Kt and Bt now the Wife of Sir Tho. Millington Dr. of Phys erect the said monument at her proper charges JOHN TRAPP Son of Nich. Trapp of Kemsey as it seems in Worcestershire was born at Crome D'abitot commonly called Crumdebitot in the same County 5 June 1601 educated in Grammar learning in the condition of a Kings scholar under Mr. Hen. Bright in the Free-school at Worcester and made great proficiency in the three learned Languages In 1618 he made his Academical entry into Ch. Ch. and lived there some years in the condition as it seems of a Servitour under the tuition of Mr. George Jay a Student of that house and partly by the benefaction of Dr. Corbet then Dean thereof After he had compleated the degree of Master of Arts an 1624 he was invited to Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire to teach a Free school there where shewing great industry in that employment had the small Vicaridge of Weston upon Avon in Glocestersh about two miles from his school confer'd upon him both which places with the Church of Luddington in Warwicksh for some time he kept about 47 years He was by those of the puritannical party esteemed to be a person endowed with several virtuous qualifications and to be one of the prime Preachers of his time Yet this the Reader must know that upon the breaking out of the Rebellion he closed with the Presbyterians took the Covenant and in his Preachings and Discourses became violent against the King his Cause and his Adherents yet lost nothing for so doing but was a gainer by it as he was by the publication of these books following taken into the hands and admired by the Brethren but by others not Gods Love-tokens or the afflicted mans lessons brought to light and laid before him c. on Rev. 3.19 Lond. 1637. oct Theologia Theologiae or a true treasure of holy truths touching Gods word and God in the word Being a discourse on Hebr. 1. ver 1.2.3 Lond. 1641. oct Comment upon the four Evangelists and the Acts of the Apostles When this was first published I know not sure I am that his Exposition of S. Joh. the Evang. was pr. at Lond. 1646. qu. Comment upon all the Epistles of the Apostles and upon the Revelation Pr. in qu. A decad of common places Pr. in qu. Clavis to the Bible Or a new comment upon the Pentateuch or 5 books of Moses wherein are first difficult places explained 2 Controversies discussed c. Lond. 1650. qu. Comment on Joshua Judges Ruth first and second of Sam. first and sec of Kings and first and sec of Chronicles Solomonis ΠΑÎΑ′ΡΕΤΟΣ or a Commentary upon the books of Proverbs Ecclesiastes and the Song of Songs wherein the text is explained some controversies are discussed divers common places are handled c. Lond. 1650. qu. Com. or Exposition upon all the books of the New Test wherein the text is explained some controversies are discussed c. with a Decad upon these ten heads Abstinence Admonition Alms Ambition Angels Anger Apostacy Arrogance Arts and Atheism Lond. 1656. fol. sec edit with the Authors picture before it In this folio book are contained the Comment on the four Evangelists and Acts of the Apostles Com. upon the Epistles of the Apost and upon the Rev. as also A Decad of com places before mention'd Com. or Exposition upon the twelve minor Prophets Wherein the text is explained some controversies discussed c. Lond. 1654. fol. The righteous mans recompence Or a true Christian characterized and encouraged Grounded on Malac. 3.16.17.18 Printed with the Com. or Expos upon the twelve min. Proph. Com. on Proverbs Ecclesiastes the Song of Songs Isaiah Jeremiah Lamentations Ezekiel and Daniel Lond. 1656 and 60. fol. In this folio is contained the Com. on the Proverbs Eccles and Song of Songs before mentioned which were pr. in qu. 1650. Com. on Ezra Nehemiah Esther Job and Psalmes Lond. 1656. fol. At length this voluminous Author paying his last debt to nature on the 17 of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine was buried in the Church of Weston upon Avon in Glocestershire before mentioned near to the grave of sometimes wife What other things he left behind him fit for the press I know not Since my writing of this I find that our Author Trapp was appointed an Assistant to the Commissioners of Warwickshire for the ejection of such whom they then in Olivers Raign called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters WILLIAM PRYNNE a most noted and frequent Writer of his time was born at Swainswick near Bathe in Somersetshire an 1600 at which time his Father as afterwards this his son whom we now mention was a Tenant to Oriel Coll. educated in Grammar learning as I conceive within the same City of Bathe became a Commoner of the said Coll. of Oriel under the tuition of Giles Widdowes an 1616 took one degree in Arts in 1620 went afterwards to Linc. Inn to obtain knowledge in the Common Law where he was made successively Barrester utter Barrester Bencher and Reader At his first coming to that Inn he became a great follower and admirer of that noted Puritan Dr. John Preston then Lecturer there who finding him to be of an enterprizing nature hot-spirited and eager in pursuit of any thing that was put into him he was looked upon by Preston and his party as the fittest person to adventure upon such exploits which a more sober and considerate man durst not have appeared in Whereupon he was put into the road of writing not without the helps and advice of Preston and the Brethren and having made or gotten a Common-place-book published several matters against the loosness and debauchery so he took it of the times as against drinking of healths long or womanish hair Stage-plays wherein the Queen Henr. Maria was in a gross manner reflected upon several times and other matters relating to the Church Discipline and Members thereof which were altogether looked upon as aliene from his profession and pragmatical and impudent for him so to do About the time of Christmas an 1632 he published a book intit Histriomastix c. wherein breathing out nothing but disgrace to the Nation infamy to the Church reproaches to the Court dishonour to the Queen and some things which were thought to be tending to the destruction of his Majesties person as Dr. Pet. Heylyn an enemy to our Author Prynne tells us great complaints therefore were made of that book notwithstanding it had been licensed by Mr. Tho. Buckner Chaplain to Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury Before I go forward with this matter you may be pleased to hear what a certain Author saith of it thus About this time meaning the latter end of 1632 Mr. Prynne published his book called Histrio-mastix by license of Archb. Abbot's Chaplain which being against Plays and a reference in the table of the book to this effect Women actors notorious Whores relating
A new magna charta Lond. 1648. The County of Somerset divided into several Classes Ibid. 1648. Mercurius Rusticus containing news from several Counties of England and their joynt addresses to the Parliament Ibid. 1648. Just and solemn protestation and remonstrance of the Lord Mayor Common-council-men and Free-men of Lond. Ibid. 1648. The substance of a speech made in the H. of Com. on Munday 4. Dec. 1648 touching the satisfactoriness of the Kings answer to the propositions of both houses for settlement of a firm lasting peace c. Lond. 1648 in 18. sh in qu. Three editions of which came out in less than within the compass of one year This Speech as those of Prynnes opinion say did so admirably well state the said Kings answer with such solid reasons arguments and precedents out of Divinity Law and History that no man took up the bucklers against him Appendix for the Kingdoms better satisfaction of some occurrences since the said speech This was printed with and added to one of the editions of the said Speech True and perfect narrative of the Officers and Armies forcible seizing divers members of the Commons house Dec. 6. and 7. Lond. 1648. Second part of the narrative concerning the Armies force upon the Commons house and members Ibid. 1648. Protestation of the secured and secluded members Ibid. 1648. Vindication of the imprison'd and secluded members of the H. of Com. from the aspersions cast upon them in the majority of the House in a paper lately printed and published intit An humble answer of the general counsel of Officers of the Army under Thom. Lord Fairfax c. Lond. 1649. in 5 sh in qu. Demand of his Prynnes liberty to the General 26. Dec. 1648 with his answer thereto and his answer and declaration thereupon Remonstrance and declaration of several Counties Cities and Boroughes against the unfaithfulness of some of their Knights Citizens and Burgesses Lond. 1648. Brief memento to the present un parliamentary Juncto touching their present intentions and proceedings to depose and execute K. Charles Jan. 1. an 1648. Ibid. 1649. in tw sh in qu. Reprinted at Lond. 1660. qu. Impeachment of high treason against Lieutenant Gen. Cromwell and other Army-Officers ... Jan. 1648. Four considerable positions for the sitting members Judges and others to ruminate upon ... Jan. 1648. Six propositions of undoubted verity fit to be considered of in our present exigency by all loyal Subjects and conscientious Christians Six serious Queries concerning the Kings trial by the new high Court of Justice Lond. 1648. Books written by the said W. Prynne after the murder of K. Ch. 1. Proclamation proclaiming Charles Pr. of Wales King of Gr. Britaine France and Ireland 1. Feb. in the first year of his raign An. 1648. Declaration and protestation of the Peers Lords and Barons against the Usurpations of some members of the Common House 8. Feb. 1648. Publick declaration and protestation of the secured and secluded members of the H. of Com. against the treasonable and illegal late acts and proceedings of some few confederate members of that House since their forcible exclusion 13. Feb. 1648. New Babele's confusion or several votes of the Commons assembled in Parliament against certain papers intit The agreement of the People c. Lond. 1649. in one sh in qu. See in Hen. Ireton under the year 1651. Prynne the member reconcil'd to Prynne the Barrester Or an answer to a scandalous pamphlet intit Prynne against Prynne Wherein is demonstrated that Will Prynne Utter Barrester of Linc. Inn in his Soveraign power in Parliaments and Kingdoms is of the same judgment with and no ways contradictory to Will. Prynne Esq a member of the H. of Commons in his Memento c. Lond. 1649 in 4 sh in qu. First part of an historical collection of the antient Councils and Parliaments of England from the year 673 till an 1216 c. Ibid. 1649 in 4. sh in qu. Legal vindication of the liberties of England against illegal taxes and pretended Acts of Parliament lately enforced on the people or reasons assigned why he Prynne can neither in conscience law or prudence submit to the new illegal tax and contribution of 90 thousand pounds the month lately imposed on the Kingdom Lond. 1649 in 8. sh in qu. Reprinted with additions in 1660. Arraignment conviction and condemnation of the Westmonasterian Junctoes engagement Ibid. 1650. Brief apologie for all Non-subscribers and looking-glass for all apostate Prescribers and Subscribers of the new engagement c. Ibid. 1650 in 2 sh qu. The time serving Proteus and Ambidexter Divine uncased to the world Lond. 1650. qu. This was written against one John Durie as I have told you in the Fasti in the first vol. an 1624. Sad and serious considerations touching the invasive war against our Presbyterian Brethren of Scotland Written in Dunster Castle during his close imprisonment there in Sept. 1650. A Gospel plea interwoven with a rational and legal for the antient setled maintenance and tenths of the Ministers of the Gospel Lond. 1653. Reprinted with the second part thereof an 1659. Jus Patronatus or a brief legal and rational plea for Advowsons and Patrons antient lawful just and equitable rights and titles to present Incumbents to Parish Churches or Vicaridges upon vacancies c. Ibid. 1654. in 7. sh in qu. Declaration and protestation against the illegal detestable and oft condemned tax and extorsion of Excise in general and for hope in particular Ibid. 1654. qu. First part of a seasonable legal and historical vindication and chronological collection of the good old fundamental liberties rights laws government of all English Free-men Lond. 1654. 55. qu. The second part of this was printed at Lond. 1655. qu. New discovery of free-state tyranny containing four letters in his own vindication sent to John Bradshaw and his Associates Ibid. 1655. qu. Brief polemical dissertation concerning the true time of the inchoation and determination of the Lords day sabbath from evening to evening Lond. 1655. qu. The Quakers unmasked and clearly detected to be but the spawn of Romish frogs Jesuits and Franciscan Fryers sent from Rome to seduce the intoxicated giddy-headed English nation c. Ibid. 1655 in 5. sh in qu. printed there again in 1664. An old Parliamentary prognostication made at Westminster for the present new year and puny members there assembled Lond. 1655. Seasonable vindication of free admission to and frequent administration of the holy Communion to all visible Church members regenerate or unregenerate c. Ibid. 1656 qu. New discovery of some Romish Emissaries Quakers as likewise of some popish errours unadvisedly embraced persued by our anti-communion Ministers Discovering the dangerous effects of their discontinuing the frequent administration of the Lords Supper Lond. 1656. qu. Legal vindication of two important Queries of present general concernment clearly discovering from our statute common and cannon laws the bounden duty of Ministers and Vicars of parish Churches to administer the Sacraments as well
't is that he took great Liberty in speaking much to the honor and praise of that monster of men Heavenly mindedness and earthly mindedness in two parts Lond. 1672. in tw with an Appendix of laying hold on eternal life He also the said Jo. Rowe collected most of the materials of his Fathers life entit The life and death of John Rowe of Crediton in Devonshire Lond. 1673. in tw and was one of the three Thom. Manton and George Griffith being the other two who published Thirty and one select sermons preached on several occasions Lond. 1656. written by Will. Strong sometimes preacher in the Ab. Ch. at Westm He also left behind him at the time of his death several things fit for the press as 1 The love of Christ in his intercession 2 A discourse concerning the person and office of the holy spirit 3 A discourse c. of the Trinity 4 Sermons upon the first eighteen verses of the first Chapt. of the Gosp of S. John and also upon the 15 chap. All which may be published hereafter He died in or near to Greys-inn-lane in Holbourne in sixteen hundred seventy and seven whereupon his body was conveyed to the burial place joyning to the New Artillery Garden and Bunhill fields near London and there buried in the presence of very many persons of his perswasion towards the East end of that place Soon after was erected over his grave an Altar-monument of a brick foundation covered with a plank of marble of a brown colour with this inscription engraven thereon Here lyeth the body of John Rowe sometimes preacher in the Abbey at Westminster who died Oct. XII in the 52 year of his age an 1677. I find one John Row to have published Institutiones Linguae Ebraicae Amst 1649 in tw but he must not be understood to be the same with the former because he was a Schoolmaster in Scotland and afterwards an Independent Minister in Aberdene Principal of the Kings Coll. there an 1652 and Primarius of that University Another John Rowe is now of the Middle Temple and did lately publish Judge Will. Dallisons book of Reports c. FRANCIS VERNON was born near Charing cross in the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields within the liberty of Westminster but descended from those of his name in Worcestershire was elected Student of Ch. Ch. from Westminster School an 1654 aged 17 years or thereabouts took his rambles before and partly after he was Master of Arts. At length being possess'd with an insatiable desire of seeing he travelled into various parts of the world was taken by Pyrats sold and endured much misery Afterwards being let loose he retired to his native Country with intentions to spend his time there but having got an itch of rambling ventred again tho disswaded to the contrary and was afterwards hack'd to pieces in Persia He hath written Oxonium Poema Oxon. 1667. in 3 sh and an half in qu. But the author being absent when 't was printed are committed many faults therein especially in the Margin Letter to Mr. Hen. Oldenburg dat Jan. 10 an 1675 giving a short account of some of his observations in his travels from Venice through Istria Dalmatia Greece and the Archipelago to Smyrna where this Letter was written This is printed in the Philosophical Transactions num 124. p. 575. an 1676. Afterwards being in Persia arose between him and some of the Arabs a small quarrel concerning an English Pen knife that Mr. Vernon had with him who shewing himself cross and peevish in not communicating it to them they fell upon him and hack'd him to death near Spahan or Aspachan a City in Persia in sixteen hundred seventy and seven or thereabouts Whereupon his body was conveyed to that City and there inter'd He then left behind him a piece of poâ—etry to be printed and several observations made in his travels not fit to be published because imperfect and indigested THOMAS MANTON son of Tho. Manton of Whimpole in Devonshire was born in that County as 't is said in the publick matricula tho one of his perswasion who knew him well hath lately informed me that his birth was at Laurence Liddyard in Somersetshire and at 15 years of age in 1635 was entred a Servitour in Wadham Coll. in Lent term where continuing till 1639 he translated himself to Hart Hall being then accounted by those yet living that well knew him a hot-headed person and as a member thereof he took the degree of Bach. of Arts. Afterwards upon the turn of the times he became preacher tho not in holy Orders at Culliton in Devon whence under pretence of some disturbance either by his Diocesan or the Royal party he went to London adhered to the Presbyterians and being a forward and florid Preacher among them became after he had taken the Covenant Minister of Stoke Newington in Middlesex and in 1647 and after a preacher before the members of the Long Parliament When the Independents ruled he closed with them took the oath called the Engagement and made a flattering speech to Oliver to whom he was Chaplain when he was inaugurated Lord Protector in Westminster Hall and in the latter end of the same year 1653 he was by him made one of the Triers or rather Spanish Inquisitors for the approbation of godly preachers In the beginning of 1654 he was by the favour of the Delegates appointed by the Chancellour of this University actually created Bach. of Divinity and soon after upon the resignation of his Wifes Father called Obad. Sedgwick he became Rector of S. Pauls Church in Covent-garden near London where he was much frequented by Presbyterians and Independents for his fluent and practical way of preaching In the beginning of Sept. 1658 when the Titmouse Prince called Richard was inaugurated to the Protectorate according to the Humble petition and advice our author Manton the peculiar Chaplain to that dignity as Prelate of the Protectorship said prayers and blessed him his Council Armies and People and so concluded that scene In the latter end of the year 1659 he was by Act of Parliament I mean that Parl. to which the secluded members were restored by General Monk constituted one of the Triers or Approvers of Ministers according to the Presbyterian way and in the beginning of the year following he took holy Orders at Westminster from Thomas Bishop of Galloway Soon after his Majesty being restored to his Kingdoms towards which he pretended to be a helper when he could not hinder it he was sworn one of his Chaplains in Ordinary and in that quality he was by vertue of his Majesties Letters actually created Doctor of Divinity among several Royallists who had in a most miserable manner suffer'd for their Loyalty He then as 't was observed by curious men present in the Convocation house looked like a person rather fatted up for the slaughter than an Apostle being a round plump and jolly man but the others the Royallists resembled
c. He hath also written Lectures on the three books of the Punick War in Luc. Florus which are now about to be published At length departing this mortal life on the first of Aug. in sixteen hundred forty and seven was buried on the third day of the same month in Exeter Coll. Chappel His study of books and collections in MS. came after his death into the hands of his old Friend Francis Rouse Provost of Eaton Coll. near to Windsore and his Lectures in MS. to Bodleys Library He left also behind him a Widow and Children who soon after became poor and whether the Females lived honestly 't is not for me to dispute it HENRY MASON was born in a Market Town in Lancashire called Wygan or Wiggin became a Servitour of Brasn Coll. in the beginning of 1592 elected one of Humph. Ogles Exhibitioners thereof 2. Nov. 1593 took one degree in Arts two years after entred into Holy Orders and became Chaplain of Corp. Ch. Coll. in 1602. The next year he proceeded in Arts and seven years after was admitted to the reading of the Sentences At length being made Chapl. to Dr. Jo. King B. of Lond. was by his endeavours as I suppose made Rector of S. Andrews Undershaft in that City where by his exemplary life edifying and judicious preaching and writing he did great benefit and was by all that knew him accounted a true Son of the Church of England His writings are these The new art of lying covered by Jesuits under the veil of Equivocation Lond. 1624. qu. there again 1634. in tw Christian humiliation or a treatise of Fasting with a brief discourse of Lent Lond. 1625. qu. Epicures Fast or a short discourse discovering the licentiousness of the Rom. Ch. in her religious Fasts Lond. 1626. in qu. Tribunal of the conscience or a treatise of examination Lond. 1626. 27. qu. Short discourse declaring the condition of Worldly cares with some remedies appointed for them Lond. 1628. Certain passages in Mr. Sam. Hoards book entit Gods love to mankind c. Answer'd by Dr. Twisse under the name of Additions in his Riches of Gods love to the vessells of mercy c. as I have told you before in Dr. Twisse Hearing and doing the ready way to blessedness Lond. 1635. in tw Rules for right hearing of Gods word printed with the former book Several Sermons as 1 The Christians fast c. on Matth. 4.2 Lond. 1627. qu. 2 Contentment in Gods gifts or some Sermon notes leading to equanimitie and contentation on Joh. 20.3.4.5.6 Lond. 1630. in tw 3 Sermon on Luke 11.28 This I have not seen nor a MS. in fol. containing matters of Divinity which he left in the hands of his acquaintance Dr. Gilb. Sheldon afterwards Archb. of Cant. From whom it came to Dr. Dolben Bish of Roch. afterwards of York in whose possession it was when he died At length when the Puritan or Presbyterian began to be dominant in 1641 our Author Mason through vexation occasion'd by that Party was forced soon after to leave his Rectory of S. Andrew beforemention'd purposely to make room for a godly brother Afterwards he retired with his goods and books to Wygan his native place where living in obscurity for some years not without vexation by the Rebels surrendred up his most pious and devout Soul to him that first gave it in his house situate and being in a street there called Scoles in the beginning of August in sixteen hundred forty and seven and in that of his age 74 or thereabouts and was buried on the seventh day of the same month in the yard or cemeterie close to the ground-work of the pillar or buttress at the east end of the Church at Wygan He had before given to the poor of that Town 13 l. per an to bind poor children apprentices his librarie of books to the School and a considerable number of Bibles to the poorer sort of people for their children there JOHN VERNEUIL Vernulius was born in the City of Bourdeaux in France educated in the University of Mountalban till he was M. of Arts flew from his country for religion sake being a Protestant and went into England where he had his wants supplied for a time by Sir Thom. Leigh Afterwards he retired to the University of Oxon. in 1608 and on the fourth day of Nov. in the same year being then 25 years of age he was matriculated in the University as a member of Magdalen Coll. from which House as from others he received relief In 1625 he was incorporated Master of Arts being then second-keeper of Bodleys Library where he performed good service for that place and wrot for the use of the Students there these things following Catalogus Interpretum S. Scripturae juxta numerorum ordinem quo extant in bibl Bodl. Oxon. 1635. qu. sec Edition The first was began by Dr. Tho. James Elenchus authorum tum recentium quam antiquorum qui in 4 libros sententiarum Thomae Aquinatis summas item in Evangelia Dominicalia totius anni de casibus conscientiae nec non in orationem Dominicam Symbolum Apostolorum Decalogum scripserunt This is printed with the Cat. Interpretum c. an 1635. Nomenclator of such tracts and sermons as have been printed and translated into English upon any place or book of the Holy Scripture now to be had in Bodleys Library Oxon. 1637. 42. in tw He also translated from French into English A Tract of the Soveraign Judge of controversies in matters of religion Oxon. 1628. qu. written by Joh. Cameron D. D. of Saumaur Divinity Professor in the Academy of Mountalban afterwards Principal of Glascow in Scotland And from English into Latine a book entit Of the deceitfulness of mans heart Genev. 1634. oct written by Dan. Dyke of Cambridge The said Joh. Verneuil died in his house within and near the East-gate of the City of Oxon in the latter end of Septemb. in sixteen hundred forty and seven and was buried on the last day of the same month in the Church of St. Peter in the East within the said City at which time our publick Library lost an honest and useful servant and his children a good Father ROBERT PINK Son of Hen. Pink of Kempshot in the Parish of Winslade in Hampshire was born there educated in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1596 took the degrees in Arts entred on the Physick line was admitted Bach. in that faculty 1612 afterward studied Divinity was elected Warden of his Coll. 1617 proceeded in Divinity and was much esteemed by K. Jam. 1. for his dexterity in disputing as by K. Ch. 1. for his eminent loyalty He was a zealous defender of the University privileges and liberties especially when he performed the office of Vicechancellour and esteemed by all that knew him most eminent for his knowledge in Philosophy and Divinity He hath written Quaestiones selectiores in Logicâ Ethicâ
and educated in Gram. learning in the Free-school there In 1609 May 17 he was admitted a Student of Brasn Coll. aged 16 years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1615 and in the year 1616 Jan. 4. he was admitted Rector of Ubley alias Obley near to Pensford in Somersetshire by the free and unsolicited bounty of Th. Egerton Baron of Ellesmere and Lord Chancellor of England This person Will. Thomas being always a Puritan closed with the Presbyterians when they raised a Rebellion against his Majesty 1642 was a frequent preacher against his Cause and Followers and was esteemed one of the chief Ministers in his time of that perswasion in the neighbourhood where he lived He afterwards took the Engagement as before he had the Covenant and in 1654 1654 he was appointed an Assistant to Olivers Commissioners for the ejecting such whom they then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters Afterwards he ran thro the remaining part of the changes and took the Oaths again after his Maj. return of Allegiance and Supremacy His works are these The dead speaking or the living names of two deceased Ministers of Christ viz. Mr. Sam. Oliver Pastor of Wells and Mr. Sam. Croke c. containing two several speeches delivered at the funerals of them Lond. 1653 qu. With them is printed a Sermon preached at the funeral of Sam. Oliver by Joh. Chetwind sometimes of Exeter Coll. then a godly brother and after the Kings return Prebendary of Bristow Rayling rebuked or a defence of the Ministers of this Nation by way of answer to the unparalelled calumnies cast upon them in an Epistle lately published by Tho. Speed Merchant of Bristow unhappily became the Quakers Advocate c. Lond. 1656. qu. Answer'd by George Fox Quaker in his book intit The great mystery of the great whore unfolded c. Lond. 1659. fol. p. 237. c. The Protestants practice or the compleat Christian being a true and perfect way to the celestial Canaan Lond. 1656. in tw A vindication of Scripture and Ministry in a rejoynder to a reply not long since published by Tho. Speed formerly but unsutably Merchant in the City of Bristol and a Preacher lately but more sadly Merchant and Quaker c. Lond. 1657. qu. Answer'd also by G. Fox in the aforesaid book p. 104 105. c. A preservative of piety in a quiet reasoning for those duties of Religion that are the means and helps appointed of God for the preserving and promoting of Godliness c. Lond. 1662. qu. Exposition on Ruth Lond. 166 ... in tw The Countries sense of Londons sufferings in the late most lamentable fire discovered in the opening and improving the lamentation of Jeremiah Lond. 1667. oct Scriptures opened and sundry cases of conscience resolved in plain and practical answers to several questions upon the Proverbs of Salomon Jerem. Lam. Ezeck and Daniel Lond. 1675 and 83. oct He died at Ubley before mention'd in sixteen hundred sixty and seven and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there Over his grave was soon after a Mon. put up by his son Mr. Sam. Thomas with this inscription following Hic jacet Gulielmus Thomas ecclesiae hujus Rector plus quà m quadragenarius qui populum docuit publicè domatim sermone exemplo Quem non tam mors rapuit quà m ille mortem munere scilicet priùs cedere coactus quà m mundo vitam quam pro grege diutius insumere ut Pastor non potuit avidissimè summo pastori reddidit Nov. 15. an dom 1667. aetat 74. I shall make mention of another William Thomas under the year 1689. WILLIAM HILL son of Blackleech Hill was born at Cudworth in Warwickshire at which time his father who in his younger years had been a petty Attorney was then Bailive of Hemlingford hundred which is one of the four hundreds in Warwickshire and the largest by which employment gaining a considerable subsistance lived in a fashionable condition and bred up his children very well This William being trained up in Grammar in his own Country became a Student in Merton Coll. about the beginning of Mich. term 1634 aged 15 years being then esteemed a sober and ingenious youth and soon after was made one of the Postmasters of the said Coll. After he had taken one degree in Arts he was a Candidate for a Fellowship of that house and shewing himself a most excellent proficient in Greek Latine and Physicks was elected Prob. Fell. an 1639. But soon after the time that he was admitted Bach. Fellow he was prefer'd to be Master of the Free-school at Sutton Colfield in his own Country and soon after to a rich Wife tho the Daughter of a plain country man which school he brought into great credit during his abode there In 1641 he proceeded in Arts and having not long after buried his wife he removed to London where having obtained a considerable practice in Physick he married a young lass daughter of one Mr. Burges a Physitian son of Dr. Joh. Burges sometimes Parson of Sutton Colfield before mention'd who brought him forth a child that lived within the seventh month after marriage In 1649 and 52 he had leave from the Delegates of the University to accumulate the degrees in Physick but whether he did so it doth not appear in our Registers Afterwards as before being a man of those times and a sider with factious people he was prefer'd to be chief Master of the great school at Dublin in Ireland where continuing till the Restauration of K. Ch. 2 was then as it seems forced to leave that place So that removing to Finglass a Village near to that City taught there privately to the time of his death He hath writen Dionysii orbis descriptio Graec. Lat. commentario critico geographico in quo controversiae pluraeque quae in veteri Geographia occurrunt explicantur obscura plurima elucidantur ac tabulis illustrata Lond. 1658. 59. 1663. 1679. c. in a large oct used in many schools and by most Juniors of the University of Oxon. He hath also epitomized some of the works of Laz. Riverius a Physitian which I have not yet seen nor a certain MS. of his which he wrot to justifie his lawful begetting of the aforesaid child by himself which MS. he shewed to two Physitians for their approbation before it went to the press but they looking upon the work as done by a meer scholar unknowing in the world returned it with seeming content and afterwards jeer'd him behind his back for an antidated Cuckold He died of a pestilential fever which took away most of his family in the month of November in sixteen hundred sixty and seven and was buried on the 29 of the said month just before the Ministers seat in the Church at Finglas before mentioned I find another Will. Hill of Merton Coll. also the son of a Committee-man a notorious Schismatick of Herefordshire who
severe Puritans and under a puritanical discipline And being esteemed a plain honest man a Person of great integrity and profound in the Law he was entertained by both as well loyal as Presbyterian parties In 1643 he took the Covenant and as I have been often informed he appeared several times with other Lay-persons among the Assembly of Divines He was then in great esteem with the Parliament and was employed by the members thereof as to his counsel about several matters particularly in the reducing the Garrison of Oxford to their service who as a Lawyer was added to the Commissioners appointed by them to treat with those appointed by the King And in that capacity he did good service by advising them especially Fairfax the Generalissimo to have in his eye a preservation of that place Oxon so famous for learning from ruin Afterwards tho the loss of the blessed K. Ch. 1. was a great grief to him yet he took the oath called the Engagement and thereby was the more enabled to plead and practice his profession In Jan. 1651. he with Will. Steel Esq Recorder of the City of London Charles George Cock Esq Sir Hen. Blount Kt John Fountaine Esq a common Lawyer Hugh Peters Clerk Joh. Rushworth of Linc. inn Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper Bt c. were appointed by the Parliament to consider of the reformation of the Law and accordingly they met several times in the room formerly called the House of Lords but what the result of their meeting was I cannot yet tell On the 25. of Jan. 1653. our author Hale was by writ made Serjeant at Law and soon after one of the Justices of the Common Bench in which place he acted with great justice and integrity not without the displeasure sometimes as 't is said of the Protector In 1654 he was one of those 5 Knights who were elected for the County of Glocester to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 3. of Sept. purposely as 't is said to obstruct the mad and wicked projects then on foot by two parties that had very different principles and ends In 1658 he was elected one of the Burgesses of the Univ. of Oxon to serve in that Parliament called Richards Parliament which began at Westm 27. Jan. the same year and in Ap. 1660 he was elected one of the Knights for Glocestershire to serve in that Parliament called the Healing and blessed Parliament which began at the same place on the 25 of the said month Which Parliament calling the King home from his Exile he was soon after made Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Knighted In the month of May 1671 he was upon the death of Sir John Keeling advanced to the place of L. Ch. Justice of the Court of Kings Bench and on the 18 of the said month took the usual Oathes before the Lord Keeper and his seat accordingly on that Bench. He was an unwearied Student a prudent man a solid Philosopher a famous Lawyer the Pillar and Basis of justice who would not have done an unjust act for any worldly price or motive the ornament of his Majesties Government and honour of England the highest faculty of the soul of Westminster Hall and pattern to all the reverend and honorable Judges a godly serious practical Christian the lover of goodness and all good men a lamenter of the Clergies selfishness and unfaithfulness c. a great contemner of riches pomp and vanity of the world a pattern of honest plainess and humility c. As for his works relating to learning they are these An essay touching the gravitation and non-gravitation of fluid bodies and the reasons thereof Lond. 1674. oct Difficiles nugae or observations on the Torricellian experiment Lond. 1674. oct Upon which two ingenious discourses Dr. Hen. More of Cambridge hath written Remarks so far forth as they may concern any passages in his Enchiridion Metaphysicorum c. Lond. 1676. oct Contemplations moral and divine In two parts Lond. 1676 c. in a large oct Directions touching and keeping the Lords day Lond. 1676 c. in a large oct Poems on Christmas day Lond. 1676 c. in a large oct Contemplations mor. and div The sec part Lond. 1677. oct They were both printed together at Lond. 1679. oct The primitive origination of mankind considered and explained according to the light of nature Lond. 1677. fol. This book came out a little before the authors death and why he published it I shall give you these three reasons 1 Because that some writings of his Contempl. mor. and divine did without his privity come abroad in print which he never intended And this book might have had the same fate if not in his life time yet after his death 2 Because possibly there had been some more care been used by him in the digesting and writing thereof than of some others that have gone abroad in publick 3 That altho he could never be brought to value the writings of his that were then published as worthy of publick view yet he found them well accepted by many which encouraged him to let this book come abroad under his own name wherein he used more care than in those lesser tracts c. Observations touching the principles of natural motion and especially touching rarefaction and condensation together with a reply to certain Remarks touching the gravitation of Fluids Lond. 1677. oct These observations being in answer to Dr. Hen. Mores Remarks before mention'd were replied upon by the said Doctor Lond. 1678. The primitive origination of mankind considered and examined according to the light of nature Lond. 1677. fol. An account of which is in the Philosophical Transactions nu 136. p. 917. Londons liberty or a learned argument of law and reason an 1650 This came out afterwards with this title Londons liberties or the opinions of those great Lawyers Lord Ch. Justice Hale Mr. Justice will Wild and Mr. Serjeant Maynard about the election of Mayor Sherriffs Aldermen and Common council men of London and concerning their charter c. Lond. 1682. fol. At which time the press was at liberty without control Discourse touching provision for the poor Lond. 1683. in tw Short treatise touching Sherriffs accompts Lond. 1683. oct To which is joyned his Tryal of witches at the Assizes held at Bury S. Edmonds on the 10. of March 1664 which was published by its self in oct in 4. sh an 1682. Pleas of the Crown or a methodical summary of the principal matters relating to the subject Lond. 1685. sec edit in oct The first edit came out in 1678. oct His judgment of the nature of true religion the causes of its corruption and the Churches calamity by mens additions and violences with the desired cure Lond. 1684. qu. Written in three discourses at several times published by his great friend and admirer Mr. Rich. Baxter and by him dedicated to the honourable Judges To this book is annex'd The judgment of Sir Franc. Bacon
of Boston 9 Oct. 1663 at the Archd. Visitation on Isa 16.13 Lond. 1664. qu. 2 Elohim or God and the Magistrate on Psal 82.6 Ibid. 1663. qu. c. In 1674 our author Howe accumulated the degrees in Divinity became much respected for his learning in Lincolnsh and dying in the winter time in sixteen hundred eighty and two was buried in his Church at Boston before mentiond I find one Will. Howe to have been Minister of Gedney in Linc. a grand Presbyterian and Independent in the time of Oliver but what he hath written I know not Since I wrot this I find one O. H. Minister of the Gospel to have written Meetness for heaven promoted in some brief meditations on Col. 1.12 c. Lond. 1690. in tw Designed for a funeral Legacy by the said O. H. but whether the same with Ob. Howe I know not Qu. HENEAGE FINCH the eldest Son of Sir Heneage Finch of Kensington in Midd. Kt Serjeant at Law and Recorder of London by Frances his Wife Dau. of Sir Edm. Bell of Beaupre in Norfolk Kt was born in Kent particularly I presume at Eastwell on the 23. of Dec. 1621 educated in Westminster School became a Gent. Communer of Ch. Ch. in Lent term 1635 continued there two or three years went to the Inner Temple where by his sedulity and good parts he became a noted proficient in the municipal Laws was successively Barrester Bencher Treasurer Reader c. In 1660 on the 6 of June he was made Sollicitor general to his Majesty and on the day after being then a Knight he was advanced to the dignity of a Baronet by the name of Sir Heneage Finch of Raunston in Buckinghamshire The next year he was Autumn or Summer Reader of the Inner Temple choosing then to read upon the Statute of 39. Elizab. concerning The payment and recovery of the debts of the Crown which Statute tho ever seasonable and then most necessary was never before read upon as 't was then reported by any but himself The reading and entertainment lasted from the 4th to the 17 of Aug. The former was with great strength of reason depth of Law and admirable sense and the other with as great variety as could be imagined carried on The first days entertainment was of divers Peers of the Realm and Privy Counsellors with many others of his noble friends The second of the Lord Mayor Aldermen and chief Citizens of London The third which was two days after the former of the whole College of Physitians who all came in their caps and gowns The fourth was of another long robe for all the Judges and Advocates Doctors of the Civil Law and all the Society of Doctors Commons The fifth was of the Archbishops Bishops and chief of the Clergy and the last which was on the 15 of Aug. was of the King Duke of York Lord Chancellour most of the Peers and great Officers or Court the Lords Commissioners of Scotland and Ireland c. In Apr. the same year 1661 he was chosen Parliament man for this University but did us no good when we wanted his assistance for the taking off the tribute belonging to Hearths In 1665 after the Parliament then sitting at Oxon had been prorogued he was created in a full Convocation Doctor of the Civil Law he being then one of the four members of Parliament that had communicated the thanks of the honorable H. of Commons lately sitting in the said Convocation House to the members of the University for their Reasons concerning the solemn League and Covenant negative Oath c. made 1647. Which creation being concluded in the presence of several Parliament Men besides the said four the Vicechancellour stood up and spoke to the publick Orator to do his office Whereupon he making a most admirable harangue said among other things to this effect that the University wished they had more Colleges to entertain the Parliament men and more Chambers but by no means no more Chymneys c. at which Sir Heneage changed his countenance and drew a little back In 1670 he was constituted the Kings Attorney General and upon the removal of Shaftesbury from being Lord Chancellor he was made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal 9. Nov. 1673. Shortly after which he was advanced to the degree of a Baron of this realm by the title of Lord Finch of Daventre in Northamptonshire and upon his surrender of the Great Seal to his Majesty on the 19. of Dec. 1675 he received it immediatly back again with the title of Lord high Chancellor of England In the most boisterous and ticklish times when the swoln waves beat highest occasion'd by the Popish Plot he behaved himself with so regular exactly pois'd and with such even steadiness whilst others whose actions not being so justly ballanced either were discharged from their Offices or else they themselves by an ungenerous cowardise voluntarily resign'd them up as unwilling manfully to encounter approaching difficulties of which they pretended to have prospects that he still stood firm in the good opinion of his Prince and which is more to be admired at that time when many worthy Ministers of State were by the malice of designing men branded with the old infamous character of Evil Counsellours in order to have them to be run down and worried by the violent outrages of the unthinking giddy and head-strong multitude During all which time and clamour against persons which continued from Oct. 1678. to the beginning of the year 1681 after the Oxford Parl. was dissolved he was neither bandied against or censur'd in the more private seditious Cabals nor was his Master publickly addressed to for his removal In 1681. May 14 or thereabouts he was created Earl of Nottingham as a mark of the great satisfaction his Majesty had in the many faithful services which his Lordship had rendred the Crown being then a person of so eloquent and fluent speech and of so great sapience that he was usually stiled the English Roscius and the English Cicero A noted author tells us that his great parts and greater vertues are so conspicuous that it were a high presumption in him to say any thing in his commendation being in nothing more eminent than in his zeal for and care of this Church of England See his character most excellently described under the name of Amri in the second part of a poem entit Absalom and Achitophel Lond. 1682. first edit p. 30. Under the name of this worthy person are published Several speeches and discourses in the trial of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. He being then Sollicitor General See in the book entit An exact and most impartial accompt of the indictment arraignment trial and judgment according to Law of 29 Regicides c. Lond. 1660. qu. 1679. oct Speeches to both Houses of Parliament 7. Jan. 1673 13. of Apr. and 13. Oct. 1675. 15. Feb. 1676. 6. March 1678 and 30. of Apr. 1679. These were spoken while he was Lord
then admitted because he was esteemed by the faction a zealous Royallist Afterwards with much ado he obtained the Church of Bolton in Craven in Yorkshire which being worth but 50 l. per an supposed then enough to maintain a malignant Minister he was permitted to keep it during the sad affliction of the Church of England In 1661 his Maj. K. Ch. 2. being then setled in the regal Throne he was admitted to the Church of Whalton by John L. Bishop of Durham was about the same time made Preacher of the Parochial Chappel of S. John in the Town and County of Newcastle upon Tyne and chosen a member of the Convocation for Yorkshire as he was again in 1679 and Procurator Cleri for the Archdeaconry of Northumberland He hath written The Pourtraicture of the Primitive Saints in their actings and sufferings according to S. Paul's canon Heb. 11. One part whereof to verse 23 was preached at Newcastle 1652. The other from verse 22 to the end was preached at the same place an 1659. Both which were afterwards published in qu. Origo Protestantium or an answer to a popish manuscript of N. N's that would fain make the Protestant Catholick Religion bear date at the very time when the Roman popish commenced in the world wherein Protestancy is demonstrated to be elder than Popery Lond. 1677. and 79. qu. Answer to the Jesuits letter Printed with the former book and the Jesuits letter with it No reformation of the established religion Lond 1685. oct This loyal religious and learned person died on the 22 of May in sixteen hundred eighty and nine and was buried in the Chap. or Church of S. John in Newcastle before mention'd just before the altar Soon after his ingenious Son Joh. Shaw belonging to the Cath. Church of Norwich bestowed an epitaph on his Fathers marble part of which runs thus Hic quod remanet Johannis Shaw hujus Ecclesiae Pastoris Deo Ecclesiae Patriae Regi pie fidelis c. Besides this John Shaw was another of both his names and time Minister of Hull in Yorkshire author of several Sermons among which are 1 Britannia rediviva or a soveraign remedy to cure a sick commonwealth preached in the Minster at York before the Judges at the Assize 9. Aug. 1649 2 The Princess Royal preached at the same place before the Judges 24 Mar. 1650. c. And among other things he hath published a book entit Mistriss Shawes tomb stone or the Saints remains being a brief narrative of some few remarkable passages in the holy life and happy death of Mrs. Dorothy Shaw the Wife of Mr. John Shaw who died oh the 10. Dec. 1657. Lond. 1657. oct WILLIAM ANNAND son of Will. Annand Parson of Air the Head-Burgh royal of the Shire of Air in the Dioc. of Glasgow in Scotland was born in the said Burgh an 1633 and being 5. years of age was conveyed by his Father with his family into England in the time of the great rebellion and Presbyterian tyranny an 1638 they being forced to make their escape thither on account of their loyalty to their Prince and their adherence to the Episcopal government then established by law in that Kingdom He was descended of the Annands of Auchterellon an antient family in the Shire of Aberdene and Parish of Ellon but now their estate there is out of their hands In 1651 our author W. Annand became a Scholar of Univ. Coll and tho then put under a Presbyterian Tutor and Discipline yet he took all occasions to frequent Sermons preached by loyal persons in and near Oxon. In 1656 he being then Bach. of Arts he took holy Orders according to the Church of England from the hands of Dr. Thomas Fulwar Bishop of Ardfert or Kirrie in Ireland in the beginning of Aug and the same year we find him preacher of Gods word at Weston on the Green near Bister in Oxfordshire where he found great encouragement from Sir Fr. Norris Lord of that Town After he had proceeded in Arts he became Vicar of Leighton Budezard in Bedfordshire where continuing in good repute for his ready and edifying way of preaching till 1662 he then went in the quality of a Chaplain with his Grace John Earl of Middleton Lord high Commissioner of Scotland when he left the Court at Whitehall to go to that Kingdom In the latter end of 1663 he was instituted to the Tolbooth Church at Edinburg where continuing several years was transplauded to the Trone Church of that City which is also a Prebendship In Apr. 1676 he was by the presentation of his Majesty under his royal hand with the Privy Seal of his Kingdom of Scotland appended thereto made Dean of Edinburgh and on Oct. 1. an 1685 he commenced Doctor of Div. in the University of S. Andrew His works as to learning are these Fides Catholica Or the doctrine of the Cath. Church in eighteen grand ordinances referring to the Word Sacraments and Prayer in purity number and nature catholickly maintained and publickly taught against hereticks of all sorts Lond. 1661. 62. in a pretty thick qu. Solutions of many proper and profitable questions sutable to the nature of each ordinance c. Print with Fides Catholica c. Panem quotidianum or a short discourse tending to prove the legality decency and expediency of set forms of prayer in the Churches of Christ with a particular defence of the book of Common prayer of the Church of England Lond. 1661. qu. Pater noster Our Father or the Lords Prayer explained the sense thereof and duties therein from Scripture History and Fathers methodically cleared and succinctly opened Lond. 1670. oct Mysterium Pietatis or the mystery of godliness c. Lond. 1671. oct Doxologia or glory to the Father the Churches Hymn reduced to glorifying the Trinity Lond. 1672. oct Dualitas or a twofold subject displayed and opened conduceable to godliness and peace in order first Lex loquens the honor and dignity of Magistracy with the duties thereupon c. secondly Duorum unitas or the agreement of Magistracy and Ministry at the election of the honorable Magistrates of Edinburgh and opening of the diocesan synod of the rev Clergy there Edinburg 1674. qu. He died at about one of the Clock in the Morn of the 13 of June in sixteen hundred eighty and nine whereupon his body was conveyed in the evening of that day to the vestry of that part of S. Giles's Church which is called the High Church of Edinburgh in which Church as Dean he did ordinarily preach at the very same time that Duke Gordon surrendred up the Castle there to the Convention On the 15 of the said month he was honorably interr'd in the Grey Friers Church but without a funeral Sermon because not permitted by the Presbyterians in whose hands the Magistracy then was As his life was pious and devout so was his sickness and death to the great comfort of those then present with him He received his