meat at the hour of refection he would make answer when being asked by the way what he would do with it that it was a bit for his cat At length the Civil War breaking forth he left the University without a degree adhered to the blessed Cause and at first was a Presbyterian But the gap being widened for all heresies to come in he became an Anabaptist and after a Ranter Muggletonian and what not to satisfie his wandring head and filthy lusts The stage of most of his villanies was Warwickshire where and in the neighbourhood and in other of his rambles he had while he was an Anabaptist baptized seven thousand People as he brag'd to some Oxford Scholars while he was a Prisoner in Coventry After he had left that opinion and had turned Ranter 't was usual with him to preach stark naked many blasphemies and unheard of villanies in the day-time and in the night be drunk and lye with a Wench that had been also his hearer stark naked He was wont to say when he was reprehended for swearing that tho it was usual with him in common discourse and in his preachings yet 't was not formally but materially as thus By Gods wounds I shall be saved and the like But he said these things when he was imprison'd for his rogueries and not before When also he was check'd by the Brethren of the Anabaptistical party for leaving them he would swear that he would rather hear an Arch Angel blaspheme and curse God than hear a Presbyterian or Anabaptist preach About the time of his publishing the Fiery flying Roll he was for that and other rascallities imprison'd at Coventry where 't was usual with him after he had swore and cursed most of the day to be drunk at night And when he was to be removed thence to London a Brother of his Religion brought a collection of fifty pounds to pay his debts there This brother while he remained in that City preached twice in one day and towards night he preached in the Prison to Coppe and others of his gang Which being done they enjoyed the creature so much that they were all down-right drunk To omit many other of his pranks that he acted then and before I shall tell you what he hath written viz. A fiery flying roll c. Lond. 1649. This book I have not yet seen and therefore I cannot give a full account of it In the month of January the same year he as a most notorious sectarist and author of that book was removed from Coventry to the Prison called Newgate in London where as before he did little else but swear and curse and obstinately held forth to all People that came to see him that God could not damn him and having smooth arguments for what he had said induced many to be of his Religion On the 2. of Feb. following it was voted by the members of Parliament who by their most imparallel'd actions had been and were then the occasion of all Englands woes and miseries and so let it stand upon eternal record to their eternal shame that the said book entit A fiery flying roll doth contain many horrid blasphemies and damnable and detestable opinions and that the said book and all the copies of it that could be found should be burnt by the hands of the common hangman c. which accordingly was done The errors that Coppe held which he afterwards recanted were these 1 That there is no sin 2 That there is no God 3 That man or the meer creature is very God 4 That God is in man or in the creature only and no where else 5 That cursing and swearing is no sin 6 That adultery fornication and uncleaness is no sin 7 That community of Wives is lawful c. Afterwards for fear of corporal punishment or perpetual exile in an obscure place Coppe recanted and published another book after he had been an year and an half in prison entit Copp's return to the way of truth in a zealous and sincere protestation against several errors and in a sincere and zealous testimony to several truths or truth asserted against and triumphing over error and the wings of the fiery flying roll clip't c. Lond. 1651. qu Before which is a large preface shewing what the author Coppe had been and was then to the Parliament Letter in answer to another of Mr. John Dury Printed with Copp's return as also another to March Nedham Afterwards Coppe was set at liberty was kindly entertained among those of his opinion and being at Burford in Oxfordshire preached there A recantation Sermon 23. Dec. 1651 but whether printed I cannot tell Sure it is that John Tickell a Minister of Abendon in Berks. somtimes of Ch. Ch. did write Animadversions on it which are printed at the end of his Bottomless pit smoaking in familisme Oxon. 1652. oct He the said Coppe published also a book written by J. F. entit John the Divines Divinity or the confession of the general assembly or Church of the first born in heaven Lond. 1649. Before which book Coppe hath put an Epistle dated at London 13 Jan. 1648 two or three days as he saith before the eternal God thundred at Great S. Ellens in Lond. This book is a silly thing full of blasphemies and more fit for a posterior use than to be read by any man of Reason or Sobriety Afterwards the Name of Coppe being odious he did upon the Kings restauration change it to Higham and practising Physick at Barnelms in Survey and sometimes preaching in Conventicles to maintain him and his went for divers years by the Name of Dr. Higham At length being brought low by certain Infirmities which he had contracted in
influences into Britain For tho 't is natural for us to dream always of hidden Treasures in the Tombs of our Ancestors and Fancy that oftentimes creates the Wealth always improves the value of it and tho the search into Authors of an elder date especially Antiquaries and Historians is a necessary task for those that shall hereafter with inquisitive diligence and severe judgment undertake the general History of this Nation yet still it must be own'd that Ore however rich must lose its Dross before it be refin'd into Metal and that unpolish'd Materials whatever they may be wrought into are not yet a Fabrick It is confess'd in the mean time that the rudeness or ignorance of our Ancestors the meaness of their Studies or the carelessness of their performances was not the fault of our Nation but the Age Gildas and Bede challenge the precedence of the most Antient Historians of our neighbouring Nations Our Alcuine gave Learning to one of the most flourishing Vniversities of Europe none elsewhere were more subâ—il than our Schoolmen nor more learned than Our Canonists So that in that universal Cloud of ignorance Britain enjoy'd if not always the dawn of the Day yet at least comparatively the least share of Night Now then it is time for us to observe that our Authors Work begins with the first progress if not the earliest rise of Learning in this Island that if he had ascended higher his Subject had been worse and his Guides more uncertain Records had been wanting as well as Writers and neither wou'd the Haven have been so good nor the Buoys so visible nor the Voyage so pleasant For when in the middle of the 14th Century the Art of Printing was discover'd and a few years afterwards Constantinople was taken then the Exil'd Grecians who had before given Learning to Italy now by the incouragement of Alphonso in Naples and the Family of the Medicee's in Florence restor'd it to the World And it was the particular happiness of England that as soon as the Italian Learning could reach this Northern Island about the first date of this Work in the beginning of the 15th Century then concurr'd a third Cause of the Restoration and Increase of Learning among us the discovery of America the incouragement of our Navigation and the extent of our Foreign Correspondence I shall not anticipate this Work so far as hereafter to observe the progress of Learning and the steps that it made in this Island nor to shew the gradual improvements of our Fathers in the best Studies among us yet thus much upon a view of this Period of Learning in Europe and particularly in England may without vanity be said that Learning that came very slow to the Western and the Northern Climates hath yet like a rich and weary Traveller seem'd not only to fix her last Seat here but to disperse among us the spoils of other Nations and the gains of her former Travels However unskilful therefore our Author hath been in the management of the Fabrick it is not to be denied but that he hath intituled himself to the glory of a good Architect in the choice of a rich and fruitful and that a new and unbroken Soil Before this Age and somewhat within it Leland who by the command of King Henry VIII had undertaken to survey and perpetuate Books of the antient Monasteries after the dissolution thereof hath completed that Work with so great exactness that Bale and Pits who have since attempted the same have only made use herein of the Gorgons common Eye and have reflected that single light only upon Posterity But in this Work unless we would set a value upon the Writings of mean and fanciful Authors I mean Lloyd and Fuller Our Antiquary hath let himself into a new and full Harvest and not condescended to gather the Gleanings of another hand Thus far of the Extent of our Authors Work in respect to Time It is now requisite that we consider the Latitude of it in respect of Place It is indeed by its Title confin'd to one Vniversity only But either by the peculiar happiness of that famous Body in producing eminent Authors or by the care of this Writer in inserting such of the other Vniversity as were likewise entred at Oxon or studied in it or assisted oppos'd or answer'd any Author of that Vniversity The Work in its several commendable Digressions seems almost to contain an exact and full History of Learning and of the Learned Men in England And even as to the Vniversity it self tho I have no mind to revive the Disputes of Caius and Twine on that Subject which are now as happily ended as they were unhappily begun it may be observ'd that of those Authors that are recited by Pits there are CCCLXXX of the Vniversity of Oxon and only CX of the other Vniversity And I dare upon inquiry affirm that that eminent Body hath been as fruitful in the produce of eminent Authors in this last Century as any of the former and it remains to be wish'd that some good Antiquary of the other Vniversity would convince us of our errour in this particular Thus far as to the Subject of our Author as to his Management of it there is much said in the Preface to the 1st Vol. and neither have I leisure to add more nor seems the matter it self to require it The little particulars of several Mens Lives especially the repetition of Passages already known seem distastful to some Palates when indeed the common loss of all ancient Arts is to be imputed only to the want of timely observation For while no Man writes what every Man knows at last none know what none have ever written We have an esteem of Photius Philostratus and Eunapius for the value of the Subject rather than the excellency of the performance and the price of their Works is only inhans'd by the minute circumstances of their Lives and Characters of Learned Men which other Historians have omitted Others there are that are offended at the disadvantageous Representations of eminent Authors in this Work and the disobliging expressions of our Author concerning them It is to be consider'd that all Antient Criticks not only the most severe and morose as Scioppius and Scaliger but even the most polite and easie men as Sir Tho. More have transgressed the rules of Civility and Complement which are not to be learn'd from an Antiquary And since our Writer for the publick benefit of Learning is equally regardless of Envy and of Fame it will be an intire satisfaction to him that those who upon these or other like accounts disrespect or censure the Author must yet have a just esteem and value for so useful a Work ERRATA By the Absence of the Author from the Press many Faults have been committed in the Printing this Book Page Line Error Correction 2 14 from bot was translated he was translated 12 21 from bot Suedus Ren Suedus Rex 13 40 from
such materials I have lying by me in every one of which I find his hand writing either in interlining adding or correcting and one of those four which is entituled Collectaneorum lib. secundus is mostly written by him collected from Parliament Rolls the Paper Office at Whitehall Vicar Generals Office books belonging to the Clerks of the Councill Mss in Cottons Library Books of Convocations of the Clergy c. printed Authors c. And there is no doubt that as he had an especial hand in composing the said Life of K. Hen. 8. which as some say he turned mostly into Latine but never printed so had he a hand in latinizing that Lords book De veritate or others At length being overtaken by a malignant feaver the same which I have mention'd in Dud. Digges and Will. Cartwright died thereof to the great reluctancy of those that well knew him in the Winter time either in Dec. or Jan. in sixteen hundred forty and three and was buried in the north part of the outer Chappel belonging to New Coll. His Epitaph is written in Latine by the said L. Herbert in his Occasional Verses p. 94. who hath also written a lat Poem in praise of his Mensa lubrica which may be there also seen But the said Epitaph must not be understood to have ever been put over his grave WILLIAM CHILLINGWORTH son of Will. Chill Citizen afterwards Mayor of Oxford was born in S. Martins Parish there in a little house on the north side of the conduit at Quatervois in Octob. 1602 and on the last of that month received baptism there After he had been educated in Grammar learning under Edw. Sylvester a noted Latinist and Greecian who taught privately in Allsaints Parish or in the Free school joyning to Magd. Coll. or in both he became scholar of Trin. Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Rob. Skinner on the second of June 1618 being then about two years standing in the University and going thro with ease the Classes of Logic and Philosophy was adm M. of A. in the latter end of 1623 and Fellow of the said Coll. 10 June 1628. He was then observed to be no drudg at his study but being a man of great parts would do much in a little time when he setled to it He would often walk in the College grove and contemplate but when he met with any scholar there he would enter into discourse and dispute with him purposely to facilitate and make the way of wrangling common with him which was a fashion used in those days especially among the disputing Theologists or among those that set themselves apart purposely for Divinity But upon the change of the times occasion'd by the Puritan that way forsooth was accounted boyish and pedagogical to the detriment in some respects of learning About the same time being much unsetled in his thoughts he became acquainted with one who went by the name of Joh. Fisher a learned Jesuit and sophistical Disputant who was often conversant in these parts At length by his perswasions and the satisfaction of some doubts which he could not find among our great men at home he went to the Jesuits Coll. at S. Omer forsook his Religion and by these motives following which he left among them under his own hand became a Rom. Catholick First because perpetual visible profession which could never be wanting to the Religion of Christ nor any part of it is apparently wanting to Protestant Religion so far as concern the points in contestation 2 Because Luther and his followers separating from the Church of Rome separated also from all Churches pure or impure true or untrue then being in the World upon which ground I conclude that either Gods promises did fail of performance if there were then no Church in the world which held all things necessary and nothing repugnant to salvation or else that Luther and his Sectaries separating from all Churches then in the world and so from the true if there were any true were damnable Schismaticks 3 Because if any credit might be given to as creditable Records as any are extant the doctrine of Catholiques hath been frequently confirmed and the opposite doctrine of Protestants confounded with supernatural and divine miracles 4 Because many points of protestant Doctrine are the damned opinions of Hereticks condemned by the primitive Church 5 Because the prophecies of the Old Test touching the conversion of Kings and Nations to the true Religion of Christ have been accomplished in and by the Catholique Rom. Religion and the Professours of it 6 Because the doctrine of the Church of Rome is conformable and the doctrine of the Protestants contrary to the doctrine of the Fathers of the primitive Church even by the confession of Protestants themselves I mean those Fathers who lived within the compass of the first 600 years to whom Protestants themselves do very frequently and confidently appeal 7 Because the first pretended Reformers had neither extraordinary commission from God nor ordinary mission from the Church to preach protestant doctrine 8 Because Luther to preach against the mass which contains the most material points now in controversie was perswaded by reasons suggested to him by the Devil himself disputing with him So himself professeth in his book De missa privata that all men might take heed of following him who professeth himself to follow the Devil 9 Because the protestant Cause is now and hath been from the beginning maintained with gross falsifications and calumnies whereof their prime controversie writers are notoriously and in high degree guilty 10 Because by denying all humane Authority either of Pope or Councils or Church to determine controversies of Faith they have abolished all possible means of suppressing heresie or restoring unity to the Church These were his motives as my Author tells me who adds that they were so strong that he Chillingw could never since frame his mind to Protestancy And the profession of Catholique Religion not suting with his desires and designs he fell upon Socinianism that is no Religion c. To these motives which are owned and reprinted by Mr. Chillingworth he made an Answer three years or better before the first edition of his book called The Religion of Protestants c. came out Which answer was not published for two reasons one because the motives were never publick until the author of The direction to N. N. made them so The other because he was loth to proclaim to all the world so much weakness as he shew'd in suffering himself to be abused by such silly sophismes All which proceeded upon mistakes and false suppositions which unadvisedly he took for granted as 't will quickly appear when the motives with his respective answers made to them and printed shall be impartially weighed in the ballance against each other Tho Mr. Chillingworth embraced Protestantism very sincerely as it seems when he wrot his book of The Religion of Protestants c. yet
1621 which was printed that year In 1641 he sided with the Presbyterians and in 1643 he was chosen one of the Assembly of Divines which is all I yet know of him CALYBUTE DOWNING the eldest Son of Calyb Downing of Shennington in Gloucestershire near to Banbury in Oxfordshire Gent. Lord of the mannors of Sugarswell and Tysoe in Warwickshire became a Commoner of Oriel Coll. in 1623 and in that of his age 17 or thereabouts took one degree in Arts compleated it by determination and then went as it seems to Cambridge or beyond the Seas where taking another degree he entred into orders was made Rector of Hickford in Bucks Doctor of the Laws and had as I have been informed by one that well knew him the Rectory of West-Ildesley in Berks bestowed on him About that time he being a competitor for the Wardenship of All 's Coll. when Dr. Gilb. Sheldon was elected but lost it did at length exchange W. Ildesley for the Rectory of Hackney near London and was a great suitor to be Chaplain to Tho. E. of Strafford L. Lieutenant of Ireland thinking that employment the readiest way to be a Bishop And whilst he had hopes of that preferment he writ stoutly in justification of that calling and was ready ever and anon to maintain it in all Discourses But being a reputed weathercock that turns which way soever the wind of his own humour and ambition blew him did upon some discontent watch an opportunity to gain preferment let it come what way soever At length being esteemed by the Faction to be a Man fitted for any base employment and one that what ever he counterfeited ever looked awry on the Church in which being setled and in peace he could never hope to advance further than Rector of Hackney was by them sent to feel the pulse of the great City of London While therefore discontents did rise high in the North the Scots having in an hostile manner entred the Kingdom the people every where especially in London stirred up by some Agents to petition the King for that Parliament which began 3. Nov. 1640 our Author Downing did then viz. on the first of Sept. 1640 preach to the brotherhood of the Artillery Garden and positively affirmed that for defence of religion and reformation of the Church it was lawful to take up arms against the King He having thus kindled the fire in the City did for fear of being questioned for then it was not lawful to preach Treason retire privately to Little-Lees in Essex the house of Robert Earl of Warwick and common rendezvouze of all schismatical preachers in those parts while in the mean time his Sermon which did administer in every place matter of discourse was censur'd as people stood affected and in fine gave occasion to the Ringleaders of the Faction to enter upon serious examination and study of this case of Conscience And it seems that they consulting with the Jesuits on the one side and the rigid Puritan on the other or indeed because without admitting this doctrine all their former endeavours would vanish into smoak they stood doubtful no longer but closed with these two contrary parties yet shaking hands in this point of Rebellion and subscribing to the Doctrine of Downing as an evangelical truth Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion soon after he became Chaplain to the Regiment of John Lord Roberts in the Army of Robert Earl of Essex where he preached and prayed continually against the King and his Cause In 1643 he shewed himself a grand Covenanter and thereupon was made one of the Assembly of Divines but leaving them soon after he sided with the Independents and preached so seditiously that he was commonly called Young Peters or Hugh Peters the second and often and bitterly preached against such Citizens of London that shew'd themselves zealous for an union or right understanding between the King and his Parliament But behold while he was in the height of these diabolical and rebellious actions he was suddenly and as I may say most justly cut off from the face of the earth and was no more seen His Works are these A discourse of the state Ecclesiastical of this Kingdom in relation to the Civil considered under three conclusions c. Oxon. 1633. c. A digression discussing some ordinary exceptions against Ecclesiastical Officers To these two discourses tho his name is put yet I have been informed by a certain D. of D. then living and well known to Downing that he the said C. Downing was not the Author of them Discourse of the false grounds the Bavarian party have laid to settle their own Faction and shake the peace of the Empire c. Lond. 1641. qu. Discourse upon the interest of England considered in the case of the deteinure of the Prince Elector Palatine his dignities and dominions printed with the former book next going before A discoursive conjecture upon the reasons that produce a desired event of the present Troubles of Great Britaine different from those of Lower Germany c. Lond. 1641. qu. c. Divers Sermons as 1 Serm. preached before the renowned Company of Artillery 1. Sept. 1â—40 on Deut. 25.17 Lond. 1642. qu. 2 Fast Serm. before the H. of Commons 31. Aug. 1642 on 2. Thes 3. ver 2. whether printed I know not and others which I have not yet seen This person who had a hot and rambling Head laid it down very unwillingly and gave up the Ghost at Hackney about the beginning of the year sixteen hundred forty and four to the great grief of his aged Father who died in Nov. following This Dr. Cal. Downing was Father to a Son of his own temper named George a sider with all times and changes well skil'd in the common Cant and a Preacher sometimes to boot a man of note in Olivers days as having been by him sent Resident to the Lords States General of the United Provinces a Soldier in Scotland and at length Scout Master General there and a Burgess for several Corporations in that Kingdom in Parliaments that began there in 1654 and 56. Upon a foresight of his Majesty K. Ch. 2. his Restauration he wheeled about took all opportunities to shew his Loyalty was elected Burgess for Morpeth in Northumb. to serve in that Parl. begun at Westm 8. May 1661 was about that time sent Envoy Extraordinary into Holland where to shew his zeal and love for his Majesty he seized on three Regicides at Delft named John Barkstead Joh. Okey and Miles Corbet whom he forthwith sent into England to receive the reward of the Gallows Afterwards being made Secretary to the Treasury and one of his Majesties Commissioners of the Customs was by the name of Sir George Downing of East-Hatley in Cambridgeshire Knight created a Baronet on the first of July 1603. BRIAN TWYNE Son of Tho. Twyne mentioned before under the year 1613 p. 329 was admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. in a Surrey
place on the 13. Dec. 1594 and in that of his age 15 or thereabouts After he had taken the degrees in Arts he was admitted Probationer-Fellow of the said House 3. Jan. 1605 about which time entring into Holy Orders took the degree of Bach. of Div. five years after In 1614 he was made Greek Reader of his College performed his duty well and about 1623 left that and the House to avoid his being ingaged in a faction then between the President and Fellows knowing very well that if he favoured either side expulsion would follow because he had entred into a wrong County-place Afterwards he became Vicar of Rye in Sussex in which County at Lewes as 't is supposed by some he was born by the favour as it seems of the Earl of Dorset but being seldom resident on the place he spent the most part of his time in Oxon in certain hired Lodgings in Penverthingstreet in the Parish of S. Aldate where he continued to his dying day The genius of this person being naturally bent to the study of History and Antiquities he published a Book in vindication of the antiquity and dignity of the University of Oxon against such matters that Londinensis otherwise called John Cay had said in his book De antiquitate Acad Cantab. in derogation to Oxon the title of it is this Antiquitatis Academiae Oxoniensis Apologia in tres libros divisa Oxon. 1608. qu. To which books are these things added Miscellanea quaedam de antiquis aulis Studentium collegiis quondam hodie in universitate existentibus Summorum Oxoniensis Academiae Magistratuum hoc est Cancellariorum Commissariorum et Vicecancellariorum necnon Procuratorum c. catalogus In the aforesaid Apology tho sufficient judgment yet greater reading is shewed which hath occasioned many understanding men to suppose nay rather confidently believe that he had the helps of Tho. Allen and Miles Windsore in the composition of the work especially for this reason that when he had fitted it for the Press he was scarce 28 years of age Howsoever it is I shall not pretend to judge sure I am that notwithstanding several persons have endeavour'd to pick flaws and errors thence and have characteriz'd it to be rather a rude heap than an exact pile yet the body and general part of it remains as yet unanswer'd The Author intended to reprint the said Work with additions collected from many obscure places but the grand Rebellion breaking out in 1642 in the time of which he died his design was frustrated and the Book it self interleav'd and filled with additions together with many rarities were when the great fire hapned in Oxon which was soon after his death either burnt with the house wherein he died having been there left by his Executor or else then conveyed away by such who commonly seek advantage by such disasters I have heard some Masters of Arts who then bore Arms for his Majesty in Oxon say that six or seven Volumes of his collections in quarto either of Greek Mathematicks Philosophy Heraldry Antiquities c. in all which he was well read were offered to them by a beggerly Soldier for very inconsiderable prizes and Dr. Herb. Pelham sometimes of Madg. Coll. hath aver'd it for an unquestionable truth that two or three Vol. were offered to him by such indigent persons for six pence a peice such is the sordidness of ignorance and poverty Our Author Twyne was of a melancholick temper and sedentary life and wholly spent his time in reading writing and contemplation He made it his whole endeavour to maintain the University Privileges and Liberties against its oppugners and spent much mony and travel for that purpose especially for the obtaining copies of the antient Charters and Bulls which formerly had been granted thereunto He left no Library Office or place wherein he thought were reposed monuments of Literature and Antiquity unperused expecting in them something that might redound to the honor of his Mother making thereby an incredible pile of collections But so it was that most of them except some which he bequeathed to the University relating to controversial matters between the two Corporations were with great resentment let it be spoken lost in the said fire Had they or his interleav'd Book been saved the work of the Hist and Antiq. of Oxon which was some years since published might probably have been spared or at least have come sooner to light with much gratitude to the lucubrations of this industrious Antiquary but being lost as I have told you tho Dr. Langbaine of Qu. Coll. and one or more did make diligent search after it I was forced to peruse the records in all those places which he had done before nay each College treasury of muniments which were except one omitted by him to the end that all local antiquities in Oxford and other matters of Antiquity not well understood by him might be by me known and in future time described if ever the English Copy of the said Hist and Antiq. of Oxon may hereafter be published to which I intend to add the Antiquities of the Town or City of Oxon. Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. had an especial respect for our Author Twyne and employed him in drawing up the University Statutes now in use which were afterwards corrected methodized and furbisht over with excellent Latine by Dr. Pet. Turner one of the Savilian Professors as I shall tell you hereafter In the said noble work of gathering the Statutes together our Author being the chief if not the only Drudge for he transcribed them all under his own hand he was rewarded with the place of Custos Archivorum founded and established by the Chancellour and Scholars of the University after the Statutes were compleated an 1634. Which place he enjoying about ten years took his last farewell of this world in his Lodgings in S. Aldates Parish before mentioned on the fourth day of July in sixteen hundred forty and four Afterwards his body was buried in the inner Chappel or Choire of Corp. Ch. College to which House he had bequeathed in his last Will many choice Books whereof some were Mss of his own writing What I have further to observe of our Author is that tho he was accounted by divers persons an honest plain Man one rather industrious than judicious notwithstanding well skilled in the Mathematicks cynical than facetious morose than pleasant clownish than courteous close than communicative and that he was evilly spoken of by the Oxonian vulgar as a Conjurer or one busied in the Black Art a betrayer of their Liberties and I know not what yet he was a loving and a constant friend to his Mother the University and to his College a severe Student and an adorer of venerable Antiquity And therefore forasmuch as his love was so which none that knew him could ever say to the contrary his memory ought to be respected by all vertuous and good men REES PRICHARD was born as
ready when this came out a full examination and confutation of the second part yet he thought not fit to publish it together with this for reasons given in the close of the work Afterwards Knott did publish Infidelity unmasked or a confutation of a book published by Mr. Will. Chillingworth under this title The religion of Protestants c. Gaunt 1652 in a large qu. Which is the last time that I find Knott mentioned for he dying at London on the fourth of January 1655 according to the Eng. accompt buried the next day in the S. Pancras Church near that City no body that I yet know vindicated Chillingworth against him Our Author Dr. Potter did also translate from Ital. into English The History of the quarrels of P. Paul 5. with the state of Venice Lond. 1626. qu. Pen'd by Father Paul Sarp And had lying by him at his death several MSS. fit to be printed among which was one intit A survey of the new platforme of predestination which coming into the hands of Twisse of Newbury was by him answer'd as also Three Letters of Dr. Potter concerning that matter At length departing this mortal life in Queens Coll. on the third day of March in sixteen hundred forty and five was buried about the middle of the inner Chappel belonging thereunto Over his grave was a marble monument fastned to the north Wall at the charge of his Widow Elizabeth Daughter of Dr. Charles Sonibanke sometimes Canon of Windsore afterwards the Wife of Dr. Ger. Langbaine who succeeded Potter in the Provostship of the said College a Copy of which you may read in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 124. b. In his Deanery of Worcester succeeded Dr. Rich. Holdsworth Archd. of Huntingdon and Master of Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge and in his Deanery of Durham Dr. Will. Fuller Dean of Ely but neither of them I presume were installed WILLIIAM LOE took the degrees in Arts as a Member of S. Albans Hall that of Master being compleated in 1600 at which time he was much in esteem for Lat. Gr. and humane learning Soon after he was made Master of the College School in Glocester in which office he was succeeded by John Langley Prebendary of the Church there Chaplain in ord to K. Jam. 1. and Pastor of the English Church at Hambrough in Saxony belonging to the English Merchant Adventurers there in 1618 in which year he accumulated the degree of Doctor of Div. as a member of Merton Coll. His works are these Several Sermons as 1 Come and see The Bible the brightest beauty c. being the sum of four sermons preached in the Cathedral of Glocester Lond. 1614. qu. 2 The Mysterie of mankind made into a Manual being the sum of seven sermons preached at S. Michaels in Cornhil on Tim. 1.3.16 Lond. 1619. oct 3 The Kings shoe or Edoms doome Sermon on Psal 60.8 Lond. 1623. qu. and another Serm. or Treatise called The Merchant real which I have not yet seen Vox clamantis A still Voice to the three Estates in Parliament Lond. 1621. qu. I find one Dr. Loe to administer comfort to Dr. Dan. Featley when he laid on his death bed and afterwards to preach his funeral Sermon at Lambeth printed at London 1645. qu. which Doctor I take to be the same with our Author who while he was Preb. of Gloc. did sometimes subscribe himself to certain Chapter-Acts by the name of Will. Leo. He died in the time of Usurpation when the Church was destroyed for the sake of Religion but where or when I cannot tell After the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. one Hugh Nash M. of A. succeeded him in his Prebendship which for some years had lain void GABRIEL du GRES a Frenchman studied sometimes among the Oxonians afterwards went to Cambridge for a time as it seems and returning thence soon after taught privately for several years the French Tongue in this University His works are these Grammaticae Gallicae compendium Cantab. 1636. oct Dialogi Gallico-Anglico-Latini Oxon. 1639. 1652. and 1660. oct Regulae pronunciandi ut verborum Gallicorum Paradigmata printed with the Dialogues Life of Jean Arman du plessis Duke of Richelieu and Peer of France Lond. 1643. oct and other things as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen nor know any thing else of the Author THOMAS LYDYAT the son of Christop Lydyat Lord of the Mannour of Aulkryngton commonly called Okerton near Banbury in Oxfordshire and Citizen of London was born at Okerton in the beginning of the year 1572 and having pregnant parts while a youth was by the endeavours of his Father elected one of the number of the Children of Wykeham's Coll. near Winchester at about 13 years of age where being soon ripened in Grammaticals was elected Probationer Fellow of New Coll. 1591. At which time being under the tuition of Dr. afterwards Sir Hen. Marten made great proficiency in Logicals and two years after was admitted verus Socius After he had taken the degrees in Arts he studied Astronomy Mathematicks the Tongues and Divinity in the last of which he had an eager desire to continue and improve himself but finding a great defect in his Memory and Utterance of which he often complained particularly to Dr. Bancroft Bishop of Oxon his Diocesan in his Epistle dedicatory to him of a Sermon preached at a Visitation while he was a rural Dean made choice rather to quit his place in the Coll. for the statutes thereof oblig'd him to Divinity and live upon that small patrimony he had than to follow and prosecute the said study of Divinity What farther I have to observe of him is 1 That the seven years next ensuing after he had left his Fellowship of New Coll. which was 1603. he spent in the finishing and setting forth such books that he had begun in the College especially that De emendatione temporum dedicated to Pr. Henry to whom he was Chronographer and Cosmographer Which Prince being solely given up to all vertue did gratiously accept of it and had so great a respect for the Author that had he lived he would have done great matters for him but dying in the flower of his youth the hopes of our Author were interr'd with that Prince in his grave 2 That at the end of those seven years Dr. Usher afterwards Archbishop of Armagh being in London found him out and had him with him into Ireland where he continued in the Coll. near Dublin about two years At the end of which he purposing to return for England the Lord Deputy and Chanc. of Ireland did upon his motion make him a joynt promise of a competent Maintenance upon his return back again thither When he came into England the Rectory of Okerton before mention'd falling void which he before had refused when Fellow of New Coll. upon the offer of it by his Father the Patron he did after several demurrs and not without much reluctancy of mind accept
of it in the year 1612. Where being setled he did not only go over the harmony of the Gospels in less than 12 years making thereon above 600 Sermons but wrot also several books and laid the foundation of others All which in due time he would have published had he not been unadvisedly engaged for the debts of one very near related to him Which debts he being unable for the present to pay having before spent his small patrimony for the printing of his books remained in the Prison call'd Bocardo in Oxon and in the Kings bench and elsewhere till such time Sir Will. Boswell a great encourager of deserving men Dr. Rob. Pink Warden of New Coll. and if I am not mistaken Dr. Usher before mention'd had laid down the debt and released him Dr. Laud also Archb. of Canterbury did give his assistance upon the desire of Sir Hen. Marten for the delivery of him from prison but Selden who was desir'd and importun'd to contribute towards refused it for no other reason as 't is thought than that his Marmora Arundeliana could not stand uncontradicted by him and that instead of a most judicious he gave him only the name of an industrious Author for his labour 3 That about that time he put up a Petition to K. Ch. 1. wherein among several things that he desired was that his Majesty would give him leave to travel into foreign parts viz. into Turkey Ethiopia or the Abasen Emperors Country to search and find Copies especially of civil and ecclesiastical Histories to be published in print or whatsoever Copies may tend to the propagation or increase of good learning And farther also whereas he had Leiger-Embassadors and Agents with his Confederates Emperors Kings and Princes of other Countries they might in his Majesties name in behalf of Mr. Lydyat and his Assigns move their Highnesses to grant the like privilege to him and his Assigns c. What the effect of this Petition was I find not however from thence his noble intentions and publick spirit may be discover'd 4 That tho he was a person of small stature yet of great parts and of a publick soul and tho a poor and contemptible Priest to look upon for so he was held by the vulgar yet he not only puzled Christop Clavius and the whole College of Mathematicians but also that great Goliah of literature Joseph Scaliger who when he was worsted by our Authors Writings tho he would never acknowledge it howbeit great men particularly the famous Usher held it for granted he betook himself unmanly to his tongue by calling him in a scornful manner a beggarly beardless and gelt Priest 5 That as he was much esteemed by learned men at home among whom were Usher before mentioned Sir Adam Newton Secretary and Sir Tho. Chaloner Chamberlain to Pr. Henry Dr. Jo. Bainbridge Mr. Hen. Briggs Dr. Pet. Turner c. who were his great acquaintance so was he by the Virtuosi beyond the seas who were pleased and that worthily to rank him with the Lord Bacon of Verulam and Mr. Joseph Mede But when they heard that our Author and the said Mede were very poorly prefer'd they answer'd that the Englishmen deserved not to have such brave scholars among since they made no more of them 6. That in the civil War which began an 1642 he suffer'd much at his Rectory of Okerton before mention'd by the Parliament Party for in a letter written by him to Sir William Compton Kt. Governour of Banbury Castle dat 10 Dec. 1644 I find that he had been four times pillaged by the Parliament Forces of Compton house commonly called Compton in the hole in Warwickshire to the value of at least 70 l. and forced for a quarter of a year together to borrow a shirt to shift himself that also he had been twice carried away from his house once to Warwick and another time to Banbury To the first of which places being hurried away on a poor jade was infamously used by the Soldiers there and so sorely hurt that he was at the writing of the said letter not throughly whole and he doubted scarce ever should be c. The cause of all which ill usage was for that he had denied them money and had defended his books and papers and afterwards while a Prisoner in Warwick Castle had spoken much for the King and Bishops His Works are these Tractatus de variis annorum formis Lond. 1605. oct Praelectio Astronomica de naturâ caeli conditionibus elementorum Disquisitio physiologica de origine fontium The two last were printed and go always with the first Defensio tractatûs de variis annorum formis contra Josephi Scaligeri obtrectationem Lond. 1607. oct Examen Canonum Chronologiae Isagogicorum Printed with the Defensio Emendatio temporum ab initio mundi huc usque compendio facta contra Scaligerum alios Lond. 1609. oct Explicatio additamentum argumentorum in libello emendationis temporum compendio factae de nativitate Christi ministerio in terris Printed 1613. oct Solis Lunae periodus seu annus magnus Lond. 1620. oct c. De anni solaris mensurâ Epistola Astronomica ad Hen. Savilium Lond. 1620. 21. oct Numerus aureus melioribus lapillis insignitus factusque Gemmeus è thesauro anni magni sive solis lunae periodi octodesexcentenariae c. Lond. 1621. in one large sheet on one side Canones Chronologici ne◠non series summorum magistratuum triumphorum Romanorum Oxon. 1675. oct Published from a Ms in the library of Dr. Jo. Lamphire Letters to Dr. Jam. Usher Primate of Ireland Printed at the end of the said Usher's life 1686 published by Dr. Rich. Parr These I think are all the things that he hath extant As for those many Mss which he left behind him at the time of his death are mostly these Annotations upon that part of Mr. Edw. Breerwood's Treatise of the Sabbath wherein he denies the Christian Sabbath on the Lords day or the first day of the week to be established jure divino by Gods Commandment The beginning of this Mss is There was brought to me being Prisoner in the Kings Bench on Friday Evening 3 Dec. 1630. c. Annotations upon some controverted points of the chronical Canons The beg is Notwithstanding there be divers c. A few Annotations upon some places or passages of the second and third Chapters of the book intit Altare christianum The beg is There have been Christians ever since c. Treatise touching the setting up of Altars in Christian Churches and bowing in reverence to them or common Tables and bowing the knee or uncovering the head at the name or naming of Jesus occasionally made 1633. Written upon the desire of some London Ministers to declare his judgment therein dedicated to Archb. Laud in gratitude for his releasing him from prison In a postscript at the end of his discourse concerning bowing at the name of Jesus he
the English Midianite wherein are compared by way of parallel the carriage or rather miscarriage of the Cavaliers c. Lond. 1642. Which Pamphlet tho 't is but one sheet in quarto yet forsooth he had a co-operator in writing it and who should that be but one George Laurence of New Inn as rank a Presbyterian as Love Englands distemper having division and errour as its cause wanting peace and truth for its cure c. Serm. preached at Uxbridge 30. Jan. 1644. on Jerem. 33.6 Lond. 1645. qu. His vindication from those scandalous aspersions cast upon him by the Malignant party who charge him to be a hinderer of the treaty at Uxbridge c. Printed with Englands Distemper and by it self in one sh in qu. at Lond. 1651. Short and plain animadversions on some passages in Mr. Will. Dells Sermon preached before the H. of Commons 25. Nov. 1646. on Heb. 9.10 Lond. 1646. and 47. qu. Which animadversions were replyed upon the same year by Dell. The reader is to note that our Author Love preached the same day being a solemn Fast before the said H. of Commons but his Sermon being much displeasing to the Independents and malepert against the then proceedings of Parliament he had neither thanks given him or order to print it but Dell a Minister attending on his excellency Sir Tho. Fairfax being encouraged to print his netled Love so much that he forthwith wrot the said animadversions Answer to an unlicensed Pamphlet annext to the Sermon entit A reply to Mr. Loves contradictions Lond. 1647. oct Which Reply to the contradictions of Mr. Loves Sermon was written as it seems by Dell. His case Pr. 1651. qu. and thereupon followed soon after Quaeries upon it but who wrot them I know not His vindication Printed 1651. qu. pen'd by himself His Advocate Pr. 1651. qu. pen'd as I have been informed by himself Several petitions to the Parl. in Jul. and Aug. Lond. 1651. qu. A full narrative of the late dangerous designe against the state c. Lond. 1651. qu. This is said to be written by him and by him sent to the Parl. Wherein he setteth down his several meetings and several actings with Major Alford c. Mr. Tho. Case Mr. Tho. Cawton Dr. Drake Mr. Rich. Drake Maj. Rob. Huntingdon Mr. Will. Jenkyns c. His Speech and Prayer on the Scaffold on Tower-hill 22. Aug. 1651. Lond. 1651. qu. On which Sp. and Pr. were animadversions made and published by Anonymus and on his decollation a Poem by Dr. Rob. Wild Rector of Ainoe in Northamptonshire intit The tragedy of Christop Love at Tower-hill Lond. 1660 in one sh in qu. Grace the truth and growth and different degrees thereof The sum and substance of the last 15 Sermons preached by him Lond. 1652. in oct there again 1654 and a third time in 1657. qu. The first Sermon is on 1. Kings 14. part of the 13. vers published with an Epistle before them subscribed by Edm. Calamy Simeon Ash Jerem. Whitaker and Will. Taylor dated 13. Feb. 1634. Sermon at the funeral of Mrs. B. being the last Sermon he ever preached on Job 30.23 Printed with the book of Grace beforemention'd Against the said Sermons were great complaints made by divers Officers of the Army and other notorious Independents to the Parliament in 1652 thus several pamphlets have been lately published in vindication of Mr. Love wherein they the Presbyterians account him a Martyr as in the pref to his Sermons and charge the Parliament with injustice in putting him to death c. more particularly Mr. Edm. Calamy in his late Epistle before Mr. Loves Sermons and his funeral Sermon hangs out a flag of defiance to the State proclaiming Mr. Love to die in and for the Lord And the Saints meaning the Independents and Anabaptists he calls Murtherers Traytors Rebels Blasphemers c. and chargeth the highest sins to have ascended into Pulpits and Thrones c. But upon examination Mr. Calamy as 't is said was not the Author of that Preface but another more violent than he Heavens glory Hells terror or two treatises the one concerning the glory of the Saints with Jesus Christ as a spur to duty in 10 Sermons The other of the torments of the damned as a preservative against security in 8 Sermons Lond. 1653. 58. qu. Soules cordiall in two treatises Lond. 1653. oct Treatise of effectual calling and election in 16 Sermons on 2. Pet. 1.10 Lond. 1653. qu. ibid. 1658. oct This treatise hath an Epist commend before it subscribed by E. Calamy Jerem. Whitaker Simeon Ash Will. Taylor and Allen Geere Scripture rules to be observed in buying and selling Lond. 1653. on one side of a sh of paper The true doctrine of mortification and sincerity in opposition to hypocrisie Lond. 1654. in oct Combate between the flesh and the spirit as also the woful withdrawing of the spirit of God with the causes thereof c. being the sum and substance of 27 Sermons Lond. 1654. 58. qu. Ded. by Will. Taylor to Edw. Bradshaw Mayor of Chester and the Epist to the reader is subscrib'd by E. Calamy S. Ash and Jer. Whitaker before-mention'd Sum or substance of practical Divinity or the grounds of religion in a catechistical way Lond. 1654. in tw Christians directory tending to direct him in the various conditions that God hath cast him into in 15 Sermons Lond. 1654 and 58 qu. The Epist to the Reader is subscrib'd by Calamy Ash Taylor and Geere before mention'd all Presbyterians The dejected Soules cure tending to support poor drooping sinners c in divers sermons Lond. 1657. qu. The ministry of the Angels to the heirs of Salvation Or a treatise of Angels Lond. 1657. qu. Of the Omnipresence of God in several sermons began 13 May 1649 and ended 3 June following Lond. 1657. qu. The sinners Legacy to their posterity on Lam. 5.8 Lond. 1657. qu. These four last books have an Epist commend before them subscribed by Calamy Ash and Taylor before mentioned as also by Will. Whitaker Math. Poole and Jos Church Presbyterians The penitent pardon'd A Treatise wherein is handled the duty of confession of sin and the privilege of the pardon of sin Lond. 1657. qu. Discourse of Christs ascension into heaven and of his coming again from heaven wherein the opinion of the Chiolists is considered and solidly confuted Lond. 1657. qu. This with The penitent pardoned c. is the substance of several Sermons Both published by Calamy Ash Taylor and Will. Whitaker before mention'd The natural mans case stated or an exact map of the little world Man in 17 sermons Lond. 1658. oct These are all the things that he hath extant as I conceive and therefore I have nothing more to say only that he was beheaded on Tower-hill on the 22 of August in sixteen hundred fifty and one Whereupon his body being afterwards carried to his house and there reposited for a time was buried with great lamentation by the Brethren
the former Englands Hallelu-jah or Great Britaines grateful retribution for Gods gracious benediction in our many and famous deliverances since the Halcyon dayes of ever blessed Qu. Elizab. to these present times Lond. 1631. oct This is a Poem also and his kinsman Tho. Vicars of Qu. Coll. hath a Copy of verses before it Quintisence of cruelty or the Popish powder-plot related 'T is a Poem and printed in a large oct Englands remembrancer Or a thankful acknowledgment of Parliamentarie mercies to the English nation Lond. 1641. a Poem in one sh in qu. The sinfulness and unlawfulness of having or making the picture of Christs humanity c. Lond. 1641. in tw God in the mount or Englands remembrancer being a panegerick piramides erected to the honour of Englands God c. Lond. 1642. qu. a Poem Looking glass for Malignants or Gods hand against God-haters Lond. 1643. qu. in 6. sheets In this book is much bitterness against the Kings followers whom he often stiles cormorants against the Prelates also especially Laud. God in the mount or Englands remembrancer being the first and second part of a Parliamentary Chronicle or a Chron. of the Parliament of England from 1641. to the month of Octob. 1643. Lond. 1644. Gods Arke overtopping the worlds waves or a third part of a parliamentary Chronicle c. Lond. 1646. qu. The burning bush not consumed or the fourth and last part of a Parliam Chronicle c. Lond. 1646. qu. one J. Hart did put out in the year 1627. The burning bush not yet consumed printed in oct which title our author Vicars borrowed These three last books viz. God in the mount c. Gods Arke c. and The burnish bush c. were all printed together with this general title Magnalia Dei Anglicana or Englands parliamentary Chronicle c. Lond. 1646. qu. Of which Chronicle one Joh. Hornius a Dutchman is very liberal in his character thus Chron. Vicarii qui priora belli complexus est sermones potius sacros quales ad populum habentur quam historias continet cum maxima operis pars Theologica sit c. Coleman-street-conclave visited and that grand impostor the schismaticks cheater in chief who hath long slily lurked therein truly and duly discovered containing a most palpable and plain display of Mr. John Goodwins self conviction c. and of the notorious heresies errors malice pride and hypocrisie of this most huge Garagantua c. Lond. 1648. qu. in 7. sheets Before the title is John Goodwins picture with a windmil over his head and weather cock upon it with other Hierogliphicks or Emblems about him to shew the instability of the man The Schismatick sifted c. Soul-saving knowledge c. in oct Picture of a Puritan c. These three last I have not yet seen Dagon demolished or twenty admirable examples of Gods severe justice and displeasure against the subscribers of the late engagement against K. Ch. 2. and the whole house of Peers c. Lond. 1660. in two shâ—in qu. He the said J. Vicars translated also from Lat. into English 1 Mischiefs mysterie or treasons Master-piece the powder-plot invented by hellish malice prevented by heavenly means c. Lond. 1617. qu. This is a Poem written in Latin by the rev and learned Dr. Fr. Herringe but much delated by Vicars whose labours therein are commended to the world by several copies of verses made by divers persons among whom are Thom. Salisbury M. A. of Cambridge Joshua Sylvester Nathan Chamber of Greys-inn c. Afterwards Vicars making some additions to the said translation repaired to Dr. Sam. Baker Chaplain to Laud B. of London to have it licensed but denied for several reasons See in Canterburies Doome p. 184. 2 Epigrams of that most witty and worthy Epigrammatist Mr. John Owen Gent. Lond. 1619. oct 3 Babels Balm or the Honey-comb of Romes religion with a neat draining and straining out of the rammish honey thereof sung in ten most elegant Elegies in Lat. by the most Christian Satyrist Mr. George Goodwin Lond. 1624. qu. 4 The XII Aeneids of Virgil into English deca-Syllables Lond. 1632. oct What other things this Presbyterian Poet hath written and translated I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying after he had spent 72 years in this vain world about the 12. of Apr. in sixteen hundred fifty and two was buried in the north isle of the Church of Ch. Ch. Hospital beforemention'd Over his grave was a large stone soon after laid with an inscription thereon but defaced and consumed with the Church it self in the grand conflagration that hapned in London in the beginning of Sept. 1666. One Joh. Vicars of Magd. Coll. was admitted Bac. of Arts Nov. 7. an 1587. and another Joh. Vicars of Broadgates Hall was admitted Master of that faculty in the beginning of July the same year but both these are too soon for John Vicars the author beforemention'd who had a Son of both his names matriculated in this University as a member of Queens Coll. in Mich. term 1631. aged 17. I have made mention of John Viccars among these writers under the year 1639. ARTHUR WILSON Son of Rich. Wilson of Yarmouth in Norfolk Gent. was born in that County became a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. in the year 1631 being then about 33 years of age where spending more than two years was all the Academical education that he ever received but whether he took a degree or was actually created M. of A. as some of his relations hath told me it doth no where appear in the registers During his stay in the said Coll. he was very punctual in frequenting the Chappel and Hall and in observing all orders of the College and University He had little skill in the Lat. tongue less in the Greek a good readiness in the French and some smattering in the Dutch He had travelled in Germany France and Spain in the quality of a Servant to Robert Earl of Essex and was well seen in the Mathematicks and Poetry and somthing in the Common Law of the Nation He had composed some Comedies which were acted at the Black-friers in Lond. by the Kings players and in the Act time at Oxon with good applause himself being present but whether they are printed I cannot yet tell sure I am that I have seen several specimens of his poetry printed in divers books His carriage was very courteous and obliging and such as did become a well-bred Gentleman He also had a great command of the English tongue as well in writing as speaking and had he bestowed his endeavours on another subject than that of History they would have without doubt seemed better For in those things which he hath done are wanting the principal matters conducing to the completion of that faculty viz. matter from record exact time name and place which by his endeavouring too much to set out his bare collections in an effected and bombastic style are much neglected
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
Chaplains to come in the College library to study there and that he put Mr. John French Fellow out of his Chamber in Mert. Coll. and put them into it c. So that I say being ejected by the said Visitors he retired to London married and dyed soon after He was a Person in great value and much respected by learned men particularly by Selden who had our Author lived would have left to him part of his wealth and have taken great care that Hen. Jacob and Pet. Turner should not want but they all died before him He hath written Pyramidographia or a description of the pyramids in Aegypt Lond. 1646. in a large oct Translated into French and printed in a book of travels written in that Language Our Author Greaves found and visited these Pyramids in his travels an 1638. and 39 or the thousand and forty eighth year of Hegira He went twice to Grand Cairo from Alexandria and from thence into the Deserts and for the greater solemnity to view them he carried with him a Radius of ten feet most accurately divided besides some other instruments for the farther discovery of the truth While he was there he made the measure of the foot observed by all nations in one of the rooms under the said Pyramids with his name John Gravius under it which hath been noted by several Travellers A discourse of the Romane foot and Denarius From whence as from two principles the measures and weights used by the Ancients may be deduced Lond. 1647. oct Demonstratio ortus Syrii heliaci pro parallelo inferioris Aegypti Oxon. 1648. qu. published with Dr. Bainbridge his Canicularia To which is subjoined out of Ulugh Beigh the Longitudes and Latitudes of the chiefest of the fixed Stars Elementa linguae Persicae Lond. 1649. qu. With which he published Anonymus Persa de Siglis Arabum Persarum Astronomicis The manner of hatching Chickens at Cairo See in the Philosophical Transactions numb 137. p. 923. He published likewise in Arabick and Latine Epochae celebriores Astronomis Historicis Chronologiis Chaitaiorum Syro-Graecorum Arabum Persarum Chorasmiorum usitatae ex traditione Ulugh Beigh together with the Geographical tables of Abul Feda Both which pieces he illustrated with his learned notes In like manner he set forth Astronomica Shah Cholgii Persae together with the Hypotheses of the planets to which likewise he subjoyned the Geographical Tables of Nassir Eddinus the Persian and of Ulugh Beigh as you may further see in the Bodleyan or Oxford Catalogue where you 'll find his publication of the Description of the Grand Signiour's Seraglio or the Turkish Emperors Court Lond. 1650. 53. oct written by one Robert Withers He also left behind him at his death Lemmata Archimedis apud Graecos Latinos è vetusta codice MS. Arabico traducta cum Arabum Scholiis Which coming into the hands of Sam. Foster the Mathematician were by him reviewed and amended and remitted into the body of the Miscellanies or Mathematical Lucubrations of him the said Foster Many of which were translated into English and published by the care and industry of John Twisden C. L. M. D. whereunto he hath annexed some things of his own Lond. 1659. fol. Other things our learned Author Greaves did intend to publish among which was a Map or Maps of Aegypt first of all made by him and the learned World might justly have expected them had not death by a too hasty end of his life put a stop to the course of his ingenious studies which hapning to the great grief of learned and vertuous men in the month of October in sixteen hundred fifty and two his body was with the tears of many accompanied to his grave in the Church of S. Benet Sherehog in London as I was some years since informed by his learned Brother Dr. Tho. Greaves whom I accidently met in London when I was anxiously seeking after the place where his reliques had been lodg'd See more of our Author Joh. Greaves in Dr. John Bainbridge whom I have mention'd among these writers under the year 1643. HENRY JACOB Son of Hen. Jacob whom I have before mention'd under the year 1621 by his Wife Sarah Sister to John Dumaresque of the Isle of Jersey Gent. was born in the Dioc. of London and in his youthful years was sent by his Relations beyond the Seas to be educated in the Principles of his Father At length being his good fortune to be put under the tuition of the famous Thomas Erpenius did in a short time by the help of a natural Genie become the prodigie of his age for Philological and Oriental learning This is that Erpenius who went beyond all the Curiosi of his time for severe and crabbed literature nay beyond Drusius the Belgick Critick who would scarce give place to either of the Scaligers For one who knew them well saith that Erpenius was integerrimus doctissimusque vir Linguae Arabicae non peritior tantum quam Drusio sed etiam multo peritissimus c. At two and twenty years of age or more he came into England and by the endeavours of Will. Bedwell with whom the profession of Arabick then only remain'd he was presented as a great rarity to that most noble and generous Count William Earl of Pembroke Chancellour of this University who forthwith for his encouragement sent his Letters to the University in his behalf that he might be created Bach. of Arts dated 24. Nov. 1628. in which he saith that Hen. Jacob a young Scholar had bestowed divers years in the Low Countries in the study of good literature and had his education principally under one Erpenius a famous Scholar especially in the Oriental language in which learning he profited under him beyond the vulgar sort of Students and beyond the ordinary measures of his age c. In compliance to which Letters he was in January following adorned with that degree At the same time being commended to the patronage of Joh. Selden Hen. Briggs and Pet. Turner men much famous in their generation our Author was by their endeavours elected Probationer-Fellow of Mert. Coll. in the year following But then he having not so much Logick and Philosophy to carry him through the severe exercises of that Society the Warden and Fellows tacitly assign'd him Philological Lecturer This being done he was called away to follow Law-suites concerning his Patrimony which being concluded he fell into a dangerous sickness and by the sudden loss of his Patron Pembroke his life was in jeopardy Soon after that great encourager of learning Bishop Laud succeeding him in the Chancellourship of this University a way was found out from Mert. Coll. statutes to make him Socius Grammaticalis that is Reader of Philology to the Juniors a place that had been disused for about an 100 years So that being setled and made compleat Fellow he spent some time with the famous Selden an 1636. in composing a book which he was then publishing
ubi ad interiorem Templum saith he Amanuensis mihi in codice Regi tunc porrigendo operam praestitit mihi vir doctissimus Henricus Jacobus c. At which time as 't is said he taught or at least improved Selden in the Hebrew Language and added several things which Selden finding to be very excellent let them stand In the same year he was created Master of Arts but upon the turn of the times Brent then Warden of Mert. Coll. no friend to Laud silenced him In the year 1641 he was upon the death of John Thimble elected superior Bedle of Divinity about the 14 of June and in the beginning of Novemb. in the year following he was created Bach. of Physick But his head being always over-busie about critical notions which made him sometimes a little better than craz'd he neglected his duty so much that he was suspended once if not twice from his place and had his Bedles staff taken from him At length when the Parliamentarian Visitors sate he lost it for altogether and the right he pretended to his Fellowship in Mert. Coll. So that being destitute of maintenance he retired to London where the learned Selden exhibited to him gave him his cloaths and an old scarlet cloak of which last his friends would mock him and call him Young Selden when they saw it on his back But he being a shiftless Person as most meer Scholars are and the benefactions of friends not sufficing him he sold that little Land he had at Godmersham in Kent to supply his necessities and died before that was spent He wrot many things but he himself published nothing in his life time a Cat. of which is this Oratio inauguralis sub aditu praelectionis Philologicae publicè habita apud Collegium Oxonio-Merton 4. Aug. 1636. Graeca Latina Poemata Description of Oakey hole near Wells an 1632 Written in English verse Annotationes in eam partem Orationis inaug in qua viz. p. 6. dicitur Oratione soluta scripsit Aristeus Proconnesius Contained in about 5. sheets in qu. These four things beforemention'd were published at Oxon while the Author lived an 1652. in qu. by his intimate friend Hen. Birkhead Fellow of All 's Coll. To which he putting a Preface he tells you therein that this our Author had written and laying by him these things following Etymotechnia Catholica containing four Diatribes concerning the original of Letters The first De ordine Alphabeti the second De transitu Alphabeti the third De numero figura potestate divisione Literarum and the fourth called Geographistor Etymotechnicus Grammatica Ebraea No English man before his time did ever endeavour to make one after that way and manner which he did this ΣΒΩ′ vel Osiris inventus de coptiacis originibus commentatio Geographumena In which are many Assiriac and Egyptic antiquities discovered Pancarpia opus ex artibus linguis miscellan Imperfect Excogitata Philosophica nempe de novâ ratione circa Monoptosyllogismum dialecticum pridem semicirculariter figuratam natalia ventorum conceptacula c. Magnetologia in lib. 3. agentibus de triplici motu Magnetico Lapidali Caelesti Animali c. Before I go any farther the reader is to understand that this our Author Jacob being ejected in 1648 from Merton Coll. and so consequently from his Chamber wherein he had left a trunk full of Books as well written as printed left Oxon as I have before told you And taking no care or appointing any friend for its security his Chamber door before an year was expired was broke open for a new commer who finding the trunk there did let it remain in its place for a time At length when no man inquired after it as the then possessor thereof pretended he secur'd it for his own use broke it open and therein discover'd a choice treasure of Books One of them being a Ms and fit for the press he disguised and alter'd it with another stile and at length after he had learned Hebrew and the Oriental Languages to blind the World and had conversed openly with those most excellent in them as Pocock and Bogan of C. C. Coll. or any Grecian or Jew that came accidentally to the University he published it under this title Delphi Phoenicizantes sive tractatus in quo Graecos quicquid Delphos celebre erat c. è Joshuae Historiae scriptisque sacris effluxisse rationibus haud inconcinnis ostenditur c. Oxon. 1655. oct To which is added Diatriba de Noe in Italiam adventu ejusque nominibus Ethnicis and a little tract De origine Druidum Which three things are much commended by forreign Authors particularly by Spizelius in his book De doctrina Senensium The Reader is also to know farther that Dr. Pet. Turner of Mert. Coll. being a great friend to Hen. Jacob did borrow and peruse several of his elucubrations in which taking great delight because his learning did partly lye that way did either keep the originals by him or at least took copies of them At length the Doctor being involv'd in the same fate with his friend retired with his Books for succour to his Sister the Widow of one Wats sometimes a Brewer in Southwark where dying obscurely about an year before Jacob his Papers came into the hands of his Nephew Will. Wats afterwards a Residentiary of Hereford who having a Son of Bras Coll. into whose possession they came he communicated several of them to Moses Pengry Fellow of that House a curious Person in Philological learning of which one was entit De Mari rubro and another De historia Beli Draconis Copies of which Pengry communicated to Mr. Rich. Reeves then Master of the School joyning to Magd. Coll. which he hath in his possession to this day Our Author Jacob also did put notes to most of the printed books in his study which tho little yet curious and particularly on Solinus his Hist of the World with Salmasius's notes to it Which book coming I know not how into the hands of H. B. he transcribed the said notes or observations and entring them as it seems into another Copy of his own deleeted those of Jacob with Aquafortis and sold the copy it self to an Oxford Bookseller such was his sordid avarice There is also another Ms of his going about entit Libri Ebraeo Rabbinici in Bib. Bodleiana recensiti an 1629. A copy of which I have written by the hand of the learned Dr. Langbaine It was the first work that Jacob performed after he was setled in Oxon at the desire and command of his Patron Will. Earl of Pembroke being the same books which the said Count a little before had obtained out of Italy from the Baroccian Library A copy of which Cat. or else another I have seen written under the hand of Pet. Turner for Seldens use To conclude it must be now known that this miracle of learning a harmless innocent careless and shiftless Person who by his
was usually stiled the great Dictator of Learning of the English Nation The truth is his great parts did not live within a small ambit but traced out the Latitudes of Arts and Languages as it appears by those many books he hath published He had great skill in the divine and humane Laws he was a great Philologist Antiquary Herald Linguist Statesman and what not His natural and artificial memory was exact yet his fancy slow notwithstanding he made several sallies into the faculties of Poetry and Oratory to ease his severer thoughts and smooth his rough stile which he mostly used in the Books by him published in Latine The verses that he wrot scatter'd in various books were in Latine and English and sometimes in Greek and was thereupon numbred among our Poets which perhaps may be the reason why he is brought into the Session of them thus There was Selden and he sate close by the Chaire Wainman not far off which was very faire He seldom or never appeared publickly at the Bar tho a Bencher but gave sometimes Chamber-Counsel and was good at conveyance He was chosen a Burgess for several Parliaments wherein he shewed himself profound by speeches and debates yet mostly an enemy to the Prerogative The first Parliament he appeared in was that which began at Westm 19. Feb. 1623. wherein he served for the Burrough of Lancaster And in another which began 6. Feb. 1625. he served for Bedwin in Wilts and was a constant member in all or most Parliaments following during the Reign of K. Ch. 1. But that in which he became most noted was held in the beginning of 1628 wherein for contemptuous and seditious words then uttered he was imprisoned for several months to the great regret of his fellow Members He was a Burgess also of that unhappy Parliament that began at Westm 3. Novemb. 1640 which breaking forth into a rebellion Selden adhered to it and accepted from the members thereof a Commission to do them service In 1643 he was one of those Lay-men that were appointed to sit in the Assembly of Divines at which time he took the Covenant and silenced and puzled the great Theologists thereof in their respective Meetings In Nov. the same year he was appointed by Parliament Chief Keeper of the Rolls and Records in the Tower of London and on the 15. of Apr. 1645 he was one of the 12 Commoners appointed to be a Commissioner of the Admiralty In Jan. 1646 it was voted that 5000 l. should be given to him for his sufferings that he endured for what he had said or done in Parliament an 1628 which money was paid in May following tho some there are that say that he refused and could not out of conscience take it and add that his mind was as great as his learning full of generosity and harbouring nothing that seemed base He got his great knowledge in the Oriental Languages after he fell to the study of the Law wherein arriving to eminence as in other Learning he is oftentimes mention'd not only by learned Authors of our own Nation but by Foreigners He had a very choice Library of Books as well Mss as printed in the beginning of all or most of which he wrot either in the title or leaf before it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Above all liberty to shew that he would examine things and not take them upon trust His works are these Original of a Duel or single combate Lond. 1610. qu. Jani Anglorum facies altera Lond. 1610. oct rendred into English with large notes on it by Redman Westcot alias Adam Littleton Gent. Lond. 1683. fol. Notes and Illustrations on the first eighteen Songs in Mich. Draytons Poly-olbion Lond. 1612. fol. The second part of this Poly-olbion was printed at Lond. in 1622 but without any notes or illustrations Titles of honour Lond. 1614. in qu. There again in 1631 and 1671. fol. This book is in great esteem with Lay-Gentlemen Analect 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Anglo-Britannic 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. lib. 2. Francof 1615. qu. c. Notes on Joh. Fortescue de laudibus legum Angliae Lond. 1616. oct c. Which book having been before translated into English by Rob. Mulcaster a Lawyer had notes then put to it by our Author Selden Notes on the sums of Sir Ralph Hengham L. Ch. Justice to K. Ed. 1. These are printed with the former notes This Sir Ralph died 1308 and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul within the City of London De Diis Syris Syntagmata duo Lond. 1617. corrected and amended with additions of copious indices thereunto by M. Andr. Beyer Lugd. Bat. 1629. in oct Lips 1672. Amst 1680. in oct History of Tithes Lond. 1618. qu. In the preface the Author reproaches the Clergy with ignorance and laziness and upbraids them with having nothing to keep up their credit but beard title and habit and that their studies reached no farther then the Breviary the Postills and Polyanthea But the best of the Clergy being provoked by those expressions he was so effectually answer'd by Tillesley of Oxon Rich. Montague and Steph. Nettles of Cambridge that he never came off in any of his undertakings with more loss of credit There were Arguments about tithes written against it by Will. Sclater of Cambridge and printed 1623. qu. but such I have not yet seen Soon after Mr. Selden had published his History he was called before the High Commission about the 22 of Dec. 1618. and forced to make a publick acknowledgment of his error and offence given unto the Church in the said book Which usage sunk so deep into his stomack that he did never after effect the Bishops and Clergy or cordially approve their calling tho many ways were tried to gain him to the Churches interest The said Book or History was reprinted in 1680 in qu. with the old date put to it at which time the press and fanatical Party were too much at liberty occasion'd by the Popish Plot. Whereupon Dr. Thom. Comber answer'd it in a book intit An historical vindication of the Divine right of Tithes c. Lond. 1681. qu. Spicilegium in Edmeari 6 libros Historiarum Lond. 1623. fol. Which book is much commended by Antiquaries and Criticks Marmora Arundelliana cum aliquot inscriptionibus veteris Latii Lond. 1628. in qu. Involved into Marmora Oxoniensia publish'd by Humph. Prideaux M. A. and Student of Ch. Ch. now Prebendary of Norwych Mare clausum seu de dominio maris lib. 2. Lond. 1635. fol. c. First written as 't is said in the Reign of K. Jam. 1. in answer to a book published by Hugo Grotius called Mare liberum But the Author Selden stomaching the submission and acknowledgment which he was forced to make in the High Commission for his book of Tithes as I have before told you did not only suppress his Mare clausum which he had written in the Kings defence but carried an evil eye to the Court
Adversary to Hobbes of Malmesbury his Errours and that he had seen him openly oppose him so earnestly as either to depart from him or drive him out of the room c. JOHN MURCOT son of Job Murcot by Joane Townsend his Wife received his first being in the antient Borough of Warwick and his first learning in the Kings School there under Mr. Tho. Dugard who became Schoolmaster in 1633 and after 15 years spent in that employment was made Rector of Barford in that County At 17 years of age our Author Murcot was entred a Student in Merton Coll. in Easter Term 1642 being then committed to the tuition of Mr. Ralph Button Fellow of that house a good Scholar but rigid Presbyterian Soon after Oxford being garrison'd for the King he to avoid bearing Arms for him went thence in a disguise to Mr. Joh. Ley Vicar of Budworth in Cheshire where by continual lucubration for some years he did much improve himself in practical Divinity At length the Wars ceasing he returned to his College and continuing for some time there in godly exercise with his Tutor was admitted Bach. of Arts which being compleated by Determination he returned to Mr. Ley again and became several ways useful to him in his Studies and Profession At length being called to the Ministry at Astbury in Cheshire where the said Mr. Ley had sometimes exercis'd his function he was ordained Minister according to the Presbyterian way at Manchester but continuing not long there he was called to Eastham in Wyrrall in Cheshire where before he was quite setled he took to wife at 25 years of age one Hester the daughter of Ralph Marsden Minister of West Kirby in the said County but before the consummation of Marriage the people of the said place Marsden being dead gave him a call where he preached the Gospel to the beloved people of God From thence after some time he removed to the City of Chester where by his severe carriage he became ridiculous to the wicked So that being in a manner weary of that place he did upon the receipt of another call go into Ireland and at length setled himself and his family at Dublin became one of the Preachers in ordinary to the Lord Deputy and Council and by his often preaching and praying obtained a great flock of People to be his Admirers especially Women and Children The things that he hath written are Several Sermons and Treatises as 1 Circumspect walking a Christians wisdom on Ephes 5.15.16 2 The parable of the ten Virgins on Math. 25. from the first to the 14 vers 3 Christ the Sun of righteousness hath healing in his wings for sinners on Malach. 4.2 4 Christ his willingness to accept humbled sinners on Joh. 6.37 all which were published after his death at London 1657. qu. together with his life cantingly written by Sam. Winter Rob. Chambers Sam. Eaton Joseph Caryll and Tho. Manton all or most Presbyterians From which a common Reader may easily perceive that our Author Murcot was a forward prating and pragmatical Precisian Another Sermon of his is published called Saving faith on John 5.44 Lond. 1656. qu. but that I have not yet seen He gave up the ghost very unwillingly at Dublin on the third day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and four and was buried with great lamentation of the brethren who always held him to be a pretious young man in S. Maries Chappel joyning to the Choire of Christ Church in the said City of Dublin where as I have been informed is a Monument set up to his memory JOSHUA HOYLE was born at Sorby otherwise Sowerbie within the Vicaridge of Halyfax in Yorkshire received his first academical Education in Magd. Hall and afterwards being invited to Ireland became a Member of Trinity Coll. near Dublin where in his Studies and Writings he directed his course for the Schoolmen In short time he became profound in the fac of Divinity took his Doctors degree therein and at length was made Divinity Professor of the University of Dublin In which Office he expounded the whole Bible through in daily Lectures and in the chiefest books ordinarily a verse a day which work held him almost 15 years Some time before he had ended that Work he began the second Exposition of the whole Bible in the Church of Trin. Coll. and within ten years he ended all the New Testament excepting one book and a piece all the Prophets all Salomon and Job So that his Answer to Malone the Jesuit did in part concur with both these Labours He preached also and expounded thrice every Sabbath for the far greater part of the year once every Holyday and sometimes twice To these may be added his weekly Lectures as Professor in the Controversies and his Answers to all Bellarmine in word and writing concerning the real presence and his finishing in above 8 years time his tome of the 7 Sacraments for there he began and his last tome in 6 years and after that sundry years in the tome or tomes remaining Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion in Ireland in 1641 he went into England having always been a noted Puritan and retiring to London became Vicar of Stepney near that City but being too scholastical he did not please the Parishioners While he remained there Jerem. Burroughs preached every morning at 7 of the clock and Will. Greenhill at 3 in the afternoon Which two persons being notorious Schismaticks and Independents were called in Stepney Pulpit by Hugh Peters the Theological Buffoon the morning star of Stepney and the evening star but never took notice of Dr. Josh Hoyle About the same time he was constituted one of the Assembly of Divines and became a helper on of the evidence against Archb. Laud when he was to come to his trial as to matter relating to the University of Dublin while he was Chancellour thereof At length by the favour of the Committee of Parliament for the reformation of the Univ. of Oxon he became Master or Head of Univ. Coll. and the Kings Professor of Divinity He was a person of great reading and memory but of less judgment and so much devoted to his book that he was in a manner a stranger to the world and things thereof a careless person and no better than a mere scholar However that which was in made him respected by the learned Usher Primate of Ireland in whose Vindication he wrot A Rejoynder to Will Malone Jesuit his Reply concerning the real presence Dublin 1641. in a thick quar Which Reply was printed at Doway 1627. After which time the Author of it Malone was made Rector of the Irish Coll. at Rome which he presided 6 years then he went into Ireland where he was Superior of the whole mission of the Jesuits for 3 years Afterwards he was taken and committed by the Protestants from whom getting loose he went into Spain and being made Rector of the Irish Coll. at Sevil died there an aged man in
the same time was such a great party of that Faction present that Oliver being suspicious of some mischief that might arise sent Maj. General Joh. Bridges with eight Troops of Horse to those parts who taking up his quarters at Wallingford many of his men attended in and near Abendon during the time of Praying Preaching and Burying After the burial were tumults raised by Preaching which would have ended in blows had not the Soldiers intercepted and sent them home SIMON BIRCKBEK son of Tho. Birck Esq was born at Hornbie in Westmorland became a Student in Queens Coll. in the year 1600 and that of his age 16 where he was successively a poor serving child Tabarder or poor child and at length Fellow being then Master of Arts. About which time viz. 1607. entring into holy Orders he became a noted Preacher in these parts was esteem'd a good Disputant and well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen In 1616 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and the year after became Vicar of the Church of Gilling and of the Chappel of Forcet near Richmond in Yorksh by the favour of his Kinsman Humph. Wharton Esq Receiver general of his Majesties Revenues within the Archd. of Richmond the Bishoprick of Durham and County of Northumberland In which place being setled he was much esteemed by the Clergy and Laity of the Neighbourhood for his exemplary life and conversation He hath written The Protestants evidence shewing that for 1500 years next after Christ divers guides of Gods Church have in sundry points of Religion taught as the Church of England now doth Lond. 1634. 35. qu. There again with many additions in fol. an 1657. This book was valued by Selden and other learned men because therein the Author had taken great and worthy pains in producing out of every Century Witnesses to attest the Doctrine of the Ch. of Engl. in the points by him produced against the contrary doctrine of the Trent Council and Church of Rome Answer to a Romish Antidotist Lond. 1657. at the end of the former book printed in fol. Treatise of Death Judgment Hell and Heaven He was buried in the Chappel of Forcet before mention'd on the 14 of Sept. in sixteen hundred fifty and six near to the Font there Over his grave was soon after a grey marble stone laid with an Inscription thereon engraven which for brevity sake I shall now pass by and only tell you that this our Author Birckbek submitted to the men in power in the times of Usurpation and therefore kept his Benefice without fear of Sequestration RICHARD CAPEL was born of good Parentage within the City of Glocester educated in Grammar Learning there became a Commoner of S. Albans Hall in the beginning of the year 1601 and in that of his age 17 elected Demy of Magd. Coll. soon after and in the year 1609 he was made perpetual Fellow of that House being then Mast of Arts which was the highest degree he took in this University While he continued there his eminency was great was resorted to by noted men especially of the Calvinian Party had many Pupils put to his charge of whom divers became afterwards noted for their Learning as Accepted Frewen Archb. of York Will. Pemble c. Afterwards leaving the Coll. upon the obtaining of the Rectory of Eastington in his own Country became eminent there among the puritannical Party for his painful and practical way of preaching his exemplary life and conversation and in doing many good offices for those of his function When the book concerning Sports on the Lords day was ordered to be read in all Churches an 1633 he refused to do it and thereupon willingly resigning his Rectory obtained licence to practice Physick from the Bishop of Glocester so that setling at Pitchcomb near to Strowd in the said County where he had a temporal Estate was resorted to especially by those of his opinion for his success in that faculty In the beginning of the grand Rebellion he closed with the Presbyterians was made one of the Ass of Divines but refused to sit among them and was as I conceive restored to his Benefice or else had a better confer'd on him He was esteemed by those of his opinion an excellent Preacher and one that kept close to the footings of Jo. Dod Rob. Cleaver Arth. Hildersham and Jo. Rainolds of the last of whom he would often say that He was as learned a man as any in the world as godly also as learned and as humble as godly He hath written God's valuation of mans soul in two sermons on Mark 8.36 Lond. 1632. qu. Tentations their nature danger and cure in four parts Lond. 1650. oct c. Each part came out by it self before that time Brief dispute touching restitution in the case of usury Printed with the Tentations This Brief dispute with the Short discourse of Usury by Rob. Bolton and the Usurer cast by Chr. Jellinger M. A. are replyed upon by T. P. Lond. 1679. Apology in defence of some Exceptions against some particulars in the book of Tentations Lond. 1659. oct Remaines being an useful Appendix to his excellent Treatise of Tentations c. Lond. 1658. oct He paid his last debt to nature at Pitchcomb before mention'd on the 21 of Sept. in sixteen hundred fifty and six and was buried within the Precincts of the Church there His Fathers name was Christopher Capel a stout Alderman of the City of Glocester and a good friend to such Ministers that had suffer'd for Nonconformity He was born at Hoo-capel in Herefordshire and by Grace his Wife daughter of Rich. Hands had issue Rich. Capel before mention'd EDMUND WINGATE son of Roger Windg of Bornend and Sharpenhoe in Bedfordshire Esq was born in 1593 became a Commoner of Queens Coll. in 1610 and took one degree in Arts which being compleated by Determination he retired to Greys Inn where he had entred himself before that time a Student for the obtaining knowledge in the municipal Laws But his genie being more bent to the noble study of Mathematicks which had before been promoted and encouraged in Queens Coll. did at length arrive to great eminence in that faculty and was admired by those few in London that then professed it In 1624 he transported into France the Rule of Proportion having a little before been invented by Edm. Gunter of Gresham Coll and communicated it to most of the chiefest Mathematicians then residing in Paris who apprehending the great benefit that might accrue thereby importun'd him to express the use thereof in the French Tongue Which being performed accordingly he was advised by Mounsier Alleawne the Kings chief Engineer to dedicate his book to Mounsier the Kings only Brother since Duke of Orleance Nevertheless the said work coming forth as an Abortive the publishing thereof being somewhat hastned by reason an Advocate of Diion in Burgundy began to print some uses thereof which Wingate had in a friendly way communicated
which I take to be false because that his admission to that degree occurs not in the publick register and that in the book of Matriculation subtit Coll. Reginae he is matriculated as a Yorkshire man born his Father or Uncle having then Lands at Flamburg and Great Kelk in that County as his elder Brother Roger was an 1608. RICHARD STANWIX Son of James Stanw was born of an antient and gentile Family within the City of Carlile in Cumberland educated in the Free-school there under Mr. Tho. Robson somtimes of Queens College admitted a poor serving Child of the said House being then put under the tuition of Mr. Charles Robson Son of Thom. beforemention'd about 1625 aged 17 years where profiting much in good Letters was made one of the Tabarders about the time that he was standing for the degree of Bach. of Arts and Fellow when Master About that time entring into holy Orders he was soon after through the recommendations of his Provost Dr. Potter made Chaplain to Tho. Lord Coventry L. Keeper of the Great Seal of England and after his death to John Lord Finch who succeeded him in that honorable Office of L. K. our Author then being Bach. of Divinity Soon after the said L. Finch withdrawing himself to the Netherlands upon the approaching troubles in the Long Parliament which threatned his ruin our Author returned to his College where continuing for some time without expectation of any advancement in the Church was at length prefer'd by Sir Rich. Saltonstall somtimes of Qu. Coll. to the rectory of Chipping-Warden in Northamptonshire which he kept during the time of the Civil War to his death He hath written A holy life here the only way to Eternal life hereafter or a discourse grounded on 2. Cor. 10.4 Wherein this truth is especially asserted that a holy life or the habitual observing of the Laws of Christ is indispensably necessary to Salvation Lond. 1652. oct c. Appendix laying open the common neglect of the said Laws among Christians and vindicating such necessity of observing them from those general exceptions that are wont to be made against it printed with the former He had also prepared another book for the press concerning the Socinian controversies which is not yet made publick At length after he had submitted to the men in Power during the times of Usurpation yeilded to the stroke of death in sixteen hundred fifty and six or thereabouts Whereupon his body was buried in the Church of Chipping-Warden beforemention'd To which place I did formerly send for his Epitaph thinking therein to receive more knowledge of the Person but no return hath been yet made STEPHEN GEREE elder Brother to Jo. Geree mention'd under the year 1648. was a Yorkshire man born and at 17 years of age an 1611 became a Student in Magd. Hall where going through the courses of Logick and Philosophy took one degree in Arts afterwards Holy Orders and was either a Minister or Schoolmaster or both In the time of rebellion I find him Minister of Wonnersh near to Guildford in Surrey at which time being a zealous Brother for the cause that was then driven on by the Saints he was removed to a better place called Abinger in the said County His works are these Several Sermons as 1 The ornament of Women or a description of the true excellency of Women Serm. at the funeral of Mrs. Elizab. Machel 15. Apr. 1639 on Prov. 31.29.30 Lond. 1639. in tw and others which I have not yet seen The Doctrine of the Antinomians by Evidence of Gods truth plainly confuted In an answer to divers dangerous Doctrines in the seven first Sermons of Dr. Tob. Crisps fourteen which were first published c. Lond. 1644. qu. The golden meane being some considerations together with some cases of conscience resolved for a more frequent administration of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Lond. 1656. qu. What other Books or Sermons he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him ALAN BLANE or Blaney a Cumberland man born Son of Tho. Blaney Rector of Acton or Ayketon in the same County became a poor serving Child of Queens Coll. in the beginning of the year 1625 aged 16 years afterwards Tabarder but never Fellow took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1632 Holy Orders and had a Benefice confer'd on him but lost it in the time of Rebellion Afterwards he retired to Standish in Glocestershire lived there with the Tenant of the great farm belonging to Joh. Dutton of Shirburne in the said County Esq preached there and at Whitminster a small Curacy near it but never had any living or was a setled Incumbent in that Diocess only much countenanced in his labours by the said Dutton To whom he dedicated this book following Festorum Metropolis The Metropolitan feast or the birth day of our Saviour Jes Christ proved by Scriptures to be annually kept holy c. Lond. 1652. qu. published under the Name or Letter B. who calls himself Pastor fido in Exile It was printed there again in 1654. oct under the name of Alan Blaney and answered by John Collins Bachelaur afterwards Doctor of Divinity and Minister of S. Stephens Church in the City of Norwich in a book entit A Caveat for old and new profaneness c. Lond. 1653. quart In which book he also answers that of Edw. Fisher Esq entit A Christian Caveat to the old and new Sabbatarians or a Vindication of our old Gospel Festivals c. Our Author Blaney translated also from Latin into English Synagoga Judaica c. Written by Joh. Buxtorsius Lond. 1656. qu. and perhaps other things Much about that time he left Standish and lived near Birkley in Glocestershire At length retiring to London died there as I have been informed by the Chanc. of the Dioc. of Gloc. who made enquiry after him at or near Berkley WILLIAM HIGFORD an Esquires Son was born at or near to Alderton in Glocestershire became a Gent. Com. of Oriel Coll. in 1595. and being soon after translated to that of Corp. Ch. was put under the tuition of Seb. Benefeild where by the benefit of good discipline and natural parts he became a well qualified Gentleman Afterwards taking a degree in Arts he retired to his Fathers Seat became a Justice of Peace and much respected by the Lord Chandois and other Persons of quality in his Country He left behind him a large book in MS. of his own writing intit Institutions or advice to his Grandson in 3. parts Which being epitomized or contracted by Clem. Barksdale a Minister in Glocestershire was by him published at Lond. 1658. in oct Other matters fit for the press he left behind him which being not understood by his Children were lost He died in his House at Dixton near to Alderton beforemention'd and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Alderton on the sixth day of Apr. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven and
65 places of holy Scripture Lond. 1643. qu. Written originally by Jo. Hen. Alstedius Professor of the University at Herborne Our Author Will. Burton gave way to fate on the 28. of Decemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven and was buried the same day in a Vault belonging to the Students of S. Clements Inn under part of the Church of S. Clements Danes without Temple-bar near London leaving then behind him several Papers and Collections of Antiquity Manuscripts and Coines which came into the hands of Tho. Thynne Esq sometimes his Scholar at Kingston afterwards Gent. Com. of Ch. Church then of the Bedchamber to the Duke of York a Bt. after the death of his Father Sir Hen. Fred. Thynne of Kemsford in Glocestershire possessor of the large estate belonging to Tho. Thynne of Longleet in Wilts murdered by certain Forreigners 12. Feb. 1681 and at length Viscount Weymouth There have been several Writers of both our Authors names as Will. Burton of Leicestershire Will. Burton a Divine and Will. Burton a Pretender to Astronomy a Specimen of which he gave us in an Ephemeris for 1655 which was printed at Oxon. WILLIAM AYLESBURY Son of Sir Thom. Aylesbury of the City of Westminster Bâ— was born in that City became a Gent. Com. of Ch. Ch. in the beginning of 1628 aged 16 years took one degree in Arts and afterwards was by K. Ch. 1. made Governour to the Duke of Buckingham and his Brother the Lord Francis Villiers with whom he travelled beyond the Seas While he continued in Italy it hapned that walking in the Garden of the House where he lodged he was shot with a brace of bullets in his thigh by men who watched him on the other side of the wall a usual adventure in that Country and assoon as he fell the men who had done it leaped over the wall and looking upon him beg'd his pardon and said they were mistaken for he was not the man that they intended to kill which was all the satisfaction he had After his return into England and had delivered up his charge of the two noble Brothers to the King who highly approved of the care he had taken of their education as it appears by the grant his Maj. was pleased to give him of the first place of Grome of his Bed-chamber which should become void the King was pleased to command him to translate Davila's History he being a perfect Master of the Italian Language which he did with the assistance of his constant Friend Sir Charles Cotterel and published it under this title The History of the Civil Wars of France written in Italian by Henry Canterino de Avila Lond. 1647. fol. written in 15 Books to which was a continuation of 15 books more In the year following our Translator Aylesbury went beyond the Sea and dwelt at Antwerp with his Relations till 1650 at which time being reduced to great straights stole over into England where he lived for some time among his friends and acquaintance and sometime at Oxon. among certain Royalists there At length Oliver Cromwell sending a second supply to the Island of Jamaica he engaged himself in that expedition in the quality of a Secretary to the Governour as I have heard where he died in the year sixteen hundred fifty and seven otherwise had he lived till the Restauration of K. Charles 2. he might have chosen what preferment in the Court he pleased by the help of Edward E. of Clarendon who married his Sister OBADIAH SEDGWICK elder Brother to John mentioned under the year 1643. was born in the Parish of S. Peter in Marlborough in Wilts and there or near it was educated in Grammar learning In 1616 he was sent to Qu. Coll. being then 16 years of age but making no long stay there he retired to Magd. Hall took the degrees in Arts entred into the sacred function and became Chaplain to Sir Horatio Vere Baron of Tilbury with whom he went into the Low Countries in quality of a Chaplain After his return he retir'd to Oxon. and performing certain exercise he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences in the latter end of 1629. Afterwards he was Preacher to the Inhabitants of S. Mildrids Parish in Breadstreet within the City of London which he quitting upon no good account before the beginning of the rebellion he became the scandalous and seditious Minister as one calls him of Cogshall in Essex But soon after upon appearance of the said rebellion he retired to the said City again and being a voluble Preacher he was thought fit not only to exercise his parts at S. Mildrids beforemention'd but also before both Houses of Parliament the Members of which constituted him one of the Assembly of Divines as being a Covenanteer to the purpose While he preached at S. Mildrids which was only to exasperate the People to rebel and confound Episcopacy 't was usual with him especially in hot weather to unbutton his doublet in the Pulpit that his breath might be the longer and his voice more audible to rail against the Kings Party and those that were near to him whom he called Popish Counsellors This he did in an especial manner in Sept. 1644 when he with great concernment told the People several times that God was angry with the Army for not cutting off Delinquents c. Afterwards about 1646 he became Minister of the Church of S. Paul in Convent Garden where as also sometimes in the Country he kept up the vigour of a Presbyterian Ministry which for divers years prospered according to his mind to the converting of many and conviction of more In 1653 he was appointed one of the number of triers or examiners of Ministers appointed by Parliament and the year after he was by the members thereof constituted an Assistant to the Commissioners of London for the ejection of such whom they then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters At length finding himself decayed by his too zealous carrying on the Covenanting work he resigned his charge in Convent Garden about two years before his death and retired to Marlborough Soon after the Earl of Bedford upon some consideration confer'd the said Church on the Son-in-law of our Author Sedgwick called Thomas Manton as zealous a Presbyterian as the former where he continued till the Act of Uniformity ejected him as I shall tell you when I come to him As for our Author Sedgwick he hath these things following going under his name Several Sermons as 1 Military discipline for a Christian Soldier on 1. Cor. 16.13.14 Lond. 1639. oct 2 Christs counsell to his languishing Church of Sardis or the dying and decaying Christian c. being the effect of certain Sermons on Rev. 3.2.3 Lond. 1640. in a large oct 3 Christ the life and death the gaine at the funeral of Rowl Wilson a member of Parliament on 1. Philip. 1.21 Lond. 1650. qu. Before which is An account given of some years more than ordinary experience
Chanc. Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford to the Petition Articles of grievance and Reasons of the City of Oxon presented to the Committee for regulating the Univ. of Ox. 24 July 1649. Oxon 1649 in six sh in qu. There again 1678 and in a book intit A defence of the Rights and Privileges of the Univ. of Oxon c. Oxon. 1690. qu. published by James Harrington Bach. soon after Master of Arts and Student of Ch. Ch. Quaestiones Oxoniae pro more solenni in Vesperiis propositae an 1651. Oxon. 1658. qu. published with Verses following made by the said Author by Mr. Tho. Barlow of Qu. Coll. among several little works of learned men Platonicorum aliquot qui etiamnum supersunt authorum Graecorum imprimis mox Latinorum syllabus Alphabeticus Oxon. 1667. oct It was drawn up by our Author Langbaine at the desire of Archbishop Usher but left imperfect Which being found among his Papers was with some few alterations where there was found good reason of so doing placed at the end of Alcinoi in Platonicam Philosophiam introductio published by Dr. Jo. Fell Dean of Ch. Ch. He the said Langbaine did also publish 1 The Foundation of the Univ. of Oxon with a catalogue of the principal Founders and special Benefactors of all the Colleges and total number of Students c. Lond. 1651. in 3 sh in qu. mostly taken from the Tables of Joh. Scot of Cambr. which had been printed in 1622. 2 The foundation of the Univ. of Cambr. with a Cat. c. printed with the former Cat. in 3 sh and taken from the said Tables He also drudged much in finishing Archb. Usher's book intit Chronologia sacra but dying when he had almost brought it to an end Barlow before mentioned compleated it The said Langbaine translated into Lat. Reasons of the present judgment of the University concerning the solemn league and covenant c. and assisted Sanderson and Zouch in the composure of them Also into English A review of the Council of Trent written in French by a learned Rom. Cath. Oxon. 1638. fol. wherein may be seen the dissent of the Gallican Churches from several conclusions in that Council He gave way to fate on the tenth day of Febr. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven and was buried about the middle of the inner Chappel of Queens Coll. having a little before setled 24 l. per an on a Free-school at the place of his Nativity towards the purchasing of which he had received 20 l. from a certain Doctor of Oxon who desired to have his name concealed See his Epitaph in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 2. p. 125. a. He left behind him 13 quartoes and 8 octavoes in MS. with innumerable Collections in loose papers all written with his own hand collected mostly from antient Mss in Bodlies Library and elsewhere in order to some great work which he intended if life had been spared to have published He also had made several Catalogues of Mss in various Libraries nay and of printed books too in order as we suppose for an universal Catalogue in all kind of Learning But whereas 't is reported that he took a great deal of pains in the continuation of Br. Twyne's Apol. Antiq. Acad. Oxon and that he was intent upon it when he died I find no such thing and those persons that had the perusal of his Library after his death namely Dr. Barlow and Dr. Lamplugh have assured me that they have seen nothing at all towards or in order to it See more of Dr. Langbaine in Arth. Duck an 1649. SAMUEL HOARD a Londoner born became either Clerk or Chorister of Allsoules Coll. in 1614 aged 15 years where continuing till he was standing for the degree of Bach. of Arts he retired to S. Maries Hall and as a Member thereof took the degrees in Arts. Afterwards being made Chaplain to Robert Earl of Warwick was by him presented to the Rectory of Moreton near Ongar in Essex and about the same time was admitted Bach. of Divinity He was well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen was a good Disputant and Preacher a zealous Calvinist in the beginning but a greater Arminian afterwards He hath written Gods Love to Mankind manifested by disproving his absolute decree for their damnation Lond. 1633. qu. 1673. oct Answer'd by Twysse of Newbury and Davenant B. of Salisbury Which book being quoted by Edw. Reynolds in some controversial Writings between him and Th. Pierce of Magd. College the latter therefore upon that occasion sent for the book and found therein that the Author of it was a Convert from the Calvinistical Sect which he there opposeth and that he professeth in the entrance to give the reasons by which he was moved to change his opinion in some Controversies debated between the Remonstrants and their Opposites Behold the liberal and ingenious confession of that conscientious and learned Calvinist saith Pierce of Hoard first I say conscientious because he was not ashamed to retract his Errors nor to publish his retraction nor did he fear what might follow by his contracting the displeasures of a revengeful party Next I say learned because he confuteth his former judgment in an unanswerable manner which is the likelier to be so because an Answer hath been attempted by the learned men of that Party who could arrive no higher than to attempt it neither of them avowing the very same Doctrines which he opposed and betray a dissatisfaction in other performances why else was it attempted by more than one Last of all I say Calvinist and then discover the reasons why the motives to his Repentance must needs presede his change of life He disliked that Sect before he left it however his leaving of it might tread upon the heels of his dislike c. He hath also published Several sermons as 1 The Churches Authority asserted on 1 Cor. 14 4. Lond. 1634. qu. preached at Chelmsford at the metrapolitical Visitation of William L. Archb. of Cant. 2 The soules misery and recovery or the grieving of the spirit how it is caused and how redressed on Ephes 4.30 Lond. 1636. oct and 1657 in qu. with many additions c. He departed this mortal life on the 15 of Febr. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Moreton before mention'd At which time as I have been credibly informed he left other things fit for the Press but m whose hands they are detained I could never yet learn JOHN WARNER son of Will. Warner of Harsfield in Glocestershire was born in that County entred into Magd. Hall in 1628 aged 17 years took the degrees in Arts and at length became Vicar of Christ Church in Hampshire where he was much resorted to by those of the Presbyterian persuasion His works are these Temporal losses spiritually improved c. Lond. 1643 c. Diatriba fidei justificantis qua justificantis or a discourse of
having before been accounted by all those that well knew him to have been a person well vers'd in the Greek and Lat. Poets in Musick whether practical or theoretical instrumental or vocal and in other things befitting a Gentleman Some of the said persons have also added in my hearing that his common discourse was not only significant and witty but incomparably graceful which drew respect from all Men and Women Many other things I could now say of him relating either to his most generous mind in his Prosperity or dejected estate in his worst part of Poverty but for brevity sake I shall now pass them by At the end of his Posthume Poems are several Elegies written on him by eminent Poets of that time wherein you may see his just character FRANCIS ROUS a younger son of Sir Anth. Rous Knight by Elizab. his first wife daugh of Tho. Southcote Gent. was born at Halton in Cornwall and at 12 years of age became a Communer of Broadgates Hall an 1591 where continuing under a constant and severe discipline took the degree of Bach. of Arts which degree being compleated by Determination he went afterwards as it seems to the Inns of Court tho some there be that would needs perswade me that he took holy orders and became Minister of Saltash in his own Country Howsoever it is sure I am that he being esteemed a man of parts and to be solely devoted to the puritanical Party he was elected by the men of Truro in his own Country to serve in Parliaments held in the latter end of K. James and in the Reign of K. Ch. 1. In 1640 also he was elected again for that Corporation to serve in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3 Nov wherein seeing how violently the Members thereof proceeded he put in for one and shew'd himself with great zeal an Enemy to the Bishops Prerogative and what not to gain the Populacy a Name and some hopes of Wealth which was dear unto him In 1643 he forwarded and took the Covenant was chosen one of the Assembly of Divines and for the zeal he had for the holy cause he was by authority of Parliament made Provost of Eaton Coll. near Windsore the same year in the place of Dr. Rich. Steuart who then followed and adhered to his sacred Majesty In the said Parliament he afterwards shew'd himself so active that he eagerly helped to change the Government into a Commonwealth and to destroy the negative Voice in the King and Lords In 1653 he was by the Authority of Ol. Cromwell nominated a Member of the Little Parliament that began to sit at Westm 4 July and was thereupon elected the Speaker but with a collateral Vote that he should continue in the Chair no longer than for a month and in Decemb. the same year he was nominated one of Olivers Council But when the good things came to be done which were solemnly declared for for the not doing of which the Long Parliament was dissolved He as an old bottle being not fit to leave that new wine without putting it to the question he left the Chair and went with his Fellow old bottles to Whitehall to surrender their Power to General Cromwell which he as Speaker and they by signing a Parchment or Paper pretended to do The colourable foundation for this Apostasie upon the monarchical foundation being thus laid and the General himself as Protector seated thereon he became one of his Council and trusted with many matters as being appointed in the latter end of the same year the first and prime Tryer or Approver of publick Preachers and the year after a Commissioner for the County of Cornwall for the Ejection of such whom they then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters Afterwards he sate in the following Parliaments under Oliver and being an aged and venerable man was accounted worthy to be taken out of the H. of Commons to have a negative Voice in the other house that is House of Lords over all that should question him for what he had done and over all the people of the Land besides tho he would not suffer it in the King and Lords This person who was usually stiled by the Loyal Party the old illiterate Jew of Eaton and another Proteus hath divers things especially of Divinity extant wherein much enthusiastical Canting is used the Titles of which follow The art of Happiness consisting of three parts whereof the first searcheth out the happiness of Man The second c. Lond. 1619. oct at which time the Author lived at Lanrake in Cornwall The diseases of the time attended by their remedies Lond. 1622. oct Oyl of Scorpions The miseries of these times turned into medicines and curing themselves Lond. 1623. oct Testis veritatis The Doctrine of K. James of the Ch. of England plainly shewed to be one in the points of Predestination Free-will and certainty of Salvation Lond. 1626. qu. Discovery of the grounds both natural and politick of Arminianisme Printed with Test ver The only remedy that can cure a People when all other Remedies fail Lond. 1627. in tw The heavenly Academie Lond. 1638. in tw dedicated to John L. Roberts of Truro Catholike Charity complaining and maintaining that Rome is uncharitable to sundry eminent parts of the Cath. Church and especially to Protestants and is therefore uncatholike And so a Romish book called Charitie mistaken though undertaken by a second is it self a mistaking Lond. 1641. oct Meditations endeavouring the edification and reparation of the house of God The great Oracle Even the main frame and body of the Scriptures resolving the Question Whether in mans free will and common grace stands the safety of man and the glory of God in mans safety The mystical marriage or experimental discoveries of the heavenly marriage between a Soul and her Saviour Lond. 1653. in tw All which treatises in number eleven were reprinted in one folio at Lond. 1657. under the title of Works of Francis Rous Esq Or Treatises and meditations dedicated to the Saints and to the excellent throughout the three Nations Before which works is the picture of the Author aged 77 years an 1656 engraven by the curious hand of Will. Faithorne Parliamentarie Speeches as 1 Sp. concerning the goods liberties and lives of his Maj. Subjects c. Lond. 1641. in one sh in qu. 2 Sp. before the Lords in the upper house 16. of March 1640 against Dr. Jo. Cosin Dr. Roger Manwairing and Dr. Will. Beale upon the complaint of Mr. Pet. Smart Lond. 1641. in one sh in qu. 3 Sp. in the H. of Commons against making Dr. Jo. Prideaux Dr. Th. Winniff Dr. R. Holdsworth and Dr. Hen. King Bishops till a setled Government in Religion was established Lond. 1642. in one sh in qu. Mella Patrum nempe omnium quorum per prima nascentis patientis ecclesiae tria secula usque ad pacem sub Constantino divinitûs datam scripta prodierunt atque adhuc
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
Theologicae Lugd. Bat. 1630. qu. These were defended by him when he was made Doctor at Leyden 12. Feb. 1630. according to the accompt there followed He wrot other things worthy of the Press but are not yet made publick At length after he had spent most of his time in prosperity and part in adversity yet all in celebacy he surrendred up his pious Soul to God at South Stoke beforemention'd on the 16 day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and nine and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there About that time was a comly mon. set up in the wall over his grave with a large inscription thereon written mostly by himself the contents of which shall now for brevity sake be omitted By his last Will and Test he gave 5 l. to the Church of S. Stoke and 100 l. to buy Land for the poor of that town Six hundred pounds also he gave to purchase free land of soccage to the value of 30 l. per an for the maintenance of a Schoolmaster there to be purchased by the Warden and Fellows of Mert. Coll. whom he appointed Patrons of the School to be erected there He also gave several Books to the publick Library at Oxon was a benefactor to S. Johns Coll. and a greater to Merton to the last of which he gave all his Library that had been for the most part plundered in the time of rebellion and put into the Library at Stafford But upon several attempts that the members of that house made to gain it they were as often repuls'd by the Staffordians to their great charge He gave to the said Coll. also as much money that would clearly purchase 10 l. per an to be bestowed on one of the society thereof to be keeper of the Library there THEOPHILUS HIGGONS Son of Rob. Higgons was born at Chilton near Brill in Bucks educated partly in the Freeâ—school at Thame in Oxfordshire made Student of Ch. Ch. in 1592 aged 14 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1600 he being then noted to be a young man of pregnant parts and a tolerable lat Poet. During his residence in the said house he was esteemed a Person to be much stained with Puritanisme and to be violent against all such that were suspected to favour the Romish See When he was Censor also he was so zealous as to saw down a harmless maypole standing within the precincts of the said house because forsooth he thought it came out of a Romish Forest Upon the promotion of Dr. Ravis Dean of Ch. Ch. to the See of Glocester he was honoured so far by him as to be taken into his service and to be made his domestick Chaplain with whom continuing till about the time he was translated to London made sute to be Lecturer at S. Dunstans Ch. in Fleetstreet Which desire of his being obtained he was much followed there by all sorts of People for his sweet and eloquent way of preaching But so it was that many of his contributary auditors thought that his long prayers and spitting pauses were too short because the reverend Bishops yea his own Lord and Master were ever left out for wranglers and Antichristian Hierarchies After he had been setled for some time in that place he married a Wife but in such a clandestine manner that his Father Relations and many of his Admirers did much blame him for it So that being sensible of the disrespect that followed and neglect of many that loved him before he left his Wife and went into the north parts of England From whence returning soon after to London he published a small book in print flatly against the absurdities which he afterwards strongly seemed to maintain But all this availed nothing for being a Person very ambitious and finding not preferment sutable as he thought to his merits did thereupon and by a contraction of debts occasion'd by his marriage fall into a deep discontent Which being quickly perceived by some especially by one called Fludde a Priest the same I suppose with Joh. Floyd a Jesuit a Person excellently learned as well in Philosophy as Theology was by his endeavours drawn over to the Church of Rome and forthwith did write a little Pamphlet Of venial and mortal sin flat as 't is said by some against the principles of the Romish profession but of this Pamphlet I can give no account because I have not yet seen it Afterwards he ship'd himself for France and being setled at S. Omers to which place his Father went afterwards to fetch him home but could not he wrot His first motive to adhere to the Roman Church c. with an appendix against Dr. Laur. Humphrey Dr. Ric. Field and Dr. Tho. Morton c. printed 1609. in oct Which motive as he saith was drawn up chiefly upon the detection of some egregious falshoods in the said Humphreys perverting S. Austin and Fields traducing S. Ambrose and learned Protestants in their writings touching the question of purgatory and prayer for the dead But this was otherwise made apparent by Sir Edward Hoby's letter to him in answer to his motive to which if it may be seen I refer the Reader Afterwards he went to Roan where he lived for some time but finding not that which he expected namely Respect Preferment and I know not what was at length regained to the English Church by Dr. Tho. Morton Dean of Winchester afterwards Bishop of Durham who had answer'd one of his books as I shall tell you anon A scholastical examination of Mans iniquity and Gods justice Lond. 1608 written before he turned Papist Apologie refuting Sir Edw. Hoby's Letter against his first motive Roan 1609 in oct Sermon at S. Pauls Cross 3 March 1610 on Ephes 2.4 5 6 7. in testimony of his hearty re-union with the Church of England and humble submission thereunto Lond. 1611. qu. This recantation Sermon he made upon his being regained by Dr. Morton Reasons proving the lawfulness of the oath of allegiance Lond. 1611. qu. Mystical Babell or Papal Rome A treatise on Apocalips 18.2 in two Serm. Lond. 1624. qu. After his regainment to the Ch. of England he was promoted to the rectory of Hunton near to Maidston in Kent lived there till the Rebellion brake out and afterwards being sequestred as I have heard lived in the house of one Dan. Collins of Maidston where dying in sixteen hundred fifty and nine a little before the Kings restauration as the said Collins who was afterwards Jurat of Maidston told my friend for his name stands not in the register there was buried in the Cemitery belonging to the Church of that place near to the S. E. door of the Chancel but hath no stone or mon. over his grave WILLIAM ROWLAND Son of Griffin Rowland of the City of Worcester was born there became either a Batler or Sojournour of Exeter Coll. in the beginning of the year 1627 aged 17 years took the
stile him in his works the learned Salkeld of which character he would often glory His works are A Treatise of Angels c. Lond. 1613. oct dedic to K. Jam. 1. Treatise of Paradise and the principal contents thereof c. Lond. 1617. oct ded to Sir Franc. Bacon L. Keeper of the Great Seal He gave way to fate at Uffculme in Devonshire having for 14 years before been sequestred of Church Taunton in the month of February in sixteen hundred fifty and nine aged 84 years or more and was buried in the Church there as I have been informed by his son John Salkeld of Uffculme before mention'd Gent. He then left behind him several things of his composition fit for the Press among which were two concerning Controversies between Rome and the Church of Engl. and another of the end of the world which last and one of the former were conveyed to London by his son to his Kinsman Sir Edw. VValker Garter K. of Arms who communicating one of the said former things to Dr. Sam. Parker Chaplain to Dr. Sheldon Archb. of Canterbury to know of him whether it was fit to be printed he found it a solid piece and the Author of it learned but the design Cassandrian c. as by his letters I was informed WILLIAM HICKS son of Nich. Hicks Gent. was born at Kerris in the Parish of S. Paulin near to the Mount in Cornwall an 1620 and baptized there on the second day of January the same year After he had been instructed in Grammaticals in the high School at Exeter under Mr. Will. Hayter and partly at Liskerd under one Granger he became a Commoner of Wadham Coll. in Lent Term 1637 and there ran thro the Classes of Logic and Philosophy But being taken thence in the beginning of the Civil War before he could be honored with a degree he was by his Relations put in Arms against the King and in short time became so fanatical in his opinion that he was esteemed by some to be little better than an Anabaptist So that being looked upon as a zealous brother for the Cause he was made a Captain in the Trained Bands and became very forward against those of the loyal party He hath published Revelation revealed being a practical Exposition on the Revelation of S. John Lond. 1659. fol. Which book laying dead on the sellers hands was a new title afterwards put bearing date 1661. with the Authors picture before it in a clock Quinto-Monarchia cum quarto 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or a friendly compliance between Christs Monarchy and the Magistrates being a glass for the Quinto-Monarchians and all others that desire to know under what dispensations of Providence we now live c. printed and bound with Revelation revealed c. which was written as the common report went in Exet. Coll. and Cornwall by a Kinsman of Will. Hicks called Alexander Harrie a Ministers son in Cornwall Bachelaur of Divinity and sometimes Fellow of the said Coll. of Exeter which book Revelation rev coming after his death into Hicks's hands he published it under his own name without any mention of A. Harrie who was a learned man and had in great veneration by those that knew him This Mr. Hicks died at Kerris in the very beginning of March in sixteen hundred fifty and nine and was buried on the third day of the same month in the Parish Church of S. Paulin before mention'd Besides this Will. Hicks was another of both his names Author of Oxford Jests and afterwards of Oxfords Drollery Which books several times printed in oct answering not the expectation of Cambridge men because they have supposed that they were written by a scholastical Wit I desire therefore that they should know that the said Will. Hicks who stiles himself in the titles of his books a Native of Oxon as having been born in S. Thomas Parish of poor and dissolute Parents was bred a Tapster under Tho. Williams of the Star Inn Inholder where continuing till after the Rebellion broke out became a Retainer to the family of Lucas in Colohester afterwards Clerk to a Woodmonger in Deptford where training the young men and putting them in a posture of defence upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2 obtained the name of Captain Hicks and was there living in 1669 when his book of Jests was published which gave occasion of other books of the like nature to be afterwards made extant as Cambridge Jests London Jests Englands Jests Poor Robins Jests Westminster Quibbles in verse c. This Hicks who was a sharking and indigent Fellow while he lived in Oxon and a great pretender to the art of Dancing which he forsooth would sometimes teach was also Author of Coffee-house Jests the third Edition of which came out in 1684 and of other little trivial matters meerly to get bread and make the pot walk PHILIP TAVERNER son of Joh. Taverner of Wycombe Great Wycombe in Bucks was born in that County admitted a poor Scholar of Exeter Coll. 12 May 1634 aged 17 years took one degree in Arts holy Orders and was made Vicar of West Drayton and afterwards Minister of Hillingdon both in Middlesex He hath written The Quakers rounds Reply to Edm. Burrough Quaker Both which are animadverted upon by George Fox Quaker in his book intit The great mystery of the great whore unfolded c. Lond. 1659. fol. p. 283 and 308. The Grandfathers advice directed in special to his Children Lond. 1680 81. oct published after the Authors death for the common good What other books he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died and was buried at Hillingdon as I have been informed by those of the neighbourhood TOBIE VENNER was born of gentile Parents at Petherton near to Bridgwater in Somersetshire became a Commoner of S. Albans Hall in 1594 aged 17 years took one degree in Arts entred upon the Physick line practis'd that fac for some time in these parts afterwards at Bridgwater and lastly in the City of Bathe and near thereunto In 1613 he took both the degrees in Medicine had then and always after the name of a plain and charitable Physitian was resorted to by rich and poor and venerated by all persons for his happy and successful practice in his faculty He did not only shew the right way for living long but acted it himself confirming the theory of the one with the practice of the other for near 60 years He hath written and published these things following Via recta ad vitam longam or a Treatise wherein the right way and best manner of living for attaining to a long and healthful life is clearly demonstrated Lond. 1620. 1650 c. in qu. This plain book which was written in condescension to mean capacities got him most of his practice Compendious treatise concerning the nature use and efficacy of the Bathes at Bathe Advertisement concerning the taking of Physick in the Spring Censure
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
of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury THOMAS CHALONER a younger son yet elder than James Chaloner before mention'd of Sir Tho. Chaloner Knight was born in Buckinghamshire at Steeple-Claydon near Buckingham as it seems became a Sojournor of Exeter Coll. in the beginning of 1611 aged 16 years but before he took a degree he left the College and what was fit to accomplish his natural parts which were good were not omitted by his Father He afterwards travelled into France Italy and Germany and returned a well bred Gentleman but ting'd as it seems with antimonarchical Principles if not worse About that time he setled at or near Gisburgh in Yorkshire where there is an Estate belonging to the Name and Family was elected a Burgess for a Corporation in Yorksh to serve in the Long Parliament about 1643 wherein he became a frequent Speaker an enemy to the King his Family and Government and a great stickler for their new Utopian Commonwealth All which he did partly out of his natural inclination and partly out of revenge for the loss which his Father endured and so consequently he for being deprived of the propriety of the Alum Mines in Yorkshire which he had discovered about the latter end of Qu. Elizabeth In 1647 he with Col. Jo. Temple were appointed Commissioners of Parliament in Mounster was one of the Kings Judges in 1648 and soon after made a member of the Council of State In 1658 he was elected a Burgess for Scarborough in Yorkshire to serve in that Parliament called by Richard to meet at Westm 27 of Jan. but afterwards shewing himself a zealous Rumper upon the turning out of the Fag end of that Parliament called the Rump by Col. Jo. Lambert and his Party on the 13 of Oct. 1659 he was committed to Prison by Ch. Fleetwood then made Commander in chief of all the Forces in England where continuing till 27 of Decemb. following was then released by the Members of the Rump Parliament who had retaken their places the day before and on the 2 of Jan. following he was appointed by the House one of the Council of State This Tho. Chaloner was as far from a Puritan or Presbyterian as the East is from the West for he was a boon Companion was of Harry Marten's gang was of the natural Religion and loved to enjoy the comfortable importances of this life without any regard of laying up for a wet day which at his last he wanted The things that he hath published are these An Answer to the Scotch Papers delivered in the H. of Commons concerning the disposal of the King's person Lond. 1646. qu. In answer to which divers did exercise their pens some scoffingly and some in earnest whereupon came out this Pamphlet intit The justification of a safe and well-grounded Answer to the Scottish papers printed under the name of Mr. Chaloner his Speech or Answer which doth maintain the honour of the Parliament and interest of the Kingdom of England Lond. 1646. qu. Written as 't was usually said by Tho. Chaloner Afterwards came out against Chaloner Lex talionis or a Declaration against Mr. Chaloner the Crimes of the times and the Manners of you know whom Lond. 1647. in one sh in qu. and also An answer to a Speech without doers or animadversions upon an unsafe and dangerous Answer to the Scotch Papers under the name of Mr. Chaloner his Speech c. in one sh in qu. A true and exact relation of the strange finding out of Moses his tomb in a Valley near unto Mount Nebo in Palestina c. Lond. 1657. in about 3 sheets in oct This book at its first appearance made a great noise and pusâ—ed the Presbyterian Rabbies for a time at length the Author thereof being known and his story found to be a meer sham the book became ridiculous and was put to posteriour uses At length in the beginning of the year 1660 upon a foresight that King Ch. 2. would be restored he therefore knowing very well that his former actions would not enduâ—e the touchstone withdrew himself beyond the seas and setling in a fearful condition at Middleburgh in Zeeland died and was buried there about sixteen hundred sixty and one Since my writing of this I find that this Mr. Chaloner published A speech containing a plea for Monarchy an 1â—59 But therein being several Restrictions came out an Answer to it by way of Address to General George Monke THOMAS CULPEPER or Colepeper was born of a gentile Family at Harietsham in Kent became a Communer of Hart Hall in 1591 aged 13 years departed thence without a degree went to the Inns of Court and afterwards to his Patrimony which is all I know of him only that first he received the honour of Knighthood from K. Jam. 1. on the 23 of Sept. 1619 secondly that he wrot A Tract against the high rate of Usury presented to the Parliament in 1623 printed several times the fourth Edit of which came out at Lond. 1668 prefac'd with a discourse by his son Sir Tho. Culpeper and thirdly that dying at Hollingbourne in Kent in sixteen hundred sixty and one was buried in an Isle joyning to the Church there on the 25 of January the same year leaving then behind him the character of a good man There is a stone over his grave but hath no Inscription on it CHRISTOPHER HARVEY a Ministers son of Cheshire was born in that County became a Batler of Brasenose Coll. in 1613 aged 16 years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1620 holy Orders and at length was made Vicar of Clifton in Warwickshire His works are these The right Rebell A treatise discovering the true use of the name by the nature of Rebellion with the properties and practices of Rebells Appliable to all both old and new Phanatiques Lond. 1661. oct Faction supplanted or a caveat against the ecclesiastical and secular Rebells in two parts 1. A discourse concerning the nature properties and practices of Rebells 2. Against the inconstancy and inconsistent contrariety of the same mens pretensions and practices principles and doctrines Lond. 1663. oct pen'd mostly in 1642 and finished 3 Apr. 1645. This book I suppose for I have not seen it or the other is the same with the former only a new title put to it to make it vend the better Another book goes under his name called Conditions of Christianity printed at Lond. in tw but that or any other besides I have not yet seen CONSTANTINE JESSOP son of Joh. Jess of Pembroke in Pembrokeshire Minister of Gods Word was entred a Student in Jesus Coll. in 1624 aged 22 years whence after he had gone a course he went into Ireland and was made Bach. of Arts of Trin. Coll. near Dublin At his return he was incorporated in this University an 1â—31 and in the year following proceeded in Arts being about that time in holy Orders but what his Employment was between that time and 1640
a Republick and I know not what to advance himself In the month of Aug. the same year he was made Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire by the Parliament and was persuaded almost to fortifie the City of Oxon for their use and to make Bulstrode Whitlock sometimes of S. Johns Coll. then a Member of Parliament Governour thereof but for what reasons he could not be overcome it appears not At the same time he did endeavour to engage the People of the said County in a Rebellion not only at Oxon but afterwards at Woodstock where he did protest upon his honour after Edghill Fight that the King had neither men nor money nor arms but the Parliament had all these c. On the 27 of Dec. and 8 of Febr. in 1642 his Maj. published two Proclamations commanding all the Officers of the Court of Wards to attend him at Oxon but this Lord Say refusing to come was outlaw'd and attainted of Treason So that he being put out of his place and a new Seal made for the use of the said Court it was ordered then to remain in the custody of the said Francis Lord Cottington In 1646 the Court of Wards was taken away by the Parliament sitting at Westminster the Members of which did recompence the Lord Say for his loss as being Master with the sum of 10000 l and Sir Ben. Rudyard the Surveyour of the said Court with the sum of 6000 l and both with Lands from the Earl of Worcester's Estate In 1648 he shew'd himself a zealous enemy in the House against a personal Treaty with his Majesty and the same year was present with the Parliament Commissioners in the Isle of Wight when they treated in order for Peace with the King At which time this Lord Say did boldly urge to his Maj. a passage out of the three last and corrupted books of Mr. Rich. Hocker's Ecclesiastical Polity that tho the King was singulis major yet he was universis minor which was answer'd with great prudence and dexterity by his Maj. as may be elsewhere seen At that time the Kings Arguments concerning several matters did so much work upon him that at his return to London he sided with that party in the House that voted that the Kings Answers to the Propositions were a firm ground for them to proceed upon for a Peace After the King's death he altogether sided with the Independents as before he had done with the Presbyterians became great with Oliver who made him one of the other House that is House of Lords After the restauration of K. Ch. 2. at what time he had acted as a grand Rebell for his own ends almost 20 years he was rewarded forsooth with the honorable Office of Lord Privy Seal while others that had suffered in estate and body and had been reduced to a bit of bread for his Maj. cause had then little or nothing given to relieve them for which they were to thank a hungry and great Officer who to fill his own Coffers was the occasion of the utter ruin of many A person of the Lord Say's persuasion who had run with the times as he did purposely to raise a family saith that he was a person of great parts wisdom and integrity and another who was taken to be a Puritan in his time tells us that Say and Sele was a seriously subtil piece and always averse to the Court ways something out of pertinaciousness his temper and constitution ballancing him altogether on that side which was contrary to the wind so that he seldom tack'd about or went upright though he kept his course steady in his way a long time c. As for the things that he hath published the titles of them are these Several Speeches as 1 Two Speeches in Parliament One upon the Bill against the Bishops and the other touching the Liturgy of the Church of Engl Lond. 1641. in two sh in quart 2 Sp. in the Guildhall London 27 Oct. 1642. Lond. 1642. qu. This was spoken just after Edghill Fight to encourage the Citizens to raise more money to carry on the War At which time also were very earnest in their Speeches for that purpose Philip Lord Wharton Philip Earl of Pembroke Henry Earl of Holland and Will. Strâ—de one of the 5 Members 3 Speech in Parliament against the Supremacy of the Bishops and their power in civil Affairs Lond. 1642. qu. This with the former against the Bishops were much applauded among the patriotical Party whose sense they spoke out to the full and were the core of the Canker bred in them against the Church These Speeches also did the Clergy take to be their chief reason of their several years of Persecution that followed and why they were banished from their Livings for fear forsooth they should preach the People then in a great manner deceived into obedience to the King After the War was ceased and no Malignants there were as he called the Cavaliers to oppose him he shew'd himself an Enemy to the Quakers with whom he was much troubled at or near Broughton and thereupon wrot certain books against them as I shall tell you by and by The Scots designe discovered relating their dangerous attempts lately practised against the English Nation with the sad consequence of the same Wherein divers matters of publick concernment are disclosed and the book called Truths manifest is made apparent to be Lies manifest Lond. 1653 qu. This is usually called Vindiciae veritatis or an Answer to a Discourse intit Truth it 's manifest c. Folly and madness made manifest Or Some things written to shew how contrary to the word of God and practice of the Saints in the Old and New Testament the doctrines and practices of the Quakers are c. Oxon. 1659. qu. This I think was printed before The Quakers reply manifested to be rayling or a pursuance of those by the light of the Scriptures who through their dark imaginations would evade the truth c. Oxon. 1659 60. qu. and other things which I have not yet seen At length this noble Author after he had spent 80 years mostly in an unquiet and discontented condition had been a grand promoter of the Rebellion which began in 1642 did die quietly in his bed but whether in conscience I cannot tell on the fourteenth day of April in sixteen hundred sixty and two whereupon his body was buried in Broughton Church among the graves of his Ancestors and had over it soon after a rich and costly monument erected more befitting a Hero than a Rebell He left behind him several sons living at the time of his death among whom James his eldest son was one who succeeding him in his Honours was made L. Lieutenant of Oxfordshire having always been reputed an honest Cavalier and a quiet man Nathaniel the second son whom I shall mention elsewhere c. ROBERT SIBTHORPE was initiated in Academical Learning in Linc. Coll. as it seems but leaving the University
what he had done and also took off much of that opinion which Prideaux had among the Puritans In 1638 he became Rector of South Warnborough in Hampshire by exchange with Mr. Tho. Atkinson of S. Johns Coll. for Islip near Oxon and the same year he was put into Commission for the Peace for Hampshire On Ap. 10. an 1640 he was chose Clerk of the Convocation for Westminster and soon after brought into great trouble by his old Enemy Williams B. of Lincolne W. Prynne and certain of his Parishioners of Ailresford By the first because Heylyn had been a favourite of Laud and had continual contentions with him in the Coll. of Westminster about various matters relating to Religion and the Government of that College By the second because he had furnished the Lords of the Council with matter out of his Histrio-Mastix to proceed against him in order to the loosing of his ears c. and by the last because he had translated the Communion Table from the middle to the upper end of the Chancel of the Church at Ailresford and brought in there certain Ornaments to be used in the celebration of Divine Service In the year 1642 leaving his Preb. of Westminster and his Rectories in Hampshire upon a foresight of ruin to come he followed the King to Oxon where having little to live upon did by the Kings command write the weekly intelligence called Mercurius Aulicus which had been begun by John Birkenhead who pleased the generality of Readers with his waggeries and buffoonries far more than Heylyn In the beginning of the year following 1643 he was voted a Delinquent in the H. of Commons sitting at Westm because of his retirement to the King and thereupon an order was sent to the Committee at Portsmouth to sequester his Estate and seize upon his Goods Which Order being put in execution his incomparable Libâ—ary was taken away and carried to Portsmouth In 1644 hâ—s singular good Lord and Patron Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury being beheaded his hopes of rising higher in the Church were totally blasted So that upon the loss of him and his spiritual estate he stuck to his temporal for which he compounded in Goldsmiths Hall and to the earning of money by writing books In 1645 he left Oxon and shifted from place to place like the old travels of the Patriarchs and in pity to his necessity some of his friends of the loyal party entertained him The same year he setled for a time with his Wife and Children in Winchester but that City with the Castle being treacherously delivered up to their enemies he left them in a disguise and being entertained by several Loyalists removed at length to Minster-Lovel in Oxfordshire in 1647 where taking a farm of his Nephew Col. Hen. Heylyn in the year following lived there six years or more exercising his Pen in writing of Books the publishing of which especially his Geography which he inlarged to a folio was a great relief to him Thence he removed to Abendon in Berks where he bought an house and land called Lacies Court which being but five miles from Oxon he was therefore furnished with Books at his pleasure either from Shops the Libraries of acquaintance there particularly Barlow of Qu. Coll. or by his repair to Bodlies Library and wrot several things in defence of the Church of England and the true genuine sense thereof Afterwards he suffer'd in his Estate by Decimation which trick being brought up by Oliver while Protector many Families thereby especially such that had before compounded were thereby undone In 1660 upon his Majesties return to his Kingdoms he was restored to his spiritualities but never rose higher than Subdean of Westminster which was a wonder to many and a great discontent to him and his but the reason being manifest to those that well knew the temper of the Person I shall forbear to make mention of that matter any farther He was a Person endowed with singular gifts of a sharp and pregnant wit solid and clear judgment In his younger years he was accounted an excellent Poet but very conceited and pragmatical in his elder a better Historian a noted Preacher and a ready or extemporanean Speaker He had a tenacious memory to a miracle whereunto he added an incredible patience in study in which he persisted when his Eye-sight failed him He was a bold and undaunted man among his friends and foes tho of very mean port and presence and therefore by some of them he was accounted too high and proud for the function he professed On all occasions he was a constant Assertor of the Churches right and the Kings Prerogative either in their afflicted or prosperous estate a severe and vigorous opposer of Rebels and Schismaticks a despiser of envy and in mind not at all discouraged He writ many books upon various Subjects containing in them many things that are not vulgar either for stile or argument and wrot also History pleasant enough but in some things he was too much a Party to be an Historian and equally an enemy to Popery and Puritanisme His works which are very many are these Spurius a Tragedie Made in the year 1616. Acted privately in the Presidents Lodgings in Magd. Coll. but never printed Theomachia a Com. Made in the year 1618 but not printed Microcosmus A description of the great World Oxon. 1622. 24 c. qu. Enlarged afterwards to a great folio entit Cosmography in four books Lond. 1652. 1664. 77. 82. This Cosmography was the last book that its Author wrot with his own hand 1651 for after it was finished his eyes failed him that he could neither see to write nor read without the help of an Amanuensis whom he kept to his dying day The Historie of that most famous Saint and Soldier of Jesus Christ S. George of Cappadocia asserted from the fictions of the middle ages of the Church and opposition of the present Lond. 1631. and 33. qu. The institution of the most noble Order of S. George named the Garter Printed with the former Catalogue of all the Knights of the Garter from the first institution to this present as also of the principal Officers thereunto belonging Printed also with the Hist of St. George 1631. and 33. In which last edition is at the end A review of the whole work consisting of additions and emendations On the 2 day of Feb. 1630 being Candlemas day the Author of the said History and its adjuncts was brought by Dr. Laud B. of London a great incourager of learning and industry to his Majesty being then in his Bedchamber at Whitehall to whom he did present them Whereupon his Maj. looking upon the book he did graciously accept of it and was pleased to hold some conference with the Author about that argument Afterwards the Author presented several copies fairly bound to all such Knights of the Order of the Garter and men of eminency that were then in London and Westminster and was used by
in many rhetorical strains bitterly scolded against his quondam Fellow Covenantiers he hath this angry and uncharitable passage That the projects of Presbyterians have froth in their heads and blood in their bottom as the water of those men that labour with the Stone and Strangury and have their wounds from within It pleased God within a few days after the publishing of this book to smite the Bishop with that tormenting distemper which he there makes use of to set off his false and scandalous impeachment of so considerable a part of the most conscientious and peaceable people in the Land He lay in a very great extremity of torture and by reason of the stopping of his water his life was in great hazard and so was forced to send for a Chyrurgeon who by making use of his Probe did help him to make water which was froth at the top and blood at the bottom And that the Lord might make him more sensible of it he repeated the stroke a second time after the same manner as we have been credibly informed from very eminent and considerable persons We could heartily wish that there were now alive another Mr. Rogers of Wethersfield who would deal effectually with the conscience of this proud Prelate that he might be blessed with a more sanctified use of the hand of the Lord in the visitation of the Strangury then of his broken leg in the former times c. Thus the nameless Author in his Mirabilis annus secundus The first of which years was published in Aug. 1661 the second in Aug. 1662 and the third in Dec. the same year but whether any more followed I find not They were published purposely to breed in the vulgar an ill opinion of the change of Government and Religion after the Kings Restoration A just invective against those of the Army and their Abetters who murthered K. Ch. 1. on the 30 of Jan. 1648 with some other poetick pieces in Latin referring to those tragical times written 10 Feb. 1648. Lond. 1662. Discourse of artificial beauty in point of conscience between two Ladies Lond. 1662. oct Discourse concerning publick Oaths and the lawfulness of swearing in judicial proceedings in order to answer the scruples of the Quakers Lond. 1649. Lat. ibid. 1662. English Prophecies concerning the return of Popery Lond. 1663. qu. Published then with other Prophecies of that subject written by Dr. Whitgift Archb. of Cant. Rob. Sanderson Rich. Hooker c. The whole duty of a Communicant being rules and directions for a worthy receiving the most holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper Lond. 1681. c. in tw He hath written other things which I have not yet seen particularly a Tract about Tender Consciences which is answer'd by Sam. Fisher He gave way to fate in the Bishops Pallace at Worcester on the 20 of Sept. in sixteen hundred sixty and two aged 57 and was buried in the Chappel at the east end of the Choire of the Cath. Ch. there Over his grave was soon after erected a fair monument containing his Effigies to the middle in his episcopal habit with an inscription under it a copy of which is printed in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 2. p. 328. a. What the disease was which took him out of this mortal life I know not Neither dare I say says one for all the world that the disease that befell him and of which he died befell him for his fierceness against the Presbyterians and it was the very disease unto which he had compar'd the Presbyterians sermons and it befell him not long after he had made that odious comparison c. EDWARD BAGSHAW a younger Son of a Gentleman descended from those of his name living in Derbysh was born in London became a Commoner of Brasnose Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Rob. Bolton in Mich. term an 1604 took one degree in Arts four years after setled in the Middle Temple studied the municipal Law and at length became a Bencher and a knowing man in his Profession In 15 Car. 1. he was elected Lent-Reader for that Society and beginning to read 24 Feb. did select for the argument of his discourse the Statute of 35 Ed. 3. cap. 7. wherein he laboured to suppress Episcopacy by lopping off the branches first and afterwards by laying the axe to the root of the tree But after he had read once Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterb had notice of it who forthwith acquainting the King he commanded the Lord Keeper Finch to prohibit him from proceeding any farther which accordingly was done So that Bagshaw being looked upon as a discontented and seditious person was the year following chose with Joh. White another Lawyer known afterwards by the name of Century White a Burgess for the Borough of Southwark to serve in that most wicked Convention that began at Westm 3 Nov. 1640. But soon after perceiving full well what mad courses the Members thereof took he left them after he had expressed his envy among them against the Bishops went to Oxon and sate in the Parliament there called by his Majesty where continuing for some time was taken by the Rebells in Oxfordshire and sent to London to the House of Commons who forthwith committed him Prisoner to the Kings-bench in Southwark 29 June 1644 where he had been with great Shoutings and Acclamations elected Burgess of that place by the fiery Zealots for the Cause Afterwards he suffered in his Estate in Northamptonshire but what his requital was after the return of his Maj. 1660 about which time he was Treasurer of the Mid. Temple I know not Sure I am that he hath these things following going under his name The life and death of Mr. Rob. Bolton Lond. 1633. qu. Wherein the Author shews himself a Calvinist commends Calvin and Luther much and speaks against the Innovations in the Church then used with reference I presume to Laud whom he had no affection for Several Speeches as 1 Sp. in Parliament 7 Nov. 1640. Lond. 1640. qu. 2 Sp. in Parl. concerning Episcopacy and London Petition Lond. 1640 1. qu. c. Two Arguments in Parliament The first concerning the Canons the second concerning the Praemunire upon those Canons Lond. 1641. qu. Treatise defending the Revenues of the Church in Tithes and Glebe Lond. 1646. qu. Treatise maintaining the Doctrine Liturgy and Discipline of the Church of England These two last were written by their Author during his long imprisonment Short censure of the book of Will Prynne intit The University of Oxfords plea refuted Printed 1648. in 2 sh in qu. Just Vindication of the questioned part of his reading had in the Middle Temple Hall 24 Feb. 1639. Lond. 1660. qu. True narrative of the cause of silencing him by the Archb. of Cant. Printed with the Just vindication See Joh. Rushworths third volume of Collections pag. 990. The Rights of the Crown of England as it is established by Law Lond. 1660. oct Written by him also during
his imprisonment He departed this mortal life on the 12 day of Sept. or Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and two and was buried in the Church at Morton-Pinkney in Northamptonshire as I have been informed by his son Hen. Bagshaw D. D. sometimes a Student of Christ Church in Oxon who having published several things ought hereafter to be remembred in the Append. to these Athenae I shall make mention of another Edw. Bagshaw son of the aforesaid Edward under the year 1671. WILLIAM COLE Son of Joh. Cole of Adderbury in Oxfordshire Bach. of Div. and sometimes Fellow of New College was born and educated in Grammar learning there entred a Student in the University in 1642 and soon after was made one of the Portionists commonly called Postmasters of Merton Coll. by his Mothers brother Joh. French one of the senior Fellows of that house and publick Registrary of the University When he was standing for the degree of Bach. of Arts he was made a publick Notary to the end that he might supply the said place of Registrary when Mr. French was either absent or indisposed In the latter end of 1650 he took one degree in Arts his Uncle being then dead left the University retired to London and lived several years at Putney near that City where he became the most famous Simpler or Herbarist of his time At length upon the Kings Restoration in 1660 he was made Secretary to Dr. Duppa Bishop of Winchester in whose service he died His works are these The Art of Simpling or an introduction to the knowledge of gathering of Plants wherein the definitions divisions places descriptions c. are compendiously discoursed of c. Lond. 1656. oct Perspicillum microcosmologicum or a prospective for the discovery of the lesser world wherein Man is a Compendium c. Printed with the former Adam in Eden or Natures Paradise The History of Plants Herbs Flowers with their several original names c. Lond. 1657. fol. Into this book if I am not mistaken is remitted The Art of Simpl. As for the book intit The Garden of Eden or an accurate description of all flowers c. which was printed in 1653 't was written by that learned and great Observer Sir Hugh Plat Knight Our Author Will. Cole died either at Winchester or at Farnham in Surrey in sixteen hundred sixty and two aged 36 or thereabouts but where buried I know not I find another Will. Cole who published a book in t A Rod for the Lawyers who are hereby declared to be the grand Robbers and Deceivers of the Nation c. Lond. 1659. qu. But of what University he was if of any at all I know not THOMAS WEAVER Son of Tho. Weav was born in the City of Worcester applied his poetical genie to Academical Learning in Ch. Ch. an 1633 aged 17 took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1640 about which time he was made one of the Chaplains or petty-Canons of the Cathedral from which place being ejected by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648 he shifted from place to place and lived upon his wits a Specimen of which he published to the world intit Songs and Poems of Love and Drollery Printed 1654. in oct In which book is a Ballad intit Zeal over-heated or a relation of a lamentable fire which hapned in Oxon in a religious brothers Shop c. to the tune of Chivey Chase The said religious brother was Tho. Williams a Milliner living sometimes against Allsaints Church where holy Cornish teached that is Hen. Cornish a Presbyterian Minister Canon of Ch. Ch. by Authority of Parliament an 1648. But the said Songs and Poems being looked upon by the godly men of those times as seditious and libellous against the Government he was imprison'd and afterwards tried for his life Whereupon his book being produced in open Court after it had been proved that he was the Author of it the Judge read some pages and then spake to this effect Gentlemen the person that we have here before us is a Scholar and a man of wit Our Forefathers had Learning so much in honor that they enacted that those that could but as much as read should never be hanged unless for some great crime and shall we respect it so little as to put to death a man of parts I must tell you I should be very unwilling to be the person that should condemn him and yet I must be forced to it if the Jury bring him in guilty c. So that upon this harangue too large to be all here set down the Jury brought him in not guilty Whereupon being set at liberty he was ever after highly valued by the boon and generous Royalist He hath also certain Epigrams extant which I have not yet seen and wrot the copy of verses called The Archbishop of York's revolt printed in the Poems of Joh. Cleaveland besides divers pieces of Poetry printed in several books published in his time After his Majesties return in 1660 he was made Excise-man for Leiverpole in Lancashire and was commonly called Captain Weaver but prosecuting too much the crimes of Poets brought him to his grave in the Church there in the prime and strength of his years on the third day of January in sixteen hundred sixty and two About the beginning of the year 1656 was a book published entit Choice Drollery with Songs and Sonnets Which giving great offence to the Saints of that time who esteem'd it a lewd and scandalous thing it was order'd by the Protectors Council to be burnt on the 8. of May the same year But who the Author of that book was I cannot yet tell ROBERT SANDERSON a younger Son of Rob. Sanderson was born at Rotheram in Yorkshire on the 19 of Sept. 1587 29 Elizab. educated in the Grammar School there sent by his Relations to Linc. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1601 afterwards matriculated a member of the University as a Ministers Son took the degree of Bach. of Arts in Lent term 1604 elected Fellow of the said Coll. 3. May 1606 having then a Metaphysical brain and matchless memory In Mich. term 1607 he was admitted Master of Arts and in July following he compleated that degree by standing in the Act. In 1611 he was made Deacon and Priest by Dr. King B. of London in 1614 he stood to be Proctor of the University but missed it and the year after he published his Logick Lectures that he had before read in the publick Refectory of Linc. Coll. So that his name being then famous he was elected Proctor with great ease and willingness an 1616. The next year he was admitted Bach. of Div. and the year after that became Rector of Wibberton near to Boston in Lincolnshire but surrendred it up as he did his Fellowship in 1619 because it was a bad air The same year he became Rector of Bothby-paynel in the said County was made Chaplain to Dr. George
before Insomuch that in compliance with the whimsical and ridiculous fickleness of an humoursome age what of this kind was but just now received from the Press with all possible marks of acceptance and approbation is soon after as not suited to the fashionable mode of the nice and delicate palet of the present times decryed and condemned by the same Persons as flat dull and insipid Notwithstanding this observation generally almost holds good yet Dr. Sandersons Sermons and indeed all his other genuine works have not by their age lost the least of their former repute For such is that solidity and clearness of reason which runs through all his discourses and writings pen'd in such a manly and lasting a language that so long as men make these the only tests and measures of their judgings and censures as they do still so must they needs likewise in after ages continue in the greatest esteem and veneration and he be always placed in the highest and first rank of English writers Two cases of conscience resolved Lond. 1628. oct Three more added Lond. 1667. 8. oct Another Lond. 1674 and another in 1678. In all nine and repr 1678 and 1685. in oct De juramenti promissorii obligatione praelectiones septem in Schola Theol. Oxon. 1646. Lond. 1647. 70. 76. and 83. in oct Printed also at Lond. in Engl. 1655. oct This is the book which I have before hinted that was translated into English by K. Ch. 1. writ with his own hand and by him shew'd to his Servants Jam. Harrington and Tho. Herbert commanding them then to examine it with the original which they did and found it accurately translated Not long after his Maj. communicated it to Dr. Juxon B. of Lond Dr. Hammond and Dr. Sheldon his Majesties Chaplains in ordinary but the particular time when I cannot tell Oratio habita in Schola Theol. Oxon. cum publicam professionem auspicaretur 26. oct 1646. Lond. 1647. 70. 76. 83. oct Censure of Mâ— A. A. his book of the confusions and revolutions of Government Lond. 1649. The next year came out a reply to that censure by Anon. De obligatione conscientiae praelectiones decem Oxonii in Schola Theol. habitae an 1647. Lond. 1660. 70. 76. 82. oct The same in English came out with this title Several cases of conscience discussed in 10 Lectures at Oxon. Lond. 1660. oct Published at the instant desire of Rob. Boyle Esq an encourager of Dr. Sandersons studies in the time of his affliction Episcopacy as established by law in England not prejudicial to regal power c. Lond. 1661. 73. 83. oct His judgment for setling the Church in exact resolutions of sundry grand cases Oxon. 1663. qu. This is at the end of a book intit Reason and judgment or special remarks of the life of Dr. Sanderson late Bishop of Linc. Reprinted I mean His judgment at Lond. 1678. oct Physicae scientiae compendium Oxon. 1671. oct Whether ever before printed I know not His judgment concerning submission to Usurpers Lond. 1678. oct Pax Ecclesiae Lond. 1678. oct in English These two with His judgment for setling c. before mention'd and the Oxford reasons are to be seen in his life printed in oct Discourse concerning the Church in these particulars 1 concerning the visibility of the true Church 2 concerning the Church of Rome c. Lond. 1688 in about 5 â—h in qu. Published by Dr. Will. Assheton of Brasn Coll. from a Ms copy which he had from Mr. Josias Pullen of Magd. Hall in Oxon Domestick Chaplain to the said Bishop at the time of his death He also had the chief hand in a book intit Reasonâ— of the University of Oxon against the Covenant c. wherein the matters that refer to reason and conscience are his yet notwithstanding tho Dr. Zouch drew up the Law part the whole goes under his name He also wrot 1 The large Preface before a book which he faithfully published out of the original copy entit The power communicated by God to the Prince and the obedience required of the Subjects Lond. 1660. 1. in qu. there again in 1683 oct Written by Dr. Jam. Usher Archb. of Armagh 2 The Preface to a collection of Treatises made by the said Archb. bearing the title of Clavi Trabales or nails fastned by some great Masters of Assemblies c published by Nich. Bernard D. D. Lond. 1661. It consists of several Treatises written by Dr. Usher Mr. Ric. Hooker Lanc. Andrews Adr. Saravia c. 3 Prophecies concerning the return of Popery Printed in a book intit Fair warning the second part Lond. 1663. and left a fragment of an Answer to Dr. Tho. Baylies Challenge Which challenge a certain Author calls a piece of transparent Sophistry as was ever called Demonstration And tho the weakness and inconsequence of it hath been sufficiently displayed yet such is the pleasure of some men that it hath been printed and reprinted with as much assurance as if not the least notice had been ever taken of it He also had the chief hand in reviewing the Common Prayer at the Savoy an 1661 being one of the Commissioners appointed for that purpose and was the Author and Writer of several Letters to Dr. Hammond in Dr. Hammonds works about those knotty points which are by the learned called the Quinquarticular controversie Several Treatises also he had laying by him which were esteemed by those that had seen them most worthy of publication but a little before his death he caused them to be burnt least after they might come out imperfectly for lucre sake He surrendred up his pious Soul to God on Thursday 29 of January in sixteen hundred sixty and two and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Bugden before mention'd in the 76 year of his age Over his grave was soon after a marble stone laid with an Inscription engraven thereon made by himself a Copy of which being printed in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. shall be now omitted and in its room shall this be said that whether you consider him in his writings or conversation from his first book of Logick to his Divinity Lectures Sermons and other excellent discourses the vastness of his judgment the variety of his learning all laid out for publick benefit his unparallel'd meekness humility and constancy you cannot but confess that the Church of England could not loose a greater pillar a better man and more accomplish'd Divine Pray be pleased to see more of him in a book entit The life of Dr. Sanderson late Bishop of Lincolne Lond. 1678. oct Written by Isaac Walton and in the book before mention'd entit Reason and judgment or special remarks c. ROBERT VILVAIN a most noted Physician of his time in the West parts of England Son of Peter Vilvaine sometimes Steward of the City of Exeter by Anne his Wife was born in the Parish of Allhallows in Goldsmith-street within the said City and educated there in Grammar
the room of Gabr. Grant deceased But this Person being esteemed by the Puritan a Licenser of Popish books a purger of orthodox passages against Popery Papists Arminianisme a great creature of Dr. Laud and a practicer of Popish ceremonies he was in the beginning of the rebellion thrown out of his Vicaridge upon the Petition and Articles exhibited against him in the Long Parliament by his Parishioners â—as imprison'd in the Compter Ely house and in the Ships forced to fly and his Wife and Children turned out of doors At length being reduced to great want he was forced to keep a private School in Wiltshire under and in the name of his Son John afterwards Fellow of Oriel Coll. At length upon the return of K. Ch. 2. he was restored to his Vicaridge Canonry and other preferments which he before had lost enjoying them in quietness to his dying day He hath extant Several Sermons as 1 Two Sermons preached in the Parish Ch. of S. Giles in the Fields by way of preparative upon the articles of the Creed The first is on 1. Cor. 13.13 and the other on Heb. 11.6 Lond. 1642. qu. Out of which were some of the Articles framed against charging him as guilty of Arminianisme 2 Sermon tending to Peace preached before his Maj. at Newport in the Isle of Wight during the time of the Treaty on Rom. 12.18 Lond. 1648. qu. 3 Funeral Sermon prepared to be preached at the funeral of Walt. Norbane Esq at Calne in Wilts 13. Apr. 1659 on Rom. 6.5 Lond. 1660. qu. He hath also printed a Serm. on Rom. 5.5 Lond. 1660. qu. and another on Acts 23.5 Lond. 1663. qu. But these two I have not yet seen Others also go from hand to hand in Ms and as I remember I have seen one or two in Dr. Barlowes Library He the said Dr. Haywood was buried in the Collegiat Church of S. Peter at Westminster near to the bottom of the stairs leading up to the Pulpit on the 17 day of July in sixteen hundred sixty and three leaving then behind him the character of an excellent Tutor while he was Fellow of S. Johns Coll a general Scholar and a meek man in temper and conversation Near to his grave was his beloved Son John Haywood Master of Arts before mention'd who died 22. of Feb. following buried WILLIAM CREED Son of Joh. Creed wan born in the Parish of S. Laurence within the borough of Reading in Berks elected Scholar of S. Johns Coll. in 1631 age 16 years or thereabouts made the Senior Quadragesimal Collector when Bach. of Arts being then Fellow of that College Afterwards he proceeded in his faculty entred into the sacred function and became an eloquent Preacher In the beginning of the rebellion he adheer'd to the cause of his Majesty and in 1644 he was elected to and executed the procuratorial office of this University Two years after he was actually created Bach. of Div. for the Sermons he had preached at Oxon before the King and Parliament and in the time of Usurpation he became Rector of East-Codeford or Codeford S. Marie in Wiltshire In the month of June 1660 his Majesty K. Ch. 2. being then restored he was made the Kings Professor of Div. in this University in the beginning of July following Archdeacon of Wilts in the place of Tho. Leach some years before deceased and on the 13 of Sept. the same year Prebendary of Lyme and Halstock in the Church of Salisbury He was a defender of the Church of England in the worst of times was a good Schoolman Divine and a noted Disputant He hath written The Refuter refuted or Dr. Hen. Hammonds 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 defended against the impertinent cavils of Mr. Hen. Jeanes Lond. 1659-60 qu. Several Sermons as 1 Judah's purging of the melting pot an Assize Sermon at Salisbury on Isay 1.25.26 Lond. 1660. qu. 2 Judah's return to their Allegiance c. on 2. Sam. 19.14.15 Lond. 1660. qu. c. He gave way to fate in his lodgings at Ch. Ch. in Oxon of which Ch. he was Canon as being Reg. Prof. of Div. on the 19 of July in sixteen hundred sixty and three and was buried with solemnity in the next North Isle joyning to the choire of the said Cathedral near to the reliques of Democritus Junior being then accompanied to his grave by all the Degrees of the University See his Epitaph in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 287. a. In his Archdeaconry of Wilts succeeded Thom. Henchman very nearly related if not Son to Dr. Henchman Bishop of Sarum in the beginning of Aug. the same year and in his Professorship of Divinity Dr. Rich. Allestrie Canon of Ch. Ch. GEORGE KENDALL received his first being in this world at Cofton in the Parish of Dawlish or Dulish near to the City of Exeter in Devonshire educated in Grammar learning in the said City where his Father George Kendall Gent mostly lived was entred a Sojournour of Exeter Coll. in Lent term 1626 and was made Prob. Fellow in the fourth year following being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards by indefatigable industry he became a most noted Philosopher and Theologist a Disciple and Admirer of Prideaux and his Doctrine and as great an enemy to Arminius and Socinus as any At the change of the times in 1642 being then Bach. of Div he closed with the Presbyterians then dominant notwithstanding the King that year to mitigate his discontent had zealously recommended him to the Society to be elected Rector of Exeter Coll. on the promotion of Prideaux to the See of Worcester and about 1647 he became Rector of Blissland near to Bodmin in Cornwall But being eagerly bent against that notorious Independent John Goodwin left that Rectory some years after and obtained the Ministry of a Church in Gracious-street in London purposely that he might be in a better capacity to oppose him and his Doctrine In 1654 he proceeded D. of D. and upon the restoration of K. Ch. 2. he left London and became Rector of Kenton near Exeter which he kept till the Act of conformity was published in 1662 at which time giving it up he retired to his House at Cofton where he spent the short remainder of his days in a retired condition His works are these Collirium or an ointment to open the eyes of the poor Caviliers This Pamphlet which I have not yet seen was published after the Cavaliers had been defeated in the West by the Forces belonging to the Parliament Vindication of the doctrine commonly received in Churches concerning Gods intentions of special grace and favour to his elect in the death of Christ Lond. 1653. fol. Of Christs prerogative power prescience providence c. from the attempts lately made against them by Mr. John Goodwin in his book entit Redemption redeemed Digressions concerning the impossibility of Faiths being an instrument of justification c. These two last things are printed with the Vindication of the doctrine c.
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
work of Tithes to which he put a large Preface to the Reader also his Apologie of the Treatise De non temerandis Ecclesiis with four little Treatises annexed thereunto on the same subject by different hands At length Mr. Stephens surrendring up his pious Soul to God at Wotton before mention'd on the ninth day of January in sixteen hundred sixty and four was buried in the Chancel of the Church there Over his grave was a comely Monument intended to be put in the year 1672 but whether yet performed I know not The inscription which was designed to be engraven thereon you may see a copy of it in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 224. a. SAMUEL EATON Son of Rich. Eat Vic. of Great Budworth in Cheshire was born in a little Village called Crowley in that Parish and educated in this University as his Relations have informed me but in what house they cannot tell In the publick register called the Matricula it appears that one Sam. Eaton a Cheshire man born and the Son of a Minister was matriculated or made a member of this University in Apr. 1602 44. Elizab. he being then a Student of Broadgates Hall and in the 17 year of his age But whether this Person who took the degrees in Arts be the same Sam. Eaton whom we are further to mention I cannot tell unless I could be certified that he was 80 years of age or more when he died which was in 1664 as I shall tell you anon After he had left the University I mean him whom I am now to speak of he entred into the sacred function took Orders according to the Church of England and was beneficed in his own Country but having been puritanically educated he did dissent in some particulars relating to the ceremonies thereof Whereupon finding his place too warm for him he revolted and went into New England where he studied in the University and preached among the brethren there Afterwards when a gap was made in the Church of England for the reception of all opinions upon the violent proceedings of the Puritans he returned to his native Country sided with them and took the Covenant kept pace afterwards with the Independents took the Engagement was an Assistant to the Commissioners of Cheshire for the ejection of such whom the Godly Party called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters and became a most pestilent leading Person in the trade of Faction in the said County and in Lancashire In the time of the Rebellion he was Teacher of the Church at Duckenfield in the Parish of Stockport in Cheshire and afterwards of Stockport where he feather'd his neast and was held in wonderful esteem by the Faction At length after his Majesties restauration being silenced and forced thence yet he carried on the trade of Conventicling in private and was thereupon brought several times into trouble and imprison'd Among several things that he hath written take these following The mysterie of God incarnate or the word made flesh cleared up c. Lond. 1650 oct written against John Knowles a Socinian who had answered our Author Eaton's paper concerning the Godhead of Christ Vindication or farther confirmation of some other Scriptures produced to prove the divinity of Jesus Christ distorted and miserably wrested and abused by Mr. John Knowles c. Lond. 1651. oct The Doctrine of Christs satisfaction and of reconciliation of Gods part to the creature Printed with the Vindication Discourse concerning the springing and spreading of Errour and of the means of cure and of preservative against it Pr. also with the Vindic. Treatise of the Oath of Allegiance and Covenant shewing that they oblige not Lond. in qu. Answered by Anon. in his Vindication of the Oath of Allegiance Printed 1650. qu. The Quakers confuted c. Animadverted upon by that sometimes noted and leading Quaker called George Fox in his book entit The great mysterie of the great Whore unfolded And Antichrists Kingdom revealed unto destruction c. Lond. 1659. fol. pag. 1.2 c. See more of the works of this Sam. Eaton in John Murcot under the year 1654 and in Tim. Taylor under the year 1681. At length after a life spent in continual action for carrying on the cause he surrendred up his last breath at Denton in the Parish of Manchester in Lancashire where he had sheltred himself among the Brethren after his ejection on the ninth day of January in sixteen hundred sixty and four and was buried in the Chappel there on the thirteenth day of the same month Besides this Samuel I find one Nathaniel Eaton who published Inquisitio in variantes Theologorum quorundam sententias de Sabbato die Dominico c. sub praesidio D. Gul. Amesii SS J. P. Franak 1633. oct but this Nathaniel seems to have been bred in Cambridge and the same who was the first Master of the Coll. at Cambridge in New England whence being ejected for his immoralities he went to Virginia for a time and thence to England After the restauration of his Maj. K. Ch. 2. he conformed was beneficed at Biddiford in Devonshire and died in the Prison called the Kings-bench on the account of debt NATHANIEL CANON a Gentlemans Son was born at Reading in Berks entred a Commoner of S. Maries Hall in 1597 aged 16 years his Father then living in London took one degree in Arts entred into the sacred function became Minister of Wokingham or Okingham and afterwards Vicar of Hurley in his own Country being then or about that time Bach. of Divinity He hath published Several Sermons as 1 The Cryer Sermon at Pauls cross 5. of Feb. 1609 on Esay 58.1 Lond. 1613. qu. 2 Three Sermons the first Discovering a double and false heart on 1. Kings 21.9 The second called The blessedsedness of the righteous on Psal 37. ver 37. and the third The Court of Guard or Watch of Angels on 1. Sam. 17.17.37 Lond. 1616. oct Besides these he hath at least four more Sermons extant the first of which is on Psal 119.136 Printed 1616. oct another on 1. Pet. 4.4 Pr. 1619. oct c. He concluded his last day at Hurley before mentioned after he had ran with and submitted to all mutations in the month of Febr. in sixteen hundred sixty and four whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel belonging to the Church there on the 12 day of the same month He was 46 years Vicar of Hurley was a constant Preacher and much followed by the neighbourhood SAMUEL AUSTIN a Cornish man born was entred a Communer of Wadham Coll. under the tuition of Gilb. Stokes Chapl. of that house in 1652. aged 16 years took one degree in Arts compleated it by Determination and then went to Cambridge for a time But such was the vanity of this Person that he being extremely conceited of his own worth and over-valuing his poetical fancy more than that of Cleveland who was then accounted by the Bravadoes the Hectoring
Marshall Edm. Calamy Calybute Downing c. did first whisper in their Conventicles then openly preach that for the cause of religion it was lawful for the Subjects to take up Arms against their lawful Soveraign Which doctrine being also followed by the rest of the Elders the People of London did violently rush into rebellion and were found pliable by the faction in Parliament to raise tumults make out-cries for justice call for innocent blood subscribe and prefer petitions against the holy Liturgy and the Hierarchy and to strike at root and branch especially if our Author Burges did but hold up his finger to his Mirmidons or Capt. afterwards Colonel John Venn sent his summons by his Wife to assemble the zealots of the City In the beginning of the Long Parliament he was appointed by the Lords one of the Sub-committee to settle Religion who meeting in Jerusalem Chamber at Westminster our Author Burges became speaker for his party the Presbyterians In which office he made a vehement invective against Deans and Chapters and the unprofitableness of such Corporations and did aggravate to debauchedness the lives of singing men and they not only useless but hurtful by their vitious conversation At the same time also being looked upon as a doughty Champion for the holy cause and a zealous Covenantier 't was usual with him and the said Venn to lead up the tumults of the City to the Parliament doors to see that the godly party for so their faction was call'd in the House might not be out-voted and then turning back and beholding the rabble would say These are my band-dogs I can set them on and I can take them off again c. by which means above four parts in five of the Lords and two parts in three of the Commons were frighted out of the house to leave the Faction absolute Masters thereof These things also he did when the most noble Earl of Strafford was tried for his life So that being the Ring-leader of the rout and the only scandal to his profession in all London was thought fit by the blessed Parliament as by the faction it was called to be one of those Godly Divines that were to hold forth before them to be one of the Sub-committee for the advancement of moneys to carry on the War against the King and to be with John White the Centurist Assessors to the Ass of Divines But before that time Essex the General finding him a zealous instrument to carry on the cause made him his Chaplain to that Regiment of Horse which was next under him In Dec. 1643 the Londoners sent Will. Gibbes and John Fowke Aldermen and others of the common Council to the House of Commons to desire that the Cath. Church of S. Paul might be set open again and that there might be a Lecture every Sunday night as was formerly used after the afternoons Sermon and another on the week day and that Dr. Corn. Burges might be the man who having been several times put to his compurgators in that consistory was the ablest and fittest for that Sunday-nights Lecture desiring their honors to allow the Doctor a pension of 400 l. per an out of the revenues of the Cathedral for his encouragement in that service Which being a poor pittance God wot they not only confirmed that pension but gave him the Deans house thereof for his habitation both setled soon after by Act of Parliament The first motion of this did proceed from the Militia of London among whom the Doctor used to ride with his case of pistols was called Colonel and shew'd himself very officious to assist plundering at the Globe Tavern in Holbourne Afterwards growing very rich he purchased several Lands as the mannour of Wells belonging to the Bishop thereof and the habitation of the Dean there which he mostly plucked down and rebuilt And being so done he wrot a book to shew that there was no sacriledge or sin to alien or purchase the Lands of Bishops and Chapters which being taken into the hands of many curious readers had the licentiousness of a second impression an 1659. But upon the Kings restauration he lost all having about an year before been offer'd twelve thousand and odd pounds for his House and Lands at and near Wells whereupon retiring to Watford in Hartfordshire before mentioned lived obscurely there and died in a mean condition as I shall anon tell you He hath written and published these matters following A chain of Graces drawn out at length for reformation of Manners Lond. 1622. in tw New discovery of personal Tithes or the tenth part of mens clear gains proved due both in conscience and by the laws of this Kingdom Lond. 1625. oct The fire of the Sanctuary newly discovered or a compleat Tract of Zeal Lond. 1625. in oct Which book upon its Authors grand defect was answer'd by Anon. in a Pamphlet intit A whip c. printed 1643. Whereupon an old puritannical Poet named Francis Quarles the sometimes Darling of our plebeian judgments who seemed to have a great respect for our Author came out with a Reply intit The Whipper whip'd c. printed 1644 wherein in the first page he stiles Dr. Burges a man of singular parts c. Baptismal Regeneration of elect Infants professed by the Church of England according to Scriptures the primitive Church the present reformed Churches and many particular Divines apart Oxon 1629. qu. Vindication of the Reasons against Bishops Votes in Parliament Lond. 1641. qu. Whether he was Author of the Reasons I know not Several sermons as 1 Sermon at a publick Fast before the House of Commons 17 Nov. 1640 on Jer. 50.5 Lond. 1641. qu. 2 Sermon before the H. of Com. 5 Nov. 1641. on Psal 76.10 Lond. 1641. qu. Wherein are many things of and against the Papists and Jesuits 3 Serm. before the H. of Com. 30 March 1642 on Jer. 4.14 Lond. 1642. qu. 4 Vanity and mischief of the thoughts of an heart unwashed Serm. before the H. of Com. on their day of humiliation 30 of Apr. 1645. on Jer. 4.14 as before Lond. 1645. qu. 5 Necessity of agreement with God Fast-serm before the H. of Lords 29 Oct. 1645 on Amos 3.3 Lond. 1645. qu. besides others which I have not yet seen as Serm. on 2 Chron. 15.2 another on Ezra 10.2.3 a third called Prudent silence preached 12 Jan. 1648 whether the same with that against the destroying of Kings preached about the same time I cannot tell and lastly another on Amos 5.13 printed 1660. in octavo Sion Coll. what it is and doth A vindication of that Society against two Pamphlets c. Lond. 1648. qu. His case as Lecturer in Pauls This is a little Pamphlet By the way the Reader is now to know that it hath been confidently affirmed that our Author before he was engaged in buying Bishops Lands did concur with Dr. Joh. Hacket in his Answer to Dr. Hacket's Speech in 1641. that the alienating of any thing setled
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-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-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-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-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
Lat. by Count Michael Maierus and put in English for the information of those who seek after the knowledge of that honorable and mysterious Society of wise and renowned Philosophers This English translation is dedicated to Elias Ashmole Esq by an Epistle subscribed by N. L. T. S. H. S. but who he is or they are he the said El. Ashmole hath utterly forgotten Euphrates A discourse of the Waters of the East or of that secret fountain whose water flows from fire and carries in it the beams of the Sun and Moon Lond. 1655. oct He hath also translated into English The Chymists key to open and shut or the true doctrine of Corruption and Generation Lond. 1655. Written by Hen. Nollius He hath also left several Lat. Poems behind him which are in the hands of his Brother Henry called by some Olor Iscanus esteemed by many fit to be published One Eugenius Philalethes hath written A brief natural history intermixed with variety of philosophical discourses upon the burning of Mount Aetna with refutations c. Lond. 1669. oct but by the language of it it seems not to be written by our Eug. Phil. but another and besides when Olor Iscanus sent me a Cat. of his Brothers works the title of that book was not put among them One who calls himself Eireneus Philalethes a Citizen of the World hath published Ripley redivivus c. and another who writes himself Eireneus Philoponos Philalethes hath published The marrow of Alchemy c. in two parts Lond. 1654. and 55. oct Both which parts the second containing two books are written in verse and so consequently the Author is to be numbred among the Poets As for our Author Eug. Phil. alias Thom. Vaughan he did accompany Sir Rob. Murrey before mention'd to Oxon at what time the great Plague at London drove their Majesties and their respective Courts to that place where he continued for a time Soon after taking up his quarters in the house of Sam. Kem Rector of Albury near to Thame and Ricot in Oxfordshire died there on the 27 of Febr. in sixteen hundred sixty and five and was buried on the first of March following in the Church belonging to the said Village of Albury alias Oldbury about 8 miles distant from Oxon by the care and charge of the said Sir Robert Murrey Of whom by the way I must let the Reader know these things viz. That he was born of an antient and noble family in or near the High-lands in Scotland that his youth was spent in good letters partly in the University of S. Andrew and partly in France where he had afterwards a military Employment in the service of Lewis 13 and was at length a Lieutenant-Colonel and an excellent Soldier That he was General of the Ordnance in Scotland against K. Ch. 1. when the Presbyterians of that Kingdom first set up and maintained their Covenant That at the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was made one of the Privy Council of the said Kingdom and about the same time became one of the first Contrivers and Institutors of the Royal Society of which he was made the first President This person tho presbyterianly affected yet he had the Kings ear as much as any other person and was indefatigable in his undertakings He was a single man an abhorrer of Women a most renowned Chymist a great Patron of the Rosie-Crusians and an excellent Mathematician His several relations and matters of experiment which are in the Philosophical Transactions shew him to be a man well vers'd in experimental Philosophy He died suddenly in his Pavilion in the garden at Whitehall on the fourth day of July some hours after he had informed my friend of the death and burial of Eugen. Philalethes an 1673. 25 Car. 2. and was at the Kings charge buried in the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster near to the grave of Sir Will. D'avenant sometimes Laureat Poet to the said King I find another Rob. Moray son of a Scotchman to be Author of a little Pamphlet intit Composition-credit or a bank of credit made currant by common consent in Lond. more useful than money Lond. 1682. in one sh in qu. and Author of An advertisement for the more easie and speedy collecting of debts and of other things But this person who was born in the Strand near London was a Milliner and of the company of Cloath-workers afterwards Clerk to the general Commissioners for the Revenue of Ireland then Clerk to the Commissioners of the grand Excise of England and in the latter end of 1679 the first inventer of the Penny-Post in London which was carried on by one .... Docwray GEORGE HOPKINS Son of Will. Hopk was born at Beaudley in Worcestershire 15 Apr. 1620 educated partly there in School learning under Joh. Graile and partly at Kinfare in Staffordshire became a Batler of New Inn in Lent Term 1637 took one degree in Arts in 1641 and then left the University for a time being puritannically affected Afterwards he sided with the Presbyterians took the Covenant retired to Oxon after the Garrison thereof was surrendred for the use of the Parliament submitted to the Visitors appointed by them took the degr of Master and soon after became Minister of Allsaints Parish in Evesham in Worcestershire In 1654 he was by the then Parliament appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Worcestershire for the ejection of such who were then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters and soon after published Salvation from sin by Jesus Christ or the doctrine of Sanctification which is the greater part of our Salvation founded upon Christ who is both the meritorious and efficient cause of sanctifying grace c. Lond. 1655. oct This book which is levelled against Antinomianism was preached in seven sermons in a weekly lecture at Evesham on Math. 1.21 In the Authors dedication of the book to the Borough of Evesham he saith that to them he had dedicated himself to the work of the Gospel from his first beginning to be a constant Preacher of it and saith afterward that Dr. Bayly preached to them part of The practice of Piety before he publish'd it See among the Writers in the first Vol. p. 485 486. In 1662 our Author Hopkins left his Cure of Allsaints for want of Conformity and retiring to Dumbleton in Glocestershire died there at about one of the clock in the morning of the 25 of March Annunc day in sixteen hundred sixty and six whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel of the Church there During the time he lived in that Town he constantly with his whole family frequented the Parish Church and publick Prayers on Holydays and Sundays in the Afternoons when there was no Sermon He never failed to receive the Holy Communion as oft as it was celebrated and did all things required of a Lay-member of the Ch. of England Besides his knowledge in Divinity he was a very good
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
Jo. Stow's Survey of London and his continuators Discourse of the Empire and of the election of the King of the Romans c. Lond. 1658. oct Lexicon tetraglotton An English-French-Italian-Spanish-Dictionary Lond. 1659. 60. fol. A particular vocabulary or nomenclature in English Italian French and Spanish of the proper terms belonging to several Arts and Sciences to common professions and callings both liberal and mechanick c. in 52 Sections Lond. 1659. Printed with the former book Proverbs or old sayed sawes and adages in English or the Saxon tongue Italian French and Spanish Whereunto the British for their great antiquity and weight are added This is also printed with Lex tetragl A cordial for the Cavaliers Lond. 1661. Answer'd as soon as it peep'd abroad by Rog. L'estrange in a book entit A caveat for the Cavaliers which having given offence to divers Persons he published a second edition of it with his name and a preface to it Soon after our author Howell set forth a vindication of his Cordial under this title Some sober inspections made into those ingredients that went to the composition of a late Cordial for the Cavaliers Lond. 1661. Upon which L'estrange briefly reflects in the close of a piece of his intit A modest plea both for the Caveat and Author of it A French Grammar and a dialogue consisting of all Gallicismes with additions of the most useful and significant proverbs c. Printed at London twice the last time was in 1673 fol. He also added to A French and English Dictionary composed by Randle Cotgrave Sundry animadversions with supplements of many hundreds of words never before printed with accurate castigations throughout the whole work The parley of Beasts or Morphandra Qu. of the enchanted Island c. Tom. 1. Lond. 1660 fol. The second part of casual discourses and interlocutions between Patritius and Peregrin c. Lond. 1661. oct Printed in a book intit Divers historical discourses of the late popular insurrections in Great Britaine and Ireland Apology for Fables mythologiz'd Printed in the said book also Twelve treatises of the late revolutions Lond. 1661. octav New English Grammar for Forreigners to learn English with a Grammar for the Spanish or Castilian tongue with special remarques on the Portugues dialect for the service of her Majesty Lond. 1662. oct Discourse concerning the precedency of Kings Lond. 1663. fol. Translated into Latine by B. Harris L. P. Lond. 1664. oct Poems on several choice and various subjects occasionally composed Lond. 1663. oct Collected and published by one who calls himself Serjeant Major Payne Fisher somtimes Poet laureat to Oliver Treatise concerning Embassadors Translated into Lat. by John Harmer of Magd. Coll. Lond. 1664. oct Concerning the surrender of Dunkirk that it was done upon good grounds Lond. 1664. oct He also translated from Italian into English 1 S. Pauls late progress upon earth about a divorce 'twixt Christ and the Church of Rome by reason of her dissoluteness and excesses c. Lond. 1644. oct The Author of it whose name I cannot yet learn made it publick about the year 1642 and being forced to fly from Rome for so doing in the company and under the conduct of one that pretended friendship to him was betrayed at Avignion and there first hanged and then burned 2 A Venetian looking-glass or a letter written very lately from Lond. to Card. Barbarini at Rome by a Venetian Clarissimo touching the present distempers in England Printed 1648. in 3 sh in qu. 3 An exact history of the late Revolutions in Naples and of their monstrous successes not to be parallel'd by any antient or modern History Lond. 1650. oct Published in Ital. by Lord Alex. Giraffi The second part of this History came out soon after by the same hand who also translated it from Ital. In both which it appears that the said Revolutions were occasion'd by the excessive Gabells laid upon common Vendibles which exciting the Mobile headed by Tomaso Anello commonly called Masaniello a Fisherman all things in Naples were for some time turn'd topsie turvy 4 A letter of Advice sent from the prime Statesmen of Florence how England may come to her self again Dated at Flor. 12. Mar. 1659 Printed at the end of The second part of casual discourses c. before mention'd He also Ja. Howell translated from French into English The nuptials of Peleus and Thetis consisting of a Mask and Comedy or the great royal Ball acted lately in Paris six times c. Lond. 1654. qu. and from Spanish into Engglish The process and pleadings in the Court of Spain upon the death of Anthony Ascham Resident for the Parliament of England and of Joh. Baptista Riva his Interpreter c. Lond. 1651. fol. The said A. Ascham who was born of a gentile family was educated in Eaton School and thence elected into Kings Coll. in Cambridge 1633 Afterwards taking the degree of M. of Arts closed with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the Rebellion took the Covenant sided with the Independents became a great creature of the Long Parliament by whose authority he was made Tutor to James Duke of York and an active Person against his Soveraign At length being looked upon as sufficiently Antimonarchical was by the Rump Parliament sent their Agent or Resident to the Court of Spain in the latter end of the year 1649. In the beginning of June following he arrived at Madrid and had an appartment appointed him in the Court but certain English Royallists then in that City taking it in great disdain that such a notorious Rebel one of the destroyers of their Nation as they call'd him should come there from the murtherers of his sacred Majesty of England six of them named Joh. Guillim Will. Spark Valentine Progers Jo. Halsal Will. Arnet and Hen. Progers repaired to his lodging Two of them stood at the bottom of the stairs two at the top and two entred his Chamber of whom Spark being the first drew up to the table where Ascham and another were sitting and pulling off his hat said Gentlemen I kiss your hands pray which is the Resident Whereupon the Resident rising up Guillim took him by the hair of the head and with a naked dagger gave him a thrust that overthrew him Then came in Spark and gave him another and because they would make sure of their work they gave him five stabs of which he instantly dyed Whereupon Jo. Bap. Riva his Interpreter thinking to retire to his Chamber four others that were without the Chamber gave him four wounds whereof he presently expired Afterwards five of the Englishmen took sanctuary but were haled thence imprison'd and Spark suffered The sixth Person named Hen. Progers fled to the Venetian Embassadors house and so escaped The said Anth. Ascham who was slain 6. June 1650 hath written A discourse wherein is examined what is particularly lawful during the confusions and revolutions of government c. Lond. 1648. oct and other things as 't is probable
by the death of Dr. Isaac Bargrave Dean of Canterbury Which being accordingly done as much as laid in the Arbishops power Mr. Reading did not receive any profit from it or from a Prebendship of Canterbury about that time bestowed on him because much opposed by Sir Nath. Brent Vicar-General In the month of July 1644 Sir Will. Brockman did freely bestow upon him the Parsonage of Cheriton in Kent and about the same time he was appointed by the Ass of Divines to be one of the nine Divines to write Annotations on the New Test Not long after upon the discovery of a plot for the taking of Dover Castle by the Cavaliers he was inhumanely seised on in a cold winter night in his house in Cheriton by the command of Major Boys Son of Sir Edw. before mention'd and hurried to Dover Castle and the next day sent to that of Leedes with many others of the Town of Dover Where continuing for some time he composed the book called The guide to the holy city At length being discharged from his imprisonment by the Committee of those parts they ordered also his Goods that had been plundered should be restored to him However Boys of Chilham a Sequestrator different from either of the former had money of him before he would part with them On the 10 of March 1650 he publickly disputed upon the receipt of a Challenge some days before with Sam. Fisher an Anabaptist in Folkston Church in Kent The subject of the debate was Whether all Christians indefinitely were equally and eternally obliged to preach the Gospel without ecclesiastical ordination or contrary to the commands of the civil Magistrate or to that purpose Fisher pleaded the affirmative fetching most of his Arguments from Jer. Taylors Discourse of the liberty of prophecying After the debate was ended our Author Reading thought himself obliged to answer several passages in the said book of Dr. Taylor which gave too great a seeming advantage to Fanaticism and Enthusiasm In the year 1660 May 25 about which time he was restored to his Cure at Dover he spake a short Speech to his Maj. Ch. 2 at his first landing there to take possession of those Kingdoms from whence he by a barbarous Usurpation had been ejected Which being done he presented to him a large Bible with gold Clasps in the name of the Corporation of Dover About that time he was restored to his Prebendship of Canterbury and Rectory of Chartham near it which he kept to his dying day He was in the opinion of many a severe Calvinist and one who had not only defended the irresistability of Grace in several Sermons in opposition to what Joh. Goodwin had delivered in the same Parish Ch. of S. Mary in Dover but in his oral disputes with Fisher the Anabaptist being then as zealous in disproving that mans tenet of Universal Redemption as he was in asserting Paedobaptism against Reading Farther since his Maj. return he did in a publick Sermon in the Cath. Ch. at Canterbury reprehend and disprove some doctrine to that effect which had been in the same place then lately delivered by Dr. Thom. Pierce Prebendary of that Church He hath written and published Several Sermons viz. 1 A fair warning after sickness Lond. 1623. qu. 2 Job's hour a funeral Sermon at Dover 10 Mar. 1623. Lond. 1624. qu. 3 Moses and Jethro or the good Magistrate preached at S. Maries in Dover on the election day on Exod. 18.24 Lond. 1626. qu. 4 Davids soliloquy containing many comforts for afflicted minds in sundry sermons at S. Maries in Dover on Psal 42.11 Lond. 1627. in tw 5 Characters of true blessedness preached in the same Church 21 Sept. 1637 at the funeral of Mrs. Alice Percivall wife of Anth. Percivall Esq on Psal 84.4.5 Lond. 1638. in tw dedic to the said Anthony then Captain of Arcliff Bulwark near Dover Comptroller for his Majesties Customs in Kent c. with several other sermons printed 1621. 1642. c. which I have not yet seen Brief instruction concerning the holy Sacrament for their use who prepare themselves to receive the Lords Supper Lond. 1645. oct A guide to the holy city or directions and helps to an holy life c. Oxon. 1651. qu. An antidote against Anabaptisme in a reply to the plea for Anabaptists Or animadversions on that part of Liberty of prophecying which in sect 18. p. 223. beareth this title A particular consideration of the opinions of the Anabaptists Lond. 1654. qu. In another title of this book which bears date 1655 it runs thus A particular answer to all that is alledged in favour of the Anabaptists by Dr. Jer. Taylor in his book called The liberty of prophecying In the 18 Section of which the Doctor hath mention'd more or things in more plausible terms than ever the Anabaptists have alledged for their own opinions Survey of the controverted points concerning 1 Infant baptism 2 Pretended necessity of Dipping 3 The dangerous practice of reâ—baptizing This was printed with the Antidote 1654. qu. and is sometimes called Anabaptisme routed c. An Evening sacrifice or prayers for a family in these times of calamity Speech made before K. Ch. 2. on the shore where he landed at Dover 25 May 1660. Lond. 1660. on one side of a sh of paper To which is added a Lat. copy of Verses with their English by Rich. Bradshaw This our Author Mr. Reading who had spent his time partly in prosperity and partly in affliction surrendred up his last breath on the 26 of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and seven and was buried on the 30 of the said month in the chancel of his parish Church of Chartham near to Canterbury before mention'd leaving then behind him fit for the press 1 Several Sermons preach'd before the King 2 Comments on the whole Bible The former are in the hands of Joh. Reading his son living in Essex and the other in those of William another son living in Dover 3 A whip for sacriledge Written in answer to a Pamphlet of Anth. Parsons intit The great case of tithes This Whip is contained in 13 sheets and is now in the hands of Basil Kennet M. A. of the University of Dublin Rector of Dimchurch and Vicar of Postling in Kent 4 A Lat. MS. in fol. containing a large Comment Paraphrase and Explication on the whole New Testament dedic to General George Monke and sent to be printed at Lond. in 1666 but being prevented by the great fire that hapned there that year it was delivered into the hands of Dr. Wrenn Bishop of Ely and whether it be recovered from the hands of his heirs or executors I know not The said Mr. Kennet hath also another Tract concerning Proper sacrifice in vindication of Sir Edw. Deering from the attempts of a popish Priest or Jesuit but being imperfect 't was not design'd I presume by the Author Mr. Reading for the press WILLIAM THOMAS was born in a mercate Town in Shropshire called Whitchurch
and educated in Gram. learning in the Free-school there In 1609 May 17 he was admitted a Student of Brasn Coll. aged 16 years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1615 and in the year 1616 Jan. 4. he was admitted Rector of Ubley alias Obley near to Pensford in Somersetshire by the free and unsolicited bounty of Th. Egerton Baron of Ellesmere and Lord Chancellor of England This person Will. Thomas being always a Puritan closed with the Presbyterians when they raised a Rebellion against his Majesty 1642 was a frequent preacher against his Cause and Followers and was esteemed one of the chief Ministers in his time of that perswasion in the neighbourhood where he lived He afterwards took the Engagement as before he had the Covenant and in 1654 1654 he was appointed an Assistant to Olivers Commissioners for the ejecting such whom they then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters Afterwards he ran thro the remaining part of the changes and took the Oaths again after his Maj. return of Allegiance and Supremacy His works are these The dead speaking or the living names of two deceased Ministers of Christ viz. Mr. Sam. Oliver Pastor of Wells and Mr. Sam. Croke c. containing two several speeches delivered at the funerals of them Lond. 1653 qu. With them is printed a Sermon preached at the funeral of Sam. Oliver by Joh. Chetwind sometimes of Exeter Coll. then a godly brother and after the Kings return Prebendary of Bristow Rayling rebuked or a defence of the Ministers of this Nation by way of answer to the unparalelled calumnies cast upon them in an Epistle lately published by Tho. Speed Merchant of Bristow unhappily became the Quakers Advocate c. Lond. 1656. qu. Answer'd by George Fox Quaker in his book intit The great mystery of the great whore unfolded c. Lond. 1659. fol. p. 237. c. The Protestants practice or the compleat Christian being a true and perfect way to the celestial Canaan Lond. 1656. in tw A vindication of Scripture and Ministry in a rejoynder to a reply not long since published by Tho. Speed formerly but unsutably Merchant in the City of Bristol and a Preacher lately but more sadly Merchant and Quaker c. Lond. 1657. qu. Answer'd also by G. Fox in the aforesaid book p. 104 105. c. A preservative of piety in a quiet reasoning for those duties of Religion that are the means and helps appointed of God for the preserving and promoting of Godliness c. Lond. 1662. qu. Exposition on Ruth Lond. 166 ... in tw The Countries sense of Londons sufferings in the late most lamentable fire discovered in the opening and improving the lamentation of Jeremiah Lond. 1667. oct Scriptures opened and sundry cases of conscience resolved in plain and practical answers to several questions upon the Proverbs of Salomon Jerem. Lam. Ezeck and Daniel Lond. 1675 and 83. oct He died at Ubley before mention'd in sixteen hundred sixty and seven and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there Over his grave was soon after a Mon. put up by his son Mr. Sam. Thomas with this inscription following Hic jacet Gulielmus Thomas ecclesiae hujus Rector plus quà m quadragenarius qui populum docuit publicè domatim sermone exemplo Quem non tam mors rapuit quà m ille mortem munere scilicet priùs cedere coactus quà m mundo vitam quam pro grege diutius insumere ut Pastor non potuit avidissimè summo pastori reddidit Nov. 15. an dom 1667. aetat 74. I shall make mention of another William Thomas under the year 1689. WILLIAM HILL son of Blackleech Hill was born at Cudworth in Warwickshire at which time his father who in his younger years had been a petty Attorney was then Bailive of Hemlingford hundred which is one of the four hundreds in Warwickshire and the largest by which employment gaining a considerable subsistance lived in a fashionable condition and bred up his children very well This William being trained up in Grammar in his own Country became a Student in Merton Coll. about the beginning of Mich. term 1634 aged 15 years being then esteemed a sober and ingenious youth and soon after was made one of the Postmasters of the said Coll. After he had taken one degree in Arts he was a Candidate for a Fellowship of that house and shewing himself a most excellent proficient in Greek Latine and Physicks was elected Prob. Fell. an 1639. But soon after the time that he was admitted Bach. Fellow he was prefer'd to be Master of the Free-school at Sutton Colfield in his own Country and soon after to a rich Wife tho the Daughter of a plain country man which school he brought into great credit during his abode there In 1641 he proceeded in Arts and having not long after buried his wife he removed to London where having obtained a considerable practice in Physick he married a young lass daughter of one Mr. Burges a Physitian son of Dr. Joh. Burges sometimes Parson of Sutton Colfield before mention'd who brought him forth a child that lived within the seventh month after marriage In 1649 and 52 he had leave from the Delegates of the University to accumulate the degrees in Physick but whether he did so it doth not appear in our Registers Afterwards as before being a man of those times and a sider with factious people he was prefer'd to be chief Master of the great school at Dublin in Ireland where continuing till the Restauration of K. Ch. 2 was then as it seems forced to leave that place So that removing to Finglass a Village near to that City taught there privately to the time of his death He hath writen Dionysii orbis descriptio Graec. Lat. commentario critico geographico in quo controversiae pluraeque quae in veteri Geographia occurrunt explicantur obscura plurima elucidantur ac tabulis illustrata Lond. 1658. 59. 1663. 1679. c. in a large oct used in many schools and by most Juniors of the University of Oxon. He hath also epitomized some of the works of Laz. Riverius a Physitian which I have not yet seen nor a certain MS. of his which he wrot to justifie his lawful begetting of the aforesaid child by himself which MS. he shewed to two Physitians for their approbation before it went to the press but they looking upon the work as done by a meer scholar unknowing in the world returned it with seeming content and afterwards jeer'd him behind his back for an antidated Cuckold He died of a pestilential fever which took away most of his family in the month of November in sixteen hundred sixty and seven and was buried on the 29 of the said month just before the Ministers seat in the Church at Finglas before mentioned I find another Will. Hill of Merton Coll. also the son of a Committee-man a notorious Schismatick of Herefordshire who
to some Women actors mentioned in his book as he affirmeth It hapned that about six weeks after this the Queen acted a part in a Pastoral at Somerset-house and then the Archbishop Laud and other Prelates whom Prynne had angered by some books of his against Arminianism and against the jurisdiction of the Bishops and by some prohibitions which he had moved and got to the High Commission Court These Prelates and their instruments the next day after the Queen had acted her Pastoral shewed Prynne's book against Plays to the King and that place of it Women actors notorious Whores and they informed the King and Queen that Prynne had purposely written this book against the Queen and her Pastoral whereas it was published six weeks before that Pastoral was acted Yet the King and Queen though thus exasperated did direct nothing against him till Laud set Dr. Heylyn who bare a great malice to Prynne for confuting some of his doctrines to peruse Prynne's books and to collect the scandalous points out of them which Heylyn did though as Prynne affirms not at all warranted by the text of his book but these two Gentlemen were well matched and alike in other things though so much different in Divinity or shew of it c. Thus our Author here quoted of whom I shall hereafter make large mention Upon the said Complaints concerning that book Heylyn being appointed to collect such passages out of it that were esteemed scandalous to the King Queen State and Government of the Realm did after some time deliver them in writing to Sir John Coke or Cook Secretary of State and to Dr. Laud Bishop of London the last of which did soon after on a Sabbath-day morning go to Will. Noy Attorney Gen. and charged him to prosecute Prynne for the said book which Noy did rigorously enough Afterwards Prynne was sent for before the Lords in the Inner Star Chamber where being examined about the said matters was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London on the first day of Febr. 1632 where remaining without permission of Bayle till the month of Feb. 1633 was at last brought to a Trial in the Court of Star Chamber having been first pre-condemned by the Gentlemen of his own profession and afterwards sentenced by that Court on the 17 day of the said month thro the eager prosecution of the said Noy to be fined 5000 l. to the King expelled the University of Oxford and Lincolns Inn degraded and disinabled from his profession in the laws to stand in the Pillory first in the Pallace-yard in Westminster and three days after in Cheapside in each place to loose an ear tho this last part of his censure was much moderated in the execution to have his book called Histriomastix publickly burnt before his face by the hand of the Hangman and remain prisoner during life After this sentence was executed which was in May an 1634. he was remitted to his prison But all this was so far from working any remorse in him that it rather hardned him in his ways for on the 11 of June following as soon as he could provide himself of pen ink and paper he wrot a most sharp and libellous Letter to Dr. Laud then Archb. of Cant. touching his censure in the said Court and that which the Archb. in particular had declared against him With this letter the Archb. acquainted his Majesty who thereupon commanded him to refer it to Attorney Noy Noy sent for Prynne from his prison and demanded of him whether the letter was of his own hand-writing or not to which Prynne cunningly replied that he could make no answer to that demand unless he could see the letter and might read the same No sooner was the letter put into his hands and Noy's back turn'd a little towards him but presently he tore it to pieces and flung the pieces out of the window to the end that the said letter might not rise in judgment against him if the Attorney should proceed to an Ore-tenus as he meant to do For this affront and the principal passages of the letter the Attorney acquaints their Lordships in open Court but there was no remedy for being there was no proof of the misdemeanour but the letter it self and that the letter could not be brought in evidence as it should have been the Archb. thought it a more noble act to remit the Crime than trouble the Court or any of his Majesties Ministers in the prosecution of it But herein Prynne sped better than some others who had before been snarling at him and laboured to expose him to scorn and danger In Apr. the same year which is a step back in this discourse he was solemnly degraded in the Univ. of Oxon and his name dashed out of the Matricula In 1636 he published two books at once or immediately after each other One of them was called The Quench Coal in answer to that called A coal from the Altar against placing the Communion-table altarwise The other named The unbishoping of Timothy and Titus against the Apostolical institution of Diocesan Bishops But that which was entituled to him by the name of a Libel was his Pamphlet called News from Ipswich intended chiefly against Dr. Wrenn then Bishop of Norwych who had taken up his dwelling in that Town and fell as scandalously foul on the Archb. himself and some of the other Bishops also and such as acted under them in the present Service For therein he descants very trimly as he conceived on the Archb. himself with his Arch-piety Arch charity Arch-agent for the devil c. With like reproach he fell on the Bishops generally calling them Luciferian Lord Bishops execrable Traytors devouring Wolves c. with many other odious names not fit to be used by a Christian and more particularly on Wrenn c. In Midsummer term he was brought to his Trial in the Star Chamber for what he had done but his Answer was so libellous and full of scandal that no Counsellor could be found to put his hand to it according to the course of that Court. So that instead thereof he exhibited a cross bill against the Archb. and his Confederates as he called them charging them with the greatest part of those Reproaches which had been made the subject matter of his former libels which being signed by no hands but by his own and tendred so to the Lord Keeper was by him rejected and himself taken pro confesso his obstinacy in not answering in due form of Law being generally looked upon by the Court as a self conviction On the 14 of June an 1637 he received his sentence which briefly was to this effect that he be fined 5000 l. to the King to loose the remainder of his ears in the Pillory to be branded on both cheeks with the letters S. L. for a schismatical libeller and to be perpetually imprison'd in Caernarvan Castle At the pronouncing of which sentence the Archb. made a long and elaborate
speech in vindication of himself and the rest of the Bishops from any design to bring in Popery or innovating in the Government and forms of Worship here by Law established On the 30 of the said month the Lords censure was put in execution in the Pallace-yard at Westminster at which time suffer'd also by clipping of ears John Bastwick Dr. of Physick not of this but of another University and Hen. Burton Bac. of Div. Minister of S. Mathews Church in Friday-street in London On the 27 of July following our Author Prynne was removed from the Tower to the Fleet and the same day being guarded he began his journey towards Caernarvan Castle in Wales from which time till the 5 of Aug. when then he arrived at Caernarvan he was met saluted bless'd and exhibited to by the godly party in all chief Towns that he passed thro But such a haunt there was to the said Castle when he was there that for the prevention of all intelligence and correspondence to be held between him and Burton in Lancaster Castle or with the said Party the State found it necessary to remove him to Mount Orgueil Castle in the Isle of Jersey So that by vertue of a warrant dated 27 Aug. Prynne was conveyed thither not without great danger in January following where being well used tho closely shut up he exercised his pen in writing divine and profitable Meditations In 1640 Nov. 7. an order issued out from the blessed House of Commons as by the said godly party it was called for his releasment from his prison as also for the releasment of Bastwick who was then in S. Maries Castle in the Isle of Scilly and for Burton in Castle Cornet in the Isle of Guernsey So that our Author Prynne and Burton who were Prisoners at no great distance met together at Guernsey and travelled in each others company to London In whose passage thither divers of the godly party met them at Dartmouth Exeter Lime Dorchester Salisbury Andover Basing and elsewhere visited them blest them and accompanied them on horse-back some part of their way On the 28 of the same month they triumphantly entred London being then accompanied by thousands on foot and horse-back and in coaches with rosemary and bays in their hats crying Welcome home welcome home God bless you God be thanked for your return c. to the great defiance and contempt of Authority and Justice On the 30 of the said month they were both presented by their Keepers who came with them to the Commons House where they had liberty granted to frame new Petitions in their own names according to their own liking and to present them to the house as soon as they could prepare them The 3 of Dec. following Prynne presented a large Petition fully shewing his sufferings and the grand tyranny as he call'd it of the Archbishop c. for which afterwards he had a large requital Not long after upon the leaving of the House of Commons by divers Members purposely to adhere to his Majesty he was elected a Recruiter for a Borough in Cornwall to serve in that most unhappy Parliament So that being setled in the House he became the most busie and pragmatical person of the Herd and so inveterate and implacable against the Bishops but more in an especial manner against Laud in private action and speech with him while he was Prisoner in the Tower in publick speeches against him in the Parliament-house and in writing and publishing books and Pamphlets of and against him that he could scarce take quiet rest till he had fetch'd off his head in requital of his ears that he as Prynne pretended had taken off before But of these matters when it was too late and that he had fully seen to what great woe misery and confusion the godly party had brought the King and the Nation he did heartily repent and wished that when they had cut off his ears they had cut off his head During the sitting of the Long Parliament he shew'd himself a zealous Covenantier in ordering and setling Presbytery but when the Independents began to overtop the Brethren he shew'd himself a bitter enemy to them and advanced much the Kings Cause especially in his declension In 1647 he was appointed one of the Visitors for the Univ. of Oxon by the said Parliament and how busily he behaved himself theâ—e in Apr. 1648 I have told you elsewhere See in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 1. sub an 1648. On the 6 of Dec. 1648 he with other members of the H. of Com. were turn'd out from the House by the Army and imprison'd for that they were zealous for peace and in bringing the King to his Parliament Whereupon he became a bitter enemy to the said Army and Oliver their Leader doing them also much mischief by publishing divers Pamphlets against them and their tyranny Soon after he conveyed his Estate away to one or more of his Relations and thereupon denied the paying of taxes and stood in open defiance to Oliver for which he was imprison'd in Dunster Castle in Somersetshire and brought into trouble He then stood much upon Magna Charta the liberty of the Subject for which he was beloved by several Cavaliers and I know not what But all that he did being to little purpose he bent his mind and pen for some time against the Papists Jews Quakers c. and in writing books of Divinity which being not answer'd or seem'd to be regarded he grew as 't were weary of himself began to look up at last and to settle on more moderate and quiet courses On the 21 of Feb. 1659 he as a secluded Member of the Commons house being restored to sit again became instrumental for the Kings Restauration and so forward and bold that he openly spoke in the house when it was not then seasonable for such expressions that if the King must come in it was safest for them that he should come in by the Votes who had made the War against his father c. Which I say being then unseasonably spoken he was sent for by General Monk and his privy Counsellors and admonished to be quiet and then it was the business of Mr. Will. Morice to keep the then expiring Parliament steddy and clear from intermedling in the change of Government in which case he did excellent service punctually observing the directions of the General who passionately longed for their dissolution In Apr. 1660 he the said Prynne was chose a Burgess for the City of Bathe to sit in the Healing Parliament that began at Westm 25 of the said month and after his Maj. Restauration he instead of being made one of the Barons of the Exchequer which as 't is said he sought after was made chief Keeper of his Maj. Records in the Tower of London with 500 l. per an salary but afterwards much lessened purposely to employ his head from scribling against the State and Bishops But so it
An. 1637. reprinted in qu. in double columes an 1641. A quench coal with an appendix to it in answer to A coal from the altar and other Pamphlets touching altars and bowing to or towards them An. 1637. An humble remonstrance against the tax of shipâ—money lately imposed laying open the illegality injustice abuses and inconveniences thereof Written 1636. corruptly printed without the authors privity at Lond. 1641. qu. Since which time 't was reprinted by a perfect copy at Lond. 1643 in 4. sh in qu. Additions to the first part of a dialogue between A. and B. concerning the Sabbaths morality and the unlawfulness of pastimes on the Lords day Twice printed in 1636. The antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy both to legal monarchy and civil unity Or an historical collection of the several execrable treasons conspiracies rebellions state-schismes contumacies of antimonarchical English British French Scottish and Irish Lordly Prelates against our King Kingdoms c. Enlarged and published by authority since the authors enlargement and return from exile Lond. 1641. qu. in two parts All the bad things concerning Bishops which Prynne could pick and rake out of Histories he hath at large set down but the good things he hath omitted such was and is the charity of him and the Brethren Those matters also which Dr. Godwin B. of Hereford did out of a puritanical peak collect against the antient Cath. Bishops he also very readily hath collected together to bring an odium on their function Books compiled by Prynne during his close imprisonment in Mount-Orgueil Castle in Jersey Mount-Orgueil or divine and profitable meditations raised from the contemplations of these three leaves of natures volume 1. Rocks 2. Seas 3. Gardens Lond. 1641. qu. A poetical description of Mount-Orgueil Castle to the Isle of Jersey The Souls complaint against the bodies encroachment on her and comfortable coâ—dials against the discomforts of imprisonment This is a poem Pleasant purge for a Rom. Catholick to evacuate his evil humours consisting of a century of polemical epigrams These three last things are printed and bound up with Mount-Orgueil or divine c. The reader is to observe that during the time of Prynn's imprisonment was published a book intit Woodstreet-Compters plea for its prisoner Or the sixteen reasons which induce Nathan Wickins late servant to Mr. Will. Prynne but now prisoner in the said Compter to refuse to take the Oath ex officio wherein c. Printed 1638 in 10. sh in qu. Which book tho put out under the name of Nath. Wickins yet it was generally supposed that Prynne was the chief composer because of the many quotations therein Books written by W. Prynne since his enlargement and return from exile not to mention his Petition to be recalled from exile c. which was printed New discovery of the Prelates Tyranny in their late prosecutions of Mr. Will. Prynne Dr. John Bastwick and Mr. Hen. Burton Wherein the joint proceedings against them in the High commission and Star-chamber c. Lond. 1641. qu. In which book he does Archbishop Laud a great deal of injustice especially in this respect that all the things that make against him or sounds ill to his name he with great zeal scrapes together whilst any thing that sounds to his honour or the least good that he hath done he doth omit A soveraign antidote to prevent appease and determine our unnatural destructive Civil Wars and dissentions wherein c. Lond. 1642 in three sh in qu. It was twice printed Vindication of Psal 105. ver 15. Touch not my anointed and do my Prophets no harm from some false glosses lately obtruded on by Priests and Royalists Ibid. 1642 and 44. in 1. sh in qu. The treachery and disloyalty of Papists to their Soveraigns with the soveraign power of Parliaments and Kingdoms in 4. parts Ibid. 1643 in a large qu. Appendix manifesting by sundry Histories that in the antient Roman Kingdom and Empire c. the supreme Soveraignty of power resided not in Emperors and Kings themselves but in their Kingdoms c. This is printed at the end of The treachery and c. Romes Master-piece Or the grand conspiracy of the Pope and his Jesuitical instruments to extirpate the Protestant relâ—gion re-establish popery subvert laws liberties peace parliaments by kindling a Civil War in Scotland c. Lond. 1643 and 44 in 5. sh in qu. see more in Dr. Will. Laud under the year 1644. who made notes in the margin of the said book so far and so much as to vindicate himself from certain aspersions laid upon him in the said book The opening of the great seal of England containing certain brief historical and legal observations touching the original antiquity progress use necessity of the great zeal of the Kings and Kingdom of England hi respect of charters c. Ibid. 1643 in 5. sh in qu. or thereabouts The doom of cowardise and treachery Or a looking glass for cowardly and corrupt Governors and Soldiers who through pusillaminity or bribery betray their trusts to publick prejudice c. Lond 1643 in 10. sh in qu. or thereabouts Written in relation to Nath. Fiennes his surrendring up Bristow for the Kings use See more in Nath. Fiennes and Clem. Walker Popish Royal favourite Or a full discovery of his Maj. extraordinary favour to and protection of notorious Papists Priests Jesuits c. manifested by sundry letters of Grace Warrants c. Ibid. 1â—43 in about 10. sh in qu. Answer'd by N. D. in a book intit Vindiciae Caroli Regis Or a loyal vindication of the King c. Pr. 1645. qu. Moderate apology against a pretended calumny in answer to some passages in The preheminence of Parliaments published by James Howell c. Ibid. 1644 in one sh in qu. Check to Britannicus for his palpable flattery c. Lond. 1644. Written against M. Nedham concerning some passages in one or two of his Merc. Britan. in Vindication of Nath. Fiennes Whereupon came out soon after a pamphl intit A check to the checker c. The falsities and forgeries of the Anonymous author of a Pamphlet intit The fallacies of Mr. Will. Prynne discovered in a short view of his book intit The Soveraignty of Parliaments The opening of the Great Seal c. Ibid. 1644 in 1. sh in qu. Four serious questions touching excommunication and suspension from the Sacrament Lond. 1644. qu. Twelve considerable serious questions touching Church-government Ibid. 1644. in 1. sh in qu. Independency examined unmasked refuted by 12 new particular interrogatories c. Lond. 1644 in two sh in qu. This was answer'd by a brother-sufferer of Prynne Hen. Burton and his late companion in tribulation Lond. 1644. It was twice pr. in that year A fuller reply to certain brief observations and anti-queries on Mr. Prynns 12 questions about Church government c. Ibid. 1644. in tw sh in qu. Brief animadversions on Mr. John Goodwins Theomachia c. Lond. 1644 in one sh in qu.
a Coward by the name of Nath. Fiennes alias Fines alias Fenys alias Fienes but by the intercession of his father and others of his relations he was pardoned and by the palpable flattery and prevarication of Merc. Britannicus alias March Nedham he was justified for what he had done as to that matter See more in the Works of W. Prynne Afterwards tho he the said N. Fiennes was not trusted in any military matter yet he became an active man in the Parliament and was made a Commissioner in several matters But when he saw the Cause of the Presbyterians decline especially upon the purging of the House of 40 of them whereof he was one by Col. Tho. Pride he struck in with the Independents took the Engagement became great with Oliver a Member of all or at least of most of the Parliaments held between the dissolution of the Rump Parliament and the return of his Maj. King Ch. 2 was made one of the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal after Oliver was installed L. Protector one of his Privy Council Lord Privy Seal in June 1655 a Member and Speaker of the other House alias House of Lords and tho before he had shew'd himself an Antimonarchist yet then when he saw what Oliver aimed at became a lover of Kingship and Monarchy purposely to gain honor and riches for the establishing a family which he and the rest of the godly party aimed at His Works are these Several Speeches in Parliament as 1 Speech in the House of Commons in answer to the third Speech of Lord Geo. Digby concerning Bishops and the City of Londons petition spoken 9 Feb. 1640. Lond. 1641 in 4 sh in qu. The beginning is Mr. Speaker two things have fallen into debate this day c. 2 Second Speech in the Com. House of Parl. touching the Subjects liberty against the late Canons and the new oath Lond. 1641. in tw sh and an half in qu. 3 Speech concerning the proffer of the City of Lond. by the Lord Mayor to disburse 6000 l. towards the suppressing of the Rebellion in Ireland Lond. 1641. qu. 4 Speech containing unparallel'd reasons for the abolishing of Episcopacy c. Lond. 1642. qu. In this is contained his Speech against Bishops before mention'd and shews that Episcopacy is an Enemy to Monarchy 5 Speech or relation made in the H. of Com. concerning the surrender of the City and Castle of Bristow 5 Aug. 1643 with the transcripts and extracts of certain letters wherein his care for the preservation of the City doth appear Lond. 1643 in 3 sh and an half in qu. This was answer'd by Clem. Walker True and exact relation of both the â—â—ttels fought by his Excellency Rob. E. of Essex and his forces against the bloody Cavaliers The one of the 23 of Oct. last near Keynton below Edghill in Warwicksh the other at Worcester by Col. Browne Capt. Nath. and Joh. Fiennes and Col. Sandys and some others c. Lond. Nov. 9. an 1642. in two sh in qu. Letter to the Lord General Essex concerning Bristoll Lond. 1643. in 1 sh in qu. Reply to a Pamphlet intit An answer to Col. Nath. Fiennes's relation concerning his surrender of the City of Bristol Lond. 1643. in 2 sh in qu. Other Speeches in Parl. as 1 Speech before his Highness Ol. Protector and both Houses of Parl. 20 Jan. 1657 being the first day of their sitting Lond. 1657. in 3 sh and an half in qu. 2 Speech to both Houses of Parl. 27 Jan. 1658. Lond. 1659. qu. c. Monarchy asserted to be the best most antient and legal form of Government in a Conference had at Whitehall with Oliver L. Protector and Committee of Parliament c. in Apr. 1657. Lond. 1660. oct He also had an especial hand in a certain book called by an author a Legend or Romance intit Anglia rediviva being the Hist of the motions actions and successes of the Army c under Sir Tho. Fairfax c. published by Joshua Sprigge as I shall elsewhere tell you but how true that report is I cannot tell At length our Author Fiennes retiring after his Majesties return to Newton Tony near Salisbury in Wilts where he had an estate that came to him by his second wife Frances daughter of Rich. Whitehead of Tuderley in Hampshire continued there to the time of his death which hapning on the 16 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine was buried in the Church there Soon after was a monument put over his grave to his memory as also to his two daughters Frances and Elizabeth who both died in the flower of their age This Nath. Fiennes had a younger brother called John who was a Colonel for the Parliament and afterwards one of Oliver's Lords and tho a Sectary yet he was no great stickler notwithstanding guided partly by Nathaniel but more by old subtilty the Father Another there was who was the fourth brother named Richard of whom I know no great matter only that he had a daughter named Mary who was married to William the only surviving son of Nath. Fiennes which Mary dying in child-bed 23 Oct. 1676 was buried in the Church at Broughton near to the grave of her Grandfather William Vic. Say and Sele HENRY FOULIS or de Foliis second son of Sir Henry son of Sir Dav. Foulis of an antient family in Scotland Baronets was born at Ingleby Mannour in Clievland in Yorkshire educated in Grammar learning and in the Presbyterian way within the City of York became a Communer of Qu. Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Tho. Tully 6 June 1654 aged 16 years and thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1659 and on the 31 of Jan. the same year he was elected Fellow of Linc. Coll. Afterwards entring into holy orders he applied himself for a time to the study of Divinity and was admitted to the reading of the sentences in 1667. But his genie being naturally inclin'd to the study of certain parts of History he waved his proper profession and betook himself to the writing and publishing of books of that faculty The products of which do evidently shew him to have been a true son of the Church of England a hater of Popery Presbytery and Sectarism He was endowed with a most happy memory understood books and the ordering of them so well that with a little industry he might have gone beyond the great Philobiblos Jamesius He had also in him a most generous and public spirit a carelesness of the world and things thereof as most bookish men have a most becoming honesty in his dealings a just observance of collegiate discipline and a hatred to fangles and the French fooleries of his time He hath written and published The history of the wicked plots and conspiracies of our pretended Saints the Presbyterians c. Lond. 1662. Oxon. 1674 both in fol. Which book tho full of notable girds against that party yet it hath been
seemed much to be satisfied with those things that he had delivered After his Majesties return he was actually created Doctor of Divinity as a member formerly of Hart Hall was made Vicar of S. Martins Ch. in the Fields within the liberty of Westminster Archdeacon of Lewis and Dean of Rochester in which last Dignity he was installed upon the promotion of Dr. Ben. Laney to the See of Peterborough on the 10. of Dec. 1660 being about that time Rector of Henley in Oxfordshire and a frequent preacher before his Majesty He hath published Several Sermons preached upon solemn occasions as 1 Justice triumphing or the spoilers spoiled at Pauls for the miraculous discovery of the Powder Plot on the 5. of Nov. 1646 on Psal 9.16 Lond. 1656 sec edit qu. 2 Faiths victory over nature or the unparallel'd president of an unnaturally religious father at the funeral of Joh. Rushout son and heir of Joh. Rushout Merch. and Citizen of Lond on Heb. 11.17 Lond. 1648. qu. 3 The arraignment of licentious liberty and oppressing tyranny Fast serm before the House of Peers in the Abbey Church of Westm 24. Feb. 1646 on Hosea 5.10.11.12 Lond. 1647. qu. 4 The safest convoy or the strongest helper before Sir Thom. Bendish Bt. his Maj. Embassador now resident with the Grand Signior at Constantinople on Isa 43 former part of the 2. vers Lond. 1653. qu. 5 Love and fear the inseparable twins of a blest matrimony charactarized in a serm at the nuptials between Mr. Will. Christmas and Mrs. Elizab. Adams Daughter of Tho. Adams sometimes Ald. and L. Mayor of Lond. on Ephes 5.31 Lond. 1653. qu. 6 Divinity in mortality or the Gospels excellency and the preachers frailty at the funerals of Mr. Rich. Goddard late Minister of the Parish of S. Gregories near Pauls who died 12. May 1653 and and was buried 16. of the same month on 2. Cor. 4. former part of the 7. verse Lond. 1653. qu. 7 A divine prospective representing the just mans peaceful end at Catherine Creechurch 14. Aug. 1649 at the interment of the remains of Sir Joh. Gayer Kt deceased 20. July 1649 on Psal 37. ver 37. Lond. 1654 qu. 8 Mercy in her beauty or the heighth of a deliverance from the depth of danger on Phil. 2. former part of the 27 vers Lond. 1653. qu. It was preached upon his late unexpected recovery of a desperate sickness 9 Thankfulness in grain or a good life the best return on the same occasions on Psal 116.9 Lond. 1654. qu. 10 Deaths alarum or securities warning-piece at the funeral of Mrs. Mary Smith Daughter of Mr. Isaac Colf formerly Minister of Gods word at Chadwell in Essex and late Wife of Mr. Rich. Smith of Lond. Draper who died 9. Nov. 1653 on Matth. 24.44 Lond. 1654. qu. 11 The epitaph of a godly man or the happiness by death of holiness in life at the funeral of Mr. Adam Pemberton of the parish of St. Forsters Vedastus Foster-lane who died 8. Apr. 1655 on Phil. 1.21 Lond. 1655. qu. 12 Safety in the midst of danger in the Ch. of Allhall Barkin 4. Jan. 1655 upon the anniversary commemoration of that dismal fire which hapned in the said parish 4. Jan. 1649 on Exod. 3. ver 2. latter part Lond. 1656. qu. 13 The pious Votary and prudent Traveller characterized in a fun sermon occasion'd by the voyage of Nath. Wych Esq President to the East Indies on Gen. 28.20.21 Lond. 1658. qu. Preached at S. Dion Backchurch 14. Mar. 1657. 14 Mourning lamentation and woe Pr. after the great fire in London Lond. 1666. qu. This I have not yet seen nor certain funeral sermons as 1 On Rob. E. of Warw. 2 On Mr. Tho. Bowyer 3 On Mrs. Anne Dudson 4 On Sir Th. Adams 5 On Mrs. A. Colquit c. He hath also written and published The first general epistle of S Joh. the Apostle unfolded and applied In two parts The first printed at Lond. 1656. in qu. was delivered in 22 Lectures on the first chapt and two verses of the second in S. Dionyse Backchurch The second part printed at Lond. in 1659. in qu. was delivered in 37 Lectures on the second chapt from the third to the last verse in the said Church At length this active and forward man who had little or no character among the true Loyalists especially that part of the Clergy who had suffered in the times of usurpation giving way to fate in his house at Croydon in Surrey on the first day of June in sixteen hundred and seventy was buried on the 9 day of the same month in the Chancel of S. Martins Church in the Fields before mention'd Soon after his Widow erected a mon. on the north wall of the said Chancel to his memory with an inscription thereon which being printed in Hist Antiq. Univ. Ox. lib. 2. p. 375. Col. 2. shall be now omitted His funeral Sermon on 2. Cor. 5.1 preached by Dr. Sim. Patrick is extant wherein you may see his character at large In the Vicaridge of S. Martin succeeded Dr. Tho. Lamplugh and in the Deanery of Rochester Dr. Peter Mew the former was afterwards B. of Exon. and Archb. of York and the other B. of B. and Wells and Winchester WILLIAM NEILE the eldest Son of Sir Paul Neile Knight one of the Ushers of the Privy Chamber to King Ch. 2 eldest Son of Dr. Rich. Neile Archb. of York was born in the Archb. Pallace at Bishops Thorp in Yorkshire 7. Dec. 1637 became a Gent. Com. of Wadham Coll. for the sake of Dr. Wilkins the Warden thereof an 1652 where by the instruction of him and Dr. Ward he improved his nat genius very much in the Mathematicks In July or Aug. 1657 he divulged his invention of the equating of a streight line to a crooked or parabole The demonstration of which is at large set down in a book entit De Cycloide Corporibus inde genitis c. Ox. 1659. qu. p. 91.92 Written by John Wallis D. D. one of the Savilian Professors of the University of Oxon. to which place I refer the reader where he may see also what benefit hath been made of it by Dr. Christop Wrenn and Will Viscount Brounker Mr. Neile hath written De motu lib. 1. Of Morality in one book Whether these two are printed I cannot tell He died in his Fathers house at White Waltham in Berks. 24. of Aug. in sixteen hundred and seventy and was buried in the Church there to the great grief of his Father and resentment of all Virtuosi and good men that were acquainted with his admirable parts See more of him and his invention in the Philosophical Transactions an 1673. nu 98. p. 6146. One Sir Will. Neale Knight who had been Scout-master General to K. Ch. 1 and a stout proper man and a good Soldier against his enemies in the grand rebellion died in Greys-inn-lane in Holbourne on the 24 of March the last day of the year 1690 aged 81
THURMAN the Son if I mistake not of Edw. Thurman Rector of Hallingbury in Essex who had been thrown out of his living by the Committee of Religion for a scandalous and malignant Priest an 1643 was educated in Westminster School and thence elected a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1648. Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts and keeping pace with the Presbyterian discipline became a Preacher some years before his Majesties restauration but when he saw how matters were like to be carried upon his return he became very vehement in his preachings and discourses against the Presbyterians and Independents So that gaining the name of one of the Royal party had a cure bestowed on him in Sussex He hath written A defence of humane learning in the Ministry Or a treatise proving that it is necessary a Minister or Preacher should be skill'd in humane learning Oxon. 1660. oct Dedicated to Dr. John Wall a rich Canon of Ch. Ch. with a flattering Epistle before it for which he was then rewarded but not altogether to his mind This book being published in Mich. term 1659 was look'd upon as a seasonable piece of service because the Universities and Ministry did then lay at stake and had certainly gone to the pot had not Monk come opportunely out of Scotland for their relief This Mr. Thurman died about sixteen hundred and seventy in Sussex as one or two of his contemporaries in Ch. Ch have informed me but where buried they could not further add CORBET OWEN son of Will. Owen of Pontsbury in Shropshire Minister was born at Hinton in that County an 1646 educated in the first rudiments of Grammar in a private School in Shrewsbury under one Scofield a loyal Parson emulated by the Town Free-school under the government of the Saints where he profited very much and more might he have done had not his friends sent him into France and thence into Flanders to be touched by the then exil'd King for the cure of the Kings Evil of which he was once so lame that he went upon crutches In the month of May 1658 he made his first entry into Westminster School and in the year following he was elected one of the Kings Scholars there where 't was usual with him to speak 40 or 50 smooth and elegant verses ex tempore in little more than half an hour In 1664 he was elected Student of Ch. Ch. and in short time was well vers'd in the most crabbed subtilities of Philosophy After he was Bach. of Arts he applied himself to the study of Physick in which he made so wonderful a progress that had he lived he would have gone beyond all of his time in that faculty In 1670 he proceeded M. of A. and had there been an Act celebrated that year which was put off because of the death of the Duchess of Orleance he would have performed the exercise belonging to the Senior of that solemnity and thereby would as 't is probable have shew'd himself as excellent for Oratory as he had the year before done for his poetry He was the most forward person of his age in the University for his polite learning He was enriched with a great and happy memory a most accurate judgment and with a clear and quick wit He hath written Carmen Pindaricum in Theatrum Sheldonianum in solennibus magnifici operis Encaeniis Oxon. 1669 in 4. sh in qu. Divers poems MS. with translations of Poetry particularly the Otho of Monsieur de Corneille often acted on the French stage which he rendred into English vers He died to the great reluctancy of all those who were well acquainted with the wonderful pregnancy of his parts about the 18. day of January in sixteen hundred and seventy and was buried in the Church at Cundore in Shropshire Soon after was a large epitaph made for by one that intirely loved him but whether it was put over his grave I know not The beginning is this Siste viator irrita naturae virtutisque molimina vel risu vel lachrymis prosequere c. JOHN MENNES the third Son of Andr. Mennes Esq by Jane his second Wife Daughter of John Blechendon Esq Son of Matthew Mennes was born in the Parish of S. Peter in Sandwich in Kent on the eleventh of May 1598 and was educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school there In the 17th year of his age or thereabouts he became a Com. of Corp. Ch. Coll. where continuing for some years did advance himself much in several sortâ— of learning especially in Humanity and Poetry and somthing in History Afterwards he became a great Traveller a most noted Sea-man and as well skil'd in marine affairs in building of Ships and all belonging thereunto as any man of his time In the raign of K. Jam. 1 he had a place in the Navy-Office and in the raign of K. Ch. 1. he was made Controller of it In 1636 I find him a Militia-Captain and in 1639 he was Captain of a Troop of horse in the expedition against the Scots In 1641 I find him a Vice-Admiral and by that title did he receive the honor of Knighthood from his Majesty at Dover in the month of Feb. the same year Afterwards upon the breaking out of the rebellion he closely adhered to the cause of his Majesty and in 1642 I find him Captain of a Ship called the Rainbow for his Maj. service while Robert Earl of Warwick was Vice-Admiral but how long he continued in that employment I cannot tell sure I am that when his Majesties cause declined he left the nation and for a time adheered to Pr. Rupert while he roved on the Seas against the Usurpers in England who being successless he retired to K. Ch. 2 in Exile took his fortune as other Royalists did yet always in a gay cheerful and merry condition After the return of his Majesty from his Exile he had the place of chief Controller of the Navy conferred on him which he kept to his dying day being accounted by all that knew him to be an honest and stout man generous and religious and well skill'd in Physick and Chimistry This Person who was always poetically given and therefore his company was delightful to all ingenious and witty men was author of the greater part of a book intit Musarum dilitiae or the Muses recreation containing several pieces of poetick wit Lond. 1656. oct 2d edit James Smith whom I have mentioned under the year 1667 had so great a hand in that book that he is esteemed the author almost of half of it Sir John Mennes hath also written Epsom Wells a poem Printed in qu. and divers other poems scattered in other mens works He hath also extant a mock poem on Sir Will. D'avenant and his Gondibert and did assist as I have been credibly informed Sir John Suckling in the composition of some of his Poetry on whom and his Fine Troop of Horse that ran away when they were to engage with the enemy
he wrot a scoffing ballad At length he having lived beyond the age of man concluded his last day in the Navy-Office in Seething-lane within the City of London on Saturday the 18. of Febr. in sixteen hundred and seventy Whereupon his body was buried at the upper end of the Chancel of the Church of S. Olaves in Hart-street on the 27 day of the same month Soon after was a neat monument erected over his grave with an inscription thereon much becoming the person for whom it was set up His eldest Brother which his Father had by his first Wife Elizabeth Warham was named Matthew who was created Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Ch. 1. The second was named Thomas who was buried in the Church of S. Peter in Sandwych in Janu. 1631. EDWARD LEIGH Esq Son of Hen. Leigh was born at Shawell in Leycestershire 24. of March 1602 being the day and year on which Qu. Elizabeth deceased bred in Grammar learning under one Mr. Loe of Walshall in Staffordshire became a Communer of Magd. Hall under the tuition of Will. Pemble an 1616 ran through the severe discipline then and there used and proceeded in Arts in 1623 But before his Regency was expired he went to the Middle Temple and studied the common Law wherein he made considerable progress yet before he had been there two years he with others were forced thence by tho great plague that violently raged in London an 1625. So that instead of retiring into the Country he went into France and spent there half an year with great improvement to himself and his studies After his return he spent some years in the said Temple not only in the study of the Laws but of Divinity and History in both which in his elder years he attained to some eminence Afterwards he retired to Banbury in Oxfordshire and became a constant hearer for some time of that noted puritanical preacher Will. Wheatley But he dying in 1639 our author Leigh receeded to London where continuing till the civil distempers broke forth was upon the withdrawing of divers members of that unhappy convention called the Long Parliament to the King at Oxon chose a Recruiter or Burgess for the Town of Stafford Afterwards upon a vacancy he was appointed one of the House of Commons to sit in the Ass of Divines as did Philip Earl of Pembroke Will. Visc Say c. of the House of Lords with Joh. Selden Franc. Rous Bulstr Whitlock c. other members of the said house where he behaved himself as learnedly as most of the Divines then sitting He was also then a Colonel of a regiment for the Parliament was Custos Rotulorum for the County of Stafford and afterwards was numbred among those Presbyterian members that were turned out of the House of Commons by the Army 6. Dec. 1648 and imprisoned thereupon in the publick Inn called the Kings head in the Strand From which time till towards the Kings restauration when he with the rest of the ejected members then living were restored by General Monk to their places in Parliament he had little else to do but to write books the titles of which among others which he wrot before that time do follow Selected and choice observations concerning the twelve first Caesars c. Oxon. 1635. oct To which he added six more making up the number 18 which were printed with the former in another Edition The observations on the rest that followed were made by Henry Leigh the authors eldest Son M. of A. of Magd. Hall which being printed with the former at Lond. 1657 in oct had this title put to them Analecta Caesarum Romanorum Afterwards they were illustrated with their several effigies and coines Lond. 1664. oct and in another Edit that came out in 1670 in oct they had observations of the Greek Emperours added to them by the same hand Treatise of Divine promises in 5. books Lond. 1633 there again the third time 1650 and the fourth in 1657. octavo Critica sacra on the Hebrew words of the old and on the Greek of the New Testament Lond. 1639 and 46. in qu. There again in two parts in fol. 1662. In which book the author expressing his great skill in the Languages was the reason therefore why the learned Usher primate of Ireland had a respect and kindness for him Supplement to the Critica sacra Lond. 1662. fol. A Treatise of Divinity in three books Lond. 1646. qu. The Saints encouragement in evil times or observations concerning the Martyrs in general Lond. 1648. 51. oct Annotations on all the New Test Lond. 1650. fol. A philological Commentary or an illustration of the most obvious and useful words in the Law with their distinctions and divers acceptations as they are found as well in Reports antient and modern as in records and memorials never printed Lond. 1652. 58. 71. oct A Systeme or body of Divinity in 10 books Lond. 1654. and 62. fol. Treatise of religion and learning in 6. books Lond. 1656. fol. Which book laying dead on the Booksellers hands had this title put to it in 1663. Faelix consortium or a fit conjuncture of religion and learning in one entire volume consisting of six books c. From which Treatise Will. Crowe of Suffolk Master of the Free-school at Croydon in Surrey took many things when he composed his Elenchus Scriptorum in sacram scripturam c. Lond. 1672. octavo Choice French proverbs Lond. 1657. 64. oct Annotations on the five poetical books of the old Test viz. Job Psalmes Proverbs Ecclesiastes and Canticles Lond. 1657. fol. Second considerations of the High Court of Chancery Lond. 1658. in 2 sh in qu. England described or the Counties and Shires thereof briefly handled Lond. 1659. oct Copied mostly from Camden Choice observations on all the Kings of England from the Saxons to the death of K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1661. oct Three Diatriabes or discourses 1. Of travel 2. Of money 3. Of measuring c. Lond. 1671. oct This book is called in another edit 1680. The Gentlemans guide in the three discourses c. He also published The Magistrates Authority in two Sermons Lond. 1647 qu. penn'd by Christopher Cartwright B. of Div. and Minister at York To which our Author Leigh put a preface to vindicate himself against a lying pamphlet as he calls it which entitles him a man of a fiery disposition and one generally made chair-man upon any business that doth concern the Clergy He paid his last debt to nature in his house called Rushall Hall on the second day of June in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Rushall near to Walshall a Market Town in Staffordshire before mention'd as I have been informed by letters written to me by his Son Henry EDMUND STANTON son of Sir Franc. Stanton Knight was born in Bedfordshire became a Communer of Wadham Coll. in the beginning of the year 1615 aged about 14 years was
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
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
there-molested by the loyal party at Ashover and near it he went to London where he became preacher to the Congregation in S. Sepulchres Church and was much admired by the Brethren In the raign of Oliver about 1656 he by the favour of those then in authority became Rector of Waltham in Leycestershire conformed at his Majesties restauration and on the 12. of March 1669 was instituted and inducted into the Rectory of Ailston in the said County This person who was well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen hath written and published these things following Several Sermons as 1 The Rainbow Sermon at Paules Cross 10. June 1617 on Gen. 9.13 Lond. 1617. qu. 2 The Godly mans guide on Jam. 5.13 Lond. 1620. qu. 3 The true way of a Christian to the new Jerusalem or a threefold demonstration c. on 1 Cor. 5.17 Ibid. 1622 qu. 4. Anatomy of Conscience c. Assize Serm. at Derby on Rev. 20.11 Ibid. 1623. qu. c. A light from Christ leading unto Christ by the starr of his word Or a divine directory for self examination and preparation for the Lords Supper c. Lond. 1645. oct In another edition or another title Pr. there in a thick oct the said book hath this title A light c. Or the rich Jewel of Christian Divinity c. by way of Catechism or dialogue Defence of Scriptures and the holy Spirit speaking in them as the chief Judge of Controversies of faith c. Lond. 1656. qu. Vindication of the honor done to the Magistrates Ministeâ—s and others Printed with the Defence c. and both contained in a relation of a disputation at Chesterfield in Derbyshire between some Ministers and James Nayler an erring Quaker The said Defence and Vindication were both answer'd by George Fox a ringleader of Quakers in his book entit The great mysterie of the great whore unfolded c. Lond. 1659. fol. p. 127. c. Defence and justification of Ministers maintenance by tithes and of Infant-baptisme humane learning and the Sword of the Magistrate c. in a reply to a paper sent by some Anabaptists to the said Im. Bourne Lond. 1659. qu. Animadversions upon Anth. Perisons Parsons Great case of tithes Printed with the Defence and justification c. A Gold chaine of directions with 20 gold linkes of love to preserve love firme between husband and wife c. Lond. 1669. in tw dedicated to his Patron John Lord Roos What other matters he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying on the 27. of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and two was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Ailston before mentioned and that soon after was a little inscription put over his grave wherein 't is said that he died in the eighty second year of his age JOSEPH CARYL was born of gentile Parents in London became a Commoner or Sojournour of Exeter Coll in the beginning of 1621 aged 17 years where by the benefit of a good Tutor and discipline he became in short time a noted Disputant In 1627 he proceeded in Arts and entring into holy Orders exercised his Function in and near Oxon for some time At length being puritanically affected he became preacher to the honorable Society of Lincolns Inn where he continued several years with good liking and applause In 1642 and after he became a frequent Preacher before the Long Parliament and a Licenser of books for the Cause And in the year following being a zealous Covenantier and a pretender to reformation he was elected one of the Ass of Divines among whom he frequently sate and controverted matters of Religion In 1645 he was made Minister of the Church of S. Magnus near London bridge by the factious party there because he was an enemy to the Bishops and a zealous preacher up of rebellion where for many years he carried on the cause without interruption In January 1646 he with Steph. Marshall both by that time notorious Independents and great siders with the Army raised by the said Parliament to pluck down the K. and his party were appointed Chaplains to the Commissioners sent by the said Parliament to the King then at New-castle in order for an accommodation of peace Thence by easie journeys they accompanied the K. and Commissioners to Holdenly in Northamptonshire where his Maj. making some continuance without any of his Chaplains in Ordinary to wait upon him because they disrelish'd the Covenant they the said Ministers upon the desire of the Commissioners did offer their service to preach before the K. and say Grace at Meales but they were both by him denied the K. alwaies saying Grace himself with an audible voice standing under the State So that our author Caryl and Marshall to whom the King nevertheless was civil did take so great disgust at his Majesties refusals that they did ever after mightily promote the Independent slander of the Kings obstinacy T is said that Marshall did on a time put himself more forward than was meet to say Grace and while he was long in forming his Chaps as the manner was among the Saints and making ugly faces his Maj. said Grace himself and was fallen to his meat and had eaten up some part of his dinner before Marshall had ended the blessing but Caryl was not so impudent yet notwithstanding tho they then fully saw the great civilities moderation sweet temper humility prudence and unexpressible devotion in his Majesty yet there was no reluctancy in them as there were in some of the Commissioners especially in Maj. Gen. Rich. Browne In Sept. 1648 our author Caryl was one of those five Ministers that went with other Commissioners appointed by Parliament to treat of peace at Newport in the Isle of Wight where tho he preached before them yet his Maj. would not accept of him or of any of the rest among his Chaplains then with him to pray or preach before him which did again enlarge his disgust The same year January 30 some hours before the K. suffer'd death the Committee of parl ordered that he Phil. Nye and other Ministers should attend the said King to administer to him those spiritual helps as should be sutable to his then present condition but the K. being acquainted with it he would not be troubled with them so that all the desires that our author had to serve or rather impertenize his Maj. were frustrated In Apr. the next year he with Marshall and Nye were employed by the Grandees of the Army to invite and cajole the secured and secluded Members to sit in the Parliament House among the Independents but they effected nothing In Sept. 1650 he and Joh. Owen an Independent Minister were by order of Parliament sent to Scotland to attend Ol. Cromwell who desired their company at that place to receive comfort by their prayers and preachings In the latter end of 1653 he was appointed one of the Triers for the approbation of public Ministers in which
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
A letter to a friend in Wilts upon occasion of a late ridiculous pamphlet wherein was inserted a pretended prophecy of Thom. Becket Lond. 1666. in two sheets in qu. The said letter was written to Tho. Gore of Alderton Esq who gave Dr. Tully the rectory of Grigleton and the Prophecy was published by one W. Tinker alias Littleton a Minister who therein usurped Dr. Tully's name to his disparagement Praecipuorum Theologiae capitum Enchiridion didacticum Lond. 1665.68 c. oct Appendicula practica de coena Domini Printed with the Enchiridion Symboli Apostolici Expositio Ox. 1673. octavo Precationis Dominicae Expositio Ox. 1673. octavo Justificatio Paulina sine operibus ex mente Ecclesiae Anglicanae omniumque reliquorum quae reformatae audiunt asserta illustrata c. Oxon. 1674. qu. Dissertatiuncula de sententia Paulinâ c. Printed with Just Paulina written chiefly against Mr. George Bulls book entit Harmonia Apostolica and Mr. R. Baxters Aphorismes But Mr. Baxter sitting not still as he never yet hath done published an answer to it bearing this title A treatise of justifying righteousness in two books 1. A treatise of imputed righteousness c. with an answer to Dr. Tully's Letter which he calls angry 2. A friendly debate with the learned and worthy Mr. Christop Cartwright containing first his animadversions on his Aphorismes with my answer Secondly his exceptions against that answer thirdly my reply to the sum of the controversies agitated in those exceptions All published instead of a fuller answer to the assaults of Dr. Tully's Justificatio Paulina Lond. 1676. oct The Aphorismes of Mr. Baxter here defended against Dr. Tully were answer'd as to some passages 1 By Will. Eyre of Salisbury in his Vindiciae justificationis gratuitae c. 2 By John Crandon Minister of Fawley in Hampshire more largely in a just volume intit Mr. Baxters Aphorismes exoriz'd and authoriz'd c. Lond. 1654. qu. To both which Mr. Baxter quickly after publish'd distinct replies placed at the end of his Apol. Lond. 1654. qu. One called An admonition to Mr. Will. Eyre c. and another An unsavoury volume of Mr. John Crandons anatomiz'd c. But Crandon died before this answer against him came out The said Aphorismes also were excepted against and animadverted upon at their first coming forth 1650 by many learned men some of whom wrot upon the motion and desire of their author himself among whom were Mr. George Lawson Dr. John Wallis Mr. John Warren and Mr. Christoph Cartwright were the chief which being as he himself confesseth then but crude and defective for want of time and use of writing this being his first some suspected it of errour in doctrine some of novelty some of divers undigested expressions and some overvaluing it received those imperfections with the rest Upon this he published his suspension of these Aphorismes then his fuller explication and defence of them in his Apologie c. Afterward his additional explication and defence both in his Confession of faith c. and in his Four Disputations of Justification c. And tho he hath in these three several pieces thus largely explain'd himself and his Aphorismes yet Dr. Tully as he complains fell notwithstanding upon him without taking notice of any of those following treatises which clear and illustrate his former doctrine in these points But whatever hath been the Doctors dealing towards him on this account at which he seems to be so much concern'd of this I am assured that his publishing the above named book consisting of two parts the far greater part of the former being by his own acknowledgment written 3 or 4 years before and nothing newly added and immediatly directed against the Doctor but barely the 6.7 and 8. Chapters with the answer to the Doctors letter and the latter part being wholly made up of papers which had passed so many years before between the learned Mr. Christ Cartwright and himself concerning his Aphorismes his publishing I say these in answer to the Doctors book which came out some time after was generally looked upon as a scornful slighting and very unfair way of his And tho he thinks fit to call the Doctor in the general Epistle to the Reader more than once a worthy Person yet for all this in the very entrance on the 6 Chapt. of the first part he sufficiently discovers his anger against him in liberally bestowing on a great part of his Justificatio Paulina this foul character viz. that it is defective in point of truth justice charity ingenuity and pertinency to the matter But his published papers wrot long before those books to which they are very improperly by him called answers is not unusual with him and the ingenious and learned Mr. Hen. Dodwell hath not long since complained of this his unjust usuage in relation to himself To conclude since the publishing of the said Justificatio Paulina the author thereof is charactarized by some Church men and Fanaticks to have been a main pillar of the Chur. in defence of her true doctrine Nay and long before it was published a certain hot headed Fanatick tells us in a book afterwards by him made extant that he Tully with Mr. Tho. Barlow did keep this University of Oxon from being poyson'd with Pelagianism Socinianisme Popery c. The other things that Dr. Tully hath written are these A Letter to Mr. Rich. Baxter occasion'd by several injurious reflections of his upon a treatise entit Justificatio Paulina Oxon. 1675. qu. Animadversions on Mr. Baxters pamphlet entit An appeal to the light Oxon. 1675. qu. Printed with the aforesaid letter At length our author Dr. Tully after he had spent his last years in a weakly and lingring condition surrendred up his pious Soul to God in the Parsonage house at Grigleton before mention'd on the fourteenth day of January in sixteen hundred seventy and five and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there In his Deanery which he had not enjoyed an year succeeded Dr. Tho. Cartwright sometimes of Qu. College in his Principality of S. Edm. Hall Steph. Penton M. A sometimes Fellow of New Coll. who was elected thereunto by the Provost and Fellows of Queens Coll. Proprietaries of the said Hall on the 15 of Feb. 1675 but with this condition that he resign his rectory of Tingwick in Bucks and that the society of New Coll. present a Fellow of that of Queens thereunto which was accordingly done and in his Rectory of Grigleton Rich. Hine M. of Arts of Merton Coll. EDWARD WEST son of Tho. West of the antient borough of Northampton Gent. became a Communer of Ch. Ch. in the year 1651 and there received a severe discipline under a Presbyterian Tutor After he had taken one degree in Arts he translated himself to S. Maries Hall where continuing till he was Master of that faculty took the Ministry upon him according to the Presbyterian way and was benefic'd After his Majesties
publicè in Academiâ Oxon professus est dignissimus etiam qui Theologiam in eodem loco profiteretur Poeta insuper Orator insignis atque in Mathematicis profundè doctus Reipublicae Literariae Ecclesiae Christianae flebilis obiit Maii 22. an 1676. aet suae 65. I find one Thom. Greaves a Minister to have written A brief summ of Christian Religion c. Lond. 1656. oct whether by the former or another Thomas Greaves I cannot yet tell JOHN TOMBES was born in a Market Town called Beaudley in Worcestershire became a Batler of Magd. Hall in the beginning of Lent term an 1617 aged 15 years where in short time after he shewed himself a most excellent Disputant a person of incomparable parts and well vers'd in the Greek and Hebrew Languages In 1623 he was appointed Catechisme Lecturer of the said Hall in the place of Will. Pemble deceased whose Pupil he had been and the next year proceeding M. of A he became a noted Tutor there About that time he entred into holy Orders and shortly after was esteem'd so famous for his preaching that he was much courted to be one of the Lecturers at S. Martins Ch. commonly called Carfax in Oxon which cure he at length taking was much followed for his excellent Sermons especially by the puritanical party who held him in great admiration In 1630 he left the University and became a Preacher in the City of Worcester and the next year after he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences But he continuing at Worcester not long he went by vertue of a call to Leonminster commonly called Lemster a Market Town in Herefordshire of which place he became Vicar beloved of the Parishioners and Neighbourhood and resorted to far and near for his familiar and practical way of preaching As it was suspected while he was in Oxon so was it at Lemster and elsewhere confidently believed that he would in time having no preferment given to him sutable to his merits do a great deal of mischief to the Church of England as most great Scholars have done for want of it In the year 1641 when the restless fury of the Presbyterians vented out into a dismal rebellion this our author sided with them and in the following year when Nath. Fiennes managed Bristow for the Parliament and made mad work there in ejecting loyal Citizens from the Corporation and Orthodox Ministers from the Church he upon invitation came in to him and thereupon he and his followers made him Minister of Allsaints Church in the place of one Williamson an Orthodox man then ejected While he continued there which was till Aug. 1643 at which time the City was surrendred to the Kings party he did a great deal of hurt by his schismatical preaching Afterwards going to London he became Master of the Temple where he preached against the errors of the Antinomians ex male intellectâ doctrina as he says de justificatione peccatoris c. But being supplanted of that place by Rich. Johnson sometimes of Bras Coll. an 1647 he went to Beaudley at what time Mr. Rich. Baxter preached at Kidderminster another Market Town about three miles distant from that place And 't is verily thought that he was put upon the project of going there purposely to tame Baxter and his party who then carried all the Country before them They preached against one anothers doctrines Tombes being then a Preacher at Beaudley which he kept with Lemster newly restored to him being before forced thence by the royal party and published books against each other Tombes was the Coryphaeus of the Anabaptists and Baxter of the Presbyterians Both had a very great company of auditors who came many miles on foot round about to admire them Once I think oftner they disputed face to face and their followers were like two Armies And at last it came so to pass that they fell together by the ears whereby hurt was done and the Civil Magistrate had much ado to quiet them All Scholars there and then present who knew the way of disputing and managing arguments did conclude that Tombes got the better of Baxter by far In the year 1653 he being then as before frequently in London he was by ordinance appointed one of the Triers for the approbation of publick Ministers but what preferment he got by that employment which most of them had obtained I find not unless it was the Parsonage of Rosse and the Mastership of the Hospital at Ledbury both in Herefordshire which he kept with Lemster and Beaudley About the year 1658 he married Elizabeth the Widow of Wolstan Abbot of the City of Salisbury by whom enjoying an Estate lived mostly there to the time of his death At the Kings restauration in 1660 when he then saw to what a woful condition this poor Nation of England had been brought unto by restless men and their several opinions as to religion he willingly submitted sided with the Royal party but yet would never accept of either Benefice or Dignity which was offer'd to him Set aside his Anabaptistical Positions he was conformable enough to the Church of England would frequently go to Common prayers and receive the Sacrament at Salisbury and often visit Dr. Ward Bishop of that place who respected Tombes for his learning Dr. Sanderson sometimes the learned Bishop of Linc. had a great esteem for him and so had one of his successors Dr. Barlow but the same respect that the last bore to our author the same he paid to all of what sect soever that were learned In 1664 he was present at the Oxford Act and there in the Vespers he did modestly challenge to maintain against any person certain Anabaptistical Tenents but none there did think it then convenient to grapple with him and the rather for this reason that he had made those matters his study for more than 30 years and that none ever before went beyond him He seemed to many to be a very pious and zealous Christian and would never be violent especially in his latter days against any party that was opposite to his opinion but be charitable and complesant His body was little and neat limb'd he had a quick searching eye and was so exceeding apprehensive that he would find out the end upon the first entry of the Disputes He hath written and published Several Sermons as 1 Vae Scandalizantium or a treatise of scandalizing c. preached at Lemster in Herefordsh on Luke 17.1.2 Oxon. 1641. oct 2 Jehovah Jireth or Gods providence in delivering the godly in two Sermons in Bristol on a Thanksgiving day 14. March 1642 for the deliverance of that City from invasion and plot by the Malignants on 2. Pet. 2.9 Lond. 1643. qu. Before which is set by the author A short narrative of the said bloody and damnable plot 3 The Leaven of pharisaical Will-worship preached at Lemster 24. Nov. 1641 on Matth. 5.9 Lond. 1643. qu. 4 Anthropolatria The sin of glorying in
Soc. c. Lond. 1670. qu. Letter to Sir N. N. relating the cause of the quarrel between Hen. Stubbe and the Royall Society and an Apology against some of their cavills Printed with Campanella revived Postscript concerning the quarrel depending between Hen. Stubbe and Dr. Christop Merrett Pr. also with Campanella Reply unto the letter written to Mr. Hen. Stubbe in defence of The history of the Royal Society Oxon. 1671 quart Reply to a letter of Dr. Hen. More printed with Mr. Glanvill's Prefatory answer to Hen. Stubbe with a censure upon the Pythagorico-Cabbalistical Philosophy promoted by him Oxon. 1671. A Preface against Ecebolius alias Joseph Glanvill Fellow of the Royal Society c. These two last are printed with the Reply unto a letter written to Mr. Hen. Stubbe c. Medice cura te ipsum Or the Apothecaries plea in some short and modest animadversions upon a late Tract entit A short view of the fraudes and abuses of the Apothecaries c. by Christop Merrett Dr. of Phys Lond. 1671. quart An epistolary discourse concerning Phlebotomy in opposition to George Thomson Pseudo-Chymist a pretended disciple to the Lord Verulam Lond. 1671. qu. A discourse concerning the Sweating Sickness temp Hen. 7. Relation of the strange Symptoms hapning by the bite of an Adder and the cure thereof These two last are printed with the Epistolary discourse c. A caveat for the Protestant Clergy or an account of the sufferings of the English Clergy upon the restitution of Popery in the dayes of Qu. Mary Lond. 1671. 78. in two sh in oct This is said to be written by Hen. Stubbe but not I suppose by our author but by another of both his names whom I shall anon mention A justification of the present warr against the united Netherlands c. illustrated with Sculptures In answer to a Dutch treatise entit considerations upon the present state of the united Netherlands c. Lond. 1672. 73. qu. A farther justification of the present warr against the United Netherlands illustrated with several Sculptures Lond. 1673. qu. For the compiling of these two last books the author was allowed the use of the Paper Office at Whitehall and when they were both finished he had given him 200 l. out of his Majesties Exchequer and obtained a great deal of credit from all people especially from the Courtiers and all that belonged to the Kings Court. In the month of Octob. the same year 1673 when the marriage to be between James Duke of York and Josepha Maria the Princess of Modena was controverted in the House of Commons where were 180 voices for and 188 against it then did this our author Stubbe about the latter end of the said month write and publish The Paris Gazette Which being against the said marriage and for the breaking it off gave great offence to many It was printed in half a sheet as one of our Gazetts are now and was by the author with great confidence and impudence presented to several Parliament men Whereupon a Writ being issued out against him he was taken in the beginning of the next month hurried in the dark from one private Prison to another threatned with hanging and was put to a great deal of charge So that all the credit he had got before was lost among the generallity Directions for drinking the Bath-water Ars Cosmetica or beautifying Art These two go under his Stubbes name and are printed at the end of James Cook his translation from Lat. into English of a book written Originally by Joh. Hall entit Select observations on Eminent persons in desperate diseases Which translation was reprinted with additions in 8 o an 1679. He also translated from Lat. into English 1 Introduction to Geography Oxon 1657 oct Written by Philip Cluver 2 The Arts of Grandure and submission Lond. 166â— and 1665 oct Written by John Casa Archb. of Benevento 3 The History of the United Provinces of Achaia Lond. 1673. qu. in 4 sh and half written by Jacobus Gothofredus and others as it seems which I have not yet seen I have now no more to say of this learned person only that he being at Bathe attending several of his Patients living in and near Warwick then there he was sent for to come to another at Bristow in very hot weather to which place therefore going a by-way at 10 of the clock in the night on the twelfth day of July in sixteen hundred seventy and six his head being then intoxicated with bibbing but more with talking and snuffing of powder was drowned passing through a shallow River wherein as 't is supposed his horse stumbled two miles distant from Bathe So that his body being taken up the next morning and his death examined by the Coroner was the next day after that being Friday buried in the great Church at Bathe dedicated to S. Peter and S. Paul in the grave of Dr. Pet. Wentworth joyning on the North side to the stately Tomb of Dr. Jam. Mountague somtimes Bishop of that City situat and being on the north side of the body of that Church At which time his Antagonist Mr. Glanvill preached his funeral Sermon but said no great matter of him and soon after a certain Physitian of that place who seemed to be glad for his death made this Epitaph following on him Which tho not yet put on his grave shall be here set down to his memory Memoriae Sacrum Post varios casus magna rerum discrimina tandem heic quiescunt mortalitatis exuviae Henrici Stubbe Medici Warwicensis quondam ex Aede Christi Oxon â—ei Medicae Historicae ac Mathematicae peritissimi judicii vivi Librorum heluonis qui quum multa scripserat plures sanaverat aliorum saluti sedulo prospiciens propriam neglexit Obiit aquis frigidis suffocatus 12 die July A.D. 1676. aetatis suae ... Besides this Hen. Stubbe was another of both his names and time a nonconforming Minister and somtimes a preacher in the City of Wells where I find him as an Assistant to the Commissioners appointed by Parliam to eject such whom they then 1654 called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and School-masters who hath among several things pertaining to Divinity written 1 Great Treaty of peace exhort of making peace with God Lond. 1676. 77. oct 2 Disswasive from conformity to the world Lond. 1675. in 8o. 3 Gods severity against mans iniquity Printed with the Disswasive 4 Gods gracious presence the Saints great privilege a farewel Sermon to a Congreg in Lond on 2. Thes 3.16 Printed also with the Disswasive 5 Conscience the best friend or the happy Effects of keeping a good Conscience very useful for this age Lond. 1685. in tw and other things which I have not yet seen among which is his answer to the Friendly debate an 1669 in oct When he died I know not sure I am that after his death which was in London his books were exposed to sale by way of Auction 29. Nov.
in Cheapside and the rest or third part in Smithfield All which was accordingly done because the said speech contained matters untrue and scandalous so the predominant party in the House said as they had reference to the proceedings of the Committees of the Lords of the House and that of the Commons and to the evidence of the Witnesses produced in the cause of Strafford c. 5 His last speech concerning the Earl of Strafford occasioned upon the reading of the bill of Attainder touching the point of treason 23. Apr. Lond. 1641 in two sh and half in qu. This also was burnt 6 Sp in the H. of Lords 20. July 1660 upon the bill of Indempnity Lond. 1660. in one sh in qu. 7 Two speeches with some observations upon them Lond. 1674. qu. The first was spoken in the H. of Peers at the first reading of the bill against Popery 15. Mar. 1672 the King being then present The other in the H. of Com. 1. July 1663 in vindication of himself and Sir Rich. Temple Several Letters as 1 Letter to the Queens Majesty dated at Middleborough in Zealand 21. Jan. 1641 to which place he fled when he was banished wherein he intimates that he would willingly wait upon his Majesty from thence as well as from any place in England over and above the service which he might do for him there and accordingly he returned into England not to London notwithstanding the vote of the H. of Peers that if he appeared not in 20 days he should be proclaimed Traytor but to his Majesty at or near York The said Letter was printed in 1642. qu. 2 Letter to the Qu. Majesty dated at the Hague 10. Mar. 1642. This also was printed at Lond. 1642. qu. Which Letter with another from Tho. Eliot Esq written to the said Lord Digby dated at York 27. May 1642 being intercepted by the Rebels were ordered to be printed by the Parliament 1. Aug. 1642 with envious observations written upon them by Anonymus 3 Divers Letters written at Oxon in Dec. 1643 tending to divide the Parliament at London They were intercepted by the Rebels and printed at Lond. 16 of Jan. following in a pamphlet entit A cunning plot to divide and destroy the Parliament and the City of Lond. Printed in about 6. sh in qu. 4 Divers Letters written in design to betray Abendon for the Kings use Printed at Lond. in Feb. 1644. qu. There was an intercourse of Letters for about 10. weeks between our author the Lord Digby and Sergeant Major General Rich. Browne afterwards a Baronet and Lord Mayor of Lond. in 1660 for the delivery of the Garrison of Abendon in Berks. to the King then at Oxon but after Browne in a false manner had dril'd the said Lord on so long which he could not in honour do longer then did he communicate the Letters to the Parliament and they to a Committee who caused them to be printed 5 Letter in the Kings name to the Irish Commissioners Lond. 1645. qu. Answered by the Lord Muskerry one of those Commissioners They were both intercepted by the forces belonging to the Parliament and printed with this title Two remarkable letters concerning the Kings correspondence with the Irish Rebels 6 Several other Letters c. These also were intercepted and with others had this title put to them The Lord Digby's Cabinet and Dr. Steph. Goffs negotiations together with his Majesties the Queen and the Lord Jermins and other letters taken at the battel at Sherborn in Yorks about the 15 of Oct. last 1645 Also observations on the said Letters Lond. 1646. qu. 'T is a villanous pamphlet and much like the horrid publication of the martyr'd Kings Cabinet by the malicious machination of the Juncto of Rebels 7 Two Letters to the Lord Taaff the Rebels General in Munster Lond. 1647. qu. The first was dated at Kilkenny 20. Aug. and the other at Wexford on the last of the said month an 1647. Which Letters being found in the Lord Taaff's Cabinet after a fight in Ireland were sent to the Parliament in England who caused them forthwith to be published I have seen also a letter of the Lord Digby sent to John Lord Roberts for the surrender of Plymouth to the King an 1644 and others to General Leven for peace an 1645 but whether printed I know not Sure I am that those Letters that were taken in his Cabinet at Shirebourne in Dorsetshire an 1645 by the Parliament forces were ordered to be printed in Dec. the same year Letters between him and Sir Ken. Digby Kt. concerning religion Lond. 1651. oct Elvira or the worst not always true a Comedy Upon the writing of which he the L. Digby and not Sir Kenelm was brought into the poem called The session of Poets made by Sir John Suckling Excerpta è diversis operibus patrum latinorum MS. He also translated from French into English The three first books of Cassandra the famed Romance Printed in oct At length this eminent Count having lived to the age of 64. years or more died at Chelsey near London in Middlesex having been much afflicted with the Gout on Tuesday the 20. of March in sixteen hundred seventy and six and was buried in the Church there whereupon his Garter was given to Sir Thomas Osbourn Earl of Danby Lord Treasurer of England JOHN PRICE or Pricaeus as he writes himself in his books wherein he shews himself the greatest Critick of his time was born in London as one of his contemporaries hath enformed me elected Student of Ch. Ch. from Westminster School 1617 aged 17 years or thereabouts left the University without a degree or being matriculated otherwise I might have spoken of his Parentage and was taken into the retinew of Mr. Howard one of the sons of Tho. Earl of Arundel he being then a R. Catholick At length he went beyond the Seas and settling for a time in a certain University there took the degree as t is said of Doctor of Law for by that name or title he was written when he borrowed an old MS. copy of L. Apuleius from Archb. Lauds MSS. in Bodlies Library Afterwards he returned into England where continuing for some time he went into Ireland and was taken into the service of Tho. Earl of Strafford L. Lieutenant of that Realm and then became acquainted with Dr. Usher the learned and religious Primat thereof But the said most noble Count being brought into trouble and question'd by the Parliament in 1640 he returned into England and published certain Pamphlets for the Kings cause but what the titles of them are I could never learn certain it is that he for so doing was cast into prison and remained there for some time Afterwards being enlarged he went beyond the Seas and at length into Italy about 1652 and setling in Florence was received into the Court of Cosmo the great Duke of Tuscany who made him Supervisor of his Medals yet enjoyed little health there and much solitude
sacris liberarum Windsorensis Wolverhamptonensis capellarum à restitutione sereniss Caroli 2. Regis Decanus primus nobilissimi ordinis à Periscelide Scriba Fide in rebus Regis promovendis Zelo in rebus Ecclesiae promovendis Affectu in rebus Regni promovendis Toto nuperae rebellionis tempore nemini secundus celeberrimis hujus seculi concionatoribus à primo juventutis flore ad extremam usque senectam annumeratus hic sepultus jacet beatam expectans resurrectionem Obiit Julii 13. an dom 1677. aetatis suae 81. Some are pleased to say that this Dr. Ryves hath written An exposition on the Church Catechisme printed in qu. but mistaken as I conceive because it seems to have been written by one Edm. Reeves Quaere WILLIAM BERKLEY a Knights son was born of an ancient and honorable family near to and in the Diocess of London elected probationer Fellow of Merton Coll. in 1625 and four years after was admitted Master of Arts. In 1630 he travelled into various Countries and at his return he was much valued for his experience and knowledge in many matters In 1646 he was sent to Virginia about publick concerns and in 1660 when Colonel Mathews the then Governour of that Country died this our Author being then a Knight was in consideration of the service he had done there in defending the people thereof from being kill'd by the Natives and destroying the great number of the Indians without the loss of three men of his own made Governour thereof by the unanimous Votes of all that Country and there continued in that honorable Office till 1676 in which year he was sent for into England where he soon finished his course He hath written The lost Lady a Trag. Com. Lond. 1639. fol. Description of Virginia Printed in fol. and said in the title to be performed by an eye-witness The Laws of Virginia now in force collected out of the Assembly records and digested into one vol. Revised and confirmed by the grand Assembly 23 Mar. 1661. c. Lond. 1662. fol. Published by Franc. Moryson and by him dedicated to Sir Will. Berkley in whose Epistle 't is said that Sir William was Author of the most and best of the said Laws and that little addition had been made to what he himself had done during the time of his Government only what vitious excrescencies had grown in the body of them by the corrupt humour of the times This Sir Will. Berkley was buried in the middle Chancel of the Par. Church of Twittenham or Twickenham near Hampton Court in Middlesex on the 13 of July in sixteen hundred seventy and seven Afterwards a Vault being made for the Lord J. Berkley in the south Chancel of the said Church Sir William's body was removed to it and there deposited 4 Septemb. 1678. TIMOTHY WOODROFFE son of Rich. Woodr sometimes Vicar of Sherton and afterwards Rector of Garsdon near Malmsbury in Wilts was born in that County at Sherston as it seems educated in Grammar learning at Malmsbury under Rob. Latymer who taught school there 40 years and was Master to Tho. Hobbes the famous Philosopher In 1610 T. Woodr being then 16 years of age he was sent to Balliol Coll. in Lent term and â—hen matriculated as a Ministers son After he had taken the degrees in Arts he translated himself to S. Albans Hall and as a member thereof he was admitted and proceeded Master of that faculty About that time he entred into holy orders and became Chaplain in the family of the St. Johns of Lidyard St. Johns in his own Country but before he had continued long there he by the favour of Dr. Williams B. of Linc. and L. Keeper of the Great Seal of England was prefer'd to the Vicaridge of Inglesham near Highworth in Wilts which being about 14 or more miles from Oxon gave him the opportunity of spending much of his time in Ball. College where he set up a Divinity Lecture and himself read it for several years he being then Bach. of Divinity In the beginning of the Civil War he suffered much by both Armies and was plundered of a very good library whereupon he left his Living and removed to London and thence without his seeking he was invited to Great Dunmow in Essex where he was recieved as an Angel and became a frequent Preacher Not long after he was invited by Sir Rob. Harley Knight of the Bath to be one of the Preachers in the Minster or Cath. at Hereford from whence by his favour he was again in the year 1649 removed to the Parsonage of Kingsland in the same County where after many years painful preaching and much good done in the Neighbourhood by the practice of Physick wherein he always gave his advice and remedies gratis he finished his course He hath written and published Heavens Alarum c. Serm. on Hosea 4.3.4 Lond. in tw A religious Treatise upon Simeons song or instructions advertising how to live holily and dye happily Lond. 1659. oct Built on Luke 2.29.30 and composed for the use of Sir Rob. Harley before mentioned when weakness and old age confin'd him to his chamber Before this book is a commendatory Epistle subscribed by Joh. Row and S. Wood who stile the said book a sound and savoury discourse and such that wanteth not a pleasant quickness to hold on the Readers appetite c. He died in the month of August in sixteen hundred seventy and seven and was buried in the Church of Kingsland before mentioned Among several Children that he left behind him at the time of his death were Tim. Woodroffe sometimes of Magd. Coll now a Physitian at S. Albans in Hertfordshire and Benj. Woodr D. of D. and Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. JOHN WAGSTAFFE son of John Wags Citizen of London descended from those of his name of Hasland Hall in Derbyshire was born in Cheapside within the City of London became a Commoner of Oriel Coll. in the latter end of 1649 took the degrees in Arts and applied himself to the study of Politicks and other learning At length being call'd from an academical life to the inheritance of Hasland by the death of an Uncle who died without male-issue he spent his life afterwards in a single estate But before he left Oxon he wrot and published Historical reflections on the Bishop of Rome chiefly discovering those events of humane affairs which most advance the Papal Usurpation Oxon. 1660. qu. This book tho much commended at its first appearance yet the author was laughed at because that he being a little crooked man and of a despicable presence should adventure to encounter with so great person as the Pope After he had left the University he wrot and published The question of Witchcraft debated or a discourse against their opinion that affirm Witches Lond. 1669. oct To which is added Lucians dialogue called Lovers of lyes translated by another hand But an answer coming out against the said book intit The opinion of
mark and number of the name of the beast c. Lond. 1656. qu. grounded on Rev. 13.18 Which book is much commended by Matth. Poole in his fifth vol. of Synopsis Criticorum on the Rev. and doth acknowledge that he had some MS. notes from our Author concerning that matter which he had made use of in that volume Vindiciae fundamenti Or a threefold defence of the doctrine of original sin Together with some other fundamentals of Salvation The first against the exceptions of Mr. Rob. Everard in his book intit The Creation and the Fall of man The second against the Examiners of the late Assemblies Confession of Faith The third against the Allegations of Dr. Jer. Taylor in his Unum necessarium and two lesser Treatises of his Lond. 1658. qu. After his Majesties restauration he the said Mr. Stephens kept his Rectory of Fenny-Drayton because the owner of it had been some years before dead but upon the publication of the Act of Uniformity in 1662 he left it because he would not conform resided for some time in the said town and preached thereabouts as a Nonconformist At length after several disturbances he removed to Stoke-Golding two miles distant from Fenny-Drayton and preached there in Conventicles till he was disabled by lameness some years before his death which hapning in sixteen hundred seventy and seven was buried in the Church-yard of Stoke-Golding on the 24 of Feb. the same year One of both his names an Esquire was appointed one of the Commissioners of Glocestershire 1654 for the ejection of such whom they then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters who had before been educated in this University THEOPHILUS GALE son of Theoph. Gale D. D. and sometimes Prebend of Exeter was born in Devonshire became a Commoner of Magd. Hall after the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon made Demy of Magd. Coll. by the Visitors appointed by Parliament an 1648 and afterwards Fellow In the year 1652 he proceeded in Arts became a frequent Preacher in the University and a great resorter to the Presbyterian and Indep meetings especially that of Tho. Googwin in the Presidents Lodgings of his College At the Kings return he lost all the right he had to his Fellowship to make room for the true owner and being then wholly addicted to nonconformity travelled beyond the seas as a Tutor to the sons of Philip Lord Wharton After his return he lived in London was for some time an Assistant to Joh. Rowe in carrying on the work of preaching in his private congregation in Holbourne and published these books following which shew him to have been a person of great reading an exact Philologist and Philosopher The court of the Gentiles Or a discourse touching the original of humane literature both of Philology and Philosophy from the Scriptures and Jewish Church c. part 1. of Philology Oxon. 1669 and there again 1672 both in qu. The second part which is Of Philosophy was printed at Oxon. 1671 and at Lond. 1676 both in qu. Of these two parts there is a laudable account in the Philosophical Transactions num 74. p. 2231. an 1671. The third part Of the vanity of Pagan Philosophy was pr. at Lond. 1677 and the fourth Of Reformed Philosophy was pr. there the same year and both in qu. These four books or parts shew the Author to have been well read in and conversant with the Writings of the Fathers the old Philosophers and those that have given any account of them or their works As also to have been a good Metaphysician and School-Divine The true Idea of Jansenisme both historick and dogmatick Lond. 1669. oct The large preface to it was written by Dr. Joh. Owen Theophilie or a discourse of the Saints amity with God in Christ c. Lond 1671. oct The Anatomie of Infidelity or an explication of the nature causes aggravations and punishment of unbelief Lond. 1672. oct Discourse of Christs coming and the influence with the expectation thereof c. Lond. 1673. oct Idea Theologiae tam contemplativae quam activae ad formam S. Scripturae delineata Lond. 1673. in tw Wherein the love of the World is inconsistent with the love of God Sermon on 1 Jo. 2.15 Lond. 1674. and 76 in The Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate Philosophia generalis in duas partes disterminata una de ortu progressu philosophiae c. Altera 1. De minorum gentium philosophia 2. De novem habitibus intellectualibus 3. De philosophiae objecto c. Lond. 1676. oct Ars sciendi sive Logica novâ methodo disposita novis praeceptis aucta Lond. 1682. oct This is Joh. Clauberg's Logick and Ars cogitandi called the Jansenists Logick digested into one volume with some alterations and enlargments A summary of the two Covenants This is set before a book by him published intit A discourse of the two Covenants c. Lond. 1678. fol. Written by Will. Strong sometimes Preacher in the Abbey Church at Westminster This learned and industrious person Mr. Gale did design to have published other matters but was cut off in the prime of his years aged 49 or thereabouts at Newington Green near London in Middlesex where then his habitation was in the latter end of Feb. or beginning of March in sixteen hundred seventy and seven and was buried in the burial place of Dissenters joyning to the New Artillery Garden and Bunhill Fields in Cripplegate Parish near London He left all his real and personal estate for the education and benefit of poor Presbyterian and Independent Scholars to be managed by certain Nonconformists for their use All his Library also he gave to the Coll. in New England except such philosophical books which are needful for Students of his opinion in Old England JOHN GODOLPHIN the third son of Joh. Godolphin Esquire of the ancient and gentile family of Godolphin in Cornwall was born in the Island of Scilly beyond the lands end in the said County in the Castle there which belonged to his name on S. Andrews Eve an 1617 became a Commoner of Glocester Hall in Mich. term 1632 where profiting much in Logick and Philosophy as afterwards in the Civil Law under the tuition of Will. Sandbrooke was four years after admitted to the reading of any book of the Institutions that is to the degree of Bach. of the said Law In the beginning of 1643 he was actually created Doctor of his faculty being then puritannically inclined and going afterwards to London he sided so much with the men there in power that after he had taken the wicked oath called the Engagement he was by Act of Parl. 30 Jul. 1653 constituted and appointed with Will. Clerke Doct. of the Civ Law and Charles George Cock Esq Judges of the Admiralty and in the middle of Jul. 1659 Clerke being then dead he and Cock were constituted again yet to hold and exercise the said office but till 10 of Dec. following
the Popish Plot was discovered but also wrot and published divers books in vindication of the Church of Rome and thereby gained the character by the men of that party of the prime Champion of England to stand up for their Cause A noted Author of the English Church saith that the author of the Guide in Controversies Ab. Woodhead is a person most highly famed among the Roman Catholicks and that he is in his opinion the most ingenious and solid writer of the whole Rom. Party His Works plainly shew him to have been a person of sound and solid judgment well read in the Fathers and in the polemical Writings of the most eminent and renowned Defenders of the Church of England who have quite down from the Reformation successfully managed the Protestant Cause against Rome He was so wholly devoted to retirement and the prosecutions of his several studies that no worldly concerns shared any of his affections only satisfying himself with bare necessaries and so far from coveting applause or preferment tho perhaps the compleatness of his learning and great worth might have given him as just and fair a claim to both as any others of his perswasion that he used all endeavours to secure his beloved privacy and conceal his name And altho he obtained these his desires in great part yet his calm temperate and rational discussion of some of the most weighty and momentous Controversies under debate between the Protestants and Romanists rendred him an Author much fam'd and very considerable in the esteem of both He hath written very many things some of which were published in his life time and some after his death all without his own name or initial letters of it set to them The Catalogue of most of them follow A brief account of ancient Church Government with a reflection on several moderne Writings of the Presbyterians The Assembly of Divines their Jus divinum Ministerii Anglicani published 1654 and Dr. Blondel's Apologia pro sententia Hieronymi and others touching this subject Lond. 1662 and 85 in four parts in a thin quart This book was generally reported to have been written by him yet a certain R. Catholick who was originally of Univ. Coll and much pretended to know all the Works that Mr. VVoodhead had written which he had with great zeal bought and collected for the honour he had to the author hath several times told me that he was not the author of that book but Obad. VValker The Guide in Controversies or a rational account of the doctrine of the Romane Catholicks concerning the ecclesiastical Guides in Controversies of Religion reflecting on the later Writings of Protestants particularly of Archb. Laud and Dr. Stillingfleet on this subject This book is divided into four discourses the two first of which were printed at London 1666. in qu. But before they could appear in publick they were burnt in the grand conflagration at London except a very few copies that were saved and vended abroad The other two discourses were published at London 1667 qu. and there again altogether with additions and some alterations an 1673. qu. In the composition of this book The Guide I have been credibly informed by several R. Catholicks that one Perkins a learned man of that perswasion did assist the author Part of the third discourse is refuted in a book intit A second discourse in vindication of the protestant grounds of faith against the pretence of infallibility in the Rom. Church in answer to The Guide in Controversies by R. H. and against Protestancy without Principles and Reason and Religion c both written by E. W. I say refuted by Dr. Edw. Stillingfleet Chaplain in ord to his Majesty Lond. 1673. oct Exercitations concerning the Resolution of Faith against some exceptions Printed 1674. qu. These Exercitations are in vindication of some part of the third discourse from what was said against it by Dr. Edw. Stillingfleet in the Second discourse just before named An appendix to the four discourses concerning The Guide in Controversies Further shewing the necessity and infallibility thereof against some contrary Protestant Principles Printed 1675. qu. Some copies of this book have this title A discourse of the necessity of Church Guides for directingâ—Christians in necessary faith c. The second part of the Appendix printed with the former containeth Annotations on Dr. Stillingfleet's answer to N. O's considerations of his Principles These two parts contain an Answer to what Dr. Stillingfleet in a piece of his called An answer to several late Treatises occasion'd by a book intit A discourse concerning Idolatry practised in the Church of Rome c. hath said against our author Woodhead his book named Dr. Stillingfleets Principles c. considered which I am now about to set down Dr. Stillingfleets principles giving an account of the faith of Protestants considered Paris 1671. oct This is answer'd in Dr. Stillingfleets first part named An answer to several late treatises c. before mention'd Considerations on the Councill of Trent being the fifth discourse concerning The Guide in controversies Printed 1671. qu. 'T is said that there is a sixth part which is concerning the alienation of Church lands but Quaere The Roman Churches devotions vindicated from Dr. Stillingfleets misrepresentations Printed 1672. oct The Rom. doctrine of repentance and indulgence vindicated from Dr. Stillingfleets mis-representations Printed 1672. oct These three last books were published under the initial Letters of N. O. or O. N And the two last are briefly replyed upon by Dr. Stillingfleet in the general preface to his first above named wherein having only touched on Seren. Cressy's piece entit Fanaticisme fanatically imputed c. wrot against him saith these things of our author N. O. Woodhead compared with Ser. Cressy whose book he affirms to be rayling and the author mad is a meer pattern of meekness and that he writes pertinently without the others bitterness and passion And elsewhere in the same Preface he stiles him a moderate man An historical narration of the life and death of our Saviour Jes Christ in two parts Oxon. 1685 qu. Published by Obad. Walker and then said not to be of his composition but of his Tutor Ab. Woodhead Before it went to the press it was viewed by Dr. Will. Jane the Kings Professor of Divinity who made some deletions and corrections in it yet afterwards they were put in again by Mr. Walker when it was in the Press Several exceptions were made against divers passages therein and great clammoring there was in the University against the book particularly by Dr. George Reynell of C. C. Coll yet on the 13 of Oct. the same year when Mr. Nath. Boys of Univ. Coll. was introduced into his late Majesties K. Jam. 2. presence he his Majesty was not then only pleased to commend him for his Sermon as being an ingenious and well pen'd discourse I mean that Sermon which he had preached in S. Maries Church on 26. Jul. going before being
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.
Daughter named Bethiah and a Brother called Nehemiah Holmes of Machin in Hertfordshire Clerk GILES COLLIER son of Giles Collier of Pershore in Worcestershire was born there or at least in that County became either a Batler or Servitour of New inn in Lent term 1637 aged 15 years took the degree of Bach. of Arts and departed for a time closing then with the Presbyterians In 1648 when the Parliamentarian Visitors were in Oxon he proceeded in Arts took the Covenant and afterwards became Vicar of Blockley near Evesham and Shipson in Worcestershire and a busie man when he was made an Assistant to the Commissioners of Worcestershire for the ejection of such whom the Godly party called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters an 1654 and after At his Majesties restauration he continued in Blockley and when the Act of uniformity was published he conformed not without the regret of some Loyallists in the neighbourhood whom he had much displeased in the interval He hath written Vindiciae thesium de sabbato or a vindication of certain passages in a sermon of the morality of the Sabbath from the exceptions of which they are subjected by Edw. Fisher Esq in his book called A Christian Caveat c. Lond. 1653. 56. qu. Appendix wherein is briefly examined this bold assertion of Edw. Fisher viz. There is an equal authority and equal antiquity for the observation of the 25 of Dec. as for the Lords day Answer to 15 questions lately published by Edw. Fisher Esq and the suggestions therein delivered against suspending ignorant and scandalous persons from the Lords Supper These two last things were printed with the Vindiciae thesium Fun. Sermon on Isaiah 57.1 Printed 1661. qu. He died at Blockley in the latter end of July in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried on the 30. day of the same month in the Church there In the said Vicaridge succeeded Sam. Scattergood of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge as I shall elsewhere tell you BENJAMIN PARRY younger Brother to Joh. Parry before mention'd was born as I conceive in Dublin admitted in Arts in Trin. Coll. there on the 5. of Decemb. 1648 came with his Brother to Jesus Coll. in this University took the degrees in Arts and after his Majesties restauration he was by the favour of his Commissioners appointed to visit this University made Greek Reader and so consequently Fellow of C. C. Coll. In 1663 Feb. 26 he was installed Preb. of Knaresbergh in the Church of York he being then Bach. of Div. upon the resignation of Dr. Rob. Mossom which Dignity he resigning upon his going into his own Country was succeeded therein by Dr. Will. Asshton in Feb. 1673. On the first of May 1674 he was made Dean of Kilkenny and thence was translated to the Deanery of S. Patrick at Dublin on the 24 of March following On the 27. of Jan. 1677 he was consecrated Bishop of Ossory in the place of his Brother deceased which he kept to his dying day that shortly after followed He hath written Chymia Caelestis Drops from heaven or pious meditations on several places of Scripture Lond. 1659 73 in tw And also made fit for the press and published Holy rules and helps to devotion c. Lond. 1674. in tw Written by Dr. Duppa Bishop of Winton This Dr. Parry who I suppose hath published no other things died on the fourth day of Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and eight having a little before been married but not to his content and was buried near to the graves of his Brother and Father in S. Audoens Church in Dublin In the See of Ossory succeeded Dr. Mich. Ward Provost of Trin. Coll. near Dublin and soon after he was translated to London-Derry PETER LEYCESTER son of Pet. Leycest Esq was born at Nether Tabley in Cheshire 3. March 1613 became a Gent. Com. of Brasn Coll. 13. Oct. 1629 but leaving that house without a degree he went I presume to the Inns of Court Afterwards he retired to his patrimony where besides the pleasures of a Country life he exercised himself much in the study of History and Antiquities After the restauration of his Majesty an 1660 for whose cause he before had suffer'd he was created a Baronet and probably had he sought he might have had beneficial places confer'd on him but such was the love he had to his native Country that postponing all matters of profit he studied and laboured to revive its antiquities that had almost been buried in oblivion which he afterwards published with this title Historical antiquities in two books The first treating in general of Great Britaine and Ireland the other containing particular remarks of Cheshire and chiefly of Bucklow hundred Lond. 1673 fol. But therein having made Amicia Daughter of Hugh Cyveliok Earl of Chester a Bastard was as to that matter answer'd in a book intit A defence of Amicia c. by Sir Tho. Manwaring of Peover in Cheshire Bt who with this our author Pet. Leyc were descended from her Whereupon Sir Peter came out with An answer to Sir Tho. Manwarings book entit A defence of Amicia c. Lond. 1673. oct Addenda or some things to be added to the former answer to Sir Thomas Manwarings book to be placed immediatly after pag. 90. Lond. 1673. oct He also wrot A reply to Sir Tho. Manwarings answer to Sir Pet. Leycesters Addenda Lond. 1674. oct and Sir Tho. Manwarings Law cases mistaken and the antient Law misunderstood and the new law misapplied c. Lond. 1674. oct There was a waggish and merry Ballad that went from hand to hand in Ms concerning these petite controversies between the two Baronets and great sport there was made among idle and vain Gentlemen concerning the punctilio's and minute things they insisted on but at length at an Assize held at Chester 1675 their controversies were decided by the Justices Itinerant who as I have heard adjudged the right of the matter to Manwaring As for our author Sir Peter he dyed at Nether-Tabley on the eleventh day of Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried by his Ancestors in our Ladies Chappel on the north side of the Church at Great Budworth in Cheshire Over his grave was soon after set up a comly monument for him and his Lady who died 26. of Jan. following aged 59 years the inscription whereof being large I shall now for brevity sake omit THOMAS VINCENT second son of John Vincent sometimes a Gent of Lincolns Inn and afterwards a Minister was born in the antient Borough of Hertford in the month of May 1634 educated partly in Grammar learning in Westminster school and partly in that at Felsted in Essex and in 1648 became a Student of Ch. Ch. by the favour of the Parliamentarian Visitors then and there sitting In 1654 he proceeded in Arts at which time the Governour of his house had so great opinion of him that he chose him Catechist which usually belongs
to a senior Master Soon after he left Oxon and became Chaplain to Robert Earl of Leycester and afterwards tho not in Orders from a Bishop he was made Minister of S. Mary Magdalens Church in Milkstreet in London which place he keeping till the day of S. Barthelmew an 1662 left it because he would not conform Whereupon retiring to Hoxton alias Hogsden near London preached in a Conventicle there to his dying day being always held in great esteem for his piety by those of his perswasion He hath written Spiritual antidote for a dying soul Lond. 1665. oct Gods terrible voice in the City by plague and fire Lond. 1667. oct Of Christs certain and sudden appearance to judgment Lond. 1667. oct and several times after the sixth edit came out in 1683. and the book it self is grounded on Rev. 22.20 last part Answer to the sandy foundation of Will Pen the Quaker Defence of the Trinity Satisfaction by Christ and Justification of Sinners Lond. 1667. in tw or sixt Wells of salvation opened or words whereby we may be saved With advice to young men Lond. 1669. oct Explicatory Catechisme or an explanation of the Assemblies shorter Catechisme wherein all the Answers are taken asunder under Questions and Answers the Truths explained and proved c. Lond. 1673 c. oct The true Christians love of the unseen Christ or a discourse chiefly tending to excite and promote the decaying love of Christ in the hearts of Christians Lond. 1677. 84. in tw Appendix concerning Christs manifestation of himself to them that love him Printed with The true Christians love c. Holy and profitable Sayings Lond. 1680. Printed on one side of a sh of paper Several sermons as 1 Fire and Brimstone from Heaven from Earth in Hell or three discourses 1. Concerning the burning of Sodome and Gomorrah formerly 2. Concerning c. Lond. 1670. oct contained in several sermons 2 Wherein doth appear the blessedness of forgiveness and how it may be attained on Psal 32.1 Lond. 1674. 76. qu. in The Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate published by Sam. Aneley 3 Sermon on 1 Tim. 4.1.2 and part of the third verse This is the seventeenth sermon in The morning exercise against Popery c. preached in a Conventicle in Southwark Lond. 1675. qu. 4 Serm. on Isa 57.1.2 Printed 1667 oct This I have not yet seen nor certain controversial Writings between him and Dr. VVill. Sherlocke This Mr. Vincent died at Hogsden before mentioned in the Parish of S. Leonards Shoreditch in the month of Octob. the 15 day as it seems in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried in the new Churchyard belonging to Cripplegate Parish as his Brother Nathaniel hath informed me at which time Sam. Slater preached his funeral sermon on Heb. 13.7 afterwards published under the title of Vincentius redivivus in the beginning of which he tells us that the said Mr. Vincent was buried 27 of Oct. 1678. SILAS DOMVILLE or D'omvill alias Taylor son of Silvanus Taylor a Committee man for Herefordshire in the time of the rebellion a busie man against the Kings party and a Commissioner for Herefordshire and certain Counties in Wales for the ejecting of scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and School-Masters was born at Harley near Muchwenlock in Shropshire on the 16 of July 1624 bred in the Free-Schools at Westminster and Shrewsbury became a Communer of New Inn in the beginning of the year 1641 but being soon after called thence without the taking of a degree upon the eruption of the Civil Wars he took part with the Rebels upon his fathers instance and at length became a Captain under Colonel afterwards Major General Edw. Massey and when the Wars ceased he was made by his fathers endeavours a Sequestrator of the Royalists in Herefordshire and had in those times great power there which he used so civilly and obligingly that he was beloved of all the Kings party His father setled upon him a good estate in Church Lands which he had bought and had the moity of the Bishops Pallace in Hereford setled on him the other part Col. John Birch had got into his clutches on which he laid out much mony in building and altering Upon the rising of Sir George Booth in Cheshire in the beginning of Aug. 1659 he received a Commission to be Captain of a Troop of Horse for the Militia of the City of Westminster and shew'd himself very active in that employment but at the Kings return he lost all and was in a manner ruined Soon after by the favour of certain persons whom he had before obliged he became Commissary of the ammunition and warlike provision at Dunkirke and five years after about 1665 he was by the endeavours of Sir Paul Neile and others made keeper of the Kings Store-houses for Shipping and other marine matters at Harwich a Sea-port Town in Essex where he continued to the time of his death This person being a great lover of Antiquities did in the times of usurpation ransack the Library belonging to the Church of Hereford of most or at least the best Mss therein and did also garble the Mss in the Library of the Church at Worcester and the evidences pertaining thereunto among which as I have heard he got the original grant of K. Edgar whence the Kings of England derive their right to the soveraignty of the Seas which is printed in Mr. Seldens book called Mare Clausum lib. 2. He had got also into his hands a quarto Ms of great antiquity which treated of the Philosophers stone in Hieroglyphicks with some few lat verses underneath And being limn'd with very great curiosity it was presented to the view of his Majesty K. Ch. 2 who offer'd 100 l. for it but was refused by the owner This person commonly called Captain Taylor hath written The History of Gavel-kind with the Etymology thereof containing also an assertion that our English laws are for the most part those that were used by the antient Britains notwithstanding the several conquests of the Romans Saxons Danes and Normans Lond. 1663. qu. Observations and remarks upon many special occurrences of British and English History Printed with the former book At the end of which is an Anonymus Ms by him publish'd entit Brevis relatio de Willielmo Comite Normannorum c. The original of which is in the Archives of Bodlies Library communicated to him by Dr. Tho. Barlow the head keeper of that Library He had also written and published several pamphlets before the restauration of K. Ch. 2 but his name being not put to would never after own them He also laboured four years or more in collecting various antiquities as Armes monumental Inscriptions c. in many places of Herefordshire during his employment there under the two Protectors Which being now or at least lately in the hands of Sir Edw. Harley of Brompton Brian may serve as an Apparatus for him who shall hereafter write the
that t was no character of an Assembly but of themselves At length after it had slept several years the author publish'd it to avoid false copies It is also reprinted in a book entit Wit and Loyaltie revived in a collection of some smart Satyres in verse and prose on the late times Lond. 1682. qu. said to be written by Abr. Cowley Sir Joh. Birkenhend and Hudibras alias Sam Butler He hath also several scatter'd copies of verses and translations extant to which are vocal compositions set by Hen. Lawes as 1 Anacreons Ode called The Lute Englished from Greek and to be sung by a Bass alone 2 An anniversary on the nuptials of John Earl of Bridgwater 22. Jul. 1652. He hath also extant A Poem on his staying in London after the Act of banishment for Cavaliers and another called The Jolt made upon the Protectors Cromwell being thrown out of the Coach seat or box of his own Coach at what time for recreation sake who would needs forsooth drive the Coach himself in Hyde Park drawn by six great German horses sent him as a present by the Count of Oldenburgh while his Secretary John Thurloe sate in the Coach in July 1654 He the said Sir Jo. Birkenhead died within the Precincts of Whitehall on the 4. of Dec. or thereabouts in sixteen hundred seventy and nine and was buried on the sixth day of the same month near to the School door in the Church-yard of S. Martin in the fields within the City of Westminster leaving then behind him a choice Collection of Pamphlets which came into the hands of his Executors Sir Rich. Mason and Sir Muddiford Bramston See more of him in Rob. Waring among these writers an 1658. p. 143. Besides this Joh. Birkenhead was another of both his names a Divine who published a Sermon in 1644. on Rom. 13.5 in qu. THOMAS HOBBES son of Tho. Hobbes Vicar of Westport within the liberty of Malmsbury and of Charlton in Wilts was born at Westport on the 5. of Apr. 1588 which day was then Goodfriday by a memorable token that such whom the world call Hobbists have several times said that as our Saviour Christ went out of the world on that day to save the men of the world so another Saviour came into the world on that day to save them or to that effect After he had been educated in Grammar learning at Malmsbury under one Rob. Latymer he was sent to Madg. Hall in 1602 where being puritanically educated took the degree of Bach. of Arts an 1607 which being compleated by Determination was upon the recommendations of the then Principal taken into the service of Will. Cavendish Baron of Hardwick afterwards Earl of Devonshire with whom being in great estimation for his sedulity temperate and jocund humour was by him appointed to wait on his eldest son the Lord Will. Cavendish several years younger than Hobbes Soon after he travelled with him into France and Italy where he not only improved himself much by learning the languages belonging to those Countries but also as to men and manners In the mean time he finding the foundation of that learning which he had laid in the University to decay and in some manner to be forgotten made use of all the spare houres that he could obtain to retrieve it first and then to build upon it afterwards minding more the Gr. and Lat tongue than Logick and Philosophy because these two last seemed to be neglected as vain matters by prudent men After his return into England he diligently applied himself to the perusal of Histories and the Poets and somtimes to the Commentaries of the most eminent Grammarians not that he might write floridly but in a good latine stile and with more consideration find out the congruity of words and so to dispose of them that his reading might be perspicuous and easie Amongst the Greek Historians he had Thucidides in more esteem than the rest which at spare hours he translating into English was after it had been approved by several persons published about the year 1628 to the end that the follies of the Democratic Athenians might be laid open to the men of our Country The same year William Earl of Devonshire before mention'd dying after this our author had served him 20 years partly in the office of Secretary he travelled the next into France with the son of Sir Gervas Clifton in which peregrination he began to make an inspection into the elements of Euclid and to be delighted in his method not only for the Theorems therein but for the art of reasoning In 1631 he was recalled home by the Earl of Devonshire to the end that he might instruct his eldest son of 13 years of age in several sorts of juvenile Literature After he had served in that office three years he travelled with him as his governour into France and Italy While he remained at Paris he began to make diligent search into the fundamentals of natural science which when he perceived to be contained in the nature and variety of motion he first of all sought after what motion that might be which causes sense understanding representations and other proprieties of Animals And what he did in this he once or twice in a week communicated to Marinus Marsennus a Minim conversant in all kind of Philosophy and a good man as to life and conversation In 1637 he returned into England with his Pupil since his benevolent Patron and remained with him in great respect in his family from whence he continued Commerce by letters concerning natural knowledg with Marsennus In the mean time the Scots after they had ejected there Bishops took up arms against their King being encouraged thereunto and favoured by the Presbyterian Ministers and others of the Laâ—-party of England To stop their careere a Parliament was called in England began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 from the proceedings of which Convention our author Hobbes perceiving in the beginning that a Civil war would suddenly follow he retired forthwith to Paris that he might with peace and quietness follow his studies there and converse with Marsennus Gassendus and other eminent persons for learning and reasoning While he remained at Paris he wrote his book De cive which afterwards he reviewed and added many things thereunto Soon after the Parliamenteers prevailing many Royallists of great note particularly the Prince of Wales retired to Paris About which time a Nobleman of the Province Languedoc invited our author to go with him there to live and to be maintained with necessaries by him but being commended to the Prince that he might teach him the Elements of Mathematicks he continued of Paris followed that employment very diligently and all the spare time that he could obtain he spent in writing a book entit Leviathan not only most known in England 〈◊〉 also in neighbouring Nations which he procured to 〈…〉 at London while he remained at Paris in the 63 year of his age Soon after being recalled
the people Read the Assyrian monarchy and the rest and you 'll find that the beginning of government was not in the people See the story of Romulus and there is the contrary 'T is true people are causa sine qua non but no finite The power of the key is not given by God out of the commune of the people nor the power of the sword As for Philosophy 't is enough that he kicks off Aristotle a man admired by all ages and all persons as a wise secretary of nature There are some things or scales of the Leviathan which the Reader cannot conceive to be impregnable as yet till he see farther and plainer proofs of them as 1 That the Soveraign hath no power but from the people and that it is only the mutual consent of the major part transferring their natural right upon him that makes it so cap. 18. 2 That the Parent hath no right or power of dominion over the Child by generation as his Parent or because he begat him but only by the Childs consent either express or by other sufficient arguments declared cap. 20. 3 That the Victor can have no right or dominion over the vanquished but only by the vanquisheds consent c. ibid. And as for those matters which are looked upon as blasphemous by some Scholars and others I shall refer the reader to a little pamphlet entit A Beacon set on fire c. Lond. 1652. qu. p. 14.15 This book of the Leviathan which hath a great name among and is much celebrated by many contains in it notwithstanding some very odd principles good learning of all kinds politely extracted and very wittingly and cunningly disgested in a very commendable method and in a vigorous and pleasant stile which hath prevailed over too many to swallow many new tenets as maxims without chewing which manner of diet for the indisgestion Mr. Hobbes himself did much dislike c. At length after the Parliament had censur'd it as also the book of Purgatory written by Tho. de Albiis in the month of Oct. 1666 in which month a Bill was brought into the House against Atheisme and Profaneness and some of the principal Heads of this University had found therein as in that De Cive several positions destructive to the sacred persons of Princes their state and government and of all humane society the venerable Convocation did by their judgment and decree past among them on the 21. of July 1683 condemn them as pernitious and damnable and thereupon caused the said two books to be publickly burnt with others of the like nature in their School court or quadrangle just after the dissolution of that Convocation Our author Hobbes also hath written Compendium of Aristotles Rhetorick and Ramus his Logick Letter about liberty and necessity Lond. 1654. in tw There again 1684. oct 3d. edit On this letter were observations made and written by Dr. Ben. Laney as I have told you in the Fasti an 1617. Elementorum Philosophiae sectio prima de corpore part 4. Lond. 1655. oct There again in English 1656. qu. c. Six Lessons to the professors of Mathematicks of the institution of Sir Hen. Savile viz. Ward and Wallis Lond. 1656. qu. The marks of the absurd Geometry rural Language c. of Dr. Wallis Lond. 1657. oct De Homine sect 2. Lond. 1657. qu. Amstel 1668. qu. The questions concerning liberty and necessity and chance stated and debated between him and Dr. Bramhall Bishop of London-Derry Lond. 1656. qu. Examinatio emendatio Mathematicae hodiernae c. in sex dialogis Lond. 1660. Amstel 1668. qu. Dialogus Physicus seu de natura aeris Lond. 1661. oct Amstel 1668. qu. Considerations upon the reputation loyalty manners and religion of Tho. Hobbes by way of a letter to a learned person Lond. 1662. and 1680. oct De duplicatione cubi Lond. 1661. Amst 1668. qu. Problemata physica una cum magnitudine circuli Lond. 1662. Amst 1668. qu. De principiis ratiocinatione Geometrarum contra fastuosum professorem Geometriae Amst 1668. qu. Quadratura circuli cubatio sphaerae duplicatio cubi una cum responsione ad objectiones Geometriae professoris Saviliani Oxoniae editas an 1669. Lond. 1669. qu. Responsio ad objectiones Wallisii Oxoniae editas an 1669. ad quadraturam circuli c. Lond. 1671. Rosetum Geometricum sive propositiones aliquot frustra antehac tentatae cum censura brevi doctrinae Wallisianae de motu Lond. 1671. qu. There is some account given of this book in the Philosophical Transactions nu 72. an 1671. Three papers presented to the Royal society against Dr. Wallis with considerations on Dr. Wallis his answer to them Lond. 1671. qu. Lux Mathematica c Lond. 1672. qu. Censura doctrinae Wallisianae de libra Lond. 1672. qu. Rosetum Hobbesit Lond. 1672. qu. Principia problemata aliquot Geometrica ante desperata nunc breviter explicata demonstrata Lond. 1674. qu. Epistola ad Dâ—m Ant. Ã Wood authorem Historiae Antiq. Univ. Oxon. Dated 20. Apr. 1674 printed in half a sheet on one side It was written to the said Mr. Wood upon his complaint made to Mr Hobbes of several deletions and additions made in and to his life and character which he had written of him in that book by the publisher Dr. Jo. Fell of the said Hist Antiq. to the great dishonor and disparagement of the said Mr. Hobbes Whereupon when that History was finished came out a scurrilous answer to the said Epistle written by Dr. Fell which is at the end of that History Letter to William Duke of Newcastle concerning the controversie had with Dr. Laney Bishop of Ely about liberty and necessity Lond. 1676 in tw Decameron Physiologicum or ten dialogues of natural philosophy c. Lond. 1678 oct To which is added the Proportion of a straight line to hold the arche of a Quadrant An account of this book is in the Philos Transact nu 138. p. 965. His last words and dying Legacy Printed on one side of a sheet of paper in Dec. 1679 published by Charles Blount Son of Sir Hen. Blount from the Leviathan purposely to weaken and expose Hobbâ—s's doctrine Much about the same time was published His memorable sayings in his books and at the Table Printed on one side of a broad sheet of paper with his picture before them Behemoth The History of the Civil Wars of England from 1640 to 1660. Lond. 1679. 80. 82. oct In which book containing many faults are several things against religion antient learning Universities c. Vita Thomae Hobbes Written by himself in a lat poem It was printed at Lond. in qu. about 3. weeks after the authors death viz. in the latter end of Dec. 1679 and a fortnight after that about the 10 of Jan. it was published in English verse by another hand Lond. 1680. in 5. sh in fol. The said lat copy was reprinted and put at the end
of Vitae Hobbianae auctarium Historical narration of heresie and the punishment thereof Lond. 1680 in 4. sh and an half in fol. There again in 1682 oct It is mostly taken out of the second chapter De Haeresi of his Appendix to the Leviathan in latine and seems to have been wrot purposely to vindicate its author from all default in the publication of the Leviathan For after he hath deduced from our Saviours time the different punishments by way of History by laws enacted and inflicted on those who were declared Hereticks throughout the several ages of the Church having told what was done in other parts of the world relating to this point he proceeds to reckon up the many laws here in force against Hereticks from the first profession of Christianity down to the â—ate Civil Wars and saith that the Court of High Commission had the sole power of declaring what was heresie according to the mind of the first four general Councils that is according to the faith declared in the Nicene Creed as is manifest from the Councils themselves invested in them in all Qu. Elizabeths Raign that after this Court was taken away at the beginning of the late troubles thereby to satisfie the restless clamours of the Presbyterian party against it no body stood then empowered by lawful authority either to declare what was heresie or to punish any one proved to be this way obnoxious At this time he saith his Leviathan came forth for the writing of which he could not be deemed heretical And the reasons which moved him to compose and publish that book so much justly excepted against he there gives and then concludes So that 't is manifest he aimes and levels at this as his end in this narration viz. to vindicial himself from the imputation of disturbing the peace contrary to the known laws of the realm by his setting forth such monstrous and dangerous tenets and principles in his Leviathan He addeth also that at the first Parliament after the Kings restauration the Episcoparians and Presbyterians accused it of heresie and yet there was no law then which declared what it was The falsity of the said Historical narration of Heresie is shewn in a small treatise entit The Leviathan heretical or the charge exhibited in Parliament against Mr. Hobbes justified c. written by John Dowell Vicar of Melton-Mowbray in Leycestershire Oxon. 1683. in tw In which book p. 137 the author saith that Oliver gaining ths Protectorship was so pleased with many of his principles laid down in the Leviathan which tended to justifie and support his usurpation that the great place of being Secretary was profer'd to him Vita Thomae Hobbes Written by himself in prose and printed at Caropolis alias London before Vitae Hobbianae auctarium an 1681. oct There again 1682. qu. A brief of the art of Rhetorick containing in substance all that Aristotle hath written in his three books of that subject Printed in tw but not said when Afterwards it was published in two books Lond. 1681. oct The first bearing the title of The Art of Rhetorick and the other of The Art of Rhetorick plainly set forth with pertinent examples for the more easie understanding and practice of the same To which is added A dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England He hath also written An answer to Archb. Bramhalls book called The catching of the Leviathan Lond. 1682. oct Seven philosophical problems and two propositions of Geometry Lond. 1682. oct Dedicated to the King in the year 1662. An apology for himself and his writings In which he sets forth that those things he delivered in the Leviathan were not his own opinions but submitted to the judgment of the Ecclesiastical power and that he never maintained any of them afterwards either in writing or discourse Adding also that what is in it of Theology contrary to the general warrant of Divines was not put in as his own opinion but propounded with submission to those who had the Ecclesiastical power Historia Ecclesiastica carmine Elegiaco concinnata Aug. Trinob i. e. Lond. 1688. oct Besides all these he hath other things in Ms not yet printed among which is His defence in the matter relating to Dan. Scargil Bach. of Arts of C. C. Coll. in Cambridge written in one sheet a copy of which Sir John Birkenhead had in his possession which after his death came into the hands of Hen. Birkenhead See in Vitae Hobbianae auctarium p. 108.109 Mr. Hobbes hath also translated into English 1 The History of the Greecian War in eight books Printed in 1628. and afterwards at Lond. in 1676. fol. Written originally by Thucidides 2 The Voyage of Ulysses or Homers Odysses book 9.10.11.12 Lond. 1674. oct in English verse 3 Homers Iliads and Odysses Lond. 1675. and 77. c. in tw in Engl. vers Before which is a preface concerning the virtues of heroick Poesie What other things go under his name I know not as yet sure it is if several persons of credit may be believed that a certain Scholar who was made a Bishop sometime after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 did say it openly in the time of Oliver he having been bred under Presbyterians and Independents that he had rather be author of one of Mr. Hobbes his books than to be King of England To conclude about two months before the death of this noted author he was seized with an acute pain in making water caused by a strangury or ulcer in the bladder which continuing for a considerable time he made use of some medicines by the advice of a Chirurgion yet the Physitian judged it incurable by reason of his great age and natural decay But he finding little benefit of the said medicines he asked the Chirurgion whether he thought his distemper curable to which being answered it would be very difficult to make a perfect cure and the best that could be expected was ease for the present he thereupon made this expression I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world at seeming then to be more afraid of the pains he thought he should endure before he died than of death About the 20. of Nov. his Patron the Earl of Devons being to remove from Chatsworth to Hardwyke in Derbyshire Mr. Hobbes would not be left behind and therefore with a feather-bed laid in a coach upon which he lay warm clad he was safely conveyed to Hardwyke and was in appearance as well after that little journey being but 10. miles as before it But within few days after he was suddenly stricken with a dead Palsie which stupified his right side from head to foot and took away his speech and 't is thought his reason and sense too which continued about 7 days before he died So that being so suddenly seized he did not take the Sacrament nor seem to desire the company of any Minister which in charity may be imputed to his
respected by the Queen that he was a person of excellent parts civil behaviour and of great complisance This acquaintance I presume had its original from our authors desire of having a book of his composition to be licensed for the Press through the means of Dr. Aug. Lindsell Chaplain to the said Archbishop who soon finding him to be a person of learning and great moderation did acquaint his grace of the man and his work Howsoever it was sure I am that when articles of impeachment were drawn up against Archb. Laud in the beginning of the Long Parliament 't is said in the seventh article that for the advancement of Popery and Superstition within this Realm the said Archb. hath wittingly and willingly received harboured and relieved divers popish Priests and Jesuits namely one called Sancta Clara alias Davenport a dangerous person and Franciscan Frier who hath written a popish and seditious book entituled Deus natura gratia c. wherein the thirty nine articles of the Church of England established by Act of Parliament are much traduced and scandalized The said Archbishop had divers conferences with him while he was in writing the said book and did also provide maintenance and entertainment for one Monsieur St. Giles a popish Priest at Oxon c. To which article the Archbishop made this answer I never saw that Franciscan Frier Sancta Clara in my life to the utmost of my memory above four times or five at most He was first brought to me by Dr. Lindsell I did fear he would never expound them the Articles so as the Ch. of England might have cause to thank him for it He never came to me after till he was almost ready to print another book to prove that Episcopacy was authorized in the Church by divine right and this was after these unhappy stirs began His desire was to have this book printed here but at his several addresses to me for this I still gave him this answer That I did not like the way which the Church of Rome went concerning Episcopacy And howsoever I would never give way that any such book from the pen of any Romanist should be printed here And the Bishops of England are very well able to defend their own cause and calling without calling in any aid from Rome and would so do when they saw cause and this is all the conference I ever had with him Our author S. Clara did at that time abscond and spend most of those years of trouble in obscurity sometimes beyond the Seas sometimes at London other times in the Country and now and then in Oxon at the publick Library where he was with great humanity received by Mr. Tho. Barlow Head keeper thereof as our author doth very gratefully acknowledge in one of his works At length after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 when a marriage was celebrated between him and Catherina of Portugal he became her Theologist or one of the chief Chaplains about her and was the third time chose Provincial Minister of his Order for the Province of England After the expiration of which for it lasts if I am not mistaken but for three years he was once or twice chosen again to that office before his death being accounted the greatest and chiefest pillar of his order and the onliest person to be consulted about the affairs thereof He was excellently well vers'd in School divinity the Fathers and Counsels Philosophers and in Ecclesiastical and Profane Histories He was a Person of very free discourse but Cressy was reserv'd of a vivacious and quick countenance the other clouded and melancholy and quick of apprehension but the other not or at least would not All which accomplishments made his company acceptable to great and worthy Persons As for the books which this noted author hath published mostly written in Latine are these Tract adversus judiciariam Astrologiam Duac 1626. oct This I have not yet seen nor is it printed among his Works Paraphrastica Expositio articulorum confessionis Anglicae This was printed first by it self and afterwards at the end of Tract de Praedest following This book was much talk'd against by the Jesuits who by all means would have it burnt but being soon after licensed in Rome gave a stop to any farther rumour of it However in Spain it was censur'd and how and why let the author tell you in his own words sent to me thus You told me that Mr. Leiburne shew'd you the Index Expurgatorius of Spain wherein was named the book of articles published by me There was here in London a Spanish Embassador under the Rebels named Alonso who had great malice to the last King and being informed by a knave that the book was dedicated to and accepted by the King whom he esteemed his enemy he surreptitiously procured in Spain to have it censured He endeavoured to have it so done at Rome but they answered as Pilate Non invenio causam and therefore it passed safe This man Alonso had been a Jesuit and was esteemed not only to have left them rudely but to have given himself over to get money c. In a letter also from Mr. Middleton to Archb. Laud dated at Venice in Dec. 1635 I find these passages that the book of S. Clara rellished not well with the Catholicks and that there was a consultation about it and some did extrema suadere and cried ad ignem Father Tho. Talbot a Jesuit of Paris told him so by letter who talking with the Popes Nuntio at Paris about it he told him 't was the best course to let it dye of it self to which the Nuntio a moderate man was inclinable Tractatus de praedestinatione de meritis peccatorum remissione c. Ludg. Bat. 1634. qu. In the year following the said book came out with this title Deus natura gratia sive tractatus de praedestinatione de meritis c. This book was dedicated to K. Ch. 1. to seduce him if you 'll believe Prynne to his religion and induce him to establish the Romish religion amongst us by his royal authority as he pretends to prove it from the dedicatory Epistle also that the whole scope of the book it self with the paraphrastical exposition of the articles at the end of it was to reconcile reduce both our King Church and the articles of our Religion which he comments upon to the Church of Rome He also endeavours to prove that St. Giles before mention'd living in the Venetian Embassadors house in London an 1635 was the author of that book and that it was printed at London but he is much mistaken and makes a confused story of the said two books which is needless now to tell you Systema fidei sive tractatus de concilio universali c. Leod. 1648. qu. Opusculum de definibilitate controversiae immaculatae conceptionis dei genetricis Tractatus de schismate speciatim Anglicano Fragmenta seu Historia minor
of another because Byrd had been dead several years before Whereupon Charnock began anew with the help of a servant and again by himself alone in which work continuing 9 months which was within a month of his reckoning the Crows head began to appear black but a War being proclaimed against the French an 1557 and he thereupon by the malice of a Gentleman who was his neighbour prest for a Soldier his operations were frustrated and all cast aside On the first of January the same year he began to write The Breviary of natural Philosophy and on the 20. of July following he ended it In the title and end of which he stiles himself an unlettered Scholar and Student in the most worthy science of Astronomy and Philosophy This Breviary is written in old English verse which in the next Century coming into the hands of the most renowned Mercuriophilus Anglicus who sometimes writes himself James Hasolle Elias Ashmole was among other authors of the like nature published by him under this title Theatrum Chemicum Britanicum In 1562 Charnock married Agnes Norden at Stokeland-Bristow four miles from Bridgwater in Somersetshire being then or soon after setled there but afterwards at a place called Comadge and in the year after he buried Absolon his Son In 1566 he finished his book called The principal rules of natural Philosophy figuratively set forth to the obtaining of the Philosophers stone In which year also he dedicated a book of The Science to Qu. Elizabeth and dated the Rolle at Stockland as he himself saith which Rolle is written in Latine being the same I presume with the Emblematical Scrowle supposed to be invented by George Ripley the inside of which was composed as Charnock says by a great Master of the Hermetick Philosophy and written by a Master of his pen. Some notes in the void spaces of it were written by Charnock's hand which shew that he did not or at least throughly understand it In 1572 he wrot the Poesie of the Rolle which Rolle seems to me to have been a kind of a Vade mecum or a Manual that the Students of the Hermetick Science carried about with them and also to be taken from Raymandus Lullius The same year he wrot Aenigma ad Alchimiam and Aenigma de Alchimia both in English Verse and printed in Theat Chem. before mention'd In 1573 he wrot as himself saith the fragment Knock the Child on the head See Theat Chem. pag. 425 and in the year after he confessed that he never saw The white ferment to the red till the fiftieth year of his age In 1576 appeared The difficulty of the Philosophical number in the Rolle This Rolle so often mentioned is religiously kept to this day in a house at Comadge before mention'd where for his Studies and carrying on of his Operations he made a little room and contrivance for the keeping his Work and so ingeniously ordered that no accident of fire could befall him as it did on New-years day 1555. It joyns as a Closet to that which was his Chamber to make a Servant needless and the work of giving attendance more easie to himself On the door was drawn by his own hand with course Colours but rudely an Emblem of his Work So likewise about the walls in his Chamber are several pieces of his painting differing from each other some of which are obscure and almost woren out Several fragments written by him are published in the said Theat Chem Brit. but therein are omitted Charnocks Poesie upon the white and red rose and verses on the Philosophers Dragon which eateth up her owne tale c. This Rosacrucian Charnock paid his last debt to nature in his house at Comadge and was buried within the precincts of the Church at Otterhampton near to Bridgwater 21. Apr. 1581. HENRY MARTEN commonly called Harry Marten son of Sir Hen. Mart. mention'd among these writers under the year 1641 p. 4. was born within the City of Oxford particularly as I conceive in the parish of S. John Bapt in an house opposite to Mert. Coll. Church then lately built by Hen. Sherburne Gent. and possess'd at the time of Harry's birth by Sir Henry his father After he had been instructed in Grammar learning in Oxon he became a Gent. Com. of University Coll. in the beginning of 1617 aged 15 years where and in public giving a manifestation of his pregnant parts had the degree of Bach. of Arts confer'd upon him in the latter end of 1619. Afterwards he went to one of the Inns of Court travelled into France and at his return his father found out a rich wife for him whom he married somthing unwillingly and therefore afterwards living a part from her and following other creatures she was for sometime distemper'd In the beginning of the year 1640 he was elected one of the Knights of Berks to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 13. Apr and again tho not legally in Oct. to serve in that unhappy Parliament that began at the same place on the 3. of Novemb. following In which last Parliament he shew'd himself out of some little pique the most bitter enemy against the K. in all the House as well in action as speech for which being first reprimanded while the Presbyterians swayed therein was afterwards for the incontinence of his tongue committed Prisoner to the Tower of London but soon after released He was an enemy also to the Kingly Office and all belonging thereunto especially the Regalia which he caused to be sold for being authorized by the said Parliament about 1642 he forced open a great iron Chest within the College of Westminster and thence took out the Crown Robes Sword and Scepter belonging antiently to K. Edw. the Confessor and used by all our Kings at their inaugurations and with a scorn greater than his lusts and the rest of his vices he openly declared that there should be no further use of those toyes and trifles c. And in the jollity of that humour he invested George Wither an old puritan Satyrist in the royal habiliments who being crown'd and royally arrayed as well right became him did first march about the room with a stately garb and afterwards with a thousand apish and rediculous actions exposed those sacred ornaments to contempt and laughter Had the abuse been stript and whip'd as it should have been the foolish fellow possibly might have passed for a Prophet tho he could not be reckoned for a Poet. The said H. Marten was a taker of all Oaths whether that of Allegiance Covenant Engagement c. The last of which being by him taken he would by all means as the Independent Gang did make the Covenant an old Almanack out of date to the end that he and they might be rid of that tie of preserving his Majesties person and authority c. as the Presbyterians would with regret frequently say He was also an eager enemy against Lords Gentry Lawyers and Clergy and a
way as they call it of promoting learning now for some years carried on and professed tho not at this time 1690 and several years since with that active vigour as at first by the Royal Society The institution of which its religious tendency towards the advancement of true substantial and solid improvements and great benefit which hath and may accrue thence to humane life by that real and useful knowledge there aimed at and in part obtained he hath with some shew and appearance at least of reason defended against H. Stubbe and all this against the old way which he calls a bare formal Scheme of empty airy notions sensless terms and insignificant words fit only to make a noise and furnish men with matter of wrangling and contention c. His reflecting on his University education with such regret and disatisfaction declaring often in common discourse that his being trained up in that trite and beaten road was one of his greatest unhappinesses that had ever befalen him as it savoured plainly of too much arrogance thus rashly to condemn the statutable continued practice of such a learned body which doth not as is by our modern Virtuosi falsly pretended so slavishly tye up its youth to the magisterial dictates of Aristole as not to be permitted in any cases to depart from his somtimes erroneous sentiments but gives them free and boundless liberty of ranging and conversing with the many and different writers who set up with the specious name of new Philosophy referring still to the authority of Aristotle as unquestionable in the performance of public exercise So neither did it seem to consist with those grateful returns which his more benign mother the University might here reasonably looked for from him as some slender requital for her so frankly bestowing on him the ground-work or foundation at least of all that learning which afterwards rendred him so mightily known and famous to and among some people Mr. R. Baxter to whom our author wrote a large courting Letter dat 3. Sept. 1661 wherein it appears that he admired his preaching and writings saith that he was a man of more than ordinary ingeny that he was one of themselves here tho an Originist a most triumphant Conformist and not the greatest contemner of Nonconformists and famous for his great wit c. which last commendation is given of him by the most famous Th. de Albiis an eminent writer of another persuasion As for the books that this our author Glanvill hath written the titles of which follow some of them are new vamp'd have fresh titles and somtimes new dedications put to them which whether it was so contrived to make the world believe that he was not lazy but put out a book every year I leave to others to judge The vany of Dogmatizing or confidence in opinions manifested in a discourse of the shortness and uncertainty of our knowledg and its causes with some reflections on Peripateticisme and an apologie for philosophy Lond. 1661. oct All or most of this book is contained in Scepsis scientifica c. as I shall tell you by and by It was answered by Thom. Anglus ex Albiis East-Saxonum in his book entit Sciri sive Sceptices Scepticorum a jure disputationis exâ—lusio Lond. 1663. in tw By this Tho. Anglus we are to understand to be the same with Tho. White second son of Rich. White of Hutton in Essex Esq by Mary his wife daughter of Edm. Plowden the great Lawyer in the raign of Qu. Elizabeth which Th. White having been alwaies from his childhood a Rom. Catholick became at length a Secular Priest and a most noted Philosopher of his time as his published writings much sought after and admired by many shew Hobbes of Malmsbury had a great respect for him and when he lived in Westminster he would often visit him and he Hobbes but seldom parted in cool blood for they would wrangle squabble and scold about philosophical matters like young Sophisters tho either of them was 80 years of age yet Hobbes being obstinate and not able to endure contradiction tho well he might seeing White was his Senior yet those Scholars who were somtimes present at their wrangling disputes held that the Laurel was carried away by White who dying in his lodging in Drury lane between the hours of two and three in the afternoon of the sixth day of July an 1676 aged 94 years was buried almost under the Pulpit in the Church of S. Martin in the fields within the liberty of Westminster on the ninth day of the same month By his death the R. Catholicks lost an eminent ornament from among them and it hath been a question among some of them whether ever any Secular Priest of England went beyond him in philosophical matters Our author Glanvill hath also written Lux Orientalis or an Enquiry into the opinion of the Easterne Sages concerning the pre-existence of Soules being a key to unlock the grand mysteries of Providence c. Lond. 1662. oct There again 1683. See at the end of this Cat. of our authors works Scepsis Scientifica or confest ignorance the way to Schisme in an Essay to the vanity of Dogmatizing and confident opinion Lond. 1665. qu. A reply to the exceptions of the learned Tho. Albius c. Or thus Scire i tuum nihil est or the authors defence of the vanity of Dogmatizing c. Printed with Scep Scient A Letter to a friend concerning Aristotle Printed also with Scep Scient Some philosophical considerations touching the Being of Witches and Witchcraft In a letter to Rob. Hunt Esq Lond. 1666. qu. But all or most of the impression of this book being burnt in the great fier at Lond. in the beginning of Sept. the same year it was reprinted there again 1667. qu. The said Phil. consid were answer'd by John Webster practicioner in physick and chirurgery in the W. Riding of Yorshire in a book which I shall anon mention A blow at moderne Saducisme in some philosophical considerations about Witchcraft Lond. 1668 c. qu. See more towards the latter end of this Cat. of books Relation of the famed disturbance at the house of Mr. Mumpesson Printed with the Blow at Mod. Sad. This disturbance in the house of Tho. Mompesson of Tidworth in Wilts Esq was occasion'd by its being haunted with evil Spirits and the beating of a drum invisibly every night from Febr. 1662 to the beginning of the year following and after Reflections on drollery and Atheisme Pr. also with A Blow at Mod. Sad. Palpable evidence of Spirits and Witchcraft in an account of the famed disturbance by a Drummer in the house of Mr. Mumpesson c. Lond. 1668. This is most if not all the same with the former only the title alter'd A Whip for the Droll Fidler to the Atheist being reflections on Drollery and Atheisme Lond. 1668. This is also mostly the same with Rest on droll and Ath. before-mention'd 'T
several generous hazards of his person in Battle he was at last totally routed by the rebellious party near Stow on the Would in Glocestershire where the noble and valiant Sir Jacob Astley was taken Prisoner and himself received several scars of honour which he carried to his grave Afterwards he retired to Oxon the then seat of his Majesty and had in recompence of his losses confer'd upon him an employment under Sir Joh. Heydon then Lieutenant General of the Ordnance which was to receive and pay off money for the service of the Magazine and Artillery at which time Edward Sherburne Gent. afterwards a Knight was Commissary General of the said Artillery It was then that at leisure houres he followed his studies was esteemed a member of Queens Coll. being entred among the students there and might with other officers have had the degree of Master of Arts confer'd on him by the members of the Ven. Convocation but he neglected it After the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon at which time the Kings cause did dayly decline our author Wharton was put to his shifts and lived as opportunity served went to the great City lived as privately as he could and wrote several small things for a livelyhood But they giving offence to the great men then in power he was several times seized on and imprison'd as in the Gatehouse at Westminster in Newgate and at length in Winsore Castle At which time being threatned with greater punishment he found Will. Lilly his Antagonist a friend After his Majesties restauration he became Treasurer and Pay-Master to the Office of his Majesties Ordnance repaid Lilly his curtesie gained so well by his employment that purchasing an estate he was in consideration of his former sufferings under and for K. Ch. 1 and for particular services to K. Ch. 2 created a Baronet by patent dated 31. Dec. 1677 which honor his son Sir Polycarpus Wharton now enjoyes Sir George was alwaies esteemed the best Astrologer that wrote the Ephemerides of his time and went beyond W. Lilly and Jo. Booker the idolls of the Vulgar was a constant and thro-pac'd Loyallist a boon Companion a witty Droll and waggish Poet. He hath written Hemeroscopions or Almanacks from 1640 to 1666. Printed all in oct The six first came out under the name of George Naworth and therefore by Lilly usually called Noworth The rest that for 1646 being as it seems omitted came partly out under the name of Captaine George Wharton and partly under George Wharton Esq In that Alman which he published in 1644 he began to fill the blank leaves of the respective months with Chronological notes which continuing so now and then interruptedly till 1657 he then put them at the end of every Almanack under the title of Gesta Brittannorum and commenc'd them from 1600 whereas before they were but from Dec. 1641. These Gests are all or most part involved in an octavo book called The Historians Guide c. In all the said Almanacks is a great deal of satyrical poetry reflecting on the times and rebellious persons thereof which since hath been collected together and printed in his works Mercurio-caelico Mastix or an anti-caveat to all such as have heretofore had the misfortune to be cheated and deluded by that great and traiterous Impostor Joh. Booker in answer to his frivolous Pamphlet Entit Mercurius-Caelicus or a caveat to all the people of England Oxon. 1644. in tw sh in qu. Englands Iliads in a Nutshel or a brief Chronologie of the battailes sieges conflicts c. from Dec. 1641 to 25. of Mar. 1645. Oxon. 1645 oct Taken from his Almanacks for 1644. and 45. Mostly involv'd also in the said Hist Guide c. An Astrological judgment upon his Majesties present March begun from Oxon 7. May 1645 Print in qu. Bellum Hybernicale or Irelands Warr Astrologically demonstrated from the late celestial congress of two malevolent Planets Saturne and Mars in Taurus the Ascendent of that kingdome c. Printed 1647. qu. Merlini Anglici Errata Or the errours mistakes c. of Mr. Will. Lilly's new Ephemeris for 1647 Printed 1647. Mercurius Elencticus communicating the unparallel'd proceedings at Westminster the Head-quarters and other places c. Printed by stealth in London This Mercury which began 29. Oct. 1649 came out sheet by sheet every week in qu and continuing interruptedly till 4. Apr. 1649 it came out again with numb 1. and continued till towards the end of that year I have seen several things that were published under the name of Merc. Elenct particularly the first and second part of The last Will and Test of Philip Earl of Pembroke c. Pr. 1649. qu but whether George Wharton was author of them I know not A List of the names of the members of the H. of Commons observing which are Officers of the Army contrary to the self-denying ordinance together with such sums of money offices and lands as they have given to themselves for service done and to be done against the King and Kingdom Printed in one sh in qu. 1648. It was all taken from the first part of The Hist of Independency written by Clem. Walker In the said List are the names of an 100 persons and to it was added a second Century by the same author Wharton printed on one side of a sh of paper the same year and subscribed M. El. i. e. Merc. Elencticus The reader is to note that in 1657. and 58 came out Two Narratives of the late Parliament so called their Election and appearing c. with the account of the places of profit sallaries and advantages which they hold and receive under the present power c. Pr. in qu. but by whom they were written I know not Sure it is that the author borrowes several things from the said Hist of Indep and the said List or Two Centuries and from them all put together doth borrow the author of another book entit The mystery of the good old cause briefly unfolded in a cat of such members of the late Long Parliament that held offices both Civil and Military c. Lond. 1660. oct Who the author of this Mysterie was I cannot yet tell Sure it is if Sir Will. Dugdale told me right that Clem. Spelman who was Cursitor Baron published about the same time a Character of the Oliverians on one side of a sheet which Clement after he had written and published a large preface to his fathers Sir Hen. Spelman book De non temerandis Ecclesiis and some other little things as I suppose he concluded his last day in June after Whitsontide an 1679 whereupon his body was buried in St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet London G. Wharton hath also written A short account of the Fasts and Festivals as well of the Jews as Christians c. The Cabal of the twelve Houses Astrologicall from Morinus Written 1659. and approved by Will. Oughtred A learned and useful discourse teaching the right observation and keeping of
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
dispersed THOMAS BROWNE eldest son of Th. Br. Gent. was born in S. Michaels Cheap or in the parish of S. Michael in Cheapside in London on the 19 of Nov. an 1605 educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near Winchester entred a Commoner of Broadgates Hall soon after known by the name of Pembroke Coll in the beginning of the year 1623 took the degrees in Arts as a Member of the said Coll entred on the physick line and practised that faculty for some time in these parts Afterwards he travelled beyond the Seas was made Doctor of Physick at Leyden and after his return he was incorporated in this University an 1637. About which time he by the perswasions of Tho. Lushington his somtimes Tutor retired to the City of Norwych where being setled he was much resorted to by Patients for his admirable skill in Physick which he practiced there with good success for many years was made Socius honorarius of the Coll. of Physitians at London and at length in the latter end of Sept. 1671. had the honour of Knighthood confer'd upon him by his Maj. Ch. 2 then at and near the City of Norwych He hath written Religio Medici Lond. 1642. c. oct in English Answerd in a book intit Medicus Medicatus written by Alex. Ross a Scot and had English Observations put on it about the same time by Sir Ken. Digby and Annotations by another Afterwards the book it self was translated into Latine by Joh. Meryweather M. A. of Cambridge and had latine annotations put to it by a certain German who subscribes himself L. N. M. E. M. Printed at Strasburgh 1652. in oct whose preface to it tells us that the book it self which is translated into French Italian Dutch German c. hath been much taken into the hands of curious and learned men who have read it with great delight See more there of the author Browne and of his Relig. Med. in the said translat Pseud Epidem Enquiries into very many received Tenents and commonly presumed truths or enquiries into common and vulgar errours Lond. 1646 in a little fol. There again 1650. and 57 c. The sixth edit in 1673 was enlarged by the author with many explanations additions alterations c. T was answer'd by the said Alex. Ross in his Arcana Microcosmi Or the hid secrets of mans body discovered c. Lond. 1652 oct c. And in a book written by Joh. Robinson M. D. entit Eudoxa seu questionum quarundam Miscelleniarum examen probabile c. Lond. 1656. oct The Reader may be pleased now to know that there hath been published under Dr. Tho. Brownes name a book bearing this title Natures Cabinet unlocked wherein is discovered the natural causes of Metalls Stones Pretious Earths c. Printed 1657 in tw A dull worthles thing stole for the most part out of the Physicks of Magirus by a very ignorant person a Plagiary so ignorant and unskilful in his rider that not distinguishing between Laevis and Levis in the said Magirus hath told us of the Liver that one part of it is gibbous and the other light And yet he had the confidence to call this scribble Natures Cabinet c an arrogant and fanciful title of which our authors Browne true humilitie would have no more have suffer'd him to have been the father than his great learning could have permitted him to have been the author of the said book For it is certain that as he was a Philosopher very inward with nature so was he one that never boasted his acquaintance with her Sir Tho. Browne hath written also Urn-burial or a discourse of Sepulchral Urns lately found out in Norfolke c. Lond. 1658. oct c. The Garden of Cyrus or the Quincunical Lozenge or Net-work plantations of the Antients artificially naturally mystically considered with sundry observations c. Printed with Urn-burial Certaine Miscellany Tracts 1 Observations upon several plants mention'd in Scripture 2 Of Garlands and coronary or garden-plants 3 Of the Fishes eaten by our Saviour with his Disciples after his resurrection from the dead 4 Answer to certain equeries relating to Fishes Birds Insects 5 Of Hawkes and falconry antient and moderne 6 Of Cymbals c. 7 Of ropalie or gradual verses c. 8 Of Languages and particularly of the Saxon tongue 9 Of artificial Hills mounts or burrowes in many parts of England 10 What place is meant by that name 11 Of the answers of the Oracle of Apollo at Delphos to Croesus King of Lydia 12 A prophecie concerning the future state of several nations 13 Musaeum Clausum or Bibliotheca abscondita c. All these were printed at Lond. 1686 in oct with the authors picture before them shewing him to have been an handsome man and an Epistle written by Dr. Tho. Tennison the publisher of them who saith that there is on foot a design of writing the authors life and that there are already some memorialls collected for that purpose by one of his antient friends and puts the Reader in expectation of receiving hereafter some other remaining brief Discourses among which is his Repertorium or some account of the Tombes Monuments c. in the Cath. Ch. of Norwich This learned and worthy Physitian whose works were published in fol. 1686 with his picture also before them died in his house in Norwych on the 19 day of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and two and was buried within the Railes at the East end of the Chancell in the Church of S. Peter in Mancroft within the said City Over his grave was a Monument soon after erected by his Relict Dame Dorothy who had been his affectionate wife 41. years with this inscription thereon M. S. Hic situs est Thomas Browne M. D. Miles An. 1605 Londini natus generosâ familiâ apud Upton in agro Cestrensi oriundus Scholâ primum Wintoniensi postea in Coll. Pembr apud Oxonienses bonis literis haud leviter imbutus in urbe hâc Nordovicensi Medicinam arte egregiâ faelici successu professus Scriptis quibus tituli Religio Medici Pseudodoxia Epidemica aliissque per orbem notissimus Vir pientissimus integerrimus doctissimus Obiit Octob. 19 an 1682. Pie posuit maestissima conjux D a Dor. Br. There is also an English Epitaph which for brevity sake I shall now pass by THOMAS TANNER son of a wealthy Citizen of London was born in the Parish of S. Matthew in Friday-street within that City an 1630 educated in Paules School and thence sent to Pembroke Hall in Cambridge where he took the degree of Bach. of Arts. Afterwards going to Oxon when the Visitours appointed by Parl. sate there he was incorporated in the said degree in Feb. 1650 and about that time was made one of the Fellows of New Coll. by the said Visitors In less than two years after he proceeded in Arts having some time before had the degree of M. of A. confer'd on him
which Argument c. he expected no less than to be made Lord chief Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland But falling short of that honorable office which â—e too ambitiously catch'd at and considering the loss of another place which he unjustly possessed he soon after appeared one of the worst and most inveterate enemies both to Church and State that was in his time and the most malicious and withall the most ignorant Scribler of the whole herd and thereupon stiled by a noted author Magni nominis umbra The said Postscript was reprinted the same year with a large and most scandalous Preface to it containing very groundless and abusive reflections on the Universities and the rankest raillery imaginable on the whole body of the Clergy and thereunto were annexed Great and weighty considerations c. before mentioned But the said Postscript being wrot with a plain design to overthrow what he had maintained in the body of his book occasioned besides what Rog. L'Estrange said against it in some of his Observators which came out soon after its publication Edw. Pelling Rector of S. Mart. Church within Ludgate Lond. the supposed author of Protestant Apostate c. Lond. 1682. qu. to point out from p. 21. to 35 the true original viz. Persons book of Succession put out under the name of N. Doleman from whence he transcribed many of his most pernicious and destructive Principles as well in the Great and weighty Considerations c. considered as in the Postscript Soon after one Wa. Williams of the Middle Temple Barrester did put out an Answer to the said Postscript intit An answer to sundry matters contained in Mr. Hunts Postscript to his Argument for the Bishops Right in judging capital Causes in Parliament viz. 1. As to his publishing a scandalous letter to the Clergy c. Lond. 1683. in 4 sh in qu. Dr. G. Hicks also in the preface to Jovian or an Answer to Julian the Apostate as also in the first edit of the book it self p. 237 and elsewhere in the same work doth plainly insinuate that this factious and rebellious author contributed no considerable assistance towards the composing of Julian the Apostate being a short account of his life c. written by Sam. Johnson And Mr. Tho. Long of Exeter in the Epist to the Reader before his Vindication of the Primitive Christians c. points at several foul passages in the said Julian clearly to be seen in Mr. Hunts Postscript and in the very entrance of the Appendix to the Vindication and in other places doth positively affirm that both Hunt and Johnson have borrowed great part of their respective Libels from Joh. Miltons villanous defence of the Murther of K. Ch. 1. Mr. Hunt hath also written 3 A defence of the Charter and municipal Rights of London Lond. 1683. qu. For the publishing of which he was ordered to be taken into custody whereupon he fled into Holland in June or thereabouts an 1683 aged about 56 years See more in the first Vol. of this work p. 308. The said Defence was answer'd by Anon. by way of Letter to a friend in a treatise intit The Lawyer outlaw'd or a brief answer to Mr. Hunts defence of the Charter c. Lond. 1683. in 5 sh in qu. It is also taken for granted by one who may reasonably be supposed to have fully known the truth of what he asserts in this matter that tho Tho. Shadwell the Poet bred in Cambridge be author of the rough draught of the following libel yet the finishing of it was done by Tho. Hunt which piece is thus intit Some reflections on the pretended parallel in the Play called The Duke of Guise in a letter to a friend Lond. 1683. in 4 sheets in quar RICHARD OWEN son of Cadwallader Owen sometimes Fellow of Oriel Coll afterwards Minister of Llanvechen in Mountgomeryshire was born in that County entred into the said Coll. an 1620 aged 15 years or thereabouts and made Fellow thereof in 1627 he being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards he proceeded in that faculty took holy Orders and in 1635 he was presented by the University of Oxon to the Vicaridge of Eltham in Kent by vertue of an Act of Parliament began at Westm 5 Nov. 3 Jac. disinabling Recusants to present to Livings In 1638 he resigned his Fellowship and the same year took the degree of Bach. of Divinity being about that time also Rector of S. Swithins London Stow. In the beginning of the Civil Wars he adhered to his Majesty and was thereupon thrown out of his Livings that of S. Swithins being lost in 1643 or thereabouts and suffered much for about 17 years time for the royal Cause After the return of K. Ch. 2. he was restored to what he had lost became Minister of S. Mary Cray in Kent was actually created Doctor of Div. of this University and in high esteem for his holy life and conversation for his orthodoxness in judgment conformity to the true antient Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England and in the former revolutions for his Loyalty to his sacred Majesty He hath written and publ Sermon at S. Maries in Oxon on S. Lukes day 1637 on 2 Cor. 8.18 I have seen this in manuscript which for its rarity went from hand to hand but whether ever made publick I know not Paulus Multiformis Concio ad clerum Londinensem in 1 Cor. cap. 9. ver 22. Lond. 1666. qu. He hath also translated into English all or most of the Satyrs of Juvenal which I have not yet seen and hath written something of Controversie He died about the latter end of January in sixteen hundred eighty and two and was buried in the chancel of the Church at Eltham before mention'd having had some Dignity in the Church in those parts RICHARD TOWGOOD or Toogood was born near Brewton in Somersetshire became a Servitour or poor Scholar of Oriel Coll. an 1610 took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and preached for some time in these parts Afterwards he retired to the City of Bristow was made Master of the School in the College Green there and thence he was removed to the Pastorship of Allsaints Church Afterwards he took the degree of Bach. of Div. and was made one of the Chaplains to K. Ch. 1 to whose cause adhering in the time of the Rebellion he suffered much for it being then Vicar of S. Nicholas Ch. in Bristow but at the return of his son he was restored was made as I conceive Preb. of Bristow and upon the promotion of Dr. Glemham to the See of S. Asaph had the Deanery thereof given to him by his Majesty in requital of his Sufferings which he kept to his dying day He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Disloyalty of Language questioned and censured preached against the licentiousness of seditious tongues on Job 34.18 former part of the 18 verse Printed at Bristow 1643. oct To which is added A brief Corollarie
to a friend Printed in qu. He had a chief hand also in Celeusma which I shall anon mention and wrot other things He died in the Prison called Newgate in Lond. on the 19 of January 1684 at which time were 80 Dissenters or more then and there remaining and on the 24 of the same month his corps being attended by at least 150 Coaches was inter'd in the burying place called by some the Phanatical and by others Tyndales Burying place joyning on the north side to the New Artillery Garden or Yard near London Soon after was printed and published An Elegy on that reverend and learned Minister of the Gospel Mr. Will. Jenkyns who finished his Testimony c. A comment on which with many things concerning Mr. Jenkyns himself you may see in the 2 vol. of The Observator num 209.210 written by Rog. L'estrange Esq wherein also you 'll find his Petition to the Supreme Authority the Parliam of the Commonwealth of England for the pardon of his life and estate for being engaged in the Plot before mention'd in which Petition being asserted by him that Possession and strength give a right to govern and success in a cause or enterprise proclaims it to be lawful and just c. it was by the decree and judgment of the Univ. of Oxon past in their Convocation 21 July 1683 burnt with certain books in the School Quadrangle as destructive to the sacred person of Princes their state and government c. Our author Dr. Durell hath also written against the aforesaid two Apologies a book intit Sanctae Ecclesiae Anglicanae adversus iniquas atque inverecundas schismaticorum criminationes Vindiciae c. Lond. 1669. qu. In which Vindiciae the author doth only by the by sometimes take notice of the former or first Apologist as thinking him unworthy of any larger confutation but the other Hickman he answers more fully and designedly in his citations following his second edition As for the character given of the said Vindiciae hear what Mathew Scrivner saith in the place before cited in relation to his answer to Hen. Hickman Justo volumine contemptissimi istius capitis veternos nuper obtrivit Durellus fecitque vanissimum autorem inter pueros immodestiae amicitiae suae infelicissimum deplorare exitum And what Lew. du Moulin delivers of it is that it is more offensive to the Puritans than the other book intit A view of the Government c. And therefore against it came out soon after a small piece intit Bonasus vapulans or some Castigations given to Mr. Joh. Durell for fowling himself and others in his English and Lat. book Lond. 1672. in a small oct said to be written by a Country Scholar yet generally believed to have been pen'd by Hickman before mentioned Which book with some additions and alterations came out again with this new title The Nonconformists vindicated from the abuses put upon them by Mr. Durell and Mr. Scrivner Lond. 1679. oct Of which edition and notorious falsities expressed in the title I shall give you an account when I come to H. Hickman Dr. L. du Moulin published also another book against it without his name set to it bearing this title Patronus bonae fidei in causa Puritanorum contra Hierarchas Anglos ut disceptatur in specimene confutationis Vindiciarum clariss viri Joh. Durelli cujus periculum fit cum passim in ejus opere tum Maxime in capite primo in quo agitur de authoribus nuperorum motuum in Anglia Lond. 1672. oct This book hath five distinct running titles all differently paged to the end that the sheets so printed might the better by that means escape the Searchers of the Press The titles are 1. Epistola 2 Specimen 3. Prodromus 4. Defensor and 5. Patronus c. This Patronus bonae fidei tho fraught with scurrilities and the utmost malice and bitterness in which the author whose excellency laid in ill natur'd Satyr could possibly express himself against the Ch. of England and some of her most eminent as well dead as living Propugners yet it is cited more than once as a piece of notable authority in Will Jenkyns's Celeusma seu clamor ad caelum c. Lond. 1677. qu. In which book when the author refers you to the said Patronus bonae fidei the Writer thereof Moulin is characterized as doctissimus clariss and eruditiss possibly as we may justly conceive for his performance in that work Nay 't is not only quoted as a very authentick piece by the said Jenkyns but is cited by Dr. Tho. Godden the great and eminent Rom. Cath. Writer against the Church of England in his Dialogues wrot in defence of Catholicks no Idolaters against Dr. Stillingfleet as a Treatise to be credited in its account of some practices and usuages in the Ch. of England but chiefly of bowing towards the Altar To which citation from Du Moulin Dr. Stillingfleet replies in his book intit Several Conferences between a Romish Priest a fanatic Chaplain and a Divine of the Ch. of England being a full answer to the late Dialogues of T. G. In the pages here quoted in the margin you 'll find an account of the great Knight-service which L. du Moulin did for the Papists and what wonderful good use they made of him besides the sharp character given of his performance in Patronus bonae fidei which I presume could not be over pleasing to that proud and haughty French-man A farther account of him and his Writings is in Dr. Rob. Grove his Defensio suae responsionis ad nuperum libellum qui inscribitur Celeusma c. adversus reputationem ab authore Celeusmatis editum but more particularly from the said Groves former piece called Responsio ad Celeusma c. In the 15 page of this last mention'd book you have this close and smart character of some of this French Doctors most considerable performances thus Erat aliquando tempus cum tu excusatius peccares cum esses olim Irenaeus Philadelphus an 1641 qui à te laesi erant temeritati tuae veniam dabant cum Paraenesin scriberes an 1656 te opus viribus tuis majus aggredi putabant cum Causae jugulum peteres anno 1671 delirare credebant cum Bonae fidei Patronum ederes 1672 insanire videberis nunc autem postquam Ecclesiae Anglicanae progressus ad Papismum emisisti omnes te jam furore arbitrantur c. Altho these Vindiciae of Dr. Durell are well known to be written in good Latin yet Dr. Du Moulin makes such a boasting fulsome comparison between the goodness of Dr. Durell's stile in this book and that of his own in his Patr. bon fidei c. by a strange kind of modesty giving himself the preeminence in such unbecoming extravagant Language that Mr. Mat. Scrivener could not but take particular notice of and reflect on this notable piece of self flattery among other passages
This little book which was written for the training up of children in Independency I have not yet seen and therefore I cannot tell you where or when 't was printed Of the death of Christ the price he paid and the purchase he made Or the satisfaction and merit of the death of Christ cleered and universality of redemption thereby oppugned c. Lond. 1650. qu. Diatriba de justitia divina seu justitiae vindicatricis vindiciae c. Oxon. 1653. oct The doctrine of the Saints perseverance explained and confirmed c. against Joh. Goodwins Redemption redeemed c. Lond. 1654. fol. Vindiciae Evangelicae or the mystery of the Gospel vindicated and Socinianisme examined in consideration of a Catechisme called A Scripture Catechisme written by John Biddle M. A and the Catechisme of Valentinus Smalcius commonly called The Racovian Catechisme Oxon. 1655. qu. Vindication of the testimonies of the Scripture concerning the deity and satisfaction of Jesus Christ c. against Hugo Grotius Printed with Vindiciae Evangelicae Vindication of some things formerly written about the death of Christ and the fruites thereof from the animadversions of Mr. Rich. Baxter Printed also with Vind. Evang. Of the mortification of sin in Beleivers c. resolving cases of conscience thereunto belonging Lond. 1656. oct c. A review of the Annotations of Hugo Grotius in reference to the doctrine of the deity and satisfaction of Christ c. with a defence of the charge formerly laid against them Oxon. 1656. qu. Written in answer to Dr. H. Hammond Catechisme or an introduction to the worship of God and discipline of the Churches of the New Testam Printed 1657. oct c. Animadverted upon by Geor. Fox the Quaker in his Great mystery of the great whore unfolded c. Lond. 1659. fol. p. 263. Of the true nature of Schisme with reference to the present differences in religion Oxon. 1657. oct Review of the true nature of Schisme with a vindication of the congregational Churches in England from the imputation thereof unjustly charged on them by Mr. Dan. Cawdrey Minister of Billing in Northamptonshire Oxon. 1657 oct Of Communion with God the Father Son and Holy Ghost each person distinctly in love grace and consolation or the Saints fellowship with the Father Son and Holy Ghost unfolded Oxon. 1657. qu. In this book as in some other of his works he doth strangely affect in ambiguous and uncouth words canting mystical and unintelligible phrases to obscure sometimes the plainest and most obvious truths And at other times he endeavours by such a mist and cloud of sensless terms to draw a kind of vail over the most erroneous doctrines But against this book came out another long after written by Dr. Will. Sherlock entit A discourse concerning the knowledge of Jesus Christ and our union and communion with him c. Lond. 1674 c. Which book at its first coming out made a great noise and found many Adversaries viz. besides Dr. Owen who wrot a vindication as I shall tell you anon was 1 Rob. Ferguson a noted Scotch Divine who taught boys Grammar and University learning at Islington near London in his book called The interest of reason in religion c. Printed in oct 2 Edw. Polhill of Burwash in Sussex Esq in his Divine will considered c. as it seems 3 Antisozzo or Sherlocismus enervatus c. Pr. in oct said to be written by Benj. Alsop a Nonconforming Minister who since the death of their famous A. Marvel hath been Quibler and Punner in ordinary to the dissenting party tho he comes much short of that person It was the first piece in which he bestowed his pretensions to wit and buffoonry and it was admired much by the Brethren Besides these Tho. Danson put in his answer entit A friendly debate c. and one or two more viz. the author of Speculum Sherlockianum supposed to have been written by Hen. Hickman and Prodromus or a character of Mr. Sherlocks book called A discourse c. Lond. 1674. oct Written by Sam. Rolle sometimes Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge Afterwards Sherlock made a Reply to Owens Vindication and Fergusons Interest of reason c. not taking any particular notice of Polhill and Antisozzo in a second piece called A defence and continuation of the discourse concerning the knowledge of Jesus Christ and our union and communion with him with a particular respect to the doctrine of the Church of England c. Lond. 1675. oct Dr. Owen hath also written A defence of Mr. John Cotton from the imputation of self-contradiction charged on him by Mr. Dan. Cawdrey written by himself not long before his death Lond. 1658. oct whereunto is prefixed by our author Owen An answer to a late treatise of Mr. Cawdrey about the nature of Schisme Nature power and danger of temptation Oxon. 1658. octavo Pro sacris scripturis adversus hujus temporis Fanaticos exercitationes Apologeticae quatuor Oxon. 1658. oct Of the divine original authority self evidencing light and power of the Scripture c. Oxon. 1659. oct Vindication of the integrity and purity of the Hebrew and Greek text of the Scripture Printed with The Divine Original c. Considerations on the Prologomena and Appendix to the late Biblia Polyglotta This which is also printed with The Divine Original c. was written against Dr. Brian Walton A paper containing resolutions of certain questions concerning the power of the supreme Magistrate about religion and the worship of God with one about Tythes Lond. 1659 in one sh in qu. Answer'd soon after by a Quaker in another sheet entit A Winding-sheet for Englands Ministry which hath a name to live but is dead 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sive de natura ortu progressu studio verae Theologiae Libri 6. c. Oxon. 1661. qu. Digressiones de Gratia universali scientiarum ortu c. Pr. with the former book Animadversions on a Treatise entituled Fiat lux c. Lond. 1662. oct Which book Fiat lux or a general conduct to a right understanding and charity in the great combustion and broiles about religion in England between Papists and Protestants Presb. and Independents printed the same year in oct was written by a learned Franciscan Fryer called John Vincent Cane who dying in or near Somerset house in the Strand within the liberty of Westm in the month of June 1672 was buried in the Vault under the Chappel belonging to that House About 1665 he Cane published a little thing entit Diaphanta written by him partly against Mr. Edw. Stillingfleet in which he endeavours barely to excuse Catholick religion against the opposition of several Adversaries It is briefly animadverted on by the said Mr. Stillingfleet in a Postscript to his reply to Mr. Joh. Sargeants Third Appendix which reply is placed as an Appendix at the end of Mr. Joh. Tillotsons book called The rule of faith He also wrot An account of Dr. Stillingfleets late book against the
This book which got him great credit with his Diocesan Dr. Jo. Cosin is commended by Dr. Durell in his S. Eccles Anglicanae Vindiciae Afterwards at the request of the said Hesenthalerus our author Ritschel sent to Wertemberg his Ethica Christiana in 2 vol. qu. with another Latin quarto called Exercitationes sacrae which Hesenthalerus desired and promised to take care of the printing them and engaged his son to take the like care if he should die before they were began Whether they were printed is not yet certain He also at his death left with his son two MSS. ready for the press one De fide catholica and the other against the English Quakers both in qu. and in Latine This learned author who for a time had been Tutor in his travels to the sons of the Prince of Transylvania died on the 28 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred eighty and three and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Hexham before mentioned sometimes a Cathedral dedicated to St. Andrew in the Vicaridge of which his son named George Ritschel lately of S. Edm. Hall succeeded him Soon after was a monument put over his grave with this inscription thereon Sub hoc marmore sacrae reconduntur reliquiae Georgii Ritschel Patria Bohemi religione reformati qui saeviente in Protestantes Ferdinando secundo omnibus gentilitiis haereditatibus exutus sed Argentorati Lugduni Batavorum aliarumque Academiarum exterarum spoliis onustus quicquid eruditionis in istis florentissimis Musarum Emporiis viguit secum detulit Oxonium an Dom. 1644 qua celeberrima Academia consummatis studiis aliorum commodo studere coepit contemplationibus Metaphysicis vindiciisque ceremoniarum Eccles Anglicanae aliisque scriptis eruditissimis editis toto orbe statim inclaruit Tanta fame auctus Ecclesiam Augustaldensem ad quam electus erat cui praefuit annos plus minus 27 magis Augustam tantum non cathedralem qualis olim fuerit reliquit c. You may read more of the Encomiums of this worthy person in the sermon preached at his funeral by one Major Algood Rector of Simonbourne in Northumberland and in an Elegy on his death at the end of it Printed at Lond. 1684. quart FRANCIS BAMPFIELD third son of John Bampf of Portimon in Devons Esq was born in that County became a Commoner of VVadham Coll. in 1631 aged 16 years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1638 and afterwards holy Orders from a Bishop But being puritannically inclined he sided with the rebellious party in 1642 took the Covenant preached up the Cause in several places and was all things to all men except those of the royal party At length on the death of VVilliam Lyford he became Minister of Shirebourne in Dorsetshire having before taken the Engagement an 1653 where he continued carrying on the trade among the factious people not without great disturbance from Quakering Witches as he pretended till the Act of Uniformity cast him out an 1662. Afterwards he lived in the said Town for some time kept Conventicles was imprisoned for so doing several times and forced to remove his quarters At length retiring to London the common refuge of such people he preached in Conventicles there was several times committed upon that account and continued a Prisoner for about the ten last years of his life at several times He was always a person so strangely fickle and unsteady in his judgment that he was first a Church man then a Presbyterian afterwards an Independent or at least a fider with them an Anabaptist and at length almost a compleat Jew and what not He was also so enthusiastical and canting that he did almost craze and distract many of his disciples by his amazing and frightful discourses He hath written His judgment for the observation of the Jewish or seventh day Sabboth with his Reasons and Scriptures for the same Sent in a Letter to Mr. Will. Ben of Dorchester c. Lond. 1672 and 1677. oct See more in VVill. Ben under the year 1680 p. 507. who by one of his perswasion is commended for a pious man for his holiness of life and for his dexterous preaching All in one All useful Sciences and profitable Arts in one book of Jehovah Aelokim copied out and commented upon in created Beings comprehended and discovered in the fulness and perfection of Scripture-knowledges The first part Printed 1677 in 45 sh in fol. The design of which fantastical and unintelligible book is for the advancement and augment of useful Arts and of profitable Sciences in a scripture way and that all Philosophy be taught out of the Scripture and not from Heathen Authors The Author shews himself dissatisfied with his Academical education and is clearly against that way and would if he could have his own Idea take place and vainly endeavours to represent the many pretended inconveniencies of those methods which have been so long established in our Universities saying that Enthusiastick Phantasmes humane Magistralities self-weaved Ratiocinations forc'd Extractions indulg'd Sensuations and unsetling Scepticismes have laid some of the most claim to the highest advance of humane learning that hath been hitherto made 'T is full of bombast great swelling and forc'd language and oftentimes unintelligible The house of wisdome The house of the sons of the Prophets An house of exquisite enquiry and of deep research where the mind of Jehovah Aeloim in the holy Scripture of truth in the original words and phrases and their proper significancy is diligently studied faithfully compared and aptly put together for the farther promoting and higher advancing of Scripture knowledge of all useful Arts and profitable Sciences in the one book of books the word of Christ copied out and commented upon in created Beings Lond. 1681. in 7 sh in fol. In which fantastical book the Author would have the Hebrew Tongue and Language to be the universal character over all the inhabited earth to be taught in all Schools and Children to be taught it as their mother language He proposes a way for the erection of Academies to have it taught and all Philosophy to proceed from Scripture to have all books translated into that language and I know not what What other things he hath written and published I cannot tell nor any thing else of him only 1 That he having been convicted and committed for preaching at Pinmakers-Hall in London was brought on the 24 of Feb. 1682 to the Sessions held at the Old Bayly where being tendred the Oaths he said that the King of Kings forbad him to take them and thereupon was re-committed to Newgate Prison 2 That he was brought thither again about the 18 of Apr. 1683 and refusing them was sent to Newgate from whence he came 3 That he and one Griffith Reynolds and Warner who had laid a long time in Newgate for refusing the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy were on the 18 of Jan. 1683 indicted for the same and
accounted among the Brethren a learned and mighty man and had brought upon himself a very ill habit of body by his too too much agitation for the cause gave up the Ghost at Inglefield before mention'd on the first day of November in sixteen hundred eighty and four whereupon his body being attended by multitudes of Dissenters to Newbury was buried in the Church there on the fourth day of the same month As for Tho. VVarren before mention'd he also wrot against Mr. Eyre in a book entit Unbelievers no subjects of justification nor mystical union vindicated against Mr. Eyre's objections in his Vindiciae justificationis gratuitae with a refutation of that antifidean and antievangelical error asserted therein viz. The justification of a sinner before or without faith Printed in qu. He hath also two or more Sermons extant and perhaps other things JOHN DALE son of Anth. Dale of Gilfield in Yorkshire was born there or in that County became a Student in Qu. Coll. an 1634 aged 15 years or thereabouts where continuing till he was Bach. of Arts was elected into a Yorkshire Fellowship of Magd. Coll. In 1648 he submitted to the authority of the Visitors appointed by Parliament and in the year after he became Bach of Divinity and kept pace with the men then and afterwards in power that is with Presbyterians and Independents About the time of his Majesties restauration he was presented by the President and Fellows of his Coll. to the rectory of Stanlake in Oxfordshire and soon after upon an exchange for another in Yorkshire was inducted into the rectory of Longworth in Berks near Stanlake but deprived of it soon after for Simony He hath written and published The Analysis of all the Epistles of the New Testament c. Oxon. 1652. oct and had written another book as I have heard fit for the press but was never printed He died at Stanlake before mention'd on the 14 day of Nov. in sixteen hundred eighty and four and was 3 days after buried in the Chancel of the Church there Soon after the Pres and Fell. of the said Coll. presented to the said rectory of Stanlake one of their society named Thomas Smith D. D who keeping it not long surrendred it up to the College SETH BUSHELL son of Adam Bushell was born at Kuerdin in the Parish of Leyland near Preston in Amoundernes in Lancashire became a Commoner of S. Maries Hall in 1639 continued there till about the time that the Univ. and City of Oxon were garrison'd for the King and then retired to his own Country In 1654 he returned for a time and took both the degrees in Arts in that year being then as it seems Minister of VVhitley in Yorks and in 1665 he took the degree of Bach. of Div. at which time he was Minister of Euxton in his own County Afterwards proceeding in that faculty he became Vicar of Preston and in the three last years of his life Vicar of Lancaster where he finished his course He hath published Several Sermons as 1 A warning piece for the unruly in two Serm. on 1. Thes 5.14 at the metrapolitical Visitation of the most rev Fath. in God Richard L. Archb. of York held at Preston in Lanc. and there preached Lond. 1673. qu. 2 The Believers groan for Heaven preached at the funeral of the right honorable Sir R. Houghton of Houghton Baronet at Preston in Amoundernes on 2. Cor. 5.2 Lond. 1678. qu. And another preached on the 25. day of the first month an 1658. which George Fox Quaker answers in his book entit The great mystery of the great whore unfolded c. Lond. 1659. fol. Cosmo-meros The worldly portion or the best portion of the wicked and their misery in the enjoyment of it opened and applied Lond. 1682 in tw It is the substance of several Sermons under some abridgments on Luke 16.25 Directions and helps in order to a heavenly and better portion enforc'd with many useful and divine considerations Printed with Cosmo-meros c. At length giving up the Ghost at Lancaster in sixteen hundred eighty and four was buried in the Church there and soon after had this Epitaph put over his grave P. S. Exuvias en hic deposuit Seth Bushell SS Th. Pr. Deo Ecclesiae Anglicanae reformatae usquam devotissimus utrique Carolo angugustissimis temporibus piè fidelissimus familiae suae quibusque notus fuerat meritò charissimus postquam hanc suam ecclesiam vitâ inculpabili assiduis concionibus per triennium faeliciter rexisset quo tempore inter alia pietatis specimina Parochi domum modò corruituram instauravit auxit Immortalitati verò natus coelâ—que maturus spe resurrectionis terris valedixit anno salutis 1684 aetatis 63. die Novemb. sexto NICHOLAS LOCKYER son of VVill. Lock of Glastenbury in Somersetshire was born in that County entred either Batler or Commoner of New Inn in 1629 aged 17 years took the degree of Bach. of Arts but whether that of Master it appears not And about the same time entring into holy Orders according to the Church of England had some Cure conferr'd on him but upon the change of the times occasion'd by the iniquity of the Presbyterians he closed with preached frequently among them took the Covenant and afterwards preaching among the Independents he took the Engagement On the 10 of Dec. 1653 he was one of the Independent Ministers that were presented to the Parliament to be sent Commissioners by three in a Circuit for the ejecting and setling of Ministers according to the rules then prescribed but that project taking not effect he was appointed one of the Commissioners by Oliver in the latter end of the said year for the approbation of publick Preachers In June 1654 he being then Fellow of Eaton Coll in great favour with Oliver to whom he was Chaplain and entrusted in several Commissions the then Delegates of the University ordered that he the said Mr. Lockyer sometimes of New Inn and Master of Arts of 12 years standing might have the degree of Bach. of Divinity confer'd on him but whether he was admitted to that degree or was ever Master of Arts of this University it appears not as it is told you before In the latter end of 1658 he became Provost of Eaton Coll in the place of Franc. Rouse deceased was deprived of it at his Majesties restauration and two years after when the act of Conformity was published he lost an Ecclesiastical Benefice So that carrying on the trade of conventicling and plotting he was shrewdly suspected with Ph. Nye to have had a hand in that stupendious Tragedy intended to be acted by the satanical saints on the King royal Family Court and Loyal party in Nov. 1662 for which George Phillips Tho. Tongue c. suffered death He hath written Several Sermons as 1 Fast Sermon before the House of Commons 28 Oct. 1646. on Isa 53.10 Lond. 1646. qu. 2 Fast Serm. bef the H.
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-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.
party He also left behind him at his death unfinished 1 Canonis Chronici liber quintus sive Imperium Persicum 2 De Provinciis Legionibus Romanis 3 De re nummaria c. At length departing this mortal life at Bushy hall in Hertfordshire on the 25. of May in sixteen hundred eighty and five his body was thereupon conveyed to Cuxton near Rochester in Kent where he had an Estate and buried in the Church there He left issue behind him begotten on the body of Elizabeth Daughter of Sir Will. Hammond of S. Albans in East Kent two Sons viz. Sir John Marsham now of Cuxton Baronet who is writing The History of England much more exact as 't is said than any yet extant and Sir Robert of Bushy hall Knight who succeeded his Father in the place of Six Clerk In the possession of the first of these two is Sir Johns Library which tho diminished by the fire that hapned in London 1666 yet it is considerable and highly to be valued for the exquisite remarks in the margin of most of the books and in the possession of the other is his Cabinet of Greek Medals as curious as any private collection whatsoever ANDREW ALLAM the son of a sufficient Plebeian of both his names by Bridget Derling his Wife was born at Garsingdon near to and in the County of Oxon in Apr. 1655 and baptized there on the 23 of the same month educated in Grammar learning in a private School at Denton in the Parish of Cudesdon near to his native place under a noted Master named Will. Wildgoose M. of Arts of Brasn Coll. much fam'd for his dexterity in Pedagogy became a Batler of S. Edmunds Hall in Easter term 1671 where had it not been his misfortune to fall under the tuition of a careless and crazed person he might have prov'd a prodigy in several sorts of learning After he had taken the degrees in Arts he became a Tutor Moderator a Lecturer in the Chappel and at length Vice-principal of his House In all which offices he behaved himself much to the credit honor and flourishing thereof In 1680 at Whitsontide he entred into holy Orders and in 83 he was one of the Masters of the Schools which last place he executed with very great judgment and prudence He was a person of eminent virtues was sober temperate moderate and modest even to example He understood the controversial writings between Conformâ—sts and Nonconformists Protestants and Papists far beyond his years which was advanc'd by a great and happy memory And I am perswaded had he not been taken off by the said Offices he would have gone beyond all of his time and age in those matters and might have proved an useful and signal member to the Church of England for which he had most zealous respect He understood the world of men well authors better and nothing but years and experience were wanting in to make him a compleat walking Library His works that are extant are 1 The learned Preface or Epistle to the Reader with a dedicatory Epist in the Printers name set before The Epistle Congratulatory of Lysimachus Nicanor c. to the Covenanters of Scotland c. Oxon. 1684. 2 The Epistle with the account therein of Dr. Rich. Cosins's life set before the said Cosins's book entit Ecclesiae Anglicanae Politeia in tabulas digesta Oxon 1684. in a thin fol. The ded Epist to Sir Leolin Jenkins in the Printers name was written by Christoph Wase superior Beadle of Law in the Univ. of Oxon. 3 The Epistle before with a review and correction of the book entit Some plain discourses on the Lords Supper c. Written by Dr. George Griffith B. of S. Asaph Oxon. 1684. oct 4 Five or six sheets of his own hand writing and composure containing corrections in and addit to a book entit Angliae Notitia or the present state of England c. written by one who had been also of S. Edm. Hall They were made by Mr. Allam in the edit of that book printed at Lond. 1684. and were all as I presume inserted in that edition which came out at that place in 1687 but without any acknowledgment with shame be it spoken from the author of that Notitia who neither returned those thanks that he ought out of common civility to have done or granted him his company or acquaintance when he went to Lond to desire it purposely to communicate such things by word of mouth which he could not without great trouble by his Pen concerning various matters in that book 5 He also began and made divers additions in Helvicus his Historical and Chronological Theatre as occasion required and would have quite finished the supplement at the end from 1660 to 1685 had he not been cut off by cruel death These things were printed with that author at Lond. 1687 fol But the Reader is to understand that whereas there was a colom in that book of the said editi-of 1687 made to contain the names of the famous Jesuits from the first foundation of their order to the year 1685 which was not in any of the Latine editions 't was not done by Allam but by a busie body nor that passage under the year 1678 which runs thus Titus Oates discovers a pretended Popish Plot. 6 He had laid the foundation of a Notitia Ecclesiae Anglicanae wherein he would have spoken of the foundation of all Cathedrals with a touch of their Statutes and Customs Which done to set down the names of the present Bishop Dean Archdeacon Cannons and Officers of each Cathedral but death also prevented the finishing this He also many times lent his assisting hand to the author of this present work especially as to the Notitia of certain modern writers of our Nation while the said author was day and night drudging after those more antient For the truth is which hath been a wonder to him since his death he understood well what he wanted and what would be fit for him to be brought into this work which none else in the University could as he and the author knew full well to their great reluctancy or would give any assistance or encouragement Further it must not be forgotten that he translated into English The Life of Iphicrates written in Lat. by Corn. Nepos and remitted into the book of Lives of that author translated by several Oxford hands Oxon. 1684. oct p. 99 c. At length after a great deal of fear of and avoidance from the disease called the Small pox he was in unseasonable weather overtaken by it so that being not able to overcome its encounters he did surrender up his spotless soul being too worthy for this world and the people he lived with and was wedded to his Saviour Jesus Ch. on the 17. of June about noon in sixteen hundred eighty and five whereupon his body was buried the same day late at night at the west end of the Church of S.
in the Church there ARTHUR ANNESLEY son of Sir Franc. Annesley Baronet Lord Mount-Norris and Viscount Valentia in Ireland was born in Fish-Shamble street in S. Johns Parish within the City of Dublin on the tenth day of July an 1614 became a Fellow Commoner of Magd. Coll. in 1630 or thereabouts continued there under the tuition of a careful Tutor three years or more and having laid a sure foundation in literature to advance his knowledg in greater matters he returned to his native Country for a time In 1640 he was elected Knight for Radnorshire to serve in that Parliment which began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 but his election being questioned Charles Price Esq then elected also was voted by the Committee of Elections to stand as more lawfully elected yet soon after he left that Parliament and followed the K. to Oxon where he sate in that called by his Majesty In the time of the rebellion our author Annesley was entrusted by both Houses of Parliament or appointed by them one of the Commissioners for the ordering and governing the affairs in Ireland an 1645 or thereabouts and became instrumental there to preserve the British and Protestant Interest Country and Garrisons from being swallowed up by Owen Oneill's barbarous Army or falling into the body of Irish hands c. Afterwards he went into England complied with the Parliament Ol. Cromwell and his party took the Oath called the Engagement as before he had the Covenant But when he saw that K. Ch. 2. would be restored to his Kingdoms he then when he perceived that it could not be hindred struck in and became instrumental for the recalling of him home as many of his perswasion did and thereupon they soothed themselves up and gave it out publickly that they were as instrumental in that matter as the best of the Royal party nay they stuck not to say that if it was not by their endeavours his Majesty would not have been restored At that time he was made a Privy Counsellour and to shew his zeal for his Majesties cause he procured himself to be put in among the number of those Justices or Judges to sit first at Hicks-hall and afterwards at the Old Bayly on the Regicides where one of them named Adrian Scrope did reflect upon him as 't was by all there present supposed and of others too as having before been misled as well as himself as I have told you in Anthony E. of Shaftsbury under the year 1682. In the year following 1661 a little before his Majesties Coronation he was by Letters Pat. bearing date on the 20 of Apr. created a Baron of this Kingdom by the title of Lord Annesley of Newport-Paynel in Bucks of which Town one Thom Annesley Great Uncle to Sir Franc. Annesley before mention'd had been High Constable as also a Count by the title of Earl of Anglesey as comming more near to his name than another place or Town Afterwards he enjoying certain Offices of trust was at length made Lord Privy Seal about the middle of Apr. 1673 and kept it till Aug. 1682 at which time he was deprived of it some have thought unjustly for several reasons as I shall anon tell you whereupon retiring to his Estate at Blechingdon in Oxfordshire which he some years before had purchased vindicated himself by writing an account of the whole proceeding of that affair as I shall tell you by and by He was a person very subtle cunning and reserv'd in the managery and transacting his affairs of more than ordinary parts and one who had the command of a very smooth sharp and keen Pen. He was also much conversant in books and a great Calvinist but his known countenance and encouragement given to persons of very different perswasions in matters of Religion hath left it somwhat difficult at least in some mens judgments peremptorily to determine among what sort of men as to point of Religion he himself ought in truth to have been ranked Yet it is to be observed that he did not dispense his favours with an equal hand to all these the dissenting party having still received the far largest share of them who did all along generally esteem him and his interest securely their own especially after the Popish Conspiracy broke out when then out of policy he avoided and shook off his numerous acquaintance of Papists as it was notoriously observed by them and of other pretenders to Politicks meerly to save themselves and to avoid the imputation of being Popishly affected As for his published writings they are these The truth unvailed in behalf the Church of England c. being a vindication of Mr. Joh. Standish's Sermon on 2 Cor. 5.20 preached before the King and published by his Majesties command Lond. 1676 in 3 sh in qu. This being an answer to some part of Mr. Rob. Grove's Vindication of the conforming Clergy from the unjust aspersions of heresie containing some reflections on the said Sermon was replied upon by the said Grove in a treatise intit Falshood unmask'd c. Lond. 1676 in 3. sh and an half in qu. Reflections on that discourse which a Master of Arts once of the Univers of Cambridge calls Rational Presented in Print to a person of honour an 1676 concerning Transubstantiation Printed with Truth unvailed c. Which discourse was also answer'd by another in a piece intit Roman tradition examined as it is urged as infallible against all mens senses reason and holy Scriture c. Lond. 1676. qu. A Letter from a person of honour in the Country written to the Earl of Castlehaven Being observations and reflections upon his Lordships Memoires concerning the Warrs in Ireland Lond. 1681. oct Which Letter coming into the hands of James Duke of Ormonde and finding himself and his Government of Ireland therein reflected upon with great disadvantage as he thought he wrot and published a Letter to the E. of Anglesey dated at Dublin 12 Nov. 1681 to vindicate himself Anglesey thereupon made a reply in another and printed it with Ormonde's Letter at Lond. about the beginning of Apr. 1682 both contained in two sh in fol. Ormonde therefore represented the case in writing to the King on the 17 of June following which being read openly before the Council then sitting at Hampton Court his Maj. declared that he would hear the matter thereof in Council and did order that a copy of the said Representation should be delivered to Anglesey and that he appear and make answer thereunto at a Council to be holden at Whitehall on the 23 of the said month In obedience to this Anglesey tho much troubled with the Gout appeared made a short speech to his Majesty in vindication of himself bandied the matter with Ormond and then put in his answer to Ormond's representation or complaint against him These things being done another Council was held 13 July at which time Ormond delivering a paper to the Board containing several charges against him it was then
which was shortly after as I shall tell you anon So that whereas he was first a Presbyterian and afterwards a true Son of the Church of England he was then esteemed by the generallity especially when his Reasons for abrogating the Test were published very popishly enclined It was about that time said that he seemed very much to favour the Cath. Cause that he proposed in Council whether it was not expedient that at least one College in Oxford should be allowed Catholicks that they might not be forced to be at so much charges by going beyond the Seas to study The same Bishop inviting two Noblemen R. Cath. to a banquet drank the Kings health to an heretical Baron there wishing a happy success to all his affairs and he added that the Faith of the Protestants in England seemed to him but to be little better than that of Buda was before it was taken and that they were for the most part meer Atheists that defended it c. Thus a certain Jesuit of Liege to another at Friburg in a letter dat 2. Feb. 1687. And father Edm. Petre another Jesuit one of the Privy Council to K. Jam. 2. tells us in the same month that the Bishop of Oxon has not yet declared himself openly the great obstacle is his wife whom he cannot rid himself of his design being to continue Bishop and only change Communion as it is not doubted but the King will permit and our holy father confirm tho I do not see how he can be further useful to us in the Religion in which he is because he is suspected and of no esteem among the Hereticks of the English Church nor do I see that the example of his Conversion is like to draw many others after him because he declared himself so suddenly If he had believ'd my counsel which was to temporize for some longer time he would have done better but it is his temper or rather zeal that hurried him on c. But to let pass these and other matters which are related of him by that party the Roman Catholicks I shall proceed to give you an account of his published writings which are these Tentamina Physico-Theologica de Deo sive Theologia Scholastica c. lib. 2. Lond. 1665. qu. This book an account of which is in the Philosoph Transactions numb 18. is answer'd by N. Fairfax M. D. in his book entit Of the bulk and selvedge of the world These Tentamina are much enlarged in a book in a large quarto entit Disputationes de Deo c. as I shall tell you by and by A free and impartial censure of the Platonick Philosophy Lond. 1666. qu. Ox. 1667. oct At which time as his Adversary tells us he was proclaimed under the hand of another mascarade Divine The wonder of his age An account of the nature and extent of the divine dominion and goodness as they refer to the origenian hypothesis concerning the preexistence of soules c. This book which is printed with the Free and impartial censure is briefly reflected on by Anon. in a book entit Deus justificatus or the divine Goodness vindicated c. Ox. 1667. Lond. 1668. oct A discourse of Ecclesiastical Polity wherein the authority of the Civil Magistrate over the Consciences of subjects in matters of external Religion is asserted c. Lond. 1669. 79. oct Of which book hear what Mr. Baxter says I can shew you a Manuscript of one both impartial and truly judicious even the late Judge Hale expressing so great dislike of that Debate The Friendly Debate and Ecclesiastical Policy as tending to the injury of Religion it self that he wisheth the authors would openly profess that they would write for themselves and no more so abusively pretend it is for Religion c. A defence and continuation of the Eccles Politie c. against Dr. Owen Together with a Letter from the author of The Friendly Debate Lond. 1671. oct On the said book Ecclesiast Politie and Reproof to the Rehearsal a certain Scotchman named Rohert Ferguson a Divine of some note hath written reflections in a book entit A sober enquiry into the nature measure and principle of moral virtue c. Lond. 1673 oct A discourse in vindication of Bishop John Bramhall and the Clergy of the Church of England from the Fanatick charge of Popery together with some reflections upon the present state of affairs c. This discourse was published by way of Preface to a Treatise of the said Bishop Lond. 1672. and by it self in oct Lond. 1673. In the said Discourse or book is a great deal of rallery against Dr. Joh. Owen his doctrine and writings but more especially against some passages of his book of Evangelical Love Church peace c. and much said in defence of that sharper way which he took in his former answer to the Doctor and somewhat against Baxter's Grotian religion discovered Whereupon our author Parker being esteemed by the Nonconformists a forward proud ambitious and scornful person was taken to task purposely to clip his wings or take him shorter by their buffooning Champion Andr. Marvell somtimes one of John Miltons companions in a book which he published entit The Rehearsal transpros'd or animadversions upon a late book entit A Preface shewing c. Lond. 1672. oct Which title The Rehearsal c. was taken from a Comedy then lately published by George Duke of Buckingham called The Rehearsal wherein one Mr. Bayes acteth a part Afterwards our author Parker wrot an answer to Marvell who stiles him throughout his book Mr. Bayes entit A reproof to the Rehearsall transpros'd in a discourse to its author Lond. 1673 oct Besides which answer came out five more against Marvell viz. 1. Rosemary and Bayes or Animadversions upon a treatise called The Rehearsall transpros'd c. Lond. 1672 in 3. sh in qu. 2 The Transproser rehears'd or the fifth act of Mr. Bayes Play c. Oxon 1673 oct Written by Rich. Leigh somtimes Commoner of Qu. Coll. 3 Gregory Father-Greybeard with his vizard off or news from the Cabal in some reflections c. in a letter to our old friend R.L. from E.H. Lond. 1673. oct subscribed Edm. Hickeringhill 4 A common place book out of The Rehearsall transpros'd digested under these several heads c. Lond. 1673. oct 5 Stoo him Bayes or some animadversions upon the humour of writing Rehearsals transpros'd Oxon. 1673. oct All or most of which answers which were to the first part of The Rehearsall transpros'd were wrot in a buffooning burlesquing and ridiculing way and stile in which fashion of writing Marvell himself had led the way Besides Marvell's answer to the said Preface of Dr. Parker I find another small piece wrot against it partly entit The authority of the Magistrate about Religion discussed in a rebuke to the prefacer of the late book of Bish Bramhalls c. Lond. 1672. oct by J. H supposed to be Joh. Humphrey
Before I go any farther the Reader is to note that this Pen-combat exercised between our author and Marvell was briskly managed with as much smart cutting and satyrical wit on both sides as any other perhaps of late hath been they endeavouring by all the methods imaginable and the utmost forces they could by any means rally up to blacken each others cause and to set each other out in the most ugly dress their pieces in the mean while wherein was represented a perfect trial of each others skill and parts in a jerking flirting way of writing entertaining the Reader with a great variety of sport and mirth in seeing two such right Cocks of the Game so keenly engaging with sharp and dangerous weapons And it was generally thought nay even by many of those who were otherwise favourers of Parkers cause that he Parker thro a too loose and unwary handling of the debate tho in a brave flourishing and lofty stile laid himself too open to the severe strokes of his snearing Adversary and that the odds and victory laid on Marvell's side Howsoever it was it wrought this good effect upon our author that for ever after it took down somewhat of his high spirit insomuch that tho Marvell in a second part replyed upon our authors reproof yet he judged it more prudent rather to lay down the Cudgels than to enter the Lists again with an untowardly Combatant so hughly well vers'd and experienc'd in the then but newly refin'd art tho much in mode and fashion almost ever since of sportive and jeering buffoonry And moreover it put him upon a more serious sober and moderate way of writing in other good treatises which he since did set forth and which have proved very useful and beneficial to the publick The Reader may be pleased now to know by the way for here I think it very proper to be brought in and no where else that the said Andr. Marvell was son of Andr. Marv. the facetious yet Calvinistical Minister of Kingston upon Hull in Yorkshire that being very well educated in Grammar learning was sent to Cambridge particularly as I conceive to Trin. Coll where obtaining the Mastership of the Lat. tongue became Assistant to Joh. Milton when he was Lat. Secretary to Oliver and very intimate and conversant with that person A little before his Majesties restauration the Burghers of his native place of Kingston before mention'd did choose him their Representative to sit in that Parliament that began at Westm 25. of Apr. 1660 and again after his Maj. rest for that which began at the same place 8. May 1661 and they loved him so well that they gave him an honorable pension to maintain them From which time to his death he was esteemed tho in his conversation very modest and of few words a very celebrated wit among the Fanaticks and the only one truly so for many years after He hath written besides the two parts of The Rehearsal transpros'd 1 A book entit Mr. Smirk or the Divine in mode being certain annotations upon the Animadversions on Naked truth together with a short historical Essay concerning general Councils Creeds and impositions in matters of Religion Lond. 1676. qu. Which Historical Essay was afterwards printed by it self in fol. The person whom he calls Mr. Smirk author of Anim. on Naked truth was Dr. Franc. Turner Head or Master of S. Johns Coll. in Cambridg conceiv'd and taken by Marvell to be a neat starcht formal and forward Divine 2 The rise and growth of Popery c. Lond. 1678. fol. The second part of which from the year 1677 to 1682 was pen'd by Rob. Ferguson before mentioned said to be printed at Cologne but really at Lond. 1682. qu. This Andr. Marvell who is supposed to have written other things as I have told you in Joh. Denham p. 303. died on the 18. of Aug. 1678. and was buried under the Pewes in the South side of the Church of S. Giles in the fields near London Afterwards his Widow published of his Composition Miscellaneous Poems Lond. 1681. fol which were then taken into the hands of many persons of his perswassion and by them cried up as excellent Soon after his death one Benj. Alsop then a Conventicling Minister about Westminster did put in very eagerly to succeed Marvell in Buffoonry partly expressed in his Antisozzo written against Dr. Will. Sherlock in his Melius inquirendum against Dr. Joh. Goodman Chapl. in ord to K. Ch. 2. and Rector of Hadham his Serious and compassionate enquiry c. and in his Mischief of impositions against Dr. Stillingfleets Sermon entit The mischief of Separation c. In all which pieces upon little or no ground pretending to wit he took more than ordinary pains to appear smart but the ill natur'd jokes did still commonly hang off and when he violently sometimes drag'd them into a sentence they did not in the least become their place but were a disgrace to rather than an ornament of his seemingly elaborate and accurate periods This person took upon him to act a part for the due and laudable performance of which neither the natural bent of his own genius nor any acquired improvements this way have in any measure tolerably qualified him notwithstanding the poor well wisher to punning laboured under all these discouraging disadvantages that he did still couragiously go on in a way of pleasing and at the same time exposing himself and furnisht his Readers with matter only of laughter at him and not at those whom he endeavoured to vilifie and was in 1682 and after cried up as the main witmonger surviving to the fanatical party which argued a great scarcity of those kind of creatures among them when such little things as this person were deemed by them fit for that title As for the other books which our author Parker hath written the titles are these Disputationes de Deo providentia divina Disp 1. An Philosophorum ulli quinam Athei fuerunt c. Lond. 1678. qu. In which is much of his Tentamina de Deo involved See a character of this book and its author in Dr. Hen. More 's Praefatio generalissima set before the translation of the first tome of his Philosophical volume Lond. 1679. fol. One Antonius le Grand a french man born and a Cartesian Philosopher of great note now or lately living in London author of 1. Institutio Philosophiae secundum principia D. Renati Descartes c. much read in Cambr. and said in the title to be wrot in usum juventutis Academicae 2. Historia Naturae and thirdly of a small piece in tw maintaining a great paradox called De carentia sensus cognitionis in Brutis c. published a book against some passages in the said Disp de Deo in which our author hath impartially examined and deservedly censur'd certain principles of the Cartesian Philosophy as grosly atheistical and destructive of Religion This piece of Le Grand
tye of friendship than blood perhaps could do His genie was then much inclining to the Mathematicks which being as 't were natural to him he quickly and easily obtained them Mr. Cha. Scarborough then an ingenious young Student and Fellow of Caies Coll. in the same University was his great acquaintance and both being equally Students in that faculty and desirous to perfect themselves they took a journey to Mr. Will. Oughtred living then at Albury in Surrey to be informed of many things in his Clavis Mathematica which seemed at that time very obscure to them Mr. Oughtred treated them with great humanity being very much pleased to see such ingenious young men apply themselves to those studies and in short time he sent them away well satisfied in their desires When they returned to Cambridge they afterwards read the Clav. Math. to their Pupils which was the first time that that book was read in the said University Mr. Laur. Rook a disciple of Oughtred I think and Mr. Ward 's friend did admirably well read in Gresham Coll. on the sixth Chapt. of the said book which obtained him great repute from some and greater from Mr. Ward who ever after had an especial favour for him In 1643 he with the Master and several of his Coll. were for the Kings Cause imprison'd in S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge and ejected from their several places much about which time he and Mr. P. Gunning Mr. Is Barrow Mr. Jo. Barwick c. did write a well pen'd treatise against the Covenant which was made publick After his release he was civilly and kindly received by his friend and neighbour Ralph Freeman of Aspden in Hertfordshire Esq and upon the ceasing of the Civil War he was entertained in the quality of a Chaplain to Thomas Lord Wenman of Thame Park in Oxfordshire In 1649 his mind being then changed as to orthodox Principles he by friends made to the Committee for the reformation of the University of Oxon became Astronomy Professor thereof in the place of Mr. Joh. Greaves then ejected who upon an infallible foresight that he should be turn'd out put Ward upon to gain it because he would be sure as far as his power laid to get an able Successor and about that time he entred himself a Gentleman Commoner in Wadham Coll for the sake of VVilkins then Warden of that House In Oct. the same year he was incorporated Master of Arts and admitted to his Professorship and soon after took the Independent Oath called the Engagement the effect of which was to be faithful to the Commonwealth of England as it was then established without a King or House of Lords In 1654 he proceeded D. of D. in which year Mr. Joh. Wallis the other Savilian Professor proceeding also fell out a Controversie between them occasion'd by Wallis who should have seniority which being decided by the Vicechanc. on VVards behalf VVallis went out grand Compounder and so got superiority as I shall largely tell you in the Fasti of that year In 1656 or thereabouts he obtained of Dr. Brownrigg the silenc'd Bishop of Exeter the Chantorship of that Church then void and in the year following gaining an interest among the Fellows of Jesus Coll. he was elected by them to be their Principal upon the resignation of Dr. Mich. Roberts but Franc. Howell of Exeter Coll. an Independent got it from him by his interest used to Oliver the Protector In 1659 he was elected President of Trin. Coll. by a majority of Fellows made by the interest of Dr. Ralph Bashurst but being soon after forced to leave that place to make room for the right owner Dr. Han. Potter who had in a most woful manner endured great hardship from the time of his ejection in 1648 the Politician retired to the great City where he became Minister of S. Lawrence in the Jewry upon the promotion of Reynolds to Norwich and in the same year 1660 he was installed in his place of Chantor of Exeter At that time it was his endeavours to make his Loyalty known by being imprison'd at Cambridge by his ejection his writing against the Covenant and I know not what About that time he became a member of the Royal Society and soon after Dean of Exeter where being setled he wound himself in a short time by his smooth language and behaviour into the favour of the Gentry of the neighbourhood In 1662 Dr. Gauden Bishop of Exeter being translated to VVorcester he was by the endeavours of a considerable party of the Gentry of Devonsh who were of the H. of Commons advanced to that See And being consecrated thereunto 20 July 1662 sate there but few years for on the death of Dr. Hyde he was translated to Salisbury 12 Sept. 1667. In 1671. Nov. 25 he was made Chancellour of the most noble Order of the Garter by the restitution of K. Ch. 2 after that place had been occupied by Lay-persons about 154 years He was a benefactor to the Royal Society gave a Pendulum Clock thereunto which goes for a week together to perpetuate the memory of his dear and learned friend Laur. Rook. Also about 1672 he gave a considerable sum of money towards the making of the River at Salisbury navigable to Christ Church in Hampshire and in 1679 he bestowed a 1000 l. on Sidâ—ey Coll. in Cambridge In 1683 he built an Hospital or College at Salisbury for the entertainment of ten poor widows of Ministers of Gods word and in 1684 he built an Alms-house at the place of his nativity for four antient men and four antient women who had lived handsomely and brought by misfortune to poverty c. His Works as to learning are these A philosophical Essay towards an eviction of the being and attributes of God the immortality of the souls of men and the truth and authority of Scripture Oxon. 1652. oct c. De cometis ubi de cometarum natura disseritur Nova cometarum Theoria novissimae cometae historia proponitur Praelectio Oxonii habita Oxon. 1653. qu. Inquisitio in Ismaelis Bullialdi Astronomiae philolaicae fundamenta Printed with the book De cometis Idea Trigonometriae demonstratae in usum juventutis Oxon. Oxon. 1654. qu. The method of which mention'd in the Preface to this book Mr. Oughtred challenged for his Vindiciae Academiarum Containing some brief animadversions upon Mr. Joh. Websters book stiled The Examen of Academies Oxon. 1654. qu. Before this book is an Epistle written to the author by one who subscribes himself N. S. i. e. John Wilkins of Wadh. Coll being the two last letters of both his names Appendix concerning what Mr. Hobbes and Mr. Will. Dell have published on the same arguments Printed at the end of Vindiciae Academiarum As for Dell he had been educated in Cambridge and Webster who was then or lately a Chapl. in the Parl. Army had as I conceive been educated there also See in Thom. Hall under the year 1665 among the titles of
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
way c. for the use of the Neophyte in Merchant Taylors School Lond. 1676. oct 〈◊〉 edit Declamation whether Monarchy be the best formâ— of government This is at the end of a book entit The English Orator or Rhetorical descants by way of Declaâ—mation Lond. 1680. oct written by Will. Richards of Trin. Coll. in Oxon. But the grand work which he laboured in from about the year 1650 to the time that it was published but hindred from finishing it sooner thro the manifold avocations and the vastness of the enterprize is that intit Astro Meteorologica or Aphorismes and discourses of the bodies Celestial their natures and influences discovered from the variety of the alterations of the air temperate or intemperate as to heat or cold frost snow hail fog raine wind storme lightnings thunder blasting hurricane c. Lond. 1686. fol. The whole discourse is founded on sacred authority and reason About the time of his death was published of his Composition Autodidactica or a practical Vocabulary being the best and easiest method yet extant for young beginners to attain to the knowledg of the Latin tongue Lond. 1690 oct and after his death was published under his name Astro-Meteorologia sana sive Principia Physico-Mathematica quibus mutationum aeris morborum epidemicorum cometarum Terrae Motuum aliorumque insigniorum naturae effectuum ratio reddi possit Lond. 1690. qu with his picture before it very much resembling him while living aged 62 an 1677. He also wrot a book Concerning plagues their number natures kinds c. Which while in printing was burnt in the dismal conflagration of London an 1666. At length this learned and religious person concluding his last day on Munday the 28. of Octob. S. Simon and Jude about 5 of the Clock in the morn in sixteen hundred eighty and nine was buried on the Wednesday following among the graves of his Relations in the Church of Great S. Helen in Bishopsgate street in London Soon after were published several Elegies on his death two of which I have seen One was made by Joshua Barnes Bach. of Div. of Cambridge which begins thus Can then a father of our Israel die And none step forth to sound an Elegy The other was made by his great Admirer James Wright of the Middle Temple Esq the beginning of which also is this Goodness inspire me while I write of one Who was all Goodness but alas he 's gone THOMAS SYDENHAM son of Will. Sydenham of Winford Eagle in Dorsetsh Esq was born there became a Communer of Magd. Hall in Midsomer term an 1642. aged 18 years or thereabouts left Oxon while it was a Garrison for his Majesties use and did not bear Arms for him as other Scholars then and there did went to London fell accidentally into the company of a noted Physitian called Dr. Tho. Cox who finding him to be a person of more than ordinary parts encourag'd and put him into a method to study Physick at his return to the University After the said Garrison was delivered to the Parliament Forces he retired again to Magd. Hall entred on the Physick Line was actually created Bachelaur of that faculty in the Pembrockian Creation in Apr. 1648 having not before taken any degree in Arts and about that time subscribing and submitting to the authority of the Visitors appointed by Parliament he was thro the endeavours of a near relation made by them Fellow of All 's Coll in the place of one of those many then ejected for their Loyalty After he had continued for some years there in the zealous prosecution of that Faculty he left the University without the taking of any other degree there and at length setled in Westminster became Doctor of his Faculty at Cambridge an exact observer of diseases and their Symptoms famous for his practice the chief Physitian from 1660 to 1670 and in his last dayes Licentiat or Permissus of the College of Physitians He was a person of a florid stile of a generous and publick Spirit very charitable and was more famous especially beyond the Seas for his published books then before he had been for his practice which was much lessened after the year 1670 when then he was laid up with the terrible disease of the Gout He was famous for his cool regimen in the Small-pox which his greatest Adversaries have been since forc'd to take up and follow He was also famous for his method of giving the Bark after the Paroxysm in Agues and for his Laudanum He hath written Methodus curandi febres propriis observationinibus superstructa c. cui etiam accessit sectio quinta de Peste sive morbo pestilentiali Lond. 1668. oct sec edit more large and corrected than the former Observationes Medicae circa morborum acutorum historiam curationem Lond. 1676. 85. oct with his picture before them An account of these Observat are in the Philos Transact nu 123. p. 568 and a just character in Dr. W. Cole's Epist to our author printed with Dissert Epist following Epistolae responsoriae duae Prima de morbis epidemicis ab an 1675. ad an 1680. Written to Rob. Brady Doct. of Physick Master or Head of Caies Coll. in Cambr. and the Kings Professor of Phys there Secunda de Luis venereae historia curatione Written to Henry Paman Doct. of Physick Fell. of S. Joh. Coll. in Camb Pub. Orator of that Univ and Professor of Phys in Gresham Coll. Both these Epistles were printed at Lond. 1680. and 85. oct with two short Epistles set before them written by the said Doctors Brady and Paman which our author answers Dissertatio Epistolaris ad Spectatiss doctiss virum Guliel Cole M. D. de observationibus nuperis circa curationem variolarum confluentiam necnon de affectione hysterica Lond. 1682. 85. oct The three last books were reprinted at Amsterdam 1683. oct with several corrections in them Tractatus de Podagrâ Hydrope Lond. 1683 85. oct All which books were reprinted at Lond. 1685. with an useful index Schedula monitoria de novae febris ingressu Lond. 1686. oct This learned Doctor died in his house in the Pall-mall in the Suburbs of Westm on the 29. of Decemb. in sixteen hundred eighty and nine and was buried in the South Isle near to the S. door of the Church of S. James there He had an elder brother named William Sydenham an active man in the Rebellion against K. Ch. 1. was a Colonel of Horse and Foot Governor of Weymouth and Melcomb Regis and Commander in chief in Dorsetshire afterward one of O. Cromwells Council and a Lord of his other House had a great command in the Isle of Wight was one of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury a great Rumper and one of the Committee of Safety c. HENRY HURST a late noted Preacher of the Nonconformists party son of Hen. Hurst somtimes Vicar of Mickleton in Glocestershire was born there entred
in a solemn chapter held by the Soveraign and certain of the Knights Companions of that most noble Order in the red room at Whitehall which Oath was administred to him by Seth Bishop of Salisbury Chancellour of the Garter one of the Officers of that order then kneeling on his Majesties left hand As to the exercise of his office of Norroy when he was Provincial K. of Armes for the northern parts of this Realm the books of his visitation of the several Counties under his charge remaining in the Coll. of Armes will sufficiently manifest his care therein as by taking exact notice of all collaterals viz. Uncles Aunts Brothers and Sisters in the descents there drawn Also by publickly disclaiming all such as did take upon them the titles of Esquire or Gentlemen without just right and truly registring the Armes of all such as could shew any justifiable right thereto His care also was manifested in defacing such Tablets of Armes as he found in any publick places which were fictitious and by pulling down several Atchievments commonly called Hatchments irregularly and against the law of Armes hung up in any Churches or Chappels within the precincts of his Province the particulars whereof are expressed in that large book in the Office or Coll. of Armes covered with russet leather and called the Earl Marshalls book Further also to vindicate the just rights of his said office he commenced a sute at the common law against one Randal Holme a Painter of the City of Chester who had boldly invaded the office of him the said Norroy by preparing Atchievments for the funeral of Sir Ralph Ashton of Middleton in the County of Lancaster Kt and giving directions for a formal proceeding at the solemnity thereof whereupon he had a verdict against him the said Holme at the general Assizes held at Stafford in March an 1667 and recovered good damages with costs of suit The titles of such books touched on before which are published under Sir Will. Dugdales name are these 1 Monasticon Anglicanum sive Pandectae caenobiorum Benedictinorum Cluniacensium Cisterciensium Carthusianorum à primordiis ad eorum usque dissolutionem ex Mss ad Monasteria olim pertinentibus Archivis turrium Lond. Ebor. c. Lond. 1655. and 82. fol. Adorned with the prospects of Abbeys Churches c. 2 Monastici Anglicani volumen alterum de Canonicis Regularibus Augustinianis scil Hospitaliariis Templariis Gilbertinis Praemonstratensibus Maturinis sive Trinitaniariis Cum appendice ad vol. primum de Caenobiis aliquot Gallicanis Hibernicis Scoticis necnon quibusdam Anglicanis antea omissis à primordiis c. Lond. 1661. fol. Adorned with the prospects of Abbeys Churches c. These two large volumes tho they were published under the names of Roger Dodsworth of Yorkshire and Will. Dugdale of Warwickshire yet the chiefest now of the Coll. of Armes have several times informed me that they were both collected and totally written by Dodsworth as the original which they had seen do testifie And Dr. Barlow hath several times told me that much about the time of death of Dodsworth they were offer'd to him to be bought that he might take some order to have them published Howsoever it is sure I am that Sir William did take great pains to have them published did methodize and order them correct them when at the press and made several indexes to them This Roger Dodsworth was the Son of Matthew Dodsworth Esq Registrary as I have heard of the Church of York by Elianor his Wife Daughter of Ralph Sandwith Esq was born on the 24 July 1585 at Newton Grange in the Parish of S. Oswald in Ridale in Yorkshire being the house and possessions of his Mothers Father but whether he was ever educated in any University I could never learn This Person who had a natural propensity to Histories and Antiquities began early to make collections of them especially such that related to Yorkshire and afterwards was much encouraged in his labours by Sir Thomas afterwards Lord Fairfax who for several years allowed him a pension He was a Person of wonderful industry but less judgment was always collecting and transcribing but never published any thing He died in the month of August 1654 and was buried in the Church of Rufford in Lancashire After his death the said Lord Fairfax took into his possession not only all the old Mss which he had obtained from several hands but also all his proper collections which he had written from Mss Leigher books evidences in the Tower at York in the custody of many Gentlemen not only in Yorkshire but other northern Counties as also his collections of monumental and fenestral inscriptions c. which being done he communicated them to Dr. Nat. Johnston a Physit of Yorkshire with hopes that he would extract from them and make and compleat a book of Antiquities of the West Riding of Yorkshire which he hath not yet done being as I have been informed weary of the work When the said Lord Fairfax died he bequeathed the said old Mss and collections which last amounted to 122 volumes at least to the publick Library in Oxon but were not conveyed thither till June 1673 which being then a wet season most of them took wet and had it not been for the author of this book who with much ado obtained leave of the then Vicechancellour to have them conveyed into the muniment room in the School-Tower purposely to dry them on the leads adjoyning which cost him a months time to do it they had been utterly spoiled The other books that Sir William Dugdale hath published are there 3 The Antiquities of Warwickshire illustrated from records leiger-books manuscripts charters evidences tombes and armes Beautified with maps prospects and portraictures Lond. 1656. fol. The foundation of tnis book which is his Master piece was laid on the collections of divers antiquities for the said County made and gathered by Sir Simon Archer Knight whom I have mention'd in the first vol. of this work p. 504 which Sir Simon dying at Warwick about the beginning of 1666 was gathered to the graves of his Fathers in Tamworth Church 4 The History of S. Pauls Cathedral in London from its foundation till these times extracted out of original charters records leâ—ger-books and other Manuscripts Beautified with sundry prospects of the Church figures of tombes and monuments Lond. 1658. in a thin folio 5 The History of imbanking and draining of divers fens and marshes both in foreign parts and in this Kingdom and of the improvement thereby Extracted from recordâ— Mss and other authentick testimonies Lond. 1662. fol. Adorned with several Cuts 6 Origines juridiciales or historical memorials of the English laws Courts of Justice forms of Trial punishment in cases criminal law writers law books grants and settlements of estates degree of Serjeant inns of Court and Chancery Also a chronologie of the Lord Chancellours and Keepers of the great Seal L. Treasurers Justices itinerant Justices of
in the Parliament sitting at Westminster being then Serjeant Major and in the next year he sate as a member in the Parl. held at Oxon. George Wentworth another Parliament Man for Pomfraict in Yorkshire He also left that Parliament retired to his Majesty and sate in Oxford Parliam 1643. On the said first of Nov. were more than 70 persons actually created Master of Arts among whom towards the latter end of the solemnity when it grew dark some did obtrude themselves that were not in the Catalogue of those to be created which was signed by his Majesty One of them was named Henry Leighton a Scot mostly educated in France but at this time 1642 actually in Armes for his Majesty and soon after was an Officer Some years after the declining of the Kings cause he setled for altogether in Oxon read and taught the French language to young Scholars and for their use wrot and published 1 Linguae Gallicae addiscendae regulae Oxon 1659. in tw Published afterwards again with many additions to the great advantage of the learner 2 Dialogues in French and English c. This Person who might have been more beneficial to mankind than he was had his principles been sound which were not and therefore in some respects he debauched young men died by a fall down stairs in S. Johns Coll. where he had a Chamber allowed him by the society on the 28. of January 1668 whereupon his body was buried the next day in the Church of S. Giles in the north suburb of Oxon. Dec. 20. Tho. Penruddock of S. Maries Hall He was a younger Son of Sir Joh. Penruddock whom I shall mention among the created Doctors of the Civ Law Edward Sherburne Commissary General of his Majesties Attillery in Oxon was actually created Master of Arts on the same day This Person who hath been greatly venerated for his polite learning was born in his Fathers house in Goldsmiths Rents near Red-cross-street in the Parish of S. Giles Cripplegate in London on the 18. of Sept. 1618 Son of Edw. Sherburne Esq a Native of the City of Oxon and Clerk of his Majesties Ordnance within the Kingdom of England Son of Hen. Sherburne Gent a Retainer to C. C. Coll. in this University but descended from the antient and gentile family of his name now remaining at Stanyhurst in Lancashire After our author Edw. Sherburne whom I am farther to mention had been mostly trained up in Grammar learning under Mr. Thomas Farnabie who then taught in Goldsmiths-rents before mentioned he was privately instructed for a time in his Fathers house by one Charles Aleyn then lately Usher to the said Mr. Farnabie but originally a member of Sidney Coll. in Cambridge I mean the same Ch. Aleyn who wrot a Poem entit The battle of Crescy and Poictiers and afterwards The History of Hen. the seventh Lond. 1638 oct written in verse also with The battle of Bosworth who dying about 1640 was buried under the north wall of S. Andrews Church in Holbourn near London In 1640 his Father thinking it fit for his better education to send him abroad to travel he set forward at Christmas that year and continued beyond Sea till about three quarters of a year having spent his time in viewing a considerable part of France and was intended for a journey into Italy but then unfortunately called back by occasion of his Fathers sickness who not many weeks after his return dyed some few days before Christmas 1641. Immediatly after his death he succeeded his Father in the Clerkship of his Majesties Ordnance granted him by patent 5. Feb. 13. Car. 1. and about the months of Apr. and May he was outed by warrant of the then House of Lords and committed to the Black rod for only adhering to the duty of his place and allegiance to his Prince where he lay for several months at great expences and charge of fees till having in the beginning of Oct. following gain'd his Liberty he went immediatly to the King who made him Commissary General of his Artillery In which condition he served him at the battle of Edghill and during the four years Civil War while in the mean time he was depriv'd of an estate of 160 l. per an till a debt of 1500 l. was satisfied by way of extent out of the Land of Ord of Ord in Northumberland his house plundered and all his personal estate and houshold goods taken away among which was the loss of a study of books as considerable in a manner that he bought and obtained after his Majesties restauration which was great and choice and accounted one of the most considerable belonging to any Gent. in or near London After Edghill battle he retired with his Majesty to Oxon where he was created M. of A. as I have before told you and was not wanting while he continued there to improve himself in learning as other Gentlemen did After the rendition of Oxford to the Parliament forces he lived for some time in the Middle Temple at London in the Chamber of a near Relation of his called Tho. Stanley Esquire at which time he published some pieces which I shall anon mention While he continued there you cannot but imagine that he was liable as indeed he was to frequent midnight scarches and proclamation banishments out of the Lines of communication as being a Cavalier which the godly party then called Malignant till at the return of Sir George Savile afterwards Marquess of Halyfax from his travels about 1651. or 52 he was invited to take upon him the charge of his concerns and sometime after by his honorable Mother the Lady Savile her good favour he was recommended to undertake the tuition of her Nephew Sir John Coventry in his travels abroad In the beginning of March therefore in 1654 he left England with his charge ran through all France Italy some part of Hungary the greater part of Germany Holland and the rest of the Low Countries and returned about the end of Oct. 1659. By which voyage he did advance and promote his bookish inclination by conference with learned persons when he came to such places that could afford him their desired converse more than what he could obtain at home After his Majesties restauration he found a person put into his place of Clerk of his Maj. Ordnance within the Kingdom of England after his old sequestrators were dead by a Relation of the Gent. whose care and tuition he had undertaken I mean by that busie man Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper afterwards Earl of Shaftesbury so that he was forced to plead the â—ight of his Patent before the House of Lords e're he could get readmittance After some time of the Kings settlement he met with a discouragement worse than the former for by the politick Reducers of the charge of his Majesties revenue and treasure he was retrenched from the best perquisites of his office to the value of no less than 500 l. per an and never received any consideration
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
England who with Sir Hen. S. George then Richmond Herald were royally rewarded by her Majesty with the gift of a thousand French Crowns He was also employed to attend upon his Majesties Embassage which was sent in the year 1629 unto the French King Lewis 13 and at the Ceremonies done thereat he there performed his office in his Coat of Arms as it appears in a French relation about that time printed At his return from thence the King rewarded him with a Chain of gold of good value and a Medal of his Portraicture Afterwards he was made Norroy and at length Clarenceaux and closely adhering to his Majesties cause was not only several times in danger of his life by summoning certain Garrisons to be delivered up to his Majesty and afterwards upon denial by proclaiming the Soldiers of those Garrisons Traytors in his Coat of Arms and Trumpet sounding but also lost his Estate during the time of Usurpation I have seen several of his Collections concerning Ceremonies which are often quoted in the book of Elias Ashmole Esq intit The institution laws and Ceremonies of the most noble Order of the Garter I have also seen other of his Collections and fenestral Inscriptions which have been used and quoted by others and may be of great use to some that are curious and critical in those matters At length being craiz'd or distemper'd in his brain was kept up close in a house of Lunaticks at Hogsden alias Hoxton near London So that being not in a capacity of being restored to his place of Clarenceaux after his Majesties return much less at his Coronation in the beginning of 1661 his Office was confer'd on Sir Edw. Bysshe who kept it to his dying day This Sir Will. Le Neve who had been very knowing and well vers'd in matters of Arms Armory and all matters pertaining thereunto dyed at Hogsden before mention'd whereupon his body being conveyed to the Church of S. Bennet near Pauls Wharf in London in which Parish the Coll. of Arms is situated was therein buried 15 Aug. 1661. After his death most of his Collections came into the hands of Sir Edw. Walker some of which he gave to the said Coll. and others he left to Sir John Clopton who married the said Sir Edward's Daugh. and Heir Henry Hastings Esq was actually created also Doctor of the Civ Law on the same day Nov. 1. He was created Lord Hastings of Loughborough in Leycestershire 22 Oct. 1643. Christopher Lewknore Esq He was a Burgess for the City of Chichester to serve in that Parl. that began 3 Nov 1640 but he leaving it because of the violent Proceedings of the Members thereof he retired to Oxon adher'd to his Majesties cause sate in the Parliament there 1643 and on the 18 of Dec. 1644 he being then a Colonel in his Majesties Army received the honour of Knighthood Thom. Hanmore His bare name only standing in the Register I can say nothing of him only by conjecture viz. That he was Sir Tho. Hanmer Baronet who had been Burgess for the Town of Flint in that Parliament that began at Westm on the 13 of Apr. 1640. Sir Rob Stapylton Knight This person who was the third son of Rich. Stapylton of Carleton in Moreland in Yorkshire Esq was educated a Rom. Cathol in the Coll. of the English Benedictines at Doway in Flanders and being too gay and poetical to be confin'd within a Cloyster he left them went into England turned Protestant was made one of the Gentlemen in ord of the privy Chamber to Prince Charles followed his Majesty when he left London was Knighted 13 Sept. 1642 followed him after Edghill Battel to Oxon where he was actually created Doct. of the Civil Law a before 't is told you suffered when the Royal Cause declined lived a studious life in the time of Usurpation and at length upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2. if not happily before he was made one of the Gent. Ushers of the Privy Chamber belonging to him He hath written 1 The slighted maid a Comedy Lond. 1663. qu. 2 The step mother Trag. Com. Lond. 1664. qu. 3 Hero and Leander Trag. Lond. 1669. qu And translated into English 1 Pliny's Panegyrick a speech in Senate c. Oxon. 1644. qu. Illustrated with Annotations by Sir Robert Stap. 2 The first six Satyrs of Juvenal with Annotations clearing the obscurer places out of History Laws and Ceremonies of the Romans Oxon. 1644. oct Dr. Bart. Holyday used often to say that he made use of his Translation of Juvenal which Sir Robert borrowed of him in MS. when he was about to publish the said six Satyrs 3 The Loves of Hero and Leander a Greek Poem Oxon. 1645. qu. in 3 sh and at Lond. 1647. in oct It was written originally by Musaeus To which Translation he hath added Annotations upon the Original 4 Leanders letter to Hero and her answer Printed with The Loves c. 'T is taken out of Ovid and hath Annotations put to it by Sir Rob. 5 Juvenals sixteen Satyrs Or a survey of the manners and actions of mankind with arguments marginal Notes and Annotatiâ—ns clearing the obscure places out of the Hist Laws and Ceremonies of the Romans Lond. 1647. oct with Sir Rob. Picture before it It is dedicated to Henry Marquess of Dorchester as one or two of the former books are who seems to have been a favourer of his muse This last book being much enlarged by him was printed in a very fair fol. at Lond. 1660 bearing this title Mores Hominum The manners of men described in sixteen Satyrs by Juvenal as he is published in his most authentick copy lately printed by command of the King of France Whereunto is added the invention of seventeen designs in pictures with arguments to the Satyrs Before this book is the Effigies of Sir Robert curiously engraven but represented too young 6 The history of the Low Country Warrs or de Bello Galgico c. Lond. 1650. fol. Written in Lat. by Famianus Strada What other Books he hath written and translated I know not nor any thing else of him only that he paying his last debt to nature on the eleventh day of July an 1669 was buried near to the Vestry door in the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster He was Uncle to Sir Miles Stapylton of Yorkshire younger Brother to Dr. Stapylton a Benedictine Monk which last wrot himself and was usually called Benedictus Gregorius Stapylton being President of the English Benedictines He died in the Monastery of the English Benedictines at Delaware in Loraine 4 Aug. 1680 and was there inter'd Will. Kelligrew Esq sometimes a Gent. Com. of S. Johns Coll. He was afterwards a Knight and a publisher of several books and therefore to be mentioned at large hereafter he being now living Sir Will. Walter of Sarsden in the Parish of Churchill in Oxfordshire Baronet He was son and heir of Sir John Walter sometimes Chief Baron of the Exchequer and dying on the 23
at Oxon an 1646 he spent some years in the family of Sir Will. Walter of Sarsden in the Parish of Churchill in Oxfordshire who with his Lady were great lovers of Musick At length upon the desire of Mr. Tho. Barlow of Qu. Coll. then Lecturer at Churchill made to his quondam Pupil Dr. Joh. Owen Vicechancellour of this University he was constituted Musick Professor thereof an 1656 which with other helps from some Royalists in these parts he having then a Lodging in Ball. Coll. found a comfortable subsistance Upon the return of K. Ch. 2. to his Dominions he was restored to his places belonging to his Majesty and was made one of the Choire at Westminster All which he kept to his dying day He hath published 1 Psalterium Carolinum The devotions of his sacred Majesty in his solitudes and sufferings rendred into verse seâ— for three Voices and an Organ or Theorbo Printed about 1656 in fol. 2 Cheerful Ayres or Ballads first composed for one single Voice and since set for three Voices Oxon. 1660. qu. in 3 vol then usher'd into the world by certain Poets of this University 3 Ayres for a Voice alone to a Theorbo or Bass-Viol c. These are in a book intit Select Ayres and Dialogues Lond. 1653. c. fol. In which book are besides Dr. Wilson's labours the compositions of several Masters of Musick viz. of Dr. Charles Colman Henry and Will. Lawes Will. Webb Nich. Laniere or Laneare an Italian one of the private Musick to K. Ch. 1 and an excellent Painter who died about the beginning of the rebellion Will. Smegergill alias Caesar Edward Colman and Jeremy Savile 4 Divine Services and Anthems the words of one of which are extant in James Clifford's Collection of Divine Services and Anthems c. Lond. 1663. oct p. 235. But above all things that our Author Wilson hath published is highly valued by curious men a Manuscript of his framing containing Compositions partly to be play'd on the Lute but chiefly on a Treble or Bass set to several Odes in the first book and in others of Horace on some part of Ausonius Claudian Petronius Arbiters Fragment Statius c. This book which is in folio bound in Russia leather with silver clasps he gave to the publick Library at Oxon before his Majesties restauration but with this condition that no person should peruse it till after his death 'T is in the Archives of the said Library numb 102 and hath several copies of verses put before it or in the beginning made in praise of the author and the book One of the copies being made by that excellent Latin Poet Hen. Birkhead of All 's Coll was afterwards remitted into his book intit Poematia c. Oxon. 1656. p. 122.123 This Dr. Wilson who was a great Humourist and a pretender to Buffoonry died in his house at the Horse Ferry within the Liberty of Westminster on the 22 day of Febr. 1673 aged 78 years ten months and 17 days whereupon his body was buried in the little cloyster belonging to the Abbey Church of S. Peter within the said City of Westm He did often use to say for the honour of his Country of Kent that Alphonso Farabosco was born of Italian Parents at Greenwich and Joh Jenkâ—ns at Maidstone both highly valued and admired not only in England but beyond the Seas for their excellent compositions in Musick especially for Fancies The last was living 10 years or more after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 but we have not yet his picture in the Musick School as that of Dr. Wilson hanging near to that of Nich. Laniere before mention'd Doct. of Law Apr. 6. Will. Pleydell Esq He was a Burgess for Wotton Basset in Wilts to serve in that Parliam which began at Westminster 3 Nov. 1640 but leaving it afterwards retired to Oxon and sate there .... Lloyd was created the same day and admitted into the house of Congreg and Convocation His christian name I cannot yet learn or in what Coll. or Hall in this University or in that of Cambridge educated May 1. George Boncle or Bonkley of Greenwich in Kent Esq On the 30 of Jan. following he received the honour of Knighthood being about that time Deputy-Governour of the Garrison of Oxon but afterwards being taken by the Forces belonging to the Parliament he was committed Prisoner to Lambeth house where he shortly after expired He had before obtained great fame for his valour and activity in the relief of Basing house in Hampshire June 10. Sir Thom. Blackwell of Mansfield Woodhouse in Nottinghamshire Kt. He had lately at his own charge raised many men and arms for his Majesties service and had fought most valiantly in divers battels for him He afterwards suffer'd much for the royal Cause and compounded for his Estate June 12. Henr. Bate He was admitted and actually created Doct. of the Civ Law by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of the University and of those of the Marquess of Newcastle which say that he had paid his fees already by the large contribution he hath given to his Majesty in his service and losses sustained by the Rebels c. Jul. 10. Sir Robert Fenne Kt. Nov. 4. Rob. Cary M. A. lately of C. C. Coll. in this University He was Kinsman to the Marquess of Hertford Chancellour thereof This year was actually created Doct. of the Civ Law Sir James Ware of Ireland Kt as his son hath by his letters informed me but the day or month he cannot tell neither doth it appear in the acts of the publick Register this or in the year following because omitted as it seems among many that were actually created in several degrees from the 1 of Nov. 1642 till the surrender of Oxon 1646. This worthy person Sir Jam. Ware who by his pen hath done admirable service for the credit of the Irish Nation I desire the Reader by the way if not too tedious to take these observations of him following He was born in Castle-street within the City of Dublin about two of the clock in the morn of the 26 of Novemb. an 1594. His father was Sir Jam. Ware Kt sometimes Secretary to two of the Lords Justices or Deputies of Ireland and afterwards Auditor General of that Kingdom who finding his said son to make early advances towards learning spared neither cost or labour to encourage him therein At 16 years of age he caused him to be entred a Student in Trinity Coll. at Dublin where making great proficiency in his studies was in less than six years made Master of Arts. In 1629 or thereabouts he received the honour of Knighthood from Adam Lord Viscount Ely and Rich. Boyle Earl of Cork they both being at that time Lords Justices of Ireland and in 1632 he became upon the death of his father Auditor General of Ireland Notwithstanding which place of trouble as well as of profit and the cumbrances of marriage he wrot and published several books the titles of which
Secondly his Wife said at first that they were left there by a friend who desir'd her to lay them up but she refused to take any charge of them yet he told her he would leave them and so hid them in that place where the Painter found them Thirdly on better consideration Dr. Harris said that he himself laid them there and that it was money he designed for his Daughters And tho no man believed him yet he aver'd it verbo sacerdotis This money being most probably left by Dr. Ralph Kettle sometimes President who died in 1643 was claimed by his Executor who or Mr. Fanshaw Kettle for him went to Dr. Harris and desired of him to see the baggs for he knew his Uncles seal and hand-writing but the old Gentleman who had the money in possession would neither shew baggs or seal or writing which was a manifest argument that they were none of his For first if the baggs were of his sealing and superscribing why did he not shew them to convince people or what need he to have feared to shew his own hand and seal Secondly if they were not of his sealing why did he swear they were his All these passages do manifestly shew that the money was not his but another mans as indeed all people did think so it being then the common discourse of Town and Country and could not be convinc'd to the contrary Doubtless if it had been his Will. Durham his Kinsman author of the said Dr. Harris his Life would have made mention of and vindicated the Doctor in it as in other matters of smaller account he hath done A little before this discovery was another made by the new President and Fellows of Magd. Coll. of 1400 l. in old gold or spurroyals by the breaking open a chest in their Treasury which tho originally deposited there by the Founder pro litibus placitis defendendis so 't is said in the statutes of that House etiam pro possessionibus si opus fuerit amplioribus acquâ—rendis pro repentinis quod absit incendiis ruinis maneriorum c. yet upon pretence of knowing no such statute they shared the said summ of money among them Hen. Wilkinson senior one of the Visitors and then Vicepresident of the Coll being the chief man that promoted that affair And in the next week following in July Dr. Reynolds the Vicechancellour and the two Proctors whose hands also did in a grievous manner itch after money would needs have broken open Bodlies chest but being disswaded by Mr. John Rouse the chief Library keeper who had lately a key thereof and had told and assur'd them that nothing was therein they forbore The next day also came one of the new Savilian professors scarce warm in his place I mean him who before had been a witness against Archbishop Laud in order to bring him to his Trial and consequently to the Block and the same who was successively a preacher up of treason and rebellion in two Churches in London in the time of the Presbyterian rebellion I say that he with Ralph Button Can. of Ch. Ch. his Guide and a poor spirited person did go to the same Mr. Rouse for the Key of Sir Hen. Saviles chest but after they knew he had it not and that there was no money in it they did not break it open tho they said they would and came for that purpose These things I am the more punctual to relate that the world might know that the said persons who call'd themselves the Saints of God minded more and sought after the bread livelyhood being and money of other persons than reformation which they according to Ordinance and their own consciences ought to have done Ap. 12. Humph. Chambers of Vniv Coll. Ap. 12. .... Caldicot a Minister Of the first is large mention made among the Writers under the year 1662. The other whose Christian name I cannot yet recover was an obscure man a Covenantier and one that was lately possest of a rich Benefice belonging to a loyal person ejected Edward Corbet Master of Arts of Mert. Coll was created the same day He was born at Pontsbury in Shropshire of the antient family of the Corbets in that County was admitted Probationer Fellow of the said Coll. 1624 took the degrees in Arts became one of the Proctors of the University an 1638 married Margaret the Daughter of Sir Nathan Brent turned with the times being always puritannically affected made one of the Ass of Divines a preacher before the Long Parliament one of the Preachers in Oxon 1646 to preach the loyal Scholars into obedience to the Parliament but quitted that employment soon after whereby that duty laid on the shoulders of six only one of the Visitors of the University yet seldome or never sate among them Orator and Canon of Ch. Ch. in the room of Dr. Hen. Hammond which two places he soon after threw up as being a person of conscience and honesty and at length Rector of Great Haseley in Oxfordshire in the place as 't was said of Dr. Tho. Some where he continued to the time of his death He hath written and published Gods Providence Sermon before the House of Commons at their Fast 28. Dec. 1642 on 1. Cor. 1.27 Lond. 1647. qu. There goes under the name of Edw. Corbet a little book called The Worldlings Looking-glass or the danger of loosing his Soul for gain Printed 1630 oct but I cannot tell whether our Edw. Corbet was the author of it because I have not yet seen the book it self He departed this mortal life at London on the 5. of Januar. 1657 aged 55 years or thereabouts and was buried on the 14 day of the same month near the body of his late beloved Wife in the Chancel of Great Haseley before mention'd Over whose grave he the said Dr. Corbet had before laid a large Marble stone Ap. 14. Christop Rogers M. A Principal of New Inn and one of the Visitors Ap. 14. .... Harding Rector of Brinkworth in Wilts The first of these two was about the same time put into actual possession of a Canonry of Ch. Ch. by the Visitors in the place of Dr. Rich. Gardiner ejected according to an order of Parl. bearing date in the beginning of Mar. 1647. This person when he usually preached at S. Maries this year before his Majesty was beheaded he would in his long prayer before Sermon desire that God would open the Kings eyes to lay to heart all the blood that he had spilt c. that he would prosper the Parliament and their blessed proceedings c. He â—as a person of most reverend aspect yet of no parts only had a plain way of preaching to please Women and ignorant People He was an easie man and apt to be guided by the perswasions of others and therefore by Cheynell and Wilkinson Senior two violent and impetuous Presbyterians he was put into the roll of Visitors meerly to make a nose of wax of him
who shewed himself a zealous brother for the interest and Party of James Duke of Monmouth for whose title to the Crown speaking certain matters at Châ—chester he was on the 10 of Febr. 1685 tryed upon an information of high misdemeanour of which being found guilty he was thereupon committed to the Kings Bench Prison July 8. Dan. Capell of Magd. Coll. July 8. Tho. Cole of Ch. Ch. The first of these two is mention'd among the Writers the other who was son of Will. Cole of London Gent was educated in Westm School and thence elected Student of Ch. Ch. In 1656 he became Principal of S. Maries Hall but being ejected thence by the Kings Commissioners in 1660 he lived afterwards a Nonconformist kept a Boarding-school and taught Youths of the Presb. and Indep perswasion at or near Nâ—ttlebed in Oxfordshire Under his name hath been published 1 How we may steer an even course between presumption and despair on Luke 3.5.6 printed in the Supplement to the Morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1674. and 76. qu. 2 A discourse of regeneration faith and repentance preached at the Merchants Lecture in Broadureer in London Lond. 1689. oct and other things as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen Jul. 10. Josich Banger of Magd. Coll. This person who was son of Bern. Banger M A. and Rector of Yerlington in Somersetshire became Fellow of Trin. Coll. this year He hath written An alarm to secure sinners or God discovered to be as well a burning as shining light Lond. 1676. oct This is the same I suppose which was several years before printed under the title of A serious Item to secure sinners What other things he hath written I know not or whether he was a Nonconformist after his Majesties restauration Jul. 10. Walt. Pope of Wadh. Coll. Jul. 10. Charles Potter of Ch Ch. Dec. 17. Sam. Thomas of S. Joh. Coll. He was before incorporated B. of A. as I shall tell you in the Incorporations following Admitted 54. Bach. of Phys Three were admitted who also were admitted Doctors this year as I shall anon tell you Bach. of Div. Oct. 10 Obadiah Grew of Balliol Coll. See among the Doctors of Div. following ☞ Not one admitted Doct. of Law only created as I shall tell you by and by Doct. of Phys June 14. Anth. Nourse of Wadh. Coll. Accumulators Aug. 10. Tho. Arris of Brasn Coll. Accumulators Dec. 13. Alan Pennington of Qu. Coll. Accumulators As for Arris he was licensed to proceed by vertue of an order from the Committee for the regulating of the University which partly runs thus He is thirteen years standing in the Vniversity and is well affected to the Parliament and present Government c. In 1661 he was chosen Burgess for S. Alban in Hertfordsh to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 8 May the same year Doct. of Div. Oct. 10. Obad. Grew of Ball. Coll. 16. Henr. Savage of Ball. Coll. The first accumulated the degrees in Divinity Incorporations Aug. 20. Sam. Thomas lately Bach. of Arts of 4 years standing of Peter House in Cambridge was then incorporated Bach. of Arts. After his Majesties restauration at which time he was turn'd out of his Fellowship of S. Johns Coll he became one of his Chaplains or Petty-Canons and at length Chauntor of Ch. ch He hath written and published several things and therefore ought hereafter to be remembred among the Oxford Writers Nov. 6. John Twisden a Kentish man born who had taken the degree of Doctor of Phys in the University of Anger 's an 1646 was incorporated in the same degree He was afterwards a Physitian of note in the great City a Mathematician one of the Coll. of Physitians and author of several books among which are these 1 Medicina veterum vindicata or an answer to a book intit Medela medicinae c. Lond. 1666. oct 2 Answer to Medicina instaurata c. Lond. 1666. oct written by Dr. Edw Bolnest Physitian in ord to his Maj. 3 The use of the great Planisphere called the Analemma in the resâ—lution of some of the chief and most useful Problems of Astronomy Lond. 1685. 86. qu. See more of the said Dr. Twisden's Works in Joh. Greaves among the Writers p. 89. and in Hen. Yelverton p 341. Dec. 12. Joh. Rant L. L. Pac. of Cambr. He was now Fellow of All 's Coll. by the favour of the Committee and Visitors Jan. 14. Jonathan Goddard Doctor of Phys of Cambr. He was now Warden of Mert. Coll. by the favour and power of Oliver Cromwell 21. Rich. Gibbon Doct. of Phys of Padua He had that degree confer'd upon him at Padua 1645. Mar. 11. Sam. Argall Doct. of Phys of the said Univ. was also then incorporated He was an Essex man born and took that degree at Padua in 1648. 24. Will. Aymes M. A. of Cambr. c. Creations Apr. 9. Will. Stephens a Parliament man and one of the Judges of the Admiralty was openly declared in Convocation Doctor of the Civil Law by a Diploma then dated by vertue of a Statute tit x. § 4. quo Magnates vel Nobiles honoris causa gradus academicos intra Vniversitatem dignentur as it is said in the publ Reg. of this time He died in 1658 being then an Inhabitant of the Isle of Wighâ— Jul. 3. Edw. Wise of Exeter Coll. Esq who had spent some terms in Cambr. was actually created Bach. of Arts. On the 24 of July 1652 it was granted by the Delegates of the Univ. that he the said Edw. Wise ex nobili stemmate ortus as they say might be admitted to the degree of Mast of Arts in Congregation but whether he was really admitted it appears nor Sept. 9. Sir Thom. Honywood of Essex Kt was actually created Doct. of the Civ Law This person who was brother in law to Sir Hen. Vane the same who was beheaded in 1662 was a Committee man in the time of the Long Parliament that began 3 Nov. 1640 was also a military man and led as a Colonel a Regiment of Essex men to fight at Worcester against K. Ch. 2. an 1651. To which place coming in good time he endeavoured to shew his valour against Kingship and the House of Stuarts In 1654 he was one of the Knights to serve for Essex in that Parliament began at Westm 3 of Sept. the same year and a Knight again for the same County in that Parl. which began at the same place 17 Sept. 1656 both which Parliaments were called by Oliver L. Protector And being a man soft in spirit and too easie like a nose of wax to be turn'd on that side where the greatest strength then was was taken into Olivers Court and by him made one of the Other House that is House of Lords One Sir Rob. Honywood his near Relation was made one of the Council of State about the 16 of May 1659 but had no degree confer'd on him in this University as I can yet find Thom. Cooke a
differ See the titles of some of his works in Bodlies Catalogue and elsewhere in others Now I am got into the name of Collins I cannot but let the Reader know something of John Collins the Accomptant who having been a person of extraordinary worth considering his education you may be pleased therefore to know that he was born at Wood-Eaton near to and in the County of Oxon on Saturday 5 March 1624. His father was a Nonconformist Divine and tho not suffer'd to preach in Churches yet in Prisons to Malefactors which with the correcting of the Press obtain'd him a subsistence At 16 years of age Joh. Collins was put an Apprentice to a Bookseller one Tho. Allam living without the Turl-gate of Oxon but Troubles soon after following he left that Trade and was employed in Clerkship under and received some mathematical knowledge from Mr. Joh. Marr one of the Clerks of the Kitchin to Pr. Charles afterwards K. Ch. 2 I mean the same Mr. Marr who was eminent for his mathematical knowledge and noted for those his excellent Dyals wherewith the Gardens of his Maj. K. Ch. 1. were adorned But the intestine Wars and Troubles increasing Collins lost that employment and went seven years to sea most part of it in an English Merchant-man that became a Man of War in the Venetian Service against the Turks In which having leisure he applied part of his studies to Mathematicks and Merchant-Accompts and upon his return he fell to the practice thereof and afterwards profess'd Writing Merchant-Accompts and some parts of Mathematicks And having drawn up some books of Accompts and divers loose questions for the instructions of his Scholars in the year 1652 he committed them to the press under the title of An introduction to Merchants Accompts They were reprinted in 1665 without alteration and in 1666 the fire consumed the greatest part of the impression At length it was reprinted with the addition of two more Accompts than were formerly extant On the 12. of Oct. 1667 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society upon the publication in the Philos Transact of his Solution of a Problem concerning time to wit about the Julian Period with divers Perpetual Almanacks in single verses a Chorographical Problem and other things afterwards in the said Transact concerning Merchants Accompts Compound Interest and Annuities c. While Anthony Earl of Shaftesbury was L. Chanc. he nominated him in divers references concerning suits depending in Chancery about intricate Accompts to assist in the stating thereof which was some emolument to him and to the shortning of the charge of the parties concern'd From which time especially his assistance was often used in other places and by other persons whereby he not only obtained some wealth but a great name and became accounted in matters of that nature the most useful and necessary person of his time and thereupon towards his latter end he was made Accomptant to the Royal Fishery Company His works besides those before mentioned are among others 1 The Sector on a Quadrant or a treatise containing the description and use of four several Quadrants c. Lond. 1658. qu in which there are very curious prints of two great Quadrants and of two small Quadrants with particular projections on them serving for the Latitude of London See in the Astronomical Appendix to The Sphere of Marc. Manilius made an English Poem Lond. 1675. fol. pag. 116 written by Edw. Sherburne Esq afterwards a Knight 2 Mariners plain Scale new plained This is a treatise of Navigation and was print in 1659. In which besides projections of the Sphere there are constructions for many Astronomical Problems and Spherical propositions This book hath found good acceptance and is now become a common Theme to the Scholars of Christ Ch. Hospital in London whereof forty by his Majesties bounty and the establishing a Lecturer to instruct them are constantly taught Navigation 3 Treatise of Geometrical dyalling printed 1659. 'T is of good esteem both for the newness and easiness of method in situating the Requisites and drawing the Hour-lines 4 The doctrine of Decimal Arithmetick simple interest c. As also of compound Interest and Annuities generally performed for any time of payment c. Lond. 1664 in a quarter of a sheet for portability in a Letter-case It was published again by J. D. Lond. 1685. 5 An introduction to Merchants accompts containing seven distinct questions or Accompts 1. An easie question to enter beginners c. Lond. 1674. fol. 6 A plea for bringing in of Irish Cattle and keeping out of fish caught by Forreigners c. Lond. 1680. qu. 7 Address to the members of Parl. of the Counties of Cornwall and Devon about the advancement of Tin Fishery and other Manufactures Ibid. 8 Salt and Fishery A discourse thereof insisting on the following heads 1. The several ways of making salt in England c. Lond. 1682. qu. 9 Arithmetick in whole numbers and fractions both vulgar and decimal with Tables for the forbearance and rebate of money c. Lond. 1688. in tw published by Tho. Plant Accomptant What other things Mr. Collins hath written I know not and therefore I shall only say that if we did not further enlarge by telling the World how much it is obliged for his pains in exciting the learned to publish their Works and in acting the part of an ingenious Obstetrix at the Press in correcting and in drawing of Schemes we should be much injurious to his memory After the Act at Oxon was finished 1682 he rode thence to Malmsbury in Wilts in order to view the ground to be cut for a river between Isis and Avon which journey being performed between twelve at noon and eleven at night in a hot day he did at his arrival in his Inn drink more than he should at that time being very hot and his blood not setled of Red streak Cider which giving him an Astma and that a consumption he died thereof in his Lodging on Garlick-hill in London on Saturday 10. of Nov. 1683 whereupon his body was buried on Tuesday following in the Church of S. James Garlick-hythe in the South Isle just behind the Pulpit June ... Tho. Margetson Doct. of Phys of Aurange or Orange This Physitian who was Son of Jam. Margetson of Yorkshire was admitted a Student of Trin. Coll. near Dublin 5. May 1647 retired to Oxon in the latter of 1650 entred himself a Student of S. Maries Hall and as a member thereof he took the degrees in Arts Afterwards applying his mind to the study of Phys had the degree of Doctor of that faculty confer'd on him at Aurange before mention'd in the middle of March 1656. These Cambridge men following were incorporated after the solemnity of the Act on the 14 of July John Stillingfleet M. A. and Fellow of S. Johns Coll. in Cambr. He became soon after Rector of Beckingham in Lincolnshire and at length D. of Div. He hath published one or more books Edw.
Stillingfleet M. A. and Fellow of S. Joh. Coll. before mention'd was incorporated on the same day This person who was younger Brother to the said Joh. Still was born near Shaftesbury in Dorsetshire was first Rector of Sutton in Bedfordshire by the favour of Sir Rog. Burgoyne then of S. Andrews Church in Holbourne near London D. of D Chaplain in Ord. to his Majesty Prebendary of Canterbury Can. resid of S. Pauls Cathedral Dean thereof upon the promotion of Dr. Will. Sancroft to the See of Canterbury and at length Bishop of Worcester to which See he was consecrated in the Bishop of Londons Chappel at Fulham on Sunday the 13 of Oct. 1689 with Dr. Sim. Patrick to Chichester and Dr. Gilbert Ironside to Bristow by the Bishops of London S. Asaph and Rochester by vertue of a Commission directed to them in that behalf He hath published divers books too many to have their titles set down here in defence of the Church of England which shew him to be an orthodox and learned man The first book which made him known to the world was his Irenicum A weapon salve for the Churches wounds Lond. 1661. Tho. White of Peter House I find one Thom. White a Minister of London of Allhallows the Great as it seems to be author of 1 Method and instructions for the art of divine meditation c. Lond. 1655. c. in tw 2 Observations on the fourth 5 and 6 Chapters of S. Matthew c. Lond. 1654. oct 3 Treatise of the power of godliness in three parts c. Lond. 1658 in tw 4 A manual for Parents wherein is set down very particular directions in reference to baptizing correcting c. Lond. 1660. c. and of other things Whether this author who was dead before 1671 be the same with the former Tho. White of Peter House I know not Rich. Cumberland M. A. and Fellow of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Doct. of Div. and published 1 De Legibus naturae disquisitio Philosophica in qua â—arum forma summa capita ordo promulgatio obligatio è rerum natura investigantur quinetiam elementa Philosophiae Hobbianae cum moralis tum civilis considerantur refutantur Lond. 167â— qu. 2 An essay towards the recovery of the Jewish measures and weights comprehending their moneys by help of an antient standard compared with ours of England useful also to state many of those of the Greeks and Romans and Eastern Nations Lond. 1686. oct c. This Dr. Cumberland was consecrated Bish of Peterborough in the place of Dr. Tho. White deprived for not taking the Oathes to K. Will. 3. and Qu. Mary in the Church of S. Mary Le Bow in London on the 5 of July 1691 at which time other Bishops were consecrated Mathew Pole or Poole M. of A. of Emanuel Coll. He was Minister of S. Michaels in Le Querne in London from whence being ejected for Nonconformity an 1662 he set himself to the writing of those admirable and useful books entit Synopsis Criticorum Bibliorum c. The two first Volumes of which were printed at Lond. 1669 and three more afterwards besides one in English all in fol. He hath also written 1 The Blasphemer slain with the sword of the spirit or a plea for the Godhead of the Holy Ghost wherein the Deity of the spirit is proved against the Cavils of Joh. Biddle Lond. 1654. in tw 2 A model for the maintaining of Students of choice abilities in the Vniversity and principally in order to the Ministry c. Printed 1658 in 3. sh and an half in qu. 3 Letter to the Lord Charles Fleetwood Lond. 1659. in one sh in qu. It was delivered to that person one of Olivers Lords 13. of Dec. the same Year in reference to the then juncture of affairs 4 Quo Warranto A moderate debate about the preaching of unordained persons election ordination and the extent of the Ministerial relation in vindication of the Jus Divinum Ministerii from the exceptions of that late piece entit The Preacher sent Lond. 1659. qu. Written by the appointment of the Provincial Assembly at London 5 Evangelical Worship serm before the L. Mayor 26. Aug. 1660. c. Lond. 1660. qu. 6 The nullity of the Romish faith c. Oxon. 1666. oct 7 Dialogue between a Popish Priest and English Protestant wherein the principal points and arguments of both religions are truly proposed and fully examined Lond. 1667 and several times after in tw 8 Seasonable Apologie for religion on Matth. 11.19 Lond. 1673. qu besides other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen He died at Amsterdam in Holland to which place he had retired for the free exercise of his religion in the middle of Octob. 1679 leaving then behind him the character of Clarissimus Criticus Casuista whereupon his body was buried in a certain Vault under the Church which belongs to the English Merchants trading there He left behind him certain English Annotations on the Holy Scripture which being imperfect were finished by other hands in two volumes in fol. an 1685. See more among the Writers in Joh. Owen p. 564. Joh. Meriton M. A. of S. Johns Coll. He was before his Majesties restauration the Sunday's Lecturer at S. Martin in the Fields in Westminster afterward D. D. Rector of S. Michaels Church in Cornhill Lecturer at S. Mary Hill c. in London He hath published several Sermons as 1 Curse not the King preached at S. Mart. in the Fields 30. Jan. 1660 on Eccles 10.20 Lond. 1660. 61. qu. 2 Religio Militis on Josh 1.7 preached to the Attillery Company 24. Oct. 1672 at S. Mich. in Cornhill Lond. 1673 qu. c. I find another Joh. Meriton who was M. of A Vicar of S. Ives in Huntingdonshire Rector of St. Mary Bothaw in London c. and Chaplain to Henry Earl of Arlington a publisher also of several Sermons as of 1 The obligation of a good conscience to civil obedience preached before the Judges at an Assize held at Huntingdon 24. Aug. 1670 on Rom. 13.5 Lond. 1670. qu. 2 Sermon preached before the King at Whitehall 30. July 1676. Lond. 1676 qu. c. Will. Williams M. A. of Trin. Coll. Several of both his names have been Writers but whether this hath published any thing I know not Anthony Walker M. A. of S. Johns Coll. He was afterwards Doct. of Div Rector of Fyfield in Essex Chaplain to his Majesty and a publisher of several Sermons as 1 Planctus Unigeniti spes resuscitandi Or the bitter sorrows for a first born c. funeral Serm. on Luke 7.12 Lond. 1664. qu. 2 Leez lachrymans sive Comitis Warwici justa Serm. at the funeral of Charles Earl of Warwick Baron Rich of Leez who being the fourth Earl of the Family and last of the direct line died at his house of Leez le Rich in the County of Essex 24. August 1673 aged 55 and was inter'd among his Ancestors in
their Vault at Felsted adjacent 9 Sept. following on Sam. 3.38 Lond. 1673. qu. 3 The virtuous Woman found her loss bewailed and character preached at Felsted in Essex 30. Apr. 1678 at the funeral of Mary Countess-Dowager of Warwick c. with so large additions which may be stiled the life of that noble Lady Lond. 1678. oct To which are annexed some of her Pious and useful meditations This book was afterwards reprinted twice at least in tw 4 Say on or a seasonable plea for a full hearing between man and man preached at Chelmsford in Essex at the general Assize holden for that County 8. July 1678. Lond. 1678. oct 5 Serm. at the Black-fryers before the Company of Apothecaries 8. Sept. 1681. Lond. 1681. 82. qu. 6 The true interest of nations impartially stated preached at the lent Assizes at Chelmsford in Essex 2. March 1690 proving that the c. Lond. 1691. qu. He hath also written and published The great evil of procrastination or the sinfulness and danger of deferring repentance in several discourses Lond. 1681 in tw And was as it seems the author of The holy life of Mrs. Eliz. Walker late Wife of him A. W.D. D. c. giving a modest and short account of her exemplary piety and charity c. Lond. 1680. oct with some Vseful papers and letters written by her on several occasions He hath other things extant which I have not seen as Serm. on 2. Chron. 23.11 printed 1660. qu. c. Joh. Dillingham Bach. of Div. of Sidney Coll. Joh. Browne Doct. of Phys of Camb. .... Bernard D. of D. of the fame Univ. The Christian name of this Doctor is not registred and therefore I do not know to the contrary but that he may be Nich. Bernard of whom I have spoken in the Fasti 1628. Qu. All which Cambridge men viz. Joh. and Edw. Stillingfleet Thomas White R. Cumberland M. Poole J. Meriton W. Williams A. Walker J. Diliingham Jo. Browne and ... Bernard were incorporated on the 14. of July There were 34 Masters of that University incorporated on the same day among whom besides those before mention'd was Tho. Wilson of Clare Hall one of both whose names was Rector of Arrow in Warwickshire after his Majesties restauration a Writer against the Quakers as Will. Pen G. Fox G. Whitehead c. an 1678 and author of Sermons in 1679. 83 c. whether the same I cannot tell One Will. Johnson also of the said Hall of Clare was then incorporated but not to be taken with one of both his names who was D. of D Chaplain and Sub-Almoner to K. Ch. 2 author of Deus nobiscum A narrative of a great deliverance at Sea Lond. 1659 c. oct and of other things He died 4. March 1666 aged 54 years and was buried in the north trancept or isle joyning on the north side of the choire of S. Peters Ch. in Westminster Creations July 9. Edw. Davenport of Vniv Coll. was created Bach. of Phys by dispensation from the Delegates I find this person to be admitted to the said degree 15 June 1661 and the same day admitted to practice his faculty July 29. Richard Cromwell Chanc. elected of the University of Oxon was actually created Mast of Arts in a Convocation of certain Doctors and Masters of the University held in Whitehall within the liberty of Westm and soon after in the same Convocation he was installed Chancellour of the said University which was the first publick honour done unto him in the nation He was the eldest Son of Oliver L. Protector and had no other breeding than in hawking hunting horse-racing c. He was a boon companion and had done no service in the Parliament Army unless it was the often drinking his Fathers Landlords K. Ch. 2. health His abilities in praying and preaching and love to the Sectaries was much like those of his cousin Rich. Ingoldesby mention'd among the Creations of M. of A. under the year 1649. However he being designed to be his Fathers successor in tne Protectorate was about the time that this honour was done to him sworn a Privy Counsellour made a Colonel in the Army when fighting was over to the end that he might have an interest in parties and parts of the Body politique and the first Lord of the Other House About that time he was commonly called the most noble Lord Richard and rife discourses there were of Richard the fourth but they proved no more than the story of Queen Dick. On the 4 of Sept. 1658 he was proclaimed Lord Protector his Father dying the day before at the usual places in London where Kings use to be and soon after had addresses flew to him at Whitehall from all parts of the three Nations to salute and magnifie his assumption to the Soveraignty wherein he was celebrated for his excellency of his wisdom and nobleness of mind for the lovely composition of his body c. as if he had been another Titus Deliciae Gentis Dominii Britanici c. In the latter end of Apr. 1659 he was as a pitiful thing laid aside and deposed Whereupon withdrawing to Hursley in Hampshire absconded there for a time He had before taken to Wife Dorothy Daughter and Coheir of Rich. Maijor or Mager of Hursley before mention'd Son of Joh. Maijor sometimes Mayor and Alderman of Southampton by whom he had issue Oliver Cromwell and other Children The other Daughter and Coheir named Anne was married to John Dunch of Pusey in Berks Son of Sam. Dunch of North Baddisley in Hampshire Esq by whom he had a Son named Major or Maijor Dunch and other Children This Rich. Cromwell who was born in the antient Borough of Huntingdon has gone through no death as yet only a political one His younger Brother formerly called Lord Harry L. Lieut. of Ireland was born also at Hunt and died and was buried some years since at Wickhen in Cambridgshire Sept. 5. Robert Whitehall M. of A. of Mert. Coll. was created Bac. of Phys by vertue of the Letters of R. Cromwell Chanc. of the University Nov. 11. Jos Williamson of Qu. Coll now in France was diplomated M. of A. Dec. 2. Abraham Cowley the great ornament of our Nation as well by the candor of his life as the excellency of his writings was created Doctor of Phys This Gentleman who is justly characterized to be Anglorum Pindarus Flaccus Maro deliciae decus desiderium aevi sui was born in Fleetstreet near to the end of Chancery-lane in the Parish of S. Dunstan in the West in London an 1618. His Father who was a Grocer dying before the Son was born the Mother by her endeavours and friends got him to be a Kings Scholar at Westminster where in the year 1633 being then going into the sixteenth year of his age he composed a book called Poetical Blossomes whereby the great pregnancy of his parts was discovered Soon after having obtained the Greek and Rom. Languages he was removed to Trin.
Coll. in Cambridge of which he was elected Scholar an 1636 where by the progress and continuance of his wit it appeared that two things were joyn'd in it which seldom meet together viz. that it was ripe and lasting In the beginning of 1643 he being then M. of A was among many others ejected his Coll. and University whereupon retiring to Oxon he setled in S. Johns Coll and under the name of a Scholar of Oxon he published the same year a Poem entit A Satyre The Puritan and the Papist In that House he prosecuted his Academical Studies with the like success as before and was not wanting in his duty in the War it self whereby he became acquainted with the great men of the Court and the Gown After he had left Oxon which was a little before the surrender thereof for the use of the Parliament he went to Paris where falling into the acquaintance of Dr. Stephen Goffe a Brother of the Oratory he was by him prefer'd and plac'd in the family of the noble and munificent Henry Lord Jermyn afterwards E. of S. Alban who having a great and singular respect for him he was by his most generous endeavours design'd to be Master of the Savoy Hospital which tho granted to his high merit by both the Charles's 1. and 2 yet by certain persons enemies to the Muses he lost that place He was absent from his native Country about 10 years which were for the most part spent either in bearing a part in the distresses of the Regal family or in labouring in the affairs thereof In the year 1656 he returned into England and was for a time brought into trouble but afterwards complying with some of the men then in power which was much taken notice of by the Royal party he obtained an order to be created Doctor of Physick Which being done to his mind whereby he gained the ill will of some of his friends he went into France again having made a copy of verses on Olivers death where continuing till towards the time of the blessed restauration of K. Ch. 2 he returned but then not finding that preferment confer'd on him which he expected while others for their money carried away most places he retired discontented into Surrey where he spent the remaining part of his days in a private and studious condition mostly at Chertsie where he had a lease of a Farm held of the Queen procured for him by George Duke of Bucks from the Earl of S. Alban before mention'd The writings of this most eminent Poet are these 1 Poetical Blossomes Lond. 1633. qu which contain Antonius and Melida and The tragical History of Piramus and Thisbe The first is ded to Dr. Williams Bishop of Line and the other to his Master Mr. Lambert Osbaldeston Before both is his picture with his age set over it viz. 13 but false an 1633. There are also verses made by his School-fellows in commendation of them one of which is Rob. Mead who proved afterwards a most ingenious person as I have elsewhere told you and at the end are two Elegies one on Dudley Lord Carleton and another on his kinsman Rich. Clerk of Linc. Inn Gent and A dream of Elysium I have seen a book entit Sylva or divers copies of verses made upon sundry occasions Lond. 1636. oct said in the title to be written by A. C. but whether by Abr. Cowley I doubt it because the said A. C. seems to be not of Cambr. 2 Loves riddle a pastoral Comedy Lond. 1638. oct written while he was at Westminster School and ded to Sir Ken. Digby 3 Naufragium joculare Comaedia Lond. 1638. oct Acted before the Academians of Cambr. in Trin. Coll. there on the 4. of the nones of Feb. 1638. 3 A Satyre The Puritan and the Papist Pr. in 1643 in one sh and an half in qu. This was published again at London in 1682 in qu. in a book entit Wit and Loyalty revived in a collection of some smart Satyrs in verse and prose on the late times The prefacer to these Satyrs complains that this of Mr. Cowley was not set forth by the publisher of his first collection of pieces of Poetry and gives two presumptive reasons thereof and wonders that his Poem called Brutus and that upon the B. of Lincolns enlargement from the Tower which he guesseth not to be his have met with so good fortune as to have place therein See more in Joh. Birkenhead among the Writers an 1679. p. 476. 4 The Mistress or several copies of love verses Lond. 1647. oct 5 Guardian Com. Lond. 1650. qu. Acted before Pr. Charles at Trin. Coll. in Cambr. 12. Mar. 1641. 6 Cutter of Colemanstreet Com. 7 Poems viz. 1. Miscellanies 2. The Mistriss or Love verses 3. Pindariques c. with notes Lond. 1656. fol. Before a copy of this book which he gave to the publick Library at Oxon he wrot with his own hand A Pindarique Ode whereby the book presents it self to the Vniversity Library of Oxon. 8 Ode upon the happy restauration of K. Ch. 2. Lond. 1660. qu. 9 Poemata Latina in quibus continentur sex libri Plantarum cum notis Lond. 1668 and 78. oct with his picture before them and a short account of his life written in Lat. by Dr. Tho. Sprat Among these books were reprinted Plantarum libri duo which had been printed at Lond. 1662. oct A translation of the sixth book of these Plants was printed in 1680. qu. 10 Miscellan lib. 1 wherein is Opus imperfectum Davideios sacri Poematis Pr. with Poem Lat. 11 Poem on the late Civil War Lond. 1679. qu. This was afterwards printed in the translation of the sixth book of Plants before mention'd As for other of his writings which have escaped my sight you may see more in the first part of his Works printed at least eight times in fol in the second part of his Works being what was written and published by himself in his younger years pr. at least four times in fol and in the third part of his works containing his 6. books of Plants made English by several hands fol. c. A little before his first return into England 1656 there was a book published under his name entit The iron age which he disclaimed in the preface of his Poems which came out that year He died at Chertsey in Surrey before mention'd on the 28. of July 1667 aged 49 years Whereupon his body being conveyed to the house of his great Patron George D of Bucks called Wallingford house near to Whitehall was conveyed thence to Westminster Abbey on the 3 of Aug. following accompanied by divers persons of eminent quality and there in the South cross isle or large isle joyning to the South side of the Choire was buried near to the place where the reliques of Jeffr. Chaucer had been lodged About the middle of May 1675 the said Duke of Bucks did at his own charge erect over his grave a curious Pedestal of white
depos'd from his Protectorship in the beginning of this year Vicechanc. the same viz. Dr. Conant 8. Oct Proct. George Philipps of Qu. Coll. Ap. 13. Thomas Wyatt of S. Joh. Coll. Ap. 13. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 14. Franc. Turner of New Coll. July 11. Charles Bridgman of Qu. Coll. Oct. 12. Joh. Lloyd of Mert. Coll. The first of these three was afterwards successively B. of Rochester and Ely and having written and published several things he is hereafter to be remembred among the Writers and Bishops The second was afterwards an Archdeacon as I shall tell you among the Masters an 1662 and the last who was afterwards of Jesus Coll was at length B. of S. David Oct. 12. Jam. Janeway of Ch. Ch. 14. Sam. Hardye of Wadham Coll. He was the author of The Guide to Heaven c. printed at several times in two parts in oct the last part of which was published 1687. 88. and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among the Oxford Writers Nov. 1. Benj. Woodroff of Ch. Ch. He hath published several things and therefore he is also hereafter to be remembred Jan. 16. Thom. Guidott of Wadh. Coll. Feb. 28. Sam. Parker of Wadh. Coll. The first of these two who is now a Physitian of note is hereafter to be remembred among the Writers The other who was afterwards of Trin. Coll. was at length B. of Oxon. I have mention'd him at large among the Writers in this vol. Feb. 28. Joh. Langford of Ch. Ch. This person who was a Ruthyn man born in Denbighshire did afterwards translate into good welsh The whole duty of man Lond. 1672. oct He took no higher degree in this University but elsewhere and is now living and beneficed in Wales Mar. 15. Sam Holding or Holden or Linc. Coll. This person who hath published several things is hereafter to be remembred among the Writers Adm. 148. Bach. of Law May 18. Thomas Jones of Mert. Coll. Oct. 12. Will. Trumbull of All 's Coll. Of the last you may see more among the Doct. of the Civil Law 1667. Adm. 4. Mast of Arts. June 2. Joh. Dobson of Magd. Coll. 4. Joh. Skelton of Queens Coll. The last was afterwards Chaplain to Dr. Tho. Barlow Bishop of Lincolne who collating him to the Archdeaconry of Bedford was installed therein 22. Mar. 1678 and afterwards to the Prebendship of Biggleswade in the Church of Linc. was installed also therein 3. May 1684. June 21. Thomas Hockin of Magd. Coll. This person who was afterwards Fellow of All 's Coll hath written A discourse of the nature of Gods decrees Being an answer to a Letter from a person of quality concerning them Lond. 1684. oct In the title of this book he writes himself Bach. of Div sometimes Fellow of Allsouls Coll. and late Preacher at Great S. Barthelmews in London But whether he took the said degree of B. of D in this University it appears not June 21. Will. Shippen of Vniv Coll. He was afterwards Proctor of the University and at length Rector of Stockport in Cheshire and author of The Christians triumph over death Sermon at the funeral of Rich. Legh of Lime in the County Pal of Chester Esq at Winwick in Lancashire 6. Sept. 1687 on 1. Cor. 15.55 Oxon. 1688. qu. He is Doct. of Divinity not of this University but by the Diploma if I mistake not of Dr. W. Sancroft Archbishop of Canturbury June 25. Henry Foulis of Qu. Coll. June 25. Capel Wiseman of Qu. Coll. June 25. Henry Denton of Qu. Coll. The last of these three who was Son of Thomas Denton of the antient and gentile family of his name living at Warnel-Denton in Cumberland travelled afterwards to Constantinople in the quality of a Chaplain to the English Embassador and after his return did translate into English A description of the present state of Samos Nicaria Patmos and Mount-Athos Lond. 1678. oct Which book was written by Joseph Georgirines Archbishop of Samos living then 1678 in London who the year before had for some weeks been in Oxon about the Act time to obtain money from the Academians towards the finishing the Greek Church in London This Mr. Denton who was Fellow of Queens Coll and presented by the Provost and Fellows thereof to the Rectory of Blechingdon in Oxfordshire on the death of Joh. Hook B. D. sometimes Fellow of Magd. Coll which hapned 20. of Feb. 1673 was buried in the Church there 19 Aug. 1681. July 2. Arthur Brett of Ch. Ch. 4. Dav. Lloyd of Oriel Coll. 8. Rich. Morton of New Coll. Adm. 78. Bach of Phys June 4. Nath. Hodges of Ch Ch. July 9. Joh. Smith of Brasn Coll. Adm. 6. Two also were licensed to practise Physick of whom Hen. Brunsell M. A. of Magd. Hall was one ☞ Not one Bach. of Div. was adm this year Doct. of Law May 18. Nicholas Staughton of Exet. Coll. Esq was adm Doctor of the Civ and Can. Law being then dispensed with for certain Terms and on the 27 of June following after he had spoken a formal Speech before the Members of the University for which he was laughed at because not at all desired or required he was admitted ad suffragandum in domo Convocationis Congreg About a month or two after was printed a sharp Libel intit Sundry things from several hands concerning the Vniversity of Oxford c. And at the end of it were printed 25 Queries the last of which runs thus Whether the Boy Dr. Staughton of Exeter Coll. did well to lye in his scarlet Gown that night he was made Doctor since his degree was a thing he ought not to have dreamed of He was then Lord of the ancient Mannour of Staughton in Surrey which unexpectedly fell to him after the death of divers persons of that name and on the 29 of January 1660 he was created a Baronet May 18. Tho. Jones of Mert. Coll who accumulated the degrees of Law by vertue of the Chanc. Letters was then adm to proceed Doct. of Phys Jun. 2. Thom. Jeanes of Magd. Coll. This person who was originally of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. did while he was a Junior there with Joh. Fidoe and Will. Shaw his Contemporaries of the said House write and publish The Parliament justified in their late proceedings against Charles Stuart Or a brief discourse concerning the nature and rise of Government together with the abuse of it in Tyranny and the peoples reserve To which is added An answer to a certain paper entit The humble advice to the Lecturers of Banbury in Oxfordshire and of Brackley in Northamptonshire Lond. 1648 in 2 sh and an half in qu. Afterwards Jeanes going to Oxon was made Fellow of Magd. Coll. by the Visitors and always after during his stay there he was esteem'd by all that knew him a good Scholar and a generous and stour man But so it fell out that after Dr. Tho. Pierce became President of the said Coll. he found means to expell him thence an 1662 under pretence of
the Gregories dwelling in and about the City of London and assembled in the Church of S. Mich. Cornhill 19 June 1673 on Mark 13.37 Lond. 1673. qu. 3 Three Sermons the first on Deut. 23.9 the second on Mark 13.37 and the third on 1 Tim. 4.16 Lond. 1673. qu. 4 Serm. on Jude 12 preached at the Oxfordshire Feast Lond. 1676. qu. 5 The religious Villain preached before Sir Rob. Clayton L. Mayor of London and the Court of Aldermen 5 Nov. 1679 at S. Mary le Bow on 2 Sam. 19.3 Lond. 1680. qu. This Dr. Gregory who is now living at Hambleton free from the noise of a School had a younger brother named John Gregory born at Wodstâ—ck educated in Cambr afterwards Master of the Coll. School in Glocester Rector of Hemsted in Glocestershire by the favour of the Lord Scudamore and at length Archdeacon of Glocester on the death of Edward Pope in the latter end of 1671. He hath written A discourse of the morality of the Sabbath being an exposition of Exod. 20.8.9.10.11 with prayers relating thereunto Lond. 1681. oct In which book the author shews a great deal of antient Learning especially as to Criticism and the Languages It is dedicated by his son Joh. Greg. M. A. of Magd. Hall to John Lord Visc Scudamore his Patron by whose grant he succeeded his father in the Rectory of Hemsted before mention'd The said John the father hath also written Greek Scholia on the New Test but whether yet printed I know not He died in the beginning of Dec. 1678 whereupon his Archdeaconry was bestowed on Thom. Hyde M. A. of Queens Coll. in Ox. There is another younger brother named Abrah Gregory who is D. D. and Preb. of Glocester Sept. 12. Joh. Newton of S. Edm. Hall Sept. 12. Henry Eve of Cambr. Sept. 12. Tho. Cartwright of Qu. Coll. Oct. 10. Andr. Dominick of Pemb. Coll. Oct. 10. Tho. Greaves of Co. Chr. Coll. The first of these two who was originally of Trin. Coll where he had in a manner been drawn off from his Religion to that of Rome but reclaimed by the endeavours of Dr. Christoph Wren Minister of Bishopsknoyle or Knahill in Wilts afterwards Dean of Windsore was now beneficed in that County and afterwards published Dies nefastus on Psal 22.12 printed 1662. qu. and perhaps other things Oct. 17. Joh. Gandy of Oriel Coll. Oct. 17. Joh. Whitmore of Wadh. Coll. Nov. 6. George Stradling of All 's Coll. In the Fasti of 1640 I have made a reference to this last person with intentions when I wrot that part to mention one Sermon that he had published in this place but since that time several of his Sermons and Discourses being made extant I have put him among the Writers under the year 1688. p. 622. Nov. 16. Will. Piers of Ch. Ch. He was son of Dr. W. Piers Bishop of Bathe and Wells who confer'd on him tho of little merit the Archdeaconry of Bathe with the Preb. or Rectory of Cudworth and the Chappel of Knowle annexed on the death of Dr. Tim. Revett in the beginning of Apr. 1638 and in Dec. following had the Rectory of Buckland S. Mary given to him In the latter end of March 1639 he was collated to the Preb. of Whitchurch in the said Ch. of Wells and in the latter end of June following he resigning Cudworth with Knowle was succeeded therein by Rich. Busby M. A. of Ch. Ch. In 1643 he resign'd the Archdeaconry of Bathe to Will. Davis having other preferments bestowed on him and after his Majesties restauration he had setled on him the Archdeaconry of Taunton with a Prebendship in the Ch. of Wells of 10 l. per an annex'd to it the rich Rectory of Christian Malford in Wilts and a resid Canonship in the said Ch. of Wells All which he enjoyed many years gaining from them a good estate in Lands and Money He died on the 4 of Apr. 1682 and thereupon Dr. Mews Bish of Bathe and Wells bestowed his Archdeaconry of Taunton on Edw. Waple B. D. of S. Joh. Coll his Canonship on Dr. Will. Levinz President of that Coll and Christ Malford on Dr. Baptista Levinz of Magd. Coll. afterwards B. of the Isle of Man Nov. 16. Will. Hodges of Exet. Coll. In 1645 May 30 he was admitted Archdeacon of Worcester in the place of Dr. Edward Thornborough deceased by the favour of Dr. Prideaux Bish of Worc. whose dau he before had married Dr. Hodges was about that time if not before one of the Vicars of Bampton in Oxfordshire and Rector of Ripple in Worcestersh which last he kept in the times of Usurpation and dying about the latter end of Aug. 1676 within few days after the death of his beloved son Thomas M. A. lately of Ball. Coll. esteemed a florid Preacher during his stay in the University his Archdeaconry was confer'd by Dr. Fleetwood B. of Worcester on his son John Fleetwood M. A. of Kings Coll. in Cambridge and was admitted thereunto on the 4 of Sept. following Dec. 7. Rich. Heylyn B. D. of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards made Canon of Ch. Ch. in the place of Dr. Wall deceased 17. Henr. Sutton of Brasn Coll. I have made mention of this person in Dr. Prideaux p. 70. Feb. 27. Dan. Brevint M. A. of Jes Coll. and a Student in Div. 20 years This person is now Dean of Lincoln hath written several things and therefore he is to be numbred hereafter among the Oxford Writers An. Dom. 1662. An. 14 Car. 2. Chanc. the same viz. Edw. Earl of Clarendon Vicechanc. Walt. Blandford D. D. Warden of Wadham Coll 18 Septemb. The Caroline Cycle being still kept back a year Merton and Magd. Colleges did choose Proctors this year according as the said Cycle was kept back viz. Mr. Rob. Crippes for the first and Mr. Joh. Hook for the other But the Vicechanc. and Heads of Houses being then and before inclined to reform it and set it right Ch. Ch. and Brasnose chose also according to the true tenor of the Cycle So that from thence a Controversie arising it was on the 22 of March last year decided at Westminster in the Chancellours house by him the said Chancellour and the Bishops of London and Worcester viz. Sheldon and Morley who ordered that the Proctors chosen by Ch. Ch. and Brasnose should stand and be admitted Which being the result of the matter pronounced before certain members of the Unversity then present of which the President of Magd. Coll. was one and the Warden of Mert. should have been another but withdrawn when he saw how the business was carried these persons following were admitted Proctors in Convocation Proct. Tho. Frankland of Brasn Coll. Apr. 9. Henry Bold of Ch. Church Apr. 9. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 11. Will. Asshton of Brasn Coll. May 5. George Howell of All 's Coll. Of the last of these two you may see more among the Masters an 1666. Jun. 28. Nich. Adee of Magd. Hall This person who took no higher degree in
of that Imperial City 3. From Vienna to Hamburg 4. From Colen to London Wherein the Mines Bathes c. Lond. 1679. qu. An account of which also is in the Royal or Phil. Transact nu 130. He hath also several Discourses printed in the said Phil. Trans and in the Phil. Collections hath translated into English The life of Themistocles which is in Plutarchs lives translated from the Greek by several hands Lond. 1683. oct and The life of Sertorius in the Third vol. of Plutarchs lives Lond. 1684. oct c. Doct. of Div. July 2. Gilb. Coles of New Coll. July 2. Will. Lloyd of Jesus Coll. The last accumulated the degrees in Div. and was afterwards B. of S. Asaph Creations Mar. 28. Sir Joh. Huband of Qu. Coll. Bt. Apr. 17. William Julius Coyett Son of the Lord Peter Julius Coyett Lord of Lynbygord and Bengsboda Counsellour of the State and Chancellourship of Sweden now Embassador extraordinary with the Lord Baron Flemming from his Majesty of Sweden to the King of Great Britain was presented with a little Speech by Mr. George Hooper of Ch. Ch. Deputy-Orator and actually created and admitted Master of Arts by the Vicechancellour The said Pet. Jul. Coyett had been Resident for the K. of Sweden in the Court of Ol. Cromwell who confer'd on him the honour of Knighthood 3. May 1656 And afterwards before the return of his Majesty K. Ch. 2 he was Envoy extraordinary from the said King to the States of Holland and West-Friesland Peter Trotzigh a young Nobleman companion to the former Son of the most noble John Trotzigh chief Governour or Master while he lived of the Copper Mines in Coperberg for his sacred Majesty of Sweden was also presented by the said Dep. Or. and actually created M. of A. on the said day Sir Will. Farmor of Magd. Coll. Bt. was also created M. of A. in the same convocation Apr. 23. Sir Edw. Acton of Qu. Coll. Bt was created M. A. July 4. Lewis Reness Pastor of the Church at Breda and the Professor of Div. in the Aurangian Coll. there was declared Doct. of Div. in a Convocation then held by vertue of the Chancellours Letters written in his behalf whereupon he was diplomated the day following July 4. Franc. Plant another Pastor of the said Church and Profess of the Heb. tongue in the said Coll. July 4. Anton. Hulsius Pastor of the Church belonging to the Low Countries at Breda Both which being then declared Doctors of Div were diplomated the next day An. Dom. 1668. An. 20. Car. 2. Chanc. Dr. Gilb. Sheldon Archb. of Canterbury Vicechanc. Dr. Fell again continued in his office by the decree of the Delegates of Convocation Octob. 5 without any nomination thereunto by the Chancellour he being as yet not sworn or installed so that thereby all the Chancellours power rested in the Deputy Proct. Rich. White of S. Maries Hall Apr. 1. Will. Durham of C. C. Coll. Apr. 1. Balliol Coll. having not a statutable Master to undergo the procuratorial office this year which the Carolyne Cycle did appoint Mr. Benj. Woodroffe a Student of Ch. Ch. entred himself a Commoner in the said Coll. a day or two before the time of election And being elected by the Master and Masters of the said College he stirred so much in the matter for admission thereunto in Convocation as to have a hearing before the King and his Council But they finding it a litigious thing refer'd it to the University Wherefore the Doctors and Masters assembled in Convocation for the admission of the Proctors they did after Mr. Woodroffe had made an eloquent Speech before them in his own defence and for the obtaining of the office adjudg the matter to the Halls so that Mr. White who had been chosen before was then admitted Bach. of Arts. Apr. 16. Joh. Floyr of Qu. Coll. May 5. Rich. Peers of Ch. Ch. Octob. 22. Rich. Lucas of Jes Coll. Feb. 11. Jerem. Wells of S. Joh. Coll. 18 Joh. Shirley of Trin. Coll. 18 Rich. Banke of Linc. Coll. Of the last of these four you may see more among the Masters an 1671. Feb. ... Edward Palmer of Qu Coll. This Gent who was a younger Son of Sir Will. Palmer of Werdon in Bedfordshire wrot An Elegy on the death of Mr. James Bristow late Fellow of All 's Coll. Oxon. 1667 in one sh in qu. Adm. 171. Bach. of Law Apr. 1. Edward Yonge of New Coll. He hath published several things and therefore he is to be remembred hereafter Adm. 5. Mast of Arts. Apr. 8. Will. Hopkins of S. Maries Hall lately of Trin. Coll. June 5. Thom. Laurence of Vniv Coll. This person who was lately a Gent. Com. of S. Johns Coll but now Fellow of that of Vniv was eldest Son of Sir Joh. Laurence of Chelsey in Middâ—esex Bt and being esteemed an ingenious person he was elected Musick reader for the Act an 1671. While he was of S. Johns Coll he was appointed to speak a Speech in verse before the King Queen and Duchess of York when they in the afternoon of the 29 of Sept. 1663 went to visit that Coll which being well performed they were printed with this title Verses spoken to the King Queen and Duchess of York in S. Johns Library in Oxon printed at the end of Verses spoken c. by Thom. Ireland mention'd in these Fasti an 1657. July 9. Richard Reeve of Trin. Coll. Dec. 12. Joh. Wolley of Trin. Coll. The last of these two who was a Ministers Son of Oxfordsh was afterwards Rector of S. Mich. Church in Crooked-lane London and at length Rector of Monks-Risborow near Aylesbury in Bucks He hath published A Sermon preached at Oxfordshire Feast in Lond. 25. Nov. 1674 on Gen. 13.18 Lond. 1675. qu. He died at Monks-Risborow before mention'd on the 5. Jan. 1675 and was buried in the Church there Feb. 11. Abrah Markland of S. Joh. Coll. 18. John Lloyd of Wadh. Coll. Adm. 63. Bach. of Phys Only one was adm and another to practice that fac Bach. of Div. June 9. Edw. Bernard of S. Johns Coll. July 7. Hen. Bagshaw of Ch. Ch. July 7. Nâ—than Biâ—bie of Ch. Ch. Adm 3. ☞ Not one Doct. of Law was admitted this year Doct. of Phys July 9. Thom. Jeamson of Wadh. Coll. This Physitian who was Son of a Father of both his names Rector of Shabbington in Bucks was born at Ricot in Oxfordshire and after he had been some years Scholar was made Fellow of his House He hath written Artificial Embellishments or Arts best directions how to preserve beauty or procure it Oxon. 1665 oct His name is not set to the book neither did he being then Bach. of Phys desire to be known to be the author of it But having taken vent by the pratling of the Bookseller the author was laugh'd at and commonly called Artificial Embellishments Afterwards the book sold well and I think it was printed a second time The author died in the great City of Paris in July
do you had they your pen. These things with the Vicechancellours Letter of thanks to you have been all except the Verses which were lately finished about these six months ready to send you* We expect daily from London to have some Ships c. But notwithstanding all this the Letter and Diploma for his Creation of Doct. of Phys being very slow in coming he wrot another Letter to the truly noble and generous Ralph Sheldon of Beoley Esq with whom he had been well acquainted when at Rome and had received of his benevolence dat 12 of Aug. 1673 which partly runs thus Be pleased to consider what perplexity I am now in attending this glory from that famous University of Oxford For now I am setting out a new book the second part of my Verses which I dedicate to the Emperour and had I that Diploma and Verses promised me I would insert them conveniently in the Cesarean volume to be seen and read by the Emperors Majesty as I have put his Diploma in my book of Lyricks which I hope makes you sometimes think of your humbly obliged Servant The title of the book is to be this Carminum Jacobi Albani Ghibbesii Poet. Laur. Caes altera pars exhibens post Lyram Horatii jam vulgatam cothurnum Soccum aliorum Poetarum in utraque lingua When this book is printed with all my honors then will I send it away with my Lyricks to the University and accompany it with my picture in a frame by the hand of the late great Master Pietro di Cortono for a perpetual monument of my observancy to the place You see now Sir in what a posture I stand ready to fall unless you 'll vouchsafe me with your propping hand as you have already lent it me with all benignity before c. I have had lately another thwart from my Lady Fortune that doth not a little trouble me I have made an heroick Poem of some 1000 Verses for an Epithalamium upon his Royal Highness James Duke of York his Marriage with the Dutchess of Inspruck with a large Comment and you see what it is come to I will print it for all that and dedicate it to an eminent person Mean time be pleased to receive this inclosed Epigram I last made upon the valiant James D. of Monmouth under Mastricht c. But by that time Mr. Sheldon had received the said Letter the Poet received his Diploma and verses which as I conceive were printed with his Altera pars Carminum c. In the Diploma he is stiled Natione noster magnum plane Britanniarum suarum ornamentum desiderium Europaeiorum Principum deliciae c. He hath written besides those things before mention'd these following in prose 1 Orationes praefationes c. 2 Epistolarum selectarum tres centuriae 3 De Medico libri 3 in imitation of Cicero de Oratore c. 4 Pinacocheca Spadia sive Pontificum Romanorum series besides Miscellanies and other things as I have been informed by those that knew the author well who have farther told me that he was as esurient after fame as Tom. Coryate was a very conceited man a most compact body of vanity so great a lover of flatteries tho he himself flatter'd none that he took all whatsoever was said of him to be real and a great lover of those that sought after or courted him to which I may add that he was the greatest Mimick of his time which made therefore his company acceptable among many He was buried in the Pantheon at Rome now called S. Maria Rotundo and by some Allsaints and soon after was his Bust or Effigies or proportion to the middle set over his grave with this inscription following D. O. M. Jacobus Albanus Ghibbesius Doctor Oxoniensis Mirum unà Catholicus Poeta Laureatus Caesareus pontificius eloquentiae professor emeritus Anglus origine natione Gallus in Vrbe omnium Patria mori in omnium Sanctorum aede condi voluit expectans cum eis non tam memoriae quam vitae perennitatem Obiit sexto Cal. Julii An. Dom. MDCLXXVII aetatis suae LXVI Benedictus Ghibbesius Haeres moestissimus posuit Marmora nil signant monstrat minus oris imago Extinctum Latiâ vivere cerne Lyrâ In the month of June this year came to the University of Oxon from London an Irish man called Anthony Egan a Franciscan Frier and in the beginning of July following he was entred a Student in the publick Library This person had lately left the R. Catholick Religion wherein he had been educated and profess'd and under pretence of suffering for what he had done relating thereunto came to the University more for the sake of relief than study And after he had continued there about 4 months in which time he obtained the charity of 60 l. or more from several Colleges and private persons he went to Cambridge thinking to obtain there the like sum and when that was done to return as 't was commonly then reported to his former religion Among several things that he hath published are these 1 The Franciscan convert or a recantation Sermon at S. Maudlins in Old Fish-street Lond. 6. Apr. 1673 on Luke 22.32 Lond. 1673. qu. In the title of this Sermon he writes himself Confessor general of the Kingdom of Ireland and Guardian of the Friory of Monasterioris in the Province of Lemster and Chaplain to several persons of quality of the Popish Religion there To which Sermon is added A narrative of the behaviour and speeches of the Papists in Ireland since his Majesties declaration of indulgence c. 2 The book of rates now used in the sin custom-house of the Church and Court of Rome containing the Bulls Dispensations and Pardons for all manner of villanies and wickednesses c. Lond. 1675. c. qu. In the title of this book he stiles himself Bach. of Div. 3 The Romanists designs detected and the Jesuits subtile practises discovered and laid open c. Lond. 1675. qu. An. Dom. 1674. An. 26. Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde c. but he being about to go into Ireland about weighty affairs he did by his Instrument dated 18 of May declare these persons following to manage and execute in his absence the powers and jurisdiction belonging to him in the University viz. Ralph Bathurst Dr. of Phys Vicechanc Joh. Fell D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch Tho. Yate D. D. Princ. of Brasn Coll Thom. James D. D. Warden of All 's Coll. and Rich. Allestree D. D. Can. of Ch. Ch. Vicechanc. Dr. Bathurst nominated by the delegated power of the Chancellour confirmed by Convocation 7. Octob. Proct. Will. Frampton of Pemb. Coll. Apr. 29. Tho. Huxley of Jesus Coll. Apr. 29. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 4. Will. Guise of All 's lately of Oriel Coll. 6. James Parkinson of Gloc. Hall lately of Corp. Ch. afterwards of Hart Hall and at length Fellow of Linc. Coll. May 30. Joh. Oldham of S. Edm. Hall June 2. Thom. Baker
the Son of Thomas Williams of Swansey in Glamorganshire went away without compleating his degree by Determination and was author of 1 A pindarick Elegy on the famous Physitian Dr. Willis Oxon. 1675 in one sh in fol. 2 Imago saeculi or the image of the age represented in four characters viz. the ambitious Statesman insatiable Miser atheistical Gallant and factious Schismatick Oxon. 1676. oct The Pindarick Elegy is printed with and added to this last book He died in his own Country about 1679. June 13. Sam. Derham of Magd. Hall Oct. 17. Theoph. Downes of Ball. Coll. 26. Will. Haylie of All 's Coll. Of the first of these two you may see more among the Masters an 1679 and of the other in 1680. Will. Wake of Ch. Ch. was adm the same day He hath written and published many things relating to Divinity and therefore he is to have a place hereafter among the Oxf. Writers Feb. 6. Rob. Brograve of Magd. Hall See among the Masters 1679. Adm. 188. Bach. of Law Apr. 6. James Bampton of New Coll. This person who took no higher degree entred afterwards into holy Orders and published a Sermon but the title of it I know not only the text which is Suffer the little children to come c. Mark 10.14 He also had provided another thing for the press which I think is not yet published or ever will He died of a consumption 9. May 1683 aged 37 and was buried in the west Cloyster belonging to that Coll. Adm. 11. Mast of Arts. June 8. Joh. Hough of Magd. Coll. July 3. Edm. Sermon of S. Maries Hall This person who was the Son of a Father of both his names of Naunton Beauchamp in Worcestershire was originally of Trin and afterwards of Ball. Coll and as a member of the last he took the degree of Bach. of Arts an 1665 but left the University without compleating it by Determination Afterwards he took upon him a spiritual cure and the education of a youth of noble extraction but instead of taking the degree of Bach. of Div in order to which he had the Chancellours Letters he with much ado obtained that of Master He hath published The wisdom of publick piety discoursed in a Sermon at Guild-hall Chap. on Jam. 3.13 Lond. 1679. qu. He died about 1680. Nearly related to him was that forward vain and conceited person named Will. Sermon who wrot himself Doctor of Physick and Physitian in ord to his Maj. K. Ch. 2 author of 1 The Ladies companion or English Midwife c. Lond. 1671. oct 2 A friend to the sick or the honest English mans preservation c. Lond. 1673. 4. oct and of other things but whether he was of this or of any University I know not He died in his house in the Parish of St. Bride alias St. Bridget in Lond. in Winter time an 1679. Oct. 17. Will. Howell of New Inn. Nov. 23. Charles Hutton of Trin. Coll. He was afterwards Rector of Vplime in his native Country of Devonshire and author of The Rebels text opened and their solemn appeal answered Thanksgiving Sermon 26. July 1685 on Josh 22. ver 22. Lond. 1686. qu. Jan. 15. Tho. Mannyngham of New Coll. Adm. 130. Bach. of Phys Two were admitted but neither of them is yet a Writer Bach. of Div. Six were admitted of whom Tho. Snell Can. resid of Exeter was one Three others I shall make mention among the Doct. of Div. in their respective places Doct. of Law July 6. Rich. Warren of S. Joh. Coll. Doct. of Phys July 4. Joh. Ludwell of Wadh. Coll. 6. William Warner of S. Joh. Coll. 7. Ralph Harrison of New Coll. a Compounder He had been of Eman. Coll. in Cambridge of which Univ. he was Bach. of Phys and coming to Oxon he was incorporated in that degree on the 26 of June this year Doct. of Div. July 6. Edward Reynolds of Magd. Coll. July 6. Will. Hawkins of Magd. Coll. These were both Compounders as being dignified in the Church On the 20 of Sept 1660 the first was installed Preb. of Worcester and on the 15 of Apr. 1661 Archdeacon of Norfolk on the death of Philip Tenison which last Dignity was confer'd upon him by his Father Dr. Edw. Reyn. Bish of Norwich The other was Preb. of Norwich and had some other preferment in the Church July 6. George Owen of All 's Coll. July 6. Tho. Pargiter of Linc. Coll. The first of these two who was originally of Mert. Coll was now Canon of S. David The other was Rector of Greetworth in his native Country of Northamptonshire and published A Serm. preached before the Lord Mayor of Lond 23. July 1682 on 1. Thess 4.6 Lond. 1682. qu. Incorporations July 6. Will. Howell or as he writes himself Hoëlus Doct. of the Civil Law of Cambridge He was educated in Magd. Coll. in the said University of which he was Fellow was afterwards Tutor to John Earl of Mulgrave and at length Chancellour of the Diocess of Lincolne He hath written 1 An institution of general History from the beginning of the world to the monarchy of Constantine the Great Printed 1661. oct In this work the Reader may without any intervening matters impertinent to his present purpose read the History of any Empire or Kingdom contemporary to it by it self The principal passages in all of them are linked together by Synchronisms not only placed in the Margin but in the beginning or end of every occurrence This book which was afterwards put into latine by the author for the use of the said Earl entit Elementa Historiae ab orbe condito usque ad Monarchiam Constantini magni c. Lond. 1671. in a thick tw was increased to two folio's Lond. 1680. and afterwards had three remaining parts of it published in 1685. 6. 2 Medulla Historiae Anglicanae Being a comprehensive History of the lives and raigns of the Monarchs of England From the time of the invasion thereof by Julius Caesar to the death of K. Ch. 2 with an abstract of the lives of the Rom. Emperours commanding in Britain There have been several editions of this book to the great benefit of the Bookseller that printed it One came out in 1679 with the addition of A list of the names of the H. of Com. then sitting and a list of his Majesties Privy Council c And in 1687 the third edit of it was published in oct with a continuation from the year 1678 to 1684 by a great favourer of the Roman Catholicks There is no name set to this Medulla Hist Angl. only report makes Dr. W. Howell the author and upon that report I presume here to set it down under his name He hath without doubt other things extant but such I have not yet seen and therefore I can only now say that he died in the beginning of the year 1683. One William Howell Minister of Tuttleworth in Sussex hath published A Sermon at the Bishop of Chichesters first Visitation Lond. 1675. 6. qu. but
to his own Country became a Professor and published Secalim and other Talmudical Authors in Hebrew and Latin An. Dom. 1677. An. 29 Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde but he being made L. Lieut. of Ireland he did by his instrument dated 20 of Aug. delegate the Vicechanc. for the time being and certain Doctors to manage and execute in his absence the Powers and Jurisdiction belonging to him in the University Vicechanc. Joh. Nicholas D. D. Warden of New Coll nominated by the Vicechancellors Letters dated at Chester 16 Aug. confirmed by Convocation 8 Octob. Proct. Nathan Wight of Mert. Coll. Apr. 25. Rich. Warburton of Brasn Coll. Apr. 25. Bach. of Arts. May 3. Jo. Webb of Wadh. Coll. 10. Nich. Kendall of Exet. Coll. Of these two you may see more among the Masters an 1679. Jun. 26. Will. Coward of Wadh afterwards of Mert. Coll. See among the Doctors of Phys 1687. Jul. 4. Hugh Todd of Qu. Coll. Jul. 4. Francis Digby of Qu. Coll. The first of these two was afterwards of Vniv Coll. and a Writer The other a Translator from the original Greek into English of the first four books of The Institution and Life of Cyrus the Great Lond. 1685. oct written originally by that famous Philosopher Xenophon of Athens The other four books were translated by Joh. Norris M. A. and Fellow of All 's Coll. Jul. 19. Will. Davenant of Magd. Hall Oct. 16. Joh. Gilbert of Hart Hall Of both these you may see among the Masters an 1680. Oct. 16. Will. Talbot of Oriel Coll. Nov. 20. Thom. Williams of Jes Coll. 27. Thom. Walter of Jes Coll. Of these three you may see more among the Mast an 1680. Jan. 29. John Howell of Trin. Coll. Feb. 14. Obad. Dana of Trin. Coll. The first of these two I shall mention among the Masters an 1680. The other was afterwards a Monk among the English Benedictines at Doway Adm. 211. Bach. of Law Jun. 30. Rob. Woodward of New Coll. Jun. 30. Charles Morley of All 's Coll. Of the first of these two you may see more among the Doctors of Law an 1685. The other was afterwards Vicar General of the Spiritualities or Chancellour to the Bish of Winton by the favour of his great Uncle Dr. Morley Bishop thereof c. Aug. 2. James Astrey of Brasn Coll a Compounder In 1682 he became High Sheriff of his native County of Bedford where he enjoyeth Lands of antient Inheritance and in the beginning of 1683 one of the Masters in Chancery and in Nov. the same year a Knight This person who is now one of the Gent. of the Privy Chamber in ord to his Maj. K. Will. 3 hath augmented and corrected the third Edition of Glossarium Archaiologicum of Sir Henry Spelman and before it hath put a large Epistle of the Life Manners and Writings of the said Sir Henry Adm. 6. Mast of Arts. Apr. 7. Daniel Pratt of S. Joh. Coll. This person who was son of a father of both his names of London wrot as 't was generally reported The Life of the blessed S. Agnes Virgin and Martyr in Prose and Verse Lond. 1677. oct published under the name of L. Sherling He died in 1679 or thereabouts May 3. Joh. Kettlewell of Linc. Coll. 14. John Hutton of Queens Coll. The last of these two was installed Archdeacon of Stow 21 Feb. 1684 in the place of Byrom Eaton translated to the Archdeaconry of Leycester Jun. 16. Charles Allestree of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Vicar of Cassington in Oxfordsh and Author of A Sermon at Oxon before Sir Will. Walker Mayor of the said City 26 Jul. 1685 being the day of Thanksgiving for the defeat of the Rebels in Monmouths Rebellion on Judges the 5.51 Oxon. 1685. qu. Soon after he became Vicar of Great Budworth in Cheshire where he now lives He hath also made a Translation of one of the Lives Eumenes in Corn. Nepos Oxon. 1684. oct Jun. 26. Joh. Caswell of Wadh. Coll. afterwards of Hart Hall He hath written A brief but full account of the doctrine of Trigonometry both plain and spherical Lond. 1689. in 4 sh in fol at the end of Dr. Jo. Wallis his Treatise of Algebra Jul. 3. Sam. Synge of Ch. Ch. a Compounder He was eldest son of Dr. Edw. Synge Bishop of Cloyne Cork and Ross and in the year 1681 he was Dean of Kildare Oct. 16. Will. Guise of All 's Coll. Oct. 16. Andrew Allam of S. Edm. Hall Dec. 13. Villiers Bathurst of Trin. Coll. He was afterwards Judge Advocate of the Navy Jan. 17. Thom. Baker of All 's Coll lately of Magd. Hall He was Author of The head of Nile or the turnings and windings of the Factious since sixty in a Dialogue between Whigg and Barnaby Lond. 1681. in 6 sh in qu. He is now Rector of Haritsham in Kent in the place of Mr. Joh. Clerke deceased whom I have mentioned among the Masters in these Fasti an 1673. Adm. 134. Bach. of Phys But two were admitted one of which was Ch. Twysden as I shall tell you among the Doct. of Phys this year Bach. of Div. May 22. Bapt. Levinz of Magd. Coll. Jun. 22. Edw. Waple of S. Joh. Coll. The last of these two became by the favour of Dr. Mews Bish of B. and Wells Prebendary a golden Preb. of the Church of Wells on the death of Dr Grindal Sheaf in May 1680 and Archdeacon of Taunton with the Preb. of Kilverton prima in the said Ch. of Wells annexed to it on the death of Dr. Will. Piers In which Archdeaconry he was installed 22 Apr. 1682. Soon after he was made Vicar of S. Sepulchers Church in London on the death of Dr. Will. Bell. Jul. 3. Thom. Staynoe of Trin. Coll. Jul. 3. Thom. Sykes of Trin. Coll. The first of these two is now a Minister in London hath published two Sermons and may hereafter publish more or at least other things The other was elected Margaret Professor of the Univ. of Oxon 6 Nov. 1691 on the sudden death of Dr. Hen. Maurice of Jesus Coll who had been elected thereunto upon the promotion of Dr. Joh. Hall to the See of Bristow on the 18 of July the same year He the said Mr. Sykes was admitted Doctor of his faculty 12 May 1692. Doct. of Law Jul. 21. Joh. Jones of Jesus Coll. On the 13 June 1678 he was licensed to practice Physick which afterwards he did at Windsore and hath since published one or more books of that faculty and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among the Oxf. Writers Nov. 20. Joh. Irish of All 's Coll. 27. Charles Trumbull of All 's Coll. Jan. 17. Joh. Clotterbuck of All 's Coll. Doct. of Phys May 22. Charles Twysden of Ch. Ch. an Accumulator and Compounder This person who had spent several years in foreign parts was son of Sir Rog. Twysden of Kent and Nephew to Judge Tho. Twysden Jan. 17. Will. Coker of All 's Coll. Doct. of Div. Jun. 30. Steph. Philipps of Brasn
Coll. a Compounder He was now one of the Vicars of Bampton in Oxfordshire Archdeacon of that part of Shropshire which is in Hereford Diocess obtained on the death of Mr. Tho. Cook the father of his wife an 1669. and Can. resid of Hereford He died 20 Aug. 1684 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Bampton In his Archdeaconry succeeded one .... Wheeler and him .... Oatley Jul. 3. George Hooper of Ch. Ch. Jul. 3. Ant. Saunders of Ch. Ch. The first of these two is a Writer and therefore he is hereafter to be remembred The other who was Chapl. to the Archb. of Cant was now 1677 Chanc. of S. Paul in Lond. and Rector of Acton in Middlesex John Fitzwilliams of Magd. Coll. was adm the same day He was afterwards Chaplain to James Duke of York Rector of Cotenham near Cambridge and Preb. of Windsore He hath published A Sermon preached at Cotenham near Cambridge on the 9 of Sept. 1683 being the day set apart for publick Thanksgiving for the deliverance of his sacred Majesty and the Government from the late treasonable Conspiracy on Prov. 24.21.22 Lond. 1683. qu. He is now a Non-juror and therefore hath lost his Spiritualities Incorporations May 14. Walt. Leightonhouse Bac. of Art of Magd. Coll. in Cambr. He was soon after elected Fellow of Linc. Coll. See among the Masters in 1679. After the conclusion of the Act were 23 Mast of Arts of Cambr. incorporated Jul. 10 among which was Aylett Sams of Christs Coll. This person published under his own name Britannia antiqua illustrata or the Antiquities of antient Britaine derivâ—d from the Phoenicians Wherein the original trade of this Island is discovered the names of Places Offices Dignities as likewise the Idolatry c. are clearly demonstrated from that Nation many old monuments illustrated c. Together with a chronological History of this Kingdom from the first traditional beginning until the year of our Lord 800 when the name of Britaine was changed into England c. Lond. 1676. vol. 1. fol. An account of this book is in the Philosophical Transactions num 124. p. 596 wherein tho the Author of them Mr. Oldenburg doth stile Mr. Sams the learned and curious Vndertaker of that great work yet the common report then was that not he but his quondam Uncle was the Author and to confirm it was his great ignorance in matters and books of Antiquity I was several times in his company when he spent some weeks this year in Oxon and found him to be an impertinent girning and pedantical Coxcomb and so ignorant of Authors that he never heard of before I mention'd it to him of the great Antiquary Joh. Leland or of his printed or manuscript Works nor any thing of Baleus nor could he give any account of Authors that are quoted in the said Britannia antiqua illustrata c. He died in the year 1679 or thereabouts perhaps in the Inner Temple where he had a Chamber but where buried I know not nor is it material to be informed I find one Rob. Aylett Mast of Arts of Cambridge to be incorporated at Oxon an 1608. Quaere whether he was his Uncle Jul. 10. Will. Birstall D. D. of Kings Coll. in Cambr. Feb. 19. Patrick Dunn Physitian in ord to James Duke of Ormonde L. Lieut. of Ireland Doct. of Phys of Aberdene in Scotland Valentia in Dauphiny and of Dublin in Ireland was declared he being then absent incorporated Doctor of the said faculty of this Univ. of Oxon and on the 23 of March following a Diploma of his Incorporation was sealed and sent to him Creations The most noble James Duke of Ormonde Chancellor of the University coming to Oxon in the beginning of Aug. this year where he was splendidly entertained by the Academians with Treats in several Colleges and Speeches in the Theater it was his desire that there should be a Creation of Doctors of the Civil Law and a Creation of two persons in Divinity Those that were created in the former faeulty which was on the sixth day of Aug. in the Theater were these Doct. of Law Richard Boteler Earl of Arran in Ireland and Baron Boteler of Weston in Huntingdonshire in England second son of James Duke of Ormonde This noble and courageous person who had done good service against the Rebels at Carickfergus in Ireland and in that perilous Sea-sight against the Dutch when James D. of York was General at Sea for which and other Services he was made Baron of Weston died on the 26 of Jan. 1685. Whereupon his body was deposited in the same Vault in the Abbey Church at Westminster where that of his elder brother Thom. E of Ossory and their mother Elizab. Dutchess of Ormonde had been laid which Dutchess died in her house in S. James's Square within the Liberty of Westminster on the 21 of July 1684. But whether their bodies were afterwards removed to Kilkenny in Ireland there to be deposited in the Vault among the bodies of the Ormondian family I know not as yet Pierce Boteler Visc Galmoy in Irel. of the Ormondian family Francis Aungier Viscount afterwards Earl of Longford in the same Kingdom Robert Fitz-Gerald son of the Earl of Kildare Sir Kingsmill Lucy Bt. Sir Thom. Erscott Kt. Sir James Boteler Kt. He was natural son of James Duke of Ormonde by Isabel daugh of Henry Earl of Holland and wife of Sir James Thynne of Langleate in Wilts This person who was bred up to the Common Law in Linc. Inn succeeded Will. Lord Brouncker in the Mastership of S. Catherines Hospital near the Tower of London c. Sir Edw. Scott Kt. Sir Rob. Southwell Kt. This most worthy and accomplish'd person who was son of Rob. Southwell of Kinsale in the County of Cork in Irel. Esq Vice-Admiral of Mounster and of the Privy Council there descended from the antient family of his name in Norfolk was born in Kinsale educated in Queens Coll. in this University where he was Bach. of Arts and afterwards became a Barrister of Linc. Inn On the 27 of Sept. 1664 he was sworn one of the Clerks of his Majesties Privy Council and on the 20 of Nov. 1665 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty being then accounted a Gent. of known worth and abilities and fitted every way for the Service of his Majesty who then thought good to give him the character of his Envoy extraordinary to the King of Portugal whether he was to go in few days after In the latter end of Octob. 1671 he was sent Envoy extraordinary to Count de Monterey Governour or Vice-Roy for his Catholick Maj. of the Spanish Netherlands and in the beginning of Decemb. 1679 the Presbyterians and Fanaticks being then rampant upon the account of the Popish Plot he resigned his Clerkship of the Council In Feb. following he was sent Envoy extraordinary to the Elector of Brandeberg and after his return he was much respected for the Services he had done for
this University unless in the condition of a Sojourner I cannot tell Much about the time that James Duke of York was married to Josepha Maria the Princess of Modena he became by his endeavours Captain of the Band of Pensioners belonging to his Majesty K. Ch. 2 and afterwards Master of the Horse to the said Jos Maria Dutchess of York both which places he quitted some time before his death This worthy person who was accounted most excellent in the Art of Poetry hath written and published 1 An Essay on translated Verse Lond. 1680. 1684 c. in 4 sheets in qu. Before which John Dryden the Poet Laureat hath a copy of Verses in praise of it as also Charles Dryden his son of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. and others The second edit of this Essay was published two years after the Pamphlet intit An Essay upon Poetry written by John Earl of Mulgrave Kt. of the most noble Order of the Garter To one of the Editions of the said Essay on translated Verse is added by the said Earl of Roscommon A specimen of blank Verse being the fight between the Angels taken out of Joh. Milton's book call'd Paradise lost 2 Several Prologues and Epilogues to Plays as also Divers Copies of Verses and Translations which are publish'd with the respective Plays themselves and in the Miscellany Poems c. printed at London by Jacob Tonson 1684. He hath also translated into English Horace's Art of Poetry Lond. 1680. qu. Before which Edm. Waâ—ler Esq hath a Copy of Verses on that Translation and of the use of Poetry As also into French The case of resistance of Supreme Powers c. Lond. in oct written by Dr. Will. Sherlock At length this most noble and ingenious Count paying his last debt to nature in his house near that of S. James within the Liberty of Westminster on the 17 of January or thereabouts an 1684 was buried in the Church of S. Peter commonly called the Abbey Church within the said City of Westm He was succeeded in his honours by his Uncle Cary Dillon a Colonel of a Regiment in Ireland in the War between K. Jam. 2. and K. Will. 3 from which place going into England was overtaken by a violent Disease which brought him to his grave in the City of Chester in the month of Novemb. 1689. James Earl of Roscommon before mention'd father to Wentworth the Poet was when young reclaim'd from the Superstition of the Romish Church by the learned and religious Dr. Vsher Primate of Ireland and thereupon was sent by him into England as a Jewel of Price to be committed to the care and trust of Dr. George Hakewill who finding him to be a young man of pregnant parts placed him in Exeter Coll. under the tuition of Laurence Bodley Bach. of Div. Nephew to the great Sir Tho. Bodley in the beginning of the year 1628 in which Coll. continuing some years became a person of several Accomplishments and afterwards Earl of Roscommon in his own Country of Ireland The next persons who were nominated to be created Doctors of the Civil Law but were not were James Boteler Earl of Ossory Franc. Visc Newport George Savile Lord Elande eldest son of George Marquess of Halyfax Robert Lord Lexinton who with Anth. Visc Falkland were sworn of their Majesties Privy Council 17 Mar. 169â— Col. Rob. Worden one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber to the Duke who afterwards did good service for his Master when he was King being then a Major General He died in Red-lyon-Square near London on S. James day or thereabouts 1690. The next who was in Oxon but not created was Major Rich. Bagot a Retainer to the said Duke and after him James Graham Esq younger brother to Rich. Visc Preston which James was afterwards Privy Purse to and a Colonel under K. Jam 2 to whom afterwards he closely adhered when he fled to avoid imminent danger in England into France c. In the afternoon of that day wherein the aforesaid Creation was made the said Duke Dutchess and Lady Anne being about to leave Oxon the Vicechancellour with other Doctors went to to take their leave of them at which time the Vicechancellour did in the name of the University present to the Duke the Hist and Antiq. of the Vniv of Oxon with the Cuts belonging thereunto to the Dutchess the said Cuts by themselves and the Natural History of Oxfordshire written by Dr. Plot and a fair English Bible to the Lady Anne All which books were richly bound On the 13 of June Adolphus Johannes Count Palatine of the Rhine and Duke of Bavaria aged 20 years or thereabouts son to Prince Adolphus Uncle to the present K. of Sweedland came to Oxon under the conduct of Sir Charles Cotterel Mast of the Ceremonies and lodged that night in the apartment belonging to the Dean of Ch. Ch. The next day after he had viewed most places in the University and the Theater he went thence to the Apodyterium where he with such of his retinew that were to be created Doctors being habited in Scarlet were conducted into the Convocation house and created as now I am about to tell you Jun. 14. The most illustrious Prince Adolphus Johan Count Pal. of the Rhine Duke of Bavaria c. was presented with an encomiastical Speech by the Deputy Orator Which being done the Vicechancellour created him with another Doct. of the Civ Law and then was conducted to his chair of State on the right hand of the Vicechancellour Afterwards were these following presented D. Rudolphus Counts of Lipstat Created Doctors of the Civ Law D. Otto Counts of Lipstat Created Doctors of the Civ Law D. Fred. Harder a Noble German Created Doctors of the Civ Law Andr. Fleman Secret to Pr. Adolph Created Doctors of the Civ Law It was then the common report that the said Prince came into England with his Uncle to break off the Match to be between Pr. George of Denmark and the Lady Anne Doct. of Phys Jun. 14. Laurence Cronyng Tutor to Prince Adolphus before mentioned was created Doctor while the said Prince sate in his chair of State Mar. 5. Martin Lister Esq was declared Doctor of Phys by vertue of the Chancellours Letters sent to the members of the ven Convocation then assembled partly running thus He was lately a Practitioner of Physick at York now here in London a person of exemplary Loyalty and of high esteem amongst the most eminent of his Profession for his excellent skill and success therein and hath given farther proof of his worth and knowledge by several learned books by him published He hath entertained so great an affection for the University of Oxon that he hath lately presented the Library with divers valuable books both manuscript and printed and enriched the new Musaeum with several Altars Coins and other Antiquities together with a great number of Curiosities of nature whereof several cannot be matched for any price which yet he declares to be but an earnest
May 14. Jacob. Sartreus Mast of Arts of the Univ. of Puy-Laurence in Languedock He is now Prebendary of Westminster in which Dignity he succeeded if I mistake not Dr. George Stradling 21. Henry Dodwell M. of Arts of the Univ. of Dublin who had been generously elected by the University of Oxford Camden's Professor of History in his absence and without his privity after the death of Dr. Joh. Lamphire on the 2 Apr. this year was then May 21. incorporated in the same degree This learned person who was the Son of Will. Dodwell of Ireland Son of Hen. Dodwell of the City of Oxon Son of William supposed to be Brother to Alderman Hen. Dodwell Mayor of the said City in the 34. of Q. Eliz. dom 1592 was born in the Parish of S. Warburgh commonly called S. Warborough within the City of Dublin in the beginning of the grand rebellion that broke out in that Kingdom in Octob. 1641 educated in Grammar learning under Christopher Wallis in the Free-school situated in the Bederew within the City of York from 1649 to 1654 and afterwards for a years time in Dublin entred a Student in Trin. Coll. there an 1656 and when Bach. of Arts was made Fellow thereof After he had proceeded in that faculty he left his Fellowship to avoid entring into holy Orders and in 1666 I find him a Sojournour in Oxon purposely to advance himself in learning by the use of the publick Library Thence he return'd to his native Country for a time and published a posthumous book ent De obstinatione Opus posth pietatem Christiano-stoicam Scholastico more suadens Dubl 1672 oct Before which book written by his sometimes Tutor named Joh. Stearne M. D. and publ Professor in the University of Dublin Mr. Dodwell put of his own composition Prolegomena Apolegetica de usu Dogmatum Philosophicorum c. In the beginning of this book is Dr. Stearne's Epitaph without date insculp'd on a marble on the north side of the Altar in Trin. Coll. Chappel near Dublin part of which is this Philosophus Medicus summusque Theologus idem Sternius hic c. Afterwards Mr. Dodwell returned into England spent his time there in divers places in a most studious and retired condition and wrot and published these books following 1 Two letters of advice 1. For the susception of holy orders 2. For studies Theological c. Printed at Dubl first and afterwards twice at Lond. in oct At the end of the first letter is added A Catalogue of Christian Writers and genuine works that are extant of the first three Centuries And to both in the 2d and 3d edit is added A discourse concerning Sanchoniathans Phoenician History 2 Considerations of present concern how far the Romanists may be trusted by Princes of another Communion Lond. in oct 3 Two short discourses against the Romanists 1. An account of the fundamental principles of Popery and of the insufficiency of the proofs which they have for it 2. An answer to 6 Queries proposed to a Gentlewoman of the Ch. of England by an Emissary of the Church of Rome Lond. 1676. oct To another edition of this which came out at Lond. in 1689 in qu. was added by the author A preface relating to the Bishop of Meaux and other modern complaints of misrepresentation 4 Separation of Churches from Episcopal government as practiced by the present Non-conformists proved Schismatical from such principles as are least controverted and do withal most popularly explain the sinfulness and mischief of Schisme Lond. 1679. qu. In this Treatise the sin against the Holy Ghost the sin unto death and other difficult Scriptures are occasionally discoursed of and some useful rules are given for explication of Scripture 5 A reply to Mr. Baxters pretended confutation of a book entit Separation of Churches from Episcopal government c. Lond. 1681. oct To which are added Three Letters written to him in the year 1673 Concerning the possibility of discipline under a diocesan government which tho relating to the subject of most of his late books have never yet been answered 6 A discourse concerning the one Altar and the one Priesthood insisted on by the Ancients in their disputes against Schisme c. Being a just account concerning the true nature and principles of Schisme according to the Ancients Lond. 1682. 3. oct 7 Dissertationes Cypriniacâ—e There were two editions of these viz. one in fol. at the end of S. Cyprians works published by Dr. Joh. Fell B. of Oxon an 1682 and another in oct printed in Sheldons Theater 1684 purposely for the sake of such Scholars who could not spare money to buy those in fol. which were to go and were always bound with S. Cyprians works before mention'd 8 Dissertatio de Ripa Striga ad Lanctant de morte Persecutorum Printed at the end of Lanctantius Firm. his works with commentaries on them made by Thomas Spark M. A. of Ch. Ch. Oxon. 1684. oct 9 De jure Laicorum sacerdotali c. This book which is written against Hug. Grotius was printed at Lond. in oct at the end of a piece of that author entit De Caenae administratione ubi Pastores non sunt c. Much about which time was published Antidodwellisme being two curious tracts formerly written by Hug. Grotius concerning a solution of these two questions 1. Whether the Eucharist may be administred in the absence of or want of Pastors c. Made English by one who calls himself Philaratus 10 Additiones dissertatio singularis in the Opera posthuma chronologica of the famous Dr. Jo Pearson sometimes Bish of Chester Lond. 1687-8 in qu. 11 Dissertationes in Irenaeum Oxon. è Theat Sheldon 1689. oct To which is added a Fragment of Phil. Sideta de Catechistatum Alexandrinorum successione with notes Besides these books the author now in the prime of his years designs others which in good time may be made extant for the benefit of the Church of Engl. for which he hath a zealous respect and commonwealth of learning His universal knowledge and profound judgment in all sciences and books has rendred him famous amongst all the learned men of France and Italy and the great sanctity and severity of his life has gain'd him a veneration very peculiar and distinguishing among all sorts of people His greatest study has been to assert the honour and interest of religion and the Clergy and his writings in defence of the Church of England against Papists and Presbyterians have been esteemed perfect pieces in their kind But notwithstanding all this the Reader may be pleased to know that whereas he suffered much in his Estate in his native Country for not coming in and taking part with the Forces of K. Jam. 2 when they endeavoured to keep possession of Ireland against K. Will. 3. and his Forces an 1689 c. for which he was proclaimed Rebel Or had he been there as he was not they would have imprison'd him if not worse so soon after did
having received a call he went to New England where he finished his course This Person was composed of a strange hodg-podg of opinions not easily to be described was of a roving and rambling head spent much and I think died but in a mean condition And tho he was a great pretender to Saintship and had vowed an eternal love to his Wife before mention'd who died 22. Apr. 1655 yet before he had remained a Widower an year he married a religious Virgin named Frances the only Daughter of Hezekiah Woodward the scismatical Vicar of Bray near Windsore who dying also in the first year of her Marriage in Childbed I think aged 25 years he took soon after as I have been told a third Wife according to the fleshly custom of the Saints of that time He hath written A double Watchword or the duty of watching and watching to duty both echoed from Revel 16.5 and Jer. 50.4.5 Lond. 1661. oct and perhaps other things He died at Boston in New England in sixteen hundred seventy and four and was buried there In the Church or Chappel belonging to Eaton Coll. was a monument with a large canting inscription set up by this D. Oxenbridge for his first Wife Jane Butler wherein 't is said that while he preached abroad she would preach and hold forth in the House But the said inscript or Epitaph giving great offence to the Royallists at the restauration of K. Ch. 2 they caused it to be daub'd or covered over with paint There was also a Monument and Inscription set up for his second Wife the contents of which and the other I have but this last is not defaced JONATHAN GODDARD son of Henry Goddard a Ship-carpenter of Deptford was born at Greenwich in Kent became a Communer of Magd. Hall in the beginning of 1632 aged 15 years where continuing till he was standing for the degree of Bach. of Arts he then left that House and went as I presume beyond the Seas On the 20 of Jan. 1642 he was created Doctor of Phys of the Univ. of Cambridge at which time he was a practitioner of that faculty in London afterwards in the Army raised by the Parliament and at length to Oliver Cromwell with whom he went as his great confident into Ireland and into Scotland after the murder of K. Ch. 1. In 1651 he by the said Olivers power became Warden of Mert. Coll. and in January the same year he was incorporated Doctor of his faculty in this University Afterwards he was elected Burgess for the University to serve in the Little Parliament an 1653 and made one of the Council of State in the same year About that time he became Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians at London afterwards of the Royal Society and Professor of Physick in Gresham Coll. When he was ejected his Wardenship of Mert. Coll. which was in 1660 he lived mostly in that of Gresham where being an admirable Chymist he had a Laboratory to prepare all Medicines that he used on his Patients besides what he operated for his own satisfaction He was also a zealous member of the Royal Society for the improvement of natural knowledg among them and when any curious experiment was to be done they made him their Drudg till they could obtain to the bottom of it He hath written A discourse concerning Physick and the many abuses thereof by the Apothecaries Lond. 1668. oct An account of which is in the Philosophical transactions num 41. He is said to have written of this matter of the Abuse of Physick more warily and with greater prudence than Christ Merret Discourse setting forth the unhappy condition of the practice of Physick in London c. Lond. 166. qu. Proposal for making wine See in the Hist of the Royal Soc. Pr. 1667. p. 143.230 Experiments of the Stone called Oculus mundi See in the Hist of the Royal Soc. Pr. 1667. p. 143.230 Some observations of a Camelion See in the Philosophical Transactions nu 137. p. 930. c. Experiments of refining gold with Antimony See there also nu 139. p. 953. c. And left behind him at his death Lectures read at Chirurgeons Hall and other matters in 2 vol. in qu. fit as 't is said for the press He had also laying by him at his death Arcana medicinalia Published at the end of the second Edit of Pharmacopoeia Bateana by Ja. Shipton an Apothecary Lond. 1691. oct He died suddenly of an apoplexy at the end of Woodstreet in Cheapside in his going home from the Crown Tavern in Bloomsbury where a club of Virtuosi sometimes met to his Lodgings in Gresham Coll. about eleven of the clock in the night of the 24. of Mar. in sixteen hundred seventy and four and was the third day after buried in the middle of the Chancel of Great S. Helens Church in London He was Master of a most curious Library of books well and richly bound which he intended to bestow on the Library belonging to the Royal Society but he dying intestate it came into the hands of the next Heir viz. his Sisters Son a Scholar of Caies Coll. in Cambridge I find an excellent character of this our author Dr. Goddard given by Dr. Seth Ward in his Epist dedic before Praelectio de Cometis inquisit in Bullialdi Astronom Philolaicae fundamenta and in the Epist ded before Delphi Phoenicizantes c. published by Edmund Dickenson of Mert. Coll. To both which I refer the reader if he be curious to know farther of him RICHARD SMITH the Son of a Clergy man named Richard Smith a Native of Abendon by Martha his Wife Daughter of Paul Darrel or Dayrell of Lillingston Darrel in Bucks Esq Son of Richard Son of another Ric. Smith of Abendon in Berks. sometimes Gent. Usher to Qu. Elizabeth was born at Lillingston Darrel before mention'd an 1590 and after the beginning of the raign of King James 1. was sent to the Univ. of Oxon where his stay being short he was not matriculated and therefore I cannot positively tell you of what Coll. or Hall he was a member Thence he was taken away by his Parents and put a Clerk to an Attorney belonging to the City of London but his mind hanging after learning he spent all the time he could obtain from his employment in Books At riper years he became Secondary of the Poultry Compter within the City of London a place of good reputation and profit being in his time worth about 700 l. per an which he executed many years but upon the death of his Son an 1655 begotten on the body of his Wife Elizab. Daughter of George Deane of Stepney to whom he intended to resign his place he immediatly sold it and betook himself wholly to a private life two thirds of which at least he spent in his Library He was a person infinitely curious in and inquisitive after books and suffered nothing considerable to escape him that fell within the compass of
return in 1665 he lived for some time in and near London and thence going to Stratford before mentioned and afterwards to Warwick setled in the last of the said places practised Physick and in the Summer-time retired to Bathe at both which places he gained repute and many Patients by the diligence and care he took in his Profession As for his Writings they are many and of various subjects some of which that he published before the Kings restauration were against Monarchy Ministers Universities Churches c. provoking all men to whom those interests were dear He then trampled as one that wrote against him saith on the ashes of his martyr'd Sovereign defended and adored his murtherers stiled all our Kings a succession of Usurpers endeavoured the extirpation of Monarchy and planting a Democracy of Independents Anabaptists Fifth-monarchy men and Quakers in its room He hath represented the meekest justest and best of Kings as an hateful Tyrant and called our now Soveraign Ch. 2. an Usurper He then did write malitiously against Ministry Universities c. and vindicated the Quakers and the rest of the wildest and most dangerous Phanaticks c. But why our Author Stubbe did write so he 'll tell you 't was to serve his Patron Sir Hen. Vane and to express his gratitude to him who relieved him when he was a child and after and that because the quarrels and animosities grew high betwixt the Presbyterians and Sir H. Vane's Friends he sided therefore with him My youth saith he and other circumstances incapacited me from rendring him any great services but all that I did and all that I wrot had no other aim nor do I care how much any man can inodiate my former Writings as long as that they were subservient to him c. The truth is all that knew him here in Oxon knew this of him for certain that he was no frequenter of Conventicles no taker of the Covenant or Engagement no contracter of acquaintance with notorious Sectaries that he neither enriched or otherwise advanced himself during the late troubles or shared the common odium and dangers or prosperity of his Benefactor Some years after the Kings restauration he took pet against the Royal Society for which before he had a great veneration and being encouraged by Dr. Jo. Fell no admirer of that Society became in his Writings an inveterate Enemy against it for several pretended reasons among which were first that the members thereof intended to bring a contempt upon antient and solid Learning upon Aristotle to undermine the Universities and reduce them to nothing or at least to be very inconsiderable Secondly that at long running to destroy the established Religion and involve the Nation in Popery and I know not what c. So dextrous was his pen whether pro or con that few or none could equal answer or come near him He was a person of most admirable parts had a most prodigious memory tho his enemies would not acknowledge it but said he read Indexes was the most noted Latinist and Greecian of his age and after he had been put upon it was so great an enemy to the Virtuosi of his time I mean those of the R. Society that as he saith they alarm'd him with dangers and troubles even to the hazard of his life and fortunes He was a singular Mathematician and thoroughly read in all political matters Councils ecclesiastical and profane Histories He had a voluble tongue and was very seldom known to hesitate either in publick disputes or common discourse His Voice was big and magisterial and his mind was equal to it He was of a high generous nature scorn'd money and riches and the adorers of them which being natural to him was one of the chief reasons why he hated the Presbyterians whom he always found to be false undermining poor spirited void of generous souls sneaking sniveling c. He was accounted a very good Physitian and excellent for those matters that compleat it as Simpling Anatomy and Chymistry and in the times of Usurpation that is while Oliver and Richard ruled when then he thought it the Nations interest to subvert the true Monarchy of England he was passionately addicted to the new Philosophy and motion'd several ways for the introducing it amongst the Gentry and Youth of this Nation and the reason was as he l saith that it would render all the Clergy contemptible lessen the esteem and reverence in the Church and make them seem egregious Fools in matters of common discourse But as he was so admirably well qualified with several sorts of Learning and a generous Spirit so he was very unhappy in this that he was extream rash and imprudent and wanted common discretion to manage his parts He was a very bold man utter'd any thing that came into his mind not only among his Companions but in publick Coffey-houses of which he was a great frequenter and would often speak his mind of particular persons then accidentally present without examining the company he was in for which he was often repremanded and several times threatned to be kick'd and beaten He had a hot and restless head his hair being carret-colour'd and was ever ready to undergo any enterprize which was the chief reason that macerated his body almost to a Skeleton He was also a person of no fix'd Principles and whether he believed those things which every good Christian doth 't is not for me to resolve Had he been endowed with common sobriety and discretion and not have made himself and his learning mercenary and cheap to every ordinary and ignorant Fellow he would have been admired by all and might have pick'd and choos'd his Preferment But all these things being wanting he became a ridicule and undervalued by sober and knowing Scholars and others too His Writings and Translations are these Horae subsecivae seu Prophetiae Jonae Historiae Susannae paraphrasis Graeca versibus heroicis Lond. 1651. oct To which are added his Translation into Greek of Miscellanea quaedam Epigrammata à Th. Randolpho W. Chrashavio c. Epistola Lat. cum Poematibus Lat. Graec. ad D. Hen. Vane Domini Hen. Vane de Raby Eq. aur fil promogen Ox. 1656. printed on one side of a sheet The said Hen. Vane was then a Student or Sojourner in the Univ. of Oxon. but wore not a gown and soon after died Otium literarum Sive Miscellanea quaedam poemata Ox. 1656. oct They are printed with the Poems of Hen. Birchead of All 's Coll. In the said vol. are our Author Stubbe his Deliciae Poetarum Anglicanorum in Graecum translatae which were printed again at Oxon. 1658. in oct and had at the end added to them by him Elogiae Romae Venetiarum A severe enquiry into the late Oneirocrita or an exact account of the grammatical part of the Controversie between Mr. Thom. Hobbes and John Wallis D. D. Lond. 1657. qu. In the said book the Author Stubbe
a great admirer of the said Hobbes with whom he was intimately acquainted doth speak freely of Dr. Wallis and why he doth so is because as he tells us he was Sub-scribe to the Tribe of Adoniram i. e. Adoniram Byfield was Scribe to Assembly of Divines and had been an active Preacher in the first War and decyphered besides others to the ruin of many loyal persons the Kings Cabinet taken at Naseby and as a monument of his noble performances deposited the original with the decyphering in the publick Library at Oxford He tells us also that he the said Doctor was then the glory and pride of the Presbyterian faction which our Author Stubbe hated for his Patrons sake In the said Enquiry he tells us that he hath penned a farther discourse upon that subject but that I suppose was never printed The Savilian Professours case stated Together with the several reasons urged against his capacity of standing for the publick office of Antiquary in the University of Oxon. Which are enlarged and vindicated against the Exceptions of Dr. Joh. Wallis c. Lond. 1658. in 3 sh and an half in qu. The famous Dr. Rich. Zouche who had been an Assessor in the Chancellours Court for 30 years or more and well vers'd in the Statutes Liberties and Privileges of the University did upon great intreaties stand for the said place of Antiquary or Custos Archivorum thereof but he being esteemed a Royalist Dr. J. W. was put up and stood against him tho altogether uncapable of that place because he was one of the Savilian Professors a Cambridge man and a stranger to the usages of the University At length by some corruption or at least connivance of the Vicechancellour and perjury of the senior Proctor Byfield W. was pronounced elected Whereupon our Author Stubbe who was an eye and an ear-witness of all that had most unjustly passed he therefore wrot and published the said book The Commonwealth of Israel or a brief account of Mr. Prynne's anatomy of the Good old cause Lond. 1659. in oct An Essay in defence of the Good old Cause or a discourse concerning the rise and extent of the power of the Civil Magistrate in reference to spiritual Affairs c. Lond. 1659 oct Vindication of the honorable Sir Hen. Vane from the false Aspersions of Mr. Baxter Lond. 1659. oct The same year I find another book published to that purpose intit A Vindication of Sir Hen. Vane from the lyes and calumnies of Mr. Rich. Baxter Printed at Lond. A letter to an Officer of the Army concerning a select Senate mention'd by them in their proposals to the late Parliament Lond. 1659. qu. Miscellaneous positions concerning Government Lond. 1659. qu. They are I suppose the proposals of a model for the Government of the three Nations mention'd by his Antagonist Mr. Glanvill A light shining out of darkness or certain Queries c. Lond. 1659. qu. Printed twice that year the second edition of which hath therein several Additions and an Apology for the Quakers written by the said Stubbe The Commonwealth of Oceana put in a ballance and found too light Or an account of the Republic of Sparta with occasional animadversions upon Mr. Jam. Harrington and the Oceanistical model Lond. 1660. qu. The Indian Nectar or a discourse concerning Chocolata c. Lond. 1662. oct Concerning the said subject one Antonio Colminero of Ledesma a Spaniard and Doct. of Physick hath learnedly written and not unlikely the first of all that hath so done It was rendred into English by one who call'd himself Capt. James Wadsworth under this title Chocolate or an Indian drink c. Lond. 1652. oct Which book our Author Stubbe had seen and has as I conceive followed him in some things As for the said Wadsworth the Reader may know that he was the same who wrot The English Spanish Pilgrim born in Suffolk son of Jam. Wadsworth Bach. of Div. of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. afterwards a Rom. Cath. bred in puerile learning at Sivil and Madrid in Spain in Grammar and Academical among the Jesuits at S. Omers but at riper years left them and returned to the Church of England was living in Westminster in the time of Oliver an 1655 at which time he was characterized by an English Historian to be a Renegado Proselyte-Turncote of any Religion and every trade and is now living 1655 a common hackney to the basest catch-pole Bayliffs and too boot a Justice of the Peace in his bench book enters him and his wife Pimp and Bawd in his Precinct The miraculous Conformist or an account of several marvellous cures performed by the stroaking of the hands of Mr. Valentine Greatrak Oxon 1666. qu. with a Physical discourse thereupon c. Before I go any farther with the remaining titles of our Author Stubbes's books I must make a digression and tell you why this book was written and who the subject of it was Be it known therefore that this Val. Greatrakes son of Will. Gr. Esq was born at Affane in the County of Waterford in Ireland on S. Valentines day 14 Feb. 1628 was bred a Protestant in the Free-school at Lismore and at 13 years of age was designed to be a Student in the Coll. at Dublin but the Rebellion breaking out in that Nation he was forced with his mother to fly for refuge into England where by the favour of his Uncle Edm. Harris brother to Sir Edw. Harris Knight his mothers father he was for the present time relieved After his death his mother for his farther progress in literature committed him to the charge of a certain Presbyterian called Joh. Daniel Getsius a High German Minister of Stoke Gabriel in Devonshire with whom he spent some years in studying Humanity and Divinity and found from his hands much favour and love After 5 or 6 years absence he returned to his native Country at that time in a most miserable and deplorable Estate which made him retire to the Castle of Caperquin where he spent an years time in contemplation and saw so much of the madness and wickedness of the world as he saith that his life became a burthen to him and his soul was as weary of this habitation of clay as ever was Gally-slave of the oar which brought his life even to the threshold of death so that his legs had hardly strength to carry his enfeebled body about c. In 1649 or thereabouts he became a Lieutenant in the Regiment of Roger Earl of Orrery then acting in Munster against the Irish Papists and others then called the Rebels and in 1656 a great part of the Army there of the English being disbanded he retired to his native country of Affane the habitation of his Ancestors and by the favour of the then Governor he was made Clerk of the Peace of the County of Corke Register for Transplantation and Justice of the Peace After his Majesties Restauration he was removed as I have heard from
Divine an able Preacher and well vers'd in the Fathers and Schoolmen but when he lived in the Country he had if you 'll believe his conceited Antagonist Glanvill a reputation for learning among his neighbours and was accounted a Philosopher in the peripatetick way and by employing his younger years in the Philosophy of Disputation had gained to himself the reputation of a great Scholar and a Disputant among his country Admirers c. But these and other his foolish commendations of him that follow as that he is a person that understands the Quiddities and Haeccieties the Praecissiones formales and the Objectivae the Homogeneities and Hetrogeneities the Categorematice's and the Syncatagorematice's the Simpliciter's and the Secundum Quid's c. meerly to undervalue his learning because of his undervaluing him Glanvill the Royal Society and experimental Philosophy I shall now pass by as needless to insert and tell you that he wrot Exercitatio Theologica de insipientia rationis humanae gratiâ Christi destitutae in rebus fidei 1 Cor. 2.14 Oxon. 1655. qu. I desire the Reader now to know that after Mr. Joseph Glanvill had setled himself in the City of Bathe and had written certain things against Aristotle and the Academical way of Education 't was the desire of some neighbouring Scholars that our Author Crosse a noted Philosopher after the antient way should be brought acquainted with him In the year therefore 1667 Glanvill was conducted to his house at Great Chew where after the usual Civilities were passed Crosse did in a sufficient manner vindicate Aristotle and knowing Glanvill to be one of the Royal Society and an undervaluer of Academical learning as to Aristotle and his Philosophy he did plentifully then declaim against the proceedings of that Society Glanvill thereupon being surprized he did not then much oppose him but afterwards by letters and common discourses he did to the purpose especially against this Hypothesis of Crosse that Aristotle had more advantages for knowledge than the Royal Society or all the present age had or could have and for this strong reason because he did totam peragere asinam c. Whereupon fell out a great difference between them and Mr. Hen. Stubbe then a Summer-practitioner of Physick at Bathe bearing no good will to the conceited proceedings of Glanvill took Crosse's part and encouraged him to write against the Virtuoso Soon after our author Crosse provided a book which Glanvill call'd a Fardel tho Stubbe not but a good and seasonable book yet rejected by the Licensers as Glanvill adds both at Oxford and London for its incomparable railing and impertinence However Glanvill obtaining the contents of it sent it in a private Letter to Dr. Nath. Ingelo Fellow of Eaton Coll. near Windsore who sending it also to a friend in London he caused it to be printed and intituled The Chew Gazet and dispersed the copies an 100 only for no more were printed into private hands to the end as Glanvill says that his shame might not be made publick c. that a specimen also of the learning he shews in school scraps and little ends of verse and Childrens phrases which are all his reading might be discovered After the Letter was abroad Crosse wrot Ballads against him and made him and his Society ridiculous while other Wags at Oxon who seemed to be pleased with these Controversies made a dogrel Ballad on them and their proceedings the beginning of which is Two Gospel Knights Both learned wights And Somersets renowne a The one in Village of the Shire But Vicaridge too great I fear The other lives in towne a c. Mr. Glanvill tells us also that our Author Crosse hath written a book called Biographia which gives rules how Lives are to be written c. to correct Dr. Fell for his way of writing the life of Dr. Hammond because he denied a License to print his book At length Mr. Crosse having lived to a fair age departed this mortal life about 4 of the clock in the morn of the 12 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred eighty and three and was buried in his Church of Chew magna before mention'd leaving then behind him the character among grave and sobber persons of an able Theologist and Philosopher GEORGE RITSCHEL the eldest son of George Ritschel a Bohemian by Gertrude his wife was born at Deutschkana in the borders of Bohemia on the 13 of Febr. styl nov an 1616 sent by his Relations when 17 years of age to the University of Straesburg where he continued about 7 years At length his father dying and Ferdinando 2. driving the Protestants out of his Dominions he rather than he would conform to the Ch. of Rome agreed with his younger brother that he should have the Estate to which he was heir conditionally that he would furnish him with money to travel into foreign parts Which being agreed to our Author G. Ritschel went into England and setling for a time in Oxford was there on the 3 of Decemb. 1641 entred into the publ or Bodleian library under this form Georgius Ritschel Deutchkanan Bosellus but the Rebellion breaking openly out in the year following he went to the Hague Leyden and Amsterdam In 1643 he travelled into Denmark where he spent above an year at Copenhagen and Sora and in 1644 he visited Poland and from Dantzick he went into England where continuing for some time in London journied thence to Oxon took up his quarters in Kettle Hall a member of Trin. Coll. became a severe and constant Student in the Bodleian library and wrot and published a book during his stay in the University as I shall anon tell you but whether he took a degree therein it appears not After he had left the University he became chief Master of the Free-school at Newcastle upon Tyne whence after he had continued there several years he was removed to the Vicaridge of Hexham in Northumberland where he continued Minister almost 28 years He hath written Contemplationes Metaphysicae ex natura rerum rectae rationis lumine deductae c. Oxon. 1648. oct dedicated to Sir Cheyney Culpeper and Nich. Stonghton Esq Before which is a Preface to shew what Metaphysicks are and their use This was reprinted at Frankfort in 1680 by the care of Magnus Hesenthalerus the late famous Professor of Wertemberg with an Epist ded of the said Hesenthalerus to Wolfgangus principal Officer to the Duke of Wertemberg with the title changed thus Georgii Ritschel contemplationes Metaphysicae quas rerum ex natura rectaeque rationis lumine deductas Oxoniae Anglorum 1648 olim publicatas ipsummet per Autorem auctas revisas emendatas ab amica Magni Hesenthaleri manu impetratas exquisitio plurium Literatorum voto c. He hath also written another book intit Dissertatio de ceremoniis Ecclesiae Anglicanae quâ usus earum licitus ostenditur à superstitionis idolatriae crimine vindicatur Lond. 1661. oct