Prison in hot weather contracting a disease he died thereof in the month of Septemb. one tells me the second and another the 22d day about 5 of the Clock in the morning to the great grief of his disciples in sixteen hundred sixty and two Whereupon his body being conveyed to the burial place joyning to Old Bedlam in Morefields near London was there deposited by the Brethren who soon after took care that an altar monument of stone should be erected over his grave with an inscription thereon shewing that he was Master of Arts of the University of Oxon and that he had given to the world great specimens of his learning and piety c. He had in him a sharp and quick judgment and a prodigious memory and being very industrious withal was in a capacity of devouring all he read He was wonderfully well vers'd in the Scriptures and could not only repeat all St. Pauls Epistles in English but also in the Greek tongue which made him a ready Disputant He was accounted by those of his perswasion a sober man in his discourse and to have nothing of impiety folly or scurrility to proceed from him Also so devout that he seldom or never prayed without being prostrat or flat on the ground as his life which I have attests Soon after his death his Twofold Catechisme was turned into Latine and printed in oct 1665. The first called A Scripture Cat. was done by Anon. The other called A brief Scripture Cat. for Children was done by a youth called Nathaniel Stuckey and at the end of it was printed 1 Oratiuncula de passione morte Christi made by the said Stuckey 2 Exemplum literarum Jeremiae Felbingeri ad Joh. Biddellum dated at Dantsick 24. Aug. Styl vet 1654. This Nath. Stuckey who had been partly bred up in Grammar and Logick by Biddle or at least by his care died 27. Sept. 1665 aged 16 years and was buried close to the grave of Biddle as it appears by an inscription engraven for him on one side at the bottom of Biddles monument A certain Author tells us that the said Biddle translated into English the Alchoran and the book called The three grand Impostors damn'd for shame But upon what ground he reports these things he tells us not Sure I am that there is no such thing mention'd in his life and whether there be such a book in rerum natura as the Three grand Impostors meaning Moses Mahomet and Christ is by many knowing men doubted After the coming to the Crown of England of William Prince of Orange when then more liberty was allowed to the press than before were several of John Biddles things before mention'd reprinted in the beginning of the year 1691 viz. 1 His 12 questions with An exposition of five principal passages c. 2 A confession of faith c. 3 The Testimonies of Irenaeus c. And before them was set a short account of his life taken from that written in Latine by J. F. as I have here in the margin told you WILLIAM LENTHALL second Son of Will. Lenth of Lachford in Oxfordshire by Frances his Wife Daughter of Sir Tho. Southwell of St. Faiths in the County of Norfolk was born in a Market Town called Henley upon Thames in the said County of Oxon in an house near to the Church there in the latter end of June 1591 descended from Will Lenthall or Leynthall a Gentleman of Herefordshire who in the beginning of K. Edw. 4. married with the Dau. and Heir of .... Pyperd of Lachford before mention'd Which Pyperd also was descended from a younger Son of those of his name living at Great Haseley in Oxfordshire who I mean the said younger Son much in renown in the beginning of K. Edw. 3. performed military acts so valiantly against the Scots that he did not only receive the honour of Knighthood from the King but the mannour of Lachford from his Father to hold by Kings service of the mannour of Pyperd of Great Haseley before mention'd in which Parish Lachford is situated It is here to be noted by the way that both the Haselies did for many descents belong to the Pyperds whose mannour-place was the same which is now the Farm-place situated near to the Church But the Male line being there worn out in the raign of Ed. 3. the said mannour place with the patronage of the rectory of Haseley was given to the College at Windsore of the Dean and Canons of which the said Farm-place is and hath been for several generations held by the said Lenthalls As for Little Haseley now called Haseley Court where in the time of K. Hen. 8. was a right fair mansion place with marvellous fair walks toperarii operis and orchard and pools belonging to Sir Will. Barentine whose Daughter Marie Anth. Huddleston Esq took to Wife was also numbred among the antient possessions of the Pyperds and was held of their mannour by Knights service As for this Will. Lenthall of whom we are now to speak he became a Commoner of S. Albans Hall in the year 1606 where continuing about 3 years departed without the honour of a degree and went to Lincolns Inn where applying his mind to the study of the municipal Law became a Counsellor of note and in the 13. of Ch. 1. Lent-reader of the said Inn being then as before noted for his practice in his profession In the latter end of 1639 he was elected Burgess for the Corporation of Woodstock in Oxfordsh to serve in that short Parliament which began at Westm 13. of Apr. 1640 and in Oct. following he was chose again for the same place to serve in that unhappy Convention called the Long Parliament begun 3. of Nov. the same year At which time being elected Speaker worth to him 2000 l. per an he kept that honorable office by siding with the leading Party till its dissolution without any adherance to the King when by force he left that Parliament Whether he acted justly in his place 't is to be question'd forasmuch as he was not only false to the members thereof in many things but also kept correspondence with that noted Minister of State in France Cardinal Julius Mazarini as 't is very well known Being thus put into the road to get beneficial places and so consequently riches which he hungred after by the continual importunities of his covetous Wife named Elizabeth Dau. of Ambrose Evans of Lodington in Northamptonshire Gent he became Master of the Rolls 8 Nov. 1643 worth as 't is said 3000 l. per an one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal 1646 worth 1500 l. per an Chamberlain of Chester 1647 in the room of James E. of Derby a place of profit as well as honour which last he occupying till 1654 was succeeded by John Glynn Lord Ch. Justice but obtained it again 14. March 1659. About the same time 1647 he became Chancellour of the Dutchy of Lancaster worth
1663 and for which several suffered death at York and elsewhere But what became of Tho. Palmer I know not as yet Sure I am that his name was in his Majesties Proclamation for his apprehension and was therein described to be a tall man flaxen haired and to be between 40 and 50 years of age JOSEPH HENSHAW son of Thomas son of Will. Henshaw of Sussex descended from those of his name in Cheshire was born in the Parish of S. Giles Cripplegate Lond educated in Merchant-Taylors School became a Communer of Madg. Hall in 1621 aged 18 years or thereabouts took one degree in Arts holy orders and became Chaplain to Sir Jo. Digby Earl of Bristow In 1634 I find him Parson of Stedham with Hayshot in Sussex and about that time Preacher at the Charterhouse and Vicar of little S. Bartholomew in London In 1639 he proceeded Doctor of Div. being then Prebendary of Chichester and much in renown for his admirable way of preaching but when the nation was turn'd topsie turvey by the iniquity of the Presbyterians and other discontented people he was dispoyl'd of all suffered much for the royal cause was a brand snatch'd out of the fire and lived for sometime at Chiswick in the house of the Lady Paulet At length after his Majesties restauration he was made Dean of Chichester in Sept. 1660 upon the promotion of Dr. Ryves to the Deanery of Windsore and by vertue of the Kings Conge d' eslire being elected to thee see of Peterborough 15. Apr. 1663 upon the removal of Dr. Laney to Lincoln was soon after consecrated and on the 28. of May Ascension day installed He hath written and published Horae Succissivae or spare houres of meditations upon our duty to God others and our selves Lond. 1631. There again 1640. in tw being the fifth edit In the year 1620 was published in â—â— a book entit Horae Subsecivae Observations and discourses but this book was written by Gilbert Lord Cavendish who died before his father Will. Earl of Devonshire which William departed this life in 1625. Our author Henshaw hath also written Dayly thoughts or a Miscellany of Meditations holy and humane Lond. 1651. oct the third edit with enlargements He departed this mortal life in his house or lodgings in S. James street Coventâ—Garden with the liberties of Westminster on Sunday the ninth day of March in sixteen hundred seventy and eight whereupon his body being conveyed into Sussex was buried in the Church of Eastâ—Lavant near Chichester close by the body of his only wife Jane somtimes daughter of Thomas May of that place and near to a son that he had buried there JOHN BISCOE son of Rob. Biscoe was born at Great Wycombe commonly called Hyghâ—Wycombe in Bucks became a Commoner of New Inn in the latter end of the year 1622 aged 16 years took one degree in Arts left the University about two years after entred into the sacred function and became a preacher at Abendon in Berks. When the puritan began to be dominant he put in for one having alwaies been precisely educated closed with the Presbyterians in the time of their rebellion and took the Covenant and being found very ready to carry on and propagate the cause he was made Minister of S. Thomas in Southwark took the Engagement was made an Assistant to the Commissioners of Surrey for ejecting of such who were called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters and about the same time had the charge of the Church of S. George in the said Borough confer'd on him as I have been informed by those that knew the man where or else at S. Thomas continuing till after his Majesties restauration was ejected for Nonconformity He hath written and published The glorious mystery of Gods mercy or a pretious cordial for fainting soules c. Lond. 1647. oct This book is the effect of certain Sermons The grand trial of true conversion or sanctifying grace appearing and acting first and chiefly in the thoughts wherein is opened the mystery of iniquity in mans thoughts c. Lond. 1655. oct This also as it seems is the effect of certain Sermons The Mystery of free grace in the Gospel and mystery of the Gospel in the Law Printed in oct Whether he hath any other things extant I cannot tell sure I am that after his ejection he removed to several places and preached in Conventicles and that in his last days removing to the place of his nativity High Wicombe concluded his last there to the great lamentation of the brethren in sixteen hundred seventy and nine whereupon his body being conveyed to the Church at that place was buried on thâ— ninth day of June the same year in the north isle joyning thereunto JEREMIAS WELLS a Londoner born bred in Merchant Taylors School became Scholar of S. Johns Coll. in 1665 junior Collector of the University when Bach. of Arts and one of the first persons that spoke in verse in the first Encaenia at the dedication of Sheldons Theater an 1669. Afterwards being Master of Arts and Fellow of his House he was made Lecturer of St. Michaels Cornhill and Curat to Dr. Edward Layfield of Allhallows Barkin in London He hath written Poems upon several occasions Lond. 1667. oct Character of a London Scrivener Printed with the Poems He was buried in the Church of Allhallows Barkin before mention'd 24 of August in sixteen hundred seventy and nine having before taken to wife the daughter of Dr. Layfield before mention'd widdow of Sir John Mennes and alwaies accounted an ingenious man JOHN MAYOW descended from a gentile family of his name living at Bree in Cornwall was born in the parish of S. Dunstan in the West in Fleetstreet London admitted Scholar of Wadham Coll. 27. Sept. 1661 aged 16 years choâ—e probationerâ—fellow of All 's Coll. soon after upon the recommendations of Hen. Coventrie Esq one of the Secretaries of State where tho he had a Legists place and took the degrees in the Civil Law yet he studied Physick and became noted for his practice therein especially in the Summer time in the City of Bathe but better known by these books which shew the pregnancy of his parts De Respiratione tractatus unus Oxon. 1668. 69. c. oct De Rachitide tract un Oxon. 1668. 69. c. oct Of both which tracts is a large account given in the Philosophical Transactions nu 41. p. 833. an 1668. De Sal-nitro spiritu nitro-acerbo Ox. 1674. in a large oct De Respiratione Faetûs in utero ovo Ox. 1674. in a large oct De motu musculari spiritibus ani malibus Ox. 1674. in a large oct Of these three last with which were printed again the two first is a large account given in the Philosophical Transact nu 105. p. 101. c. And all five were printed together at the Hague 1681. oct He paid his last debt to nature in an Apothecaries house bearing the sign of the Anker in Yorkstreet
provinciae Angliae Fratrum minorum Manuale Missionariorum Regularium praecipuè Anglorum S. Francisci c. Printed 1658 and at Doway 1661. in octav Apologia episcoporum seu sacri magistratus propugnatio c. Col. Agrip. 1640. oct Liber dialogorum seu summa veteris Theologiae dialogismis tradita Duac 1661. in oct Problemata scholastica controversialia speculativa c. Corollarium dialogi de medio statu animarum c. Paralipomena philosophica de mundo peripatetico This was published at Doway under the name of Francisc Coventriensis an 1652. in oct All these except the three first most of which had been printed in little volumes by themselves were printed in two volumes in fol. at Doway an 1665 which cost the author having no contribution given him towards the press 220 l. Religio philosophiae Peripati discutienda in qua offertur epitome processus historiae celeberrimi miraculi à Christo nuperrimè patrati in restitutione Tibiae abscissae sepultae ab Aristotile in suis principiis examinati Duac 1662. oct Supplementum Historiae Provinciae Angliae in quo est chronosticon continens catalogum praecipua gesta Provincialium Fr. Min. Provinciae Angliae Duac 1671. fol. to be put at the end of Fragmenta seu Hist Min. c. Disputatio de antiqua Provinciae praecedentia Printed there also the same year and to be put in the same vol. at the end of Supplementum Hist This Disputatio was also printed in qu. in two sh an 1670. Enchiridion of Faith in a dialogue concerning christian religion Printed under the name of Franc. Coventrie 1655. oct Explanation of the Romane Catholic belief Printed 1656 and 1670 in one sh in oct 'T is reported by a nameless author that he S. Clara wrot and published The Christian Moderator or persecution for Religion condemned c. Lond. 1652. in qu. sec edit and that he whom he calls that famous or rather infamous Priest presented one of them to a Lady who told it to a reverend Minister of this City London that he was the author of that book But let this Anon. say what he will sure I am that I have been informed by R. Catholicks of unquestionable veracity that neither he nor William Birchley was the author but one John Austen born at Walpole in Marshland in the County of Norfolk and bred in S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge which house he leaving and his religion too about 1640 entred himself into the Society of Lincolns Inn with intentions to follow the municipal Laws but the Rebellion breaking out soon after he was driven thence It is to be noted by the way that this Austen being a man of good parts and much in esteem with the R. Catholicks he did write and publish several books that is to say besides the three parts of The Christian Moderator which he put out under the name of W. Birchley 1 Two vol. of Devotions after the old way printed in octavo and afterwards reprinted in 1672 with a preface to them written by Joh. Sergeant He also wrot a third volume which is not yet published 2 Treatise in behalf of the oath of Allegiance 3 Letter from a Cavalier in Yorkshire to a friend written in the time of war and other things among which must not be forgotten A punctual Answer to Dr. Joh. Tillotsons book called The rule of Faith c. Six or seven sheets of which were printed off but for what reason all were not finished I cannot tell He died in his house in Bow street in Cov. Garden near London in the summer time an 1669 and was buried in the Ch. of S. Paul there Two parts of the said Christian Moderator being esteemed by certain Protestants to be like a venemous potion as full of dangerous Ingredients c. was examin'd and animadverted upon in a book called Legend◠lignea c. p. 29.30 c. One Will. Austen of Linc. Inn Esq who died 16 Jan. 1633 wrot Devotionis Augustinianae flamma or certain devout and learned Meditations c. printed at Lond. after his death 1637. fol. but of what kin he was to John I know not As for our author Christop Davenport alias Sancta Clara who mostly went by the name of Francis Hunt and sometimes by that of Coventrie died in Somerset house in the Strand near London on the 31 of May early in the morning being then Whitmunday in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried not according to his desire in the Vault under Somerset house Chappel which the Queen opposed but in the Church belonging to the Savoy Hospital in the said Strand It was his desire many years before his death to retire to Oxon in his last days there to die purposely that his bones might be laid in S. Ebbes Church to which the mansion of the Franciscans or Grey Friers sometimes joyned and in which several of the Brethren were antiently interred particularly by those of his old friend Joh. Day a learned Frier of his order born at the Mill in the Parish of S. Cross alias Halywell near Oxon who was buried at the west end of the said Church near the Font an 1658 but troubles coming on by the breaking out of the Popish Plot his design was frustrated JOHN WILMOT Earl of Rochester Viscount Athlone in Ireland and Baron of Adderbury in Oxfordshire was born at Dichley near Wodstock in the said County .... Apr. 1648 educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Burford under a noted Master called John Martin became a Nobleman of Wadham Coll. under the tuition of Phineas Bury Fellow and inspection of Mr. Blandford the Warden an 1659 actually created Master of Arts in Convocation with several other noble persons an 1661 at which time he and none else was admitted very affectionately into the fraternity by a kiss on the left cheek from the Chancellour of the University Clarendon who then sate in the supreme chair to honour that Assembly Afterwards he travelled into France and Italy and at his return frequented the Court which not only debauched him but made him a perfect Hobbist and was at length made one of the Gentlemen of the Bed-chamber to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. and Controller of Wodstock Park in the place of Sir W. Fleetwood deceased He was a person of most rare parts and his natural talent was excellent much improved by learning and industry being throly acquainted with all classick Authors both Greek and Latine a thing very rare if not peculiar to him among those of his quality He knew also how to use them not as other Poets have done to transcribe and steal from but rather to better and improve them by his natural fancy But the eager tendency and violent impulses of his natural temper unhappily inclining him to the excesses of Pleasure and Mirth which with the wonderful pleasantness of his unimitable humour did so far engage the affections of the Dissolute towards him that to
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
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Laughton Church Langton 863 15 from bot Simoudsbry Simondsbury 864 8 from bot 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 871 12 from bot excolando excolendo 891 35 from bot Joh. Smith of Magd. Coll. Joh. Smyth of Magd. Hall 892 25 from top Tho. Beale Joh. Beale The two last lines in pag. 850 running thus He hath written Philosophia generalis in duas partes disterminata c. must be taken out for that book was written by Theophilus and not Thomas Gale Books Printed for and Sold by Tho. Bennet at the Half-Moon in St. Paul's Church yard THE Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley fol. Sir William Davenant's Works fol. Comedies and Tragedies by Tho. Killigrew fol. Beaumont and Fletcher's Plays fol. Shakespear's Works fol. Sir Robert Howards 5 Plays fol. Voyages and Adventures of Ferdinand Pinto a Portugal who was five times Shipwrackt sixteen times Sold and thirteen times made a Slave in Aethiopia China c. Written by Himself fol. Dr. Pocock on the Minor Prophets fol. A Critical History of the Text and Versions of the New Testament wherein is firmly Establish'd the Truth of those Acts on which the Foundation of Christian Religion is laid By Father Simon of the Oratory Together with a Refutation of such Passages as seem contrary to the Doctrin and Practice of the Church of England Some Motives and Incentives to the Love of God Pathetically discoursed of in a Letter to a Friend by the Honourable Robert Boyle The Seventh Edition much Corrected Memoirs of the Court of Spain Writ by the Ingenious French Lady and Englished by Mr. Thomas Brown Octavo Memoirs of the Court of France by the same Author Octavo The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus the Roman Emperor Translated out of Greek into English with Notes by Dr. Causabon To this Edition is added the Life of the said Emperor with an Account of Stoick Philosophy As also Remarks on the Meditations All newly written by the famous Monsieur and Madam Dacier Waller's Poems compleat in Two Parts Sir John Denham's Poems Aristeae Historia LXXII Interpretum accessere Veterum Testimonia de eorum Versione è Theatro Sheldoniano The Works of the Learned or an Historical Account and Impartial Judgment of the Books newly Printed both Foreign and Domestick together with the State of Learning in the World Published Monthly by J. de la Crose a late Author of the Universal Bibliotheque This first Volume beginning in August last is compleated this present April with Indexes to the whole The Bishop of Chester's Charge to his Clergy at his Primary Visitation May 5. 1691. Five Sermons before the King and Queen by Dr. Meggot Dean of Winchester A Sermon before the King and Queen by the L. Bishop of Worcester A Sermon before the House of Commons on the Thanksgiving-day by Dr. Jane Dean of Gloucester Sermons and Discourses upon several occasions by G. Stradling D. D. late Dean of Chichester never before printed together with an account of the Author octavo A Voyage to the World of Cartesius Written originally in French and now Translated into English by T. Taylor of Magd. Coll. Oxon. octavo A Sermon before the Queen May 29. 1692. by F. Atterbury Student of Ch. Ch. Oxon. ATHENAE OXONIENSES THE HISTORY OF THE Writers of the University OF OXFORD FROM THE Beginning of the Year of Our Lord 1641 to the End of 1690. VOLUME II. GERVASE WARMSTREY the eldest Son of Will. Warmstrey principal Registrary of the Diocess of Worcester by Cecelie his Wife Daug. of Tho. Smith of Cuâ—rdsley in Lanc. an Inhabitant of S. Aldates Parish in Oxford was born and educated in Grammar Learning within the City of Worcester became a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1621 aged 17 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts and afterwards retiring to his native place succeeded his Father in the before mentionâ—d Office While he continued in the University he was numbred among the eminent Poets especially upon his writing and publication of Virescit vulnere virtus Englands wound and cure printed 1628. qu. Which being by many persons of known worth esteem'd an excellent piece was by the Author dedicated to that great Patron of all ingenious men especially of Poets Endimion Porter Esquire whose native place Aston under Hill commonly called Hanging Aston near to Campden in Glocestershire tho obscure yet he was a great man and beloved by two Kings James 1. for his admirable wit and Ch. 1. to whom as to his Father he was a servant for his general learning brave stile sweet
done by Sir Tho. Clarges whose sister the said Duke had married and put into the hands of the said Philipps but therein Mr. Philipps attributing more to the Dukes glory than was true he got the ill will of him Therein are also added to the Reign of K. Jam. 1. and K. Ch. 1. the names of the Noble-men that they created and other matters But so it was that the Author Baker and his Continuator Philipps having committed very many Errors Thom. Blount of the Inner Temple Esq published Animadversions on that edit of 1671 and were printed in oct at Oxon 1672. Which book containing only a specimen of the errors may easily be discerned what the whole Chronicle containeth But notwithstanding these Animadversions the Chronicle when afterwards it was several times reprinted had none of the said errors therein corrected but came out full of faults as before and was greedily bought up by illiterate and inconsiderable persons By the way it must be known that the said Tho. Blount son of Myles Blount of Orleton in Herefordshire the fifth son of Rog. Blount of Monkland in the same County was born at Bordesley in Worcestershire being of a younger house of an antient and noble family of his name but never advantaged in Learning by the help of an University only his own genie and industry together with the helps of his scholastical acquaintance during his continuance in the Temple before and after he was Barrister His Writings are many and some perhaps not fit here to be put down among which are 1 The Academy of Eloquence containing a compleat English Rhetorick Printed at Lond. in the time of the Rebellion and several times after 2 Glossographia or a Dictionary interpreting such hard words whether Hebr. Gr. Lat. Ital. c. that are now used in our refined Engl. Tongue c. Lond. 1656. oct Published several times after with additions and amendments 3 The lamps of the law and lights of the gospel or the Titles of some late spiritual polemical and metaphysical new books Lond. 1658. in oct Written in imitation of J. Birkenheads Pauls Churchyard and published under the name of Grass and Hay Withers 4 Boscobel or the history of his Majesties Escape after the battel of Worcester 3 Sept. 1651. Lond. 1660 in oct there again 1680. in oct third edit Translated into French and Portuguese the last of which was done by Pet. Gifford of White Ladies in Staffordshire a R. Catholic 5 The Catholic Almanack for 1661. 62. 63. c. which selling not so well as Joh. Booker's Almanack did he therefore wrot 6 Booker rebuked or Animadversions on Bookers Alm. which made much sport among people having had the assistance therein of Jo. Sargeant and Jo Austen 7 A law Dictionary interpreting such difficult and obscure words and terms as are found either in our common or statute antient or modern laws c. Lond. 1671. fol. There again in 1691 with some corrections and the addition of above 600 words 8 Animadversions upon Sir Rich. Bakers Chron. and its Continuation c. Oxon. 1672. oct 9 A world of errors discovered in The new world of words c. Lond. 1673. fol. Written against Edw. Philipps his book intit A new world of Engl. words c. 10 Fragmenta Antiquitatis Antient tenures of land and jocular customs of some Mannours Lond. 1679. oct 11 Boscobel c. the second part Lond. 1681. oct To which is added Claustrum regale reseratum Or the Kings Concealment at Trent in Somersetshire published by Mrs. Anne Windham of Trent Our Author Blount also wrot Animadversions upon Britannia written by R. Blome but whether printed I cannot tell and translated from French into English The Art of making Devises Lond. 1646. and 50. in qu. Written originally by Hen. Estiâ—nne Lord of Fossez To which Blount added A catalogue of Coronet-Devises both on the Kings and Parliaments side in the late Wars At length upon the breaking out of the Popish Plot being much affrighted by the violent current of that time he himself being a zealous Rom. Cath. he contracted the Palsie as by his last letter sent to me dated 28 Apr. 1679 I was informed adding therein that he had then quitted all books except those of devotion On the 26 of Dec. following being S. Stephens day he died at Orleton in Herefordshire where he had a fair and plentiful estate in the year of his age 61 and was buried in the Church there and soon after had a comely monument put over his grave by Anne his relict daugh of Edm. Church of Maldon in Essex Esq He then left behind him an imperfect Chronicle of England which he and J. B. that 's all I know of him for Mr. Blount would never tell me his name had for several years been compiling but what became of it afterwards I cannot tell As for our Author Sir Rich. Baker he hath written besides what I have already mention'd Theatrum redivivum or the Theatre vindicated in answer to Mr. Prynns Histrio mastix c. Lond. 1662. octavo Theatrum triumphans or a discourse of Plays Lond. 1670 oct He also translated from Ital. into Engl. Discourses upon Corn. Tacitus Lond. 1642. fol. They are in number 53 and were written by Marquess Virgilio Malvezzi and from French into English Letters of Monsieur Balsac in 4 parts Lond. 1638. oct and 54 c. with additions in qu. He also wrot his own life which he left in Ms behind him burnt or made wast paper by one Smith of Pater noster row who married one of his daughters At length after he had undergone many cares and troubles in this world departed this mortal life in the Prison call'd the Fleet in Lond. on the 18 day of Febr. in sixteen hundred forty and four and was the day following buried about the middle of the south isle joyning to S. Bridgets commonly called S. Brides Church near Fleetstreet in London By his wife Margaret dau of Sir Geor. Manwaring of Ightfield in Shropshire Kt. for whose family this our Author was engaged for the payment of debts he had issue Thomas Arthur Cecilia Anne Margaret c. But whereas he saith in his Chronicle that K. Hen. 1. had by his Concubine Anne Corbet a natural daughter married to Fitzherbert his Lord Chamberlain from whom as he adds is his family lineally descended through females viz. thro Cummin Chenduit Brimpton Stokes Foxcote and Dyneley is a great mistake for all or most Chronicles nay the Pedigree it self of Corbet which I have several times seen say that the Concubine named in the said Pedegree Sybill and not the daughter was married to the said Fitzherbert whom some call Henry the son of Herbert WILLIAM STRODE the only son of Philip Strode sometimes living near Plimpton and he a younger son of Sir Rich. Strode of Newneham or Newinham in Devonshire was born in that County elected Student of Ch. Ch. from the Coll. School at Westm about the
latter end of 1617 and in that of his age 16 or thereabouts took the degr in Arts holy orders and became a most florid Preacher in the University In 1629 he was chosen the public Orator of the University being then one of the Proctors of it and two years after was admitted to the reading of the Sentences In 1638. Jul. 1. he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. and in the same month proceeded D. of Div before which time K. Ch. 1. had setled a Canonry of the said Church upon him that should be lawfully elected public Orator but that pious Act hath been since annul'd by pretended Authority and now such a thing seems totally to be forgotten among us As for Strode he was a person of great parts but not equal to those of Cartwright a pithy and sententious Preacher exquisite Orator and an eminent Poet. He hath written Passions calmed Or the setling of the floating Island Lond. 1655. qu. 'T is a comedy and was publickly acted before the K. and Q. in Ch. Ch. Hall 29 Aug. 1636. Speech made to Qu. Mary at Oxon. at her return out of Holland Oxon. 1643. qu. Various Sermons as 1 Serm. concerning swearing on Math. 3.37 Oxon. 1644. qu. 2 Serm. concerning death and the resurrection preached at S. Maries in Oxon. on Low Sunday 28 Apr. 1644 on Colos 3. ver 3. Oxon. 1644. qu. 3 Serm. at a Visitation held at Linn in Norfolk 24 Jun. 1633 on Psal 76.11 Lond. 1660. qu. It was preached at the desire of Dr. Rich. Corbet Bish of Norwich to whom our Author I think was then Chaplain Orations Speeches Epistles Sermons c. They were left behind him fairly written in several Volumes which coming into the hands of Dr. Rich. Gardiner Canon of Ch. Ch. came after or before his death into those of Rich. Davies of Oxon Bookseller Our Author Dr. Strode yielded to the stroke of death to the great reluctancy of learned men on the tenth day of March in sixteen hundred forty and four and was buried in the Divinity Chappel that is the isle most northward from the Choire belonging to the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. I have seen several of his Poems that have had musical Compositions of two and three parts set to be sung by the incomparable Mr. Hen. Lawes as also certain Anthems particularly one to be sung on Good Friday which had a composition also set thereunto by Rich. Gibbs Organist of Ch. Ch. in Norwych I shall make mention of another Will. Strode elsewhere WILLIAM BURTON the eldest son of Ralph Burton Esq was born in Leycestershire at Lyndley I suppose near to Bosworth in that County 24 Aug. 1575 educated in the Grammar School at Sutton-colfield in Warwickshire became either a Commoner or Gent. Com. of Brasn Coll. in Mich. term an 1591 where by the benefit of a careful Tutor he became tolerably well read in Logic and Philosophy On the 20 of May 1593 he was admitted into the society of the Inner Temple and in the month of June in the year following he as a member of Brasnose Coll. was admitted Bach. of Arts. Afterwards setling in the Temple without compleating that degree by Determination was made a Barrester but his natural genie leading him to the studies of Heraldry Genealogies and Antiquities he became excellent in those obscure and intricate matters and look upon him as a Gentleman was accounted by all that knew him to be the best of his time for those studies as it may appear by a book that he published intit The description of Leycestershire c. Lond. 1622. fol. Soon after the Author did very much enlarge and enrich'd it with Roman Saxon and other Antiquities as by his letter dated 9 June 1627 written to Sir Rob. Cotton that singular lover of venerable Antiquity it appears 'T is now as I have been informed in the hands of Walt. Châ—twind of Ingestrey near to Stafford Esq who intends to publish it I have seen a common place book of English Antiquities made by our Will. Burton which is a Manuscript in folio composed mostly from Lelands several Volumes of his Itinerary being the first of that nature that I have yet seen but it being a copy and not written with his own hand but by an illiterate scribe are innumerable faults therein This ingenious person who is stiled by a learned Author of both his names The great ornament of his Country died in his house at Fald in Staffordshire after he had suffered much in the war time on the sixth day of Apr. in sixteen hundred forty and five and was buried in the Parish Church belonging thereunto called Hanbury Church leaving then behind him several collections of Arms and Monuments of Genealogies and other matters of Antiquity which he had gathered from divers Churches and Gentlemens houses and a son named Cassibilian Burton the heir of his Vertues as well as of other fortunes who was born on the 9 of Nov. 1609 but whether educated in this University I know not His parts being different from those of his Father he exercised them mostly in Poetry and translated Martial into English but whether extant I cannot tell you In 1658 it then remained in Ms which made a boon Companion of his complain thus When will you do your self so great a right To let your English Martial view the light This Cass Burton who had consumed the most or better part of the Estate which his Father had left him died 28 Feb. 1681 having some years before given most of if not all the aforesaid Collections of his Father before mention'd to the said W. Chetwind Esq to be used by him in writing The Antiquities of Staffordshire DANIEL FAIRCLOUGH commonly called Featley Son of John Featley somtimes Cook to Dr. Laur. Humphrey President of Madg. Coll. afterwards Cook of that of Corp. Chr. by Marian Thrift his Wife was born at Charlton upon Otmore near to and in the County of Oxford on the 5. of March or thereabouts in 1582 educated in the Grammar School joyning to Madg. College being then 1590 c. Chorister of that house admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. 13. Dec. an 1594 Probationer-Fellow 20 Sept. 1602 being then Bach. of Arts and afterwards proceeding in that faculty at which time he was Junior of the Act he became a severe student in that of Divinity Soon after having laid a solid foundation in the positive part he betook himself to the Fathers Councils Schoolmen c. and in short time became eminent in them His admirable disputations his excellent Sermons his grave yet affable demeanour and his other rare accomplishments made him so renoun'd that Sir Tho. Edmonds being dispatched by King James to lye Leiger Embassadour in France he made choice of our Author to travel with him as his Chaplain The choice he accepted and willingly obeyed and spent 3 years in France in the house of the said Embassador During that time he became
same Edition He had likewise translated the aforesaid Odes into Lat. but that vrrsion is omitted Versio Latina annotationes in Joh. Malalae Chronographiam Oxon. 1091. oct See in the Prolegomena to that Author written by Humph. Hody Bac. of Div. and Fellow of Wadh. Coll. § 42. He hath written also a little thing De sonis which I presume is yet in MS as also Catalogus Manuscriptorum Graecorum in Bib. Bod. pro ratione Auctorum alphabeticus an 1636. MS. in Bodleys Library of great use to curious and critical Students He hath translated from French into English 1 A Treatise of the Essence causes symptoms prognosticks and cure of Love or Erotique Melancholy Oxon. 1640. oct Written by Jam. Ferrand Doctor of Phys 2 Unheard of Curiosities concerning the Talismanical Sculpture of the Persians Lond. 1650. in a large oct Written by Jam. Gafferel Also from Lat. into English 1 Discourse touching the Spanish Monarchy Lond. 1654. qu. Written by Tho. Campanella Which Translation laying dead on the Booksellers hands Will. Prynne of Linc. Inn wrot an Epist and caused this Title to be printed and put before the remaining copies Thomas Campanella a Spanish Frier his advice to the King of Spayne for the obtaining of the universal Monarchy of the World Lond. 1659. qu. 2 Treatise of the Globes Lond. 1639 and 59. oct Written by Rob. Hues and lastly from Ital. into English The History of the rites customs and manner of life of the present Jews throughout the world Lond. 1650. oct Written by Leo Modena a Rabbin of Venice At length this curious person resigning up his last breath in the prime of his years on the 19 of Febr. in sixteen hundred fifty and three was buried in S. Botolphs Church without Aldersgate in London having before with Joh. Gregory another Critick received relief in his necessities from Edw. Bysshe Esq then K. of Arms by the Parliaments Authority and also assisted Sir Hen. Holbroke Kt. by whom he had been exhibited to in his Translation of Procopius of Caesarea his History of the Warrs of the Emperor Justinian in 8 books c. Lond. 1653. fol. by exactly comparing the English with the Greek as it was written by David Hoeschelius who had it out of the Duke of Bavaria's library GEORGE JOLLIFF or Joyliff son of Joh. Jol. Gent. was born at East-Stower in Dorsetshire entred a Commoner in Wadham Coll. in Lent Term an 1636 7 but before he had spent two years there he retired to Pembr Coll. and as a Member thereof took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1643 being about that time a Lieutenant for the King under Ralph Lord Hopton Afterwards he entred on the Physick line and exercising himself much in Anatomy with the help of Dr. Clayton Master of his Coll. and the Kings Prof. of Physick he made some discovery of that fourth sort of Vessels plainly differing from veins arteries and nerves now called the Lympheducts Afterwards he went to Clare Hall in Cambridge took the degree of Doctor of Physick there and afterwards made a full and open discovery of the said Vasa Lymphatica in Anatomy Lectures in the Coll of Physitians about the year 1653 got to himself a great name and was for a time much retired to for his knowledge in Physick He lived mostly at Garlick hithe in London and dying before the immortal Harvey not without some perturbation of spirit as having been bound for the debts of his Brother was buried in the Church of S. James Garlick hithe about 1655. CUTHBERT SYDENHAM son of Cuthb Syd Gent. was born at Truro in Cornwall became a Commoner of S. Albans Hall in Lent term 1639 aged 17 continued there till the City of Oxford was garrison'd for the King at which time being entertained by some of the godly party became a forward Zealot among them About the year 1644 he became Lecturer of S. Nicholas Church in Newcastle upon Tyne without any orders unless those of the Presbytery confer'd upon him where by his constant and confident preaching he obtained more respect from the Brethren than any grave or venerable Minister in that or another Corporation could do In the latter end of 1650 he was actually created Master of Arts by vertue of Letters sent to the Members of Convocation from the Committee of Parliament for regulating the University of Oxon which partly say that he Mr. Cuth Sydenham hath long since full time for taking the degree of Master of Arts and is likewise of sufficient abilities in learning whereof he hath given large and publick evidence both by his Writings in asserting the cause of the Parliament and otherwise That though he cannot for his pressing occasions perform his Exercises for that degree yet he hath performed some part of them before the Enemies possessing Oxon c. Among several of his Writings only these following as yet have come to my hands viz. The false Brother or the Mapp of Scotland drawn by an English Pencil Printed in quar Anatomy of Joh. Lilbourn's Spirit and Pamphlets or a Vindication of the two honorable Patriots Oliver Cromwell Lord Governour of Ireland and Sir Arth. Haselrigg Knight and Baronet wherein the said Lilbourn is demonstratively proved to be a common lyar and unworthy of civil converse Printed in qu. This Joh. Lilbourn being several times occasionally mention'd in this work I shall be more large of him by and by A Christian Sober and plain exercitation of the two grand practical controversies of these times Infant-baptisme and singing of Psalmes Lond. 1653. in tw Answer'd by Will. Kaye Minister of Stokesley in his book called Baptisme without bason c. Lond. 1653. qu. and by others The greatness of the Mysterie of godliness opened in several Sermons Lond. 1654. 56. and 1672. in oct and tw Which book is the sum of ten Sermons on 1. Tim. 3.16 and hath before the second Edition of it the Authors picture with this written under it Aet 31. 1654. Hypocrisie discovered in its nature and workings being the sum of seven Sermons on Luke 12. latter end of the first verse Lond. 1654. oct with his picture before it in a cloak Printed there again in 1657. and 71. oct This book was published by T. W. one of his perswasion who in his pref to it saith that Cuthb Sydenham was trained up under religious education from his Childhood which made him often profess his jealousie of professors especially such who had the advantage of a godly education through the many experiences and deceits of their own hearts That he was extreme painful even to the visible wasting of his own bodily strength in the work of the Ministry and his great care over his flock c. The said Sermons were taken from his mouth in short hand by the said T. W. who published them without any alteration At lengâ—h our Author retiring to London to gain health and to print some of his books took up his Lodging in
to him especially in regard Gunter himself had learnedly explained its use in a far larger Volume For albeit it were great presumption in Wingate to assume to himself the reputation of having better abilities to describe any of the uses thereof yet he could averr upon his own knowledge that he did forbear to explain its use because he took it for granted none would meddle with it but such only who were already well able to understand how to number upon it having before hand acquainted themselves with the manner of numbring upon Scales and with the nature of Logarithms After our Author Wingates return from France where he taught the Kings daughter Henrietta Maria afterwards Queen of England and her Ladies the English Tongue he importun'd Gunter to make a fuller Explanation how to number upon it viz. the Rule of Proportion to the end that the use thereof might by that means be made more publick but his Answer was That it could not be expected that the rule should speak intimating thereby that the Practitioner should in that point rely much upon discretion and not altogether depend upon precepts and examples Some time before the grand Rebellion broke out he the said Wingate became a Bencher of Greys Inn having a seat then at Ampthill in Bedfordshire afterwards took the Covenant was made Justice of the Peace Recorder of Bedford and had other places of profit confer'd on him In 1650 or thereabouts he took the Oath called the Engagement became known to Oliver and was one of the six persons that were elected for the Town and County of Bedford to serve in that Parliament called by Oliver that met at Westminster 3 Sept. 1654 about which time he was appointed one of the Commissioners for his County of Bedford to eject such whom they then called ignorant and scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters He hath written The use of the rule of Proportion in Arithmetick and Geometry wherein is inserted the construction and use of the same rule in Questions that concern Astronomy Dialing Geometry Navigation Gageing c. printed at Paris in the French Language 1624 in oct and at Lond. in 1645 and 58. in oct Of natural and artificial Arithmetick or Arithmetick made easie in two books Lond. 1630. oct with an Appendix concerning equation of time The first of which books which treats of natural Arithmetick is only a key to open the secrets of the other performed by Logarithms and both borrowed from John Neper Baron of Markiston in Scotland and Hen. Brigges But that way and method which our Author takes is not by Multiplication and Division but by Addition and Substraction by which a man may resolve more questions in one hour than by the other in a whole day In 1650 the first of the said books was reprinted at London in oct and enlarged with divers Chapters and necessary Rules and an Appendix of John Kersey Teacher of the Mathematicks in London and Surveyour born at Bodicot near Banbury in Oxfordshire an 1616 and died in Chandois street near S. Martins lane in Westminster of a Consumption about 1677 after he had published two volumes of Algebra in fol. c. The second book was enlarged and reprinted by our Author Wingate at London 1652. oct c. Tables of Logarithmes of the right Sines and Tangents of all the degrees and minutes of the Quadrant To which is annexed their use for the resolution of all the most necessary Problems in Geometry Astronomy Geography and Navigation c. Lond. 1633. oct It is printed with the Table of Logarithms of all numbers from 1 to 100000. contracted by Nathan Roe Minister of Benacre in Suffolk The construction and use of the Logarithmetical Tables and resolution of Triangles c. This book was first written and published in French afterwards in English Lond. 1635. oct The said Treatise is nothing else but an orderly Compendium as well of the Construction as also of the joint and several uses of Briggs his Logarithmes of the Sines and Tangents of all the degrees and minutes of the Quadrant And altho this our Authors Tables be not the very same as theirs yet are they all taken and collected out of them and do all participate of the self same nature and operation An exact abridgment of all Statutes in force and use from the beginning of Magna Charta untill 1641. Lond. 1642 and 1655. oct continued under all their proper titles of all Acts in force and use untill the year 1670 c. by T. M. Lond. 1670 in a thick oct Thence continued to 1681. oct This abridgment hath been made use of upon divers occasions both in studies and employments especially at the Assizes and Sessions of Peace The body of the Common Law of England as it stood in force before it was altered by Statutes or Acts of Parliament or State together with a collection of such statutes as have altered or do otherwise concern the same Lond. 1655. oct 2d edit Ludus Mathematicus or an explanation of the description construction and use of the numerical table of proportion Lond. 1654. oct Construction and use of the line of proportion whereby the hardest questions of Arithmetick and Geometry in broken and whole numbers are resolved by addition and substraction Lond. in oct Tactometria seu Tetagne-nometria or the Geometry of Regulars practically proposed after an exact and new manner with rules for gageing Vessels Lond. in oct The exact Surveighour of Land to plot all grounds to reduce and divide the same by the plain Table Theolodite and circumferentur c. Lond. in oct Maxims of reason or the reason of the common law of England Lond. 1658. fol. Justice revived Being the whole office of a Country Justice of Peace briefly and yet more methodically than ever yet extant Lond. oct said to be written in the title by E. W. of Greys Inn Esq which I take to be our Author Edm. Wingate Statuta Pacis or the table of all the Statutes which any way concerned the Office of a Justice of Peace the several duties of Sherriffs Head Officers of Corporations Stewards in Leets Constables c. Lond. in tw The exact Constable with his original and power in the Offices of Church Wardens Overseers of the Poor Surveyours of the High-wayes Treasurers of the County stock and other inferior Officers c. Lond. in tw said to be written by E. W. of Greys-Inn Esq which I take to be our Author He also published Britton sometimes Bishop of Hereford as 't is said an antient treatise of the Law Lond. 1640. oct 2d edit What other Books he hath written or published I know not nor any thing material of him besides only that he dying in Greys-inn-lane in Holbourne near London was buried in S. Andrews Church there on the 13. day of December in sixteen hundred fifty and six and that as I have been informed he was Master of Arts of this University and born at Sharpenho beforemention'd Both
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
set forth It is a thousand pities that so worthy a piece should lose its grace and credit by an ill expositor since those Persons who read that translation taking it for genuine and upon that presumption not regarding the Latine Edition are thereby rob'd of that benefit which if you would please to undertake the business they might receive This tendeth to the dishonour of that noble Lord and the hindrance of the advancement of learning c. The said Dr. Wats also did translate from Ital. into Engl. Davila's book containing The History of the Civil Wars of France but Sir Ch. Cotterell and William Aylesbury Esq having had the start of him in that work prevented him from printing it He died at Erinsham near to Oxon in his return from the City of Bathe where he had overcome his antient body by too much sweating on the ninth day of Sept. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven and was buried in that Chancel of Allsaints Church in Oxon commonly called the College Chancel as belonging to Linc. Coll. and not to the Parish of Allsaints At which time he left behind him these three MSS. of his composition which would have been published by the Author had he lived a little longer viz. 1 Digressions on the advancement to learning 2 An Apologie for the instauration of sciences 3 Imperial Politicks JOHN LANGLEY was born near Banbury in Oxfordshire became a Com. or Batler of Magd. Hall about the year 1612 took the degrees in Arts and some years after was made Master of the College School in and Prebendary of the Cath. Church of Glocester In which School teaching about 20 years was elected Chief Master of that of S. Paul in Lond. in the room of Dr. Alex. Gill in Jan. 1640 where as at Gloc. he educated many who were afterwards serviceable in Church and State He was learned in the whole body of learning and not only an excellent Linguist Grammarian Historian Cosmographer and Artist but a most judicious Divine and so great an Antiquary that his delight and knowledge in antiquities especially those of our own Nation doth deserve greater commendation than I can now in a few lines express He was beloved of learned men particularly of Selden and those that adhered to the Long Parliament but had not much esteem from the Orthodox Clergy because he was a Puritan and afterwards a witness against Archb. Laud at his trial as may be elsewhere seen He hath written Totius Rhetoricae adumbratio in usum Scholae Paulinae Lond. 1644. Camb. 1650. c. oct Introduction of Grammar Several times printed He also translated from Lat. into English the Book of Polid. Virgil intit De rerum inventoribus which book had been translated by Joh. Bale in the time of K. Ed. 6. but in old and rude English Our Author Langley also had made several collections of Histories and Antiquities that he had gathered in his travels through several parts of England which after his death coming into the possession as 't is said of his Brother living near Banbury he sold them with his collection of Coins merely for money sake He died in his house joyning to S. Pauls School on the 13. day of Sept. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven and was buried in Mercers Chappel in Cheapside At which time a Funeral Sermon on Acts 7.22 touching the use of humane learning was preached by Dr. Edw. Reynolds sometimes Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. wherein he said much to the honor of the Defunct The reader is to note that one John Langley was Minister of West Tuderley in Hampshire was elected one of the Ass of Divines in 1643 and afterwards became a publisher of several matters of Divinity but he is not to be understood to be the same with the former Joh. Langley JOHN GUMBLEDEN a Hampshire man born was entred a Batler of Broadgates Hall in the latter end of 1616 aged 18 years made Student of Ch. Ch. soon after took the Degrees in Arts preached at Longworth in Berkshire several years and was admitted to the reading of the sentences in 1632. Upon the turn of the times he sided with the Presbyterians became Chaplain to Robert Earl of Leycester and afterwards for a short time Rector of Coytie in Glamorganshire He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Serm. on Gen. 6.5.6.7 printed 1626. qu. 2 Serm. on Gen. 22.1.2 print 1627. qu. 3 Gods great mercy to mankind in Jesus Christ at Pauls cross 1628 on Isa 53.6 Oxon. 1628. qu. 4 Two Sermons preached before the Univ. of Oxon on Matth. 11.28 and on Acts 10.3.4 Lond. 1657. qu as also another on Acts 1. from 1. to 5 which I have not yet seen Christ tempted the Devil conquered or a short exposition on a part of the fourth chapt of S. Mathews Gospel Lond. 1657. qu. He concluded his last day in Sept. or Oct. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Coytie beforemention'd He had other things of the like nature fit for the press laying by him which had he lived he would have published JOHN FRENCH Son of Joh. Fr. of Broughton near to Banbury in Oxfordshire was born at Broughton entred into New Inn 1633 aged 17 years took the degrees in Arts entred on the Physick line practiced his faculty in the Parliament Army by the encouragement of the Fiennes men of Authority in the said Army and at length became one of the two Physicians to the whole Army under the conduct of Sir Tho. Fairfax Knight In 1648 at which time the Earl of Pembroke visited this University he was actually created Doctor of Physick being about that time Physician to the Hospital called the Savoy and one of the Coll. of Physicians His works are these The Art of Distillation or a treatise of the choicest spagirical preparations performed by way of Distillation c. in 6. books Lond. 1651. 53. c. qu. The London Distiller exactly and truly shewing the way to draw all sorts of Spirits and Strong-waters printed with The Art of Distillation c. The Yorkshire Spaw or a treatise of four medicinal Wells viz. the Spaw or Vitrilone Well c. their causes virtues and use Lond. 1652. in tw One J. F. Med. Doct. hath translated from Lat. into Engl. 1 A new light to Alchymie and a treatise of Sulphure Lond. 1650. qu. written by Mich. Sandivogius 2 Nine books of the nature of things Lond. 1650. qu. written by Paracelsus 3 A Chymical Dictionary explaining hard places and words met withal in the writings of Paracelsus c. Lond. 1650. qu. Which J. F. this translator I take to be the same with our Author Joh. French who died in Oct. or Nov. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven at or near Bullogne in France he being then Physician to the English Army there He had a Brother named William French of Caies Coll. in Cambridge said also to be Doctor of Physick and Physician
Monuments c. in Staffordshire Shropshire and Chester which coming into the hands of John son of Augustine Vincent Windsore Herald were by him intit Chaloners Collections for Staffordshire Salop and Chester marked with J. C. What became of them after his death which hapned in Drewry-lane in January 1671 I know not In Mar. or Apr. in sixteen hundred and sixty were Messengers sent from the superior Power then in being to take into their custody the said James Chaloner and to secure his Castle for the use of his Majesty but he having received timely notice of their coming he dispatched away himself by poyson taken as 't is said in a Posset made by his Concubine whom he there for several years had kept leaving then behind him a son named Edmund of about 19 years of age begotten on the body of his lawful wife named Ursula daughter of Sir Will. Fairfax of Steeton in Yorkshire EDWARD GEE Son as I conceive of Edward Gee mentioned among the Writers in the first Vol. under the year 1618. p. 377 was born at a Market Town in Oxfordshire called Banbury an 1613 bred in Newton School in the Parish of Manchester in Lancashire became a Communer of Brasn Coll. in Mich. term an 1626 took one degree in Arts and left the University for a time At length entring into the sacred Function he proceeded Master in the said faculty 1636 being about that time Chaplain to Dr. R. Parr Bishop of the Isle of Man and a Minister in Lancashire Afterwards when the Rebellion broke out he sided with the Presbyterians took the Covenant and for his great activity in prosecuting the holy cause he became Rector of the rich Church of Eccleston in the said County in the place of Dr. Parr before mentioned and an active man while he was an Assistant to the Commissioners of the said County for the ejection of such whom they then 1654 an 2 Oliv. Protect called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters He hath written A Treatise of Prayer and of divine Providence Lond. 1653. 61. oct The divine right and original of the civil Magistrate from God grounded on Rom. 13.1 Lond. 1658. in a large oct Soon after was another part of this put out concerning the Oath of Allegiance which I have not yet seen He died 26 of May in sixteen hundred and sixty and was buried in the Parish Church of Eccleston before mentioned NICHOLAS GREY was born in London elected Student of Ch. Ch. from the College School at Westminster in the year 1606 aged 16 years where making great proficiency in learning under the tuition of Mr. Sam. Fell took the degrees in Arts and being noted for a pure Latinist and Greecian was made the first Master of Charter house or Suttons Hospital School After he had taught there some years he married against the Statute of that School and Hospital so that thereby being made uncapable of the place the Governours thereof gave him a Benefice Castle Camps in Cambridgeshire I think where for some time he lived as 't were out of his Element On the 29 of January 1624 he was admitted chief Master of Merchant Taylors School where continuing till 1631 he was then or soon after made chief Master of the School at Eaton Coll and at length Fellow of that house but whether he proceeded D. of D. in the Univ. of Oxon which degree was confer'd on him about that time I know not for it appears not so in the publick Register In the time of the Rebellion he was turned out from his Fellowship and Parsonage by the Presbyterians was put to difficult shifts and with much ado rub'd out for some years At length obtaining the Mastership of Tunbridge School in Kent in or before the Reign of Oliver in the place of Tho. Horne made Master of Eaton School continued there till the Kings return and then being restored to his Parsonage and Fellowship was in hopes to spend his old age in peace retiredness and plenty but he died soon after as I shall anon tell you His works are these Dictionary in English and Latine Lat. and English Several times printed at London but when first of all published I know not This Dict. mostly taken from that of Rider had many additions put to it by Grey but a second or third edit of Holyok's Dict. coming out prevented as 't is said the publication of them He also published Luculenta è sacrâ scripturâ testimonia ad Hugonis Grotii baptizatorum puerorum institutionem Lond. 1647. 50. 55. c. oct Which Catechism was written by Hug. Grotius in Latine Verse turned into Gr. Verse by Christ Wase B. of A. and Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge since superior Beadle of Law in Oxon and into Engl. Verse by Franc. Goldsmith of Greys Inn Esq This book is dedicated to John Hales Fellow of Eaton Coll. by Dr. Grey who hath also published Parabolae Evangelicae lat redditae Carmine paraphrastico varii generis in usum scholae Tunbrigiensis Lond. in oct when printed I know not for 't is not put down in the tit or at the end He gave way to fate in a poor condition at Eaton in sixteen hundred and sixty and was buried in the Choire of the Church or Chappel there near to the stairs that go up to the Organ loft on the fifth day of October as I have been informed by the letters of John Rosewell B. D. sometimes Fellow of C. C. Coll. in Oxon afterwards School-master of Eaton Canon of Windsore and Fellow of Eaton College EDWARD TERRY was born at Leigh near Penshurst in Kent educated in Grammar in the Free School at Rochester entred into Ch. Church in 1607 and in the year after was elected Student thereof where with incredible industry going thro the courses of Logick and Philosophy took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1614. In the year following he took a Voyage with certain Merchants into East India where after his arrival he was sent for by Sir Tho. Roe Embassador from the King of England to the Great Mogul with whom he lived as Chaplain in the Court of that mighty Emperor for more than two years At his return he retired to his College and having some small Cure bestowed on him became at length Rector of Great Greenford in Middlesex which he enjoyed about 30 years and submitted to the men that bore sway in the time of Rebellion He was an ingenious and polite man of a pious and exemplary conversation a good Preacher and much respected by the Neighbourhood where he lived He hath written and published Several sermons as 1 Lawless liberty preached before the Lord Mayor of Lond. in the Cath. of S. Paul on Psal 2.3 Lond. 1646. qu. 2 The Merchants and Mariners Preservation and Thanksgiving preached 6 Sept. 1649 to the East India Company upon a late return of their Ships on Psal 107.30.31 Lond. 1649. qu. and other Sermons published in
Provinces of Flanders Lond. 1652. fol. written by Guido Cardinal Bentivoglio 3 Hist of the Wars of Flanders Lond. 1654. fol. written by the said Cardinal This translation hath the E. of Monmouths picture before it 4 Advertisements from Pernassus in two centuries with the politick touchstone Lond. 1656. fol. written by Trajano Boccalini 5 Politick discourses in three books Lond. 1657. fol. written by Paul Paruta a noble Venetian to which is added a Short Soloquie in which Paruta briefly examines the whole course of his life 6 Historie of Venice in two parts Lond. 1658. fol. written by the said Paruta with the Wars of Cyprus wherein the famous seiges of Nicossia and Famagosta and the battle of Lepanta are contained He also began to translate from the said Italian Language The Historie of France written by the Count Gualdo Priorato but died after he had made some progress therein Afterwards it was finished by Will. Brent Esq and printed at Lond. 1677. fol. being the same Person that had before wrot a book intit A discourse upon the nature of eternity and the condition of a separated Soul according to the grounds of reason and principles of Christian Religion Lond. 1655 in a small oct written while he was a Prisoner in the Gatehouse at Westminster It was afterwards printed there again in 1674 in 6. sh and an half in qu. By the way it must be known that tho we have had several of the Brents who have been Students in this University yet this Will. Brent was not but educated while a youth in the Coll. of English Jesuits at S. Omer Afterwards being entred into the society of Greys-inn he became a Barrister and a Solicitor or such like Officer under Tho. Earl of Strafford when he was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland He was born at Stoke Lark in Glocestershire in the Parish of Ilmington in Warwickshire and having suffered much for his Religion by Imprisonments payments of money and I know not what lived privately several years at Foxcote in Warwickshire and in his last days at London He died in the Parish of S. Giles in the Fields near London in the beginning of the year 1691 aged 80 years or more He the said Hen. Carey E. of Monmouth did also translate from French into English 1 The use of the passions Lond. 1649. oct 2 Man become guilty or the corruption of his nature by sin printed at Lond. Both written by Joh. Franc. Senault before the first of which is the picture of the said Earl a shoulder peice standing on a Pedestall What other translations this noble Count hath made besides unless The Hist of the late Wars of Christendome printed in fol. 1648. which I have not yet seen I know not nor any thing else of him only that he giving way to fate on the 13 of June in sixteen hundred sixty and one was buried in the Church of Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire He had an ingenious Brother named Thomas whom I have mention'd in the Fasti 1613. One H. Cary a Lawyer hath written The Law of England or a true guide for all Persons concerned in Ecclesiastical Courts printed 1666 in tw but what relation he hath to the Earl I know not WILLIAM TAYLOR was born at Kighley in Yorks 30. Sept. 1616. entred a Batler in Magd. Hall in 1631 took one degree in Arts was made Schoolmaster of Keniton or Keynton in Herefordshire proceeded in his faculty went to Cirencester in Glocestershire about the latter end of 1639 became Schoolmaster there in the place of Henry Toppe then ejected by the puritanical Townsmen But that Town being taken by storm by the Royal party 2. Feb. 1642 Toppe was restored So that Taylor retiring to London became Preacher at Bowe near that City and afterwards Minister of S. Stephens Church in Colemanstreet in the place of Joh. Goodwin turn'd out by the Parliament But he meeting with opposition there he exercised his function for some time in a Church in Woodstreet and kept a Lecture at S. Giles near Cripplegate every Sunday and another Lecture on a week day at S. Peters Cornhill Afterwards being recalled by the Rump Parliament to S. Stephens he kept it to his dying day He was a frequent Preacher not only in his own but in other Churches and a laborious and learned man in his profession He hath written and published Sermons as 1 Serm. on Phil. 2.10 and others as 't is said which I have not yet seen and also collected and reviewed several of Mr. Christop Loves Sermons before they went to the press and set epistles before some of them He died on the fifth day of Sept. in sixteen hundred sixty and one and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of S. Stephen beforemention'd at which time Dr. William Spurstow of Hackney preached his funeral Sermon wherein he spoke many things to his honour which for brevity sake I now omit This Will. Taylor tho he was a zealous Presbyterian yet he was a lover of the King in all revolutions as a Doctor of his perswasion hath often told me BARTEN HOLYDAY Son of Thomas Holyday a Taylor was born in Allsaints Parish within the City of Oxford in an house opposite to Linc. College entred into Ch. Ch. and exhibited unto by his kinsman Dr. Ravis somtimes Dean of that House an 1605 aged 12. or more years and was I think at that time a Chorister Afterwards when he was about to take the degree of Bach. of Arts he was elected one of the number of Students being then noted to have a most admirable veine in Poetry and Oratory In 1615 he proceeded in Arts took Holy Orders soon after became a most eloquent and quaint Preacher and had two Benefices in the Dioc. of Oxon. confer'd on him whereof one was the rectory of Crowell In 1618 he went as Chaplain to Sir Franc. Steaart when he conducted to Spaine Dedicus Sarmiento de Acunna the Earl of Gundamore after he had continued several years in the English Court as an Embassador from the K. of that Country in which journey behaving himself in a facete and pleasant way did much obtain the favour of that Count. Afterwards he became Chaplain to K. Ch. 1. and succeeded Mr. Will. Bridges Son of Dr. John Bridges B. of Ox in the Archdeaconry of Oxon. before the year 1626. In 1642 he was by vertue of the Letters of the said King actually created with others Doct. of Divinity and sheltred himself in and near Oxon during the time of rebellion but when the royal Party declin'd and the Independent had taken place upon the installation of Oliver to the Protectorship he who before had lost his Livings and the profits of his Archdeaconry did side with that faction so far as to undergo the examination of the Triers or rather Spanish Inquisitors in order to be inducted into the rectory of Chilton in Berks in the place of one Tho. Laurence ejected for being not Compos mentis For which
and of the repulse given to the Rebels at the Town of Newark Oxon. 1642. in 2 sh in qu. View of the proceedings in the West for a pacification Letter to a Gent. in Leycestershire about the Treatie at Uxbridge shewing that all the overtures which have been made for peace and accommodation have proceeded from his Majestie only Printed 1643 in 4. sh in qu. The Roundheads remembrancer or a true and particular relation of the great defeat given to the Rebels by his Maj. Subjects of Cornwall under the command of Sir Ralph Hopton in Tuesday 16. May 1643. Printed 1643 in one sh in qu. This Pamphlet is generally said to have been written by Heylyn Relation of the proceedings of S. Joh. Gell. This is the same if I mistake not with a Pamph. intit Theeves Theeves or a relation of Sir Jo. Gells proceedings in Derbyshire in gathering up the rents of the Lords and Gentlemen of that Country by pretended authority from the two Houses of Parliament printed 1643. qu. This Sir John Gell who was Son of Tho. Gell of Hopton in Derbyshire Gent. became a Commoner of Magd. Coll. in this University in 1610 left it without a degree exercised himself in martial seats beyond the Seas retired to his patrimony was made a Baronet in Jan. 1641 and being then a Presbyterian took up arms soon after for the Parliament became a Colonel and one of their Champions Afterwards hating the proceedings of the Independents when they had murder'd the King he entred into a plot against the Parliament in which Coll. Euseb Andrews being engaged suffer'd death an 1650. for which being imprison'd was at length tried for his life before the High Court of Justice but being found only guilty of misprision of treason for concealing it he was condemn'd to loose his estate and to perpetual imprisonment from the last of which he was released by order of Parliament 5. of Apr. 1653. He died in the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields in the City of Westminster in Nov. 1671 aged 79 years or thereabouts and was as I suppose buried at Hopton Quaere having had this character given of him by the Presbyterians while they were dominant that he was a man beloved of his Country and feared by his enemies valiant in his actions and faithful in his ends to promote truth and peace Of the same family was Rob. Gell D. D. of Pampisford in Cambridgeshire and sometimes Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury which Doctor died in the very beginning of the year 25. of March or thereabouts 1665. The black ✚ Cross shewing that the Londoners were the cause of this present rebellion c. The Rebells Catechisme composed in an easie and familiar way to let them see the hainousness of their offence c. Printed 1643. in 4. sh in qu. Discourse in answer to the common but groundless clamour of the Papists nick-naming the religion of the Church of England by the name of a Parliament Religion Written in 1644 at the request of George Ashwell of Wadham Coll. But when this book was printed it had this title following put to it Parliaments power in Lawes for religion or an answer to that old and groundless calumny of the Papists nick-naming c. Oxon. 1645. in 6. sh in qu. In another edition printed at Lond. 1653. in 7. sh in qu. it hath this title The way of reformation of the Church of England declared and justified against the clamours of our Adversaries reproaching the religion here by law established by the name of a Parliament religion c. This was afterwards printed in the first part of Eccles Vindicata Brief relation of the death and sufferings of the most reverend and renowned Prelate the L. Archb. of Canterbury with a copie of his speech and other passages on the Scaffold more perfect than hath been hitherto imprinted Oxon. 1644 in 4 sh in qu. Bibliotheca Regia or the Royal Library c. Lond. 1649. 50. and 59. oct Heylyns name is not set to it but 't is generally known to be his collection from some of the works of K. Ch 1. In this book is inserted the conference between K. Ch. 1. and the Marquess of Worcester at Ragland which by many is taken to be authentick because published by Heylyn See more among the Writers in the first vol. in Lewis Bayly p. 486. Stumbling block of disobedience c. in answer to and examination of the two last sections in Calvins institutions against Soveraigne Monarchy MS. written in 1644. printed at Lond. 1658. qu. with this title The Stumbling block of disobedience and rebellion cunningly laid by Calvin in the Subjects way discovered censured and removed The promised seed Written in vers The undeceiving the People in the point of Tithes c. Lond. 1648. 51. Published under the name of Ph. Treleinie which is an Anagram for Peter Heylyn Reprinted at Lond. in qu. 1657. in the first part of Eccles Vindicata Theologia Veterum The sum of Christian Theologie contained in the Creed according to the Greeks and Latines c. lib. 3. Lond. 1654. and 1673. fol. Full relation of two journies The one into the main Land of France The other into some of the adjacent Islands in 5 Books Lond. 1656. qu. These adjacent Islands are Guernsey and Jersie c. Survey of the estate of the two Islands Guernsey and Jersie with the isles depending c. in one book Lond. 1656. qu. This is printed with the former and both were published by their Author Pet. Heylyn because a little before a false copy of them had crept abroad under the title of France painted to the life as I shall farther tell you anon Observations on The Historie of the raigne of K. Charles published by Hamon L'estrange Esq for illustration of the storie c. Lond. 1656. oct Upon the coming out of which observations L'Estrange printed another edit of the said Hist Lond. 1656. fol. and at the end added a book intit The Observator observed or animadversions upon the observations on the History of K. Charles c. Whereupon our Author Heylyn came out with this book following entit Extraneus Vapulans or the Observator rescued from the violent but vaine assaults of Hamon L'Estrange Esq and the back blows of Dr. Nich. Bernard an Irish Dean Lond. 1656. oct In our Authors Epist to the reader before this book dat 7. June 1656 he tells us that in one week of the last term he was plundered twice first of his name and secondly of his good name Of his name by one Will. Leak a Bookseller who publishing a discourse of his Dr. Heylyns under the title of France painted to the life by a false and imperfect copy hath fathered it in Stationers Hall on one Rich. Bignall a Fellow to him utterly unknown Secondly plundered of his good name by Ham. L'Estrange Esq by loading him with abusive language Ecclesia Vindicata or the Church of England justified 1 In the
pity as well as with strength of arguments to convince him of his dangerous error telling him that either he was in a damnable error or else that the whole Church of Christ who had in all ages worshipped the Holy Ghost had been guilty of Idolatry But Biddle who had little to say was no whit moved either by the learning gravity piety or zeal of that good Archbishop but continued as 't is said obstinate After he had remained about six months at liberty in Glocester he was cited to Westminster to make his defence but being put off by the Parliament to a Committee to be examined his crime was by them laid closely to his charge The crime he denied not and desired withal that some Theologist whom they should appoint might dispute with him concerning that criminal matter in hand But it being delayed from day to day Biddle desired a certain Knight Sir Hen. Vane of that Committee that his cause might be heard or he set at liberty The Knight proposed it and shewed himself a friend to Biddle who thereupon was confin'd more close than before Whereupon came out his book for the satisfaction of all People with this title Twelve questions or arguments drawn out of Scripture wherein the commonly received opinion touching the Deity of the Holy Spirit is clearly and fully refuted Printed 1647. in qu. Before which is printed a letter tending to the said purpose written to the said Sir Henry Vane a member of the H. of Commons And at the end is An exposition of five principal passages of the Scripture alledged by the Adversaries to prove the Deity of the Holy Ghost These I say being published and making a great noise in the World the Author was summoned to appear at the Bar of the H. of Com. being asked whether he owned that book or Tw questions c. and the opinions therein he answered yea and that they were his Whereupon being remitted to his Prison they ordered on the 6. of Sept. 1647 that the said Book blasphemous against the Deity of Christ be called in and burnt by the hand of the common Hangman and that the Author be examined by the Committee of plunder'd Ministers Both which were done viz. the book burnt on the 8 of the same month and he examined While these things were in doing the book vended so fast that the same year it was printed again in oct and afterwards answer'd by Matthew Poole M. A. of Eman. Coll. in Cambridge in his Plea for the Godhead of the Holy Ghost c. Soon after or at the same time was published of Biddles writing A confession of faith touching the Holy Trinity according to Scripture Lond. 1648. oct It consists of 7 articles each of which is confirmed all along by subjoyned proofs and reasonings on them which for the most part tend to disprove the Deity of our Saviour Before the said confession is put a Preface against the Holy Trinity and about the same time came out of our Authors composition The testimonies of Irenaeus Justin Martyr Tertullian Novatianus Theophilus Origen who lived in the two first centuries after Christ was born or thereabouts as also of Arnobius Lanctantius c. concerning that one God and the Persons of the Trinity together with observations on the same Printed in oct Upon the coming out of which things the Assembly of Divines sitting at Westminster made their endeavours to the Parliament that he might suffer death in the month of May 1â—48 but what hindred it I cannot tell unless it was the great dissention that was then in the said Parliament However his confinement was made close Some time after the publication of Biddles first book it hapned that Joh. Cloppenburch D. D. and Professor in the University of Frisia was at Bristow in England where meeting with Will. Hamilton a Scot lately Fellow of All 's Coll. in Oxon the said William did not only then furnish him with a copy of that book but debated the controversie with him Afterwards upon the return of Cloppenburch to his own Country he did excellently well answer it in Latine which he had translated so much as he answer'd in a small treatise entituled Vindiciae pro Deitate spiritus sancti adversus Pneumatomachum Johan Bidellum Anglum printed at Franeker 1652. qu. It must be also noted that upon the publishing of the said book of Biddle I mean his Twelve questions Samuel Maresius D. D. and chief Professor of that faculty at Gronningen did take occasion in his Epist ded before his first Vol. entit Hydra Socianismi written against Joh. Volkelius and Jo. Crellius to give this account of the growth of Socinianisme Vigesimus jam praeteriit annus ex quo pestilentissima haec nutrix viz. Socinianismus in Sarmaticis paludibus primum nata caput erexit per Germaniam ac Belgiam nostram sibilis halitu faedissimo grassata etiam tetrum suum virus superato oceano intulit in Angliam in quâ tristi hoc tempore dicitur incredibiles progressus fecisse c. As for the Confession of Faith c. beforemention'd it was examined and confuted by Nich. Estwick Rector of Warkton in Northamptonshire in a book published by him in qu. an 1656 Which being dedicated to Edward Lord Montague of Boughton he takes occasion to say that Biddles writings have not been enclosed within the confines of our nation but have taken their wings and have fled beyond the Seas to the disreputation of our dear Country in the reformed Churches insomuch that Maresius Professor of Divinity at Groningen is bold to avouch I cannot say either truly or charitably that Socinianisme hath fixed its seat here in England and displayed openly the banners of its impiety The said Estwick also had some years before held forth an antidote against the Poyson of Biddles Twelve arguments against the Deity of the Holy Ghost Since which as 't is usual in deceivers so Estwick words it Biddle grew worse and worse and levied his forces against the Holy Trinity and published notwithstanding other matters replenished with Socinian Tenents Our Author Biddle continued yet in restraint and none of the Assembly durst venture to give him a visit either out of charity or to convince him of his errors nor indeed any Divine of note of the other party only Mr. Pet. Gunning who had several friendy conferences with him At length some of the Layty of London and others of the Country would come to him either to see or converse with him who being taken with his religious discourse and Saint-like conversation a certain Justice of Peace of Staffordshire prevailed so far with his keeper that upon security given for his appearance upon the least summons he should be surrendred up to him Whereupon he was conveyed into Staffordshire and not only made by him his Chaplain but also Preacher of a Church there These matters soon after being known at London John Bradshaw President of the Council of
himself in helping and relieving poor Rom. Catholicks as I have been informed by his familiar friend Robert Pugh a secular Priest who hath told me that he the said Joh. Lewgar hath published other things besides Erastus jun. and Erastus sen but the just titles of them he could not tell One Joh. Lewgar nearly related to if not descended from the before mentioned J. Lewgar died in the Island called Barbadoes an 1675 in which year also died Cecil L. Calvert JOHN QUARLES son of Franc. Quarles the Poet was an Essexian born became a Batler of Exeter Coll. in the latter end of 1642 and in that of his age 18 bore Arms within the Garrison of Oxon for his Majesty and was afterwards as 't is said a Captain in one of his Armies but upon the declining of his Majesties Cause he retired to London in a mean condition where he wrot several things meerly for maintenance sake among which were these Regale lectum miseriae or the English bed of misery in which is contained a Dream Lond. 1649. oct Elegy upon that never to be forgotten Ch. 1. late but too soon martyr'd King of England Elegy and Epitaph on Arthur Lord Capell beheaded 9 Mar. 1648. A curse against the enemies of peace His farewell to England These four last things were printed with Reg. lect miseriae before mention'd Afterwards he took his Rambles beyond the seas but whether in the condition of a Tutor or bare Traveller or Pilgrime I know not After his return he lived as occasion served and published Fons lacrymarum or a fountaine of tears from whence doth flow Englands complaint Jeremiahs Lamentations paraphrased with divine Meditations Elegy upon that son of Valour Sir Charles Lucas These three last things were several times printed in oct one Edition whereof came out in 1677. The tyranny of the Dutch against the English Lond. 1653. oct written in prose Continuation of the history of Argalus and Parthenia Lond. 1659. in tw He also published in verse The rape of Lucrece committed by Tarquin the 6. c. Lond. 1655. in oct Written by Will. Shakespear Gent and added to it Tarquin banished or the reward of lust Lond. 1655. oct in verse He hath also written Divine Meditations upon several Subjects whereunto is annexed Gods love and Mans unworthiness with several divine Ejaculations Lond. 1659 c oct Triumphant chastity or Josephs self conflict when by his Mistress was enticed to adultery shewing the powerful motions betwixt the Flesh and the Spirit Lond. 1683. oct a divine Poem This person J. Quarles who perhaps hath written other things was esteemed by some a good Poet and a great Royalist for which he suffer'd and lived therefore mostly in a poor condition At length upon the raging of the Plague in and near London he was swept away there among thousands that died of that disease in sixteen hundred sixty and five but where his carkass was lodged I cannot tell One Joh. Quarles occurs Archdeacon of Northampton an 1640 and was living after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. but he is not to be taken with Joh. Quarles the Poet. ROBERT CODRINGTON was born of an antient and gentile family in Glocestershire elected Demie of Magd. Coll. 29 at July 1619 aged 17 years being then some months standing in that house took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1626 and afterwards upon his return from his Travels lived in the quality of a Gent. in Norfolk for several years and there took to him a wife At length retiring to London spent the remainder of his days and there finished his course This person who was always accounted a Puritan hath written and translated these things following The life and death of the illustrious Robert Earl of Essex c. containing at large the Wars he managed and the Commands he had in Holland the Palatinate and in England c. Lond. 1646. in about 7 sheets in qu. In this book he shews himself a rank Parliamenteir Collection of many select and excellent Proverbs The life of Aesop This is written in French and Latine which with that written in English by Tho. Philipot are put before Aesops Fables in English illustrated with an 112 Sculptures by Francis Barlow Lond. 1666. fol. He also translated from French into English 1 Treatise of the knowledge of God Lond. 1634. Written by Pet. du Moulen 2 Heptameron or the history of the fortunate lovers Lond. 1654. in a thick oct Written by Margaret de Valois Queen of Navarr who divided it into eight days journey This translation is dedicated to the lover of all good learning Tho. Stanley Esq And also from Lat. into English 1 The History of Justin taken out of the four and forty books of Trogus Pompeius containing the affairs of all Ages and Countries both in peace and war from the beginning of the world until the time of the Rom. Emperors Lond. 1664. second edit 1672. oct 82. in tw 2 Aesops Fables printed in oct 3 Ignoramus a Com. Lond. 1662. qu. with a supplement which out of respect to the Students of the Common Law was hitherto wanting 4 Prophecies of Christoph Kotterus Christiana Poniatovia and Nich. Drabicius three famous German Prophets c. Lond. 1664. oct second edit 5 Life and death of Alexander the Great King of Macedon In 10 books Lond. 1673. oct Written by Q. Curtius Rufus He hath also translated from French the last vol. of Nich. Caussins Holy Court which I have not yet seen Nor do I know any thing else of him only that he died of the Plague in Lond. in sixteen hundred sixty and five but where buried I cannot yet tell and that he had other matters lying by him fit for the Press SAMUEâ— FISHER son of Joh. Fisher a Haberdasher of hats and Mayor of Northampton was born there or at least in Northamptonshire became a Student in Trin. Coll. in Mich. term an 1623 aged 18 years took one degree in Arts as a member thereof at which time being puritanically inclined he translated himself to New Inn where by the stay that he made which was about two years after he had taken the degree of M. of A he was throughly setled in his opinion and as 't is verily thought he entertained then more opinions and Principles than one of his coat ought to have done About the year 1632 he was presented to the Vicaridge of Lydde in Kent where under the character of a very powerful Preacher he lived in Conformity tho continuing still in his Puritanism till about the year 1643 near which time he held a strict confederacy with some of the religious Zealots of his Town who applied themselves to him for spiritual advice in reference to their scruples of conscience as to which of the new differing Sects they ought to adhere Whilst their thoughts were herein wavering our Author Fisher enjoyn'd himself and them to the observance of several Fast-days wherein he as the mouth of the
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
Ril of Radbrook in Glocestershire was born at Over-Quinton in that County educated in Grammar learning at Stratford upon Avon in Warwicksh under John Trapp became a Student in Magd. Hall in 1633 aged 14 and soon after of Magd. Coll where taking the degrees in Arts became perpetual Fellow of that House in 1641. Afterwards he submittted to the parliamentarian Visitors in 1648 was made Archdeacon of Coventry by Dr. Frewen B. of Lichfield on the death of Dr. Jo. Arnway Rector of Bilton by Tho. Boughton Esq an 1660 and of Birmingham both in Warwicksh by Sir Sam. Marrow 1665. He hath written and published Several Sermons viz. 1 Dooms-day book opened an Assize Serm at Warwick on Rev. 20.12 Lond. 1660. qu. 2 Elias the second his coming to restore all things on Isay 1.26 Oxon 1662. qu. 3 Moses the peace-maker his offers to make one of the two contending brethren on Acts 7. 26. Oxon. 1662. qu. 4 Confirmation reviv'd on Psal 1.3 Lond. 1663. qu. 'T is a Visitation Sermon and 't was preached at Coventry before Dr. Hacket B. of Lich. and Cov. He died on the third day of March in sixteen hundred seventy and two and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Birmingham before mention'd Over his grave was a marble table fixed soon after to the wall with this inscription Engraven thereon M. S. Johannis Riland nèc non chariss conjugis Ciciliae filiolae unicae Mariae Coventriae Archidiaconi Parochiae hujus Ministri simul ornamenti Qui Atheos pariter Fanaticos quicquid deprivati moris fidei scelerosa aetas non tantum scriptis sermonibus utrisque licet nervosè sed constanti indeflexo vitae inculpatae decursu castigavit Post absoluta Oxoniae juventutis tyrocinia in Coll. Magdal ubi non dudum commoratus est quin socius cooptatus post vitam variisque locis plagis injuriâ temporum peractam hic tandem consedit hic moriebatur 3 o Martii anno Salutis 1672 aetatis 53. RICHARD BRATHWAYTE second son of Tho. Brath of Warcop near Appleby in Westmorland Son and heir of Thom. Brathw of Barnside son of Richard Br. of Ambleside in the Barony of Kendall became a Commoner of Oriel Coll. an 1604 aged 16 at which time he was matriculated as a Gentlemans son and a Native of the County of Northumberland While he continued in that House which was at least three years he avoided as much as he could the rough pathes of Logic and Philosophy and traced those smooth ones of Poetry and Roman History in which at length he did excell Afterwards he removed to Cambridge as it seems where also he spent some time for the sake of dead and living authors and then receeding to the north parts of England his father bestowed on him Barnside before mention'd where living many years he became Captain of a Foot-Company in the Trained-bands a Deputy-Lieutenant in the County of Westmorland a Justice of peace and a noted wit and poet He wrot and published several books in English consisting of Prose and Poetry highly commended in the age wherein published but since slighted and despised as frivolous matters and only to be taken into the hands of Novices The titles of them are these Golden-Fleece with other poems Lond. 1611. oct The Poets willow or the passionate Shepheard with sundry delightful and no less passionate sonnets describing the passions of a discontented and perplexed Lover Lond. 1614. oct Written in Lyrick and Anacreontick measures Annotations upon some of the Sonnets before mention'd These are printed at the end of The Poets Willow The Prodigall's teares or his farewell to vanity a treatise of Soveraigne cordialls c. Lond. 1614 oct The Schollers Medley or an intermixt discourse upon historical and poetical relations c. Pr. 1614. qu. Essayes upon the five senses Lond. 1620. oct there again 1635. in tw Natures Embassie or the wild-mans measures danced naked by 12 Satyres Lond. 1621. oct Divine and moral essayes Printed with Natures Embassie c. The Shephards tales Printed with Natures Embassie c. Omphale or the inconstant Shepheardess Printed with Natures Embassie c. Odes or Philomel's teares Printed with Natures Embassie c. Times curtaine drawne divers poems Lond. 1621. oct The English Gentleman containing sundry excellent rules or exquisite observations tending to direction of every Gentleman of selecter rank and quality how to demean or accommodate himself in the manage of publick or private affaires Lond. 1630. and 33. qu. There again with enlargments 1641. fol. The English Gentlewoman containing c. Lond. 1631. 33. qu. There again with enlargments 1641. fol. Discourse of detraction Lond. 1635. in tw Chistian resolves and divine contemplations Pr. with the Disc of detract The Arcadian princess or the triumph of Justice Lond. 1635. oct Survey of History or a Nursery for Gentry A discourse historical and poetical c. Lond. 1638. qu. Pr. again in 1652. qu. being then I think epitomized A spiritual spicery containing sundry sweet tractates of devotion and piety Lond. 1638. in tw With which was printed a translation of A christian diall by which he is directed how he is to dispose of his houres while he is living c. written by Joh. Justus Lanspergius a Carthusian who died 1539. Mercurius Britanicus or the English Intelligencer Tra. Com. Printed the second time 1641. qu. Times treasury or Academy for the accomplishment of the Englâ—sh Gentry in arguments of discourse habit fashion behaviour c. all summed up in Characters of honour Lond. 1655. 56. qu. Congratulatory poem to his Majestie upon his happy arrivall in our late discomposed Albion Lond 1660. in 2. sh in qu. Tragicemedia cui titulum inscribitur Regicidium perspicacissimis judiciis accuratius perspecta pensata comprobata Lond. 1665. or thereabouts What other things he hath written and published I know not nor any thing else of him only that in his latter days he removed upon an employment or rather a second Marlinge to Appleton near Richmond in Yorkshire where dying on the fourth day of May in sixteen hundred seventy and three was buried in the Parish Church of Catherick near that place leaving them behind the character of a well bread Gentleman and a good Neighbour WILLIAM LACEY was born in a Market Town in Yorkshire called Scarborough became a Student in this University in Magd. Hall as he used to say in 1600 aged 16 years or thereabouts but whether in the condition of a Batler or Servitor I know not nor what continuance he made there After he had left the University without the taking of any degree he retired for a time to his native Country and thence by the perswasion of a certain person to the English Coll. at Rome where a little after his arrival Father Persons the Rector thereof gave up the Ghost Thence he went to Nancy in Loraine where he entred himself into the Society of Jesus an 1611 at which time
his employments and grew thereupon discontented In 1662 or thereabouts he had an impulse or a strange perswasion in his mind of which he was not able to give any rational account to another which did very frequently suggest to him that there was bestowed on him the gift of curing the Kings Evil which for the extraordinariness of he thought fit to conceal it for some time but at length he communicated it to his wife and told her that he did verily believe that God had given him the blessing of curing the said Evil for whether he were in private or publick sleeping or waking still he had the same impulse but her reply was to him that she conceived this was a strange imagination yet to prove the contrary a few days after there was one Will. Maker of Salterbridge in the Parish of Lismore that brought his son Will. Maker to his house desiring his wife to cure him who was a person ready to afford her charity to her neighbours according to her small skill in Chirurgery On which his wife told him there was one that had the Kings Evil very grievously in the eyes cheek and throat whereupon he told her that she should now see whether this were a bare fancy or imagination as she thought it or the dictates of Gods Spirit on his heart and thereupon he laid his hands on the places affected and prayed to God for Jesus sake to heal him and then he bid the Parent two or three days after to bring the child to him again which he accordingly did and then he saw the eye was almost quite whole and the node which was almost as big as a Pullets egg was suppurated and the throat strangely amended and in a month discharged it self quite and was perfectly healed Then there came to him one Margaret Mack-shane of Ballinecly in the Parish of Lismore who had had the Evil seven years and upwards far worse than the former whom he cured to the wonder of all and soon after his fame increasing he cured the same disease in very many other people for three years following not medling with any other distempers till about the end of those three years he cured some that were troubled with Agues all done by stroaking with his hands Afterwards he had the like Impulse on him discovering that he had given him the gift of Healing which the morning following he told to his wife and brother but neither of them could be prevailed with to believe it tho for his own part he had a full assurance thereof within him This Impulse he had on the Sunday after Easter-day 2 Apr. 1665 early in the morning and on Wednesday following he went to one Mr. Deans house at Lismore where there came into the house to him a poor man that with a pain in his loins and flank went almost double and had a most grievous ulcerous leg very black wherein were five ulcers who desired him for Gods sake that he would lay his hands on him and do him what good he could Whereupon he put his hands on his loins and flank and immediately run the pains out of him so that he was released and could stand upright without the least trouble Then he put his hand on his ulcerous leg which forthwith changed colour and became red and three of the five ulcers closed up and the rest within few hours afterwards so that he went out well that could hardly by the help of his staff craul in and in two days after he fell to his labour being a Mason by trade After this he cured many diseases of all sorts by stroaking and his name was wonderfully cried up But the Clergy being jealous of these matters he was cited to the Bishops court and by their authority was prohibited to proceed any farther in his course In Jan. 1665 he went into England and by the invitation of Edward Lord Conway he repaired to Ragley in Warwickshire to cure by stroaking his Lady who for many years had laboured under a most violent Head-ach but with all his endeavours he could not cure her yet continuing there three weeks he cured innumerable people in those parts which caused therefore our Author Hen. Stubbe who then practised Physick at Stratford on Avon in that County and was dayly at â—agley with the Lord and an eye-witness of the cures to write the said book called The miraculous Conformist c. Afterwards Mr. Greatrakes repairing to Whitehall by command from his Majesty and performing several cures there and in London but more mistakes as 't is said caused Dav. Lloyd a Reader or Chaplain of the Charter house thereupon to write Wonders no miracles or Mr. Val. Greatrakes gift of healing examined c. Lond. 1666. qu. Written upon occasion of a sad effect of his stroaking March 7. an 1665 at one Mr. J. Cressets house in Charter house yard In which book the Author reflecting much on Mr. Greatrakes and his reputation making him but little better than a Cheat that person therefore came out with his vindication intit A brief account of Mr. Val. Greatrakes and divers of his strange cures by him lately performed Lond. 1666. qu. Written by himself in a letter to the honorable Rob. Boyle Esq and thereunto did annex the Testimonials of several eminent and worthy persons of the chief matters of fact therein related From this digression let 's now proceed to go on with our Author Stubbe who had a marvellous dexterity in writing books on all occasions Philosophical observations made in his sailing from England to the Caribe-Islands and in Jamaica c. Remitted into the Philosoph Transact num 27 an 1667 and num 36. an 1668. Legends no Histories or a specimen of some animadversions upon the History of the Royal Society Lond. 1670. in a large qu. Which History was written by Mr. Tho. Sprat Animadversions upon The History of making Saltpeter pen'd by Mr. Tho. Henshaw Printed and bound with Legends no Histories c. Animad upon The Hist of making of Gunpowder written also by the said Mr. Henshaw Pr. and bound with Legends c. also and to it is added An additional review written by Hen. Stubbe The Plus ultra reduced to a Non plus Or a specimen of some animadversions upon the Plus ultra of Mr. Jos Glanvill c. with divers enquiries made about several matters Lond. 1670. in a large qu. Written under pretence of vindicating his faculty against a passage in the Plus ultra which seemed to assert that the antient Physitians could not cure a cut-finger which Glanvill denied ever to have affirmed or thought Censure on certain passages contained in The History of the Royal Society c. Oxon. 1670 in about seven sh in qu. Dedicated to Dr. Joh. Fell and soon after answered by two Anonymi in the same year pr. in qu. The former of which was written by way of letter to Mr Stubbe Campanella revived or an enquiry into The Hist of the Roy.
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
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
additions with prefaratory discourses of Arms and Armory it was printed again at Oxon 1674. in 16 sh in qu. After this the Author growing wealthy and noted for a rich man became High-Sheriff of Wilts an 1680 whereupon suffering in his reputation by some of his neighbouring gentry he wrot and published Loyalty displayed and falshood unmask'd or a just Vindication of Tho. Gore Esq High-Sheriff of the County of Wilts in a letter to a friend Lond. 1681. in 1 sh qu. He gave up the ghost at Alderton before mention'd on the 31 of March Easter Munday in sixteen hundred eighty and four and was buried in the Church there among the graves of his Ancestors leaving then behind him several pieces of Heraldry of his own composure collections of Arms out of several Churches and Houses which he had made in his Journeys additions to and corrections of the books that he had published and a choice collection of Heraldry books and books relating to that faculty as well printed as in MS. WILLIAM CLARKE son of George Clarke by his wife the sister of Will. Prynne Esq was born at Swainswyke near Bathe in Somersetshire became a Communer of Oriel Coll an 1657 aged 17 years or thereabouts took one degree in Arts 1661 and on the 30 of Mar. 1663 was made Fellow of his House About that time applying his mind solely to the study of Physick left his Fellowship three years after retired to his native Country and practised it in the City of Bathe where I saw him in 1678 and his book intit The natural history of Niter or a philosophical discourse of the nature generation place and artificial extraction of Niter c. Lond. 1670. oct Translated into Lat. and printed beyond the Seas after a full account of it had been made publick in the Philosophical Transactions numb 61. p. 2008. Afterwards the Author retired to Stepney near London in Middlesex where he practised his faculty with good success and dying on the 24 of Apr. in sixteen hundred eighty and four was buried in the Church there on the 27 of the same month He was usually called there Dr. Clarke but whether he ever took that degree elsewhere I cannot tell I am sure he was only Bach. of Arts of this University DANIEL WHISTLER son of Will. Whistl of Elvington in the Parish of Goring in the dioc of Oxford was born at Walthamstow in Essex educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Thame admitted Prob. Fellow of Merton Coll. in Jan. 1639 aged 20 years or thereabouts where going thro the severe exercise then kept up proceeded in Arts four years after About that time obtaining leave of his Society to travel he crossed the seas to Holland took the degree of Doctor of Phys at Leyden an 1645 and returning the year following to his Coll. was incorporated Doctor of his faculty in this University 1647. Afterwards he submitted to the power of the Visitors appointed by Parliament kept his Fellowship tho absent became superior Reader of Lynacres Lecture but read not because he was practising his faculty in London and in 1653 he went as chief Physitian to the Embassy made by Bulstrode Whitlock into Sweedland After his return he was made Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians Fellow of the Royal Society when first instituted and at length upon the removal of Dr. Tho. Cox for being whiggishly inclined he was made President of the said College about S. Lukes day 1683. He hath written and published Disputatio medica inauguralis de morbo puerili Anglorum quem patrio idiomate indigenae vocant The Rickets quam deo suppetias ferente c. Lond. 1645 and 1685. qu. This noted Doctor tho he had married a rich widdow and did obtain about 1000 l. per an by his practice many years before his death yet he died in the Coll. of Physitians very much in debt and worse than nothing on Sunday the eleventh day of May in sixteen hundred eighty and four whereupon his body was buried but a little better than in private towards the upper end of the north isle or alley joyning to the Church called Christ Church in London which is near the said Coll. of Phys THOMAS LYE son of Tho. Lye or Leigh was born at Chard in Somersetshire 25 of Mar. 1621 entred a Servitour of Wadh. Coll. under his learned and faithful Tutor Mr. George Ashwell in Mich. term 1636 elected scholar thereof 29 Jun. in the year following took one degree in Arts by the name of Tho. Leigh by which name also he had been matriculated went afterwards to Cambridge when Oxford was garrison'd for his Majesty took the degree of Master of Arts there in July 1647 being then or lately Master of the school at Bury S. Edm. in Suffolk returned afterwards to Oxon for preferment was made Chaplain of Wadh. Coll and incorporated Master of this University by the name of Tho. Lye in the month of May 1649. Soon after he was made Minister of Chard before mentioned and on the 24 of Aug. 1651 he preached a farewell sermon as being under the sentence of banishment because he would not swear against the beloved Covenant In 1654 he was appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Somersetshire for the ejection of such whom the Saints then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters In 1658 upon the receipt of a Call he entred on the pastoral charge of Allhallowes Church in Lombard-street in London on the 20 of Nov. or thereabouts and by Act of Parl. of the 14 of March 1659 he was made one of the Approvers of Ministers according to the Presbyterian way which Act being soon after annulled upon a foresight of his Majesties restauration he himself two years after was ejected for Nonconformity He hath extant Several Sermons as 1 The fixed saint held forth in a farewell Serm. at Allhallowes in Lombardstreet 17 Aug. 1662 on Phil. 4.1 Lond. 1662. qu. It was reprinted the same year in octavo among other farewell Sermons at Barthelmew tide with his picture very like him with other pictures of Nonconformists that then preached in and near London set in the title 2 Sermon on Luke 17.10 Printed in The morning Exercise against Popery preached in Southwark Lond. 1675. qu. 3 By what spiritual rules may catechising be best managed on Prov. 22.6 Printed in The supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1674. and 76. qu. 4 The true believers union with Christ on 1 Cor. 6.17 Pr. in The morning exercise at S. Giles in the fields near Lond. in May 1659. Lond. 1676. qu. In which Morn exerc one John Tillotson hath also a sermon An explanation of the shorter Catechisme composed by the Assembly of Divines 1647. With a plain and familiar method of instructing the younger sort in that Cat. Lond. in oct Several times printed The Childs delight together with an English Grammar Lond. in oct Several times printed A new
then the chiefest of the Nation as Mich. Drayton Esq Tho. Randolph of Cambridg Ben. Johnson Owen Feltham Gent. Capt. Joh. Mennes Shakerley Marmion Gent. Tho. Heywood Gent c. Others of lesser note were Joh. Trussell Gent. who continued Sam. Daniel's History of England Joh. Monson Esq Feryman Rutter of Oriel Coll Will. Basse of Moreton near Thame in Oxfordshire somtimes a Retainer to the Lord Wenman of Thame Parke Will. Denny Esq c. Before the said book of Annalia Dubrensia is a cut representing the Games and Sports as men playing at Cudgells Wrestling Leaping pitching the Bar throwing the iron Hammar handling the Pyke leaping over the heads of men kneeling standing upon their hands c. Also the dancing of women men hunting and coursing the Hare with Hounds and Greyhounds c. with a Castle built of boards on a hillock with Guns therein firing and the picture of the great Director Capt. Dover on horsback riding from place to place But all this being spoken by the by lets proceed with the remaining titles of books written by Barksdale Life of Hugo Grotius Lond. 1652 in tw Taken from Meursius his Athenae Batavae and other authors that occasionally speak of that learned person Noctes Hiberniae winter nights exercise The first night being seven Decads of sacred sentences put into English vers Lond. 1653 in one sh in oct V. Cl. Elogia Anglorum Camdeniana Lond. 1653 in about two sheets in oct Taken from those Elogia which Camden sets down at the end of every year of his Annalls of Qu. Elizabeth The disputation at Winchcombe 9. Nov. 1653. Oxon. 1653. oct This disput was between Barksdale then Minister of Sudeley Respondent and Christoph Helme Minister of Winchcombe and Joh. Wells Min. of Tewksbury Opponents It was printed again at London 1654 with some papers both before and after containing several Letters and other matters published by N. N. The said papers being reviewed wherein are contained some short notes concerning the government of the Church the Liturgy and forms of Prayer Ordination and power of Ministers were reprinted at Lond. 1657. oct An Oxford conference of two young Scholars touching their studies Lond. 1659. in one sh in oct A modest reply in three Letters touching the Clergy and Universities Lond. 1659. oct Several Sermons as 1 The Sacrifice at S. Maries in Oxon on Psal 51.17 Lond. 1655. oct 2 The Kings returne at Winchcombe 24. May 1660 on 2. Sam. 15. part of the 25. verse Lond. 1660. qu. 3 Sermon at Glocest on Psal 122.6 Oxon. 1680. qu. c. Of Contentment a little treatise Lond. 1660 in 240. and 1679. which is the fourth edit In defence of the Liturgy Oxon. 1661. in one sh in qu. Memorials of worthy persons Two Decads Lond. 1661. in tw The third Decad was printed at Oxon. 1662. in oct The fourth there also 1663. in oct A remembrance of excellent men c. Lond. 1670. oct This which goes for the fift Decad contains the characters of 9 Divines and one Lay-man taken and scribled as the rest of the Decads were from the Sermons preached at their Funerals their Lives and Characters occasionally given of them in publick authors Masora A collection out of the learned Master Joannes Buxtorfius's Commentarius Masoreticus Lond. 1665. oct Collection of Scriptures illustrated by Mr. Rich. Hooker Lond. 1675. oct Three Ministers communicating their collections and notions touching several Texts at their weekly meetings Lond. 1675. oct Letter touching a College of Maides or a Virgin-Society Written 12. Aug. 1675. Printed in half a sh in oct Hugonis Grotii Annotationes selectae and VII Capita S. Matthaei Oxon. 1675 in two sh in oct Behold the Husband man A short discourse on Jam. 5.7 Lond. 1677. in tw Learne to die a little discourse Lond. 1679. oct Bezae Epitaphia Selecta Lond. 1680. oct Angl. Lat. Sententiae Sacrae Lond. in oct Angl. Lat. Aurea dicta The Kings gratious words for the Protestant Religion of the Church of England collected from his Majesties Letters Speeches c. Lond. 1681. in 3. sh in qu. Memorials of Alderm Whitmore Bish Wilkins Bish Reynolds and Alderm Adams Lond. 1681 in 3 sh in oct Collected from the Sermons preached at their Funerals Religion in verse Ox. 1683 in 1 sh in oct The old Gentlemans wish or the reformed old Gentleman Printed on half a side of a sheet of paper 1684. Of authors and books Pr. on one side of half a sh of paper 1684. A Grateful mention of deceased Bishops Pr. on one side of a broad sh of paper 1686. Written as the two former papers in dogrel Rime and other things of the like stamp He hath also translated from Lat. into English 1 A discourse 1. of God and his Providence 2. Of Christ his miracles and doctrine Lond. 1652. in tw sec edit Written originally by H. Grotius There were some annotations put on that Discourse by Barksdale 2 H. Grotius his judgment in sundry points controverted out of his vote for the Churches peace printed with the former translation 3 The Mourner comforted written also by way of an Epist Consolatory by the said H. Grotius printed also with the former 4 Of authority in sacred things Lond. 1651. oct 5 Part of the Law of War and Peace Pr. in oct 6 For the truth of Christian Religion c. the first part Lond. 1669 in tw fourth edit 7 Against Paganisme Judaisme Mahumatisme c. the sec part Lond. 1676. oct 8 Part of the Hebrew Commonwealth Lond. 1653 in tw Written by Pet. Cuneus 9 The learned Maid or whether a Maid be a Scholar A logick exercise Lond. 1659 oct Written by Anna Maria ◠Schurman whose picture 〈◊〉 before the said translation aged 52 years an 1659. 10 A conference of faith Lond. 1679. in tw Written by Sebast Castelio 11 Of Obedience his modest Apol. and defence of himself Printed with the Conference and written originally by the said Castelio 12 S. Cyprian of Virgins of Prayer and of Patience also S. Basil of Solitude Lond. 1675. oct c. He also published somthing of Will. Higford as I have told you in him under the year 1657 p. 133. and several little things written by other persons which I have not yet seen At length Mr. Barksdale having lived to a fair age he concluded his last day on the 6. of January or thereabouts in sixteen hundred eighty and seven and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Naunton in Glocestershire before mention'd leaving then behind him the Character of a frequent and edifying Preacher and a good Neighbour SAMUEL PARKER an eminent writer of his time was born in the antient Borough of Northampton in the month of Sept. 1640. His father was John Parker who having been bred towards the Law he betook himself as his best practice to be a subcommittee man or as the stile ran one of the Assistant-Committee in Northamptonshire in the time of the Rebellion Afterwards scraping up
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
created M. of A. in Convocation by vertue of a dispensation from the Delegates 24. Samson Eyton of Vniv Coll. lately made Fellow thereof by the Visitors who had spent 8 years in study in Harwarden Coll. at Cambridge in New England was then actually created M. of A. by vertue of the Delegates order Dec. 22. Joh. Boncle commonly called Bunkley was actually created M. of A. by vertue of the Chancellours Letters O. Cromwell which speak very honorable in his behalf as that his eminent learning and worth is such that I accoâ—â—t that I may very freely commend him unto you He is known to learned men He is like to adorn that degree viz. of Mast of Arts a considerable ornament to the Vniversity c. The same day he was elected superior Beadle of Divinity in the place of John Blagrave deceased by vertue of the Letters from the said Chanc. also But Boncle being soon after made Master of Charter house School near London in the place of Sampson Wilson removed to a Living in Peterborough he resign'd his Beadleship in the year following Afterwards he became Master of Eaton School and Fellow of the Coll. there whence being remov'd after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he became Master of the School in Mercers Chappel in London where he was living in 1673. In the latter end of July this year Ralph Austen Deputy Registrary to the Visitor for Will. Woodhouse and Registrary afterwards in his own right was entred a Student into the publick Library to the end that he might find materials for the composition of a book which he was then meditating The book afterwards he finish'd and entit it A treatise of Fruit-trees shewing the manner of grafting planting pruning and ordering of them in all respects according to new and easie rules of experience c. Oxon. 1657. sec edit qu. Ded. to Sam. Hartlib Esq This book was much commended for a good and rational piece by the honorable Mr. Rob. Boyle who if â— mistake not did make use of it in a book or books which he afterwards published And it is very probable that the said book might have been printed more than twice had not he the author added to and bound with it another treatise as big as the former entit The spiritual use of an Orchard or garden of Fruit-Trees c. Which being all divinity and nothing therein of the practick part of Gardening many therefore did refuse to buy it He hath also written A dialogue or familiar discourse and conference between the Husbandman and Fruit-trees in his nurseries orchards and gardens wherein are discovered many useful and profitable observations and experiments in nature in the ordering of Fruit-trees for temporal profit c. printed 1676. 76. in oct Much of the former book is I presume involv'd in this This Mr. Austen who was either a Presbyterian or an Independent I know not whether was a very useful man in his generation and spent all his time in Oxon to his death in planting gardens there and near it in grafting in oculating raising Fruit-trees c. He was born in Staffordshire and dying in his house in the Parish of S. Peter in the Baylie in Oxon was buried in the Church belonging thereunto in the Isle joyning on the S. side of the Chancel on the 26. of Octob. 1676 after he had been a practiser in gardening 50 years An. Dom. 1653. An. 5. Car. 2. An. 0 1 Oliv. Protect Chanc. Oliver Cromwell General of the Parliament Forces sworn Protector of Engl. Scotl. and Irel. 16. Dec. this year and soon after proclaimed Vicechanc. John Owen again 19. Oct. He was created Doct. of Div. by a Diploma dated 23. of Dec. this year as I shall tell you by and by among the Creations Proct. Philip Ward of Ch. Ch. Apr. 20. Rob. Gorges of S. Joh. Coll. Apr. 20. Bach. of Arts. June 21. Thom. Wight of C. C. Coll. 30. Richard Lucy of Queens Coll. Of the first of these two you may see more among the Masters an 1656. The other was made Chancellour of the Church of S. David by his Father Dr. Lucy Bishop thereof and died in 1689. July 4. Henry Stubbe of Ch. Ch. He was now a usual courser in the Greek tongue in the publick Schools 6. Joseph Alleine of Corp. Ch. Coll. Oct. 17. Ezek. Hopkins of Magd. Coll. The last was afterwards successively Bishop of Raphoe and London-Derry 18. Joh. Wagstaff of Oriel Coll. Dec. 23. Edw. Fowler of C. C. Coll. Jan. 25. Nich. Stratford of Trin. Coll. The second of these three who was admitted in Convocation was afterwards B. of Glocester and a Writer and therefore to be remembred among the living Writers hereafter The last was afterwards B. of Chester and a Writer also and therefore to be remembred in future time Feb. 2. Clement Ellis of Qu. Coll. Feb. 2. Joseph Williamson of Qu. Coll. Both these are living the one a Writer the other a man of note See more of the last among the created Doctors of the Civil Law in 1674. Will. James of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day Feb. 4. Tho. Duncombe of C. C. Coll. 23. John Nye of Magd. Coll. Of the first of these two you may see more among the Doctor of Div. 1671. and of the other among the Writers in this Vol. under his Father Philip Nye p. 370. Adm. 157. or thereabouts Bach. of Law Four were adm but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop Mast of Arts. Apr. 25. Hamlet Puleston of Jes Coll. Apr. 25. Will. Squire of Brasn Coll. June 10. Joh. Parry of Jes Coll. 21. Rob. Lovel of Ch. Ch. 22. Joh. Hall of Pemb. Coll. 27. Joh. Smith of Brasn Coll. 30. Charles Perot or Perrot of Oriel Coll. This person was born at Radley near Abendâ—n in Berks had spent some time in travel to learn the modern languages returned a well bred Gentleman wrot two or more political pamphlets in defence of the prerogative without his name set to them and therefore he would not publickly acknowledge or communicate the titles of them to me See in March Nedham among the Writers an 1678. p. 469. This Mr. Perot who was Fellow of Oriel Coll died on the 23 of April 1677 aged 45 or thereabouts his Father being then living Whereupon his body was buried near to that of his Grandfather Rob. Perot Gentleman and by that of his Mother Elizabeth daugh of Sir Will. Stonehouse of Radley before mention'd in the Chancel of the Church of North-Lee near to Witney in Oxfordshire Oct. 11. Thom. Ashton of Brasn Coll. This forward and conceited Scholar who was Son of a Father of both his names was born at Tuerdley in Lancashire admitted Servitour of the said Coll. 13. June 1647. aged 16 years took a degree in Arts and then was made Fellow thereof After he had proceeded in that faculty he became straightway a malepert preacher in and near Oxon And at length having a turn to preach at
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.
Rob. Atkyns Tho the title of Knight of the Bath be not added to his name in the publick register yet I take him to be the same Sir Rob. Atkyns Knight of the Bath who became Serjeant at Law an 1671 one of the Justices of the Common-pleas in the year following and at length when the Prince of Aurange came to the Crown Lord Chief Baron of the Exchecquer and Speaker of the House of Lords c. He hath written 1 An inquiry into the power of dispensing with penal Statutes together with some animadversions upon a book written by Sir Edw. Herbert L. Ch. Justice of the Court of Com. pleas entit A short account c. Lond. 1689. See more in these Fasti an 1669. in Edw. Herbert 2 The power jurisdiction and privilege of Parliament and the antiquity of the H. of Com. asserted occasion'd by an information in the Kings Bench by the Attorney gen against the Speaker of the H. of Com. Lond. 1689 with which is printed A discourse concerning the ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the Realm of England occasion'd by the late Commission in ecclesiastical causes This Sir Rob. Atkyns was Son of Sir Edw. Atkyns one of the Justices of the Kings Bench in the troublesome times and is Father to that worthy Gentleman Sir Rob. Atkyns of Saperton in Glocestershire Edm. Warcup See among the created Doctors of Law an 1670. James Tyrrell Esq of Qu. Coll. This Gentleman hath published four or more books and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among the Oxford Writers Thomas Ross Esq This person who was nearly related to Alex. Ross as I have heard adhered to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. in his Exile and was Tutor for a time to James Crofts afterwards Duke of Monmouth Upon his Majesties return he became Keeper of his Libraries and Groom of his Privy Chamber and author of a translation from Latin into English Poetry of the whole 17 books of The second punick War between Hannibal and the Romans written originally by Silius Italicus with a Continuation from the triumph of Scipio to the death of Hannibal Lond. 1661. fol. Ded. to the King and printed on large paper and adorned with choice Cuts Besides these who were created on the 28 Sept were about 30 more some of quality that had the said degree of Master confer'd upon them It was also granted at that time to nine other persons to be created when they were pleased to require admission among whom Mr. Rob. Hook sometimes of Ch. Ch. now of the Royal Society was one but whether he or they were admitted it appears not Doct. of Law Four were actually created on the 28 of Sept. the names of which follow Sir Henry Benet Knight one of the Secretaries of State to his Majesty This Gentleman who was second Son of Sir Joh. Benet of Arlington commonly called Harlington in Middlesex by Dorothy his Wife Daughter of Sir Joh. Croft of Saxham in Suffolk was educated in the condition of a Student in Ch. Ch took the degrees in Arts and had the reputation of a Poet among his contemporaries which was evidenc'd by certain copies of his composition occasionally printed in books of verses published under the name of the University and in others in his time In the beginning of the Civ War when his Majesty fix'd his chief residence in Oxon he became Under Secretary to George L. Digby Secretary of State and afterwards a Gentleman Volunteer for the royal cause in which condition he did his Majesty good service especially at the sharp encounter near Andover in Hampshire c. When the Wars were ended he left not his Majesty when success did but attended his interest in Foreign parts and the better to fit himself for his Majesties service he travelled into Italy and made his remarks and observations of all the parts and States of Christendom Afterwards he was made Secretary to James Duke of York received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Bruges in March Stil nov 1658 and then was sent Leiger to the Crown of Spain in which negotiation with that wary Court he carried things with so much prudence circumspection and success that his Majesty upon his happy return for England soon called him home and made him Keeper of his privy Purse In the month of Octob. 1662 he was made Principal Secretary of State on the resignation of Sir Edward Nicholas whereupon the place of Keeper of the privy Purse was confer'd on the Son of Charles Visc Fitz Harding called Sir Charles Berkley Captain of the Guards to James Duke of York and Governour under his Highness of the Town and Garrison of Portsmouth c. In the latter end of the year 1663 he was made a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Arlington of Arlington in Middlesex and in Apr. 1672 he was made Earl of Arlington On the 15 of June following he was elected one of the Knights companions of the most noble order of the Garter and on the 22 of the same month he with George Duke of Buckingham began their Journey towards Holland as Embassadors extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries to treat and settle affairs between the most Christian King and the States In Apr. 1673 he was appointed one of the three Plenipotentiaries to go from his Majesty of Great Britaine to Colen to mediate for a peace between the Emperor and the said Christian King and on the eleventh of Sept. 1674 he was upon the resignation of Henry Earl of S. Alban made Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold In which honorable office he was confirmed by K. Jam. 2. when he came to the Crown He died early in the morning of the 28 of July 1685 aged 67 years whereupon his body was conveyed to his Seat at Ewston in Suffolk and there buried in a vault under the Church of that place Two days after his death his Majesty K. Jam. 2. gave the white staff of Lord Chamberlain to Robert Earl of Aylesbury who after a short enjoyment of it died much lamented in his house at Ampthil in Bedfordshire on Tuesday the 20 of Octob. the same year See more of him in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 886.887 The eldest Brother of the said Henry Earl of Arlington was named John Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Ch. 2. created a Baron of this Kingdom by that King under the stile and title of John Lord Ossulston in Novemb. an 1682. He was originally a Gent. Com. of Pembroke Coll to which he was not only a Benefactor by contributing largely towards the buildings thereof but by giving a Fellowship thereunto Will. Coventrie sometimes of Qu. Coll Son of Thom. Lord Coventrie I have made large mention of him among the Writers under the year 1686. p. 601. Richard Nicolls one of the Groomes of the Bedchamber to James D. of York Will. Godolphin M. A. of Ch. Ch. and under Secretary to Sir Hen. Benet before mention'd This person who was descended
written to James Lane of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. eldest Son of Geor. Visc Lanesborough Peter Worm a Dane son of the great Antiquary Olaus Worm was a Student this year and after in Oxon where obtaining several accomplishments became after his return to his Country Secretary to the K. of Denmarke c. In the beginning of July Joh. Rodolph Westenius and Sebastianus Feschius both of Basil in Germany were entred Students in the publick library and continued in Oxon about two years The first was afterwards Professor of the Greek tongue at Basil and a publisher of several noted books the other also a publisher of certain curious and critical matters which are now highly valued by Scholars oâ— his Country c. An. Dom. 1670. An. 22 Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde c. Vicechanc. Dr. Mews now Dean of Rochester Sept. 16. Proct. Alex. Pudsey of Magd Coll. Apr. 13. Henry Smith of Ch. Ch. Apr. 13. Bach. of Arts. June 18. Benj. Hoffman of S. Edm. Hall afterwards of Ball. Coll. See among the Masters 1673. Oct. 10. Walt. Harrys of New Coll. 20. Robert Cooper of Pemb. Coll. 31. Gilbert Budgell of Trinity Coll. Of the last of these three you may see more among the Masters an 1673. Jan. 18. Austin Freezer of S. Edm. Hall Feb. 8. Edward Tyson of Magd. Hall Of A. Freezer you may see more among the Masters an 1879. Mar. 4. John Hughes of Ball. Coll. See among the Bach. of Div. 1684. W. Harrys R. Cooper and Edw. Tyson have published several things and therefore they are to be remembred hereafter Admitted 240. or thereabouts Bach. of Law Six were admitted but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop Mast of Arts. Apr. 22. Sam. Russell of Magd. Coll. This ingenious person hath translated from English into Latin a book written by the honorable Rob. Boyle Esq entit The Origine of formes and qualities See more of him the said Mr. Russell in William Russell among the Writers p. 150. Apr. 22. Rob. Parsons of Vniv Coll. He was afterwards Chaplain to Anne the Countess Dowager of Hâ—nry Earl of Rochester and Curat of Adderbury in Oxfordshire for Dr. Bâ—aw Bishop of Landaff who gave him a Preb. in that Church Rector of Shabington and at length one of the Vicars of Waddesdon in Bucks on the death of Joh. Ellis He hath published A Sermon preached at the funeral of John Earl of Rochester 9. Aug. 1680. on Luke 15.7 Oxon. 1680 qu. A discourse it is so excellent that it hath given great and general satisfaction to all good and judicious readers May 11. Joh. Jones of Jesus Coll. May 11. Tho. Jekyll of Trin. Coll. June 8. Will. Pindar of Vniv Coll. This person who was son of Nich. Pindar was born at Wakefield in Yorkshire bred in Grammar learning there and for a time was an Apprentice to an Oil-drawer in that Town as Rich. Thompson mention'd under the year 1667 was Afterwards entring into Holy Orders he succeeded Joh. Inett in the Rectory of S. Ebbes Church in Oxon which place he keeping but for a little time was made Chaplain to Ford Lord Grey of Werke in whose service he died He was a very ready Disputant and a noted preacher and might if life had been spared been very serviceable to the Church of England He hath published 1 A Sermon preached before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London at Guildhall Chappel on Prov. 17.27 Lond. 1677. qu. 2 Sermon of divine providence in the special preservation of government and Kingdoms on Psalm 127.1 This Sermon being prophetically delivered a little before his death concerning some change that would follow was upon the discovery of the Popish Plot in the latter end of Sept. 1678 published in the beginning of Nov. following in qu. with the date at the bottom of the title of 1679. He died 23 Sept. 1678 and was buried as I have heard at Gosfield in Essex where the Lord Grey hath a Seat June 8. Jam. Lane of Ch. Ch. He was the eldest son of Sir Geor. Lane Bt Visc Lanesborough in Ireland 28. Thomas Crane of Brasn Coll. This Divine who was son of a Father of both his names of Lathom in Lancashire was afterwards Curat at Winwick in his own Country for Dr. Sherlock and published Job's assurance of the resurrection Sermon at Winwick in Lancashire 25. June 1689 at the funeral of Rich. Sherlock D. D. late Rector there on Job 19.25.26.27 Lond. 1690. qu. He is now living in Lancashire a Non-juror July 5. Maurice Wheeler of Ch. Ch. He afterwards had a hand in translating from Greek The second Vol. of Plutarch's Morals Lond. 1684. oct That part which he performed bears this title Of curiosity or an overbusie inquisitiveness into things impertinent He is now Master of the College School in Glocester and is in a capacity of doing greater matters July 7. Edward Drew of Or. Coll. July 7. Tho. Salmon of Trinity Coll. The first of these two who was originally of Exeter Coll. was afterwards Can. resid of the Church of Exeter and Archdeacon of Cornwall Oct. 20. Joh. Grayle of Exet. Coll. Mar. 1. Joh. Floyr of Queens Coll. Adm. 81. or thereabouts ☞ But one Bach. of Phys was admitted this year Bach. of Div. Apr. 16. Nathan Alsop of Brasn Coll. This Divine who had been Proctor of the Univ. was afterwards Rector of Church-Laugton in his native Country of Leycestershire and published A Sermon at the Assizes held at Leycester for that County 23. Mar. 1681. Lond. 1682. qu. May 11. Joshua Stopford of Brasn Coll. July 12. Adam Littleton of Ch. Ch. Adm. 10. Doct. of Law July 5. John Mayow of All 's Coll. He was now and after a profess'd Physitian Doct. of Phys Dec. 17. David Thomas of New Coll. Doct. of Div. June 25. Thomas Pitâ—is of Linc. Coll. July 2. Giles Hinton of Mert. Coll. 9. Benj. Parry of C. C. Coll. The second was an Accumulator and the last a Compounder 12. Adam Littleton of Ch. Ch. Accumulator His Letters Test under the hand of Humphrey B. of London which he brought with him when he was to take his degree partly run thus Vir egregiè doctus multiplici literatura excultus eoque doctis bonisque plurimi factus est adamatus tum ob singularem eruditionem humanitatem morumque suavitatem tum ob vitam inculpatam pie institutam in concionando facultatem promptam exquisitum ingenium His nominibus apud nos claret c. Incorporations July 12. Joh. Bonwick Bach. of Div. of Cambr. He was of Christs Coll. in that University Octob. 26. Will. Briggs M. A. of C. C. Coll. in Cambr. He was afterwards Doct. of Phys Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians Physitian to the Hospital of St. Thomas in Southwark and author of Opthalmographia sive oculi ejusque partium descriptio Anatomica Cui accessit nova visionis Theoria Camb. 1676 in tw c. An account of this book is in the Philos
catalogue Several also he wrot while he was at Windsore among which is his book De Sibyllinis aliisque quae Christi natalem praecessere oraculis Accedit ejusdem responsio ad objectiones nuperae Criticae sacrae c. Oxon. 1680. oct Decemb. 20. The most illustrious Prince William Henry Nassau Prince of Orange and Nassau was actually created Doctor of the Civil Law in a Convocation held in the Theater The rest of his titles you shall have as they stand in the publick register given into the hands of the Registrary by one of his chief Attendants thus Comes Cattimelibocii Viendae Dietziae Lingae Moersiae Bureniae Leerdamiae Marchio Verae Fâ—issingiae Dynasta Dominus ac Baro Bredae Vrbis Graviae dâ—tionis Cuychiae Diestae Grimbergae Herstalliae Cronendonchiae Warnestonii Arlaii Noseretti Sancti Viti Daesbergae Aggeris Sancti Martini Geertrudenbergae utriusque Swaluwe Naelwici c. Vicecomes haereditarius Antwerpiae Vezantionis Marescallus haereditarius Hollandiae Regii ordinis Pariscelidis Eques This most noble Prince was conducted in his Doctors robes with a velvet round cap from the Apodeterium or Vestry of Convoc by the Beadles with their silver staves erected and chains about their necks in the company of the Reg. Prof. of the Civil Law And when he came near to the grades leading up to the Vicechancellours Seat in the Theater the said Professor in an humble posture presented him with a short speech the Pr. having his cap on which being done the Vicechancellour created him with another and then descending from his place he took the Prince by the arme and conducted him up to his chair of state standing on the right hand of that of the Vicech at some distance above it The said Pr. is now King of Engl. by the name of Will 3. A little before his entrance into the Theater the Vicechancellour read the names of certain persons that were then to be created in the four faculties of Arts Law Physick and Divinity which were all or mostly nominated by the Prince and given into the hands of Sir Charles Cotterel Master of the Ceremonies who gave it into those of the Vicechancellour The paper or roll contained the names of fifteen to be created Masters of Arts one to be Bach. of Divinity eighteen to be Doctors of the Civil Law whereof one was incorporated six to be Doctors of Physick and seven to be Doct. of Divinity After the names were read by the Vicechancellour and proposed to the Ven. Convocation for their consents there was a general murmuring among the Masters not against the Strangers to be created but some of their own Body This Creation was called by some the Orangian Creation tho not so pleasing to the generality as might be wished for After the Prince was seated these persons following were created Doct. of the Civ Law Jacobus Liber Baro ac Dominus Wassenariae Obdami Hensbrokii c. Praefectus equestris necnon Legionis Equitum Major Gubernator urbium Willemstadii â—landriaeque ut propugnaculorum adjacentium confaederati Belgii Servitio William Albert Earl or Count of Dona who was now or at least was lately Embassador from the King of Sweedland to his Majesty the King of Great Britaine He was here in England in the same quality an 1667 as I have told you in p. 543. Henry de Nassau Lord in Ouwerkerk c. One of both his names and title became Master of the Horse after K. Will. 3. came to the Crown and Capt. of the fourth Troop of his Majesties Horse-Guards Will. de Nassau Lord in Leersum in Faederato Belgio Turmae peditum Praefectus c. This person and H. de Nassau were related in blood to the Prince William Benting or Bentink After the Prince of Orange came to the Crown of England he was made Groom of the Stole and Privy purse and in the beginning of Apr. 1689 he was made Baron of Cirencester Viscount Woodstock and Earl of Portland John de Bye Lord in Albranswert His other titles stand thus in the register Celsissimi Principis Auriaci Aulae Magister primarius Canonicus Vltrajectensis Turmae Peditum in Faederato Belgio Praefectus Vice Colonellus James de Steenhuys free Lord in Heumen Malden Oploo and Floresteyn Herman Scaep Lord of Beerse was being absent diplomated Sir Charles Cotterel Kt Master of the Ceremonies and Master of the Requests This Gent. who was of Wylsford in Lincolnshire succeeded Sir Joh. Finet in the Mastership of the Ceremonies an 1641 and became so great a Master of some of the modern Languages that he translated from Spanish into English A relation of the defeating of Card. Mazarini and Ol. Cromwells design to have taken Ostend by treachery in the year 1658. Lond. 1660. 66. in tw And from French into English The famed Romance called Cassandra Lond. 1661. fol. See more of him in Will. Aylesbury among the Writers p. 138. and in G. Morley p. 582. In the beginning of Decemb. 1686 he having petitioned his Majesty K. Jam. 2. for leave by reason of his age to resign his office of Master of the Ceremonies his Majesty was graciously pleased in consideration of his faithful services to his Royal Father Brother to whom he adhered in his exile and himself to receive his Son Charles Lodowick Cotterel Esq sometimes Gent. Com. of Mert. Coll into the said office and to constitute his Grandson by his Daughter Joh. Dormer Esq Assistant Master of the Ceremonies in his place On the 18 of Feb. following his Majesty confer'd the honor of Knighthood on the said Ch. Lod. Cotterel and at the same time did put about his neck a gold chain and medal the mark of his office Sir Walt. Vane Kt. Of the family of the Vanes of Kent Henr. Cocceius John Wooldridge or Wolveridge Esq He was of Dedmaston in Shropshire had been educated in Cambridge and afterwards became Barrester of Greys Inn c. Thomas Duppa Esq He was Nephew to Brian sometimes B. of Winchester was afterwards eldest Gentleman Usher and dayly waiter to his Majesty and upon the death of Sir Edw. Carteret Usher of the Black rod about the middle of March 1682. Soon after he was made a Knight Edm. Warcup Esq This person who is a Cadet of an antient family of his name at English near Henley in Oxfordshire became a Commoner of S. Alb. Hall a little before the grand rebellion broke out afterwards a Traveller and at length a Captain in the Parliament Army by the favour of his Uncle Will. Lenthall Speaker of the Long Parliament and a Captain he was in the regiment of Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper in the latter end of 1659. After the Kings return he was made a Justice of Peace of Middlesex of which as also of his Commission in the Lieutenancy and Service of the Duke of York he was deprived for a time and committed to the Fleet for abusing the name of Hen. Earl of Arlington But being soon after restored
of the Univ. to whom he was Chaplain Incorporations From the 5 of May to the 26 of Feb. was one Bach. of Laws and 19 Masters of Arts of Cambridge incorporated The Bach. of Laws was Jul. 14. George Oxinden of Trin. Hall in the said Univ. He was afterwards Doct. of his Faculty Dean of the Arches Vicar-General to the Archb. of Canterbury and Chanc. to the Bishop of London Among the Masters that were incorporated were these following May 5. Matthew Smallwood of Qu. Coll senior Proctor of the Univ. of Cambridge Jul. 15. Nathan Resbury of Eman. Coll. He was afterwards Minister of Wandsworth and Putney in Surrey Chaplain to Arthur Earl of Anglesey and after his death to James his son and at length Chapl. in ord to their Majesties K. Will. 3. and Qu. Mary c. He hath published 4 or more Sermons and two little things against Popery in the Reign of K. Jam. 2. Jul. 15. Rich. Pearson of Eman. Coll. He was afterwards Rector of S. Michaels Crooked-lane in Lond. and author of three or more Sermons Steph. Vpman of Kings Coll was incorporated the same day He was afterwards Secretary to Rob. Earl of Aylesbury Fellow of Eaton Coll. an 1677 Preb. of Westminster c. Joh. Moore of Catherine Hall was incorporated also the same day He was afterwards Chaplain to Heneage E. of Nottingham Lord Chanc. of England D. D Minister of S. Ann's Church built in and taken from the Parish of S. Giles in the Fields near Lond afterwards Rector of S. Andrews Church in Holbourne and Chapl. in ord to their Majesties K. Will. 3. and Q. Mary He hath 4 or more Sermons extant and perhaps other things Quaere On the 5 of Jul. 1691 he was consecrated Bishop of Norwich in the Church of S. Mary le Bow in Lond with other-Bishops in the place of Dr. Will. Lloyd deprived for not taking the Oaths to King Will. 3. and Qu. Mary Besides the said Masters were two Bach. of Div. of the said Univ. of Cambr. incorporated of which one was Richard Richardson of Eman. Coll Jul. 15. I have made mention of him and his Translation of A Treatise of Bees which he intit Caroli Butleri foeminia Monarchia sive Apum Historia c. in Ch. Butler among the Writers of this vol. p. 51. The other Bach. of Div. who was incorp was John Balderston of the said Coll. of Eman. There were also two Doctors of the Laws of the said Univ. incorporated viz. May 5. Jonas Docwra of Christs Coll and July 15. Rob. Thompson of Trin. Hall This last who was if I mistake not Secretary to the Archb. of Canterb wrot and published Sponsa nondum uxor Or the marriage between the Lady Kath. Fitz-Gerald and Edw. Villiers Esq asserted Being an answer to Dr. Dudl Loftus his book intit ΔΙΓΑΜΙΑΣ ΑΔΙΚΙΑ c. Lond. 1678. in 5 sh and half in qu. July 15. Henr. Atherton Doct. of Phys of Cambridge He was of Christs Coll. in that Univ. and afterwards Author of The christian Physitian Lond. 1683. oct and perhaps of other books Qu. July 15. James Arderne D. D. of Cambr. This person who was a Cheshire man born was educated in Christs Coll. in that University and this year 1673 and in the year after he was Fellow Commoner of Brasn Coll partly for the sake of the public Library and partly for the conversation of the Divines and others in this University He was also about that time Minister of S. Botolph Aldgate in Lond afterwards Chapl. in ord to his Maj. K. Ch. 2 who bestowing on him the Deanery of Chester upon the death of Dr. Hen. Bridgman B. of the Isle of Man who had kept it in commendam with his Bishoprick was installed therein in July 1682. He hath written 1 Directions concerning matter and stile of Sermons Printed 1671. in tw 2 Conjectura circa 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 D. Clementis Romani Cui subjiciuntur castigationes in Epiphantum Petavium de Eucharistia de Coelibatu Clericorum de orationibus pro vitâ functis Lond. 1683. in 4 sh in qu. In the title of this book he writes himself Jacobus de Ardenna He hath also published two or more Sermons as The true Christians character and crown c. on Rev. 1.10 Lond. 1671. qu. As also A Sermon at the Visitation of John Bishop of Chester at Chester on 2 Tim. 4. ver 5. latter part Lond. 1677. qu. c. At length after this Doctor had run with the humour of K. Jam. 2 and therefore did suffer several Indignities and Affronts from the Vulgar of and near Chester when that King withdrew himself into France in Decemb. 1688 he gave way to fate on the 18 of Sept. 1691 whereupon his body was buried in the Cath. Church of Chester on the 22 of the said month By his Will he bequeathed his books and chief part of his estate to provide and maintain a publick Library in the Cath. Church of Chester for the use of the City and Clergy Creations Aug. 10. James Alban Ghibbes or Gibbes or as he writes himself in his books Ghibbesius Poet Laureat to the Emperor was diplomated Doct. of Physick This most celebrated Poet who was too well known in Rome had to his Father Will. Gibbes a Native of the City of Bristow sometimes educated in Brasn Coll and afterwards taking to wife a zealous Catholick named Mary Stoner of the Family of Stoner near Watlington in Oxfordsh was by her endeavours as I have heard drawn over to her Religion Soon after they setled in London but finding not that quiet enjoyment relating to their opinion which they expected they went to the City of Roan in Normandy where this our Poet Laureat was born an 1616 or thereabouts and had the Christian name at the Font given him of James Alban in memory of the great Protomartyr of Engl. S. Alban Thence at 9 years of age he was conveyed into Engl and spent some time in trivial Literature there his Father being then Physitian to Hen. Maria Queen of Engl. Afterwards he was sent to the English Coll. at S. Omer where he spent some years with great advantage in Academical Learning And after he had laid a good Foundation there he travelled thro several parts of the Low Countries Germany Spain Italy c. and spent some time at Padua under the famous Anatomist Joh. Veslingius In the latter end of 1644 he setled in Rome in which year Pope Vrban 8. died and was there received especially among the English with great humanity Soon after upon the discovery of the worth of the person he was entertained by Franc. Atestinus Duke of Modena to be Tutor to Almeric his son with whom continuing about two years in which time he was mostly at Modena he was taken into the Patronage and Family of Bernardin Cardinal Spada Bishop of Fraschatie called by some Tusculan with whom living in the quality of Physitian till that Cardinal died he was taken
Ch. Ch. May 28. Joh. Meddens of Wadh. Coll. Dec. 9. Will. Watson of S. Maries Hall lately of Trin. Coll. See among the Masters in 1690. Adm. 143. Bach. of Law Apr. 6. Thom. Wood of New Coll. Besides him were five more admitted Mast of Arts. Apr. 11. Joh. Cave of Linc. Coll. This Gentleman who is Son of a Father of both his names mention'd among the Writers p. 648 hath written and published Daphnis A pastoral Elegy on the death of that hopeful Gent Mr. Franc. Wollaston Oxon. 1685. c. Apr. 20. Franc. Atterbury of Ch. Ch. Adm. 84. Bach. of Phys Six were admitted but not one is yet a Writer Bach. of Div. Nov. 24. Will. Hallifax of C. C. C. He hath translated from French into English The Elements of Euclid explain'd in a new but most easie method Oxon. 1685. oct Written by F. Claud. Francis Milliet de Chales of the Society of Jesus Feb. 18. Thom. Spark of Ch. Ch. Adm. 12. Doct. of Law June 25. Rich. Parsons of New Coll. 30. Will. Rimes of New Coll. The first of these two is now Chanc. of the Dioc. of Glocester June 30. Joseph Woodward of Or. Coll. July 2. George Gardiner of All 's Coll. The first of these two accumulated July 7. Rich. Aldworth of S. Joh. Coll. 8. Philip Forster of Oriel Coll. 8. Lew. Atterbury of Ch. Ch. The first of these last three was a Compounder and the last an Accumulator Doct. of Phys June 30. Daniel Greenwood of Brasn Coll. July 2. Will. Gould of Wadh. Coll. July 2. Will. Coward of Mert. Coll. The last of these two translated into Lat. heroick verse the English Poem called Absalom and Achitophel Oxon. 1682 in 5. sh in qu. Written by Joh. Driden Esq Poet Laureat to K. Ch. 2. It was also about the same time translated by Franc. Atterbury and Franc. Hickman of Ch. Ch. July 8. Will. Breach of Ch. Ch. July 8. Joh. Foley of Pemb. Coll. The last of these two was incorporated Bach. of Phys of this University as he before had stood at Dublin 20 of April this year Doct. of Div. June 22. Joh. Hough of Magd. Coll. On the 15 of Apr. 1687 he was elected President of his Coll in the place of Dr. Hen. Clerk deceased and on the 22 of June following being the day of his admission to the degree of D. D. he was removed thence by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners sitting at Westm to make room for Dr. Parker Bishop of Oxon whom the K. had nominated appointed and commanded to succeed Dr. Clerk upon the laying aside of Anth. Farmer See more in Sam. Parker among the Writers p 617. At length the Prince of Orange being about to come into England to take upon him the government thereof he was restored to his Presidentship by the Bishop of Winch. commission'd for that purpose by his Maj. K. Jam. 2 on the 25 of Octob. 1688 after Dr. Parker had enjoyed it during his natural life and after the removal thence of his Successor Bonaventure Gifford by his Majesties command Afterwards Dr. Hough succeeded Tim. Hall in the See of Oxon with liberty allowed him to keep the Presidentship of Magd. Coll. in Commendam with it July 2. Edward Winford of All 's Coll. 8. Thom. Bayley of New Inn. 8. Sam. Eyre of Linc. Coll. The first of these two was admitted Principal of his Inn or Hall on the resignation of Mr. Will. Stone 12 of Aug. 1684. The other was afterwards Preb. of Durham Incorporations The Act being put off again no Cambridge Masters or others were incorporated only a Bach. of Law from Dublin July 6. Creations In a Convocation held 15 Dec. were Letters read from the Chanc. of the University in behalf of one Elias Boherel born aâ— Rochelle partly bred under his Father an eminent Physitian and two years or more in the University of Samur to be created Bach. of the Civ Law but whether he was created or admitted it appears not He and his Father were French Protestants and were lately come into England to enjoy the liberty of their religion which they could not do in France because of their expulsion thence by the King of that Country Tho his Maj. K. Jam. 2. was entertained by the University in the beginning of Sept. this year yet there was no creation made in any faculty which was expected and gaped after by many An. Dom. 1688. An. 4. Jac. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde but he dying at Kingston Hall in Dorsetshire on the 21. of July his Grandson James lately a Noble man of Ch. Ch. Son of his eldest Son Thom. Earl of Ossory was unanimously elected into his place in a Convocation held at 10. in the morning of the 23 of the same month The next day came a Mandat from his Majesty for George Lord Jeffreys L. Chanc. of England to be elected Chanc. of the University but the former election being not in a possibility to be revoked there were Letters sent to satisfie his Majesty concerning that matter The said James Duke of Ormonde was installed in his house in S. James's Square within the liberty of Westminster on the 23 of Aug. following which being concluded followed an entertainment for his noble Friends acquaintance and the Academians equal to if not beyond any that had been made by the present King or his Predecessor Vicechanc. Gilb. Ironside D. D. Sept. 19. Proct. Thom. Dunster of Wadh. Coll. Apr. 26. Will. Christmas of New Coll. Apr. 26. The 25 of Apr. being S. Marks day and the first day of the Term their admission was not till the next Bach. of Arts. June 19. Samuel Westley of Exeter Coll. This person hath written and published Maggots or Poems on several subjects never before handled Lond. 1685. oct Adm. 152. Bach. of Law Four were admitted but not one is yet a Writer Mast of Arts. June 19. Will. Nicholls of Mert. Coll. He hath written An answer to an heretical book called The naked Gospel c. July 6. Francis Hickman of Ch. Ch. Comp. July 6. William King of Ch. Ch. Comp. Adm. 89. Bach. of Physick Six were admitted but not one of them is yet a Writer Bach. of Div. Five were admitted but not one as yet a Writer or Dignitary Doct. of Law Mar. 23. Charles Finch of All 's Coll a younger Son of Heneage late Earl of Nottingham Doct. of Phys Dec. 7. Joh. Ballard of New Coll. Doct. of Div. July 6. Henry Hill of C. C. Coll. 7. Thom. Houghton of New Coll. The last of which was an Accumulator and Compounder 7. Roger Mander of Ball. Coll. 7. Peter Birch of Ch. Ch. The first of these last two was elected Master of his Coll. in the place of Dr. Joh. Venn deceased 23 Oct. 1687. The other who is now Preb. of Westminster hath published A Sermon before the H. of Commons on John 26.3 Printed at the Savoy 1689 qu. Incorporations The Act being now the fourth time put off not one Cambridge Master was incorporated